Yesterday Apple launched new iMacs, a new Mac Pro, a new Cinema Display and…a Battery Charger. Yes, it was a great day. And yes, many “pro” users still don’t know whether they should out their works in the hands of a Mac Pro beast or just go with an iMac by choosing the highest configuration. I mean, those are powerful machines, right?
Let Marco Arment tell you what you should do.
If the iPad is supposed to be the future of publishing, you’d expect a subscription based model here or there right? Well apparently not. If you’re curious as to why publications like Wired and Men’s Health sell individual issues at higher than average prices, it’s because they’re unable to adopt a subscription model.
I really don’t know what’s wrong with these people losing prototypes. I mean, are they actually losing them, or intentionally dropping them to see them end up on blogs and secretly rejoice for what they did? We’ll never know.
Pano was one of the applications I used the most on my old iPhone 3GS: it’s an awesome photography application that lets you take a series of pictures to build a panoramic view. It’s simple and produces stunning results.
Too bad that as I got the iPhone 4 I tried to install Pano, take some a picture and…it crashed. I tried again, and it kept crashing. Something was wrong with the iPhone 4 camera, I figured. Now, I’ve just noticed an update for Pano in iTunes, which fixes those camera incompatibilities and makes the app fully compatible with the new device.
Awesome news. Pano is available at $2.99 in the App Store.
If you haven’t updated to Safari 5.0.1 yet for Safari Extensions, maybe you should to address a recent security vulnerability? MacRumors reports that the latest update addresses a critical flaw that could allow malicious sites to gather Address Book information. According to Apple,
Safari’s AutoFill feature can automatically fill out web forms using designated information in your Mac OS X Address Book, Outlook, or Windows Address Book. By design, user action is required for AutoFill to operate within a web form. An implementation issue exists that allows a maliciously crafted website to trigger AutoFill without user interaction.
For more information regarding the security content of Safari, be sure to check out Apple’s official document here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4276
[via MacRumors]
Yesterday, we got to play with a slew of new iMacs, a new Magic Trackpad, and a six pack of Apple rechargeable batteries. New devices in hand, you may want to navigate over to your nearest Software Update. Not only might you have a new gesture in store, as of this morning, you can get an update to Safari v 5.0.1.
On top of that, Apple has launched their latest Safari Extensions Gallery which is chock full of awesome new software. If you visit extensions.apple.com in a non-Safari or outdated browser, you’ll get a basic info page. Once updated, you’ll be received with a warming welcome and new toys to play with via plentiful download links. Check out the PR after the break.
Courtesy of 9to5mac, a video with some first impressions of the new “magical” device from Apple. It looks good. But it’ll look even better next to my new iMac in a few weeks.
For those who rushed out to buy one of Apple’s new Core i3 iMacs or a fancy Magic Trackpad, Apple already has a some updates for Mac OS X 10.6.4 and Mac OS X Server. Owners of MacBooks with multi-touch capable trackpads with may also find a new gesture in their update.
According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as “selfish elites” while have-not critics are “independent geeks.”
Consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm’s conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness. In other words, “selfish elites.”
“As a mainstream, closed-platform device whose major claim to fame is ease of use and sex appeal, the iPad is everything that they are not.”
I’m dying to know how these studies actually work. The more I think about it, the more I picture “experts” trying to extort information from scared iPad users inside Apple’s anechoic chambers.
