When we launched Steam on Mac OS X back in May, there was a lot of buzz about performance, particularly relative to Windows running on the same machine. While we met our goal of making sure all of our customers had an acceptable gaming experience at launch, we have spent a large chunk of effort […]
Apple has released to developers the first build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The previous update to Mac OS X, 10.6.4 was released in mid-June, not long after Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H525 weighs in at 517MB for the delta update and contains just five focus areas, two known issues and […]
Apple has today released an update for iOS 4 and iPad software. The update fixes a PDF exploit that came to light last week after it was used to aid in the Jailbreaking of iPhones. Fears were raised early last week that the exploit could be used for malicious purposes. The update which brings iOS […]
John Gruber has an follow up discussion on why he believes that Mark Papermaster was ousted from Apple…. Daring Fireball: Papermaster and That Damn Antenna.
Assuming that you don’t have a Macintosh, and you want to use the Magic Trackpad on a Windows system. Â All you need is the Apple Magic Trackpad Update 1.0 for Windows, from apple’s site, and a copy of 7-zip. Extract the contents of the exe, then extract the contents of the MSP file inside. There […]
The Florida Court has granted Apple’s request for a stay of proceedings pending the outcome of the Appeal. This is typical and expected. The Florida Court had not yet ruled on Apple’s Motion to transfer the Florida case to Judge Alsup in California. On the Appellate front, Apple has filed its Answering Brief as well […]
Time Machine is very boolean in it’s operation. Â It either was successful or failed. Â So if there is a single file that it can’t backup, it aborts it’s current backup, and shuts down until the next backup cycle. Â This isn’t exactly an optimal solution. Â Other Backup software (eg Retrospect) will log an error on a […]
iFixit has reported: Reports started surfacing today that Apple may have quietly revised the iPhone 4 to add a nonconductive coating to the metal band on the sides of the phone. This would fix the sudden signal drop from electrically bridging the antennas by touching the band in the bottom-left corner with your hand. via […]