A constantly updated resource for finding what’s free on the iTunes Music store. Pretty cool in that they have an RSS feed you can use to see new entries.
Currently available are music, tv shows, movie clips and audiobooks.
Click and enjoy!
According to this page on the Wine Wiki, Parallels may be violating the LGPL by using Wine created code and not properly releasing changes, as per the license.
Parallels Desktop for Mac(www.parallels.com) contains Wine’s Direct3D code according to http://www.parallels.com/en/licensing/. So far(June 29th, 2007) attempts to ask them for the modified source code failed. This page is meant for …
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19444948/site/newsweek/
Some awesome details and surprises. Read on!
First Look: Test Driving the iPhone
A first look at the most eagerly anticipated gizmo ever.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
by Steven Levy
Newsweek
Updated: 7:49 p.m. ET June 26, 2007
June 26, 2007 - A couple of weeks ago I went to Pittsburgh for what I thought would be a day trip. Since I was headed back that evening, …
John Gruber of Daring Fireball had an interesting take on some comments made by the Wall Street Journal about how the iPhone needs to better support corporate email.
While I found Johns take interesting and mostly agreeable (as usual), I did want to point out that the problem isn’t merely email. It’s collaboration. Exchange isn’t …
http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/ has some amazing new footage of the various iPhone technologies that have been created.
In particular, the OSX demo is awesome, as it shows what I anticipate (read: hope) will be some of the reactive and proactive changes that we will eventually see in the mainstream version of the OS.
So, anyone out there know of an app for OSX that is like msconfig on Windows? I’m tired of hunting down printer drivers and menu items and hidden services manually.
Erden, over on Macitt, has posted that DivX is giving away the Pro version of their awesome software for FREE, evidently today only! Pop over and take a look…all you have to do is enter your email address and they send the key.
Yes, this is legit, no, it’s not spam or a trick. Note that the Windows version …
Let me start by saying that I’m a huge fan of Parallels Desktop for Mac. In the year since it’s introduction, I’ve installed it on a dozen systems and use it 95% of the time I am at my Mac (I keep one fullscreen window open all the time and switch using VirtueDesktops).
I’ve championed it’s use at work and have even asked our developers to look into writing code for our product that will detect a Parallels VM and act accordingly (watermarking occurs otherwise). Regular readers know of my love of Parallels.
But I’m increasingly disappointed with how Parallels (and by extension, their parent company SWSoft) are marketing the product. I’ve been involved in software development since the beginning of my career, both as a successful shareware author and as the manager of a 100 developer team that pumped out 3 retail Linux apps in a year. I know software and it’s cycles…I know the ups and downs and tribulations involved.
So it’s disheartening to see Parallels taking advantage of their position as the Mac VM leader by milking their users with the third ‘major’ release* in a year (v3 was released today) and charging a $49 upgrade fee (instead of the normal $79).
Numerous articles have been written about software subscriptions and their pros/cons, and typically I would eschew any such agreement. But in the case of a product evolving as quickly as Parallels, I think that a subscription model would benefit the end user far more than the current upgrade scheme. Offer free upgrades for a year, instead of charging twice or thee times in the same time period! But of course, a subscription model should only be used on software that is, you know, complete, which unfortunately Parallels is not.
Check out this astounding demonstration of VMWare Fusions new ‘Unity’ feature. Pretty damned impressive, don’t you think?
