A quick follow-up to the challenge MySpace is serving up to Apple with their music service, as I wrote about previously (reference: http://www.thereformed.org/2008/04/07/myspace-gambles-big-on-lost-cause/). As I stated before, I don’t believe MySpace will be able to capture a significant market share in an industry which is experiencing innovations per quarter from the company who established and arguably perfected the vary model industry leaders are salivating to get bigger a piece of and the major economic downturn (an obvious recession.. if it looks like a duck…) which is hitting consumers in the pocketbook. What this brief article addresses is the sheer, implausible numbers game that a small fish such as MySpace is facing in a private pond thats home to a big hungry shark. Continue reading ‘Apple Wins by the Numbers’
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MySpace has matured the social networking portal more than any other provider, but how will they fair in the media market - specifically their venture in MySpace music? They’re going after the hallowed ground of Apple’s iTunes and I suspect that we might not necessarily see a failure (because MySpace’s user-base is so very large it can take the hit), but we can forsee that no notable, sustainable gains will be made - Apple’s loyalists will benefit from it extremely however. Why? Continue reading ‘MySpace Gambles Big on Lost Cause’
Sorry, no dice this round. After almost three-quarters of a year waiting, beyond the first and second quarters of 2007, the Office built for OS X will not be available until late into the year (December approximately) for Release to Manufacturer and wouldn't (legally) be seen by consumers on shelves until sometime in the first quarter of 2008. The announcement came earlier today on the Microsoft Mac Development Unit's MSDN blog "Mac Mojo" ( http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo ). As a hardcore Microsoft product end-user, it irks me to have to concede that Microsoft is failing it's buyers.
Every day I spent my time researching new ways to do things I have done for years, for example this weekend I spent 27 hours researching a new way to present Java EE HTTP uploads using AJAX, Servlets and EJB's. Yeah I know - blah blah, "we all do that kind of thing, who cares". But AH! I have been doing the same thing for something we are all familiar with. MySpace! Yes its rubbish, yes its been hacked together from ColdFusion and ASP .NET elements and YES it always seems to be broken, BUT there seems to be a massive market out there for people who want to make a quick buck from generating MySpace friend adders, or mass commenter's. They charge a fortune to download these applications to spam other MySpace users, why can't I make a free one? screw those guys… lets open source it! So I thought - How hard can it be? so I started to investigate and I was quite excited as to what I found. Continue reading ‘Hacking MySpace - The Basics - P1′
Let's talk power management. This is a problematic issue with this machine because the Mac OS X operating system cannot distinguish / interact with the battery(s) in this laptop by default. This is going to require us to take some measures to ensure we're able to be aware of how much power we have left on the clock. This is a another article in this series which succeeds the first, “HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 1”, the second “HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 2“ and the third "HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 3". Continue reading ‘GUIDE: OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - P4′
So we've made it this far huh? Wow, the journey is coming along pretty quickly. Now, we're going to look at optimizing the system, setting up some basic interface features and let's try our hand at getting that nagging built-in Ethernet to work, what do you say? This is a another article in this series which succeeds the first, "HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 1" and the second "HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 2". Continue reading ‘GUIDE: OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - P3′
So, right about this time you could be wondering, "…what's my next move?". Well, lets just break down that action into a series of steps like last time to ensure our installation is spot-on and working to the standard we would expect such as fascinating and brilliant operating system like Mac OS X to. This is a continuation article of my first, "HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 1" and as such it will be very beneficial for you to read if you're puzzled on how exactly we made it to this point. Continue reading ‘GUIDE: OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - P2′
