Archive for March, 2008

Apple Gazette Daily 237 – Big Privacy News, At&t ETF, and WWDC Scholarship

Posted by: Michael on Mar 31, 2008 | 3 Comments

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Today’s Show: Virgin Internet in the UK is making some big moves against privacy, At&t to pro-rate early termination fees, and the info for the WWDC scholarship is now online.
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Magic 8-Ball Says: iPhone/iTablet Rumor round-up

Posted by: Michael on Mar 31, 2008 | 6 Comments

Pipar Jaffary is at it again. These companies love to talk about Apple, and predict what’s going to happen in the future. They do this a lot – and its rarely accurate. Doesn’t stop them from coming up with stuff off the top of their heads though. It seems like these analysts, [...]

AppleTV 2.0.1 software update released

Posted by: Michael on Mar 31, 2008 | 3 Comments

Apple has released a minor update to the AppleTV. Version 2.0.1 of the AppleTV software is a slight update that primarily adds a “Genres” category to the Movie menu, allowing viewers to browse titles based on their genre preference.
It also includes the standard vague “bug fixes and stability” improvements that often come with Apple [...]

Apple DOES care about its customers – no matter what ‘Boy Genius’ says

Posted by: Michael on Mar 31, 2008 | 20 Comments

You know, sensationalist headlines are nothing new. There was a time, before blogging became a business, where that kind of thing was frowned upon in the blogging world – but that time has passed. This weekend Ahmed at Tech Soapbox wrote a great piece about just this subject. You can read it [...]

Apple Gazette Daily 236 – Safari Hacked in 2 minutes flat, Aperture, Macbook news and more!

Posted by: Michael on Mar 28, 2008 | No Comments

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Today’s Show: Safari Hacked in 2 minutes flat, Aperture, Macbook news and more!
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The Macbook Pro has to go back one more time…

Posted by: Michael on Mar 28, 2008 | 7 Comments

Well, for those of you following the ongoing Macbook Pro saga, it looks like I have one final round of sending off to do. The audio problem still continues to be a problem, but since they have replaced the left I/O board it no longer happens when you plug the USB mic into the [...]

Firefox 3 Final Release coming in June

Posted by: Michael on Mar 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

Mozilla Corp confirmed on Thursday afternoon that they will release the final beta of Firefox 3.0 very soon, and that they expect to deliver the finished browser in June.
Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 has been code frozen and the Firefox team are working toward a final release candidate.
If you haven’t tried Firefox 3 yet, I highly [...]

Apple introduces Aperture 2.1

Posted by: Michael on Mar 28, 2008 | No Comments

Apple today released Aperture 2.1, which introduces an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy for photographers to use specialized third party imagine software from within Aperture.
The free software update includes an Apple developed plug-in, Dodge & Burn, which adds brush-based tools for dodge, burn, contrast, saturation, sharpen, and blur effects. Plug-ins for localized [...]

Apple Gazette Daily 235 – Analysts predict the future, iPhone thieves, and more!

Posted by: Michael on Mar 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

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Today’s Show: Analysts predict the future! Apple employees steal 135k worth of iPhones and more!
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Apple’s Safari License forbids Windows users from installing it.

Posted by: Michael on Mar 27, 2008 | 7 Comments

Earlier this week, Apple got a little heat from a variety of sources (including me) about having Safari pop up through the Apple Software Update on Windows machines, even if you don’t have it previously installed on your PC.
Now, though, there is another little problem on the Window’s side of things that is, frankly, just [...]

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