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 [...]
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Electronista reported that new data from NetApplications have shown a drop of 0.15 per cent in Mac (all versions) web share for the month of November. In contrast, Windows 7 online traffic grew from 2.15 per cent in October to 4 per cent in November. Linux has taken back some of the traffic it lost [...]
AppleInsider reported that a small number of 27-inch Core-i7 iMacs are showing up dead on arrival. In some of the cases, users would hear the boot up chime after the power button has been pressed but nothing would show up on the screen. Worse, a few of the units arrived with a cracked display. There [...]
TUAW bloggers are finding subtle new refinements in Snow Leopard like the new naming scheme for pictures taken with the Grab utility or Photo Booth or the HDTV readiness of Mac OS X 10.6. Steven Sande, also from TUAW, has posted some of the Snow Leopard gems he’s found like auto-detection of time zones, system-wide symbol [...]
Globe has finally made the iPhone 3G cheaper under their iPhone Prepaid kit but the ridiculousness has jumped over to the GPlan/GFlex mobile plans.
iPhone and humidity
Aug 6
Can really humid conditions be blamed for iPhone warranty claim rejections? What other iPhone issues are linked to humidity?
Apple releases iPhone OS update to fix an SMS exploit.
AppleInsider reported that a virus database update over the weekend has caused AVG, a Windows anti-virus program, to falsely detect the iTunes software as a Trojan. The faulty database update is said to detect iTunes DLL files as the “Small.BOG” Trojan virus. AVG immediately posted a fix but some users might still continue experiencing issues [...]
Earlier today, I mention in a post that someone from Globe screwed up when they updated their iPhone Prepaid Kit pricing. Well, looks like somebody caught the mistake and they did an edit. They made the necessary correction to the 8GB iPhone 3G-3GS confusion. That’s the good news. All the while I thought that the [...]
Globe has updated their website for the iPhone 3GS Prepaid Kit but they could’ve done a better job. According to this webpage, under the iPhone 3GS Prepaid Kit, the 8GB iPhone 3GS costs P37,599 and the 16GB iPhone 3GS costs P43,799. Wow. Apple actually made an 8GB version of iPhone 3GS just for the Philippines.
MacDailyNews reports on a problem when moving data from a Mac to another hard drive in a network. Tom Kaprik identified the problem as the loss of data whenever a hard drive in a network a user is moving files to suddenly becomes disconnected. When a Mac user drags a file to another hard drive [...]
As with any OS release, there are bound to be problems with third-party applications. Before upgrading one of the things you must first do if find out whether your application under Tiger or Panther will run on Leopard (too many cats in this sentence). You should go to the developer’s website and see what they [...]
In one of my posts I said that Apple has already acknowledged that some users were encountering problems with their upgrade and it’s been attributed application enhancers. Though Apple didn’t specify a single software, most agree that the software would most probably be APE or Application Enhancer from Unsanity. However, according to a Macworld UK [...]
MacMerc reports that Apple has released a support article that confirms that “application enhancement” softwares are to be blame for reports of “blue screens” during the process of upgrading to Leopard. Mac OS X 10.5: “Blue screen” appears after installing Leopard and restarting Issue or symptom After completing an upgrade installation of Leopard and restarting [...]
