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Apple TV, Apple iPhone, and New Airport Extreme 802.11n

Thanks to bad WiFi receptions, bandwidth hog and some other factor, I didn’t get to connect to the internet at MacWorld.

Ayway, two new products from Apple announced by Steve Jobs.

  1. Apple TV
    http://www.apple.com/appletv/
    Priced $299 (U.S.) and will ship in February.
    As expected, it has 40GB hard drive for local caching and storage.
    “It is a cool product, but not necessarily a must have product at this point. I will find out more before making any purchasing decision.”
  2. Apple iPhone
    http://www.apple.com/iphone/
    Tentatively scheduled for released in June 2006 (U.S.)
    GSM Quad Band (no 3G) and EDGE
    Cingular exclusive (for U.S.)
    $499 (4GB) and $599 (8GB) with 2 year contract.
    3.5 inch screen at 3:2 ratio (landscape)
    Operating System: OS X
    iPod capability
    Built-in 2.0 megapixels camera
    802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
    “Yikes! It is basically a Mac. I’m surprised that it’s not called MacPhone. One thing that might stop me from getting this so called phone is the price with 2 year contract. Now I have to wait till June to spend my hard earned money.”

Apple also shows off the newly redesigned and updated Airport Extreme Base Station.
http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/
It now officially supports 802.11n protocol, offering up to five times the speed and twice the range compares to 802.11g protocol. It has one WAN port and three LAN port. It also has one USB 2.0 port that can be used for printer sharing or USB mass storage sharing.

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Microsoft Releases Updates for Mac Office (01.09.2006)

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3 Update

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.

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Microsoft Office v. X for Mac 10.1.9 Update

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office v. X updates.

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I Need More RAM to Run Windows Vista

I have been using Windows Vista on my HP notebook. I only have 768MB of RAM. Running Vista on this moderately powerful computer is not a walk in the park. The weakest link is the integrated Radeon Mobility XPress 200 with 128MB shared RAM. It got the experience rating of 2, while the other components got 3 to 3.5 rating.

Anyone wants to donate 2x1GB PC2700 SO-DIMM? It’s for HP L2005US

Just a shot in the dark.

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Links for MacWorld Live Coverage

UPDATE:
Thanks to slower-than-modem Wi-Fi connection I had been unable to add the links on time.
I have added more links after Steve Jobs’ Keynote ends. The coverage provided great insight on the Keynote.

Watch the Keynote webcast
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/keynote/
or
http://www.apple.com/iphone/keynote/

Many Mac-sites will be providing live coverage on Steve Jobs’ Keynote on Macworld San Francisco. More links will be added as they post their links to MacWorld Live Coverage.

MacScoop – http://keynote.macscoop.com/

LoopRumors – http://www.looprumors.com/keynote.php

Mac Rumors – http://www.macrumors.com/events/mwsf2007.html

Mac OS Rumors – http://specialevent.macosrumors.com:17530/

Think Secret – http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0701mwsflive.html

The Mac Observer – http://live.macobserver.com/article/2007/01/mwsfkeynote.shtml

Macsimum News – http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/todays_the_day_steve_jobs_mwsf_keynote/

MacDailyNews – http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/12203/

I will be posting updates from MacWorld.

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WordPress Tag Surfer Time Machine

I use the “Tag Surfer” feature often enough, and just now for some reasons it shows much older postings from 7 months and 7 years ago. What is going on???

WordPress Admins, this must be a glitch.

Click on the pictures for actual size.

WordPress Tag Surfer - Top Page, posts from 6 monhts ago. WordPress Tag Surfer - Middle of Page, posts from 7 years ago.

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Yahoo! Hostings and WordPress 2.0.6

I have been using Yahoo! for my personal web-hosting for almost a year now. I also manage a few other sites hosted by Yahoo! and they have been relatively problem-free (not including the database crash I had a few months back).

When I started a blog on my personal site, I chose WordPress based on recommendations, reviews, and personal experience. One thing that I thought was great was that Yahoo! offers automatic WordPress software upgrade, and I chose that option. Currently my blog is still running WordPress 2.0.2 while version 2.0.6 was just released. I had contacted Yahoo! customer and technical support regarding the WordPress version. Unfortunately Yahoo! deems that there is no need to upgrade WorPress automatically, nor offers an easy to upgrade it manually.

Honestly I am a little bit “miffed” with Yahoo! on this matter. I have been searching for some documentations on upgrading WordPress using Yahoo! web-hosting. So far, I have found none.

I am currently running a mirror of my blog hosted by the good folks at WordPress.com and it has been generally excellent. One thing that I recently found out is that a little rant that I had might cause a little inconvenience with WordPress.com administrators.

Anyway, I am still looking for some instructions, informations, and feedback on upgrading WordPress using Yahoo! web-hosting.

The answer might lie here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/83231

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No Sleep ’till MacWorld San Francisco 2007

My Colleague and I are going to MacWorld San Francisco 2007. Thanks to the people who’s providing us some funds for lodging and transportation. We will be staying somewhere nearby the Moscone Center. Let’s see what Apple would do this year.

I’ll be somewhat reporting the whole trip to, at, and from MacWorld. As always, I’ll be posting entries on my blogs (37primeBlog and 37prime.worpress.com). I’ll attempt posting on both blogs at the same time, if possible. Most likely I’d be posting first on my main blog (37primeBlog), and add the entries to the “mirror” (37prime.wordpress.com) later on. My trusty MacBook Pro will be accompanying me along with my digital camera and video camera.

I am highly anticipating the arrival of the much fabled “Apple phone”. My current phones are at least 2 and 3 years old (Sony-Ericsson T616 and T637), both share 1 SIM card. Both phone don’t really work that well, and I’ve been swithcing between the two for the past few months.

No surprises when it comes to the iLife ’07 and iWork ’07; they are coming with some enhancements.

I have heard a  thing or two about the “iTV”; none of the rumor sites ever mentioned them. I trust my sources for the informations. If only they woud make Mac mini with “iTV” functionalities.

The usual upgrades/updates to Macintosh line would be no brainer. Then again, Apple will be releasing new and updated products throughout the first quarter of 2007. Special event in February? By doing so, Apple will stay in the media spotlight (no pun intended, or is it?) throughout the quarter and the year.

Many speculate that Apple would be releasing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on MacWorld. It’s such a wishful thinking based on the current state of Leopard Developer Preview Releases. Apple has not released any Leopard with Release Candidate label. To paraphrase Leo Laporte who’s quoting someone else, “Wouldn’t it be great for Apple to release Leopard two weeks before the actual Windows Vista release date?”

This is quite a long post……..

…to be continued

…maybe

p.s. Yes, the title was from Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep ’till Brooklyn”

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