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
ATI Hardware Acceleration of H.264
XBitLabs reports that ATI's upcoming Radeon graphics processor will feature hardware acceleration of the H.264 Advanced Video Codec.
Apple's recently released Quicktime 7 provides both H.264 playback and encoding and is advertised as a major feature of the new Quicktime.
H.264 will be the codec used to encode video for...
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Apple Updates Pages and Keynote
Apple has posted updates to Pages and Keynote from their iWork suite:
Pages 1.0.2 addresses issues with page navigation and organization.
Keynote 2.0.2 corrects a security issue. For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798
Apple introduced iWork '05 earlier this year at MacWorld San Francisco....
IBM Opens Cell Processor
eeTimes is reporting that IBM and its partners are planning on opening the upcoming Cell processor's architecture and provide software development libraries in an effort to increase adoption of the new architecture.
The Cell processor will be used in Sony's upcoming Playstation 3. It was announced in February by IBM, Sony and Toshiba and has always expected to be used in a broad range of...
Apple Store Paris in 2007
MacPlus.net notes that Apple is planning to continue its expansion of official Apple retail stores with a store in Paris in 2007, based on a comment from Steve...
Apple Advertises Tiger in Magazines [Update]
MacDailyNews reports that Apple is advertising Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) in Time Magazine.
The two page print ad shows two Apple Cinema Displays demonstrating Spotlight and Dashboard technologies. Find Stuff: Mac OS X Tiger. The world's most advanced operating system now puts even more power at your fingertips. With new features like Spotlight, Mac OS X's amazing search technology that lets you...
More Apple Tablet Rumblings
With increased interest in Apple across the web, rumors are distributed at a faster rate frequently without much attention paid to credibility or records.
The most recent is a blog entry claiming that an Apple Tablet is imminent and that prototypes have been sighted running "a reduced version of OSX, with some funky start-up PDA like Apple icon menu." This report has been reposted a number of ...
Apple in Talks with Intel?
This Reuters story revives one of the oldest Mac rumors around... Apple switching to Intel?
The rumor originated at The Wall Street Journal: The report, citing two industry executives with knowledge of recent discussions between the companies, said Apple will agree to use Intel chips.
Apple has seriously considered switching to Intel at least twice in its history. One previous project...
iTunes with Podcasting, Cell Phones and iTunes Movies?
O'Reilly Radar reports on Steve Jobs participation at this year's D: All Things Digital conference.
Steve Jobs demonstrated a version of iTunes integrating PodCasting support which should be available "within about 60 days".
Jobs also discussed the difficulty in working with wireless carriers with respect to integrated iTunes with cellular phones, noting:"Apple's never been very good at...
Xbox 360 - Backwards Compatible - UPDATED
Several news sites, including Gamespot are reporting that Microsoft confirmed that the Xbox 360 will be backwards compatible with "top-selling" original Xbox games.
While Sony has successfully offered backwards compatibility throughout its Playstation line, Microsoft's plan is a bit more ambitious... as the current Xbox and upcoming Xbox 360 use different processor architectures. The original ...
Motorola iTunes Phone - No Obstacles?
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Motorola iTunes phone is coming in "a couple of more months" and that wireless carriers are not resistant to the iTunes-enabled product. Motorola Inc. Chief Executive Ed Zander said mobile phone carriers aren't balking at his company's plan to sell a phone that doubles as a music player.
"There is no resistance on anybody's part," Zander said. "I don't know...
D: All Things Digital 2005
The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital Conference takes place May 22-24, 2005. This "executive" conference takes a unqiue format: The third edition of D: All Things Digital takes place May 22-24, 2005. It'll be three days of unscripted, frank interviews with the leaders of the digital revolution, responding live onstage to the kinds of tough, smart questions that only The Wall Street...
AirPort Remote?
Hyponoticnet reports on a new error message that pops up in iTunes 4.8 which suggests there is an upcoming Airport remote coming from Apple.
The error message displays: Your computer is using a firewall software that prevents you from sharing music or using a remote control for AirTunes...
Details on Upcoming Mac Ads?
According to one unverified report, Apple has completed filming a new series of advertisements promoting the Macintosh platform. Recent analyst comments have speculated that Apple would proceed with heavy ad campaign focusing on Macs. Indeed, Apple has drawn criticism from users about the lack of Mac and Mac OS X based advertisements in recent years.
The new ads take a page from Apple's...
Messenger 5 for Mac
According to MessagerForMac.com, Microsoft is releasing Messenger 5 for Mac on Monday, May 16th.
New features are reported to include:
Brushed Metal look and feel
Display pictures
Improved File Transfers
and...
MacRumors: Server Updates, Site Support, Contributions
New Database Server
If you haven't noticed already, the site has been handling increased user loads very well over the past 4-5 days. We've successfully migrated to three servers at this time. MacRumors' front page, forums and database now reside on individual dedicated servers.
This will provide much needed horsepower to allow lively discussion during the most amazing and disappointing...
iPod Ad: 'Pop-Lock'
Apple has posted the latest iPod television advertisement which has been seen on Sportscenter and Saturday Night Live.
The new ad is called "Pop-Lock" and features the song Technologic by Daft Punk.
The ad continues with the theme of silhouetted dancers. Last week, Apple released another new iPod ad called Rollerskating.
Recent analyst comments have suggested that Apple may be considering ...
Mac OS X 10.4 Server Home Sync Feature
One reader noted the existance of a "Home Sync" menu extra in the final version of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger):
System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Menu Extras
"HomeSync.menu" enables a menu that gives you options to "Sync Home Now" and open "Home Sync Preferences". HomeSync is, however, a new feature in Mac OS X 10.4 Server and not enabled in the client version.
The feature was mentioned...
Sony-iTunes Link?
In the internet-game-of-telephone, several sites are reposting rumors of a Sony/Apple collaboration on the upcoming Playstation 3.
The source of all of these is a single forum post. Claims include iTunes/PS3 interoperability, and iPod/PS3...
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.4.1 (8B15)
Apple has seeded Mac OS X 10.4.1 8B15 according to ThinkSecret.
ThinkSecret speculates that the frequency of new builds suggests an imminent final release.
"Problem syncing the Address Book to .Mac" is the only known remaining...
TigerDirect Loses Preliminary Injuction
Appleinsider reports that TigerDirect has lost its preliminary injuction against Apple over the Tiger Trademark.
TigerDirect had previous objected to Apple's use of Tiger with respect to Mac OS X 10.4, claiming that it affect its own ability to market its product/services.
According to court documents, Apple successfully defending claims from TigerDirect. Apple also entered into evidence a...
