I love Apple’s MobileMe service – and the improvements that came to the Mail service last month were a huge step forward in the right direction, bringing features such as easy archiving, server side rules, vacation messages, and rich text formatting when composing messages on the web. Now that the update to the Mail service [...]
Apple traditionally gives out Apple Design Awards in several categories for Mac applications every year at WWDC, the Worldwide Developers Conference (running this week – keynote from Steve Jobs at 10am PST this morning). However, this year Apple did not have categories for Mac applications, only for iPhone. Therefore, the popular tech website Ars Technica [...]
Check out this awesome article reviewing the hot topic of the Apple developer TOS (Terms of Service), including some email correspondence between the article author and Steve Jobs. Read the article here.
With Apple’s announcement of the next version of the iPhone OS yesterday, Apple slipped in a contractual change that is raising some hairs in the development community. Previously section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer contract prohibited using private APIs in your application. With the announcement of iPhone OS 4, Apple added wording prohibiting using third [...]
Pretty exciting news from the WebKit team: This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We currently call this new framework “WebKit2″. WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where [...]
Apple announced the immediate availablility of a developer preview of the next version of the iPhone OS yesterday, with plans to bring the update to iPhone 3G & 3GS and late model iPod Touch users “sometime this summer”, with the iPad lagging behind “sometime this fall”. The announcement hinged upon seven major features, with well [...]
Adam Engst gets it: So what’s the difference between a Mac and an iPad? It’s that blank slate thing. No matter what you do on a Mac, the keyboard and mouse and window-based operating system make it impossible to ignore the fact that you’re using a Mac, and it’s often equally impossible to ignore the [...]
With every new product release, there are several skeptical reviewers and users who just don’t see the merit in the product, claiming a lack of functionality or expandability will ultimately put the device to death. The iPad is no different in this regard. There have been plenty of reports that the iPad launch would be [...]
Saturday April 3rd saw the introduction of the much anticipated Apple iPad. News sites and tech blogs especially will be providing tons of coverage of the new device and macfanatic is no exception here. I just purchased a 32GB model from my local Apple Store earlier this morning. In fact, I’m typing this review in [...]
Apple has released a slew of updates this week. Be sure to run Software Update to get: Snow Leopard 10.6.3 iTunes 9.1 iPhoto 8.1.1 iMovie 8.0.6