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June 23, 2009

Apple Updates AirPort Base Station Firmware and Final Cut Pro

Late Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 Apple releases updates to AirPort base Station Firmware and Final Cut Pro.

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Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.4.2

The Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n* Firmware 7.4.2 update provides several fixes.

“Back to My Mac” is finally working with the Time Capsule.

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Final Cut Pro 6.0.6

This update fixes problems with real-time playback in Final Cut Pro with Mac Pro (Early 2009) models and Xserve (Early 2009) models.

June 23, 2009

Anything Goes: June 23rd, 2009 Edition.

What a day so far and I don’t remember most of it.

Ed McMahon dies at 86 (Reuters) | A friend broke the news to me early in the morning. Ed McMahon is an American Pop Culture icon. Just in case you want to know more about Ed McMahon, Wikipedia has a great article about him.
Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn’t Age (ABC News) | A medical mystery. Sometimes parents wished their baby would never grew up. This is not really what they meant.
AT&T Navigator brings true turn-by-turn navigation to Apple iPhone for $9.99/mo. (MacDailyNews) | Apparently AT&T believes that their customers are not paying them enough. Word of advice, wait until other companies offer navigation apps for the iPhone. To be fair, AT&T will provide automatic updates and real traffic alert. Once again, compare it to other similar service/apps.
Iran bans prayers for ‘Angel of Freedom’ Neda Agha Soltan (Telegraph.co.uk) | In keeping with the theme, Iran should also ban thinking and speaking. Wait a minute, in a way they’ve already done so.

June 22, 2009

Triumph Visits Bonnaroo Pt1 & Pt2 (06/19/09)

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

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June 22, 2009

iPhone Apps: AIM Now Includes Push Notification.

AOL’s chat client for iPhone has just been updated. Now AIM iPhone client is OS 3.0 compliant and supports Push Notification.

AIM client for iPhone comes in two flavor; free and paid version.

June 22, 2009

Dream Theater: “Black Clouds & Silver Linings” has been shipped.

I just got an email notifications from Amazon.com. They are shipping Dream Theater’s “Black Cloud & Silver Linings” Special Edition CD out. Since I opted for standard shipping, I won’t be getting it on Tuesday.

The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com:
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Qty Item Price Shipped Subtotal
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Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC):
1 Black Clouds & Silver Lini… $14.49 1 $14.49

I’m still thinking about getting the DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION BOX SET ($132.00), but don’t really want to spend that much money.

Dream Theater: Black Clouds & Silver Lining

June 22, 2009

Anything Goes: June 22nd, 2009 Edition.

It’s Monday and I feel fine. It’s not even close to the end of the world.

News from the series of tubes:

Source Code to UAC Injection Flaw Released (OSNews) | Bad news for Windows 7. Microsoft better get this fixed quickly if they think that this i important. Ah well, I’m gonna stick with Windows XP. Take that Paul Thurrott (a.k.a. Microsoft P.R.).
Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models (Apple) | Is that iPhone 3G S or iPhone 3GS? More importantly, the press release quoted Steve Jobs who is due to be back at Apple this June. The news about Steve Jobs’ liver transplant was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ works great, but thieves can easily disable (CNET) | I submitted the same concern to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/.
Iran’s Web Spying Aided By Western Technology (WSJ) | It’s a double edged sword.
U.S. Climate Legislation Won’t Regulate Cow Burps (GreenBiz.com) | Seriously, can you threaten those cows so they’d stop burping? Funny headline though. Quoted article from Washington Post.

to be continued…….maybe

June 22, 2009

Apple adresses MacBook Pro SATA transfer rate issue, somewhat.

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Apple to day releases MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 to address the SATA transfer speed issue. As previoulsy reported by many, the new generation of 13-inch and 15-inch Unibody MacBook Pros support 1.5Gbps SATA interface instead of 3Gbps as present in the previous Unibody 13-inch MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro. (Mac Rumors article)

According to Apple:

About MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 | 3.35MB
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbps, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported.
(June 22, 2009)

What does this mean?
Are the new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro natively supporting 3.0Gbps SATA interface?
It seems that the MacBook Pros are capable, but Apple does not officially support it.