Leopard most likely on track for October release

According to ThinkSecret, Leopard is still on track for its delayed release estimate of October. This gives Apple a matter of a few weeks to declare a Gold Master, produce a significant number of copies and get them to retail stores. It’s a time crunch for sure. I don’t remember the exact timeline of things with the [...]

published on Thursday, the 4. October 2007

A chink in the AirPort armor?

Is it possible the AirPort Extreme base station isn’t catching all the malicious traffic bound for my home network? I just opened Console to check on an issue I was having with lookupd, but I was distracted when the ipfw.log firewall log file popped up with quite a lot of blocked attempts. How many? Try 7831 [...]

published on Thursday, the 4. October 2007

Spire releases new line of laptop bags

Spire, makers of fine laptop bags, have just released an update to their line of laptop bags. The new bags are definitely a bit more stylish and not quite as cold and business looking as the previous line. Prices start at $80 for the smaller bag and go up to $100 for the largest with three colors: [...]

published on Wednesday, the 3. October 2007

iPhone Recognizes Audio Email Attachments

Dan at UneasySilence points out that if you’ve upgraded your iPhone to the latest version (1.1.1) the email viewer application now supports wav and mp3 files in your email. This is surprising to me that it wasn’t inherently in the iPhone to begin with… Dan points out that this is useful if you’re using a [...]

published on Tuesday, the 2. October 2007

A plea to Steve

Not that it will be delivered, but I just sent an email to Steve Jobs: Steve (or his assistant, secretary, mail reader, etc.), I have been a devout Apple fanatic for years. I was just about to give up on Apple when you came back. I used the IIe, Classic, LC, Quadra, Powermac, PowerPC, and now Intel [...]

published on Tuesday, the 2. October 2007

Are Keyboard Problems Plaguing MacBook Pros?

After much anticipation, my new MacBook Pro arrived this weekend. Following an evening of migrating files, applications and settings to the new laptop, I was extremely pleased with its speed, responsiveness, and all the little things that make it an excellent Apple laptop. But this morning, when I reached the office, we hit a serious [...]

published on Monday, the 1. October 2007

Community Activity: October 1, 2007

MacBook Battery Life (After 1-year) Wait for Leopard? Does/Can a Mac synch with a Blackberry? IPA phonetic alphabet font(s) for Mac? Why are Canadians paying more for Apple products in Canada? No Tags

published on Monday, the 1. October 2007

Top-10 iPhone Optimized Websites

The iPhone does a great job of displaying any website with its Safari web browser and high-resolution display. With the easy touch controls on the iPhone, navigating just about any website is a breeze. Still, websites developed specifically for the iPhone are optimal because they utilize the screen to the fullest extent, and use less bandwidth [...]

published on Monday, the 1. October 2007

Updates Galore!

iLife ‘08 users, check for updates! Apple has unleashed a grand total of 9 updates for iLife ‘08. They did sneak in a firmware update for my MacBook Pro as well. Here’s the list: Keynote 4.0.1 Pages 3.0.1 Numbers 1.0.1 iDVD 7.0.1 iMovie 7.1 GarageBand 4.1 iPhoto 7.1 iLife Support 8.1 iWeb 2.0.2 MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.4 (I think this is only for [...]

published on Monday, the 1. October 2007

Hacking the Hackers

I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a room at 1 Infinite loop few know about. The entrance is guarded by laser beams and ninja trained monkeys. The employees that work in the room are completely self contained and sequestered from the the outside world. They are payed handsomely for this, driven by the [...]

published on Monday, the 1. October 2007