NetShare on iPhone 3GS

For those who are wondering if NetShare is still working with iPhone 3GS:

NetShare on iPhone 3GS with OS 3.1

For the record, it is also working with iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2.

Apple Releases iTunes 8.2.1

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Apple releases iTunes 8.2.1 today.

iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.

iTunes 8.2.1 provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.

iTunes 8.2.1 is available for Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.7, 10.6 and Windows XP/Vista.

Of course a lot of people are speculating and reporting that iTunes 8.2.1 breaks Palm Pre syncing.

Apple Seeds Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A411

Tuesday July 14th, 2009 afternoon; Apple seeds Mac OS X Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A411. The update is available through Software Update and weighs in on 748.1MB.

Snow Leopard Developer Preview 10A411 Update

As usual, Apple Developer Connection members are bound by the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

From Software Update:

This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A402 or later. This update includes general operating system fixes for stability, compatibility, and security.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Developer Preview is not recommended for casual users and production system since it still contains numbers of software bugs.

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This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A402 or later. This update includes general operating system fixes for stability, compatibility, and security.

Build 10A411 also includes Safari 4.0.3 to Snow Leopard.

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Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 build 7C106c.

Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 build 7C106c and iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 2 build 9M2804
Build date: July 13th, 2009

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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.

Changes are found in camera and the video editor.

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. As usual, Apple Developer NDA is in effect.

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Apple Seeds Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A402

Thursday July 9th, 2009 afternoon; Apple seeds Mac OS X Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A402. The update is available through Software Update and weighs in on 1.31GB.

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As usual, Apple Developer Connection members are bound by the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

From Software Update:

This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A394 or later. This update includes general operating system fixes for stability, compatibility, and security.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Developer Preview is not recommended for casual users and production system since it still contains numbers of software bugs.

Snow Leopard 10A402 Update

VLC 1.0.0 is Released.

The VideoLAN project has officially released VLC 1.0.0 codenamed Goldeneye. Download it now.

VLC 1.0.0 is a cross-platform media player, available for Linux, Mac, Windows and other Operating Systems.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.

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iPhone OS 3.1 beta: Safari Scores 100 in Acid3 Test, Somewhat.

iPhone OS 3.0 Safari scored 97 out of 100 in Acid3 Test. The newly seeded iPhone OS 3.1 beta (build 7c97d) includes a tweaked version of Safari that scores 100 out of 100 in Acid3 Test. Even though Safari scored 100, it still did not render the page identically to the reference page. Note the white X in the pink box on the top right corner of the test box.

iPhone OS 3.1 beta: Safari Acid3 Test 100

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Meanwhile, iPhone OS 3.1 beta Safari did not even pass Acid2 Test.

iPhone OS 3.1 beta: Safari Acid2 Test

Acid2 Test reference rendering below:

Acid2 Test Reference