Macs Can Video Call Over 19 Million iPhone 4 & iPod touch Users
[singlepic id=163 w=320 h=240 float=right] CUPERTINO, California—October 20, 2010—Apple® today announced the public beta of FaceTime® for Mac®, an entirely new application that allows Mac users to video call iPhone® 4 and iPod touch®* users as well as other Macs. Featuring an easy to use interface, FaceTime for Mac automatically uses your Address Book contacts so there’s no need to create special buddy lists, and it works seamlessly with the built-in camera and mic on Mac notebooks, iMac® and Apple LED Cinema Displays. Continue reading “Apple Brings FaceTime to the Mac” »Finally, I upgraded the harddisk of my 15″ MacBook Pro Unibody (late 2008) to a 500 GB Seagate Momentus XT solid state hybrid hdd. At first I hesitated because of the various reports about vibrations and heat issues. Eventually the moment arrived when I ran out of free space on my original 250 GB Hitachi drive and it left me no choice. As I was already using Squeezer which saved me a considerable amount of GBs and I couldn’t free any more space.

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Apple just released the GM (Golden Master) candidate for developers. I downloaded and tested the new iOS 4 yesterday on my iPhone 3G 16GB. I skipped the betas as it’s currently my only phone and some of the betas were reported to render the iPhone pretty unstable.
This final release of the new iPhone OS 4 (now called iOS 4 as its range of target devices has been extended to iPhone, iPod and iPad) works fine and stable on my old iPhone 3G. I still can’t record videos and have to pass the multitasking feature due to lack of CPU power.
Continue reading “iOS 4 – a 24h test on the iPhone 3G (not 3GS)” »
Not every provider has approved tethering with your iPhone. Some countries even have a netlock installed on their devices and Apple has locked up access to most parts of the iPhone OS for any user.
There are a few jailbreak solutions out there and I had an early try with QuickPWN which didn’t work out as expected. After that I didn’t even bother trying out yellowsn0w or any of the other colored snow cracks. Continue reading “iPhone 3.1.2 jailbreak: Net, SIM, Tethering lock – unlock it all” »

Just saw the new iMac in the video ad on Apple’s home page. The highest spec machine will house a 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5 Quad Core CPU and all the memory and storage you’ll ever need in a 27-inch display. Wow, I definitely need this!
The 21.5-inch models and the 27-inch 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac are already available from $1200 to $1700. The Quad Core iMac starts shipping in November 2009. Continue reading “New iMac released – 27-inch LED display and Intel i5 Quad Core” »
Just wanted to share this as we all can get the double amount of bonus storage per referral until end of August 2009. So only a few days left, hurry up and get your free online storage now!
Continue reading “SugarSync free online storage and double bonus storage until Aug 31st” »
Have tried the iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 for a couple of days now and am not too impressed. Tethering, Copy/Paste and A2DP were the main features I wanted to use early. Copy and Paste work. Continue reading “Review: iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 firmware – ups and downs” »
Apple’s App Store has been a huge success and is looking forward to the download #1,000,000,000 (one billion)! Be the billionth user to download an app in the App Store or just use the alternative web form to paricipate and you can win a new 17″ MacBook Pro, a TimeCapsule, an iPod touch and a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. Each person is allowed 25 submissions per day.
Hurry up, only a few hours left to get this awesome bundle of 14 apps for your Mac on MacHeist 3!
This time MacHeist 3 offers you a great bundle of apps and 25% of the sales go to charity. They already raised over $600,000 and still a few hours to go. The initial 12 apps has been topped up with 2 bonus apps Cro-Mag Rally and Times which gives you 14 apps total. And that number doesn’t even include the free EventBox and many other apps that were given away for free on Twitter. Check your loot on MacHeist.
I already bought 2 bundles. 1 for me and another as a gift. I’m not affiliated with MacHeist in any type nor do I get any money for it. It’s just a great deal and a win-win for everybody.
Don’t miss it, go right to MacHeist and order your bundle now before it’s too late!
This offer will probably end at 00:00 ET on Apr 7th 2009.



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