Wired has an article with some of the details on how the iPhone came to be.
Archive for January, 2008
Where the iPhone came from
Saturday, January 12th, 2008Wrap your Mac
Friday, January 11th, 2008To help protect your machine from drips from the galley overhead, zCover TypeOn Preprinted keyboard skins are available in black or white to f it 13″ MacBooks with US keyboards (But not the ‘late 2007′ model).
MadTV on iPods
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008This very amusing video from MadTV is doing the rounds at the moment, probably because it’s so true!
New Mac Pros on Apple Store
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Apple have released new octocore Mac Pros
- Up to 3.2GHz x 8 cores (0.2GHz = 20% faster in some application)
- PCI Express 2 (add 4 video cards to drive 8×30 inch displays (1 core each :))
- 5xUSB slots, 2x FireWire 800, optical and analog Audio I/O
- 2 x 4 slot memory card risers so you can populate the slots outside the machine! (I hope those contacts are good!)
- Tool-less PCI bracket
Apple Store closed for updates
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Some days ahead of MacWorld expo the Apple online store is closed for updates. Perhaps a new product announcement ahead of MacWorld so they can showcase it at MacWorld? Would Steve give away his thunder like that?
802.11n for older PowerBooks with PCMCIA/CardBus
Monday, January 7th, 2008If you’ve got an old PowerBook that supports CardBus you can buy an nQuicky 802.11n card from QuickerTek for US$64.95 to talk to your Airport Extreme base station.
FutureBASIC now Freeware
Sunday, January 6th, 2008FutureBASIC has now been made freeware and can be downloaded from here. More information about FutureBASIC is here (of note it apparently can create System 6.0.5 Apps through to Mac OS X 10.4 Apps from the same project)
Static Code Analysis techniques in Xcode
Sunday, January 6th, 2008An article on Apple’s developer site shows some basics of how to use GCC’s static code analysis from within Xcode. (Better to let the compiler find problems for you than to have to find them yourself!)
