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While the keynote has a lot of high level gee-whiz stuff, day number two typically brings one down to earth with an inspection of the APIs behind those amazing demos in the keynote. The 30K foot view of Steve Jobs is replaced by the tactical details, conceived of and implemented by young engineers. True wizardry…

So far, most of the complaints relate to security issues. Security researcher Aviv Raff found a potential security flaw right away. He commented “A first glance at the debugger showed me that this memory corruption might be exploitable. Although, Iill have to dig more to be sure of that. Again, this is just a beta…

Including Boot Camp as a standard feature in Mac OS X 10.5 will be a plus because it offers a way for PC users to transition from using Windows all the time to using the Mac OS. Investors and some users, however, were hoping that Apple would turn Boot Camp into a virtual machine environment…

Mr. Jobs is expected to show developers more of the companyis upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, and will likely also reveal that the release will replace the familiar HFS+ file system used today with Sunis ZFS file system. During a presentation in Washington D.C. last week, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Apple…

Jeopardy bores you. You reign supreme in Trivial Pursuit. You donit even bother to show off your Mensa card anymore. You know that the bright evening star is usually (but not always) Venus. You understand the reproductive process of most mammals. You are familiar with the inner workings of you average modern computer. You are…

Underscoring his ongoing belief in Appleis growth potential, Mr. Munster raised his target price from $140 to $160. He estimated that Apple will show a 25 percent revenue growth for 2007, 29 percent for 2008, and 43 percent in 2009. Using Appleis ratable system that spreads the revenue from iPhone and Apple TV sales over…

MacStumbler The application I relied on for years was MacStumbler. It displays a list of every visible wireless network signal in range of your Mac, shows signal strength, what channel the device is transmitting on, and whether or not the access point is open or password protected. MacStumbler

The three commercials, Never Been an iPod, How To, and Calamari, all show off iPhone features, but the most important news for many investors and consumers is at the end of each when Apple states the combination iPod and smartphone will be available on June 29. The exclusive iPhone service provider in the United States…

Mr. Rubinstein joined Apple in 1997 as senior vice president of hardware engineering. He was instrumental in the development of the iMac and iPod, and ran Appleis then-new iPod division when it was created in 2004. Mr. Rubinstein left Apple in March 2006. Mr. Anderson served as Appleis executive vice president and chief financial officer…

“Using the closing price the day before events as a base, shares of AAPL have risen an average of 1 percent the day of an event, and rise 3 percent in the week after the event,” he said. “Using the closing price the week before events as a base, shares of AAPL have risen 6…

That number is substantially lower than the 10.5 million units Mr. Munster has been predicting, but it could change as additional sales data emerges. So far, there is only one month worth of sales data available. “The 9.5 million unit approximation is based on various assumptions and is an extrapolation of one month of data,”…

A final ship date has not been announced, although Mariner Software did reveal that the update will be free to version 1 users. Montage is priced at US$139.95.

Apple closed Thursday at $109.44, and continued to rise in after-hours trading. After Apple received FCC approval for the iPhone, a combination iPod and smart phone, on Thursday, its stock recovered from Wednesdayis losses and continued its upward momentum. The iPhone is scheduled to be officially launched some time in late June. Mac OS X…

To view WiFi networks by signal strength instead of alphabetically, simply hold down the Option key while you click the AirPort menu item. The list of networks will rearrange itself so that the strongest signal is at the top of the list and the weakest is at the bottom. Standard AirPort menu (left) and sorted…

I spent last week on my 6th annual Mid-Atlantic Mac User Group Tour, making stops in Princeton, NJ, and Hershey and Philadelphia, PA. As always, I had a great time visiting with other Mac fanatics, talking about Macs and Apple, and presenting this year’s edition of my “State of the Macintosh” address. One of my…

The companyis strong performance over the past few quarters has analysts seeing continued growth for the foreseeable future. “We believe shares can continue to surge into calendar year end on the back of new products,” said UBS analyst Ben Reitzes. “The thesis that Mac sales can surge is alive and well.” Apple also has a…

Crumpler bags are generally terrific products, and weive been fans of the companyis offerings at The Mac Observer for many years. Today weire going to look at the MacBook Pro School Hymn 15″, part of the broader School Hymn line for MacBooks and PowerBooks. The School Hymn is a fairly no-nonsense carrying case for your…

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