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iPhone

What Do You Make of iPhone OS 3.0?

Apple basically walloped its user base over the head with what’s coming this summer via its iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade, which appears to answer a lot of questions as to where specific features (such as turn-by-turn GPS directions, improved e-mail, Spotlight, landscape view across additional applications and the oft-cited copy and paste features) were. Even […]

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iPhone

Apple Posts iPhone OS 3.0 Launch Video

With the iPhone OS 3.0 update announcement taking place yesterday, a picture’s worth a thousand words. Fortunately, Apple just posted the full presentation on its web site over at this address. Users will have to wait until this summer to get their hands on the full release and new features such as additional APIs for […]

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Software

Apple Releases Mini DisplayPort to VGA 1.0 Firmware Update

Late Tuesday, Apple released its Mini DisplayPort to VGA 1.0 firmware update, an 11.4 megabyte download which addresses intermittent flickering and compatibility issues such as no video on some external displays when using the Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter on your Mini DisplayPort-enabled Mac. Once downloaded, the firmware update will be installed into the “Utilities” […]

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iPhone

Apple Announces iPhone OS 3.0 Firmware, Points Out New Features to Come

Apple held its long-awaited iPhone OS 3.0 announcement today in front of a crowd of developers and invited media. The announcement mentioned prominent new changes including the addition of push notification, which Apple stated as requiring an overhaul of its servers to accommodate. Upon delivery, push notification can deliver signals such as sounds and text […]

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How-To

How-To: Get Around Conflicts Between Back to My Mac and Time Machine

As nifty as Time Machine is, a number of users seem to be running into problems where the “Change Disk…” option for Time Machine is nonfunctional. Over on the Apple Discussion Board, user Joel_H offered the following description of the issue: “(After switching TM disks) I realized there were still things on my time capsule […]