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    iOS Apps coming to Apple TV?

    By Ed, in OSx86,

    A glitch in Apple's App Store has fuelled further speculation that a major software update to the Apple TV is in the pipeline that will give it the ability to run iOS Apps on your TV.
     
    Yesterday, a number of apps on the App Store such as Evernote and Prompt started showing "ix.Mac.MarketingName" as a compatible device, alongside existing Apple iOS devices "iPhone" and "iPad".
     
    The second generation Apple TV, which was launched last September, was widely speculated to support iOS apps in the future given the fact it runs a version of the iOS and shares the same A4 processor as the first-generation iPad and current-generation iPhone.
  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
    Well as Apple goes through it's tower scaling uprise, they gain a few and lose a few people and today marks the leave of yet another great Apple family member, Bertrand Serlet. Serlet has worked along side Steve Jobs for a wondrous 22 years with Apple and NEXT. Serlet served as the senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering where he previously worked for Xerox PARC.
     
    To give a little more background about Serlet as a few are probably wondering why is the leave of this Software Engineer from Apple is so historic well here is a little more on where Serlet is coming from.


    Under Serlet's belt sits a Doctorate in Computer Engineering
    Spent four years working for Xerox PARC (now known as Palo Alto Research Center)
    Collaborated with NeXT in 1989
    Joined Apple in 1997
    Resurfaced back into Apple in 2009 to pilot Mac OS X engineering
    I could of course go more in depth on many areas throughout his working life but I would be digressing from the subject matter. The successor to the title of Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering will be none other than Serlet's right hand man, Craig Federighi. Federighi is the current Vice President of Mac Software Engineering side next to Serlet who will now take the leading role of Mac Software Engineering while also reporting to the CEO, Steve Jobs.
     
    Here is the Press Release for those who want to follow a bit closer:


     
    CUPERTINO, California—March 23, 2011—Apple® today announced that Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Mac® Software Engineering, will be leaving the company. Craig Federighi, Apple's vice president of Mac Software Engineering, will assume Serlet's responsibilities and report to Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. Federighi is responsible for the development of Mac OS® X and has been managing the Mac OS software engineering group for the past two years.
     
    "I've worked with Steve for 22 years and have had an incredible time developing products at both NeXT and Apple, but at this point, I want to focus less on products and more on science," said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "Craig has done a great job managing the Mac OS team for the past two years, Lion is a great release and the transition should be seamless."
     
    Federighi worked at NeXT, followed by Apple, and then spent a decade at Ariba where he held several roles including vice president of Internet Services and chief technology officer. He returned to Apple in 2009 to lead Mac OS X engineering. Federighi holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
     
    Serlet joined Apple in 1997, and has been involved in the definition, development and creation of Mac OS X, the world's most advanced operating system. Before joining Apple, Serlet spent four years at Xerox PARC, then joined NeXT in 1989. Serlet holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Orsay, France.
     
    Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.




    We'll miss your lovely accent Mr. Bert and your get wrenching take on Microsoft Windows Vista copying Mac OS X.
    Source:


    9to5mac
  • Ed
    With the announcement of the iPad 2 now behind us, the rumormill is starting to center around the iPhone 5, which is widely expected to be announced sometime this summer, as per all previous major iPhone model announcements.
     
    The next generation iPhone may feature a slightly larger screen, up from 3.5" to 4". These latest images below show allegedly leaked "mold engineering drawings" of the iPhone 5, which look very similar to the current iPhone 4 but with a very subtly enlarged edge-to-edge screen.
     



     
    Previous rumours had hinted towards an aluminium backed iPhone 5, similar to the original first-generation iPhone, which may address concerns around the fragility of the current glass-backed iPhone 4.
     

     
    Also expected in the iPhone 5 is the new dual-core A5 processor that's featured in the latest iPad 2, which was further fuelled by the discovery of references in iOS 4.3's kernel to the iPhone 5's codename.
  • Ed
    Apple has announced the widely-predicted successor to it's revolutionary tablet device; the iPad 2.
     
    Although the new iPad doesn't feature the anticipated retina-display than its smaller iPhone 4 sibling got last year, it does sport a thinner and lighter design, improved battery life, and comes with either a black- or white-fronted bezel (but still with an aluminium back). One of the most keenly sought features finally made its debut on the iPad: front- and rear-facing cameras, allowing for FaceTime and HD video recording.
     
    Alongside the new iPad is version 4.3 of the iOS, which boasts the same Nitro JavaScript engine as Mac OS X, giving Safari twice the performance with JavaScript. iOS 4.3 also features AirPlay enhancements to allow iTunes users to stream music from their Mac or PC to their iOS device.
     
    Quietly introduced amongst all this was a key component for any iPad or iPhone 4 owner: an HDMI adapter to output HD video from your iPhone 4 or iPad 1/2 to an HDMI TV/monitor. The adapter also supports video mirroring for the iPad 2, allowing business users to do presentations via their iPad on large screens.
     
    For more info, check out the Apple website.
     

  • Ed
    Apple has today announced the developer preview of its next generation Mac OS, titled Lion.
     
    The 7th major upgrade to OS X features many major enhancements including a more responsive Safari, full-screen mode for applications, automatic document saving, widescreen Mail (looking very similar to the iPad's Mail app), and much more.
     
    Check out the screenshots below of the new Mail, Address Book, and iCal courtesy of AppleInsider, who have more details on the new features in Mac OS X Lion:
     

     

     

     

  • Ed

    Episodes app released for iPhone

    By Ed, in OSx86,

    Making it's App Store debut this week is Episodes: an application for keeping track of your favourite TV shows. Based on the popular Showtime web app for iPhone and iPod Touch, it's now made the transition to a fully-fledged native iOS app.
     
    With a single tap Episodes will show you your favourite shows, when they’re next on TV and whether or not you’ve missed an episode. Drill down for information on air dates, episode listings, individual episode summaries and even screen captures.
     
    Features include: 



    Powerful search functionality that lets you browse our extensive database of series and episode information
    Unwatched episode flags and application badges let you know the second there's something new to watch
    Full, historic episode summaries, ratings and screen captures available with a single tap
    A unique and entirely personalised recommendation engine that analyses the television you watch and suggests shows you should
    Episodes will even provide air dates for your favourite internet based video channels

    Episodes is available on the App Store now for just 99c/59p
  • Ed
    Love Time Machine on your Mac, but hate having to have a second hard drive on your desk? Or are you a mobile user and rarely near your Time Machine-designated hard drive?
     
    Launched just this week, Dolly Drive may just be the solution you've been waiting for, delivering familiar Time Machine backups and recovery but via a Cloud-based service which lets users store their backups on web-based storage, omitting the need or an external or second hard drive on your Mac.
     
    Backups are of course encrypted, and pricing starts from just $10 per month for 250GB of space on Dolly Drive's Cloud backup service. There's also the ability to sync your backups locally to an external hard drive too, in addition to backing up to the Cloud. Further details and pricing are available on Dolly Drive's website.
  • Ed
    London-based Pixelmator probably ruffled a few feathers in Adobe's Photoshop team when they announced they pushed a whopping $1 million of sales in just 20 days on the recently launched Mac App Store.
     
    Pixelmator is a lightweight image manipulation tool aimed at graphics professionals who may not need all of Photoshop's tools and filters, and want to save money on Adobe's hefty pricing. Pixelmator is currently on offer at just $29.99 in the Mac App Store and offers many of the fundamental features that Photoshop has such as layers, layer groups, gradients, transform tools, image/canvas size, typography formatting, optimization for web, and not to mention 64-bit performance.
     
    There are of course a few features still absent that Photoshop die-hards (such as myself) won't be able to live without, such as layer styles and character spacing & line-height, but as Pixelmator has demonstrated, there is a sizeable demand for a lightweight graphic app to rival Photoshop, even just through the only recently released Mac App Store.
  • Ed
    It's difficult to believe the App Store didn't exist just 3 years ago, yet since it's launch in the summer of 2008 the App Store has now just seen it's 10 billionth app downloaded.
     
    Check out the asymco blog for some interesting stats and analysis of the App Store and how app downloads compare to music downloads.
     
    The interesting phenomenon of mobiles Apps is such that it'll be interesting to see how this market matures over the next few years: will users be more reluctant to ever switch from one mobile platform to another due to their investment in apps on their current mobile platform? I certainly wouldn't want to have to re-purchase apps I bought for my iPhone on the Android if I ever made the switch.
  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N

    10.6.7 Being Seeded

    By TH3L4UGH1NGM4N, in OSx86,

    10.6.7 10J842 being seeded to those lucky Apple devs

    The seventh chapter in Apple's Snow Leopard has been seeding to devs with the main focus being on Airport, Bonjor, SMB, and Graphics drivers.
     


    Source:


     
    9to5mac
     
    Maybe we might spy those framebuffers that Apple forgot in their last version who knows...

     
    EDIT:
    There doesn't seem to be any frambuffers for the ATI 6xxx so the waiting game continues...
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