iPod Hi-Fi: Home Stereo. Reinvented.
Just slide your iPod into the built-in Universal Dock to turn on and tune in to digital music as you’ve never heard it before. From pumping bass to bright treble, iPod Hi-Fi delivers natural, room-filling sound. Close your eyes and you’d think you were listening to a huge stack of speakers. But iPod Hi-Fi measures just 17.0" x 6.6" x 6.9." Use the included Apple Remote to control music playback from anywhere in the room. Charge your iPod through the iPod Hi-Fi dock while you play music.
The innovative design of iPod Hi-Fi transforms consumer-grade materials into the ideal enclosure for high-fidelity sound. The high-end sound of iPod Hi-Fi pours out of a double-walled plastic shell redesigned for maximum stiffness to prevent vibration and resonance — two major causes of sonic imperfection. And airtight sealing allows voluminous, unobstructed sound, effectively preventing buzzing and clatter.
iPod Hi-Fi features three speaker cones custom designed to provide balanced sound across the frequency range. The result of numerous rigorous acoustic tests, this design delivers room-filling stereo imaging. The two 80 mm wide-range cones are set in dedicated chambers and isolated on the front plate, providing mid and high frequencies that sound vivid and bright. The natural bass of iPod Hi-Fi is generated by a 130 mm woofer. Thanks to the airtight sealing, the low frequencies are enriched inside the enclosure and then directed via tuned tubes through ports in the front.
Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, reacted to the recent news of a pair of worms aimed at Mac OS X and a zero-day vulnerability of Apple Computer's operating system with accusations that the security industry hypes the danger in order to sell more security software.
Ben Long writes: "By adding pro-level tools while keeping a surprisingly low price, Adobe’s $89 Photoshop Elements 4 is an important upgrade for any digital photographer who doesn’t want to - or simply can’t - spend hundreds of dollars on a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS2." Read the entire article over at Macworld.
It's the hottest sensation to sweep the nation: Pink Noise! Also known as a signal with even power distribution on a logarithmic frequency scale, pink noise masks background noise to help you concentrate. Now with source code and white noise, for those less colorful.
How does your website look on Apple Safari? Many designers (I can't figure out why) don't use a Mac and have no way of seeing how their work looks like when viewed in Safari. There is a solution to this problem. Visit this website, enter an URL and SafariTest will return a screenshot of your page as viewed with Safari. Note that frames and Flash movies are not perfectly supported.
Keyboard shortcuts can not only improve your efficiency in Photoshop, but they can even provide you with functionality that might not be available by any other means, like zooming while a dialog window is open, or inserting a "Select forward layer" into an action. This PDF contains a myriad of shortcuts.
Jim Dalrymple writes: "As MacBook Pro laptops arrived this week, users of the first Intel-powered Mac portables began firing up their new machines for the first time. What they haven’t been able to do, however, is find versions of some pretty high-profile professional applications that run natively on the MacBook’s Intel Core Duo chip. And, according to the public pronouncements from software makers such as Adobe and Microsoft, they shouldn’t expect Universal-binary versions of those programs to appear any time soon."
Steve Wozniak recently said: "It's like consorting with the enemy. We've had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we're better. All of a sudden we're the same in this hardware regard, so it's a little hard to swallow your words from the past.â€
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable. Chax requires at least Mac OS X Tiger and is completely free.
If you’re using Mac OS X Tiger and Flickr, you might be interested in the ability to send images to Flickr by right clicking and hitting send. This is useful if you use Flickr for image hosting for your blog or you just want a really quick way to upload images to Flickr.
It seems iPod mania is alive and well in Japan - one of the most competitive consumer-electronics markets on the planet. Despite an array of well-entrenched Japanese rivals, such as Sony and Matsushita, the iPod had cornered 51.3% of the digital-music player market as of the end of 2005, up from about 32% in 2004, according to research firm BCN. Sony was a distant second with 16.2%, while Panasonic grabbed just 8.2% of the market.
For anyone that has been wishing to switch to Apache 2 on their Mac, this is the time to do it. PHP 5 has also recently been updated and this tutorial describes in detail, the best method to both build and install these programmes on your Mac.
Jason Snell writes: "Our first MacBook Pros arrived yesterday—three 2GHz models bought with our own coin—and the testing started immediately. Macworld Lab has been churning away on benchmark testing, and we’ll post a review with complete in-depth results later this week."
PDF Kit lets you handle PDF documents in your Cocoa application without writing a lot of custom code. Read this article to get started with this important Mac OS X Tiger technology.
Apple this week began providing to its developers the first external pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.4.6 - the sixth maintenance to Mac OS X 10.4. Apple issued builds for both PowerPC (build 8I109) and Intel (build 8I1102) Macintosh systems.
All the Mac viruses and security holes in the news are overblown. They're news only because of their novelty, not the threat they pose. Leander Kahney writes: "The 
ShapeShifter is a product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes' - the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, absolutely everything. Version 2.3 brings several new features like: "Growl" (if present) will be used to indicate that themes were applied successfully when the normal indicator sheet has been turned off; ShapeShifter's Download tab now has a shiny indicator that lights up when new themes are available for download; you can now type the name of a theme to select it (Tiger only).
A cool piece of software to try out for all you people that want to dominate your OS X system in a whole different way is definitely FlyGesture. It works a lot like Automator - you can create a single action, or chains of actions to be invoked by the simple movements of your mouse. FlyGesture is activated like Exposé or Dashboard, bringing up a transparent window of "guides" to move your mouse through. Moving your mouse through the guides lets FlyGesture know what action or actions you want to be performed, such as closing a window or opening an application.
Mark Shead writes: "There are several situations where you might want to dump a DVD to your hard drive to watch later. For instance, I get significantly better battery life when watching a video from my hard drive than I get when watching it from a DVD. If I’m stuck in a plane for several hours, having my movie on the hard drive can be the difference between finishing the show, or running out of power halfway through. I use a PowerBook and in OS X 10.3 and earlier you could just use the built in Disk Utility to copy a DVD to your disk, but it stopped working in 10.4. However with a few free tools you can accomplish the same thing and more."
Unfortunately, while iTunes can display half-star ratings there is no way within iTunes to set half-star ratings. Using simple AppleScript though, a song’s rating can quickly be increased/decreased by half a star.
Tim Gaden writes: "MailMergeApp is an AppleScript Studio application that allows you to use Mail.app and Address Book to create “merged mailingsâ€. It works with Mail.app but plugins are available to make it work with Entourage, Mailsmith and Eudora as well."
Rob Griffiths writes: "To get to the bottom of how serious a threat a piece of malware truly is, sometimes you have to take drastic steps—like deliberately infecting your own Mac to gauge the scope of potential damage. That’s what I did with the Leap-A malware that emerged Thursday, and I’ve learned that the program—while tricky—is not nearly as malicious as it could have been."
You don’t really understand the importance of backups until your hard drive crashes. With most backups, you’ll need to reinstall the operating system and then restore all of your data. OS X comes with a handy tool that will let you create a live copy of your hard drive that can be started up and run just like it is your computer. While we're on the subject of backup, you might be interested in taking a look at an older article here on Non Stop Mac that discusses 
The Apple Blog has a great list of Quicksilver tutorials that will suit every level of knowledge. If you want to work in a more productive environmet I suggest you take a look at Quicksilver right now.
Here's a brief excerpt: "What’s your pet hate about Mail.app? I’m going to assume pet hate means something I just get annoyed at versus something that’s just fundamentally wonky, like its IMAP support drunkenly feeling around the alley looking for an excuse to wee on itself." Read more in the interview at Hawk Wings. If you don't know who drunkenbatman is, and I doubt it, check out his blog.
Mindful of the questionable legality of decrypting commercial DVDs, Cinematize 2 leaves that task up to you to perform separately using a DVD ripping tool. If you wish to extract clips from an unprotected DVD (such as one you authored with iDVD), there's no need to rip the DVD content to your hard drive first; Cinematize can read it directly from the original DVD or mounted disc image.
With many people looking at their bottom lines this year looking to trim the fat from their budgets, it should come as no surprise that many eyes are on .Mac, a nominally good service without significant applications for many Mac users. The problem is that it's more expensive than many of its counterparts in the webhosting space, and that's something that's been discussed here in the past. What about using the WebDAV capabilities in Tiger Server, to broadcast your calendar?
Thom Holwerda writes: "A few weeks ago, I did something crazy and shelled out 50 Euros for a G3 iMac. It was a 333Mhz G3 iMac with 96MB of RAM. It came with a copy of Mac OS 9 - and that was what I bought it for. I wanted to experience first hand what OS 9 was like. I did not expect I'd use the machine much. However, I was in for a rather pleasant surprise."
You probably know that Apple Remote Desktop lets you observe and control Macs across your network, but did you know that it can also count, inventory, and keep track of them for you? In this first of three articles covering the often untapped possibilities of Remote Desktop, Ryan Faas shows you the ways you can use it to significantly improve inventory processes, monitor network performance, remain alert to changes in workstations that might be signs of theft, and prepare customized reports easily on the state of the Macs in your network in preparation for an upgrade.
TurboTax has consistently been the best tax-prep app available for the Mac, and the latest version includes several minor improvements that should make your yearly wrestling match with the IRS a little easier. The Macworld review finds that TurboTax is a great program thanks to its ease of use, excellent educational features, navigational freedom, and superior error checking.
NoodleBoard is a Mac OS X dashboard widget that allows you to securely share your ideas, thoughts, lists, links or anything you can type with others. For the time being it's free but do consider a donation if you find it useful.
Matthew Russell writes: "Recently, Novell released some pretty amazing preview videos of their upcoming desktop, Novell Linux Desktop 10. They're pretty durn slick, and you should take a look. Among the list of cool features include: translucent windows, wobbly windows (when you drag the window it wobbles), enhanced accessibility via zoom, an exposé clone, and a user switch with a cube transition. Any of this sound familiar?"
Chris Barylick writes: "Filling in where Apple left off, MailTags inserts metadata functionality into Mail.app, allowing for additional functionality and features that otherwise wouldn't be available to the program. Once installed, metadata allows for full search functions of all your e-mail messages through Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight feature (which is, ironically, metadata-based)."
Jason Snell writes: "Since the publication of Macworld’s first lab tests of the Intel-based iMac and our subsequent review, there’s been a massive amount of discussion about our results. All the while, we’ve continued to test the new Intel macs, including adding some new tests as new Universal applications arrive on the scene. So as the Intel transition moves into the second month of 2006, here’s an update on what we’ve learned so far about how Intel-based Macs perform."
Giles Turnbull writes: "I've spent the last couple of days messing around with iWork 06, getting to know the new features and writing an article about them at the same time, and I noticed an interesting little something. One of the nicest new features in iWork is the ability to do the same kind of image editing within Pages and Keynote that you can do in iPhoto, using the Image Adjust panel we've grown accustomed to."
With her AirPort Express, Maria Langer has figured out a way to get some phenomenal sound from some of that ancient Mac equipment collecting dust in her living room (along with the more modern stuff, of course).
Making add-ons for the iPod is a $1 billion business. Does that sound like hyperbole? Consider this. Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory, estimates Steve Baker, an analyst for the NPD Group, a research firm. That works out to three or four additional purchases per iPod.
Originally scheduled for a March announcement, Apple's Logic Pro 7.2 has been released and is currently shipping. If you're not familiar with Apple's flagship audio development software, it's known for it's strength and flexibility in digital audio recording, digital signal processing (DSP), MIDI sequencing, and notation.
Otter Products today announced the release of the OtterBox for iPod video, another rugged addition to the interactive, waterproof, virtually indestructible line of iPod cases.
