Apple is asking iPhone Developers to test their Push Notification service using a selected pre-release application from Associated Press. The AP application requires iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5.
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.7, Safari Updates, and Security Update 2009-002.
May 12th, 2009.
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.7, Security Updates 2009-002 for Mac OS X Tiger , Safari 3.2.3 and New Safari 4 Public Beta.
Safari 3.2.3 and Safari 4 Public Beta are available for Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger) and Windows (Vista and XP).
The updates are avaialble through Apple Software Updates and Apple Support Downloads page.
iPhone App: The Expensive SlingPlayer Mobile
Apparently the people at Sling Media doesn’t want to sell much of the highly anticipated SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone. Confidently and uniformly priced at $29.99, SlingPlayer Mobile is available for BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile in addition to the iPhone.
With such price point, Sling Media will have a tougher time to sell the app. SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone supports streaming only on Wi-Fi, while it supports streaming on 3G connections on other platforms.
More info on SlingPlayer Mobile http://slingmedia.com/go/spm
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone http://slingmedia.com/go/iphone
SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone is available at iTunes Store.
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 Expires on May 9th, 2009.
UPDATE:
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 is expiring around June 19th, 2009. Get iPhone OS 3.0 Official Release through iTunes.
As we have reported before, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta carries an expiration date. For those who has iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 still on their phone might have some purple shock today. As the software hits the expiration date, the iPhone displays purple screen with instructions to connect to iTunes. When connected, iTunes warned that the software has expired and must be updated to the newer version. In this state, the iPhone is rendered useless except for emergency calls. The most current version is iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 as of May 9th, 2009. Based on the expiration date of previous builds, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 will expire on June 1st, 2009.
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 and iTunes 8.2 Pre-release (b10)
May 6th, 2009. Wednesday evening, Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 (Build: 7A312g) along with the SDK and new build of iTunes 8.2. This marks the first time Apple breaks the release cycles between iPhone OS 3.0 Beta revisions. Up to Beta 4, the release was in two-week-interval.
In the meantime, Mac OS X 10.5.7 is rumored to see release as early as Friday May 8th, 2009. As we had found out before, note-syncing in iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 required Mac OS X 10.5.7.
iTunes 8.2 Pre-release (b10) is available for Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) and Windows XP/Vista (32-bit and 64-bit).
Moron of The Week: Adam Frucci of Gizmodo
Yet another gem from Gizmodo, where common sense is not required. It is Adam Frucci who must be desperate for page-views on his contributions. Spare yourself from reading the abomination that is his so-called article. A not-so-well-thought-out excerpt:
“Every single Mac app costs money. Where’s the freeware on Macs? On the PC, I used Texter to create macros for things I type a lot, which is free. On the Mac, there’s TextExpander, and it’s $30. There are loads of free FTP clients for the PC. On Mac, you use Transmit, and it’s $30. Tweetie is a nice enough Twitter client, but it sure isn’t $15 worth of nice. TextMate is a great, robust text editor, but no text editor is worth $54.”
Seriously? Every single Mac app costs money?
I guess Adam Frucci is the authority of computing world. He knows for sure that every single Mac app costs money. There are no freeware.
- I wonder what Filezilla is. It is an open source FTP client that is available for Linux, Mac and Windows. It is also free.
- There’s Cyberduck. “Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Mosso Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac.” It is also free.
- There are other free Mac OS X FTP clients.
Evaluating the statement about the absence of freeware on Mac OS platform, we hereby award Adam Frucci as Moron of The Week.
Way to go for perpetuating the idiotic Mac vs. Windows argument, Mr. Adam Frucci. Please stop using computer now.
If you want to read his idiotic “article” just search for “Adam Frucci Mac Freeware” using your favorite search engine (Google).
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 and iTunes 8.2
Some notes regarding iPhone OS 3.0 and iTunes 8.2:
- Syncing notes requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later.
- “Store” Settings is now working.
- iPhone performance is much improved compared to Beta 3.
This begs the question: Is Mac OS X 10.5.7 about to be released?
More will be added as they surfaced.