I don’t think this will show up in tonight’s quarterly report, but Forbes is reporting that Apple bought chip company P.A. Semi with the apparent hopes to use them to create chips for the iPhone. Unsurprisingly, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said, “Apple buys smaller technology companies… Read More »
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Apple posted an update to Safari that – amongst other fixes – patches 4 vulnerabilities in the Windows version and 2 in the OS X version of their flagship browser. One of the Windows issues – CVE-2007-2398 – is especially tricksy: “[the vulnerability allows] a web… Read More »
Apple is quietly announcing that they now are offering content from PBS. Right now they are offering five stations: WGBH, KQED, WETA, WNET (Thirteen in New York), and ideastream. PBS offers great educational shows, interviews, and historical lessons from The War: A film by Ken… Read More »
Back when Steve-O returned to Apple, he completely killed off their clone program that allowed other hardware manufacturers to build computers that could run the Mac OS. Steve notoriously wants control over everything plus the clone program was cutting in to their bottom-line. In addition to Apple… Read More »
Macworld magazine just announced the release of a new superguide by MacOSXHints.com editor Rob Griffiths called Mac OS X Hints. It features over 200 tips and tricks for making the most of Leopard. This superguide is available in 3 formats: PDF ($12.95), Book ($19.95), or… Read More »
Today Apple announced the release of the much anticipated Final Cut Server, “a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation”. Final Cut Server is meant to be used in conjunction with Apple’s Final Cut Studio as a seamless way to manage all… Read More »
Ars Technica is reporting that the NPD Group’s numbers are out! Apple is the number one distributor of music. They sell more music than anyone else, well, besides those “others” who are always throwing a wrench in the plan. Credit: Ars Technica Apple was in third… Read More »
Apple has posted Quicktime 7.4.5 to Software Update that includes 11 security fixes, three of which only impact Windows systems. Some of the vulnerabilities can lead to arbitrary code execution (i.e. bad people can run programs on your system) by just tricking you into viewing… Read More »
Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch, the well-dressed gent who puts on the C4[1] conference for indie mac developers, has put online all the videos from this past year’s conference. There is some great stuff here, especially Cabel Sasser’s talk about the history of Panic and some… Read More »
Google is the master of April Fool’s day pranks and non-pranks. It seems the blogosphere and some news outlets want Apple to get in on the gig. Here are the phony stories that I found. If you saw any others, or… Read More »
In addition to running The Apple Blog, I also run an interactive design/development firm called Sabotage Media where we build interactive jazz for clients and ourselves. Something that we released recently was a little web app called TrackThePack that basically lets you track… Read More »
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