John Gruber:

The new Amazon MP3 Store looks like no previous iTunes Store rival. The music is completely DRM-free, encoded at a very respectable 256 kbps, includes a ton of songs from major record labels, and offers terrific software support for Mac OS X.

John Gruber makes Amazon’s new MP3 store sound pretty attractive, especially with the [...]

News hit the various rumor sites that Apple allegedly seeded a small update through System Update today for Leopard. A couple people commented that they were concerned about another possible delay in the release date. Going on past history, they frequency of seeds usually goes up as GM status nears and that it [...]

Wil Shipley:

We suffer from increased prices and decreased competition and innovation. We suffer so Apple can make a few more bucks, when Apple is clearly not hurting for money. The core of Apple users has supported Apple for years — we were there when Apple was hurting, we stuck with it, we nursed her back [...]

And another reason I’m a Mac user from the newly outed Mac user Mark Cubank:

Then I upgraded my PC to Vista. What a disaster. I had grown accustomed to my PC freezing every now and then. Enter Vista and my PC was frozen more often than it was working. The biggest culprit was MicroSoft Outlook.
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The [...]

Steven Frank:

There’s one final insult, which is that Sony has scattered the installers across two DVDs so that the restore process requires manual intervention in the form of 5 or 6 disc swaps, not at all unlike trying to copy a floppy disk 20 years ago.

Steven has a great post about Windows running better [...]

After the new iPod announcements on September 5th I was ready to buy an iPod touch. I didn’t order one right away, deciding instead to wait until they’re shipping. I’m glad I waited. The more I read about them, the less I want one. At this point I’m back to wait [...]

Bill Bumgarner:

Ten years ago, Wired published an issue of their silly ‘zine that claimed Apple was pretty much dead and listed 100 ways to save the company.

Some of them are completely ridiculous like abandon mach for the WinNT kernel when the article was published a few months after buying NeXT or holding a telethon, but [...]

ByteCellar:

I ran across a story of a user who had put an Apple Newton eMate 300 to similar duty on his Sun box. Being an eMate owner myself and having a vacant Mac-style serial port on my dual-port Keyspan USB-to-serial adapter, I felt I must get this going as well.

I wish I had a serial [...]

I’ve been having some more fun with NSPredicates.  They have a really annoying “feature” in 10.4 that gave me a bit of a headache and will hopefull be changed before long.  According to the Predicate Programming Guide:
In Mac OS X v10.4, wildcard characters do not match newline characters.
I took that to mean that the wildcard portion of [...]

Finally!!!!
I got my hands on my very own Wii today after 2 months of everyone being sold out around me. Wii Code is 5139 7829 8111 5558.