Jiggler, one of my favorite freeware apps because it is both simple & useful, was just updated to be a Universal Binary. It’s a great little program that runs in the background to keep your computer awake when you don’t want it to fall asleep or go to the screensaver. Version 1.3 also adds the ability to only ‘jiggle’ when iTunes is playing as well as other performance improvements.
Tycho, from Penny Arcade (I was going to explain it but then I realized: you either know it or you don’t) recently purchased a new Core Duo iMac. Here’s a snippet from his post about his experiences from the first week:
What I have ascertained is not that PCs as we know them lack good design, but that PCs as we know them have hardly any design to speak of. I’m not trying to be insulting. Use a Mac for a week, and we’ll talk again.
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[The Mac] is extremely good at what it does, which is to say, exposing functionality.
Be sure to check out the rest of the post and the comic for some more intriguing (and humorous) insights.
I love to hear these kinds of things, especially from technologically savvy users, because it helps me keep that smug look on my face…
Apple updated most of the iLife ’06 Suite today with bug-fix level patches for iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes and iWeb. Apple doesn’t list specific patch areas for any of the applications but I found that it does fix the jumping star-rating in iTunes smart playlists issue that I mentioned in an earlier post.
Apple’s been going a bit patch-happy lately with 10.4.5 landing yesterday so run Software Update or check the links above to get all the patching goodness.
Macworld announced the winners of the Readers’ Choice Awards today and I breathed a big sigh of relief.
For the awards, hardware winner was the Mac mini and Tiger won in the software arena, both of which were my picks among the nominated.
The relief came because there were some really poor nominations up for awards. I’m thinking specifically of Backup & Opera in the software category (see Daring Fireball as to why), and, to a lesser extent, the Mighty Mouse in the hardware category (because it’s a ergonomics nightmare).