Jeff Gamet

Highlight text in your photos so WhatTheFont knows what to check out.To identify fonts with your iPhone, you’ll need the WhatTheFont application. It’s available for free at Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.Verify the WTF is correctly recognizing each letter.Once the app is installed on your iPhone, you can use its built-in camera to snap a photo…

According to AirTran, its Wi-Fi service is compatible with laptops, the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry smartphones, Windows Mobile Devices, and the Symbian S60. Voice services, however, are not supported.AirTran’s in-flight Wi-Fi service requires a Gogo account. Signing up for the account is free, but users will have to pay for in-flight Internet access.

“We all know from past experience the reverse engineering of patches back into exploits starts at the time — if not before — the patches are released,” Mr. Frantzen said. “Typically it takes between hours and a few days or so to complete this if it’s easy to exploit.”In this case, the flaws could allow…

Mr. Schiller, along with what Apple is calling “a team of Apple executives,” will deliver the keynote.Senior vice president of Software Engineering, Bertrand Serlet, also confirmed that developers would be receiving a final developer preview release of Mac OS X 10.6 at the conference.CEO Steve Jobs started a six month leave of absence early in…

Apple and Psystar are currently fighting a legal battle over whether or not companies can sell PCs with Mac OS X installed. Apple asserts that any company wanting to sell Mac clones needs permission, and the Cupertino-based company has no plans to let companies sell PCs with Mac OS X installed. Psystar claims that Apple…

County fire fighters evacuated Building 4 on De Anza Blvd around 3:30PM after receiving a call about the suspicious envelope. Additional details about the envelope and the powder inside are still unavailable.

Like the smaller 6-inch display Kindle 2, the Kindle DX includes a built-in keyboard, wireless downloads via the 3G Amazon Whispernet network, and text-to-speech support.Amazon is targeting education and research with its new Kindle model. Educational book publishers Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley have already committed to offer text books  through the online Kindle Store,…

Apple filed its motion to compel with the court after what it saw as a disappointing deposition hearing with Psystar’s CEO, Rudy Pedraza. Mr. Pedraza, according to Apple, “stated approximately 90 times during the deposition that he did not know or recall answers to basic questions about Psystar’s sales, its general costs and profits, its…

The live tech support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so subscribers can “initiate a realtime help session with a MobileMe support agent.”MobileMe is priced at US$99 a year and includes online file storage and data backup, AddressBook and iCal syncing, Computer and iPhone and iPod touch syncing, email, and more.

The “Say on Pay” proposal, or Shareholder Proposal Number Regarding Advisory Vote on Compensation, was originally reported as defeated because shareholder abstention votes had been accidentally counted as “No” votes. According to Apple, “the mistake was due to human error, which Apple regrets.”The reversal means that shareholders will be able to vote on executive pay…

The organization successfully stopped the demolition in 2006 after claiming Mr. Jobs and the town of Woodside failed to produce documentation that showed the house would be more expensive to preserve than to replace. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the new demolition filing shows it would cost over US$13 million to renovate the…

There isn’t any word yet on exactly what Apple has in store for the flash chips, although is seems likely that they may be destined for iPods or the iPhone.Assuming the DigiTimes sources are correct, Apple’s big buy could mean that the company is ramping up for a big product push, and since chip supplies…

Microsoft won’t, however, have to start writing out all those zeroes right away because the company plans to fight the ruling. “We are very disappointed in the jury verdict. We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported,” the company said…

“DeepDyve’s search technology is a breakthrough compared to the traditional keyword search that we know today,” he said. “The company has the potential to transform Deep Web search, and I’m excited to help bring about that transformation.”DeepDyve is an online research engine designed for researchers, students, technical professionals, business users and other information consumers that…

According to MarketWatch, shareholders also chose to vote down several shareholder-sponsored resolutions. TMO will have additional coverage of the Apple’s annual shareholder meeting later during the day.Apple’s stock is currently trading at US$92.20, up 1.95, (2.16%).

The Flash Player 10.0.22.87 update fixes a buffer overflow issue that could let an attack execute arbitrary code, resolves an input validation issue that could result in a Denial of Service attack, and the settings manager display page at Adobe.com was updated to help avoid potential Clickjacking issues.Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.87 is free and available…

Both sides look to be digging in for a long battle, but legal experts generally agree that Apple has the upper hand in this case.Apple hit Psystar with a copyright infringement lawsuit after the company began selling PCs with Mac OS X pre-installed and without permission. Psystar responded by filing a counter claim that Apple…