Apple

All I can say is... Finally!

The official release:

New HBO programs on iTunes include the Emmy Award-winning programs "The Sopranos," "Sex and the City," "Deadwood" and "Rome," as well as the critically acclaimed hits "Flight of the Conchords" and "The Wire." The iTunes Store is the world's most popular online TV store with over 150 million episodes sold and features the world's largest catalog with over 800 shows (over 20,000 episodes). READ MORE »

Apple has updated their product line to include the ultra portable Airport Express wireless base station to 802.11 N standard.

Priced at $99, it offers a premium mobile base station that offer Airtunes (iTunes streaming) and USB Printing. The Airport Express includes a built-in combination digital and audio audio connector, which will allow you to connect it to your home stereo or powered speakers. iTunes will detect this and permit you to stream music wirelessly to it. READ MORE »

Apple Announces iPhone 2.0 Software Beta

Includes SDK & Built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

CUPERTINO, California—March 6, 2008—Apple® today previewed its iPhone™ 2.0 software, scheduled for release this June, and announced the immediate availability of a beta release of the software to selected developers and enterprise customers. The iPhone 2.0 beta release includes both the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) as well as new enterprise features such as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide secure, over-the-air push email, contacts and calendars as well as remote wipe, and the addition of Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to private corporate networks. READ MORE »

The iPhone has finally exploded into the feature set it should've had all along. Now it integrates with Microsoft Exchange for enterprise users. It has licensed Active Sync from Microsoft and has made a seamless push technology for email, contacts, and address book. Additionally, it will support WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1x, and Cisco IPsec VPN. That should sell a few million iPhones right there. READ MORE »

Looks like Apple has sent out invitations to a special event on Thursday March 6th at the Apple Campus. Topics will include the new SDK and and some new enterprise features. Sounds like they are revving up to make a move on corporate America. Time will tell I guess. This is even exciting news for folks in Ireland, as O2 has announced the iPhone will be released there on March 14th.

While we all wait for this new SDK to surface, it never hurts to check out software for your Mac. The folks at Unsanity have released Leopard (10.5) compatible betas of their 'haxies' such as WindowsShade X, FruitMenu, and FontCard. The former two were two of the apps I bought when I bought my very first iBook back in 2004.

Are you an Apple collector or Fish lover? Perhaps you are in the market for one of those iMac Aquariums. These are bound to create a talking piece in any Mac lovers home. I imagine that due READ MORE »

Houda thought that Houdah Software would offer a free update to their file search utility HoudaSpot. With version 2.1, try out the new BlitzSearch feature; it lets you start your search as conveniently as Spotlight does. If you've tried HoudaSpot before, you know that it is everything that Spotlight SHOULD be, but isn't. READ MORE »

If you've been waiting to get the iPod Shuffle... it's a perfect time to pick one up. Now they are only $49 bucks for the 1Gb model! Apple is introducing a new 2GB model sometime in the immediate future at the $69 price point. Still a great value and making it oh so tough to compete for the other flash media players out there.