3 posts tagged “mac”
A Letter to Customers from Gil Amelio
December 20, 1996
Dear Apple customers:
The next chapter in Apple's history begins today.
As you may have already heard, today we acquired NeXT Software Inc. As a result, we are merging the businesses of Apple and NeXT into one operation, owned and managed by Apple. This means that, in a moment, we move to the center of the industry's developments and debates. It means we greatly strengthen our Internet, Enterprise, and software propositions. And it means we complete our commitment to deliver a truly modern operating system to our customers.
It also means that our co-founder Steven P. Jobs, will rejoin Apple, reporting to me. I know I speak for everyone at Apple in welcoming Steve home.
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Yep Gil, it certainly was a new chapter for Apple.
And they have added about a few more chapters since then.
Maybe next year would be the biggest chapter of all.
Happy Holidays!
My good friend, drikin (short name for draft king) has released "Dorio: the SkypeAgent"
Drikin is a very talented engineer working for a 'famous' Japanes ecompany; beside his work at the office, he has been working on the Japanese localization of Freemind. He is also the creator of "Spirited Away."
He is a very talented programmer but he also has a very good instinct about what's cool and what's not.
One such example is the use of Skype's text chat feature.
It doesn't look as nice as iChat but it has one cool feature: you can throw a message to someone even if s/he is offline.
When that person gets online, s/he will receive the message.
If you are chatting with more than three people the log will be automatically supplemented.
That's how many people around me have migrated to Skype.
Just recently Google Talk has announced similar feature, but with Dorio, Skype chat has gone a few step further.
If you know the jargon, dorio is a 'bot' for your Skype chat which let developers write a simple plug-in.
Drikin has provieded a few plugin, but NotifyMail is the best plugin to be used with it.
It will detects keyword and forward the conversation (after the keyword) to any e-mail addresses; you can specify two addresses, so I send one to my mac.com address and the other to cell phone.
What's so cool about this is, if someone is calling me in my absence I can still read what that person is saying on my phone. Some IRC client has this feature but Skype chat was missing it. But now Dorio has fullfilled the gap.
Also available are:
-- "URLlogger" which logs every URL in your conversations.
--"dorio-- the plugin" -- which would add commenst to what you'd say (in Japanese)
-- "TiddlyLog" -- which would log your conversation in HTML with style sheet
-- "Search Command" plugin -- which would display the URL for Search engine result page for specified keywords
If you use Skype chat on a Mac, this is a MUST-HAVE extension.
If you use Skype chat on a Windows, this is another reason for you to get a Mac; you can now run windows on it ;-)
If you use Mac but don't use Skype chat, maybe you should give it a shot.
For now, the documentation for "Dorio" is available in Japanese only. We are looking for your help to do the manual globalization!
The Japanese version of this article can be found here:この記事の日本語版
If you think the new MacBook Pro is all about Intel Core 2 Duo, you are missing a big point.
There is a very tiny but astonishing differences between the new MacBook Pro and the previous one.
See this picture for a few second and see if you can find it:
Those owners of the previous MacBook Pro should notice a tiny dot is missing from the new MacBook Pro.
Yes, with the previous MacBook Pro, there was a dot right next to the iSight built-in camera.
The dot turned into green light when you turn ON your iSight, to tell the camera has been activated.
So does this missing dot means the new MacBook Pro won't tell if the camera is working?
NO.
Here comes the amazing part.
See this picture. Apple DID THE IMPOSSIBLE 'AGAIN':
With the new MacBook Pro, the green light will illuminate from within the aluminum bezel!
You will have to go to Apple Retail Store and see it with your eyes.
But it is a REALLY AMAZING design feature of the new MBP.
You may think there must be tiny holes around that area.
Well, maybe ....
But even if so, the holes are too small to recognize.
When the light is off, you won't be able to tell.
It may be a tiny detail, but Apple is one of the few company who would make things better even at this level.
