Could you be tracked by your iPhone 3G
June 24, 2008
During WWDC 2008 there was a great presentation given about a new social application, Loopt, that utilize GPS technology to show you friends/contacts around you.
Using location-based technologies, Loopt lets you know where your friends are by automatically updating maps on your mobile handset. Loopt even lets you send messages to nearby friends or receive automatic alerts when they’re nearby so that you never miss an opportunity to meet.
Loopt give you control as to when people can track you… but what if someone was using a similar application to track your every move? Would you be able to notice it? Not if it is integrated well enough in some friendly looking application.
I don’t know what Apple is looking at when they accept application for the future app store but they better make sure no one is hiding some sort of tracking code that can tell your very move. Read more
How to install ZFS on OSX Leopard 10.5.3 (in HD)
June 15, 2008
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You migh already know this… but Leopard retail include support for ZFS. Unfortunatly this support is only for read access. During the last WWDC 2008 conference it was mentioned that Snow Leopard would introduce Read/Write support for ZFS in the server version.
I decided that I needed to look at ZFS a little bit more and went looking on how to install ZFS on Leopard 10.5.3. What I had not realized was that it would not be as easy at it may sound.
You might remember that late in 2007 Apple released a beta build of ZFS on ADC. Since then the ZFS beta application sort of went missing and no recent updates where published. Read more
Mac Nano to be called Mac Fusion?
June 9, 2008
TUAW (they are a great bunch) report that:
On WWDC Eve, we at TUAW are hard at work keeping an eye out for the unknown and unexpected. We just received a tip showing what appears to be the Mac Nano computer that we’ve all wanted — and it looks to be aimed towards the developer crowd.
The pictures appear to show a Mac geared towards developers on Windows and Linux systems. “Leave Windows behind. Build your Apps for OS X” states the title. While we are extremely cautious about rumors like these right before WWDC, we did have a rumor that a “new Mac” or at least an updated Mac might be released.
So, would this be the possible Mac Nano? It certainly does look like it. No specifications other that it be a Core2Duo based system is readable.
Update:
So WWDC Keynote has come and gone… and no Fusion announcement. So this was a fake. Too bad, it would have been fun.
Apple to allow subsidized 3G iPhone
June 8, 2008
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The new version of the Apple iPhone is set to be sold at significantly lower prices than the existing one, in a tacit acknowledgement by the US technology company that its previous sales strategy was not sustainable.
Apple has bowed to pressure from mobile phone operators and agreed they can subsidise the latest iPhone, expected to be unveiled by Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on Monday.
Telefonica SA is going to be the sole distributor of the iPhone in Spain, according to Thomson Financial News. And Thomson Financial has also said the device will be sold for under 100 euros. 100 euros is approximately $150 U.S. — and the 3G iPhone is going to be sold for less than that? How is that possible? Well, just as it would be in the U.S., through a subsidy by the distributor. Read more
Could the Apple iPhone kill the Nintendo DS
June 6, 2008
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The Nintendo Wii has turned the gaming world on its head, with motion-sensitive controls and family-friendly games. The Nintendo DS has had a good run, too, dominating the market for handheld gaming gizmos despite determined assaults by Sony and Nokia.
The iPhone and the iPod Touch combine the touch-sensitive screen of a Nintendo DS with the motion sensitivity of the Nintendo Wii. First released in 2004, Nintendo freshened the design of the aging system in 2006, with the release of the thinner, lighter DS Lite. Moreover, Apple has struggled to master gaming on the Mac, with a far wider array of titles available for machines running Microsoft Windows. Read more
iTunes movies now available in Canada
June 4, 2008
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Apple® today announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate and Maple Pictures are now available on the iTunes® Store in Canada (www.itunes.ca).
Movie purchases and rentals feature iTunes’ legendary ease of use, which makes discovering and enjoying movies as simple and easy as buying music on iTunes has always been. “Canadians have made iTunes the most popular place to find and buy music and TV shows online,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. Read more
Apple registering another alternative name to .mac?
June 1, 2008
MacRumors report that another domain name was registered by Apple: me.com
You might remember that it was reported that Apple also bought mobileme.com earlier this week. Apple is apparently rebranding it’s web service as a Platform agnostic name…
Apple new name for .mac = mobileMe
June 1, 2008
According to blog codingrobots Apple has recently acuired the mobileme.com domain name:
mobileme.com has changed hands recently (Jan 2007) and is currently parked by markmonitor.com.Apple use these guys to register their domains, including apple.com (http://www.whois.ws/domain_archive-com/apple.com/).
iPhoneBrowser: browse your iPhone’s file system
May 31, 2008
Getting access to your iPhone’s file system can be pretty difficult. But if you’re a Windows iPhone user, you can take advantage of the free BSD-licensed IPhone file system browser iPhoneBrowser. You can browse your IPhone’s files, drag and drop stuff onto it, and copy your MP3s and movies back to your hard drive. iPhoneBrowser also offers a backup system for keeping your iPhone files safe.
iPhone’s Raging Thunder: the Developer Interview
May 29, 2008
TUAW was lucky enough to spend a little time recently chatting with Anders Nilsson of Polarbit.com. Polarbit is an independent game developer based in Europe. They recently ported their mobile Raging Thunder racing game to the iPhone and released it as a free beta to the jailbreak community. Read more
