Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Listen to music on iPhone 1.1.4 with a Bluetooth headset

Friday, June 13th, 2008

(Via Mac OS X Hints.) Prior to the iPhone software version 1.1.4, you could listen to the iPod audio over a Bluetooth headset if you did the trick of switching to the voicemail screen and selecting the headset for audio. This still works, but you can't leave this screen and you ...

TomTom: iPhone navigation software is real

Friday, June 13th, 2008

(Via MacNN.) TomTom has in fact produced real-time navigation software for the iPhone, according to one of the company's French representatives. Yann Lafargue denies allegations from other sources, which first said that Apple's SDK license forbids real-time navigation, and then that TomTom itself had no internal prototypes. "Since the ...

Apple to sell iPhone 3G on college campuses?

Friday, June 13th, 2008

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.) Filed under: Retail, iPhoneArs Technica is reporting that Apple has considered plans to sell the iPhone 3G directly on US college campuses. Some campuses do already sell Apple products in their on-campus stores; however, this varies by university. If Apple marketed the phone directly to the ...

University offers free iTunes downloads to concert-goers

Friday, June 13th, 2008

(Via Infinite Loop.) The University of Kansas has paired with Apple to try and get new faces into its concert hall. Free Philip Glass downloads for one and all!Read More...

AT&T memo exposes various iPhone 3G details

Friday, June 13th, 2008

(Via MacNN.) An internal AT&T memo -- circulated this week to store managers -- has exposed a variety of details on the carrier's planned treatment of the iPhone 3G, reports claim. Most crucial among these is the suggestion that should the mandatory in-store activation not go through for various reasons, ...

Get seasick with Liquid Mac

Friday, June 13th, 2008

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.) Filed under: Software, Odds and endsYou know that sudden motion sensor that's buried in your Mac to protect your hard drive? Want to have a little fun with it? Then check out Liquid Mac, a neat little app that makes your laptop's screen look like it's ...

Macworld | Review: 20- and 24-Inch Aluminum iMacs (2008 Edition)

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 ...

Mail and its hidden headers

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, ...

Even more supposed 3G iPhone shots

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 ...

The new rules for buying a Mac

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 ...