Forums: G5 RAID options, iPhone apps., more
Forum roundup: A recent thread in the MacNN forums that was started in regards to G5 Power Mac external RAID options has since become a useful knowledge base for different RAID applications. One user began a discussion yesterday to get a general ideal about how much the new iPhone applications would cost, the general consensus is that the majority...
published yesterday, 14 hours 28 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
10.5: Reorder Login Items via drag and drop
Here is a way to re-order the login items in your user's Accounts System Preferences panel. (Whether this is actually useful, as those items now load asynchronously, is another question entirely.) Click and hold on a login item, and drag the item a little bit down and/or right. Notice that a dark line will appear at the bottom of the list of items in the login panel. Release the mouse button, and that item will be moved to the bottom of the list. Not as convenient as "drop to the location of your choice," of course, but with a modicum of planning, you can re-order your list this way. [robg adds: As noted, login items now load many-at-a-time, so I'm not sure reordering them makes any difference, other than possibly making them easier to find in the list.]
published yesterday, 20 hours 43 minutes ago, macosxhints
Boingo ships GoBoingo! Wi-Fi access client for Mac
Boingo on Tuesday launched a Mac version of its GoBoingo! client software that provides access Boingo Wi-Fi at more than 100,000 hotspots worldwide. The company says the "lightweight" GoBoingo! client software simplifies the process of logging in to public Wi-Fi hotspots by memorizing multiple usernames and passwords, and paying different Wi-Fi pro...
published on Monday, the 7. July 2008, macintosh-news-network
BaKno announces online-gaming in Kasino 2.0
BaKno has announced Kasino 2.0, a cards simulation game that now features online gaming. Kasino 2.0 features Texas Hold 'em poker, with plans to add Black Jack and Caribbean Poker in a later version. Kasino 2.0 pits the user against nine of 500 different simulated players in offline mode, but the big feature of the 2.0 release is the online communi...
published on Monday, the 7. July 2008, macintosh-news-network
AT&T: Pay full price for the iPhone 3G; Use it with another mobile carrier
In the WWDC ‘08 keynote addressSteve Jobs announced that the iPhone 3G would be available for $199. Naturally this was a cause of excite for many who were looking to purchase the iPhone. The news also caused speculation because many believed that it would be difficult to get an iPhone to use with another carriet. [...]
published on Monday, the 7. July 2008, apple-blog
Pioneer develops 400GB optical disc
Pioneer this morning promised to expand removable storage with one of the largest confirmed optical storage capacities available. By cutting back on the potential for interference from different layers on a given disc, the electronics maker says it can manufacture readable discs with 16 layers; at 25GB per layer, this equates to 400GB on a single ...
published on Monday, the 7. July 2008, macintosh-news-network
New Apple touch patents show body part sensing, fingernail input
In what's considered the definitive overview of Apple's attempts to patent its multi-touch interface, a deluge of newly-public filings show Apple considering technology that hasn't yet been used in the iPhone or the Mac -- including sensing the diffe...
published on Thursday, the 3. July 2008, appleinsider
A tip sheet for switchers from Walt Mossberg
?Sales of Apple?s Macintosh computers have been growing much faster than PC sales overall, with many new Mac buyers switching from years of using Windows computers,? admits Walt Mossberg (allthingsd.com). And to help those who have made the switch, he?s assembled ?a quick tip sheet explaining a few of the most common differences? between Mac OS Leopard and Windows.
published on Thursday, the 3. July 2008, apple-hot-news
Regain lost space hidden in trash on external disks
Think you emptied the trash on your external drive? Even if you did, there may be large amounts of trash still lurking on external or network drives that has not been emptied. As most folks know, the trash is segregated by user ID, and when you empty the trash, it only empties your user's trash -- even on FireWire disks. If you delete a user's account on your computer, the system won't remove the trash for that user ID on the external or network drive. This can also happen if you have ever shared a disk between two computers. Since the UIDs on one computer may not be the same as the other, trashes can be created by one computer that cannot be emptied by the other. This can even happen if your username is the same on both computers, but your UIDs (e.g. 501 an 502) are different. Thus periodically one needs to manually remove the trash like this, in Terminal: $ sudo -s $ rm -rf /Volumes/"my_external_disk"/.Trashes/* $ exit Replac...
published on Thursday, the 3. July 2008, macosxhints
Swisscom unveils iPhone 3G prices
Swisscom has announced its plans for the iPhone 3G, according to company PR. With the launch of the device on July 11th, Swiss customers will have access to three two-year subscription plans, in three different sizes: piccolo, mezzo and grande. At the piccolo level people will pay 249 CHF for an 8GB phone, or 349 CHF for 16GB; this costs 25 CHF p...
published on Tuesday, the 1. July 2008, macintosh-news-network