Twenty. Three. Pages. Ars’ deeply technical review of Snow Leopard ain’t for the faint of heart, but if you want to dive deep inside Snow Leopard’s guts, after our comparatively breezy take, the entry point is here: [Ars] https://gizmodo.com/snow-leopard-review-lightened-and-enlightened-5346418
Hey, a Sony Vaio software add-on that doesn’t suck: Sony’s pre-installing Google Chrome on its laptops. Not a bad strategy for Google to boost Chrome’s paltry but growing 2.6 percent marketshare—I suspect we’ll see them ink some more deals with other manufacturers—though I wonder how many people are still gonna think it’s crapware. [WSJ]
Yep, it’s real. The Canon 7D is an 18-megapixel semi-pro DSLR that shoots 1080p video in 24—or 30—glorious frames per second for $1899, kicking Nikon’s previously unchallenged D300s where it hurts. But it’s also an odd little beast. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d300s-dslr-adds-720p-hd-video-with-stereo-input-5326020 The 7D feels like Canon took the results of a survey they handed out to people…
Just follow these simple steps. It’s actually not as scary as it looks. The chart’s a compilation of all of the useful—and interactive—charts for PC troubleshooting and repair by Morris Rosenthal, found here. But, uh, sometimes, we prefer the one-step solution: Buy a new damn computer. [Morris Rosenthal via BeeBeeGee]
For every copy of Internet Explorer 8 downloaded from here, Microsoft donates $1.15 to Feeding America—but if you upgrade from IE6, they’ll double their donation. Even if you switch to Firefox immediately, help give Microsoft’s money away: [BrowserFortheBetter]
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The SEC is all up in Apple’s business again, this time over suspicions that some illegal trading may have gone down using insider information in regards to threee “three particular Apple-related developments.” HuffPo’s Dan Dorfman points at someone getting an “illegal lead” on iPod sales, true knowledge of Steve Jobs‘ health, and when Apple was…
You’ve had the weekend to play with Snow Leopard and have stuff run faster, apps break and all the other glories of a new OS. But how much extra space did you get, and how’s your battery life? https://gizmodo.com/snow-leopard-review-lightened-and-enlightened-5346418 On Twitter we noticed that everybody seemed to get back more space from Snow Leopard than…
I present to you the crappiest $106,414.89 computer in history. Plus $13.46 shipping. And no Amazon Prime either, what the hell? [Amazon, Thanks Rodrigo!]
Sure, Apple carved out a lot extra code, like printer drivers you don’t need. But you’re also seeing additional space where you didn’t used to, because Snow Leopard calculates disk capacity differently than Leopard (or Windows, for that matter). Previously, storage was calculated using binary (base 2), which is why you wound up with hard…
I guess the end of summer means “ramp up the data charges” for carriers, since Verizon’s about force anyone with an “enhanced multimedia phone”—basically, phones with a QWERTY keyboard, EVDO Rev. A and HTML browser—to pick their (mandatory) choice between a $10/month plan with 25MB or $20/month for 75MB. It starts for all phones launching…
It’s here: The official invite for Apple’s September 9 annual iPod event. It kicks off at 10AM Pacific—that’s 1PM Eastern—and we’ll be there bringing it to you live, as always. https://gizmodo.com/remainders-things-we-didnt-post-5339505/?selectedImage=1 What do you think we’re gonna see next Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts? iPods with cameras? MMS for iPhone in…
I love coffee. Probably more than you do. But I’m not as obsessed as the people who devote their lives to coffee, forever searching for the perfect cup through practices that mingle science and voodoo. I want to be. When I (or anyone) order a macchiato at either of Ninth St. Espresso‘s Alphabet City outposts,…
Oh hello, Clover. As David says, it’s a $12,000 machine for delivering water to coffee. Just very precisely. The lab, in all its glory This is a Chemex pot Cafe Solo Beans, from no roasting to 14 minutes of roasting
This is $15,000 of custom espresso-making machinery. That’s the current water temp of one of the boilers. Vintage espresso awesomeness All of this is for measuring water. Seriously.
Walt Mosspuppet’s take might just be the only Snow Leopard review you need. He even reveals, exclusively, the next revolutionary version of OS X: Perilous (oops) Hairless Siamese Cat. [YouTube]
The internet has basically been daring Apple to approve the iPhone app for Spotify, the frankly amazing streaming music app that seems like an obvious threat to iTunes, since you can cache tracks and create fully customized playlists. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-iphone-app-kills-pandora-last-fm-slacker-and-5323898 Well Apple just approved it, “and they hope to add the app to the more than…
You’ve probably heard about this snow kitty operating system for Macintosh computers. What you might not’ve heard is exactly how it’s supposed to be unleashing the power of all those processor cores crammed inside your computer. https://gizmodo.com/snow-leopard-review-lightened-and-enlightened-5346418 The heart of the matter is that the trick to actually utilizing the full power of multiple processors—or…
Apple’s Leopard PC icon set the standard for anti-PC snark, but the PCSim iPhone app, which promises 99 percent of a PC’s functionality with a BSOD, viruses and long startup time, nicely continues that tradition of dickitude. [iTunes via Wired]
You probably brew coffee, like most people, the most insipid way possible: Using a Mr. Coffee that you fill with pre-ground coffee from the supermarket. There’s a million other ways to make coffee, and they’re all better. Updated. Here’s the rub about making coffee: The best ways to make coffee are the super simplest or…
