Apple store back up; only minor changes

iphone August 31st, 2009

Filed under: Retail
The Apple Store is back up, with no major changes. It appears to have just been a maintenance update a chance for Apple to change out the graphics on the Mac images to indicate that new machines come with Snow Leopard. [Thanks to everyone who sent that in!]
An earlier post went out claiming [...]

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Snow Leopard and Microsoft Exchange first impressions

iphone August 31st, 2009

Filed under: Enterprise, First Look, Snow Leopard
One of the things touted in this latest incarnation of Mac OSX was its ability to work with Microsoft Exchange using Apple’s Mail, Address Book and iCal applications. Well, I’m happy to report that Snow Leopard does, in fact, work pretty well with Exchange 2007.
Granted, this is only [...]

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My Snow Leopard casualties: what’s not working in 10.6

iphone August 31st, 2009

Filed under: Software, Snow Leopard
Overall, I’m very happy with Snow Leopard, and loving all of the little refinements I keep stumbling upon. However, I want to mention a few pitfalls I ran into with my upgrade, on the off chance that anyone has a similar setup and might benefit from some advance warning, or any [...]

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Analyst Offers Thoughts on iPhone Success, Multi-Carrier Business …

iphone August 31st, 2009

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today issued a note to clients this morning offering his team’s thoughts on 14.

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Apple: "Exploding" iPhones succumbed to external pressure

iphone August 31st, 2009

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, iPhone
There’s been much news of “exploding” iPhones lately. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, the European Commission formally asked Apple to investigate a series of reports that users’ iPhones were abruptly cracking and/or catching fire. According to the French periodical Les Echos, an iPhone in Aix-en-Provence, France, started to “crackle [...]

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Talkcast reminder: 10pm ET Sunday, the Snow Leopard aftermath

iphone August 30th, 2009

Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts

Last week, we spent almost the entire hour shaking our heads and making “tsk, tsk” noises over the FCC responses to the Google Voice imbroglio. You can download the show, along with all past shows, from Talkshoe or subscribe in iTunes.
We’ll be back live tonight with a hearty helping [...]

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Three for three: Friday’s trifecta of Snow Leopard upgrades

iphone August 30th, 2009

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Blogging, iMac, Macbook Pro, MacBook Air, Snow Leopard
If you joined us Friday night for the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard liveblog, you probably saw me say that I didn’t have many issues with the upgrade. That’s an understatement — I think Snow Leopard is one of the smoothest [...]

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Snow Leopard nice touch: no more "Picture 1" files

iphone August 30th, 2009

Filed under: Snow Leopard

I’ve always been a fan of ?-Shift-4 for taking quick and easy screenshots on my Mac, even with such level-up options as Jing, Skitch, GrabUp and LittleSnapper readily to hand. What I wasn’t a fan of, however, was the proliferation of “Picture 1,” “Picture 2,”… up to “Picture N” screenshot files [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server pricing is good for business

iphone August 30th, 2009

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Enterprise, OS, Xserve, Mac mini, Mac OS X Server, Snow Leopard
In this morning’s rush to figure out what had changed at the Apple Store, one of our readers pointed out that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server (US$499 for an unlimited license) was priced lower than Leopard Server (US$999 [...]

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CrunchDeals: DropCopy for the iPhone is free

iphone August 30th, 2009

Looking for any easy way to transfer photos or files from one iPhone to another or an iPod Touch or Mac? Well, friend, …

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