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
Adobe Annouces H.264 Support in Flash
Adobe is releasing an update to their popular Flash Player 9 with support for the H.264 video codec.
The updated support will allow Flash Player to take advantage of hardware acceleration provided in computer video cards and is also optimized for Dual-Core processors. Support for the H.264 standard will lead to more Web video content being available in high definition, Randall said. He said...
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Mac OS X 10.4.11 Coming Soon?
Apple has seeded yet another build of Mac OS X 10.4.11 to developers this evening. The latest build (8S2146) comes only 5 days after the last seed (8S2144). Apple typically accelerates their seedings prior to release.
Apple released 10.4.10 on June 20th,...
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Build 9A500n
Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X Leopard (9A500n) to developers today.
The latest update arrived through Mac OS X's built in Software Update and reportedly improves stability and provides general fixes. It is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard 9A499. Previous seeds have introduced visual tweaks. There have been no reports yet about any visual enhancements in the...
Refurbished iPhones
Apple is now offering refurbished iPhones at the Apple Store.
Both 4GB and 8GB models are available for $399 and $499, respectively. This is $100 off their full retail...
New iPod Nano Colors?
9to5mac.com reports further on upcoming iPod Nano case redesigns and colors.
The reinforce that the new iPod Nanos will come in shorter form factors but also reveal what they believe the final colors will be of the shipping iPod Nanos. The colors include Black, Silver, Cranberry/Wine Red, Lighter Blue, and Light Green.
The colors are even depicted by the site and reproduced below.
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iPhone Hacking: Step by Step
This is a topic we've generally avoided as its not an easy process, and even with a step-by-step guide, the process can be tedious... but for those who haven't yet gotten around to hacking your iPhone (to install applications, ssh, etc..), Macworld provides a step-by-step guide which attempts to give instructions to do so.
The instructions are not perfect, as there are a few steps which don't...
"Katie! Why is your bill 53 Pages?"
I was padding around the house barefoot and half-conscious getting ready to go to work. My dad came into the room, shaking a bundle of papers.
"Katie! Why is your phone bill Fifty Three Pages?!"
--"Huh? What are you talking about? Give me my mail! Stop opening my mail!"
"I thought it was our home phone, but still... 53 pages?!"
(forgive the size and quality. I took it with the iPhone ...
iPhone MAME... Getting There
Work is being done on a MAME port for the iPhone. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator that allows you to run old arcade games (provided you have the proper ROM)
The project appears to remain very much a work-in-progress: Project to port SDL MAME to the iPhone. The main cool feature I want to add is configurable layouts for...
EA Ships Four Games for Mac, Two to Come
As originally noted on Page 2, Electronic Arts games Battlefield 2142, Command and Conquer 3, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Need for Speed Carbon are all now available for order at the Apple Store.
EA has now issued an official press release (via Gizmodo) provides some more details on expected availability.
Retail stores will have Need for Speed Carbon and Harry Potter and...
Apple Expo Paris - September 25-29th. New Products?
Apple Expo takes place on September 25-29th this year in Paris, France. In recent years, Apple has not used Apple Expo in Paris as a launching ground for new products. The last official Apple keynote speech was given in 2004 by Phil Schiller and introduced the iMac G5. The last time Steve Jobs participated in an Apple Expo keynote was a PowerBook release in 2003. There were no Apple keynotes...
iPhone Ring Tone Maker Giveaway Results
The following forum members won free copies of iPhoneRingToneMaker
MDiddy
pilotkev
c00lerness
ThePowerThatBe
onelegtwoshoes
The Bruce
They will be contacted by email with their serial numbers.
Thanks to Efiko who provided the copies of their software. Efiko's iPhoneRingToneMaker is an all in one application that allows you to crop, add effects and transfer songs into your iPhone as...
Apple Updates iWeb to 2.0.1
Apple released a small iWeb update via Mac OS X Software Update.
According to the included description, the iWeb 2.0.1 update "addresses issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x websites."
Apple released iWeb 2 with iLife '08 on August 7th. The latest version of iWeb includes web widgets, album pages, google adsense, enhanced photo pages and personal...
International Apple Stores: Canada, UK, Australia
Apple is reportedly working on expanding their international presence with new Apple Stores in a number of countries.
TheRegister.co.uk reported that Apple Australia has begun recruiting staff for a new store in Sydney's central George Street. Meanwhile Apple UK is recruiting for staff in stores in Milton Keynes Central shopping mall; Solihull; Exeter's Princesshay centre; Brighton's Church...
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2144 )
Apple has seeded another version of Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2144) to developers yesterday. The next update to Apple's Mac OS X Tiger operating system lists only one known issue which involves the system occasionally hanging during shutdown.
Beyond that, there have been a number of new fixes described, including addressing issues with USB modem, modem driver, CoreAudio and m4a files, WebCore...
iPhone Apps Wishlist
Phill Ryu posts a list of 5 native iPhone Apps he'd like to see with mockup designs of the applications:
The wishlist includes:
- An Archive.org/Ebook Reader
- iTunes Store for iPhone
- Sketching for iPhone
- VoIP Calls
- iMovie for iPhone
I think based on all the web-IM applications, we can safely add iChat instant messaging to the list of most wanted...
Ultra-Portable Mac Connector System?
Appleinsider points to a a patent application as a possible connector design for the rumored ultra-portable Apple laptop.
Apple explains that "as notebook computers are becoming increasingly thinner ... connections systems need to be reduced in size to accommodate smaller form factors."
One limiting factor, however, that prevents further size reduction is the actual size of the largest...
Geekbench on the iPhone
PrimateLabs compiled their Geekbench benchmarking application over to the iPhone and posted the results:
Blowfish: 104
Dot Product: 16
Memory Allocate: 168
Memory Copy: 113
Stream Copy: 110
Stream Scale: 39
Stream Add: 34
Stream Triad: 10
Scores are normalized against a PowerMac G5 1.6GHz machine which gets...
Meebo IM Client for iPhone
Meebo has launched their web-based instant messaging client for the iPhone tonight. iPhone users can simply browse to Meebo.com and will automatically be directed to the iPhone-formatted site.
The instant messaging client appears to work very well on the iPhone interface.
Web-based instant messaging clients have gained a lot of interest due to the iPhone's lack of a native instant...
Apple Posts 'All the Parts' and 'All These Years' Ads
Apple has posted high resolution versions of two new Apple iPhone advertisements. The two new ads are called All the Parts and All These Years, and follow the same theme as the previous 7 iPhone television ads.
Both ads explore many ads different functions of the iPhone, highlighting stock updates, Google maps, weather, and...
iPhoneRingToneMaker Giveaway
Efiko Software is giving away 5 copies of their iPhoneRingToneMaker software for Windows to MacRumors forum members.
The rules are simple. Reply to this comment thread and name a song name that you will turn into a ringtone for your iPhone, and you are entered.
Only one entry per person, you have until 11:59PM Eastern Time on August 16th. Make sure your email address in your forum...
