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It seems that during the few weeks we were down, a lot has happened in terms of worldwide iPhone carrier agreements. We will discuss the details of Apple’s next generation iPhone in the coming days, but it is important to note that Apple will be staggering worldwide launches following the Worldwide Developers Conference.
Those countries currently selling the iPhone will receive their first shipments at a similar time to AT&T in the United States (where shipments are already arriving on both the West and East coasts). Vodafone is expected to be next off the block with a launch near the end of the month (though there is some speculation that New Zealand and Australian stores will be permitted to begin selling iPhones as of next Tuesday), followed by the remaining, mostly smaller, carriers late July through early August. We have complied what we hope to be a conclusive list of those who have an agreement to distribute the iPhone in their country of operation…
Posted in Main Item, News | No Comments »May 6th, 2008
As widely expected, Vodafone will become a dominate iPhone supplier following the signing an agreement with Apple today to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in New Zealand, Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network. It appears that the deal will be exclusive, although there are suspicions that an unlocked model will be made available in some markets (as in France). Of note, Vodafone New Zealand has recently started locking phones…
Posted in Main Item, News | No Comments »April 20th, 2008
I began writing this review while on the bus home from university. Having carried a PowerBook in my backpack in previous years, the MacBook Air is certainly a welcomed change. While not a laptop for power users, it is more than adequate for lighter use. But how does it really benchmark against other Macs? Are common criticisms online and in the media founded on real use or simply conjecture? Since the release of the MacBook Air, almost every major publication has released a review of some sort. Instead of evaluating every aspect of the MacBook Air, this review will focus on some of the more common concerns and differences between the Air and its larger counterparts, the MacBook and the MacBook Pro…
Posted in Features, Hardware, Main Item, Reviews | No Comments »April 14th, 2008
Oh yes, you read the title right. Psystar has announced plans to start selling a US$399 tower capable of running Mac OS X. Not only that, but they claim they’ll also pre-install our favourite OS if you want them to. Their site is currently being bombarded with traffic, so we’ll fill you in on the details. Spec wise, it is definitely more powerful than a Mac mini, with a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, along with 2GB of DDR2 667 memory, a DVD burner, 4 USB ports and 250GB 7200RPM hard drive. Though it only includes integrate graphics, there is an option to upgrade to a more powerful dedicated chip from the likes of NVIDIA or ATI…
Posted in Main Item, News | No Comments »April 8th, 2008
Originally demonstrated last year, Apple today announced that Final Cut Server, a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation, is now shipping. A scaleable server application, Final Cut Server automatically catalogs large collections of assets, allows searching across multiple disks and SAN volumes and enables viewing, annotation and approval of content from anywhere using a PC or Mac…
Posted in Main Item, News | No Comments »March 29th, 2008
Apple today released Aperture 2.1, which introduces an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy for photographers to use specialized third party imaging software right from within Aperture. Available today as a free software update, Aperture 2.1 includes the Apple-developed plug-in, Dodge & Burn, which adds brush-based tools for dodge (lighten), burn (darken), contrast, saturation, sharpen and blur. Over the coming months, third party software developers will deliver image editing plug-ins for localized editing, filters and effects, noise analysis and reduction, fisheye lens correction and more…
Posted in Main Item, News | No Comments »March 7th, 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.
Posted in Main Item, News | No Comments »February 28th, 2008
As reported yesterday, Apple’s iPhone software roadmap will be officially unveiled in March. Although it will not meet the company’s original February timeframe, Apple has sent out an invitation to a 10:00 iPhone focused event on March 6 at their Cupertino headquarters which will focus not only on an iPhone software development kit (SDK), but also much awaited enterprise functionality for corporations and also educational institutions. Additionally, the event is likely to cover future global availablity of the iPhone, which is currently only officially available in the US, UK and parts of Europe…
Posted in Features, Main Item, News | No Comments »February 26th, 2008
As expected, Apple today updated its popular MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with Intel’s new Penryn chips, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and the new Multi-Touch trackpad featured in the MacBook Air. The new MacBook Pro features the latest Intel Core 2 Duo technology with up to a 2.6 GHz processor with 6MB of shared L2 cache; up to 4GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory and up to a 300GB hard drive, plus NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with up to 512MB of video memory…
Posted in Main Item, News | No Comments »February 12th, 2008
Apple today introduced Aperture 2 (why it wasn’t announced at PMA several weeks ago isn’t clear), the next major release of its professional photo editing and management software with over 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use and more powerful. With a streamlined user interface and entirely new image processing engine, Aperture 2 also introduces new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and RAW fine-tuning, and lets users directly post their portfolios on the .Mac Web Gallery for viewing on the web, iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV. Not only will the new interface appeal to iPhoto users (many of the key new interface have been adopted from iPhoto ‘08), but so will the new price of US$199…
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