Apple just closed a deal to buy P.A. Semi. For those of you that don’t recall who they are… they were the company minutes away from wooing Apple away from jumping to Intel. The company offered PowerPC processors that provided G5 performance… without the heat dissipation issues. The Intel transition still went through, which has […]
While I wrote that Apple didn’t need to fix the Mozilla Objection (where Apple began offering up Safari to users via Apple Software Update on Windows)… it appears they went ahead and fixed it anyways. Under the new version, released alongside Safari 3.1.1, Apple Software Update 2.1 for Windows now separates new software and updates. As […]
There’s one feature that Apple, I’ve learned, really regrets scrapping from Leopard. Originally, Time Machine had a lot of additional features which didn’t make the final cut. One of the features was to use the free disk space on the boot drive as shadow copy storage. This mimicked a feature from Vista that does the […]
Come June, iPhone users will be able to use exchange. Great. With a Mail2Web free account, you’ll be able to sync your world of devices on Exchange. Your calendar, address book, and device info can all freely flow to your Windows Mobile phone, all your PCs, your iPhone, even your iPod touch. But what about […]
Okay, so you know my position on AirPort Disk & Time Machine by now… rather than simply saying the configuration is unsupported (after announcing, touting, hindering, neutering, and ultimately enabling a buggy fix… you get the idea, I could link to prior posts for each, but searching works too). Anyways, I realized it’s really a […]
Apple today confirmed what I revealed initially… Time Machine and AirPort Disk may say they play together now… but unfortunately, there are still show-stopping bugs. They weren’t as clear as I was, in fact, they didn’t mention that these were data-loss level issues… simply that the feature is still unsupported. I just wish for one […]
I know I said I wasn’t going to spill any beans on iPhone 2.0 software, but this one is just too juicy. Apple, next time, get the media to NDA on things you know will leak out… media relations needs to wake up and smell the coffee on this one (you know who you are). […]
I’m not in a mood to tick anyone off today, so I won’t say exactly what’s in iPhone 2.0 beta. What was announced is there… mostly, and not much else. I will say that the firmware is loaded with debugging code, and is not at the same performance level as 1.1.4. So, should you still […]
If you were thinking of getting some nice code samples (say, Touch Fighter) in this month’s Apple Developer Connection mailings… sorry. The April disc has nothing, nada, zilch on iPhone.
If you use Apple’s Pro apps, it’s that time again… run Apple Software Update. PluginManager 1.7.3 is out, all Apple says is that it improves the reliability of Pro apps. And yes, I know my Tune-Up tracker for Mac updates is woefully out of date. Unfortunately, it won’t be updated this week… CTIA consumes all.