Apple Seeds Third Build of Mac OS X 10.6.4

According to World of Apple: Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F50 includes a multitude of fixes and just one known issue. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F50 weighs in at 581.3MB in its delta form. Included in this update Resolve an […]

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Build 10F46

World of Apple dishes out information on 10.6.4 Build 10F46…. Apple today gave a select number of developers access to the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. Build 10F46 includes a multitude of fixes and just one known issues affecting a font within the operating system. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F46 weighs in […]

Mark Bernstein: Platform Control

Mark Bernstein is exactly right here. This is a matter of Apple being able to control their own destiny, and not being blackmailed by other companies… John Gruber’s recent analysis of Apple’s policy is, I think, almost exactly correct. He is right to pinpoint PowerPlant/Metrowerks as a source of Apple’s anxiety. (Tinderbox is still struggling […]

Apple Fires another salvo at Adobe…

Well, Apple has finally decided enough is enough, and publicly sent another Salvo towards Adobe’s broadsides….  And Adobe might just be happy about this one. Apple makes hardware video decoding available to developers In 10.6.3, Apple has now made a new “Video Decode Acceleration Framework” available.  What does that mean?  Adobe’s number one reason why […]

MacBook Pros updated with Corei5/i7 processors, 10hr battery

After an unusually long wait, Apple has finally released updated models of its MacBook Pro line of notebooks. The 15′ and 17′ models offer the latest Core i5 and i7 processors, though the 13′ model still uses a Core 2 Duo processor. But new processors aren’t the only improvement; Apple has also seen fit to […]

Ethical? What’s not ethical about Apple?

Folks, This really get’s my goat… I know that a number of good people work at Apple. If you’re seeking a more ethical company, Adobe is hiring: adobe.com/aboutadobe/careeropp -John Dowdell – http://twitter.com/jdowdell/status/11881181351 Well, I would really like to know what Mr. Dowdell considers to be unethical? I suspect that this has to do with section […]

Apple Announcing WebKit2

This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We currently call this new framework ‘WebKit2’. WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) […]

Control / Dim all lights….

I’m trying to create a Trigger that will dim all the lights that are currently ON. Anyone have any ideas how I can implement this? Home Automation is more than just wanting things to happen, sometimes it takes some work, to get it to work the way you expect.  After all, computers are just really […]