Apple makes inroads into 3500 Irish Schools
Posted by Helper Monkey We often hear of Apple’s battle to make headway in America’s education sector, but it is nice to see that Apple is also making a concerted effort to gain a youthful mindshare globally as well. Macenstein reader rico et nath sent us a link to a page on Apple UK’s site reporting that they have made a deal that will put them in all of Ireland’s... Read More
SURVEY: HD Radio preferred over iPods
Posted by Dr. Macenstein According to a “huge� new study done by Mercury Radio Research, when given a choice between an iPod or a similarly priced HD radio, people “overwhelmingly chose� the HD radio. This “giant� study (done by a company whose interests are best served by the radio industry performing well) polled 1000 people. The “overwhelming�... Read More
Intel Mac mini running Windows XP up for action on eBay
Posted by Helper Monkey Macenstein reader Branjelina has alerted us that just a day after the announcement that a hacker has successfully gotten Windows XP to boot on an Intel Mac, someone has put up for auction on eBay an Apple Mac Mini Duo Core 1.6Ghz set up to boot both OS X 10.4 Tiger and Windows XP (or so they claim). The starting bid is $1000, and the auction includes disks... Read More
First full-length movie on iTunes?
Ok, The Matrix it is not, but many Macenstein readers have pointed out Disney has released “High School Musical�? to the iTunes store. The film runs 1:39:41, making it a full-length movie by most standards. What’s more, you can download the entire feature for only $1.99, which would be a great sign of things to come (although somehow we doubt we’ll see... Read More
iTMS adds free episode of TOP CHEF, more SHOWTIME content
Posted by Dr. Macenstein The iTunes Music Store has added a couple more seemingly odd content choices today. The first is a free pilot episode of TOP CHEF from the BRAVO network. Offering a free pilot episode of a show seems to be the new fad for networks interested in drumming up some buzz for a show (mainly because people like myself will download just about ANYTHING if its free). If... Read More
iMac G5 no longer available in UK online store
Posted by Dr. Macenstein The iMac G5 is no longer available in any configuration (17-inch or 20-inch) in the UK Apple online store. Last month Apple stopped selling the 17-inch G5 iMac when existing inventories ran out. Today the 20-inch G5 iMac disappeared from the UK store as its supplies ran out as well. Apparently supplies of the 20-inch G5 were smaller for the UK store than... Read More
Is Safari a “Cash Cow” for Apple?
Posted by Lab Rat A recent rumor spurred by a posting on the blog of Jason McCabe Calacanis (CEO of Weblogs Inc.) is that the Mozilla Corporation made $72 million last year from distributing its free Firefox browser. How? Well, apparently when users search for something in the Google search bar (top right of the browser) and then click on a resulting Google ad, the author claims... Read More
Microsoft’s “Google Killer� not Safari friendly
Posted by Lab Rat Microsoft’s new Windows Live Search search engine doesn’t play well with Safari, or at least at the moment. While still in its beta stages, Windows Live Search seems to work just fine in Firefox, but Safari is unable to load it. In addition to search features, Windows Live Search seems to have all the basics you would find on Google and Yahoo, such... Read More
Review: Mac mini 1.66 GHz Core Duo: Some early numbers
Posted by Lab Rat Well, we just got out new Intel Mac mini duo yesterday, and will be posting our review later this week. But since we know all people care about are benchmark scores, we figured we throw up a quick couple numbers. We ran Xbench and Cinebench on the mini and 3 other computers (these are just raw numbers, we’ll get pretty graphs up later). We compared (perhaps... Read More
“The Simpsons” live action commercial appears on the internet
Posted by Helper Monkey There is a new live-action commercial making the rounds on the internet on sites such as Youtube.com showing a faithful shot-for-shot re-creation of the opening title sequence from The Simpsons. The spot (click here to watch a QT of it) was created by Sky Satellite Television Network to promote launch of the new season of the show in the UK. This is not... Read More
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