Reminder: AUC WWDC scholarships close today (Friday 4th)

April 4th, 2008

If you want to apply for an Apple University Consortium WWDC scholarship, today is the last day.

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Posted at: 12:10 am

LANrev InstallEase now free

April 2nd, 2008

InstallEase from LANrev is now available for free, it can be used to create installers based on before/after snapshots and create uninstaller packages. You can also output to .DMG, .PKG or Iceberg project formats.

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Posted at: 10:07 pm

Wordpress 2.5 incompatible with WPG2 Gallery2 3.02 plugin

March 30th, 2008

Having upgraded one of my blogs to Wordpress 2.5, I’ve discovered that if you’re relying on the WPG2 Gallery2 plugin you’ll probably want to wait until it’s updated, because the plugin is incompatible with Wordpress 2.5. I’ve also had to disable the Advanced Admin Menus plugin as it seemed to hide all the menus.

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Posted at: 9:18 pm

Apple Java job

March 30th, 2008

From Apple’s java mailing list: 

 

We are looking for a talented, passionate and motivated engineer to join the Java team.  Java expertise, of course, is important, but C and Objective-C (Cocoa) are also essential since you will be working on the frameworks underneath AWT and Swing.  If you or anyone you know is interested, please do apply.  This is an opportunity to have a serious impact on the Mac OS X Java implementation, and start a career at Apple.You can find out more by clicking this link, or by searching apple.com/jobs for Requisition ID 3489430. 

 

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Posted at: 1:22 am

The tennis shoes wore computers

March 29th, 2008

Before there was the Nike+iPod there were the Puma RS computer tennis shoes with inbuilt pedometers that plugged into your Apple ][

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Posted at: 12:26 am

iPhone flip?

March 26th, 2008

Unwired View takes a look at an Apple patent for a multitouch enabled double sided flip feature on an (i)phone.

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Posted at: 10:36 pm

Security update breaks ssh?

March 20th, 2008

Apple’s Security Update 2008-002 seems to break ssh based utilities, causing them to bus error when run. There is some discussion on the Apple support forum.

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Posted at: 6:20 pm

Free guitar game

March 19th, 2008

If you haven’t seen it already, check out Frets On Fire. May be more playable with an external keyboard so you can pretend it’s an axe :)

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Posted at: 6:54 pm

RetrospectX Beta released

March 18th, 2008

EMC Insignia (nee Dantz) have released a beta test version of RetrospectX (codenamed “Unicorn”) client and server for the Mac. Users need their existing Retrospect licence key to use the beta. The Mac client and server are universal binaries.

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Posted at: 6:28 pm

AUC announces 2008 Honours Scholarship winners

March 17th, 2008

The Australian Apple University Consortium has announced the 2008 AUC Honours Scholarship recipients who will receive AU$4000 during their honours year. The UWA winner will leveraging FSEvent notifications :)

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Posted at: 6:41 pm
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