Skitch is a really really fast capturing, editing, uploading and sharing software for OS X. For people who don’t have Photoshop, this works great because it allows you to do every basic photo manipulation needed for your photo. You could simply drag the photos from Skitch to other applications like Apple Mail, Microsoft Word and many others like AIM, iChat and Android without the hassle of saving it somewhere first. Check it out.

Acrylic released Times, an innovated software for organizing and providing news. Unlike iGoogle Reader, Apple Mail and others that provide news as a feed, Times organizes the type of news into a customizable newspaper for readers. In other words, the interface for Times resembles a newspaper.

Within each of the articles, it looks just like a RSS feed

The software is free for 14 days. $30

This is DEFINITELY NOT Starfield in Windows XP!

Someone on DeviantArt created a really awesome screensaver. It is sooooo beautiful, perhaps Apple should claimed this as their official screensaver.

You can download it directly from the owner’s page here. Download

In case those who love to see this as your wallpaper, I’ve screen captured a really nice 1440×1028 of the screen saver. Here

I read a recent post from BusinessWeek regarding the two operating systems.

I honestly agree to the post that OS X is threatening Windows at many levels.

• Distribution
• Size
• Mobility
• Cost

It was really swift and smart for Apple to forsake OS 9 and switch itself to the UNIX core. This helped the foundation for many improvements for OS X. In terms of OpenSource, many of the task-specific technologies such as Php, Apache and others are outside of Apple’s scope of intervention. These technologies are improved by the open-source communities. So if there was a bug, extension or improvements needed somewhere, the whole community, internationally, can jump to the project. This is like 100:1 comparison to staff on fixing and perfecting the OS.

Unlike Windows, OS X is composed of subcategory kernels with its task-specific functions, which makes it easy to add and subtract without worrying that the whole kernel is hindered by it. This object-oriented also allows portability into other products of Apple, like Server, iPhone, iPod and Macs etc… For instance, iPhone runs on a small OS X. This “small” OS X is identical to the full-blown OS X except that its free from any unnecessary “part”, unlike Windows’s Mobile OS, which is specifically implemented from scratch. The division of sub kernels allow the OS X to improve without hindering or causing more bugs as more functions and improvements are piled on top of it like from Windows XP to Vista.

According to BusinessWeek,

By contrast, Microsoft has held on to an OS tethered to the 1980s, piling additions upon additions with each upgrade to Windows. With last year’s arrival of Vista, Windows has swollen to 1 billion bytes (a gigabyte) or more of software code. The “Mach” kernel of the Mac OS X, however, requires less than 1 million bytes (a megabyte) of data in its smallest configuration, expanding modestly with the sophistication of the application.

Windows Vista Costs:
Vista Home Basic - $189.99
Vista Home Premium - $222.99
Vista Business - $139.99 (OEM)
Vista Ultimate - $179.99 (OEM)
Vista Ultimate Upgrade Signature Edition -

Windows Vista Upgrade Costs:
Vista Home Basic Upgrade - $98.99
Vista Home Premium Upgrade - $122.99
Vista Business Upgrade - $187.99
Vista Ultimate Upgrade - $199.99
Vista Business to Vista Ultimate -
Vista Home Basic to Vista Home Premium - $122.99
Vista Home Basic to Vista Ultimate - $199.99
Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate - $199.99

OS X Leopard (10.5) - $129.0 or $69 for Students

(Keep in mind that OS X Leopard = Vista Home + Business + Ultimate. No hidden features)

Source: Gizmodo BusinessWeek