It’s a soap opera week, with Adam’s investigation of how Apple has inexplicably requested that Google disapprove AdWords ads that use Apple trademarks. Then Jeff Carlson turns his attention to the recent announcement that Palm will be producing a Treo that uses Windows Mobile rather than the Palm OS. In the news, EMC Dantz has released Retrospect 6.1 to provide full Tiger compatibility, and Apple responds to complaints about scratched iPod nano screens.
Apple Addresses Flaws in Some iPod nanos -- Shortly after writing about the iPod nano (see "New iPod nano Replaces iPod mini" in TidBITS-796), a reader wrote to me asking, "What about the issue of reports of the easy breaking of the screen when there has been no obvious / excessive / accidental misuse of the iPod nano?" As the device had only been out a few days, I had no idea what he was talking about
Retrospect 6.1 Gains Full Tiger Compatibility -- Although Retrospect 6.0 has worked fine with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in general, it doesn't support two of Tiger's new features: access control lists (ACLs) that enable administrators to control who can access and modify files stored on a Mac OS X 10.4 server and extended attributes that will be used by future Mac applications
DealBITS Drawing: Dejal Simon Winners -- Congratulations to Khoi Vinh of subtraction.com, Erik Lofgren of bucknell.edu, and Tim Maecken of cken.org, whose entries were chosen randomly from 199 valid entries in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of Simon Standard, worth $59.95
There aren't many Mac programs that come with their own mascot, but the FTP/SFTP program Fetch has long stood out. It was one of the first graphical FTP programs on any platform, written in 1989 by Jim Matthews while working at Dartmouth College
On 26-Sep-05, the heads of Palm, Microsoft, and Verizon Wireless held a joint press conference to announce a new Palm Treo smartphone running Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, not the Palm OS
If you make a Mac-related product, or provide a Mac-related service like consulting, you're probably using some of Apple's trademarks like "Mac" and "Macintosh" in your advertising
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XPostFacto 4 experiences -- A reader looks for real-world experience with the software for installing Mac OS X on unsupported systems