Come See Our New Creation Event – Jan 27th
I have purposely steered away from all the rumouring around Apples forthcoming announcement mainly due to the sheer volume of posts everywhere else, but today the rumours have gone some way to being confirmed after Apple sent out invites to an event on Jan 27th ( just 9 days away from today ).
The tagline of “Come see our latest creation” doesn’t really confirm the nature of the event but it is clear that the industry is very much behind the view that this one will finally, after a number of false starts, be the event where Apple show us what they think a tablet computer should look like.
Pastebot Supercharges iPhone Copy and Paste
Pastebot from Tapbots is a powerful and flexible clipboard manager for the iPhone that makes copying and pasting images and text between apps straightforward. Clippings are stored in a set of folders which can be kept indefinitely and which can be searched and retrieved very easily.
Images can be edited/cropped etc using the built in editing tools then either saved in clipboard, stored in the Photo library or emailed out.
Facecall for iPhone
Facecall for iPhone is a clever app that uses Web clips to create an icon on your iPhone home screen that when launched will quick dial a selected entry in your address book. The icon defaults to the contact image from your address book but you can replace this with a picture from your photo library or snap an image using the iPhones camera if you prefer. The images can be adjusted before saving to ensure the person is easily recognisable.
You can create as many of these dialer icons as you wish effectively creating a quick dial contacts page on your iPhone.
Apple Blogs : Macgasm.net
Macgasm.net is a rapidly developing blog for Mac and Apple enthusiasts run by Joshua Schnell ( @macgasm ) and is supported by a growing number of guest contributors.
Apart from daily news and reviews Josh and Grant Brunner also record regular audio podcasts which are available on iTunes, there are occasional screencasts providing step through instructions and howtos and recently Josh has announced plans to begin a video podcast.
NHSMail Now Available In Snow Leopard Mail App
Like many Mac using NHS Staff I was excited then quickly disappointed to discover that the new Exchange 2007 compatibility did not extend as far as allowing me to access my NHSMail email account at home. When trying to configure Mail to connect to the NHS Email service over the Internet the connection would fail during initial setup. This turned out to be due to a compatibility issue with the patch level on the NHS Mail servers and Mail app which interestingly did not affect connections from Macs on N3 ( the NHS Private network )
Thankfully with the release of 10.6.2 this issue has now been resolved and NHSMail is now fully accessible through Mail as well as via your iPhone.
Restore Copy Address Behaviour To Normality In Snow Leopard
Posted by Scott in Hints And Tips on November 16, 2009
You may have noticed that when copying an email address in Mail on Snow Leopard that the default format when you paste it back into another application has changed and now appears as :-
Firstname Surname <firstname@domain.com>
New iMacs and Magic Mouse Trump Windows 7 Launch
In an expceptionally shrewd move Apple today launched a raft of new kit only 2 days before Microsofts release of Windows 7 including new iMacs, a new entry level Macbook, a new multi-touch wireless mouse and redesigned Mac Mini’s including one with Snow Leopard server !
Of most interest to the majority of people will be the Magic Mouse and the astounding new 27″ LED iMac. The Magic Mouse extends Apples multi-touch technology to the mouse, disposing of the roller ball for scrolling in favour of a mouse surface that is a multi-touch trackpad able to respond to most of the gestures possible on the MacBooks trackpad. Mac haters will no doubt love the fact that the device still sports no obvious buttons and will no doubt gloat over the apparent inability of the mouse to allow right mouse clicks, everyone else will quietly configure it to work exactly how they wish and revel in the usual Apple design beauty. Of course even amongst Mac fans the mouse has traditionally been something you either love or hate but personally I think this latest revision looks stunning and sets off the look of the iMac to perfection.
iPhone App(s) of the day.
Having recently ( finally ) joined the ranks of the iPhone owning faithful I emailed a couple of friends who also have iPhones to ask what their iPhone app of the day was. Interestingly the responses I got ran into mini reviews so I have decided to reproduce them here for your reading pleasure. Thanks John and Debbie, hope this is ok with you !
John’s iPhone App of the day – Tap Tap Revenge 3
Snow Leopard Guest Account Bug – Hype or Real ?
Posted by Scott in Apple, Rumours, Snow Leopard on October 12, 2009
A number of reports have been circulating today about reports of a significant flaw in Snow Leopard that can cause loss of ALL data in your home folder. According to articles at NeoWin.net and Engadget this bug is triggered when you login using the Guest account and leads to ALL data in the Home folder of the normal user being completely erased. Recovery from backup is required as the files are apparently not recoverable.
Clearly I am not about to test out the premise but from what I can determine this issue is rare. The Apple support forum has a thread where a small number of posters are reporting this issue but it does not appear to be wide spread. Oddly all affected users claim to have selected the Guest account “by accident” ! How do you do this ? The Guest account is disabled by default. How many Mac users actually enable the Guest account ? I have certainly never felt the need to do this, if someone wants to check something on my Mac I let them use the account that is logged in. Perhaps I am more trusting than most ?
Live Blog Frenzy Starts Tonight At 6pm ( UK )
Apples annual September product event starts this evening at 6pm GMT and as usual the big Apple blogs will be posting the event live from within the hall.
9 to 5 Mac have their LivePanel up and ready to roll, Ars Technica will be posting here. There will of course be many other blogs re-playing the event either in real time or shortly after the fact.