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Snow Leopard System Disc Shipped In Error
Posted by Scott in Apple, Headline, Rumours, Snow Leopard on August 23, 2009
According to a number of reports including this one at Macrumors.com a customer in Japan received an unexpected surprise when he opened his newly purchased Mac Mini as the enclosed OS X Install DVD apparently was for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Whether this is a hoax or true is unclear but from the number of rumours spreading over the last week or so it is fairly clear that the launch date for Apples latest big cat is very close now.
10 Free Mac Inspired Wordpress Themes
The chances are that if you are setting up a Wordpress blog about Apple, OS X, Macs or anything else that originates in Cupertino that you will have at some stage Googled “free mac wordpress themes” or something similar.
There are many Mac and Apple themed themes although many sites seem to use the same one or two themes.
Safari 4 Beta Released for Mac and Windows
The big news of the day ( well the month really ) is todays release of Safari 4. The release is actually a Beta so not currently included in Software Updates and has to be downloaded separately from this link. The download includes an installer package and an uninstaller package ( just in case ). The installer replaces the current Safari install so this isn’t something you can try alongside your working setup and as such some people may shy away for a while until the more adventurous types have given it a run in.
Having said that the initial reported impressions appear to be good, certainly Twitter has been buzzing with conversations throughout the day and as yet the only negative comments seem to be revolving around the decision to move the Tab bar to the top of the window ( ala Googles Chrome ). Some seem to like this whilst others are shouting heresy from the roof tops. Personally I think it is fine and certainly will enable a slighter larger browser window on machines with more restricted pixel counts ( Macbooks for example ).
How To Geotag Your Photos Ready For iPhoto 09
The recently announced update to iLife includes a number of really desirable new features, not least of which is the iPhoto function called Places. If you missed the KeyNote you can see a demo of Places at http://www.apple.com/ilife but basically it is a very cool way of browsing your photo library using Google Maps. Of course this is dependant on iPhoto knowing where you were when each photo was taken. This won’t be an issue for iPhone users as photos taken on Apples phone are automatically tagged with the location courtesy of the built in GPS receiver. A number of other mobile phones will also do this as well as a small number of consumer digital cameras, however if your camera is not state of the art you are left with the task of manually tagging photos to get the benefit of this new feature. This might not be to hard for the odd photo, but if you are about to embark on a trip and intend to take many hundreds of photos then it could be quite a major undertaking when you return home.
Well there may be an answer for you which if you already have a phone with a built in GPS such as a Blackberry in the shape of two applications, the first being a free GPS Tracker for Blackberry and a small number of Nokia handsets called bbTracker and the second a free OS X application called GPSPhotoLinker.
What’s Wrong With This Picture ?
Do you think if he could Steve Jobs would have the cable in the new Cinema Display photo air-brushed out ? It must be a real source of angst for SJ that there are still some parts of the computer that you cannot get rid of, like power leads and video connection cables…. But you can bet the engineers at Cupertino are working on this…
In reality the day is probably fast approaching when cables will become a relic of the early days of electronics, wireless power has been the goal of many teams of physicists and engineers around the world for years, and has been demonstrated in actual products on a limited scale on an increasingly regular basis over the last couple of years. It goes without saying I think that Apple will be watching developments in this area with keen interest, that is if they are not engaged in developments of their own.
The Spotlight Turns To Notebooks – 14th October
Apple have today sent invites to selected journalists inviting them to a special event next Tuesday 14th October. The invites read “the spotlight turns to notebooks” in an unusually direct manner for Apple, whose events are generally entitled with thinly veiled hints at the actual subject of the day.
Still, this event has long been expected to revolve around new notebook announcements and this is one Apple blog that is actually hoping for return to previous “And One More Thing” style launches, having been more than a little deflated after the last couple of Steve Notes.
Download TV From BBC iPlayer On Your Mac
Posted by Scott in Apple, Entertainment, Headline, Hints And Tips on October 8, 2008
So far the BBC have failed to deliver on their promise to produce an OSX and Linux application for downloading content from their online TV site ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer ), so non-Windows users have to settle for live streaming in a web browser. Whilst this works fine it does mean that you need to have a reasonable broadband link AND be restricted to watching the limited amount of content that is available through the site ( shows are automatically removed after a few days ).
One developer, Paul Battley from London, has come up with a neat solution to this problem though. When the BBC launched the iPlayer for iPhone site they had to provide a way of displaying videos on a device that did not have Adobes Flash Player, and so re-encoded the videos into MP4 files for display on the Jesus Phone. Paul used this site to create a small Ruby script that allows you to download the iPod playable videos and save them to your computer.
New iPod Touch Not Charging With Speaker Docks ?
Posted by Scott in Headline, iPod/iTunes on September 22, 2008
Did anyone else miss the bit in Steve Jobs announcement of the new second Gen iPod Touch where he explained that the new Touch would be incompatible with large numbers of third party speaker docks, including premiere devices such as the Bose Sounddock ?
You did ? So it wasn’t just me then ? To be honest I am astounded that this fact seems to have largely escaped the Apple blog network and the mainstream gadget press, because personally I think this is a REALLY big deal ! The Apple Support Forum has a long thread where many disgruntled customers are venting their displeasure after spending a lot of money on second generation iPod Touch and Bose speaker combos only to find that when they plug in the iPod they are greeted with the message “CHARGING IS NOT SUPPORTED WITH THIS ACCESSORY” !
iPod Touch Firmware 2.1 Frustrations
Posted by Scott in Apple, Headline, iPod/iTunes on September 11, 2008
It is fairly clear by now that there are an awful lot of issues with the latest firmware for the iPod Touch. The Discussion forum on Apple.com are alive with threads from disgruntled Touch owners feeling the pain of being an early adopter.
Personally my Touch has a number of issues at the moment and more are coming to light as I use it. The first problem I hit was with the iPod dock in my car ( a new Honda Civic ). This works by emulating a CD auto-changer, with the virtual disks being represented by playlists named Honda1, Honda2 etc on the iPod. Unfortunately since the upgrade the skip to next/previous disk buttons on my stereo now cause the iPod to effectively disconnect meaning I cant use the car dash to control playback, which is a royal pain.
iPod Touch and iPhone Slow Synching Problem Fixed
Posted by Scott in Headline, Hints And Tips, iPhone, iPod/iTunes on September 4, 2008
Since upgrading to the iPod 2.0 firmware and beginning to install Apps from the App Store synching on my iPod Touch has gotten slower and slower. The performance was so bad I was setting off a sync and going to bed !
There had to be something wrong and looking around the forums I found a number of others reporting similar problems but none of the suggested solutions appeared to work. These ranged from removing all the installed apps, then reinstalling one by one to a range of what appeared to be mumbo jumbo approaches. Suffice to say I either didn’t try them or they didn’t work. Then the other night I noticed one comment in a thread ( which I can’t now recall ) that mentioned USB hubs possibly being at fault.
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