Archives for July 2008

July, 11th July 2008

• iPhone 3G; Got one!

  Just in case you haven't already read enough accounts of people attempting to purchase an iPhone 3G today...here's mine. With…

July, 10th July 2008

• Fake Steve Jobs Sails into Sunset

  Dan Lyons, who has written the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs as the "Fake" Steve Jobs for the last two…

• MobileMe/.Mac Services Still Down

  Apple's new MobileMe Web service is down, with the company saying that transitioning from .Mac to MobileMe is taking longer…

• ATR: iPhone is an Open-ended Growth Story

  Analyst Shaw Wu with American Technology Research said on Tuesday that the Apple iPhone is an open-ended growth story. He…

July, 09th July 2008

• iPodObserver Spotlights App Store Apps

  With most of Thursday's news focusing on iPhone-related happenings, it seemed appropriate that we point you to iPodObserver.com, where we…

• Apple Rolls Out iPhone Configuration Utility

  Apple released iPhone Configuration Utility 1.0 and iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 on Thursday. The enterprise applications are designed to…

July, 08th July 2008

• Bringing the Mac to the Masses: Presenting To PC Users

  The Mac and Mac OS X are becoming more popular all the time, which means there are a growing number…

• PC World Finds Apple Laptops Cheaper Than PC Laptops

  If you want to compare apples to PCs, don't buy into the old hype that MacBooks and MacBook Pros cost…

• 24U Intros Phidgets Plug-In for FileMaker Pro

  24U announced the immediate availability of its Phidgets Plug-In 1.0 for FileMaker Pro on Wednesday. The plug-in lets FileMaker Pro…

• Big Blue Bubble Intros Home Sweet Home for the Mac

  Big Blue Bubbles announced the immediate availability of Home Sweet Home for the Mac on Wednesday. The game lets players…

• Why user interface design matters

  The difference between great vs. poor user interface design can be hard to quantify. Similar to the supposed difference between…

July, 07th July 2008

• Apple Trackpad Secrets and Technical History

  There are up to ten different trackpad functions, depending on the Apple notebook model, and not everyone is familiar with…

• Microsoft: We Have a Noisy Competitor

  Brad Brooks, Microsoft's VP of Vista consumer marketing, in a keynote address to to the annual Partner conference, admitted that…

• Columnist: Safari Security Fails to Learn from Past

  Three mistakes in the security design of Safari show that Apple has failed to learn from past mistakes, according to…

• FoneLink 2.1 Adds Support for More Cell Phones

  nova media announced the immediate availability of FoneLink 2.1 on Tuesday. The update for the cell phone syncing and dialing…

• Daylite 3.7.4 Adds iWork 08, Dialectic Integration

  Marketcircle, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Daylite version 3.7.4 with iWork '08 and Dialectic telephony integration. TMO contacted…

• Freeway 5.1.3 Adds Chinese Support

  Softpress announced the immediate availability Freeway Express and Freeway Pro 5.1.3 on Tuesday. The update for the Web site design…

• Microsoft Aligns with Icahn for Yahoo Takeover

  Microsoft is ready to revive its plan to purchase Yahoo!, but only after the Internet search company replaces its board…

July, 06th July 2008

• Axel Springer Switching 10,000 Employees to Mac

  Axel Springer AG, one of Europe's largest newspapers, is switching its entire publishing operation to Macs, according to Fortune. The…

• Yahoo! Still Working on AOL Deal

  The Internet search company Yahoo! is still working on putting together a deal that could see it merging with Time…

• Xupport 3.4.5 Improves Backup Options, More

  Applicorn Software has announced the immediate availability of Xupport 3.4.5. The update allows the user to add individual files and…

• Segway CTO Joining Apple

  Doug Field, the Chief Technology Officer at Segway will be leaving to join Apple, according to a post on the…

• Kasino 2 Adds Online Gaming Support

  baKno announced the immediate availability of Kasino 2.0 on Monday. The new version of the cards simulation game added the…

• BMO Capital Forecasts 2.4M+ Macs For the Quarter

  BMO Capital analyst Keith Bachmann has raised his earnings estimate for AAPL from US$6.21/share to $6.36/share for FY2009 based on…

July, 03rd July 2008

• Happy Fourth of July!

  In honor of Independence Day -- a U.S. holiday -- The Mac Observer will not publish on July 4th. We…

July, 02nd July 2008

• Apple Slashes $400 from SSD Drive in MacBook Air

  Apple has reduced the Solid State Drive (SSD) option on the MacBook Air from US$999 to US$599 just in time…

• It’s Official - Firefox Sets Guinness Record for Downloads

  Mozilla announced on Wednesday that it set a new Guinness World Record with 8,002,530 downloads in the first 24 hours…

• Apple Files Patent for a Multi-touch Gesture Language

  Apple has filed a patent for a "Multi-touch Gesture Dictionary." The patent introduces the notion of chords. The patent suggests…

• WSJ: Tips for Switching from Windows to Mac

  Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal has posted some tips for users on Thursday who've already decided to make…

• YouTube Ordered to Turn Over All User Records to Viacom

  YouTube users may have lost some of their privacy now that a judge has ordered its parent company Google to…

• .Mac Bookmark Sync Deadline Extended to July 6

  Apple has extended the deadline for .Mac subscribers to synchronize their Bookmarks to July 6, giving users a few extra…

• Adobe Reader 9 Hits the Streets

  Adobe completed its Acrobat 9 transition with the release of Adobe Reader 9 late on Wednesday. The free PDF viewer…

• Mac’s Market Share and the Cascade Failure of Windows

  Apple enthusiasts were delighted this week to hear that the market share of Mac OS X had leaped from about…

July, 01st July 2008

• Microsoft Offers iPod Prizes for Search in Australia

  Microsoft is offering iPod nanos, shuffles, and touches as prizes to promote their Live Search in Australia, according to the…

• Playwatch 1.2 Updates Cover Art View, More

  AQUARIUS software announced the immediate availability of Playwatch 1.2 on Wednesday. The update for the iTunes controller application enhanced Cover…

• PDF Now an ISO Standard

  Adobe's PDF, or Portable Document Format, has moved beyond its ubiquitous status and is now also an ISO standard. The…

• Microsoft Looking for Partners for Yahoo Buyout

  Apparently Microsoft isn't ready to throw in the towel yet and is now looking for partners to team up with…

• Remote Desktop Connection 2.0 Hits the Streets

  After beta testing for more than a year, Microsoft finally released Remote Desktop Connection Client 2.0 for the Mac on…

• Jobs, Apple Execs Hit with Fraud Suit

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs along with current and former board members have been slapped with a class action law suit…

• Adobe Improving Flash Web Search Support

  Flash-based content has historically been difficult for Web-based search engines to index, but Adobe is hoping to change that by…

• Apple Weekly Report #128: Lawsuits, Diablo & iPhones

  Blizzard announced Diablo III, Apple kind of updated Leopard again, Apple's lawsuit express pulled into the station, and the Mac…