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June 30, 2009

Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta build 7C97d.

Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta build 7C97d and iPhone SDK 3.1 build 9M2736a
Build date: June 28th, 2009

There are some API changes, but there is nothing major yet. For those who doesn’t do any development on the iPhone OS should have no reasons looking for the disk image. There are no visible major changes.

No further informations are available yet.

Please do not install this beta software unless you want to deal with the bugs. Plus the beta software will expire at a certain date and your iPhone will be rendered useless until you update to the newer software builds.

iPhone1,1_3.1_7C97d_Restore.ipsw
iPhone1,2_3.1_7C97d_Restore.ipsw
iPhone2,1_3.1_7C97d_Restore.ipsw

June 30, 2009

Skype 4.1 for Windows is Now Available.

Skype (the company) has released Skype 4.1 (the software) for Windows today (that’s June 30th, 2009).

Skype 4.1 for Windows features (among others):

Screen sharing
Send contacts
Birthday reminders

Skype 4.1 is available for Windows 2000, XP and Vista (assuming that it also works in Windows 7).

Read the press release (in PDF) here.

As usual, the versions for Linux and Mac are lagging behind at version 2.0 and 2.7 respectively.

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June 30, 2009

Firefox 3.5 is Released

June 30th, 2009.

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is officially released with HTML 5 support.

Firefox 3.5 is available for Linux, Mac and Windows Operating Systems.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Firefox 3.5

June 24, 2009

Anything Goes: June 24th, 2009 Edition.

I had quite a crazy morning with Outlook and Exchange Server. Then I went to the Apple Store to get a 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery replaced. It only has 70 full-charge-cycles and it lasts about 5 minutes of charge.

Bunch of letters and numbers and punctuations from the series of tubes:

Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today (ThreatsWatch.org) | Video is from CNN. Contain graphics picture.
Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware (ZDNet) | Twitter users have been victims of account-hijacking for quite sometimes now. This is not the first time certainly won’t be the last for a foreseeable future. Obviously this is the same trojan aimed at Mac and Windows users. It is way too obvious that ActiveX plugin on Mac OS X is a trojan. Please be careful no matter what operating system you’re using.
SPINAL TAP: ‘Back From The Dead’ First-Week Sales Revealed (Blabbermouth.net) | It sold 10,000 copies on its first week of release. Buy this CD from Amazon.com! (read disclaimer at the end of this post.) It is better than majority of music released this year so far.
Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries (SlashDot) | Printer manufacturers have tried doing something similar. Then again there are a lot of poor quality third party batteries being sold.

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Disclaimer

If you bought anything through Amazon link above, and I get some kickbacks.

“If you buy Spinal Tap: Back From The Dead CD, I can buy this Canon Vixia HV40 HDV Camcorder” to paraphrase the great Robert Schimmel.

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 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.

June 22, 2009

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Apps that no longer work.

Some apps are not compatible yet with Snow Leopard.

Cyberduck | Probably because the Finder is rewritten.
iStumbler | Probably because the AirPort Software is different.
folder.qlgenerator | Once again, that’s probably the Finder is rewritten.
Apple Remote Desktop Admin | The built-in client in Snow Leopard is version 3.3, the current release is 3.2.2.