Apple’s iTunes Store just had its 10 billionth song downloaded Wednesday. Things Happen That Way by Johnny Cash was downloaded by Louie Sulcer of Georgia, USA, who will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate for downloading the 10,000,000,000th song.
Steve Jobs turns 55
Feb 24
Today marks Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs’ 55th birthday.
Happy birthday, Steve. More power to you.
Firmware Restoration CD 1.8, Graphics Firmware Update 1.0, and iMac Late 2009 Windows 7 Drivers
Jan 20
The Firmware Restoration CD can restore the firmware of an Intel-based Macintosh computer. Restoring your firmware will reset some of your computer’s preferences to defaults.
You can only use this to restore the firmware after an interrupted or unsuccessful update. If your computer is already in this state, you’ll need to download the software and create [...]
Boot Camp updates
Jan 20
Boot Camp Utility for Windows 7 Upgrade Installation Utility is to be used before upgrading from Vista to Windows 7. This utility safely unmounts the read-only Macintosh volume on Microsoft Vista. This addresses the issue where using Boot Camp 3.1 or later, upgrading from Microsoft Vista to Windows 7 will result in an alert with [...]
Iron Mac
Jan 20
TUAW featured an Iron Man sticker mod for the MacBook at Etsy. The sticker cost $16.00 plus shipping (for international orders).
The sticker mod looks real cool but I think it will only fit on a 15-inch MacBook Pro. I’d go for sticker that features Apple, Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs but to avoid being called a [...]
Apple has released Security Update 2010-001 Client and Server for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Security Update 2010-001 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
The update addresses issues with CoreAudio, CUPS, Flash Player Plug-in, ImageIO, Image RAW, and OpenSSL. Read more here.
The update is available via Software Update or can be downloaded manually [...]
iPhone carrier news
Dec 12
KT Corp., Apple’s official iPhone carrier in South Korea, announced that an estimated 60,000 iPhones were sold on its first day of sale in the country. The 60,000 iPhones sold in one day already represents 15 per cent of the 400,000 smartphones sold in South Korea in the third quarter of 2009. In the meantime, China [...]
Apple released EFI firmware updates for the MacBook and MacBook Pro as well as SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0
MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.4 and MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.8 will eliminate the noise made by the optical disk drive during system startup and wake from sleep on MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. When installation is [...]
One of the things I like about the iTunes Store is the ability to listen to a 30-second preview of any song. Very useful when trying to decide whether to purchase an entire album or just purchase individual songs.
The problem was when I wanted to listen to the preview of all the songs in [...]
MacNN reported that an iPhone developer has been banned and had it’s entire library of iPhone apps pulled from the App Store for their unscrupulous practice of using shills to get good rating reviews.
Molinker has its library of 1,011 iPhone apps yanked from the App Store due to suspicions raised by users regarding the veracity [...]
The latest data from market research firm NPD Group shows Apple performing very well in U.S. PC sales for the month of October. The 21.5-inch iMac and 27-inch iMac are in first and third place, respectively, under the desktop category while the low-end 13-inch MacBook Pro took the top spot in notebook sales figures. Apple [...]
iPhone news mash-up
Dec 6
Just a quick rundown of iPhone-related news and bits for the past week or so.
New iPhone in the horizon
iPhone analytics firm, Pinch Media, has gotten the word out that the next generation iPhone is already in the wild. MacRumors says that Pinch Media’s iBart application for the iPhone has logged a device that identified itself [...]
Apple has just released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 version 6 and Mac OS X 10.6 version 1 updates. The Java update for Leopard disables Java version 1.4.2 since it’s no longer being updated for bug fixes and security issues.
Mac OS X 10.5 version 6 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for J2SE 5.0 [...]
