http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:05:21 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21719/Steve_Jobs_Liver_Transplant_Apple_Should_ve_Told_Shareholders/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21719/Steve_Jobs_Liver_Transplant_Apple_Should_ve_Told_Shareholders/ I'm sorry, but I can't get around it any more. Over the weekend, we had a story in the reputable Wall Street Journal that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago in a hospital in Tennessee. This story got all over the Apple media - obviously - and was later confirmed by the hospital in question. All the usual questions arose about privacy, Warren Buffet had a remark about it, and so on. Let's get all these stories out of the way in one go. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:45:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 52 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 Editorial http://www.osnews.com/story/21707/Apple_Sells_1_Million_iPhone_3G_Ss_in_First_Three_Days/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21707/Apple_Sells_1_Million_iPhone_3G_Ss_in_First_Three_Days/ Apple has issued a statement in which is said it has sold over 1 million iPhones during the first three days of the device being on sale. "Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning," said Steve Jobs, "With over 50,000 applications available from Apple's revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever." In addition, version 3.0 of the iPhone has been downloaded 6 million times. This also happens to be the first careful official word from Jobs since he took medical leave earlier this year. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:43:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21688/iPhone_OS_3_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21688/iPhone_OS_3_0_Released/ Today, Apple officially released version 3.0 of its iPhone operating system, a Mac OS X derivative for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It comes packed with a whole boatload of improvements and changes, so it's sure worth it to upgrade your iPhone or Touch. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News REM2000 http://www.osnews.com/story/21678/WWDC_A_Giant_Middle_Finger_to_iPhone_Developers_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21678/WWDC_A_Giant_Middle_Finger_to_iPhone_Developers_/ During last week's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced a new iPhone model, the iPhone 3GS, which comes, among other things, with a faster processor and more RAM. Since this is a developers' conference, there were also numerous sessions on iPhone development, and the last session was about publishing on the App Store. Since every session at every WWDC is always followed by an open Q&A session, you'd figure this'd be the perfect opportunity for iPhone developers to ask about Apple's App Store policies. Well, no. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:25:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 67 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21665/Apple_Jobs_To_Return_End_of_June/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21665/Apple_Jobs_To_Return_End_of_June/ According to various rumours, Steve Jobs would make a surprise appearance during last week's keynote address at the WWDC, marking the end of his sick leave. While that rumour turned out to be false, Apple has now confirmed that Jobs will return to Apple at the end of June. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:17:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 18 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21670/Apple_s_2009_MacBook_Pro_Battery_Life_to_Die_for/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21670/Apple_s_2009_MacBook_Pro_Battery_Life_to_Die_for/ Kroc and I already touched this subject during yesterday's podcast, referring to AnandTech's test of the new MacBook Pro's battery. This one will deliver 8 hours of battery life, and consequently AnandTech is pretty impressed with this thing. "Today I am more than comfortable saying that this is the best Apple notebook I've ever laid my hands on. The build quality is excellent, the base specs are solid and of course, the battery life. There's no doubt that it could be better; toss in an SSD or drop the price even further, but as it stands the new MBP is an excellent choice if you're looking for a Mac laptop. Obviously, you can attain the same battery life with a cheaper notebook and one or two spare batteries. But there's something to be said for increasing battery life by at least 50% without increasing the bulk or weight of the system. I'm not sure there's much else I can add other than Good Job, Apple." Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News Hakime http://www.osnews.com/story/21646/WWDC_Attendees_Wowed_by_App_Store_Display_Array/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21646/WWDC_Attendees_Wowed_by_App_Store_Display_Array/ Despite the beating Apple often receives for its controlling behaviour of the App Store and its Mac OS X EULA, the company really does know how to market itself and its products. At the WWDC in San Francisco, currently under way, the company found a very illustrative way of showing the sheer size and success of the App Store. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:20:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 36 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21634/Snow_Leopard_To_Arrive_in_Sept_29_USD_Safari_4_Out/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21634/Snow_Leopard_To_Arrive_in_Sept_29_USD_Safari_4_Out/ At the WWDC today, Apple has lifted the veil on a number of features of its upcoming operating system, Snow Leopard. Most of the work on Snow Leopard has gone into under-the-hood technologies and optimisations, but there are also a number of interface tweaks. The company also updated some of its laptops, while also lowering their prices. We got all the news from MacRumorsLive.com. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:02:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 78 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21626/What_Hardware_To_Build_a_Mac_for_boot-132_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21626/What_Hardware_To_Build_a_Mac_for_boot-132_/ And we have another Ask OSNews item! This one has to do with the recent article we ran on how I built my own Macintosh and installed a vanilla, unaltered copy of Mac OS X on it using the boot-132 method. One of our readers asked us: what is the best hardware to build a Mac out of? Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:10:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/21623/_New_White_MacBook_Faster_than_Entry_Level_Alu_MacBook_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21623/_New_White_MacBook_Faster_than_Entry_Level_Alu_MacBook_/ The latest entry-level MacBook rolled out by Apple a week ago offers more than just an improvement on the white laptop it replaces in Apple's notebook line. According to Macworld Lab tests, this new system outperforms the 2GHz aluminum unibody MacBook that costs US$300 more. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:54:03 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News SterlingNorth http://www.osnews.com/story/21620/Apple_Bans_3rd_Party_EFF_RSS_App_from_App_Store/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21620/Apple_Bans_3rd_Party_EFF_RSS_App_from_App_Store/ We all know Apple's App Store policies are a bit willy-nilly, inconsistent, and completely unreliable. This issue has been going on for a while now, and it doesn't see like anything has changed. The latest interesting App Store rejection is especially interesting, as it involves Apple rejecting an application related to one of its detractors: the EFF. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:26:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News alcibiades http://www.osnews.com/story/21568/Apple_Quietly_Updates_USD_999_MacBook/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21568/Apple_Quietly_Updates_USD_999_MacBook/ Apple has quietly updated its cheapest notebook offering, the white MacBook at EUR 999. "The bump measures in at just 0.13GHz on the processor, 133MHz more oomph from the DDR2 SDRAM, and an extra 40GB of disk space." A modest speed bump, but welcome nonetheless, especially as the price remains steady. Wed, 27 May 2009 14:55:02 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News Moulinneuf http://www.osnews.com/story/21518/RussianMac_Joins_List_of_Apple_Clone_Makers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21518/RussianMac_Joins_List_of_Apple_Clone_Makers/ If you thought Psystar was the only company making Macintosh "clones", then you are seriously mistaken. There is also German PearC, and the latest addition to the clone family is a Russian company called RussianMac, who debuted several Mac clones this week. Tue, 19 May 2009 17:15:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21487/Latest_Apple_Ad_Target_Laptop_Hunters_Campaign/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21487/Latest_Apple_Ad_Target_Laptop_Hunters_Campaign/ Apple's latest Get a Mac commercial targets the recent laptop hunters ads coming from Microsoft. It shows a number of PC characters and Mac, with a woman in between who wants to buy a computer. She mentions a number of features she wants, and the number of PCs becomes ever smaller. Then she says she wants a computer without "viruses, crashes or headaches", which makes all the remaining PCs leave, with only the Mac left standing. Wed, 13 May 2009 11:41:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 28 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21462/What_Would_You_Change_About_the_Mac_Pro_Mac_OS_X_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21462/What_Would_You_Change_About_the_Mac_Pro_Mac_OS_X_/ Since it's weekend, which usually equates to no news, we figured we'd follow in Engadget's footsteps by asking you, our dear and loving readers, what you would change about Apple's current Mac Pro. Engadget readers already had a few things to say - this is the internet after all. And since this is OSNews, we add a question of our own: what would you change about Mac OS X? Sat, 09 May 2009 09:58:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Apple 156 http://www.osnews.com/topics/14 News