I had somebody asking me why none of their shipment of Mac Mini’s worked with their standard microphones. I wasn’t entirely sure either, so I had a look around on Google for some answers. I soon found the answer in the MacRumors forum.
“The Mac mini’s input is a line-level input, whereas the mic line on most analog headsets needs a mic-level input (to power the mic). The mini isn’t giving the mic any power, so it’s not going to work.
You need something to pull the level of that mic line …
One of two things are going to happen. Either Steve Jobs is up to his usual tricks and is investing in ways to send those who follow Apple’s patterns off the trail, or MacRumours (and others) have got something right.
The sudden outburst of rumours are generally fuelled by the evidence spotted in the MacRumours forum. They noticed Apple’s recent purchase of www.me.com. This was recently followed by the acquisition of www.mobileme.com. I’m no expert, but it’s a safe bet that these domains cost a lot of money, as the …
Apple has always been a world leader, in terms of mixing technology with style, to the point that even Windows users find themselves envying the shiny white ’shrink-wrapped’ boxes, and the masterpieces inside them.
It feels like poking a marshmallow, yet it smells like a bin (if you go close enough).
Apple Wired Keyboard
The Apple Wired Keyboard is more widely preferred, thanks to its full set of characters (unlike its wireless sibling, it doesn’t lack the numeric keypad, or the ‘transition keys’ (which, I presume, are named after the periodic table).
It simply …
It’s here! Unbelievably, for some reason, not found before, by the masses, Internet Explorer has been ported (well…) for Intel OS X. Using the Wine platform, IE6 and IE7 has been ported to Linux, then to OS X.
It’s built under GPL, so the source is freely available from the main site.
Why is this so important?
A huge portion of the web design industry is Mac-based, as designers most appreciate the design put into the Mac. The only obstacle against them, in the past, was that they couldn’t test on arguably the …
I have seen huge amounts of traffic and emails to me based around Apple advert music, so I thought I’d better nip this one in the bud.
The author is Yael Naim, a pretty extraordinary singer, in multiple languages. Following is the youtube video I found while searching it for myself. I need to go out more.
The song is ‘New Soul’, and I’d recommend you check out others of her English-based songs from the album (other languages are cool, but the English ones flow better to me).
Here’s the iTunes store URL.