Stan's List

“Intel laptops bundled with Mac OS X 10.4.4, iLife ‘06?” LoopRumors

“iLife ‘06 Confirmed, Will Contain New Member iWeb” Softpedia

“MWSF: iLife ‘06, iWork ‘06, .Mac predictions” Macworld UK

“Apple watchers glimpse mystery ‘product’” Silicon.com

“LightRoom to take on Aperture?” LoopRumors

The Detroit Free Press declares that the ‘Great Apple Battle’ has begun. “At stake is your living room. And your car. And your pocket or purse, where you carry your mobile phone and personal media player … and even how you get music and video on them. After seemingly standing on the sidelines for the past few years as Apple Computer built a buzz through its iPod and iTunes music and video downloads, Microsoft — the world’s richest and most influential tech company — has launched the first major salvo against Apple with a dizzying series of announcements this week at the Consumer Electronics Show.”

An article in the Guardian queries former Apple employee Mike Evangelist about what it takes to make a Steve Jobs keynote go off smoothly. “To a casual observer it is just a guy in a black shirt and jeans talking about some new technology products..”

Micromat Inc., developer of Macintosh disk repair and maintenance technology, announced TechTool Protege. TechTool Protege is a compact, bootable diagnostic and repair tool. It contains the full-featured Macintosh troubleshooting program TechTool Pro, Micromat’s disk partitioning program DiskStudio, as well as several other utilities on a compact, one gigabyte FireWire flash drive. TechTool Protege is $229.