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iTunes to supersede Blu-ray

Friday, 02 July 2010

CreativeTech conference: Announced yesterday, check out this very comprehensive conference for those with a passion for Apple – it takes place in September in the Auckland CBD at AUT's city campus. 
Tickets will be available online as soon as the banks get the payments procedure finalised – we hope this will be early next week.

iTunes will negate Blu-ray: It’s possible to extrapolate from the fact that Macs don’t have Blu-Ray drives already (even as an option) because Apple is banking on digital delivery as the future of high-definition content, reckons Cult of Mac. Now, for the first time, Steve Jobs has confirmed it in one of his characteristic email exchanges with an Apple fan.
Writing to a disappointed Blu-Ray fan about the form’s absence in Apple’s line up, Jobs wrote: “Bluray is looking more and more like one of the high end audio formats that appeared as the successor to the CD – like it will be beaten by Internet downloadable formats.” 
OK. I agree, actually – I'm currently testing an Apple TV, it's pretty impressive.

Cutting and copying files – OS X compared to Windows: On Windows (and this is news to me) it’s easy to cut and paste files and folders between locations; but that’s one of the first things people notice missing from Mac OS X, says Cult of Mac.
The Windows system works just like cutting and pasting text or pictures inside a document, which is why it’s so popular. 
In OS X, things work differently, but you can copy stuff: control-click, or right-click, on any file and you’ll see the contextual menu; one of the options there is “Copy (filename)” – just click that to copy the file to the clipboard. This works with folders too. Then browse to where you want to put the copied file, right-click again, and choose “Paste Item”.

New Opera browser – 10.6: Opera 10.6 tries to regain the title of the fastest browser as its JavaScript engine should be about 50 percent faster than the already quick 10.5. 
The app is equally the first polished browser to support the controversial WebM video standard in HTML5 and recognizes other new HTML5 features, such as geolocation and web app caching. It's a free download.