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Good points by Neven Mrgan, but I especially agree with this one:
It’s weird, and it’s one of the things I hope Apple will address in Lion.
Times change. Gadgets grow old fast. Look at your original iPhone from 2007, then look at the iPhone 4’s sexy metal band. Things in this industry have a short lifespan, and it’s up to great engineers and designers to make a device last in time and leave a permanent sign in the minds of people who used it, loved it.
In the picture above, you can see a Mac Portable from 1989 compared to a 2010 MacBook Air. Generation of Macs sitting next to each other, a visual representation of the progress that’s been made in science and computer engineering. But it was “only” 21 years ago. The first Game Boy came out the same year. The U2 were a great band. Yet, for as much as we remember those events as if it was yesterday and we struggle to keep that Mac Portable in perfect mint condition, things change. Fast.
So welcome, MacBook Air. We look forward to comparing you to another Mac in 21 years.
If Macs will still be around. [TUAW via Patrick McCarron]
We’ve come to the point where every month a new Mac-related bundle is publicized on the internet, and not so many of them are really worth a mention. The iUseMac bundle, though, is pretty damn good: 9 “premium” Mac apps at only 29 bucks instead of the $290 price tag you’d usually get when buying each of them on the developers’ websites. Not a bad deal.
The apps included in the offer are mostly productivity apps for your Mac, and a few really popular ones are in there as well: Renamer, an awesome utility I use every day to batch rename files on my MacBook, and Picturesque, a well-known lightweight image editing software. If you consider that Renamer alone costs $25 (and it’s totally worth the price anyway), you can guess iUseMac set up an interesting offer.
The other apps included in the bundle are Proview, MacCleanse 2, Labels & Addresses, Clean Text, iFlicks and TypeIt4Me. An additional utility app will be delivered to everyone who buys the bundle, and I have to admit is another good and useful one.
So head over iUseMac’s website, take a look at the applications and hit the Buy button. iUseMac is undoubtedly above the average bundles for Mac we see launching every week or so.
We covered NFC (Near Field Communication) technology before: many rumors and patents surfaced in the past detailing how Apple might be interested in implementing NFC in future iPhones to turn them into “digital wallets” capable of doing things such as on-the-go instant payments. While NFC cellphone-based payments are already reality in Japan and there are a couple of applications that can already do that on the iPhone without NFC (like Visa payWare), we have been speculating about Apple deploying its own solution for months now.
According to new report by Cult of Mac from an anonymous source, Apple might implement NFC in the iPhone 5, but not just for mobile “iWallet” payments. The source claims Apple has been working on a solution to let iPhone users carry their whole OS X experience around and use any Mac as if it was their own computer through an iPhone-based transfer system. Neat stuff. Read more
Adium, the popular free instant messaging app for Mac, has been updated to version 1.4, an update that’s been in the works for more than two years. The new version, which now requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later, includes support for Twitter, IRC, comes with improved group chats and group chat bookmarks and also includes hundreds of under-the-hood enhancements and bug fixes. Read more
And indeed, they’re committed to making a centralized integrated ecosystem the bet on their destiny.
A Redditor wonders if Apple is going to ditch the CD for the new OS distribution:
Obviously DVDs are cheaper and faster to print. But if you think about Apple and the “dangerous” decisions they made in the past, this kind of makes sense.
VMWare, well-known company that distributes a popular virtualization software also available on the Mac, has been working on a remote iPad client, which is coming out in early 2011 as reported by RazorianFly.
In the video above you can see a demo of the app as shown by Scott Davis, CTO End User Computing at VMWare.
Alarms is a Mac app developed by Media Atelier we previously reviewed here. For those who missed the review:
Alarms is a fast and lightweight reminder app for Mac that lives in your menubar. It’s not a GTD application, yet it’s a perfect companion for softwares like Things or OmniFocus. I basically use Alarms to save little things I need to do later that aren’t worth creating a new entry in OmniFocus.
Getting stuff in Alarms is simple and takes seconds. Once you install the app a new icon is added to your menubar. Click on it, or drag an item over it, and a white horizontal panel slides down (great animation) letting you choose in which part of your working day should the new entry go.
