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Entries from October 2007

SportWrap armband for iPods, iPhone introduced

Posted under Apple on October 31st, 2007 by admin0 comments

XtremeMac today announced new versions of its SportWrap armband, and introduced SportWrap Pink which will support the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation…

Apple retail exec earns $113 million from options

Posted under Apple on October 31st, 2007 by admin0 comments

The senior vice president of retail operations at Apple exercised 700,000 options at $23.72 each on Friday, October 26th — the same day the Cupertino-based company shipped Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard — and sold those shares on the same day for between $185-$185.21 each. Apple’s retail chief Ron Johnson earned roughly $113 million before taxes on the st…

Apps: iStopMotion, iSale, BBEdit

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iStopMotion 2.1 ($50-$500) Stop motion animation tool. Features in Leopard will enable users to capture frames from multiple video sources simultaneously, connect HD cameras using Firewire, manipulate frames as they are captured, for example to adjust the color and create more interesting movies with Quartz Compositions as background and foreground…

MacTech releases DTrace introduction to Leopard

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MacTech Magazine today announced that not only is its November issue dedicated to Leopard with articles that have been months in the making, but that the magazine is releasing its DTrace introduction to help troubleshoot and investigate Leopard…

Briefly: Apple still working on Time Machine’s AirPort Disk support

Posted under Apple on October 31st, 2007 by admin0 comments

All hope for wireless backup support under Apple’s new operating system may not be lost, recent evidence suggests.

In the months leading up to last week’s launch of Mac OS X Leopard, Apple had widely touted a feature of its new Time Machine backup…

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock requirements set

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Aspyr Media today announced the final system requirements for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock…

XtremeMac unveils SportWrap Pink armband

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XtremeMac today introduced SportWrap Pink to support the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation alongside new versions of its SportWrap armband for Apple’s iPod touch, iPod classic, third-generation iPod nano, and iPhone. The SportWrap’s new design features a neoprene body and an adjustable strap trimmed with a soft elastic material that …

More details emerge for Google phone

Posted under Apple on October 31st, 2007 by admin0 comments

Yet more details are emerging on Google’s still-rumored phone project, a new report claims. Anonymous sources appear to confirm concepts such as the creation of a Google-developed operating system based on Linux, and talks with companies such LG and HTC for producing Google-based handsets. Also suggested though is that Samsung and Motorola are in…

Apple retail chief nets nearly $113 million in options move

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Apple senior vice president of retail operations, Ron Johnson, recently exercised options for and then sold 700,000 shares of common stock worth approximately $130 million.

According to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commissio…

Apple will allow Mac OS X to run inside VM

Posted under Apple on October 31st, 2007 by admin0 comments

Apple has apparently changed its tune on the ability to run Mac OS X Server inside a Virtual Machine (such as VMWare’s Fusion or Parallels Desktop). Though the company’s license wording previously disallowed running multiple copies of Mac OS X Server on a single Mac, the new software license agreement included with Leopard reads “This License allow…