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iPhone 3G Unlock Finally (Almost) Here

This time around, it took a little longer, but the iPhone 3G has finally been unlocked, thanks to the efforts of the hardworking iPhone Dev Team, makers of the Pwnage Tool, which is used for jailbreaking Apple’s handhelds.

The Dev Team reports successful unlocking, using their oddly codenamed “yellowsn0w,” but they’ve yet to release it to the public. Now, they’re working on repackaging it in user-friendly form, like the Pwnage Tool, so that your average end-user won’t have much trouble tossing off their carrier oppressors.
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Apple Makes Changes to MobileMe: We're Finally Where We Should Have Been From the Start
Apple’s documentation for changes in the recent 10.5.6 system update includes a line of interest to MobileMe users on the Mac:

Contacts, calendars, and bookmarks on a Mac automatically sync within a minute of the change being made on the computer, another device, or the web at me.com.

So we now have “push” for those items on the desktop, as we’ve always had on the Web and the iPhone. That’s good news.

However, the MobileMe changes go deeper than that. Apple didn’t just change Contacts, Calendars and Bookmarks to “push” distribution (for Macs only), they changed the sync times for all items in the MobileMe control panel, and also made changes to the MobileMe service itself. Let’s take a look…
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Daily Apple: Suits, Mud, Gambling, The Future, Freedom, & Festivity
68% of Businesses To Allow Macs Next Year - According to one survey, up to 68 percent of 700 businesses polled say they’ll allow employees to use a Mac as their work machine in the upcoming year. Apparently, the main push is coming from employees who are “begging to use a Mac,” and not any effort on Apple’s part to promote enterprise adoption. Imagine what’ll happen if they decide to start trying.

Doesn’t Beat Sexy Lady Silhouettes - So you’re a tough guy, eh? I can tell by your huge truck. But how to show that you’re also tech savvy? Apple mudflaps, that’s how.

Spend Even More Money On Your iPhone - I know what the iPhone’s missing: I can’t gamble on it! Or rather, I couldn’t gamble on it. Now I can, thanks to All Slots online casino. Point your browsers here to start losing money.

Welcome To The Future. Here’s Your Standard Issue Touchscreen iMac Speaker Chair - The Sonic Chair, or future-styled sit-in speaker, can now include a touchscreen iMac. All you need is lots and lots of money to get one. Lots of money.

Apple Acknowledges Unlocked iPhones, Lists Carriers - Countries and carriers that offer the sale of authorized, unlocked iPhones are now listed on Apple’s own website. Roughly 40 of the 105 worldwide iPhone carriers offer the unlocked option.

Mac The Halls - Feeling festive? Here’s a sampling of some Apple-themed Christmas decorations, complete with paper ornament guides that you can print out and use to make your own. Might I also suggest finding a virtual Yule Log for the iMac? It warms the heart, but not the room.

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Netbooks: The Race to the Bottom Has Begun
Seems everyone's talking about netbooks these days. So I will, too since I've seen so much punditry of late that says Apple can't charge their usual prices anymore, the economy is in the dumps, netbooks rule, Apple can't ignore the market, etc.

Yes, we see a lot of figures going around about millions of netbooks sold, but what's it mean to the bottom line? Are Acer, HP, Lenovo, etc. showing more profit from these things? These same companies will sell you a notebook that's supposedly half the price of Apple's, but that's not where the money is. It's cutthroat down there as each vendor tries to shave another penny off the price. They hope to draw you in with the price and up-sell you.
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Mac OS X 10.5.6 Released

Apple today released the next major update to OS X Leopard in the form of Mac OS X 10.5.6 and is now available via Software Update, or the Apple downloads page. It is a 377MB download, recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard.

Some of the notable changes and updates included in the release are:
- Contacts, calendars, and bookmarks on a Mac automatically sync within a minute of the change being made on the computer, another device, or the web at me.com. This should go a long way towards making MobileMe more usable.
- Improves reliability of Address Book & Airport.
- Adds a Trackpad System Preference pane for portable Macs.
- Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule, and problems with locating backup volumes
- Includes fixes for possible graphics distortion issues with certain ATI graphics cards, and improvements for several graphics intensive apps (iChat, Cover Flow, Aperture, and iTunes).
- Several improvements to Mail to improve performance, junk filtering and handling of PDF attachments
- Networking enhancements for AT&T 3G cards and TCP connections
- Improved printing for users of Adobe CS3
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MSi Wind Gets More OS X-Friendly, Calls Apple Out
We know that you don't want to release a netbook, Mr. Jobs, and we respect your stance that you don't want to sacrifice quality and besmirch the Apple name with a sub-standard product. That said, it's beginning to look like other companies may not be content to sit by and wait while you come up with an ingenious way of revolutionizing cheapo laptop construction, making it affordable and of high enough quality to bear the Apple logo. One such company is Realtek, who've recently released OS X drivers for their Wi-Fi network cards, which reside not, where you might guess, in Apple laptops, but in the MSi Wind.
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Microsoft Releases Seadragon iPhone App

Unable to ignore the ubiquitousness of Apple’s touch devices, Microsoft has released its first app, a tech-demo of Seadragon.

For those unfamiliar with the project, Seadragon is one of a few applications being developed under Microsoft’s Live Lab division. This one in particular provides “seamless browsing of vast quantities of visual information [...] regardless of the amount of data.” With the app you are able to quickly breeze through thousands of giga-pixel images and zoom in multiple times to view them in their full resolution splendor.

Seadragon comes with access to a collection of images which among them include satellite images of Mars and the Spitzer’s Galaxy, documents from the Library of Congress, and a couple of different map views of the world. You can also add images from RSS feeds, any Deep Zoom content, and from Photosynth users (Photosynth being another Live Lab project that “[a]utomatically reconstructs a three-dimensional space from a collection of photos of a place or an object”). You can set it up to use your photos as well, but they have to be uploaded to Photosynth which is only in testing for the Mac and requires Microsoft’s Flash-variant Silverlight, which means non-Intel based Mac users are left out.

Taken for what it is, a technical demo, Seadragon is a rather impressive technology. Pinching and stretching your way around images only to see how detailed they really are has a definite wow factor and just one more thing to use when showing off why the iPhone stands apart from everything else in the market. However, it is admittedly a bit odd that the developers didn’t allow you to browse the pictures on your camera roll directly, as well as shipped an app that wasn’t complete — the “Browse Photosynth” is broken — but I guess, such is the nature of a demo.

The developers claim that there is more “cool stuff” to come, though not specifically for the iPhone/iPod touch. Regardless, based on this app alone, that claim doesn’t, at all, seem far fetched and I’d gladly welcome more Apple friendly offerings from Microsoft’s Live Labs.

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Daily Apple: More Clones, More Stark, More iPhones, More Flatulence, More Organized
EFi-X USA To Begin Shipping OS X-Friendly Computers - That’s EFi-X USA. Not to be confused with EFi-X, which has nothing to do with the new doppleganger. Except that they’ll offer the EFi-X dongle for sale with their new, OS X ready PCs, which are high-end, powerful computers. They won’t actually be installing OS X, but they’ll probably still end up in court.

Iron Man On The iPhone - It may have missed the movie, and the DVD release, but there’s now an Iron Man game on the iPhone. It definitely looks more fully developed for the wait, compared to rushed promotional products like Joker-fier that accompanied the Dark Knight’s release.

NanoPhone? - Site iDealsChina reports a new iPhone, which they’re claiming will be the oft-speculated “NanoPhone”, is no longer speculation, but cold, hard fact. They claim production on the things begins on the 20th, and they even provide ballpark figures for the initial run. They don’t name any sources, and I’m definitely not holding my breath on this one.

You Are Now Free To Pull My Finger - Thank goodness. My iPhone experience was significantly hampered when this app was pulled. Seriously, it’s a step in the right direction for the Draconian App Store rules of admission.

App Store Layout Changed - It may or may not be a response to Iconfactory developer Craig Hockenberry’s open letter, but it seems to make some improvements in the ways apps are organized, and which get highlighted. We’ll see if it actually affects buying habits in the longer term.

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Apple Wiiphone Around the Corner?
Smartphone industry insiders are seeing even more advanced sensors showing up in upcoming versions of the Apple iPhone, among other devices. Once such tech? Gyroscopic sensors, like those found in the motion sensing Wii remote from Nintendo. The tech, which uses Microelectrochemical (MEMS) gyroscopes to measure rotational movement, helps enhance the motion-sensing abilities for the Nintendo controller. If implemented in a future version of the iPhone, it would allow similar attitudinal awareness functions in the smartphone. The advanced capabilities would allow the device to figure out its position in 3D space, instead of just its angle of relative tilt, as is currently the case.
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How Many OS 9 Die-Hards Are Out There?
How many Mac fans are still using OS 9? It’s a difficult statistic to track, or at least I’ve found it so. Hitslink’s November 2008 market share report shows pre-Intel Mac operating systems still represent a respectable (nearly three times the penetration of Linux) 2.35 percent of total OS usage (vs. 6.51 percent for MacIntel), but it’s not broken down between OS X and Mac OS Classic PPC systems.

Cult of Mac’s Giles Turnbull notes that way back in 2004 he posted a column entitled “OS9 - Blimey Some People Still Use It” for Mac DevCenter, but never imagined he’d be posting a similar piece four years later.

“But - blimey,” Turnbull wrote last week, “there are STILL some people out there using OS 9 and very happy with it too, thank you very much.”
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