Archive for the ‘iTunes’ Category
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Apple has announced that the 2 billionth application has been downloaded from the App Store.
The second billion only took 5 months. The store has 85,000 apps and 125,000 developers, with more than 50 million iPhones and iPod Touches sold in 77 countries.
Graphs of downloads and Apps on the store:
Number of Applications on Apple's App Store
Number of downloads from Apple's App Store
Tags: apps_on_app_store, app_store, billion_apps, graph, iPhone
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Reports indicate that the 3.0.1 update may break some people’s (un-jailbroken) iPhones to the point of not being recoverable via the usual means (ie can’t even restore from iTunes)
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Blackberry have announced they will release Blackberry Desktop for Mac in September for all the crackberry users still out there. It will apparently offer to upload tunes from iTunes.
Tags: blackberry, blackberry_desktop_mac, Mac
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
If you want to record sound that’s coming out your Mac’s speakers (audio channel), but are too cheap to shell out for a copy of Ambrosia’s Audio Hijack Pro or WireTap Studio, you can try installing the free SoundFlower, setting it as the audio destination in your Sound System Preferences pane, then recording from it using the free Audacity.
Tags: audacity, audio_hijack, audio_rip, soundflower, wiretap
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
- New 15″ MacBook Pro has built in battery lasts up to 7 hours, 1000 charges, approx. 5 years. 60% better colour gamut, 3.06 Dual Core CPU, 8Gb RAM max, 500Gbx7200RPM drive, or 256Gb SSD. Starts at US$1699 through US$2229
- SD card slots added to models except 17″
- 13″ Macbook is now a MacBook Pro
- MacBook Air updated to up to 2.13GHz CPU
Snow Leopard 10.6:
- Mail, iCal and Address book now support Exchange, with auto-discovery of Exchange Servers
- QuickLook can preview Microsoft Office documents in Mail without MS Office being installed
- Preview 2x faster, better PDF text selection
- Exposé integration with Dock (“Dock Exposé”) for displaying an App’s windows
- Chinese character input on trackpad
- Mail up to 2.3x faster
- Final version of Safari 4 released for Leopard, Tiger and Windows
- Safari now sandboxes plugins to prevent them crashing the browser (IMHO this means you, Google
- Stacks now have scrolling
- Page through, magnify PDF thumbnails and movies
- QuickTime X focuses on the content, overlays controls, lets you select from a visual timeline more easily and share it on YouTube, MobileMe or iTunes.
- All Snow Leopard applications are 64-bit
- Grand Central Dispatch supports multicore across all of Snow Leopard
- Open CL (Computing Language) has been open sourced and allows for hardware abstraction of the video hardware for use in processing or display
- Upgrade cost US$29 or US$49 for upgrading the Leopard family pack
There were some 16593 viewers watching the ustream live stream.
Tags: dock_expose, iPhone, iphone_3gs, WWDC, wwdc09, wwdc2009
Posted in Apple, Australia, Bluetooth, Environment, Games, Hardware, Mac, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, MacBook, Spotlight, Video, WWDC, iPhone, iTunes | No Comments »
Friday, February 27th, 2009
aTV Flash from Fire Core is a US$49.95 piece of software which when loaded onto a (compatible) USB flash drive key adds lots of features to your AppleTV such as
- More video formats (including DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, RMVB, DVD and some MKV)
- Enables internet apps like Safari, FTP, SFTP, SSH, SMB and streaming from NAS devices
- Enables external USB hard drives
- Enables USB keyboard support
- Allows installation of other Mac OS X applications (like EyeTV for example)
Tags: AppleTV, apple_tv, atv_flash, avi, divx, eyetv, mkv, wmv, xvid
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Tags: apple, nokia, sony
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
It seems that Apple have gone through and placed asterisks in some ‘offensive’ words (like w*g, a*s, but not apparently nigger) .The ABC’s “Spicks and Specks” is now apparently “Sp***s and Specks”. Including, in the case of Futurama, the name of the robot “Bender” (because it encourages irresponsible drinking?). Report on News.com.au
Bender censored to B****r in the iTunes store
Maybe they’re worried that under Australia’s censored internet nobody will be able to buy iTunes?
Note of course that Apple are still happy for you to pay them money to purchase items that are too dangerous for you to see the name of.
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
So, to kick off 2009 most interestingly to me we have
- 17 inch unibody MacBook Pros with optional glossy screens (for an extra US$50), with a built-in (ie non-removable) 8-hour battery that apparently lasts 1000 cycles before dropping to 80% capacity (as opposed to some 300 or so for existing laptop batteries
- iPhoto ‘09 with face detection and recognition (used for both creating albums of people and ensuring the slideshow doesn’t crop out faces), geotagging, Google Maps and support for uploading to MobileMe, flickr and FaceBook (including tagging people with their FaceBook info). Also themed slideshows and maps in printed books. I hope FaceBook are ready for the onslaught
- Dropping of iTunes DRM, with your existing songs ‘upgradable’ to DRM free for US$0.30 each as they become available
- iwork.com
- “Learn to play” music instruction for guitar and piano in GarageBand
BTW, has anyone else noticed the spoonerism that gives you Schil Philler?
Tags: garageband_learn_to_play, iphoto_09, unibody_macbook_pro
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
The Simpsons have done an extended mApple parody (including Steve Mobbs and the Brainiac Bar, and a parody of the 1984 ad), available on hulu. For users in the rest of the world outside the continental US, check it out on YouTube.
Tags: apple, boomsticks, mapple, mypods, simpsons, steve_mobbs
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