Tag Archives: Apple / Mac

An Accidental Stroke of Brilliance

March 19th, 2009

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Today, when I left my newly installed and configured HackBook (running XxX 10.5.6) downstairs for awhile, the display went to sleep. I thought nothing of it of course. I closed the lid and took it upstairs. When I opened the lid, it gave me the boot prompt. “Strange,” I thought, and when I pressed enter […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: New Apps

March 17th, 2009

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During Apple’s presentation of the new iPhone OS, they had several developers come up and demonstrate some apps they made using the new APIs and features (which you can read about here). Meebo: They’ve avoided making an iPhone app because they felt it needed push notification. Meebo will connect to various social networks and do […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: New Features

March 17th, 2009

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Today, Apple introduced the next version of OS X for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The iPhone is doing incredibly well, even in this economy. Its sales were up 17 million through December and there have been over 800,000 downloads of the iPhone SDK. 96% of apps reviewed are approved, and more than 80 million […]

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iPhone OS 3.0: Are You Ready?

March 16th, 2009

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Tomorrow, March 17th, Apple is set to debut the next version of their mini edition of OS X for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With the Palm Pre’s new features promising to rival or even better those of the iPhone, how will Apple compete? What new features will they implement in 3.o? Background notifications? Video […]

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released This Month?

March 16th, 2009

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Apple has been seeding Mac OS X 10.5.7 9J27 to developers now for about a week and this raises the all important question: When is it being released? 10.5.7 includes some seriously major fixes as it seems to be Apple’s trademark to release 200 new features and 150 new bug fixes (Verses Microsoft releasing 200 […]

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