Stan's List

SeaMonkey 1.1, Mozilla’s internet suite, includes numerous enhancements including more visible security indicators in the browser and enhanced phishing detection for e-mail, a new tagging system for e-mail that supersedes labels, support for multi-line tooltips in web pages, and previews images in tab tooltips. Other changes include inline spell checking in the browser and an updated version of ChatZilla…. More …

What does Apple have up its sleeve for February. In the aftermath of MacWorld Apple has announced a “special event” with even more great eye candy. What will it be? Mobile iLife for the iPhone? Beatles on iTunes? Blu-Ray? Only time will tell.

While the internet is all a-buzz about the the iPhone rumors have surfaced that Apple will not be packing Intel in its new hardware endeavor. Not to be outdone, other rumors sites have rammed up the rumor mill and found an interview with Intel Italia’s general executive manager Dario Bucci where he apparently clears things up with regards to the CPU. According to the interview Apple will be using Intel’s XScale chip in the iPhone. I for one am glad, because I hate it when loved ones fight.

Apple has released a patch to unlock the 802.11n features in it’s Core 2 Duo systems. Now all that high speed video streaming goodness can be yours…for a nominal $5 $2 fee. If you purchase a new Airport Extreme Base Station you will get the drivers thrown in for free, but if you want to use your own 802.11n router then you have to purchase the driver update from Apple.

Why do you need to pay for a driver to unlock a feature your wireless card already has? Apple says, “the company believes that if it sells a product, then later adds a feature to that product, it can be held liable for improper accounting if it recognizes revenue from the product at the time of sale, given that it hasn’t finished delivering the product at that point.”

I sure am glad Apple is so astute about its accounting practices.