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Windows XP on Intel Macs using Apple Boot Camp
When the first Intel Core-based Macs came out and people were asking if they could ever run Windows on it, Apple's response what they don't support it, but they won't do anything to stop it either. However, the decision to use EFI instead of BIOS basically stopped it from happening on a hardware level. Today Apple released a beta of Boot Camp, which enables dynamic,... more »
iTunes Australia
It's about 2 weeks since Australia got its own version of the iTunes Music Store. It had a few glitches in the opening week with pricing of some albums still being adjusted, and some other oddities like tracks being labelled as 'Album Only' purchases, yet where the 'Buy Album' button should be, it says you can only buy it "By Song Only". Despite launching without... more »
Minty stats
I purchased Shaun Inman's Mint stats application for jonathanpoh.com and I'm finding that it's heck a lot more useful than the other stats packages that come with most web hosts. One bit of information that Mint brought to light was how popular my Wallpapers section is, and I'm getting loads of visits to that section, mostly via Google's Image Search. I've gotten close to 1,500... more »
NewsGator buys NetNewsWire
I can't believe this actually passed me by. NewsGator, an online RSS aggregator service (both free and subscription-based) has bought up Ranchero Software and along with it, NetNewsWire which is probably the most popular standalone RSS reader on the Mac. They too bought FeedDemon some months ago, which is for Windows. Collectively, they've got all 3 bases covered and I suspect that gives them the... more »