Still can’t view Numbers’ 3D charts video…
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Faithful Macenstein reader Dr. Logan Games alerted us last night that while checking out Number’s new features on Apple’s site, he noticed the video demo for Numbers’ new Charts, Images, Text Labels video incorrectly pointed to the video demo for Flexible Canvas, leaving him to only imagine how awesome his charts could be. We decided... Read More
Wanna take bets on how long before Apple is forced to pull this headline and apologize?
Posted by Dr. Macenstein “The New iMac. You Can’t Be Too Thin. Or Too Powerful.” I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but I am putting the Over/Under at 26 hours. What do you say? [UPDATE: Well, they changed it] Read More
Anyone else think it’s weird TextEdit can’t open an AppleWorks file?
Posted by Dr. Macenstein It’s not every day I see an AppleWorks document. In fact, it’s not every week, month, or even every year. However, as luck would have it, today I did happen to receive one – a very important one at that. While I don’t have AppleWorks, I wasn’t overly worried. I figured I would just open the file in TextEdit, Apple’s... Read More
iTunes 7.3.2 released
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I have a dream: What “Google Wireless” could mean for Apple
Posted by Dr. Macenstein An estimated $15 billion chunk of the wireless spectrum will go up for auction this year when US TV channels are pushed into digital broadcasts, freeing up space that the more bloated analog spec required. One of the most interesting potential bidders was rumored to be Google, who had been growing increasingly worried that it might be left out of the growing... Read More
iPhone signals “the beginning of the end” for the mobile Web as we know it
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Forrester Research, Inc., an independent technology and market research company, has come out with a report (subscription required) confirming what we current iPhone users have known for over a month – namely that the iPhone spells “the beginning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today“. The report finds the iPhone’s... Read More
Apple kinda sorta updates the iPhone
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Apple this afternoon released a very minor update to the iPhone’s software (available via iTunes). “How minor is it?” you ask? It’s so minor, if it were a person, it couldn’t drink, smoke, or vote, and you couldn’t take it across state lines without the FBI tailing you. That’s pretty minor, folks. It’s a... Read More
iTunes Store Tops Three Billion Songs
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Apple today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, presumably 2 billion of which are from Fergie. “We’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. iTunes features a catalog... Read More
Samba bug in OS X allows hackers root access
Posted by Lab Rat According to PC World, Symantec has upped the warning level to Mac users this week on a Samba exploit first discovered in May of this year after discovering the exploit has been uploaded to the Metasploit hacking framework. Despite Samba’s developers having released a fix a day after the discovery, Apple has yet to patch the hole. The exploit can allegedly... Read More
Apple TV “Holy Grail” discovered – You can now use an external USB drive
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Tom Anthony, one of the daring tech-“crusaders” over at Apple TV Hacks apparently remembered that in the Latin alphabet, Jehovah starts with an ‘I’, and has now discovered the Holy Grail of Apple TV Geeks – namely, the ability to not only use an external USB hard drive as the primary storage for Apple TV media, but also... Read More
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