Archives for June 2012

June, 19th June 2012

• WWDC: Max Seelemann - If I’d Stayed in School, I’d Die

  A decade ago, Max Seeleman was a youngster in school when he launched the Ulysses writer’s tool and The Soulmen.…

• Jeff Gamet Dives into Cloud Services at Denver Apple Pi

  Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer’s managing editor, will be speaking at the Denver Apple Pi User Group meeting on Tuesday,…

• Reader Reaction: Microsoft’s Surface Tablet

  Microsoft showed off its unreleased Surface tablet during a media event Monday afternoon with the promise that it would be…

• Bento 4 for iPad Adds Database Design, More

  Filemaker announced the immediate availability of Bento 4 for the iPad on Tuesday. The new version of the database app…

• Apple Highlights Retina Display in New iPad Ad

  Apple aired a new iPad commercial Tuesday evening that highlighted the third generation model’s high-resolution retina display, and also showed…

• Apple Re-releases Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter Update

  Apple released Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2 last week when it rolled out new MacBook Pro models, but quickly pulled the…

June, 18th June 2012

• Microsoft Announces “Surface” Windows 8 Tablet

  Microsoft ended hours of speculation Monday by announcing Surface by Microsoft, new Windows 8 tablets the company will develop and…

• Senator Asks Apple & Google for Privacy Priority in Maps

  Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) sent an open letter to Apple and Google to demonstrate their commitment to privacy and security…

• Analyst: Apple Poised To Be Most Profitable Company Ever

  Apple is, “poised to be the most profitable company ever,” according to Topeka Capital analyst Brian White. The analyst told…

• WWDC: Working for Apple Wasn’t Enough: Mike Bombich

  At WWDC, TMO’s Dave Hamilton met with Mike Bombich, author of Carbon Copy Cloner for OS X. Mr. Bombich left…

• Ted Landau Talks iOS-ification at DVMUG on Tuesday

  The Mac Observer’s Ted Landau will be speaking at Diablo Valley Mac User Group (DVMUG) on Tuesday. His chief topic…

• Mozilla Ready to Bring Firefox to the iPad

  Mozilla is ready to make the jump to Apple’s iPad, and is working on what the group said will make…

• iAd Exec Mike Owen Moves to AdColony

  Mike Owen, a former executive at Apple, has a new job as the chief revenue officer for the mobile video…

• Reader Discussion: iPhone, Android & Smartphone Marketshare

  Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform both hold a significant marketshare and today TMO readers are talking about how analysts…

• Microsoft Expected to Unveil iPad Competitor Monday

  Microsoft is apparently ready to toss its hat into the tablet device ring by building its own device designed to…

• Apple to Roll Out Podcasts App in iOS 6

  Apple will apparently make it easier to find and listen to podcasts when iOS 6 ships this fall thanks to…

• Apple Pushes New Back to School Deals

  Apple began hyping its back to school promotion over the weekend with an email campaign highlighting deals for the college-bound…

June, 16th June 2012

• MacOS KenDensed: WWDC 2012 Techno-palooza

  Just in case you hadn’t heard, Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference was this week, and the company dropped a new…

June, 15th June 2012

• iPad Owns 91% of Tablet Web Traffic; Nook Passes Kindle Fire

  Ad network firm Chitika released a new report this week with two interesting tidbits: the first is that the iPad…

• Apple I Computer Sells for $374,500, Jobs Memo for $27,500

  Sotheby’s announced on Friday that an Apple I computer up for auction sold for US$374,500, a record price for the…

• Post WWDC: Flying Supersonic with the Gear Down

  WWDC propels us forward and reminds us what Apple and the developers will be up to for the next year.…

• Court Grants Apple & Moto an Injunction Hearing

  It’s back on: Judge Richard Posner announced on Thursday that Apple and Motorola Mobility would be allowed present their arguments…

• John Martellaro Discusses WWDC Keynote on Tech Night Owl

  John Martellaro, Senior Editor, Analysis & Reviews for The Mac Observer will chat with Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night…

• ThankYouPro App Creates & Mails Elegant Cards

  ThankYouPro is a new app that allows you to create elegant “thank you” or invitation cards on your iPhone, iPod…

• WWDC: FadingRed Finds Opportunity in Bad Backup Habits

  At WWDC, Brittany Tarvin, co-founder of FadingRed, told TMO’s Dave Hamilton the story of how she came to quit her…

• Reader Discussion: Hello Apple Maps, Goodbye Google

  Apple is turning away from Google’s technology for the iPhone and iPad Maps app when iOS 6 ships later this…

• Apple Sued After Time Capsule Failure Leads to Lost Data

  Apple is facing a lawsuit in Canada after a Time Capsule wireless data backup system failed and lost a year’s…

• Microsoft to Introduce its Own iPad Competitor

  Microsoft is apparently ready to toss its hat into the tablet device ring by building its own device designed to…

• Mac OS X: Using Address Book’s Notes

  Even if you use Address Book on your Mac or iOS device frequently, you may not know how simple it…

June, 14th June 2012

• WWDC: Boosting Our Interaction with Music: Shazam

  In this WWDC developer interview, TMO’s Dave Hamilton sat down with Jason Titus of Shazam. They chatted about the all…

• Epic Rap Battles Pits Steve Jobs Against Bill Gates

  The folks behind Epic Rap Battles of History have published a new music video, Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. The…

• Propellerhead Adds Third Party Rack Essentials with Reason 6.5

  Propellerhead released on Thursday Reason 6.5, an update to the company’s sequencing software for the Mac that opens up Reason’s…

• WWDC: The Evolution & Struggles of a Small Developer: Ecamm Network

  Once again this year, TMO’s Dave Hamilton is at WWDC in San Francisco interviewing Apple developers. In this interview, Mr.…

• In Search of New Website Tools to Replace iWeb, Part II

  Apple is terminating the MobileMe web hosting service as of June 30, 2012. That means that users who hosted their…

• iPhone Dev-Team Jailbreaks iOS 6 Beta

  iOS 6 was officially introduced on Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and is only available to developers as a…

• Time Gets Onboard with Newsstand

  Time has apparently worked out its differences with Apple because the publisher began offering its magazine titles through the iPad’s…

• Skype Update Adds Mountain Lion Support

  Skype announced the immediate availability of Skype 5.8 for the Mac on Thursday. The update for the online chat application…

• HTC Drops ITC iPhone Patent Infringement Appeal

  HTC is giving up on an appeal in a U.S. International Trade Commission appeal on a ruling that said Apple’s…

• Judge: No Injunction for Samsung Galaxy SIII

  Apple’s efforts to block the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy SIII in the United States fell apart this week when Judge…

June, 13th June 2012

• MGG 402: Geeks Gabbing for 7 Years

  Today marks seven years of Mac Geek Gab episodes being produced, and John and Dave synced up to do this…

• Apple Updates Software for MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)

  Apple released MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) Software Update 1.0 this week. These are the updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro…

• Apple Updates Trackpad for MacBook Pro with Retina Display

  Apple released MacBook Pro (Retina) Trackpad Update 1.0 on Tuesday—as the name suggests, it’s an update for trackpads on Apple’s…

• Apple Releases Same-Day Java Update for Snow Leopard, Lion

  Apple released Java updates for Lion and Snow Leopard Tuesday—notably, the updates were released the same day that Oracle patched…

• 6 Ways to Outsmart Apple’s iOS-ification

  It’s very clear now that, on the Mac, Apple is departing from the traditional way of interacting with a UNIX…

• iFixit Looks Inside Retina Display MacBook Pro

  Apple’s new MacBook Pro with retina display is only two days old, but iFixit has already managed to get ahold…

• Waze Gets in on Apple Maps Fun

  Apple is dumping Google Maps when iOS 6 launches this fall, and the company’s own mapping system will rely on…

• Reader Discussion: Predicting the Mac’s Road Map

  Apple just released the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, bumped up the specs on the Unibody MacBook Pro, and updated…

• Tim Cook: New Mac Pros are Coming

  Following the Mac Pro update on Monday that almost felt like a non-update, Apple told David Pogue from the New…

• Apple Intros First Retina MacBook Pro Commercial

  Apple aired its first commercial showing off the new MacBook Pro with retina display Tuesday evening. The commercial highlights the…

• Ping Reportedly Out with Next Version of iTunes

  Ping, Apple’s social network for music, will reportedly be gone this fall when the next major upgrade of iTunes is…