Mat on Macs

We’re getting an Apple Store! Okay, perhaps that’s a bit harsh, but the cool news is that the Knoxville News Sentinel is reporting that we’re getting an Apple store in West Town Mall. No word yet if it’s going to be a full size store or one of the mini stores. I suspect that the local Mac dealer (MCS) can’t be too happy about this. (And yes, I realize we’re not going to be getting an Apple Store as cool as the one in the picture, but I took this at the New York SOHO Store back in 2003 and it was convenient to hand).

Via MacVolPlace

So I haven’t been posting for a while, but I do have a bunch of things on the burner. However, something I have been waiting for since I got my Mactel finally happened. Brent Simmons has released a public beta of NetNewsWire 2.1. I absolutely live in NNW, so this is a big deal for me. It’s smokin’ fast, and includes a variety of other updates (like Newsgator syncing of subscriptions, including read/unread status between computers (Mac and Windows) and the web). Brent has previously promised that registered users would be given 2 year subscriptions to Newsgator at some point, so I’m looking forward to that. Anyway, go get it here.

Now if only Pathfinder and Flip4Mac would come out as UB’s, I’d be pretty much set. Evidently they’re doing a closed beta for the UB of Pathfinder right now, and there is a clunky work-around for Flip4Mac that I will be posting about later.