Posts Tagged ‘ Mac ’

Audix Introduces USB Plug and Play Microphone

Jul 9th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Hardware

Audix Microphones has introduced a new mic, the Audix USB12, that is designed to gives you “studio quality sound” at your desktop
The UDSB12 is a low-profile desktop gooseneck microphone, designed for recording voice and acoustic instruments directly into the computer via the USB port.
Features:

12 mm modular threaded capsule for accuracy.
The USB12 is a plug and [...]



.Mac Is Dead; Now MobileMe

Jun 9th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Apple today killed off its much-maligned .Mac service and introduced MobileMe, a service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs.
In a nutshell, your apps will automatically get synced, via MobileMe, so that your desktop, laptop, iPhone [...]



Pure Digital Intros Pocket-Sized Flip Video Mino

Jun 4th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Podcasting Hardware, Video

Pure Digital Technologies today introduced the Flip Video Mino, a tiny new addition to its line of YouTube-ready Flip Video camcorders. The Mino is designed to be small enough to fit into your pocket.
The $179.99 (MSRP) Mino includes built-in software that lets you plug the camcorder’s flip-out USB arm into your computer for immediate editing [...]



Apple Intros Fastest Mac Ever

Jan 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware

Apple today introduced the new Mac Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor.
The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel’s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2 GHz, powerful new graphics and up to 4TB of internal storage to [...]



Macs Are The Platform Of New Media

Dec 27th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Computer Hardware, Podcasting Hardware

The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has a provocative review of Dell‚Äôs XPS One desktop today, saying that “has the guts, design to compete with iMac.”
He explains:
“This new Dell is no mere iMac clone. It makes its own style statement, even though it shares the same 20-inch widescreen display and a similar Intel dual-core processor [...]



Wait To Upgrade To Leopard

Nov 6th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer writes on his blog that Leopard “is not a good operating system release.”
Winer compares the Leopard update to Windows:
“It’s that unpleasant to use. It disappears for long periods of time. Systems that didn’t used to crash now crash regularly. On one system three hard disks were rendered unusable, and I lost [...]



Leopard Bricked My Powerbook!

Nov 1st, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting Hardware

It looks like Apple’s decision to delay the release of Leopard still didn’t give them enough time to give the operating system update a thorough testing. After four hours+ of updating, the OS X 10.5 install turned my Powerbook G4 into a doorstop.
After doing the upgrade, the laptop is requiring a login, though it was [...]



Running Windows On A Mac Just Got Easier

Jun 1st, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Computer Hardware

The team at SWsoft has announced a new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Named Desktop for Mac 3.0. The forthcoming update,due in a few weeks,has over 50 new features….including Windows 3D graphic support (that’s Quake 4 running under vritual Windows XP on a Mac above).
Parallels lets you run Windows apps on a Mac, without [...]