portenkirchner.net » Apple http://portenkirchner.net porti's island in the net Wed, 19 May 2010 12:12:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Apple WWDC 2008 Keynote http://portenkirchner.net/2008/06/09/apple-wwdc-2008-keynote/ http://portenkirchner.net/2008/06/09/apple-wwdc-2008-keynote/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:45:37 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2008/06/09/apple-wwdc-2008-keynote/ Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is taking place in San Francisco right now and started with the Steve Jobs Keynote. The event was live blogged by Mac Rumors, Macworld, Engadget and many other sites.

Main topics of the keynote have been the App Store and some of it’s apps, the iPhone 2.0 Software, the MobileMe service that replaces .Mac and the new iPhone 3G (thinner, GPS, 3G and cheaper).

Steve Jobs also announced that later on there will be given a peak of the new OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

For sure today’s keynote will soon be avaible on the new Apple Keynotes podcast in the iTunes Store.

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2008/06/09/apple-wwdc-2008-keynote/feed/ 1 Mac Pro and Xserve http://portenkirchner.net/2008/01/09/mac-pro-and-xserve/ http://portenkirchner.net/2008/01/09/mac-pro-and-xserve/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:46:01 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2008/01/09/mac-pro-and-xserve/ Today Apple announced new 8-core Mac Pro and new Xserve.

As this is happening just one week before the Macworld Expo starts, there seem to be a lot of great announcements for Steve Jobs’ keynote.

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2008/01/09/mac-pro-and-xserve/feed/ 1 The new screensaver for my iBook http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/20/the-new-screensaver-for-my-ibook/ http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/20/the-new-screensaver-for-my-ibook/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 21:05:45 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/20/the-new-screensaver-for-my-ibook/ Some days ago I found a link to a screen saver and installed it immediately. The name of the screensaver is Visionary Saver and it displays Twittervision and Flickrvision when I don’t use my iBook.

There are plans to add other visualizations like Breathing Earth.

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/20/the-new-screensaver-for-my-ibook/feed/ 0 iBackup with SuperDuper! now http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/13/ibackup-with-superduper-now/ http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/13/ibackup-with-superduper-now/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 20:46:46 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/20/ibackup-with-superduper-now/ Yesterday it was time for my weekly my monthly a backup after quite some time. To back up my iBook to a 250 GB LaCie Hard Drive I have been using iBackup so far and was happy with it.

But yesterday evening when iBackup updated the plugins it froze and after waiting for half an hour I did a force-quit. Starting it new everything was ok and I started the backup.

Six hours later when I came back from a nice dinner with friends iBackup did not react again and seemed to be frozen. And another force-quit.

So I decided to dwonload the backup programme most Apple users seem to prefer and use: SuperDuper!.

So before I went to sleep I started the backup with SuperDuper! and when I got up again I had a current backup of all my files.

And once again I resolve to do backups weekly or montly or …

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2007/05/13/ibackup-with-superduper-now/feed/ 0 Hello world! Hello iPhone! http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/09/hello-world-hello-iphone/ http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/09/hello-world-hello-iphone/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:15:12 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/09/hello-world-hello-iphone/ Finally it is reality! Steve Jobs finally presented it in today’s Keynote at the Macworld Expo: the Apple iPhone.

Beside being a phone, it is also a widescreen iPod (audio and video) and an internet device (Safari, Mail, Widgets). Having only one button and a large multi-touch display.

In my opinion the iPhone will revolutionize the mobile phone industry as the Macintosh revolutionized the computer industry and the iPod revolutionized the way we to listen to music.

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/09/hello-world-hello-iphone/feed/ 0 Safari, forget me not! http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/05/safari-forget-me-not/ http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/05/safari-forget-me-not/#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:20:45 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/05/safari-forget-me-not/ It happened so often to me that I had serveral tabs open in Safari and unintentionally closed Safari and seeing all the tabs going away. There is no warning before closing all these tabs as it happens in Firefox.

But today I stumbeld upon Forget Me Not by Jim Fowler. It is a SIMBL plugin for Safari that remembers all the websites that are open when Safari is closed and opens them again when Safari is started.

I am sure Forget Me Not will save me from time to time from going through the browser history and search for the sites I wanted to remain open.

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/05/safari-forget-me-not/feed/ 1 Snowflakes, but no real snow http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/04/snowflakes-but-no-real-snow/ http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/04/snowflakes-but-no-real-snow/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:01:54 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/2007/01/04/snowflakes-without-real-snow/ Snowflakes is a nice screensaver for Max OS X by Russell Warneboldt. Download it and put it in your ~/Library/Screen Savers/ directory. Then activate it in the System Preferences, where you also can modfiy it if you want.

We are still missing real snow here in München/Munich. So it’s a nice way to let it snow!

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