CNBC’s Jim Goldman reported today that he’d received information from a source close to Apple manufacturing about two of their most anticipated products for 2008…or at least, two of their most rumored ones. According to his source, Apple is set to announce the ultra-portable MacBook that we talked about earlier this week. Mr. Goldman claims the device will sport a flash-based drive instead of a traditional hard drive, a 12-inch display, be 50% thinner than the current MacBook Pro’s, and cost $1500 US. (That still puts it about $500 or more less than most Notetakers or other portable computing devices for the visually impaired.) Goldman went on to say that Apple’s second-generation iPhone will be released in the spring with 3G network capability.
You can see the video of Mr. Goldman’s report by clicking here.
Tomorrow (7/December/2007), Apple will be opening a new retail store at 6:00PM EST in New York’s Meatpacking District. The Apple Store West 14th Street is located at 401 West 14th St. at 9th Avenue, one block south of Chelsea Market. It joins existing Apple retail stores on Fifth Avenue and in SoHo.
Today, Google launched a new site dedicated to open source Mac projects by their employees. There are six projects ready to be explored, most of a technical nature. For more information, visit the Google Mac Developer Playground.
Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a weekly feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!
When using iTunes to enjoy music, video, or podcast content, you may want a quick way to control the playback of your media. Many of these controls are located in the Controls menu, but two of the most useful ones are mysteriously absent. When a file is playing, (or even when it is paused), you can use Command-Option Left or Right Arrow to Fastback or Fastforward the track. Holding down the hot keys is a quick way to skip through that boring guitar solo or the intro to your favorite podcast you’ve heard a million times before and get right to the good stuff.
Until next time!
