… that was unexpected.
Damn. So when's it coming to Australia? 
Some quibbles:
- The iPod video only plays MPEG-4 and H.264, with support for "future formats" via a firmware update. Although I doubt Apple would ever have supported DivX (or XVid, or whatever the format du jour is nowadays). It's basically saying "Hey! You can play your pirated shows and movies on our iPod! Come and get it!"
- Where's the iMac supposed to go, in front of the TV? I don't see any TV tuner in there! (But there is one massive graphics card!) I expected an Airport Express for video, but not this…
An update for the SafariStand plugin has been released today, which allows you to have thumbnail tabs (like those in OmniWeb) in Safari. Yay!
It's been posted all over the Internet, but Apple replaced the iPod mini line today with the iPod nano. I want one! I'm extremely tempted to plonk down the money (only A$270 for a 2GB with edu discount) for a black one, which I could take to work, instead of lugging my 40GB iPod.
Despite the size and weight, there's one nagging issue: no port-thingy next to the headphone jack (which is now on the bottom). This means you can't use one of the Apple wired remote controls, or the AirClick. Since I haven't bothered to shell out the money for a proper car integration system (nor do I plan to, at least for a while), I wouldn't be able to use a nano in the car. Dammit.
Michael McCracken says:
I just had a serious urge to tag my emails. And chats. And, of course, songs.
This is something I would LOVE to see in Mail. I'd pay for it!!! I have so many emails floating around and so many areas to deal with that being able to assign an arbitrary tag (keyword is probably a better name, and less buzz-wordy) would be a huge benefit to me.
A commenter pointed out there is a plugin for Mail called Mail Tags that aims to do this. I'm going to try using this, but it would be great to see this built into Mail itself in the future.
Apple, are you listening?
UPDATE: It would help if I linked to the damn thing…
As I mentioned previously, I've been having issues burning CDs after doing a clean install of Tiger (10.4) and updating to 10.4.1.
I came across a thread on the Apple Discussion boards tonight, which seems to have fixed the problem! Yay! I have no idea how this affects disc burning, but it works, and that's all that matters. 
Thanks to "Pete" for the solution to this problem:
open system preferences.
go to international
under languages: drag any of the other languages to the top, then drag english back to the top.
make sure "order for sorted lists" is set to enlish
make sure "work break" is set to english(united states, computer)
then restart.
The details on the fix are here.
I've been having issues with my PowerBook (more on that later), but this is worrying:
This has happened burning a disk image with Disk Utility, in the Finder, and a different (but I suspect related) error in Toast Titanium. Grrr. Any solutions?
(Just so this in indexed in the search engines, the error is "The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media".)
I heard from a friend who's at WWDC that in a seminar on UI design, Connoisseur was featured as an example of great interface design! Nice.
*thud* (That is the sound of my jaw hitting the floor)
UPDATE: The MacBlog has a nice list of responses.
There's a bunch of rumours flying around the web right now about how Apple is going to announce a shift to Intel processors at the WWDC conference this Monday (the 6th June). I have no idea whether it's true or not, but if it is, Apple is taking a risk by alienating a lot of the existing customers, as well as forcing developers to cater to the two architectures (although there may be functionality in XCode to automatically make FAT binaries).
Anyway, here's a bunch of links:
UPDATE (2005/06/07 1:00): Some other, very late, links:
Phew. That's enough for now. I guess we'll see what the fuss is about in a couple of hours! (and me, in 7 or so, when I wake up!)
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