iTunes 8.1 Release Is Imminent

UPDATED

Apple is planning to release iTunes 8.1 on as early as Wednesday March 11th, 2009.

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In addition to that Apple has released iPhone Remote.app 1.2 that adds bug fixes and compatibility with iTunes 8.1.

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iTunes 8.1 is available for Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) and Windows (XP and Vista).

About iPhone Carrier Update

Apple pushes “iPhone Carrier Update” through iTunes sometimes late Friday Night, Feb 06th 2009.

What is it? TUAW talks about it a little bit.

This is what’s inside the “iPhone Carrier Update” for AT&T network (ATT_US.ipcc 32KB)

From carrier.strings

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The content corresponds with Carrier Services settings in the iPhone.

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Content of carrier.plist

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Some un-viewable PNG are also included.

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Apple Releases iPhone Software 2.2.1

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Tuesday afternoon, Apple releases iPhone Software 2.2.1 with bug fixes and improvements including:

  • Improves the general stability of Safari.
  • Fixes an issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll.

This update is available for both iPhone and iPhone 3G.

  • iPhone Software 2.2.1: iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw 245.7MB
  • iPhone 3G Software 2.2.1: iPhone1,2_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw 246.4MB

By convention, iPod touch Software 2.2.1 should also be released today. I don’t have any iPod touch with me as of this moment.

Recap: Steve Jobs, Circuit City, Songsmith, and Palm Pre

There are a lot of news items that I have not writte about yet for the past 7 days. It’s time for me to catch up with them.

Steve Jobs is going on a medical leave of absence.

January 14th, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:

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In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

Circuit City is going out of business after filing Chapter 11. Download the PDF’s below:

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Microsoft Songsmith, and the ad features MacBook Pro.

Songsmith is for Windows OS only, Mac users can cry in the corner; or will they?

Download Songsmith here.

It is so great that it produced music to accompany David Lee Roth.

Palm Pre, the would be savior of Palm.

Palm is back with a new OS and new SmartPhone in the form of Palm Pre. It looks promising so far, and some anti-Apple movement crowd are hoping that Palm Pre would be the iPhone killer.

Apple Recommends Amazon Mobile

Drumroll please. Apple App Store Pick of the Week is: Amazon Mobile.

This is something refreshing since Amazon MP3 Store is the closest and best competition to iTunes Store. At this point, Amazon Mobile does not allow direct MP3 download on the iPhone and iPod touch yet.

Let’s see if Apple will let Amazon sells MP3 direct to iPhone and iPod touch.

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