?Plenty dazzling,? iPhone tops tech gift list
On the second day of his ?12 Days of Christmas Tech Gifts,? Mike Wendland (freep.com) turns his attention to smartphones. ?The best phone period,? he affirms, ?remains the Apple iPhone.? ?Groundbreaking in its functionality, features, and fun,? iPhone also tops his list because of the App Store, which ?gives it so much power that none of the competitors can even come close.?
published yesterday, 23 hours ago, apple-hot-news
Update to Apple's 18-Month-Old AV Doc Sparks Uproar
Apple's Mac OS X operating system has long been lauded as virus resistant, if not downright virus and malware free. Over the years that has perhaps changed -- at least a little. If any Mac-focused bugs have popped up, though, none have turned into marauding swarms of locusts. However, recent reports about an official support document found on Apple's Web site have reignited the Mac security issue.
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macnewsworld
Apple Exploring Liquid Notebook Cooling Systems for Cooler Laps
MacNN reports on a newly published Apple patent application which details ongoing research into alternative cooling systems for notebook computers. Specifically, Apple explores the possibility of a liquid cooling system for th...
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macrumors
Google adds iCal support to Calendar
Google has officially announced public support for the CalDAV protocol in Calendar, its online scheduling application. The update means that Mac owners can now integrate Calendar with iCal, which in turn should allow sync between the two programs, the ability to operate offline, and answer invitations from other users. It should also be possible to track the free/busy information of colleagues....
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Apple Quietly Recommends Antivirus Software For Macs
Barence writes "After years of boasting about the Mac's near invincibility, Apple is now advising its customers to install security software on their computers. Apple — which has continually played on Windows' vulnerability to viruses in its advertising campaigns — issued the advice in a low-key message on its support forums. 'Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.' It goes on to recommend a handful of products." Reader wild_berry points out the BBC's story on the unexpected recommendation.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Tuesday, the 2. December 2008, apple-slashdot
Linux successfully ported to the iPhone, iPod touch
Devteam member planetbeing has successfully reverse-engineered the iPhone and iPod touch platforms to run the open-source Linux 2.6 kernel. The port is still in the beginning stages of development, with limited functionality that lacks support for the touchscreen, sound, accelerometer, baseband and wireless networking. When the device is powered-on, OpeniBoot gives the choice of booting the iPhone...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Joost deploys TV app for iPhone, iPod touch
Onilne service Joost says it has published a native supporting application for iPhone and iPod touch owners. The app lets users view hosted video, which is normally restricted for Apple handhelds due to the latter's incompatibility with Flash. Joost claims to have over 400 TV shows and 1,200 movies on its network, as well as some 18,000 music videos. Content is divided into genres such as anime...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Joost brings mainstream videos, clips to iPhone
Joost has brought its 46,000-plus catalog of films, TV shows, and other clips to the iPhone. The free player allows streaming access to the company's entire library, but this initial effort falls a little short.Read More...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, ars-technica
Sync Facebook photos and birthdays to Address Book
If you use Facebook, you might be interested in syncing your friends' profile images and birthdays into your OS X address book. After trying a number of programs, none met my needs. So I created AddressBookSync, a free Facebook/OS X tool which matches Facebook friends to contacts in Address Book, and is able to sync their profile picture and birthday information. This utility is probably most useful for people who sync their phones (such as an iPhone) with their OS X Address Book for contact information. This way, they can keep their contacts' pictures updated with their latest and greatest Facebook profile picture, which will show up when they call. AddressBookSync does not and will not support the synchronization of phone numbers or email addresses as Facebook does not allow this by their Terms of Service. [robg adds: I haven't tested this utility. Note that this hint was submitted by the program's author...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macosxhints
Touchscreen Phones and Mobile Apps: Fitting Hand in Glove
Touchscreen phone users are discovering that much of the fun in their devices stems from applications -- those little nuggets of convenience, amusement and distraction available for download on the slightest whim. A good example is Google's newly updated Mobile App for Apple's iPhone, which has been generating a lot of buzz for one main reason: voice search.
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macnewsworld