Mac OS 10.7 Lion to not support some 2006 machines
I just read a headline that gave me the shivers. “Mac OS X Lion Preview: New features, orphans first-gen Intel machines“ When I first read this, I had a sinking feeling that my two Mac’s (MacBook 1st gen and Mac Pro 1st gen) would not support the new OS X Lion. Fortunately, reading the linked [...]
iPad mute switch may have a setting in the Settings app
Apparently all the complaints from users of Apple’s iPad about Apple’s decision to change the “Orientation Lock” switch to a “Mute” switch has been heard by Apple and in the latest beta of iOS 4.3b, they have added a Settings entry to let the user decide if the switch will be an Orientation Lock or [...]
The Mac App Store is Now Live
So, yay, the Mac App Store is now live. I’ve only been playing with it for a little while, but a couple of things jumped out. First, why is it a separate application and not part of iTunes? My first thought was to prevent Windows users from trying to buy applications from the Mac App [...]
Hargrove’s App picks for 2010
Here is the Angry Birds interview we discussed during the show. And here are my picks for 2010. iPad Game Pinball HD – I don’t play many games on the iPad but when I do, this is it. It’s fast and furious fun, although The Deep is the only table that really impresses me. The [...]
Tons of new Mac news
Apple announced a bunch of new stuff for the Macintosh. I must say it’s about time. Apple has spent a large amount of time on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad these last 3+ years, they have devoted a very large amount of their programming resources on iOS, and in all fairness, they needed to [...]
Apple finally approves Google Voice app
After many months (hasn’t it been like 18), Apple finally approved Google Voice. Google’s application for the iPhone to access it’s Voice service. It will be appearing in the App Store just as soon as Google updates it for iOS 4 multitasking, the iPhone 4′s Retina display and other minor changes. So after Apple publishes [...]
Ping: Advertising Shill
As someone who frigging loves music, I was (overly) excited by Apple’s Ping announcement, their foray into music social networking. With 160M registered credit cards all set to 1-click purchase, that’s an impressive base for starting a social networking site. Sure, most people won’t give a shit, but out of 160M people, even if only [...]
PDF Security hole allows jailbreakme.com to work
Update (2:30PM): Apple says it is investigating… Good idea Apple! Thanks to an unpatched hole in Adobe’s PDF file format, the jailbreaking community has been given a gift. Super easy jailbreaking. Just point your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad’s Mobile Safari to jailbreakme.com, slide the “Slide to jailbreak” slider and in less than 5 minutes, your device is [...]
App Store Apps just as vulnerable as Android apps
The biggest hacker convention of the season called “Black Hat Technical Security Conference” has come and gone and some interesting facts have bubbled to the surface. A mobile security company called “Lookout” has started a little project they call the “App Genome Project“. The App Genome Project was created to identify security threats in the [...]
Of Mice and Magic
Following up on Dave’s post about the new Magic Trackpad, Minimal Mac has a great post, Of Mice and Magic where Patrick Rhone notes: Let’s do some theorizing on that magic for a bit. You may see a revolutionary mouse and trackpad. I see something far larger and more subversive… Apple is rewiring our brains [...]
