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Epson has posted "Public Beta" drivers for many of their newer Professional Epson Stylus Pro printers.
These Leopard-compatible drivers provide enhanced functionality as well as the potential for 16 bit/channel printing. Included are drivers for the Stylus Pro 3800, 4800, 4880, 7800, 7880, 9800, 9880, and 11880 Series printers.
Download from the Professional Imaging Public Beta Leopard Printer Drivers page on the Epson site.
Google just confirmed that they've applied to participate in the FCC's upcoming wireless 700 MHz spectrum auction.
"We believe it's important to put our money where our principles are," said Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google.
According to the rules of the auction promoted by Google and accepted by the FCC, whoever wins will be required to allow their users to use any software applications they wish, and to use any mobile devices they'd like on that wireless network.
"No matter which bidder ultimately prevails," Schmidt added, "The real winners of this auction are American consumers who likely will see more choices than ever before in how they access the Internet."
But unlike the speculation raised earlier today, Google's press release made it clear: their application does not include any partners.
No partners means no Apple partnership, which means that there was nothing for AT&T's CEO to find out. Which in turn means that his comments were relatively innocent, and not "a $1 billion message to Apple CEO Steve Jobs."
By my watch, it took less than ten hours for Cringely's latest consipracy theory to be shot down. Could be a new record.
A&TT's CEO remarked yesterday that a 3G iPhone was coming "next year". And in doing so, he set off a minor tsunami across the technology news waterfront.
Many simply quoted Randall Stephenson's remarks in the original Bloomberg story, though some, like Connecting the Dots, decided to improve on the rumor by saying that "a faster 3G iPhone is coming in early 2008."
Thus setting things up nicely for the article's title, "AT&T CEO becomes the Grinch that stole the iPhone Christmas."
A Gartner analyst then jumped on the bandwagon, stating "'One big complaint about the iPhone is the network. Now Stephenson's said they're going to have a higher-speed network next year. People are going to wait."
Today, Robert X. Cringely took things to the next level, indicating that the leak was a deliberate shot across Apple's bow, indicating their displeasure at Apple's potential involvement with Google in the upcoming 700-MHz wireless spectrum auction.
Of the three, I'd say that Cringely at least gave things a little thought.
If you don't use Inquisitor, then run over to the Inquisitorx website and get a copy. Do it now. I'll wait.
Think of Inquisitor as Spotlight for the web. Start typing into Safari's search box and and a drop-down menu appears with a list of potential websites that match your criteria, along with ideas to refine your search.
It also has shortcuts for doing an Amazon or Wikipedia search directly from the toolbar, and you can even add your own search engines and shortcuts.
"Repackaged" for Leopard, Inquisitor is a must-half can't-live-without utility that I have to use a dozen times a day.
And best of all, it's free.
Confirming an open secret, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said that Apple will introduce a new version of the iPhone in 2008 that can operate on third-generation wireless networks.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has repeatedly said that battery life is the major concern, and that they're awaiting new chipsets with better power management.
While true, another stumbling block to 3G lay in the fact that AT&T has been slow in rolling out coverage throughout the United States.
Hard to believe that a month has gone by since the release of OS X Leopard on October 26th. But it has, and I thought I'd do a quick summary of where we are, and where we need to be.
Apple has already fixed a number of issues with an early point release, which included the Finder's "Moving Data" bug that harkens all of the way back to Jaguar, updates to the firewall, and some key patches to Time Machine.
But still missing in action are solutions to quite a few other problems, like Time Machine and AirPort Extreme connectivity, Time Machine and Aperture data corruption, and the vanishing windows in Spaces.
(Being an admitted Space-oholic, the later is one of my pet peeves.)
Let's count 'em down, shall we?
Epson has posted a FAQ detailing the release schedule of full-featured Macintosh OS X 10.5 printer drivers for their Epson Stylus Pro printers.
These "full-featured" drivers allow professional photographers and graphic artists access to the 16-bit color printing subsystems built into Leopard, giving prints better color and tonal accuracy.
HP also recently confirmed that customers will not need to download or reinstall any additional printer software, as full support for nearly all of their printers is built directly into Leopard. New versions, if needed, will appear via Software Update.
Continue reading "Epson / HP Detail Printer Compatibility Under Leopard" »
I know, I know, usually articles are about doing things with style, but this one is different.
How many times have you wanted to copy and paste a clipping from a web page into an email, but found that when you hit command-v your nicely formatted email is suddenly full of purple 16-pt Times Roman text? Doing a command-c, you see, copies the both the web page's text and the style in which it's formatted.
I used to keep a plain TextEdit document around for just these situations, doing a quick paste/select all/copy just to lose the clipboard formatting. But now it's goodbye TextEdit, because many of the new applications in Leopard and in iLife '08 now sport a "Paste And Match Style" Edit menu item.
Choose it (or type the finger-bending command-option-shift-v) and your pasted text will automatically pick up the style at your document's insertion point. This tip works in Mail, TextEdit, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
Try it, and soon you too can be style-free.
The Associated Press is running a story on Apple's latest improvements to their retail stores.
Over the last year Apple has introduced concierges that greet you when you walk in, added appointments for personalized shopping and training, and, in a odd move for a retail establishment, eliminated checkout counters completely.
There's no doubt that the Apple store is a major success. In fact, a Piper Jay analyst noted recently that the stores have an almost magnetic pull, in several malls drawing in an abnormal 27 percent of those who passed within 25 feet of a store.
But is that success because of these changes, or in spite of them?
Continue reading "Is Apple's New Store Experience Really An Upgrade?" »
Hot on the heels of the Kindle release is Zinio, who's introducing The Zinio Mobile Newstand for your iPhone.
Zinio provides your favorite magazines in a digital format for viewing on your PC or Mac, and currently a selection of their bestselling online magazines can now be viewed for free using Safari on the iPhone. Issues are available of Men’s Health, GQ, Playboy (edited), Macworld, Popular Mechanics, and quite a few more.
Strictly speaking, the Mobile Newstand is a project of "Zinio Labs", a "technology showcase where great ideas are explored".
Unfortunately, this idea still needs quite a bit of exploring.
