Mac Complainer

I’m still using Tiger and just about to download the first security update for 2008. This is a security update for both PowerPC and Intel Macbooks.
One of these updates is a fix for ” buffer overflow Directory Services that could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.” Apparently applications can arbitrarily [...]

It’s here and you know where to get it. There are all sorts of bug fixes in the entire Apple OS. Airport improvements as well as Dashboard improvements, Time Machine menu option and the GrowlMail fix come with the update.

Scoot over MacBook Air. Spice Corp of India just introduced a phone with, guess what, an optical drive! It’s pretty cheap, too, based on the fact that two other phones from the same company has an MSRP of $20 each. The Movie Phone is Spice’s multimedia wonder  using a small disc that goes in a [...]

Now, why can’t a non-touchscreen phone be an iPhone Killer? Specs include dual-slide action, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, DVB-H TV, GPS, video camera takes VGA at 30fps, GPS photo tagging, etc.
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Where’s yours iPhone! This Android phone is not anywhere near being a true phone yet but the possibilities of a phone specifically built for third-party software is evident.
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GeoHot has a straightforward method of unlocking 1.1.2 OTB and 1.1.3 OTB iPhones. OTB is out of the box. I’m posting a YouTube video of someone else’s OTB iPhone unlock. Reminder: this is not GeoHot, it’s just an example of what to expect from an OTB unlock.

I’m only posting an excerpt from his blog, but [...]

So what is Apple going to announce? MacBook Pros with gesture keypad and Penryn, iPhone SDK? Will Steve Jobs blow our minds like he hasn’t done for some time?
9to5Mac has received rumors that Apple will release round 2 of the MacWorld 2008 Announcements a month after MacWorld, give or take.

Before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world at last year’s MacWorld, tech enthusiasts have been busy with theor own Apple phone designs. Not surprisingly, many of those earl iPhone conceptualizations are clamshell phones. Clamshell phones are sophisticated looking and they are more intuitive for making and receiving calls compared to candybars. So this [...]

Dell is releasing M1330s with Penryn chips, its first laptops with Penryn. Meanwhile, MacBooks are still in the rumor stages as far as the Penryn platform is concerned. Remember they were also late with Santa Rosa, but Penryn seems to be a more significant technology compared to Santa Rosa. Meanwhile, the MacBook Air is steadily [...]

The 16GB iPhone is here. It’s not 3G yet but it’s got 16GB for only a hundred dollars more than the 8GB.
I’ve been watching the Apple Store page since finding out it was under renovation. I was rooting for a Penryn MBP, since I would probably get a MacBook Pro (with matte screen not a [...]