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G5 Mac "Pro" (sic) receives Macquarium treatment
May 18th
All the little fishies
in bottom of the sea
wish that they were swimming
in my G5 Mac PC
Or for the geekier devs among you: Joy to NSFishies in the G5 PC, @selector(joy:) to you and me…
Video of the case conversion follows for your delectation.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5911431/these-mac-pro-updates-are-not-wha…
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/g5-mac-pro-receives-macquarium-treatment/
G-Technology G-Drive mobile: Rugged, pocket-sized, and fast
May 18th
The march of technology amazes me. Yeah, I’m an old guy, but it still surprises me when I realize that the amount of storage that used to fill a data center can now fit in my pocket. G-Technology’s G-Drive mobile (made by Hitachi, US$199.99 MSRP for 1 TB) is the perfect example of mass storage in a small, silent box. Read on for a review of this mobile companion and a chance to win one!
Design
There’s not much too say in terms of the design of the G-Drive mobile — it’s a slim metallic box 5 inches long, a little over 3 inches wide, and about 3/4 of an inch high. There’s no power port; the G-Drive is bus-powered by either FireWire (400/800) or USB 2.0. The device comes with cables for each connection. A single white LED on the front of the drive indicates when it is powered up and in use.
On the inside, there’s a 5400 RPM 1 TB drive with an 8 MB cache. For speed, I’d much rather see a 7200 RPM drive, but that would most likely drive up both the cost and power requirements of the drive. However, as you’ll see with the benchmarks, this is still a pretty fast drive despite the slower rotation speed of the disk.
The G-Drive mobile also comes in 500 MB ($149.99 MSRP) and 750 MB ($159.99) versions, although I’m at a loss why someone wouldn’t want to double their capacity for just fifty bucks more. I found the drive to run a bit hot — I had placed my iPhone on top of the drive at one point, and when I answered a call I wondered why the phone was so hot…
As with other
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/g-technology-g-drive-mobile-rugged-pocket-sized-and-fast/
Apple apparently censoring the word "jailbreak" in US iTunes Store (Updated)
May 18th
Update: TNW reports this has been fixed. Did Apple hire a bunch of temps lately?
Developers, musicians, and probably any other content provider in the U.S. iTunes Store have a new Apple policy to deal with this morning; you apparently can’t use the term “jailbreak” in a product description or name. If you do slip up, or happen to be like 70′s rock band Thin Lizzy and have a hit song and album by the name of “Jailbreak”, you’ll find that it has been censored by Apple.
Apple appears to be blanking out the word “Jailbreak” as J*******k in many cases where it appears on iTunes. Some Americans we’re talking to are not seeing the censorship, but we’re assuming that’s due to caching issues.
It’s not only in the music category; “jailbreak” is being censored on the App Store (above), in listings for TV episodes (including a G-rated episode of The Roy Rogers Show from 1951 — below), and even on a podcast on iTunes U about the Andy Griffith show. We’re not certain why Apple has chosen to do this — it could be that it’s an unintended outcome of trying to ban the use of the word on the App Store that went a little overboard. When the word “jailbreak” is outlawed, only outlaws will “jailbreak”…
Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/17/apple-censoring-jailbrea…
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/17/apple-apparently-censoring-the-word-jailbreak-in-us-itunes-sto/
Woz hired as technical advisor on Jobs biopic
May 18th
Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter for the Facebook-inspired The Social Network, is working on an adaptation of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. To help him in this quest, Sorkin has hired Steve Wozniak as a technical advisor, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Woz will help Sorkin accurately represent Jobs personality and show the technology that drove Steve Jobs’s life.
Sorkin said he wants to focus on a controversial or difficult time in Jobs’s life and won’t do a full-life story. He’s been busy working on another project and hasn’t decided what part of Jobs’s life he will cover. Work on the screenplay will begin in earnest over the summer.
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Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-stevej…
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/woz-hired-as-technical-advisor-on-jobs-biopic/
DropKey app encrypts Mac files, free through Sunday
May 18th
WellRed Apps launched its DropKey file encryption app for Mac last month, but realized that there’s one issue with gaining widespread acceptance — it takes two to tango, and it takes two copies of DropKey (one each for sender and recipient) to send files securely. The company had been giving away one free license with each purchase of DropKey, but is going all-out through Sunday by making the app completely free.
DropKey pairs 2048-bit keys with 256-bit encryption for incredible security. The app, which requires a Mac running OS X 10.7 or later, is integrated with Address Book and makes encryption drop-dead simple.
When you launch DropKey for the first time, it generates your public and private encryption keys. You can email your public key to a trusted recipient from the app, which adds the key information to your address book card on the recipient’s Mac. Prior to that time, a shared password is required; after the keys have been shared, you no longer need the password.
DropKey is a useful app if you need to send encrypted information to co-workers on a regular basis, and there’s no better time than now to download a copy for free from the Mac App Store.
Source: http://www.wellredapps.com/products/dropkey/
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/dropkey-app-encrypts-mac-files-free-through-sunday/
Apple assuming retail lease, plans to open new UK Apple Store
May 18th
Apple’s march to world domination continues, this time with a new Apple Store planned for the UK seaside city of Plymouth. What’s surprising about this store announcement is that Apple apparently made managers of a successful Zara fashion store at the Drake Circus Shopping Centre (above) in Plymouth “an offer they can’t refuse.”
The Zara store, which fills a 21,045 square-foot space in the mall, has about ten years to go on a fifteen-year lease. Zara is out; Apple will assume the lease for the remainder of the time. ifoAppleStore notes that this space is almost double the size of the standard Apple Store, so Apple may just occupy the ground floor and sublet the upper level.
26 Zara employees are losing their jobs as a result of the announced closing, but there’s a good chance that more jobs than that will be created when the Apple Store opens. The Drake Circus store is about 45 miles from the Princesshay Apple Store in Exeter, and fills in coverage for the Devon and Cornwall region of the country.
Source: http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Jobs-large-stores-close-Drak…
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/apple-assuming-retail-lease-plans-to-open-new-uk-apple-store/
Apple’s iTunes Festival scheduled for September
May 18th
Apple has announced some details on the 2012 iTunes Festival in London. This 30-day music event will take place at The Roundhouse and feature free performances by Usher, Emeli Sandé, Jack White, Norah Jones and One Direction among others.
Tickets will be distributed via lottery, and fans in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands can vie for a seat. Apple will stream performances to computers running iTunes and iPhones, iPod touches and iPads with the iTunes Festival app installed. The fun starts on September 1 and runs for the whole month.
Source: http://www.itunesfestival.com/
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/apples-itunes-festival-scheduled-for-september/
G5 Mac Pro receives Macquarium treatment
May 18th
All the little fishies
in bottom of the sea
wish that they were swimming
in my G5 Mac PC
Or for the geekier devs among you: Joy to NSFishies in the G5 PC, @selector(joy:) to you and me…
Video of the case conversion follows for your delectation.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5911431/these-mac-pro-updates-are-not-wha…
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/g5-mac-pro-receives-macquarium-treatment/
Daily Update for May 18, 2012
May 18th
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Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/daily-update-for-may-18-2012/
Motorola, RIM offer Apple a nano-SIM compromise
May 18th
The battle over the nano-SIM standard is heating up with Apple on one side and a group that includes Nokia, Motorola and RIM on the other. In the latest series of developments reported by The Verge, Motorola and RIM are countering Apple’s nano-SIM proposal with a revised design of their own. This newest design is a compromise which includes elements from both their design and Apple’s. It’s about “80 percent Apple and 20 percent RIM / Motorola” writes Chris Ziegler for The Verge.
We should hear more about the nano-SIM standard when the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) meets at the end of this month in Osaka, Japan.
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/17/3027724/rim-motorola-nokia…
Article source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/18/motorola-rim-offer-apple-a-nano-sim-compromise/