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  • blkhockeypro19
    The new iPod Nano, announced earlier today, features a multi-touch, iOS4 styled interface. Access music, radio, and, pictures.
    For those who who like the click wheel or the video camera and video playback, you'll have to look elsewhere.
    Check out more information about it here: http://gizmodo.com/5627044/the-new-multitouch-ipod-nano
  • blkhockeypro19
    The new iPod Nano, announced earlier today, features a multi-touch, iOS4 styled interface. Access music, radio, and, pictures.
    For those who who like the click wheel or the video camera and video playback, you'll have to look elsewhere.
    Check out more information about it here: http://gizmodo.com/5627044/the-new-multitouch-ipod-nano
  • blkhockeypro19
    The new iPod Nano, announced earlier today, features a multi-touch, iOS4 styled interface. Access music, radio, and, pictures.
    For those who who like the click wheel or the video camera and video playback, you'll have to look elsewhere.
    Check out more information about it here: http://gizmodo.com/5627044/the-new-multitouch-ipod-nano
  • Ed

    Apple iTV rumors heat up

    By Ed, in OSx86,

    Apple's rumored successor to its Apple TV, the Apple iTV, has been causing a stir thanks to the recent comments from Digg founder, Kevin Rose, on his blog seemingly speculating about the yet-to-be-released Apple product's features.
     
    Rose predicts that the new device from Apple will be priced at just $99 and will run iOS (as on the iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch). Through iOS users will be able  to browse the App store and load games, TV apps, video sharing/streaming/recording apps, etc. This seems like a logical evolution of the Apple TV, and brings it inline with the established iOS platform.
     
    Controversially, it's expected that content producers will be able to use iAds to directly monetize their content, potentially cutting out cable and satellite companies as the content will be distributed over an Internet connection.
     
    Also predicted is the use of the iPad as a remote control, which is not far from the reality of today with existing Apps able to turn the iPad into a home cinema remote. Again, this would seem to be a logical decision for Apple to make, and we'd hope it'd extend remote functionality to the iPhone/iPod Touch too.
     
    The anticipated launch for the iTV is this September, which is also when new iPod Touch models are expected to be announced.
  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
    Jailbroken iOS users should be on the look out for a potential patent that could have the authority to perform a kill on an application. This "Kill Switch" is assumed to be directed at unauthorized users of iOS devices who gain unauthorized access to their device. The above diagram depicts how this process would take place where suspected activities are identified as unauthorized on the users behalf where it is then remotely terminated. This is not remotely done from your handy T.V. remote but rather from an Apple branded server should this patent go through.

    It is also mentioned that there could be possible carrier involvement where the carrier on which you reside on can cripple its network on your behalf for having running on an unauthorized firmware. Device lock down seems to be the new priority for those turtlenecks over at Cupertino but all is not lost just yet.

    Insanelymac first impression?

    Just give me back my damn rights to "owning" a device. I say "owning" because Apple apparently wants to play Big Brother on our devices regardless of what laws may assert. In America I believe this would conflict with the 1st Amendment. I'm just saying...
    Source: AppleInsider

    Let us know what your take is.
  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
    John Gruber is known for his before hand predictions of new Apple releases like how he projected the useful camera that we found on the latest gen iPod nano.  This time however Gruber made quite the verbose post about the long since whispers about a CDMA chip finding it’s way into an iPhone near you.  He says that this rendition of the iPhone has found its way into the engineering verification test (EVT) stage



    Gruber claims that this is the phase prior to the design verification test (DVT). If Gruber’s allegation is true in conjunction with the rumored CDMA chip order request from purported rumors, the turtleneks in One Infinite loop might have something quite “magical” in the ranks of the consumers once more.



    This is exciting news for all Mac fans. Whether you have an I phone 4 or an earlier model, the innovative people at Apple are bound to create a new and improved version to impress you with before too long. They rarely disappoint. Gruber is often a great source for the latest news in Apple's product development.



    InsanelyMac first impression?



    Well I for one think that if our “Turtleneck” savior were to create a new radio in iPhone within a 365 day interval then, they should secretly throw in a “magical” LTE chip in there and create a hybrid 3G/4G similar to that of the EVO 4G from HTC.  If LTE does begin to pick up momentous speed then this could could just leave us marooned by these speculations. But a prominent Gruber speculation and a mass CDMA chip order possibly for the Cupertinians (I think i’ve created a dictionary worth of names for Apple by now) only makes your imagination burn a little bit now doesn’t it? Well keep it burning the new year always yields supernatural things from Infinite Loop.



    Source: Engadget
  • blkhockeypro19
    Thanks to the hard work of comex, a new jailbreak is available for iDevices running 3.2.1, 4.0, and 4.0.1. This jailbreak requires you to visit http://jailbreakme.modmyi.com/faq.html. Visiting that page will initialize the jailbreak process, and soon enough you will be downloading all your favorite 3rd party apps and themes from cydia! If you're ready to enter the jailbreak scene on your 3.2.1+ iDevice, head on over to the website.
     

  • Alessandro17
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/20...re-fair-use.ars

    "Jailbreaking

      The most surprising ruling was on "jailbreaking" one's phone (exemption number two), replacing the company-provided operating system with a hacked version that has fewer limitations. Make no mistake: this was all about Apple. And Apple lost.

      The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued that jailbreaking one's iPhone should be allowed, even though it required one to bypass some DRM and then to reuse a small bit of Apple's copyright firmware code. Apple showed up at the hearings to say, in numerous ways, that the idea was terrible, ridiculous, and illegal. In large part, that was because the limit on jailbreaking was needed to preserve Apple's controlled ecosystem, which the company said was of great value to consumers.

      That might be true, the Register agreed, but what did it have to do with copyright?

      "Apple is not concerned that the practice of jailbreaking will displace sales of its firmware or of iPhones," wrote the Register, explaining her thinking by running through the "four factors" of the fair use test. "Indeed, since one cannot engage in that practice unless one has acquired an iPhone, it would be difficult to make that argument. Rather, the harm that Apple fears is harm to its reputation. Apple is concerned that jailbreaking will breach the integrity of the iPhone's ecosystem. The Register concludes that such alleged adverse effects are not in the nature of the harm that the fourth fair use factor is intended to address."

      And the Register concluded that a jailbroken phone used "fewer than 50 bytes of code out of more than 8 million bytes, or approximately 1/160,000 of the copyrighted work as a whole. Where the alleged infringement consists of the making of an unauthorized derivative work, and the only modifications are so de minimis, the fact that iPhone users are using almost the entire iPhone firmware for the purpose for which it was provided to them by Apple undermines the significance" of Apple's argument.

      The conclusion is sure to irritate Steve Jobs: "On balance, the Register concludes that when one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses."

  • Ed
    As has been rumoured for some time, Apple has today announced a slew of product updates and entirely new products.
     
    Updated iMacs featuring new Intel Core i3, i5 & i7 processors
     
    The iMacs received an update, with overall cosmetics remaining unchanged, but under the hood are a new range of Intel processors from the entry-level Core i3 right up to a newer Core i7 with Hyper Threading. New graphics processors are also present in the form of the ATI Radeon HD 4670 (21.5" only) and 5670 (21.5" & 27") with 256MB GDDR3 and 512MB GDDR5 memory respectively. The top-end quad-core specification 27" iMac is configured with an ATI Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB GDDR5. Like the Mac Pro, SSD drives are now also available as a CTO option.
     
    12-core Mac Pro with 2TB SSD drives CTO option
     
    Apple's Mac Pro powerhouse computers had been starved of an update, but finally got a healthy refresh with new processor configurations including the new "Westmere" Intel Xeon processors, running at up to 2.93GHz in a dual processor configuration with 6 cores each, deliver up to 12 cores.
     
    Hard drive options now include, for the first in an Apple desktop, SSD drives, with configuration options allowing up to four 512GB SSD drives. Apple has posted test results showing SSD's outperforming 7200RPM HDD's by up to twice the speed, although it hasn't posted any comparable results against 15,400RPM SAS HDD's.
     
    27" LED-backlit Cinema Display
     
    Based on the same IPS panel as used in the current generation iMac, a new 27" Cinema Display has been announced for a September shipping date, and features the same style housing as the existing 24" LED Cinema Display. With a 2560x1600 resolution which almost matches the 30" Cinema Display, the new 27" Cinema Display is Apple's first standalone monitor to feature a 16:9 aspect ratio, compared to the previous 16:10 offerings.
     
    Like the 24" Cinema Display, the new 27" monitor also features built-in iSight camera, microphone, speakers including subwoofer, and utilises the industry-standard Mini DisplayPort. The connections also include a MagSafe adaptor for charging Macbook models via the monitor's power source.
     
    Magic Trackpad
     
    Another entirely new product, the Magic Trackpad is Apple's offering to desktop users of a trackpad, just like the ones found on Macbook models, so that desktop warriors can take advantage of multi-touch gestures too, like their mobile-using counterparts.
     
    The new Magic Trackpad is 80% larger than standard trackpads found on Macbooks, and the whole pad area acts as a mouse button click too. The design is based on the same structure as the Apple Bluetooth keyboard.
     
    Combined with useful 3rd party tools such as BetterTouchTool (based on the MultiClutch project), the Magic Trackpad could add a nice new 'touch' to desktop Macs... pun intended. Sorry.
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