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Software
2:39PM Nick Broughall | Microsoft’s announcement overnight that they’re planning on bringing Outlook to the next version of Office for Mac may not sound like the most exciting piece of news this week, but it is a huge game changer. Forgetting for a second that Microsoft should have done this years ago, banishing that bastard piece of software Entourage to the seventh level of software hell, the move to bring Outlook to the Mac is going to make Apple’s machines even more appealing to enterprise, while at the same time forcing Apple to really bring changes to the way OS X’s Mail, Address Book and iCal interact. More »
Why Outlook For Mac Is Great For Apple
2:39PM Nick Broughall | Microsoft’s announcement overnight that they’re planning on bringing Outlook to the next version of Office for Mac may not sound like the most exciting piece of news this week, but it is a huge game changer. Forgetting for a second that Microsoft should have done this years ago, banishing that bastard piece of software Entourage to the seventh level of software hell, the move to bring Outlook to the Mac is going to make Apple’s machines even more appealing to enterprise, while at the same time forcing Apple to really bring changes to the way OS X’s Mail, Address Book and iCal interact. More » 
Computers
Benchmarking the iBook Vs. a Hackintosh Nebook
8:40AM Mark Wilson | No one expects an MSI Wind to run OSX as well as the latest MacBook, but how does the 1.6GHz N270 Atom system stand up to the 1.33GHz iBook G4 with 768MB of RAM? More »
Online
Full, Reliable Instructions to Load OSX on Eee PC
12:00AM Mark Wilson | We’ve seen demos where clever ubertechie folk run OSX on the Eee PC, but in case you wanted to do it yourself, Wired has published a complete wiki detailing the installation process. It’s still not a one and done installation—plan to get your hands a little digitally dirty—but at least you won’t be digging through message boards full of guesses and contradictions to get the job done. Wired’s instructions are clear and easy to follow, and they mention the caveats like that the sound doesn’t work (bye bye, iPod fatto). Ignore such crippling limitations; you have a Mac mini-note to create. [Wiki via Lifehacker] More »
Hardware
Samsung Working With Apple To Optimise Solid State Drive Performance In Snow Leopard
12:30PM Matt Hickey | Samsung has been pioneering efforts to improve performance of SSDs in operating systems, working with Apple to integrate ZFS reading and writing to the next version of OSX Server. This means a 128-bit file system with faster data throughput and lots of other fun things that make servers run better. This also means Apple is taking SSD technology seriously, as it has already dropped the price of the SSD upgrade for the MacBook Air—the only current MacBook to ship with an SSD option—to US$599 from US$999. We likely won’t see SSDs across the MacBook lines yet, but this means it could be in the cards. [MacRumors] More »
Entertainment
Music Video Is Complete Mac OS X Leopard Tour
10:40PM Jesus Diaz | Whether you like the song or not—Addy says technically this is called Wimp-Pop, but it sounds more to me like Foux Da Fa Fa*—I’ve got to say that this music video made using The Bird and the Bee’s Again and Again is mesmerising. Or at the very least, a really cool musical tour through 40 Mac OS X features and applications: it starts slow and boring with Word, but it ends being a complete explosion of synchronised eye candy using everything from Photo Booth to Stickies to Spotlight to Dashboard widgets to Stacks. See if you can distinguish each and every one of the features and apps featured, then compare it to the list after the jump (I think we are missing a few.) More »
Music
Seriously, Where’s the Zune Support for Mac?
5:25AM Adrian Covert | While at the Zune Media Event in Redmond on Monday, the media had some downtime between presentations, and naturally the conversation moved to Microsoft vs. Apple. The mix of bloggers, reporters and Microsoft advertorial/internal bloggers provided some predictable replies. iPhone’s keyboard sucks…WinMo’s browser is blah…The iPhone isn’t mainstream because my grandma doesn’t care about it…on and on. Then the convo turned to iPod vs. Zune, and the question of Zune’s lack of Mac support came up. The closest anyone came to giving a good reason was suggesting Mac users bought Apple products more for the logo than the actual product, meaning they’d never abandon the iPod for a Zune. A fair point, perhaps, but a silly reason for a company to justify their lack of support for another platform. Here are a few reasons Zune should support OS X: More »
Software
OS X 10.5.2 Gets Graphics Fix Three Days After Release
12:27AM Jesus Diaz | Only three days later after the release of Mac OS X 10.5.2 Apple has updated Leopard again with a graphics fix to “improve the stability and compatibility of your Mac.” They also have released a patch for iLife application components to fix issues with the just released Aperture 2. More »
Random Stuff
Conan Wastes Time By Playing With OS X Photo Booth Filters
7:15AM Jason Chen | If you hosted your own daily talk show and had to kill 43 minutes of air with no writers backing you up, you’d eventually pull out stuff you have lying around the office and try and make a sketch out of it. This is exactly what Conan does, making with the OS X Photo Booth Filters like every teenage kid who visits an Apple store. Except when Conan does it, it’s kinda creepy. [Late Night]
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AppleInsider’s Leopard Guides…Get ‘Em While They’re Here
6:24AM Brian Lam | The AppleInsider crew has been previewing the dev builds of OS X Leopard for a few days now, and like clockwork, Apple has been asking them to take them down. Today’s addition is the review of Mail 3.0, complete with historical overview. This guide has the To Do list linked to emails, and data scrapers that can grab signatures from emails and put them into your address book. (Entire list of previews post jump) More »
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