Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

AT&T Blocking Out June 15-July 12 for 3G iPhone Launch?

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 ...

Flickr Find: Twitter in Mac OS X developer tools

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 ...

Apple releases fifth iPhone SDK beta

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 ...

Apple continues seeding test builds of Mac OS X 10.5.3

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 ...

NewsGator shares details on upcoming NetNewsWire 3.2, 4.0

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 ...

Starbucks rolling out free Wi-Fi for iPhones, slowly

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 ...

We know 3G is fast, but what else?

Monday, May 5th, 2008

(Via RedEye.) Hold on, Jimmy. Things are about to really start moving. I was sitting here thinking about what we really haven't talked much about and that's 3G and its specific applications. Let me explain. We know that the 3G iPhone is the next iPhone. No matter what it looks like, no matter ...

Internet radio on the next iPhone?

Monday, May 5th, 2008

(Via RedEye.) I am a huge fan of Internet radio. Well, let me put it this way ... I used to have this hobby when I was younger -- trying to tune in distant AM stations on a regular old AM radio. I used to also have a shortwave radio. Now, ...

Apple is losing money on iTunes Movies - Will it pay off?

Monday, May 5th, 2008

(Via Apple Gazette.) It was reported late last week that Apple is paying $16.00 for every $14.99 movie that it sells in iTunes under its new deal with major studios like 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., and Paramount Pictures…just to name a few. All the major studios ...

Quick and easy folder sharing in 10.5

Monday, May 5th, 2008

(Via Mac OS X Hints.) When Apple introduced System 7—way back in 1991—one of its most-notable features was quick and simple folder sharing with anyone on your network. Just click a folder, enable sharing, define which users would have access to the folder, and you were done. OS X, of course, ...