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Defaulter 1.0 Released

By Beelsebob, April 17, 2005

Defaulter 1.0 Released

Okay, so I may well be abusing my privileges for posting on Deep Thought, but I honestly think that this is something that a lot of mac users will be interested in.  Today I made Defaulter 1.0 available for sale.  The application manages preferences, makes backup files and allows for easy preference migration and synchronization between machines.  I hope you all enjoy using it.

Defaulter is available here.

Thanks for reading my blatant plugging smile

Bob


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Musicians Distribute Their Songs in GB Format

By Nicholas Naime, April 16, 2005

According to MacMegasite, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has released a multi-track arrangement of his song in GarageBand format. The song can be downloaded here (around 70 MB).

Trent says that he likes the idea of other people playing around with his mix: “Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you’d like.”

Are we entering a new era of distributing audio?

Note: Any GarageBand file can be opened in Logic Express 7 or Logic Pro 7.


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Thurrot likes Tiger but dismisses it as “minor”

By Nick, April 14, 2005

Paul Thurrott posted his review of Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger.” Overall, he gives it a thumbs-up, but sees is as “a minor upgrade.”

Apple Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” is the strongest OS X release yet and a worthy competitor to Windows XP. Though it is marketed by Apple as a major release, Tiger is in fact a minor upgrade with few major new features, more akin to what we’d call a service pack in the Windows world.

Deep Thought’s take: It’s nice to see that he likes it, but Mr. Thurrott unfortunately seems to ignore some fairly big new features and under-the-hood changes (CoreData, CoreVideo, CoreImage, 64-bitness, Automator, Parental controls, among others come to mind). Me? I’m waiting for John Siracusa’s definitive review on Ars Technica. Also look out for Deep Thought’s Tiger review shortly after Tiger’s public release.


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Apple stock takes pounding despite record earnings

By Nick, April 14, 2005

Ouch.

Despite announcing their largest second quarter earnings in company history and massive year-over-year increases in unit sales, Apple’s stock sunk like the Titanic. On Thursday, shares of Apple tumbled 9.2% under extremely heavy trading volume.

US stock markets were down as a whole Thursdays, on worries of an overall economic slowdown.

Deep Thought’s take: Good luck, investors. Hopefully things look up soon.

Note: the author does not own Apple shares, nor shares in any other stock.


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Apple announces quarterly financial results

By Nick, April 13, 2005

Apple has announced their quarterly financial results for the second quarter and they are quite impressive. Apple reports a profit of $290 million US on revenues of $3.24 billion.
in that time, Apple sold 1.07 million Macintoshes and an astounding 5.3 million iPods.

ìWe are delighted to report a record second quarter for Apple in both revenue and earnings,î said Steve Jobs, Appleís CEO. ìApple is firing on all cylinders and we have some incredible new products in the pipeline for the coming year, starting with Mac OS X Tiger later this month.î †

ìWeíre very pleased to report 70 percent revenue growth and a 530 percent increase in net income,î said Peter Oppenheimer, Appleís CFO. ìLooking ahead to the third quarter of fiscal 2005, we expect revenue of about $3.25 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $.28.î


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