Apple's New iPod Shuffle with VoiceOver
12 March 2009: Apple® today introduced the all-new iPod® shuffle. The new iPod shuffle is jaw-droppingly small. It’s half the size of the previous generation. Yet there’s room for so much more. With 4GB of storage, it now holds up to 1,000 songs,1 and lets you enjoy multiple playlists, too.
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The new Mac Mini, the perfect partnership with Apple's Time Capsule. Here's the details of the new core2duo unit... Apple Mac Mini 2009 |
Apple time Capsult 1 Terrabyte:
03 March 2009: Apple released a new version of its Time Capsule network backup appliance on Tuesday with up to 1 terrabyte of built-in storage
Canon EOS 5D Mark II:
27 Feb 2009: With the EOS 5D Mark II, Canon has made some significant interface changes, upped the pixel count from 12 to 21 megapixels, improved the high ISO performance and expanded the ISO range, and added the ability to shoot high definition video
Hackintosh
24 Feb 2009: Installing OS 10.5 (Leopard) on a PC is a little strange, but also rewarding. Here's an article from a third party (don't SUE us Apple!).
LaCie Bigger Disk Review:
23 Feb 2009: Okay, so it's been around for a year, but the bigger disk from LaCie is still a pretty cool pirce of kit, and LaCie still appear to lead the way in External Hard Drive design for the Apple Mac.
Apple discontinues 20 inch Cinema Display
19 Feb 2009: Apple Has discontinued the 20 inch Apple Cinema Display, leaving the 24 inch and 30 inch units as it's sole models.
Saving a document as a PDF file.
This is our tip of the day. It's a real easy solution and requires no additional software (as long as you're running OS X). In effect, you can print a document, from just about any application, as a PDF file.
Apple Macbook update- more models need updating:
17 Feb 2009: Apple has released a patch for the Apple Macbook Plycarbonate (early 2009) model laptop. The update is reportedly designed to fix an issue that causes the laptop to start up slowly. However, digging deeper into Apple's website, it comes to light that this release is for pretty much all Mac laptops released over the past 2-3 years. Details from apple Computer Inc:
Bittorrent Sharing Site owners, Piratebay in Court:
16 Feb 2009: The creators of one of the world's most high-profile, file-sharing websites are claiming their site is "100% legal" as their landmark trial gets underway. The Pirate Bay's creators are being taken to court by the world's media giants, including Sony and Warner Bros, which accuse them of facilitating the spread of piracy by offering a massive index of pirated content for download.
Apple Blocks Jailbreaking on iPhone and iPod:
15 Feb 2009: Apple's iPhone, now the best-selling cellular phone in the U.S., has been designed with restrictions that prevent owners from running applications obtained from sources other than Apple's own iTunes App Store. "Jailbreaking" is the term used for removing these restrictions, thereby liberating your phone from Apple's software "jail."
Apple Updates Mac OS X 10.5.x
13 Feb 2009: Apple Computer Inc has added a secutiry update to OS 10.5.x. Downloads available from Apple's website or through the preference pane.
Apple to Add Instant Video Streaming to iPod
12 Feb 2009: Apple is preparing an instant streaming option for video at the iTunes Store, a report claims. Said to be named iTunes Replay, the service would be similar in concept to Netflix's "Watch Instantly"
Virus Alert for users of OS X 10.4 and above:
25 Jan 2009: Anti-virus maker Intego has issued a warning about a Mac trojan that is both in the wild and actually malicious, unlike anything seen before. The distribution system is BitTorrent -- specifically a pirated version of the iWork 09 suite just released by Apple. What does this mysterious trojan do? It drops an application named iWorkServices into the system startup folder (/System/Library/StartupItems)
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Cost Effective Apple Macs:
02 Feb 2009: Apple is now offering a wider range of refurb computer systems, as well as a range of refurb iPods. It's also offering significant discounts against it's refurb computer systems through it's store. |
Protect yourself from Cookies:
04 Feb 2009: If you didn't already know it, Apple Macs running OS X and above can remove cookies without having any additional software installed. If you're using Firefox, you're able to simply remove all cookies from the browser by clicking on Tools--> Clear Private Data and in the popup menu, check the box next to cookies and click ok.
The US Government Considers Apple Mac IT Solutions:
09 Feb 2009: Apple Inc. has been gaining ground on the much beligned PC and has seen heightened awareness of it's other products within the Corporate and Government sectors. In a survey of corporate desktop operating system trends published in August 2008, Forrester Research found that since October 2006, use of Apple products among its clients had grown from 1.1 to 4.5 percent," Merrill Douglas reports for Government Technology. This compared to a recent BBC article which cites Apple as now holding roughly 10% of the computer retail market. It's in effect a serious leap forward from the mid 1990's, when the Mac was seen more as defacto for graphic design and music production. more.......
