New and Noteworthy: MacFUSE: New Frontiers in File Systems; Busting the Apple TV games rumor; more

MacFUSE: New Frontiers in File Systems MacDevCenter delves into MacFUSE, the virtual file system scheme developed by Amit Singh of Google. "Simply put, MacFUSE takes something that was incredibly hard?adding new file systems to Mac OS X?and makes it much, much easier. [...] MacFUSE makes writing a file system much, much easier. In practical terms, this means that you don't have to handle the lowest and goriest details of a file system. Instead, you just write code for a few relatively high-level calls." More.

Busting the Apple TV games rumor MacUser pours cold water on a rumor that the release of iTunes 7.1 heralds console-style gaming for the AppleTV. "(The rumors) point towards an internal file in iTunes that contains the strings that appear in dialog boxes and the like. The string in question reads: ?Are you sure you want to sync games? All existing games on the Apple TV ?^1? will be replaced with games from this iTunes library.? Smoking gun? Not hardly. If you take a look at the file (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings), you?ll find that the section of strings that applies to the Apple TV is pretty much identical to the section of strings for the iPod (with, of course, all instances of 'iPod' replaced with 'Apple TV'). [...] Really, the only thing this proves is that the developer in charge of updating the strings knows how to use copy/paste and find/replace." More.

Intel Chief Praises Apple's iPhone NewsFactor relays quotes from Intel CEO Paul Otellini, made during the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, regarding the iPhone. "Virtually every computer and handset manufacturer on the planet is struggling to figure out how to compete with Apple. [...] If we get power and price down to the right point, I think it is a killer silicon compilation to these kinds of devices." More.

Analyst: Apple could reap $900M after CS3 launch Gene Munster, a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co., is projecting that Apple will (of course) benefit strongly from Adobe's introduction of Creative Suite 3 (CS 3) later this month. "Munster said that a 2006 survey of Mac users in the creative fields put the estimated market for Adobe's top-of-the-line tools at 3 million users. Assuming a 15% upgrade rate by those users to a new Intel-based Mac Pro or MacBook Pro machine, Apple will likely sell an additional 450,000 systems based on CS3 alone." More.

Previously on MacFixIt:

• QuickTime 7.1.5 released: Addresses several security issues
• iTunes 7.1 released: Includes Apple TV support, full screen cover flow, new sorting options
• Various iPod models: failure of right earbud/earphone (#2)
• The importance of Apple Hardware Test

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