Gadgetopia

Apple quietly released a new preview version of 'Tiger', it's next version of OSX, to a select group of external developers this week. AppleInsider reports that the next version of iChat, included with the Tiger preview, will include support for the open-source Jabber chat client right out of the box. ...

According to Stephan, certain features of Tiger's new Dashboard feature allow for the automatic installation of potentially evil widgets. I picked up [Tiger] at launch time from my local Apple store, brought it home, and got inspired to start in on a widget the next day. My flores and coras ...

Steve Jobs just wrapped up his keynote at this year's World Wide Developer Conference and aside from the 30-inch Cinema HD Display the primary focus of his talk was Tiger, the next generation of OS X due in 2005. Some highlights of Tiger include: Spotlight - A new search utility ...

Apple Earmarks New Cat Names "According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple registered four new trademarks in early July: Cougar, Lynx, Leopard and Tiger. All four were filed under the 'computer operating system software' category."

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Liger): I found this on Snopes this morning. I bet this Liger has gone off some sweet jumps. According to the Wikipedia article, here's why Ligers are so big: Ligers grow much larger than tigers or lions and it is believed this is because ...

Tired of the seemingly endless stream of "Is Linux Ready For The Desktop" articles? OK, I have a question for you: Is BSD ready for the desktop? DesktopBSD says "We're getting there". DesktopBSD's main goal is to provide a desktop operating system that's easy to use, but still has all ...

Adobe has released a public beta of their version of Apple's Aperture called Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom Beta is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually ...

Well Macworld San Francisco 2005 is underway and as expected, Steve had some exciting announcements during his keynote. Some expected and some surprising. iLife '05 - A nice upgrade to an alreday great product. I'm excited because now iPhoto can handle any RAW photos I may take. $79 and ships ...

I m kind of a building / engineering / architecture groupie, and I m starting to learn how Dubai is Ground Zero these days for magnificent buildings. There s simply nothing they can t or won t build. The picture above is a rendering of the Burj Dubai, which is currently under construction. It s ...