Apple OS X 10.5 “Leopard” officially debuts, from engadget.

Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard (spring ‘07 release), has a special feature called Time Machine.

Time Machine can automatically backs up every version of your files to a hard drive or server, to browse through older versions of folders.

In other words, users can travel through time by scrolling through different windows that represent days, looking for the file they need.

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Apple 一年一度的盛事 WWDC 2006 即將於八月七日於美國舊金山舉行. 有興趣的可以看由 Applestyle 網站提供的現場即時轉播哦! 時間是台灣時間 8 月 8 日凌晨 1 點, 也就是兩分鐘後開始.

這次 Jobs 會端出甚麼樣的菜呢? 真是令人期待啊 :p

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VMWare for OS X Official, from digg.

Here is message from Slashdot:

“VMware has just announced at today’s Apple WWDC 2006 Conference that they are developing a port of VMware to Mac OS X.

People interested in beta testing the product later this year can visit this link to sign up for the public test. It will be interesting to see how things play out between VMware and Parallels.

Will Microsoft bother porting Virtual PC now that there will be two other Intel OS X virtualization solutions available? Now all we need is to get Mac OS X running under Xen.”

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Music Still Rules on Video iPod, from Yahoo! News.

Associated Press 的報導, 雖然我沒看完, 不過大意是說 Video iPod 的主打還是音樂. 原因是因為天生手持式裝置的缺點, 螢幕小會看不清楚; 螢幕大不但耗電, 更會失去手持式裝置輕巧的特性, 降低使用者購買慾.

而 Apple Computer Inc. 除了技巧性的把螢幕從 2 inches 加大到 2.5 inches, 延長電池的壽命以外, 也作了很出色的努力讓這些天生的缺點在 Video iPod 上不那麼明顯, 而且也改變策略, 讓 iPod 上看 Video 不是重點, 而變成是一個多出來的功能.

主打的功能則是 Enhance music listening 和 slideshow viewing, 給了使用者即便不會在 Video iPod 上看 Video, 也可以花錢買 Video iPod 的理由. (難怪 iPod 這麼成功)

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Apple 的 iTunes 其實還蠻好用的, 也有 Podcasts 可以訂閱. 目前 iTunes 的 stable version 是 6.0.0.18.

雖然 iTunes 是免費的, 但是卻會順便裝 Apple QuickTime, 很遺憾, 我非常不喜歡 QuickTime Player, 這是也我不喜歡 iTunes 的原因. 後來有試出一個方法可以只裝 iTunes 不要裝 QuickTime Player 的方法, 那就是裝 K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 或是 QuickTime Alternative. 不過隨著 QuickTime 也更新到 7.0, 這個方法也要作小小的更改. 步驟如下:

1. uninstall iTunes
2. uninstall QuickTime
3. install K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.40+, Updated QuickTime Alternative to version 1.65+
4. Or install QuickTime Alternative 1.65+, which updated QT components to version 7.0.3.5+
5. install iTunes (en, 中文版)

要注意的是 QuickTime Alternative 一定要用 1.65 以上 (aka K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.40 以上), 用 1.53 的話, 裝 iTunes 6 時會偵測到系統中沒裝 QuickTime 7, 一樣會幫你裝進 Computer System 中而前功盡棄.

裝的過程我是用下面的設定:

那原先的 QuickTime 影片 (.mov vice versa) 怎麼播呢? 事實上用 Windows Media Player 就可以播放囉!

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Apple sued over iTunes interface, from News.com.
蘋果 iTunes 介面遭侵權控告, from Taiwan CNet.

Apple 的 iTunes 被美國佛蒙特州的一家叫 Contois 的公司指控 iTunes 的軟體介面侵犯了該公司專利. 圖請看 CNET Networks 這裡.

老實說, 我是看不太出來侵權 :p

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Steve Jobs 在 WWDC 的演講, from Gea-Suan Lin’s BLOG.

WWDC 2005 (Worldwide Developers Conference), 我相信對 Apple 有怨念的人應該都蠻有興趣的吧. 要看這個 keynote 要記得裝 QuickTime.

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