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- iPhoto and ProKit updates hitting today
Filed under: Software Update
In the hustle and bustle of product introductions today, another couple of software updates slipped out the door. The 16 MB iPhoto 7.1.2 update promises the "overall stability" we all crave, while the ProKit update (no link on Apple's site yet) "improves reliability for Apple's professional applications and is recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, Aperture, Logic Studio and Logic Express."
Meanwhile, in a separate security bulletin (link as in the image), Apple acknowledged an iPhoto vulnerability that would allow a maliciously-crafted photocast to hijack your machine, if you were to subscribe to it; said vulnerability is now fixed in 7.1.2. Yikes. Full details after the jump.
Your mileage, as always, may vary.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/iphoto-and-prokit-updates-hitting-today/#comments - Apple raising Mac production, lowering iPod quotas?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Apple, iPhone
According to a recent Macworld UK post, the Mac's sales are surging, and Apple has ramped up production on the Mac lines. Macworld received its information from recent Banc of America Securities research, which leads to the conclusion that along with raising Mac production, Apple has lowered production on the iPod lines (keeping in mind that this research predates the product announcements today). According to researchers, the production orders of Macs rose nearly 20%, while the production orders of the iPod fell 10-20%. The analyst speculates that Apple will be seeing an increasing demand for Macs.
On a related note, Macworld UK also posted about the Mac and iPhone online usage being slightly up. The post states that Apple's hardware accounted for 7.57% of internet traffic for the month of January. iPhone traffic was also up, .13%, of total traffic from .12% in December. The iPod touch accounted for a whopping 0.04% of internet traffic. Contrast this with Windows Mobile traffic, which accounts for .06% -- Macworld states that this figure has remained constant since June 2007, which (oddly enough) is when the iPhone was released.Read | Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/apple-raising-mac-production-lowering-ipod-quotas/#comments - iTunes: Free Tuesday
Filed under: iTS, Features, Deals
Once again, TUAW is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won't be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don't forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/itunes-free-tuesday/#comments - Win a Tide-themed iPod
Filed under: iPod Family, Video
If you watched last weekend's Super Bowl (the height of American Football), you probably saw Tide's "Talking Stain" ad. It was one of the better ones; a man trying to conduct an interview is distracted by a nagging stain on the interviewee's shirt.
Today, Tide has launched a contest encouraging people to make their own "mocking stain" ads. Among the prizes are 34 limited edition Tide-themed iPod Classics. The size isn't listed, but they're described in the official rules as having a value of $300US, so we assume it's the 80GB model.
This isn't the first time Tide has released a special iPod. Last year, they gave away orange nanos in conjunction with the St. Bernard Project in New Orleans. This got us thinking about other limited edition iPods we've seen.
- In 2006, French radio station Nostalgie gave away 100 limited-edition Michael Jackson iPods
- Two years ago, the Japanese company RUN'A sold 1,000 "Snoopy" iPod nanos
- Last September, Target (a discount department store in the US) sold pink iPod Shuffles to support the Breast Cancer Foundation
- Finally, who could forget the granddaddy of special iPods, the U2 model.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/win-a-tide-themed-ipod/#comments - Tinfoil Hat Patrol: Why weren't the new iPhones announced at Macworld
Filed under: Macworld, iPod Family, iPhone, Apple TV, MacBook Air
Let's face it. Macworld Expo 2008 didn't exactly blow people away with its product intros. There was the MacBook Air, Apple TV Take Two and...um...not much else. And there could have been. Think about it. The Mac Pro was quietly upgraded in the days that led up to the event (psst, hey you, interested in some raw computing power?), and now the iPhone and iPod touch have received some major memory upgrades in the February slump. Both upgrades, as we have now seen, were relegated to Tuesday-morning sticky notes.
It's not as if Apple couldn't have announced this morning's memory upgrades in January. I'm pretty sure these new iPods and iPhones didn't just magically spring into existence within the last 3 weeks. The product that was announced, the (*yawn*) major AppleTV upgrade with movie rentals. is already delayed, and no sign yet of the "late February" iPhone SDK.
So what's going on with Apple? Is there some sort of mojo shortage? Or maybe Steve just wanted some of us to do badly in our keynote predictions[1]. You tell us in the comments.
[1] See "tinfoil hat"
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/tinfoil-hat-patrol-why-werent-the-new-iphones-announced-at-mac/#comments - Office Snapshots goes inside Apple's Cupertino offices
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Odds and ends, iMac, Steve Jobs, Apple
And they found ... not that much. There's something not-quite-right about these snapshots purportedly from inside Apple's Cupertino campus. They look like they come from almost anywhere -- despite the plentiful Apple products (and one notable Microsoft natural keyboard), there's no major signs of genius -- no "the crazy ones" posters, iTablet prototypes lying around, or "how to act around His Steveness" employee pamphlets. Could it be that the people who work at Apple are, strangely enough, just like us?
No, surely not. These pictures are also a bit out of date, we're told, as rumor has it that the front lobby always shows off the new products, not the old iMacs. So clearly these snaps are from the late '90s, when the rest of us were using beige boxes and OS 9 to compute, and only Apple employees had the luxury of using thin keyboards and horizontal LCDs gone vertical (madness!) in their super-futuristic office space. There: our worldview is back to normal. As normal as it gets, anyway.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/office-snapshots-goes-inside-apples-cupertino-offices/#comments - At long last, a Leopard-compatible SuperDuper!
Filed under: Software, Leopard
Pity the plight of Leopard users, who have wandered in the backup wilderness for so long, with only the ghost of H.G Wells to show them the path forward. Sure, Carbon Copy Cloner 3 has been a friend in time of need, but for those who crave a bootable clone that updates automatically and has a support team standing behind it, the long wait is over. SuperDuper! 2.5 has landed.
Dave Nanian has entertained us with the ongoing story of 2.5's road to release on the Shirt Pocket blog, including the pain and challenges of building compatibility with Time Machine's interesting new approaches to linking and storage. With backups now supporting both bootable clones to volumes shared with Time Machine (probably the perfect recovery option) and a free, works-forever trial still available (adding scheduling and smart copies costs $27.95), you owe it to yourself and your backups to give SD! a shot. We'll be testing out the Time Machine interoperability and will report back ASAP.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/at-long-last-a-leopard-compatible-superduper/#comments - Super Tuesday iPod touch Easter Egg
Filed under: iPod Family
You have so got to love Apple. If you own a jailbroken iPod touch and have bought the January Software Upgrade, navigate yourself over to /private/var/mobile/Applications. There, you'll find your nikita_receipt.plist. Open it in your favorite property list editor, copy the payload (from <data> to </data>) and use your favorite online base64 converter to decode.Perhaps Apple engineers wish they could vote for Lincoln this time around.
Thanks to the amazing Francis who discovered this
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday-ipod-touch-easter-egg/#comments - File List 1.2 does file renaming for free
Filed under: Freeware
I love it when I find freeware that is not only functional, but practical. File List is no exception. File List is an awesome utility that allows you to quickly and easily change batches of file names quickly. There are many types of ways you can rename the files including: find and replace, number, change case, and more.
This is nearly identical to the Automator action "Rename Finder Items." However, for those of you who don't want to sit through creating an Automator workflow, then this might be the application for you! In my opinion, one of the coolest features of this application is being able to create a "droplet." These droplets allow you to simply set up the action you want, create the droplet, then just drag your files and drop them on it to run the action on the files.
This very creative piece of software also won a 3.5/5 from MacWorld's Mac Gems review. This software is available for free (donations accepted) from the Many Tricks website.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/file-list-1-2/#comments - Apple increases iPhone, iPod touch storage capacity
Filed under: iPod Family, Apple, iPhone
After a brief downtime, the US Apple Store came back online this morning with updated, larger-capacity iPhone and iPod touch models. Our colleagues at Engadget called this update about five hours before it hit the street.
The iPhone is now available with 8GB (at $399US) or 16GB (at $499US) of storage.The iPod touch is now available in three models; 8GB ($299US), 16GB($399US) and 32GB($499US). Note that the 16GB iPhone and the 32GB iPod touch are both $499, while there's a one hundred dollar difference between the 16GB iPhone and the 16GB iPod model.
I guess your hundred bucks either buys you a phone or double the storage space. The choice is yours.
[Nik notes from across the pond: the 16 GB iPhone is available in the UK for £329, and the 32GB iPod touch is also £329 (inc VAT).]
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/apple-increases-iphone-ipod-touch-storage-capacity/#comments - Apple Store is down, must be Tuesday
Alright folks, start your wild speculating. It's a Tuesday morning and it appears that the Apple Store is down. Could this finally be the MacBook Pro update everyone is expecting?
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/apple-store-is-down/#comments - TimeMachineEditor 1.2
Filed under: Freeware, Leopard
If you have been putting off using Time Machine to back up your Mac because of the lack of being able to time backups; you have no excuse now. As many of you already know, Time Machine does a complete system backup at first, then hourly backups of system changes. It does this until your Time Machine disk is completely full, then it erases the oldest backups and carries on.
TimeMachineEditor allows you to change the times that TimeMachine backs your system up. You can change it to once a day, week, or month; and control the times it backs up at. On the developers website, they mention that this program doesn't run in place of TimeMachine, rather, it just changes the interval that the system backs up. TimeMachineEditor is available as freeware from the developer's website or from MacUpdate.Permalink | Email this | Comments
As a word of caution, use this at your own risk, as the developer doesn't provide a way to reset the original settings of Time Machine. They also mention that the "Latest backup" time may be incorrect in the Time Machine System Preference pane.Комментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/04/timemachineeditor-1-2/#comments - XBMC on OS X releases version .1
Filed under: Software, Freeware, Open Source, Developer
Those following the XBMC (a.k.a. Xbox Media Center, although they'll probably need a name change soon, considering all the platforms they've jumped off to) development for the Mac have some good news coming to them: the release has reached version .1.
It's still as shaky as these things come, but new to this version are fullscreen support, "bleeding edge" ffmpeg libraries, and a regular FPS in video playback. It's still not anything the average user should be running, but as I said, for those interested in following along with the development, it should be welcome news.
The download is available from the wiki, and we're told it's now super simple to install (though actually running stably may be a little tougher) -- just drag into your Applications folder and cross your fingers.
Thanks, Yuval!
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/04/xmbc-on-os-x-releases-version-1/#comments - NYT: Obama is Mac, Clinton is PC
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Cult of Mac
It's no doubt that most people vote on style rather than experience. Today the New York Times technology blog compared the two Democratic front-runners in the 2008 election to the "Get a Mac" ads. In the post, they said that Barack Obama was similar to the Mac (when they compared his website to Apple's style), while Hillary Clinton's website style was similar to that of the PC.
The NYT interviewed several people, including Alice Twemlow, the chairwoman of the M.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts and a Mac user. "With Obama's site, all the features and elements are seamlessly integrated, just like the experience of using a program on a Macintosh computer," said Twemlow.
It is no doubt that the candidates in this year's elections are using technology to their advantage. As an additional and interesting note, the NYT endorsed Hillary Clinton as their pick in the 2008 election. What do you think? Be sure to sound off in the comments.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/04/nyt-obama-is-mac-clinton-is-pc/#comments - Flickr Find: Apple IIc unboxing
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Flickr Find, Apple History
Like geeks everywhere, here at TUAW we like unboxing pics. But unboxing shots from an original Apple IIc? Now that's Apple fan candy! This Apple IIc was recently purchased on eBay and had never been opened before. The lucky buyer posted this Flickr set of the ritual. I particularly love the old rainbow Apple stickers!
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/04/flickr-find-apple-iic-unboxing/#comments - Paperclip notes to documents
Filed under: Software, Productivity, Leopard
Paperclip is an interesting idea for an application. Basically, it looks like Stickies but the notes are actually "clipped" to specific documents in other applications. For example, you can create a Paperclip note and attach it to a Pages document, then whenever you open that document the relevant Paperclip note will appear pinned to the side of the window. The notes themselves can contain rich text, links, images, etc.
Paperclip does this by running as a menubar application with Universal Access active. In my brief testing I noticed that it will not work correctly with an unsaved document. For instance, if you create a new, untitled Pages document and try to attach a note, it will not work. If you save the document, however, it seems to work fine. I think this is a neat idea, and it could definitely be useful. The Paperclip notes are basically a form of meta-data, so its unfortunate that it doesn't integrate with Spotlight. Nonetheless, I like the concept and it will be interesting to see where it goes.
Paperclip is $9.95 (introductory price) and Leopard only. A demo is available for download from Concentrate Software.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/04/paperclip-notes-to-documents/#comments - Confirmed: MacBook Air Superdrive Does Not work with other Macs
Filed under: MacBook Air
Today was a great day for me personally as my MacBook Air arrived from Apple and I've begun to put it through its paces (expect a full review very soon.). In addition to the MacBook Air, my MacBook Air external USB Superdrive also arrived today as well.
Naturally, being the curious sort I am, before I even plugged the Superdrive into the MBA, I decided to see if it would, in fact, work while attached to any of my other Macs. So, I attached it and gave it a try. I won't keep you in suspense, it didn't work. While the Superdrive was recognized in system profiler by name, when plugged into both my 24" iMac and my 15" MacBook Pro, the drive did not work.
In fact, it didn't even seem like it was getting any power at all and made no sound. It was only when finally plugged into the MBA's sole USB port did the drive come to life. After that, it worked flawlessly when attached to the MBA, as you would expect it to. So, if you were planning on using the MBA Superdrive on any other Mac, you're out of luck.Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
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