Entries from January 2008
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
iPhone Drive 1.4 ($20) Mac OS X application which lets the iPhone and iPod Touch be used like a disk for portable file storage. This release adds Adds Call Log access. Adds SMS message access. Adds camera photo access. Adds the ability to play music stored on the iPhone or iPod Touch. This release adds Call Log access; SMS message access; camera ph…
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
Although often considered the de facto choice for music sales, Apple’s iTunes media player has just recently surpassed RealPlayer and is now second only to Microsoft’s Windows Media Player for streaming media.
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Posted under mardedit, software-update, blogging, News, software, Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
I’m not one to get excited about dot-update releases from a software vendor, but a tool that was mentioned in my “must have” post – MarsEdit – has just updated from version 2.0 to 2.1, with that “0.1″ adding far more than a tenth of new features.
One of my major complaints about the previous version […]
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
Garmin is looking to become the first credible rival to Apple with a touchscreen phone that adds real GPS navigation and 3G. Meanwhile, reports have the MacBook Air’s special Core 2 Duo surfacing in Windows PCs, and Apple may use the tale of one iPh…
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
The US Patent and Trademark Office today published 11 of Apple’s patent applications. Among the 11, a patent regarding AAC audio bit allocation, as well as one pertaining to hierarchical menus stand out. Apple has presented a concept for perceptual audio encoding, a bit allocation technique that is designed to reduce the size of a file by finding a…
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
IGG Software today released iBank 3 Public Beta, a trial version of its financial management application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The software includes iBank for iPhone, a Web-based iPhone application that allows users to enter transactions from an iPhone on-the-go. The update powers a redesigned interface with Mac OS X Core Animation technology,…
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
Ecamm Network today announced the release of iPhoneDrive v1.4 (US$19.95), a Mac application which lets iPhone and iPod Touch users access iTunes media, iPhoto library, notes, and other data stored on the device…
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
Equinux today began shipping the fifth generation of its online auction management software, iSale 5. The application allows Mac users to create as well as manage online eBay auctions, and features a template editor that allows supports customization of the included 222 templates. iSale 5 simplifies the search for product information and pictures, …
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
Nokia will use much of its time at next month’s Mobile World Congress to demonstrate future technology for its smartphones, the company says in two entries on its official Symbian series 60 (S60) blog. The Finnish firm had previously previewed a small number of technologies at its Go:Play event last year but now intends to elaborate on its plans. …
Posted under Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin
Big Nerd Ranch Europe, premier provider of week-long, intensive training classes for Web developers, system administrators and programmers, announced its popular Ruby on Rails Bootcamp taught by Charles Brian Quinn is coming back to the beautiful monastery Kloster Eberbach near Frankfurt, Germany, April 7-11, 2008…