TagsTagsI guess everyone knew this was coming when Steve Jobs had to step down as head of Apple. The sad announcement arrived tonight that Jobs has died at the age of 56.
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Just received an AP news alert on the iPhone: Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple, effective immediately. And there's already a replacement: Apple’s COO Tim Cook.
MacWorld has a live feed from Apple's WWDC keynote address; some pretty cool software announcements coming today, including iCloud and the new version of Mac OS, dubbed "Lion:" Live Update: WWDC keynote address.
Engadget has hundreds of photos from today's iPad 2 launch: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event. It strikes me as more of an evolutionary upgrade than a big leap into gadgetry unknown, but there are some very cool new features -- like the HD video camera (although it's got to be ...
PBS recently launched a great new iPhone app (also available for iPad) that lets you watch full-length episodes, segments, and previews of upcoming shows. Many of PBS's top programs are available, including Nova, Austin City Limits, Frontline, and PBS NewsHour, as well as original online programming from Nova ScienceNOW and ...
An iPhone/iPad app that let users browse the content on the Wikileaks website and follow the @wikileaks Twitter account has been removed from Apple's iTunes Store. Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said the company had removed the app “because it violated our developer guidelines.” Ms. Muller added: “Apps must comply ...
It looks like the Two Apples have finally achieved something that's been a thorny problem for many years -- according to the Wall Street Journal's Ethan Smith, they've reached an agreement to sell the Beatles catalog through iTunes. Apple Computers and Apple Records, together at last. And just in time for ...
An awesome iPhone hack that I'm definitely going to try, via Gizmodo: How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $10. These odd images were all taken using an iPhone cleverly equipped with a 45x microscope. The best part though? You can add such an upgrade to your ...
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Steve Jobs is hosting an Apple "special event" to announce some cool new stuff, including iOS 4.1, which will feature automatic High Dynamic Range photography for the iPhone 4 (I can't wait to try this). The event is streaming live at the Apple website here: Apple Special Event September 2010. ...
Since all bloggers are required by law to post about it when they acquire some cool new technoid gadget, today my iPhone 4 was delivered unto me -- and yes, it really is a big improvement. I'm glad I skipped the 3GS model and waited for this one. First thing that ...
Apple’s Steve Jobs announced today that they will provide free cases for iPhone 4 owners to address the antenna signal problem that caused a slip in Apple’s stock price this week, after a negative review in Consumer Reports. MacRumors has an interesting interview with Jobs about this and other topics: ...
Today Amazon slashed the price of their excellent Kindle wireless ebook reader by $70 (from $259 to $189), as they play for keeps in a price war with the Barnes and Noble Nook, just reduced from $259 to $199 (3G version). (They’re both probably feeling some heat from the Apple ...
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One Mac utility that has maintained its incredible quality for many years, through many different revisions of the Mac OS, is Alsoft’s DiskWarrior 4. And I want to give them a big plug right now, because once again DiskWarrior has resurrected a startup disk that lost its startup. This morning I ...
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Today I’ll be watching the Lakers-Celtics game with my new Elgato EyeTV HD DVR for HD cable and satellite TV. I’ve had an EyeTV 200 connected to my Mac Pro desktop computer for years; it does a decent job with standard cable television (although the Firewire 400 connection gets a ...
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As an iPhone geek, I’m suffering today from serious gadget lust. Here’s Apple’s promotional video for the newly announced iPhone 4. [Video]
The iPhone OS 4 event held this morning had some fantastic news for iPhone owners (which includes me), with a host of great new features including the big one: true multitasking. Apps running in the background will be able to use system calls to provide multitasking services, avoiding the performance ...
Here’s an interesting article at MacWorld on the Apple A4 microprocessor, the CPU for the iPad and the first Apple-branded system-on-a-chip: Apple inside: the significance of the iPad’s A4 chip. With the A4, Apple still maintains its long-standing relationship with ARM while delivering on performance, with a design that no ...
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TidBITS has an interesting overview of the features of Apple’s new iPad device: Hands-on Impressions of the iPad.
The technoidosphere is buzzing about the fact that Apple’s new iPad doesn’t support Flash. Adobe, being the maker of Flash, is unhappy about this; so unhappy that yesterday they played the porn card.
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Apple’s new tablet computer, dubbed the iPad, was announced today; the device looks like an oversized iPhone or iPod Touch, runs iPhone Apps, and will be shipping later this year. It weighs 1.5 pounds and has a 9.7 inch display, Bluetooth, 802.11n wireless, a battery life of up to 10 ...
So I have this Mac Pro desktop machine, that I got in April 2008: the 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Xeon model. When Amazon delivered it into my eager hands and I first powered it up, it was almost totally silent. It was excellent for recording, video-making, anything that required a quiet ...
Don’t you hate it when you turn on your monitor and nothing happens? The 30” display for my Mac Pro desktop machine simply failed to light up this morning. No power light, USB ports don’t work, screen dark. I have two monitors, so I swapped the cables into the video ...
The curvaceous top of the mouse is a multi-touch surface.Apple’s new Magic Mouse is a very nice mousie indeed. No obvious buttons, no scroll wheel, just a sleek multi-touch surface and some groovy new software that lets you scroll with momentum — similar to the way scrolling works on an ...
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Took the plunge and installed the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, and it went off without a hitch. I had to upgrade three utilities to the latest versions: Snapz Pro X, Default Folder X, and Little Snitch. Apart from that, everything seems to be working beautifully. Yes, I ...
TidBITS has a couple of good articles on the new features — some of them hidden — in the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard: What’s New in Snow Leopard More Hidden Refinements in Snow Leopard