Amazon may be readying the launch of an HD video download service of popular TV shows via its Video On Demand (VOD) service, according to built web pages that are not yet available to the public. While nothing is official, Google search bots have indexed the pages that offer the content, which show each episode will cost $2.99 to download and keep. Another cached page reveals users will be able to...
2 TB in a Time Capsule
After waiting for weeks, we finally and successfully put our hands on a sample of the 2 TB Western Digital HD (thanks to our partner Macway).
Green HD series from Western Digital are probably the perfect unit for network storage, and we installed it in our time Capsule, replacing the 1 TB unit we installed about a year ago.
Once formatted, the HD is perfectly recognized by Time Capsule.
As usual, from the announced 2TB, only 1.8 TB really remains available. You will find the procedure to exchange the HD of your Time Capsule in a previous article we published last year: http://www.hardmac.com/articles/79
Last but not least, this HD swapping is not currently economically interesting. The 2 TB Green HD from WD is hard to find, without competing models, and its price around 300 Euro, about 3 times more than the 1 TB Green HD from the same manufacturer. However, in couple of months, if Apple does not update specifications of its time capsule it might be a rather financially attracting solution to get a large network storage unit.
6GB iPhone plans disappearing from Rogers accounts?
Some Canadian iPhone subscribers are suddenly finding themselves overcharged for their data usage, a customer complaint received by MacNN suggests. The customer notes that as with a number of Canadians, he signed up to Rogers Wireless' initial data plan for the iPhone 3G, which cost $30 per month for 6GB. Several months later however a bill for "hundreds of dollars" was received, a result of the...
Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods
Nicholas Arthur Woodhams, a 23 year old from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was recently slapped upside the gord with federal charges of fraud and money laundering after he managed to con Apple into shipping him around 9,000 iPod shuffles.
DealNN: FD 1TB hard drive, OmniVibe, MacBook, more
Today's featured deal of the day from DealNN is on the Fantom Drives G-Force 1TB external hard drive. This hard drive is priced at $109.99 which is $14.96 off the list price of $124.95, and for a limited get an additional $20 off with a mail in rebate offer that drops the final price down to $89.99. This drive provides data transfer rates of up to 60MB per second and features an aluminum casing...
Vonage Companion now available for Mac users
Filed under: Software, Internet
Vonage, the international VoIP provider, has just released its Vonage Companion software for OS X. Vonage Companion is available to users who subscribe the the Vonage Pro plan and it basically allows users to use their laptops or desktops to make or receive phone calls. Think of it as Skype but for your Vonage account.You can use Vonage Companion to record calls, set-up conference calls (or separate conference calls into separate phone calls), selective call block, call transfers and more.
I don't have a Vonage Pro account, so I wasn't able to check out the features firsthand, but flipping through the manual (PDF link) it looks pretty powerful. The biggest benefit to a service like this is the ability to make and receive calls from the road, using your Vonage number and account credentials.
Vonage Companion is free for Vonage Pro customers (existing Vonage users will need to upgrade to a Vonage Pro account) and it works with OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and OS X 10.5 Leopard, though Vonage strongly recommends having the latest security updates and latest OS updates installed. You can download Vonage Companion here (direct .DMG link)
TUAWVonage Companion now available for Mac users originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Take a shot of Espresso 1.0
Filed under: Software, Developer
We first started hearing about MacRabbit's Espresso back in September; six months, a public beta and countless cups of coffee later, Espresso 1.0 is finally ready for sipping!MacRabbit, makers of the award-winning CSSEdit, parlayed the idea of an HTMLEdit companion app into an all around web development app. Right now, Espresso supports HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript and PHP -- but utilizing plugins (Sugars), Espresso can support more languages and platforms.
Similar to Panic's Coda (another TUAW favorite), you can also directly publish from the app, using FTP, SFTP, FTP/SSL and Amazon S3.
Espresso shares many interface similarities with CSSEdit and the presentation is very, very polished. If you're comfortable with CSSEdit, Espresso will likely fit comfortably into your workflow.
We'll be reviewing Espresso in-depth soon and doing some head-to-head action to see how it stacks up against Coda and TextMate.
Espresso is 59.95€ (about $80 US) and 49.95€ ($68 US) for existing CSSEdit 2 customers. You can try Espresso without limitations for 15 days. Espresso requires OS X 10.5 Leopard or higher.
Thanks Nik!
TUAWTake a shot of Espresso 1.0 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Unions, 112,500 AT&T workers ready to strike
The majority of the 112,500 unionized workers at AT&T gave their union leaders permission on Monday to call a strike during the negotiations for a new contract with their employer. Less than two weeks ago, a strike was predicted to be likely and is now one step closer to fruition, as the majority of the contracts in question for landline division employees expire on April 4th. AT&T, the largest em...
Amazon to offer $2.99 VOD high-definition TV shows?
Amazon may be readying the launch of an HD video download service of popular TV shows via its Video On Demand (VOD) service, according to built web pages that are not yet available to the public. While nothing is official, Google search bots have indexed the pages that offer the content, which show each episode will cost $2.99 to download and keep. Another cached page reveals users will be able to...
2 TB in a Time Capsule
After waiting for weeks, we finally and successfully put our hands on a sample of the 2 TB Western Digital HD (thanks to our partner Macway).
Green HD series from Western Digital are probably the perfect unit for network storage, and we installed it in our time Capsule, replacing the 1 TB unit we installed about a year ago.
Once formatted, the HD is perfectly recognized by Time Capsule.
As usual, from the announced 2TB, only 1.8 TB really remains available. You will find the procedure to exchange the HD of your Time Capsule in a previous article we published last year: http://www.hardmac.com/articles/79
Last but not least, this HD swapping is not currently economically interesting. The 2 TB Green HD from WD is hard to find, without competing models, and its price around 300 Euro, about 3 times more than the 1 TB Green HD from the same manufacturer. However, in couple of months, if Apple does not update specifications of its time capsule it might be a rather financially attracting solution to get a large network storage unit.
6GB iPhone plans disappearing from Rogers accounts?
Some Canadian iPhone subscribers are suddenly finding themselves overcharged for their data usage, a customer complaint received by MacNN suggests. The customer notes that as with a number of Canadians, he signed up to Rogers Wireless' initial data plan for the iPhone 3G, which cost $30 per month for 6GB. Several months later however a bill for "hundreds of dollars" was received, a result of the...
Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods
Nicholas Arthur Woodhams, a 23 year old from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was recently slapped upside the gord with federal charges of fraud and money laundering after he managed to con Apple into shipping him around 9,000 iPod shuffles.
DealNN: FD 1TB hard drive, OmniVibe, MacBook, more
Today's featured deal of the day from DealNN is on the Fantom Drives G-Force 1TB external hard drive. This hard drive is priced at $109.99 which is $14.96 off the list price of $124.95, and for a limited get an additional $20 off with a mail in rebate offer that drops the final price down to $89.99. This drive provides data transfer rates of up to 60MB per second and features an aluminum casing...
Vonage Companion now available for Mac users
Filed under: Software, Internet
Vonage, the international VoIP provider, has just released its Vonage Companion software for OS X. Vonage Companion is available to users who subscribe the the Vonage Pro plan and it basically allows users to use their laptops or desktops to make or receive phone calls. Think of it as Skype but for your Vonage account.You can use Vonage Companion to record calls, set-up conference calls (or separate conference calls into separate phone calls), selective call block, call transfers and more.
I don't have a Vonage Pro account, so I wasn't able to check out the features firsthand, but flipping through the manual (PDF link) it looks pretty powerful. The biggest benefit to a service like this is the ability to make and receive calls from the road, using your Vonage number and account credentials.
Vonage Companion is free for Vonage Pro customers (existing Vonage users will need to upgrade to a Vonage Pro account) and it works with OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and OS X 10.5 Leopard, though Vonage strongly recommends having the latest security updates and latest OS updates installed. You can download Vonage Companion here (direct .DMG link)
TUAWVonage Companion now available for Mac users originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Take a shot of Espresso 1.0
Filed under: Software, Developer
We first started hearing about MacRabbit's Espresso back in September; six months, a public beta and countless cups of coffee later, Espresso 1.0 is finally ready for sipping!MacRabbit, makers of the award-winning CSSEdit, parlayed the idea of an HTMLEdit companion app into an all around web development app. Right now, Espresso supports HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript and PHP -- but utilizing plugins (Sugars), Espresso can support more languages and platforms.
Similar to Panic's Coda (another TUAW favorite), you can also directly publish from the app, using FTP, SFTP, FTP/SSL and Amazon S3.
Espresso shares many interface similarities with CSSEdit and the presentation is very, very polished. If you're comfortable with CSSEdit, Espresso will likely fit comfortably into your workflow.
We'll be reviewing Espresso in-depth soon and doing some head-to-head action to see how it stacks up against Coda and TextMate.
Espresso is 59.95€ (about $80 US) and 49.95€ ($68 US) for existing CSSEdit 2 customers. You can try Espresso without limitations for 15 days. Espresso requires OS X 10.5 Leopard or higher.
Thanks Nik!
TUAWTake a shot of Espresso 1.0 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Unions, 112,500 AT&T workers ready to strike
The majority of the 112,500 unionized workers at AT&T gave their union leaders permission on Monday to call a strike during the negotiations for a new contract with their employer. Less than two weeks ago, a strike was predicted to be likely and is now one step closer to fruition, as the majority of the contracts in question for landline division employees expire on April 4th. AT&T, the largest em...
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