Posted on March 4th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
We’ve been pretty slow on keeping you all up-to-date recently, so a quick apology for that. There are some big things in the works for later on this year and I’m working hard to get these new features up-and-running. Now back to the news:
Apple updated its desktop line today, bring hardware updates to the Mac [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple released a beta version of Safari 4 today, with new features grabbed from Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers. Taken from Chrome include moving tabs above the address bar, adding a top sites page, among other speed based improvements. From Firefox: the address bar now grabs from history and bookmarks and displays the most [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
The next generation iPhone will have a matte-black metal finish according to some recent leaked photos. Do we trust those recent leaked photos? Not really. Sure, we’re not gonna immediately deny these photos’ legitimacy, but a big signal that these are fake: the case uses metal. Why would we immediately say metal means its not [...]
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Posted on February 7th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
You may have heard this story earlier today: Apple has banned Facebook from Apple Retail stores just as it did MySpace in 2007, according to tinyComb. Well, false alarm everybody, an Apple Rep. has confirmed to CNET that the move is not nationwide and is in fact dependent on specific store’s policies. As almost anyone [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple pumped out a 246MB iPhone (and iPod touch) software update this morning, making the current version now 2.2.1. The firmware fixes stability issues in Safari and an issue with saving photos from Mail to the camera roll. Just plug your iPhone or iPod touch in and click “Check for Update” in iTunes. Happy updating!
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple finally made iLife ‘09 available today and of course, being out for less than 12 hours, a version of the application suite has been leaked to torrent sites for download. The version, however, is plagued with a virus infecting the core of your Mac. Very similarly, iWork ‘09 was made available via torrents starting [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple announced record sales figures for Mac and iPod for the first quarter of 2009 in today’s conference call. However, iPhone sales were down over 2 million from last quarter, yet the drop was expected. Other notes of interest for the quarter include making over $10 billion in revenue for the first time ever and [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
After months of rumors, confusion, and worries about the health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Jobs sent a letter to Apple employees today to announce he will be taking a leave of absence from the company to focus on his health without distractions from the media. Jobs published a letter last Monday stating he had [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
Our blargKABOOM coverage of MacWorld ‘09, Apple’s final MacWorld year at the event, wasn’t too extravagant. In fact, it was pretty slim. This post is our way of making up for it. Today’s keynote, or Philnote (Phil Schiller delivered the keynote instead of CEO Steve Jobs), wasn’t that exciting. Schiller announced upgrades to iLife and iWork, [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Jonathan Friedman
Macworld is tomorrow everybody! Get ready for the crowd of tech reporters, product vendors, and practically everything else Mac. Yet, unlike any other year, Phil Schiller will be running tomorrow’s show. No, Steve Jobs will be a no-show (at least for the bulk of the Keynote). What will Schiller do, say, or announce? Well rumors [...]
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