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- Rumor: iPhone may get x86 processor, and pigs might fly
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Apple, iPhone
The Inquirer isn't just counting their chickens before they hatch -- they're counting all the feathers, the chicken feet, and even the eggs of those chickens, too. When we first heard that the slide you see above (reportedly from a CeBit presentation from Intel) apparently meant that Apple was going to put an Intel x86 "Moorestown" processor in the iPhone, we did a double take, and then a triple take (how is the iPhone not the one labeled "Premium Smartphone?"), and then we said, "they're kidding, right?"
But no, apparently they weren't: Apple Insider has jumped on the x86Phone bandwagon as well (granted, they originally jumped in December of last year). It took Apple about ten years to decide to switch its computer line to Intel chips, but if you're willing to believe the reasoning on this one (and personally, I'm not), it's only going to take a tenth of that to decide that the iPhone needs an x86 chip, too.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/rumor-iphone-may-get-x86-processor-and-pigs-might-fly/#comments - AppleCare and leap years don't mix
Filed under: Odds and ends
There's dog years and Internet years, but this is the first time we've heard of a special definition of 'a year' when it comes to warranty coverage.
TUAW reader Tom Moore bought his AppleCare agreement on May 3rd, 2006, and recently called Apple to activate the coverage on an older iPod. Like all iPod AppleCare coverage, it's a two year agreement (3 year coverage applies to computers and servers), and the telephone rep told him it runs through May 2008 -- at least it runs through the 1st of May, instead of the 3rd. Why not cover until the 3rd? It's because AppleCare defines a year as exactly 365 days -- whether it's a regular year or a leap year. Seems kind of stingy on Apple's part, but that's the way the coverage crumbles.
Update: Tom has asked that we mention he found the experience with AppleCare and the 'lost day' to be amusing rather than upsetting. So noted for the record!
Thanks Tom!
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/applecare-and-leap-years-dont-mix/#comments - iTunes: Free Wednesday
Filed under: iTS, Features, Deals
As an update to yesterday's Free Tuesday post, I'm happy to bring you some extra goodies that showed up. I'm particularly happy about the New Amsterdam pilot. My EyeTV bonked out about half-way through (Elgato promises to send a replacement once I ship in the wonky one--my second wonky one in a row mind you) so I only saw the first 15 minutes. I also plan to watch the Cantebury's Law pilot although I'm getting just a wee bit tired of procedurals. Enjoy the extra goodies.
US: Ax Men,
Explore the past and present of the rough-and-tumble logging industry in the first-ever nonfiction series about the treacherous life of Pacific Northwest timber cutters, Ax Men. For more than a hundred years, larger-than-life characters, many of whom are members of logging families that go back to the time when the West was being settled, have spent their days among towering trees and powerful machines, and their nights in outposts far from the comforts of civilization. Snapped cables, runaway logs, and treacherous machinery are among the many dangers that threaten their lives and safety today. Follow four logging crews through a season in the remote forests of northwest Oregon and see how - plagued by mechanical failures, relentless weather, and violent and unpredictable terrain - these men risk their lives every day in a constant struggle of man versus nature.US: Greek, Greek--this is a Frepeat, isn't it? I kind of remember this from way back.
ABC Family's hit original series, Greek, follows the story of Casey and Rusty Cartwright as they navigate their way through Greek life at Cyprus-Rhodes University. Now that Casey and Evan have split, her feelings for Cappie re-surface just as her rival, Rebecca, catches Cappie's eye. And when her sorority sister Frannie goes after Evan, will it be more than Casey can handle? Don't miss even one episode!US: Canterbury's Law,
Emmy(R) winner Julianna Margulies makes her return to network series television, headlining the series about a lawyer who goes to great lengths, sometimes even crossing the line, to defend the wrongfully accused. At home, she and her husband (Aidan Quinn) struggle to reassemble their marriage after the tragic and unsolved disappearance of their young son. She's aided by her partner, and sometimes conscience, Russell Krauss (Ben Shenkman); and the firm's young associates, the green Molly McConnell (Trieste Kelly Dunn) and the cocksure Chester Grant (Keith Robinson).US: New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam
John Amsterdam is a New York homicide detective unlike any other. He is brilliant, mysterious, reckless, magnetic . . . and immortal. In 1642 he saved a Native Indian girl during a massacre of her indigenous tribe. In return, the girl cast an ancient spell that conferred immortality upon him. Amsterdam will not age, she told him, until he finds his one true love.US: Mystery Diagnosis, Mystery Diagnosis
Discovery Health's Mystery Diagnosis follows the investigations of medical mysteries. Symptoms emerge. Tests are analyzed. Specialists are consulted. But still, something is not quite right. Time passes and the daily struggle continues. And then one day, because of a patient's relentless pursuit of an accurate and final diagnosis (or the determined efforts of their family or a forward thinking doctor) the puzzle is solved and an accurate diagnosis given. Each episode tells personal stories through intimate interviews with the patients themselves, as well as their families, friends, and doctors. Personal photos and home movies, recreations, and CGI anatomy sequences take the viewer step-by-step through a medical odyssey.US: America's Prom Queen, (Frepeat)
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America's Prom Queen is a new original reality series from ABC Family. Several lucky girls have been chosen to go on a journey of a lifetime where they will compete against each other and face the Prom Committee as they campaign to win the tiara as America's Prom Queen. Susie Castillo (Miss USA 2003) hosts the show and serves as a mentor for the girls, but their fate is in the hands of the Prom Committee, whose members include Jai Rodriquez, Brooke Hogan, Theo Von, and Susan Schulz. Watch as the drama unfolds and the competition heats up!Комментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/itunes-free-wednesday/#comments - Apple Ads = major indie exposure
Filed under: Apple Corporate, iTS
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsWhat does an Apple advert do for an unknown indie artist without a US album release to her name? In the case of Yael Naim it meant debuting at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 135000 downloads of her song, "I'm a New Soul". It also meant Atlantic Records pushing her US album debut forward by two months. According to this Adage report, Apple gets away with paying about half the going rights rate, in return artists receive unmatchable exposure.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/apple-ads-major-indie-exposure/#comments - Plans in place for a third Australian Apple Store
ifoAppleStore is reporting that plans are in place for a third Apple Store in Australia.
While construction on the Sydney store is underway and a Melbourne store is rumored to be planned for the Chadstone Shopping Centre, it looks like a third store will be build in Chatswood (north of Sydney).
Australia received a little attention from Apple earlier this year when iPhoto books, etc. became available for the first time.
If any of our friends in Australia snap a spy photo of these locations, please let us know!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/plans-in-place-for-a-third-australian-apple-store/#comments - Changing a Time Capsule's hard drive
Filed under: Hardware, How-tos
French Mac site HardMac has posted the step-by-step process of changing a Time Capsule's hard drive. Specifically, they swapped the original 500 GB Seagate SATA drive for a Western Digital 1 TB Green Power drive.
The actual removal of the existing drive won't be too tricky for people used to tinkering with hardware. In fact, the whole thing was simple. The Time Capsule immediately recognized the unformatted drive, formatted it and made it available to Time Machine.
They chose the Green Power drive because they're designed to use a varied rotation speed, based on demand so, it's much quieter than the original Seagate (according to HardMac).Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/changing-a-time-capsules-hard-drive/#comments - Reviewing the new MacBook Pro
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Portables, Macbook Pro
Blogger Shawn Blanc has written another one of his thorough reviews. This time, it's the new MacBook Pro.
The interesting thing is that he's using it to replace his Mac Pro. Most tech professionals have a primary machine (often a desktop) and a secondary (usually a laptop). After living with this setup for some time, Shawn noticed that the laptop had become his main machine:
"I don't need the Mac Pro. The loss in horsepower is negligible for what I do, and the gain in simplicity cannot be expressed with words. I'm selling the tower and going back to being a one-computer consumer, and connoisseur of fine laptops."
The same thing eventually happened to me. My MacBook Pro is the machine I use most often, and my iMac is the machine I use to sync my iPhone, make iTunes purchases and upload photos. Other than that, it pretty much just sits around.
Shawn goes on to describe setup, migration of his older data and (much, much) more. The whole thing is written in Shawn's comprehensive and readable style. Check it out.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/reviewing-the-new-macbook-pro/#comments - iPhone SDK: 100K downloads in 4 days
Filed under: Developer, iPhone
It's safe to say there's a lot of interest in the iPhone SDK. In the first four days since its release on March 6, the SDK has been downloaded 100,000 times. Also, the video of the press event at Apple.com has already been viewed more than 1,000,000 times.
That's a lot of interest in something that's only truly meaningful to one group of people - developers. But I see where the anticipation comes from.
As a consumer, I'm just as excited by this release. When I first started playing with the iPhone, I said that it feels like a computer that happens to make phone calls, not a phone with some additional features. The promise of great native applications by some of my favorite Mac developers reinforces that feeling.
The iPhone is quickly becoming my favorite Mac.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/iphone-sdk-100k-downloads-in-4-days/#comments - Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger
Filed under: Accessories, Portables
Obviously there's nothing exactly Mac specific about the Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger, but at the same time the promo picture (right) and the design cues make it clear that the boys at Belkin had the fairer platform in mind when they dreamed this one up. In any case, this stylish surge protector power strip looks like it would be right at home in any mobile Mac user's bag. It includes two powered USB ports for charging iPhones, iPods, and the like, as well as three AC outlets. Note that the USB ports are only for power, not data. I think I'll definitely be picking one up when it ships.
The Belkin Mini Surge Protector is "coming soon" for $24.99.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/belkin-mini-surge-protector-with-usb-charger/#comments - Michael Lopp on how Apple thinks different in design
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Cult of Mac, Apple
Over at Business Week, Helen Walters has an interesting summary of a presentation given by Michael Lopp at SXSW on Apple's design process. Lopp is a senior engineering manager at Apple and gives a sneak peek at the process that Apple uses to bring such great products to the market.
Particularly interesting to me is the idea of the paired design meetings. Evidently each team has two design meetings each week. At the first meeting they're invited to "go crazy" and be creative in coming up with unusual ideas and approaches, while at the second meeting they have to get down to brass tacks and figure out how to actually implement some of those crazy ideas. It sounds like a great way to foster creativity, but also to make sure that there's enough practicality that things actually get shipped. In any case, it's worth a read if you're intrigued by the Apple design process.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/michael-lopp-on-how-apple-thinks-different-in-design/#comments - iCopy brings rudimentary copy and paste to iPhone Safari
Filed under: iPhone
Everybody wants copy and paste on the iPhone, but this seemingly obvious computing functionality has been unaccountably missing since the iPhone shipped. Unlike the rest of us however, Preston Monroe decided to do something and produced iCopy, a javascript bookmarklet that lets you copy and paste text and URLs between browser windows in Mobile Safari and even email text or URLs. Basically it works by adding the selected text to a URL which is sent over the internet, so it's definitely not secure. But it nonetheless looks like it could be handy in a pinch.
iCopy is free and available from Preston's site.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/icopy-brings-rudimentary-copy-and-paste-to-iphone-safari/#comments - AppleScript language guide updated, finally!
Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple, Developer
Many people have criticized Apple for not updating their AppleScript language documentation regularly (myself included). Scoff no more, because Apple updated their documentation yesterday. The last update to the AppleScript language documentation was on May 5, 1999 -- almost 9 years ago.
For anyone who thought that Apple was abandoning AppleScript for other ways of automation (such as Automator), fear not. This shows that Apple is still committed to bringing custom automation/scripting to Mac OS X and the 21st Century.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/12/applescript-language-guide-updated-finally/#comments - iPhone parental controls?
Filed under: iPod Family, Portables, iPhone
The iPhone Dev Team seems to have stumbled across a hidden feature in the next version of the iPhone firmware. The picture is reminiscent of the iPhone SDK "Organizer" that shows the currently connected iPhone. However, something that's different from the screenshots that we posted is the "Console," "Crash Logs," and "Screenshot" tabs at the top of the window.
The screenshot shows a "Parental Controls" setting inside the "General" iPhone settings. It looks as though you can enable these parental controls and turn on or off:
- Playing explicit songs in iPod
- Website control in Safari
- YouTube control
- iTunes Wi-Fi Store control
- AppStore control
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/11/iphone-parental-controls/#comments - TSA works to clear MacBook Air for flight
Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple, MacBook Air
You may recall that MacBook Air user Michael Nygard was recently screened by the TSA (that's the Transportation Security Administration, to those who aren't in the US.) when he went through security with his MacBook Air. It would seem that the good folks manning the X-ray machine couldn't make heads or tail of what they saw on their screen. When Nygard explained that the MacBook Air was, in fact, a computer (and had that assertion backed up by a younger TSA worker) all was cleared up and he was sent on his merry way (though he did miss his flight).
The TSA is working hard to make sure you don't have to deal with this hassle. On the official TSA blog (yes, the TSA has a blog and it is pretty entertaining) Bob informs us now that he is working with Apple to get his hands on a MacBook Air (hey, Bob, just make sure you don't throw it out) for some testing. He wants to run it through one of their screening machines and see if it looks any different than normal laptops. If it does, in fact, look a little odd the image will be sent to all TSA workers in airports so that future travelers won't be bothered.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/11/tsa-works-to-clear-macbook-air-for-flight/#comments - Apple posts AirPort Base Station Update 2008-001
Filed under: Airport, Software Update
Fire up Software Update, kids, Apple has made available Airport Base Station Update 2008-001. This update includes 'general fixes and compatibility updates' for a host of Airport related apps, including:
- Airport Utility
- AirPort Disk Utility
- AirPort Base Station Agent
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http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/11/apple-posts-airport-base-station-update-2008-001/#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/2008/03/11/itunes-free-tuesday/#comments - Security Update for Office 2008 now available
Filed under: Software, Leopard
If you happen to use Microsoft Office 2008 as your office suite of choice, Microsoft has an update for you. This security update, which brings the suite to version 12.0.1, features "several changes that improve security, stability, and performance" and includes "fixes for users of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard." Sync behavior in Entourage and a file corruption bug in PowerPoint are among the areas of improvement.
The update also features "fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer's memory by using malicious code." That's good because we don't want that, do we?
To download this new update, head on over to the Microsoft Mac Business Unit site and go to the Downloads section. For a full explanation of what this update does, check out the Microsoft support article.
As with any update, be sure to let us know what happens if you decide to apply it.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/11/security-update-for-office-2008-now-available/#comments - Rogue Amoeba on code signing, iPhone SDK
Filed under: Developer, iPhone
Mike Ash at Rogue Amoeba has published his fairly extensive thoughts on Apple's code signing policies and plans, as well as how they relate to the iPhone SDK. He makes some solid points and elaborates on thoughts that are being bandied about elsewhere on the 'net. In his critique of some points in the iPhone SDK announcement, his concerns regarding the "banned" iPhone apps are quite valid, in my opinion. Out of the list of apps to be denied (illegal, malicious, unforeseen, privacy, porn and bandwidth hog), he picks out a couple that are of concern.
In regards to the issue of "porn", he notes that "...Apple is making moral judgements of the apps they sign." To me, it seems like Apple chose the safe option and just categorically denied materials that could sully their reputation, which I personally think was a good (if not obvious) choice. But the question arises, as it always does, about the definition of porn and obscenity... and who makes the call. Apple, as gatekeeper, gets to make those decisions for all of us. I can see some torrid debates arising in the future.
Also of particular (and potentially more controversial) concern is the category "unforeseen," which provides a fairly broad scope for Apple to add to the list later. Again, it's likely a smart decision on Apple's part and a good way of sealing off loopholes without making the list read like a legal contract (see "License Agreement"), but leaves open the option for some heavy-handed control over what you can put on your iPhone.
Of course, this initial list is incomplete, with restrictions outlined in the SDK license agreement (as pointed out in Rogue Amoeba's subsequent post). If you take an interest in this debate, be sure to check out Mike's post, "Code Signing and You."Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/11/rogue-amoeba-on-code-signing-iphone-sdk/#comments - MacBook Air, Mac Pro updates available
Filed under: Software Update, Mac Pro, MacBook Air
Also, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Firmware Update is available for the Mac Pro. The change this update offers is "system stability" according to Apple. How exciting.Who says this Tuesday arrived without updates? MacBook Air users can launch Software Update this morning and find SMC Update 1.0, which adjusts the use of the (very tiny) internal fan. If you've been having fan issues with your Air, let us know if this patch knocks them out.
As usual, we ask that you let us know if you have any trouble after applying these updates.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/03/11/macbook-air-mac-pro-updates-available/#comments - Apple to open first retail store in South Carolina?
Ever since the CompUSA closings, South Carolina has definitely been lacking as far as Apple retailers go. We're one of those states without an official Apple Store, until now. According to a local news source in Charleston, South Carolina, an Apple Store is in the works and the permit application has already been submitted. The store has been planned, and hiring has already begun, but everything else has been kept quiet. According to the job listing, the store will be located on King Street in the downtown area. I am sure that I speak for most Mac users in South Carolina when I say that this store has been long awaited and much appreciated.
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