Arnold Kim
Arnold is the Editorial Director of MacRumors and founded the site in February, 2000.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold Kim's Articles
Fixing Out-of-Order SMS Messages on iPhone 1.1.3
Informationweek documents a new issue that appeared under iPhone 1.1.3 which resulted in SMS messages being displayed in the wrong order for some users.
Apple has posted a support document which offers a possible solution. This can occur if the iPhone is not displaying the same date and time setting as the carrier network time.
Make sure iPhone is setup to receive the network time. Choose...
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Copy and Paste Implementation, Exchange Support for iPhone?
SvenonTech.com claims to have tracked down an Apple representative at Macworld who was willing to speak about the reason why Copy/Paste has not yet arrived in the iPhone.
The validity of the comments are in question as it seems unlikely that an Apple employee with this...
MacBook Airs in Stores Tuesday or Wednesday?
BoyGeniusReport claims that MacBook Airs have arrived at retail stores and will be placed on display starting Tuesday (update: maybe Wednesday). Product banners and visuals will go up on Monday night in all Apple stores for the official launch on Tuesday, and the Genius Bar employees get their official...
Early 2008 MacBook Pro Whispers
We've heard more whispers about the upcoming MacBook Pro updates.
- Multi-touch Trackpad
- 17" model to incorporate LED screen
- Penryn processors
- To be released in the next 2 weeks (so, this Tuesday or next)
Exact release dates are always difficult to pinpoint as they can change, but the information is believed to be accurate at this...
Deutsche Telekom Sold 70,000 iPhones in 11 Weeks
Deutsche Telekom announced (via MacNotes.de) on Saturday that they had sold 70,000 iPhones in the 11 weeks following its launch in November.
This represents a much smaller number of iPhones sold as compared to the 70,000 iPhone sales in 1 month in France. Despite this, the head of T-Mobile Germany states that "the iPhone is by far the most sold multimedia device in T-Mobile's portfolio."
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Amazon Taking DRM-Free MP3s International in 2008
Amazon announced today that they would be rolling out their Amazon MP3 store internationally in 2008. "We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside of the U.S. They can't wait to choose from the biggest selection of high-quality, low-priced DRM-free MP3 music downloads which play on virtually any music device ...
Guide to Jailbreaking iPhone 1.1.3
Forum user Sbrocket has compiled a guide to jailbreaking and updating your 1.1.3 iPhone.
The guide organizes a lot of information found across the web about this potentially confusing topic: Right now there exist, I would approximate, about 10 to 15 different guides on the web supposedly telling you how to upgrade to and jailbreak 1.1.3. The only problem with these guides is that while they for ...
Mac OS X 10.5.2 Inches Closer... Build 9C23 Seeded
Apple appears to be working hard on Mac OS X 10.5.2, and has seeded yet another build to developers. Today's build comes in at 9C23 and offers a number of fixes to CoreGraphics, DVD Playback, File Systems, BackupCore and Web Content Filter. Apple again lists "no known issues" with this seed of Mac OS X 10.5.2.
Apple is expected to publicly release 10.5.2 imminently. The previous Mac OS X...
iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak Released
Cre.ations.net posted the first iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak, allowing you to install unofficial 3rd party applications:
Here's how you do it:
- Start with a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 jailbroken phone with Installer.app installed.
- Plug in your phone via USB to your computer.
- Download, extract, and run iBrickr Special 1.1.3 jailbreak edition (ibrickr.exe in the archive).
- iBrickr will determine...
MacBook Air Disassembly Photos and Battery Access
MacBook Air Battery
Gizmodo provides a gallery of screenshots and video documenting the disassembly of the MacBook Air and shows that it is relatively easy to access the battery, which is held in by a number of screws. Aside from the innards being well designed, the disassembly of the MacBook Air was surprisingly easy. Hands-down the easiest Apple notebook we have ever taken apart. There's...
NVIDIA Working on GPGPUs for Macs?
Appleinsider claims that NVIDIA is working on bringing "general-purpose computing on graphics processing units" (GPGPUs) to the Mac.
GPGPUs are described as a new type of graphics processors that can perform complex computations typically reserved for the system's primary CPU. The technology -- in Nvidia's case -- leverages a proprietary architecture called CUDA, which is short for Compute...
MacBook Airs have Arrived, Early Notes, Benchmarks
First review MacBook Airs have arrived (80GB, HDD, 1.6GHz): Gizmodo, Engadget, Macworld
Some early notes:
- Wireless Remote disk details: can't play DVD media, can't burn a CD, can't listen to a music CD,
- The Novatel U727 (3G USB modem) won't fit in the MacBook Air without a USB extender.
- MacBook Air's MagSafe charger works in the MacBook/MacBook Pro and vice-versa but the regular...
MacBook Air Reviews: Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today [Now Shipping]
The first reviews are in for the MacBook Air:
Wall Street Journal
- "beautiful, amazingly thin computer, but one whose unusual trade-offs may turn off some frequent travelers."
- "difficult to describe just how surprising this feels in your hands"
- "MacBook Air's screen and keyboard were a pleasure to use."
- felt speedy
- Limitations: Sealed in battery, no optical drive, no built in...
Netflix to Offer Mac Video Streaming in 2008
AlleyInsider reports that during their Q4 financial results, Netflix confirmed that they were hoping to have a Mac web-streaming video solution available in 2008. An earlier Netflix blog entry from August had reported the same expectation. The core issue has been a lack of an available Digital Rights Management solution for the Mac: A key issue for delivering movies online is that the studios...
Mac OS X 10.5.2: World of Warcraft Fix, Still No Airport Extreme Backups (Yet)
A few more tidbits on the coming Mac OS X 10.5.2 update.
- The latest seed reportedly fixes a known driver problem that affects World of Warcraft on PowerPC machines.
- Despite early hope that the 10.5.2 update would fix Time Machine's Airport Extreme + USB (AirDisk) drive backup incompatibility, the latest Mac OS X developer seed does not appear to fully address this issue. While AirDisk ...
Skyhook's Wi-Fi Location Technology for iPhone/iPod touch
USAToday profiles Skyhook Wireless who helps provide some of the technology behind Apple's new GPS-like location features in the iPhone and iPod Touch's Google Maps application.
Skyhook Wireless was formed in 2003 and uses a database of Wi-Fi hotspots to determine your geographic location. The process is explained: "Every Wi-Fi access point, whether public or private, sends out a signal every ...
iPod Touch: 'Mainstream Wi-Fi Mobile Platform'
During Apple's conference call today, Apple executives described the iPod touch as a potentially the "first mainstream Wi-Fi mobile platform, running all kinds of mobile applications".
This is the first time that Apple has referred to the iPod touch as anything more than a high end iPod, with newly articulated expectations that the iPod touch would be a standard Wi-Fi enabled mobile platform...
New Mac OS X 10.5.2 Seed (9C20), Due Friday?
Less than a week after the last release (9C16), Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.5.2 to developers today. The latest seed (9C20) lists no known issues. They've also separated the graphics drivers out into a separate update called Leopard Graphics Update, which must be installed after Mac OS X 10.5.2. The latest seeds are only available to registered Apple developers....
MacBook Air's Wifi Boot Menu (Photo)
MacQuebec (via HardMac) provides a screenshot of the boot menu for the MacBook Air. The Boot Menu is invoked by pressing the "Alt" key during boot and now gives you the option for Wifi networks to boot...
Conice 6x Optical Zoom for iPhone Camera
DealExtreme sells a 6x Optical Zoom lens for your iPhone's camera.
As noted by Mobilewhack, the attachment costs $15 and doubles the weight of your...
