Arnold Kim
Arnold is the Editorial Director of MacRumors and founded the site in February, 2000.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold Kim's Articles
New Aladdin Site: MacRadio.com
As predicited by MacMike -- Aladdin announced a new website yesterday: MacRadio.com.
According to the press release - "MacRadio is a new Web site geared to provide music and radio enthusiasts with a complete and comprehensive online audio source that includes access to live audio streams, audio-related news, software and hardware picks, and...
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Ruggedized Firewire Drive
JasonR writes "Adam Barisoff made a ruggedized firewire drive. Pretty cool. "
Indeed - take a look at the link to see how Adam hacked a VST Firewire Drive to incorporate a 25gig drive. As with all good projects, one of the things you need is a Roll of Duct...
OS X Consumer Rumors
MacOS Rumors reports "At present, Apple's plan is to include the complete BSD UNIX layer in the Server version of Mac OS X, but not in Consumer; Consumer will have only the bare-essential components, and no Terminal or Telnet access to a command line. However, a complete BSD installation has long been rumored as optional for Consumer, and even if Apple chooses to leave it completely out of...
Voodoo 4 and 5 for the Mac
3dfx announced details about Mac versions of Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 PCI cards.
Both of these cards will be both 2d & 3d cards and support the major 3d API's. This will help keep the Mac Gaming experience on par with the PC.
Unofficial Voodoo 3 Drivers have been available from 3dfx for some time now, and according to this MacCentral article, support for those will continue with an...
Starblazers Cartoon Episodes: Available Online
Here is perhaps the best use of streaming Quicktime I've yet seen... Reported on Slashdot -- StudioNext.com has posted 12 entire episodes of the old animated series Starblazers (!) in streaming Quicktime.
"Searching for a distant star,
Heading off to...
Licensing MacOS X?
MacOS Rumors claims that OS X Beta's have been demoed with startup-customization capabilities. The implication of this is that Apple is planning on allowing OS X to be licensed to 3rd parties.
They write "if Apple is indeed planning for the future of the platform outside of its proprietary hardware, then the future will be a brighter one for it."
So, again with Mac OS X for Intel?...
Voodoo Demos
Go2Mac reported about Yukiyasu Ogawa's Voodoo screensavers... which show off some amazing effects for your Voodoo enabled Macs. Striking and quite reminiscent of the Demos of the past.
In fact, MacProphecy (our favorite) is a full blown demo, complete with...
Intro to Mac Demos
What do you think of when you hear the word "demos"? In the context of computer software, many of you may think "demos, short for demonstrations of commercial software". Well, sure, that's one intepretation... First, some history... back in the early days of computers (early-mid 80s), there was a lot of software piracy. In those days, almost all software came copy-protected. Someone...
Free wireless PDAs in the Future
According to this MacAddict article, a report by the Gartner Group predicts that wireless handheld devices (like the Palm VII) will follow the lead of cell-phones -- free or very cheap unit if you purchase the service.
I guess it's no stretch of the imagination with the recent emergance of PDA/Cellphone...
600MHz Macs?
MacOS Rumors posted that according to one of their sources, 600mhz Desktop Macs will be introduced at MacWorld NY.
While nothing revolutionary... faster G4's will be welcome. Supply will no doubt be constrained if this rumor turns out to be true.
Note, they also have a story on Apple Patents....
Carmack on Darwin
John Carmack (of id) gives some comments on Slashdot about the state of Darwin.
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Think weapon: Camouflage Powerbook
Go2Mac.com posted this interesting tidbit on a Camouflage Powerbook. Skimpy on details as to what exactly this thing is... As always, it seems the foreign websites have all the cool stuff. :)
French and Flash-enabled ora-ito has an excellent looking hack-Mac design. To see it complete with A-Team audio overlay, try this link and click on the Apple...
Bryce on Linux?
MacMike writes "Corel (http://www.corel.com) is reporting privately that they *will* be porting Bryce to the Linux platform. Other apps they have recently purchased from MetaCreations *may* follow.
Painter 6.0.3 will be released tomorrow (Tuesday). "
While not Mac-related, it is interesting to see Linux getting continued commercial...
'I think this is a Palm killer'
According to this CNet article, Research in Motion (RIM) will be releasing a Palm-like wireless handheld device today. The "I think this is a Palm killer" quote is credited to a source familiar with the device.
Details are sketchy and Mac connectivity is not addressed... I assume it's release will flesh out the details. Presumably it's a proprietary os.
Wireless handheld devices...
Hijacking Quicktime 4 Trailers
If you've been wanting to replay those Lord of the Rings or X-Men QT 4
Previews -- Webslacker.com posted tutorial on How to Hijack Quicktime 4 Trailers.
Simply copying the downloaded file is easy enough but
to edit the border out requires Adobe AfterEffects.
Fortunately, they provide a list of mirrors for already
cropped/edited Lord Of the Rings downloads....
Macrumors Feedback: Apple Patents and Shoddy Research
MacMike writes "What is it about the macrumors.com and thinksecret.com people that you can't do a little simply research?
You both posted a story, URL included, about Apple's "new" patents. If you had bothered to spend a couple of seconds and a couple of mouse clicks on the subject, you would have noticed that, contrary to what was reported, Apple had not "recently filed" these patents but...
New Apple Patents
One of Think Secret's readers reports that Apple has been awarded many new Patents at the US Patent Office...
The more interesting ones:
The ornamental design for a computer keyboard (March 28, 2000)
A method for reformatting alphanumeric objects displayed on a screen of a pen computer system (Feb 29, 2000)
Compressing graphic data for a first computer system, e.g. an emulated...
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Movie
With the preview up the upcoming X-Men movie, along
with this - you just gotta love it...
Here is a streaming Quicktime 4 preview of Tolkien's Lord
of the Rings: The Movie.
is that Liv Tyler in it? Hmm......
Opto-Chip - new technology for Infinate Bandwidth?
Infinate Bandwidth is the promise that comes with the Opto-Chip - a chip that can convert electric signals to optical transmissions.
"We'll be able to take telephone signals, computer data, TV signals -- any type of signal you can think of -- put it on fiber optic, route it around the world with almost no optical signal...
Upcoming Aladdin Announcement?
MacMike writes
"Next Monday or Tuesday, Aladdin Systems (http://www.aladdinsys.com/
) will announce a new web site. It will be focused on
ways you can "listen" to your Mac using QuickTime, RealAudio
and MS' Media Player."
Not many more details on this... comments? In related
news - there was a recent post that Realmedia licensed the rights to use
Microsoft's Windows Media....
