New EZQuest RAID Triple: up to 2TB, FW 400/800, USB
EZQuest has introduced the Thunder Pro Triple series of A/V RAID storage devices. Each unit offers two FireWire 800 ports, a FireWire 400 port and a USB port. The three-drive arrangement ships pre-configured as RAID 0 for the highest capacity and speed. The Oxford-chipset Hitachi SATA II drives run at 7200RPM with up to 64MB buffer cache. EZQuest claims data transfer speeds up to 80MB per second, ...
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Private iPhone APIs used by Google Mobile
The updated Google Mobile iPhone app is reportedly using Apple's private APIs (application programming interfaces), according to Daring Fireball. The voice search feature can be initiated by lifting the phone to the ear. The automatic process requires moving the phone and triggering the proximity sensor. Allegedly, there is no public API that supports the particular combination and order of events...
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple TV's Unrealized Potential
Apple has been particularly aggressive in setting standards and showing leadership with the iPhone and new MacBooks. They've removed FireWire from the MacBook, to many people's alarm, moved to DisplayPort video technology, and, on the iPhone side, completely disrupted an industry that was asleep at the wheel. And yet when it comes to the digital living room, Apple has shown very little leadership.
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, macnewsworld
Ultimate Ears launches top-firing earphones
Headphone manufacturer Ultimate Ears on Wednesday announced it has added the Super.Fi 5 and Ultimate Ears Super.Fi 5vi earphones to its range of universal-fit earphones. The new products are the first to feature a top-fire armature speaker design that, the company claims, provides a strong sound delivery while retaining a small form. The headphones feature a frequency response range of 15Hz to 15k...
published on Wednesday, the 19. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Fashion Your Firefox: Easily Find Add-ons
Today, Mozilla has released Fashion Your Firefox, a new Web application that enables Firefox users to customize their browser based on their interests and online activities. It provides a simple way to find appropriate add-ons that fit your lifestyles, showcasing them in a simple and easy-to-install way. “One of the best parts about Firefox is the [...]
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, apple-blog
The iPhone Gets Stickier With Glue
I’m a social kind of guy. On the web, that means I’m a social media kind of guy. Which is why I was interested in Glue, a service from AdaptiveBlue that turns Firefox into one big trip to Indigo/DVD night/book club/music exchange. Now Glue for iPhone brings the same kind of experience to your mobile [...]
published on Tuesday, the 18. November 2008, apple-blog
How to possibly fix an 'ALLOC-MEM too big!' error
Over the weekend, my 12" PowerBook G4 was involved in an incident that, I thought, spelled certain doom for my all-time-favorite Apple laptop. I was using the machine with it perched on my knees, and happened to be applying the Safari software update when disaster struck. The update was at that point where the OS has shut down and the progress bar is marching across the screen. Just then, our youngest child came sneaking up on me and applied a running hug-tackle (I was on the sofa at the time, but hug-tackles can happen anywhere). At impact, the PowerBook flew off my knee and landed on the back right corner on the (thankfully) carpeted floor. When the machine hit the floor, it instantly kernel panicked, and I thought "well, that couldn't have happened at a worse time."When I tried to boot it, I got a chime, but nothing else. Every trick I tried, including booting from a CD and setting it up in FireWire target disk mode, failed. Then I tried resetting PRAM, which also didn't ...
published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, macosxhints
Safari 3.2 finally gains phishing protection
If you want phishing protection on your Mac, you had better use Firefox. That is until you update Safari to version 3.2, which finally brings phishing protection to Apple's own browser, plus a handful of security updates.Read More...
published on Thursday, the 13. November 2008, ars-technica
Firefox 3.0.4 update improves security, stability
Mozilla has released the latest update to its browser, Firefox 3.0.4. The company claims to have addressed several security and stability issues. Icelandic and Thai localizations have been integrated. Additional EV root certificates have been added, and the Public Suffix list updated. A bug fix corrects an issue that would prevent certain passwords saved in version 3.0.2 from functioning properly....
published on Wednesday, the 12. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
10.5: How to pull Time Capsule data for dead drives
My secondary hard drive died suddenly and wouldn't mount. I figured this wouldn't be a problem since I have Time Machine backing up to a Time Capsule. So I fired up Time Machine, but I can't browse to my second hard drive since it does not exist on my computer. Even if the drive was on my computer and malfunctioning, Time Machine would try to restore data to that same faulty drive. So, what to do?Mount the disk image stored in Time Capsule (skip the verification), browse to the most recent date, and there you'll see a folder for every hard drive on your system. You can recover your data from there and put it in any available drive.
published on Wednesday, the 5. November 2008, macosxhints