Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
Macworld Lab ran the three new standard iMacs through our customary suite of tests to gauge performance improvements on the previous generation. The new 2.8GHz 24-inch iMac showed a 30-point (13 percent) Speedmark improvement on the previous high-end model, a 24-inch 2.4GHz iMac. However, this new high-end iMac posted ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
If you’re still spooked by the idea of viewing headers along with a preview of a message—even without HTML turned on—you can follow this little tip from Macworld’s Gemmeister, Dan Frakes: Give Limit Point Software’s MailCM a try. This is a contextual menu plugin/pref pane that, among other things, ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Engadget continues to do their part in fueling the fire of rumors that we'll see a second edition of the iPhone this summer. First they supposedly touched it themselves, then they nabbed some shape and spec hints, and now they've got yet another set of ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
The world has a lot of unwritten rules: In social etiquette. In baseball. And in buying computers. For years, we have unquestioningly followed numerous unwritten rules when buying a Mac. Like many customs, these rules were once based on a foundation of facts and reason. But in the past ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via Mac Rumors.)
Last year, AT&T limited employee vacation requests between June 15-July 15 in anticipation of the original iPhone launch which took place on June 29th, 2007.
Today, Boy Genius Report publishes another AT&T memo that is again restricting vacation requests, this time between June 15th and July 12th 2008. The ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we found surprised us -- a Twitter Quartz Composer composition was included as a part of the Mac OS ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via MacDailyNews.)
Apple has released the fifth beta version of the iPhone SDK which includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.
During Apple's Q2 08 conference call on April 23, CFO Peter Oppenheimer said that the SDK has ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
(Via Ars Technica.)
Another test build of 10.5.3, 9D27, was released last night to ADC members. This comes just one week after build 9D25, two weeks after build 9D23, and three weeks after build 9D20. The release notes included in the latest build indicate that the 10.5.3 update will include well ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Ars Technica.)
Brent Simmons of NewsGator gave Ars the scoop about some interesting updates on the way for NetNewsWire, the company's premiere RSS reader for Mac OS X.
In January NewsGator announced that all of its consumer products, including NetNewsWire, were going free. NetNewsWire 3.1 was released that same month, but ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
(Via Macworld.)
iPhone users who need a speed boost over the EDGE connection find the phone’s Wi-Fi functionality quite handy. The only problem is locating a hotspot to use it on. However, Starbucks and AT&T struck a deal earlier this year that will see the coffee retailer’s Wi-Fi hotspots, currently served ...
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