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
MRJ 2.2.2 and MRJ Redistribution SDK 2.2.2
ZigZag writes "As Apple Developer Connection reports, MRJ 2.2.2, an upgrade to MRJ2.2 that improves memory usage and addresses security issues is released. There is also MRJ 2.2.2 redistribution SDK, which "enables developers to install Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) 2.2.2 as part of their own installation packages". I hope the new MRJ fixes memory leaks that seems to be left in 2.2. "...
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iMac/350 D01 (discontinued) at CompUSA
Hes Nikke writes "Hello
I just though I'd pass along the news (and lead into speculation) that the 350 MHz iMacs have been marked as D01 at CompUSA in other words the are discontinued by the manufacture...
Do you think that CompUSA corporate knows something we don't?
NOTE: all other current (did you know they still have PB 3400's in the database?)apple products, including iMac...
New iMacs?
santino writes "The world famous C|Net site speculates in this article about the possibility of new iMacs appearing due to dwindling supplies and pressure from Apple on retailers to clear their existing product lines. "...
Apple may exterminate round mouse
MacMike writes "ZDNet is reporting this story:
Let's hope the "artist's rendition" *ain't* it. Dang, that thing is ugly! "
According to the article: Apple Computer Inc.'s much reviled round mouse and cramped keyboard may be replaced with new models as soon as July's Macworld Expo, sources have told ZDNet News.
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New Products at Macworld?
The Register speculates about the upcoming MacWorld Expo. Of note:
Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Fortuna has said Apple will not only make some new product announcements at the show, but unveil some new retail partnerships.
The poor fellow is clearly under NDA, so he can't say too much. Likely product introductions include a much-needed upgrade to the iMac line, possibly ...
Sony branded Palm
With Apple refusing to make a PDA, we have to turn to Sony, as our second favorite industrial design company.
PDAFrance has pictures of Sony's new Palm-based PDA. 2 pics: the unit and a closeup of the memory stick slot.
Not bad looking - but I might be partial to the Palm V. The jog-wheel and memory stick are nice additions, however.
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Apple Legal vs. AdCritic.com
MacNN posted this tidbit about Apple's active legal dept:
In early April, AdCritic.com, a site that features nothing but television commercials, received via an e-mail and certified mail an official request from Apple that the site remove all materials whose copyrights belong to Apple.
If you visit Adcritic.com and search for Apple commercials, you get this:
As of...
Apple IIe's - built to order
Tom Owad writes "The Apple Store made it possible to purchase a Macintosh built exactly the way you wanted it. But what about those millions of individuals who would rather have Apple II's? Are they forced to buy stock machines, or worse yet, purchase whatever configuration just happens to be available at the nearby yard sale? Thankfully, The Fruit Shop has come to the resuce, offering Apple...
The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS
ZigZag writes "As /. reported there is an online version of the paper "The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments" byWilfredo Snchez, the lead developed on Darwin. the article focuses on filesystems and support of multiple users. "...
Pictures: Voodoo 5 for Mac
No - not screenshots - actual photos of the hardware. :)
Xlr8yourmac.com posted these images of Mac Voodoo 5 retail cards which are expected to be released around...
Mac Hack and OS X
This MacWeek article on MacHack reports about Q&A's from Apple reps about Mac OS X:
Apple representatives at the MacHack 15 conference fielded questions and complaints from developers during a feedback session Thursday night. Among the revelations: Apple plans to add a Unix-style command line to Mac OS X, and it will offer tools to make it easier for developers to support Motorola's...
Microsoft's new Language
It's interesting that as Apple is standardizing on Java, and moving away from Objective C... Microsoft is doing what it always does - proprietary "standards":
Microsoft next week plans to unveil a new, Java-like software programming language intended to simplify the building of Web services using its software, sources said.
Microsoft executives said the new language, an...
Mac OS X Yellow Box - dead?
Stepwise posted some gripes about Apple and OS X. Some issues raised may or may not be issues to the general public... however, I do feel one definitely is:
OK.. so we're really flogging a dead horse here. But the fact is that Yellow Box/NT licenses were promised (contracts in hand), and yanked away. Steve Jobs' recent responses to
these questions seem to be "Why not sell your...
OS X Apps and Metrowerks
This MacWeek article brings up some good points about Metrowerks influence on Apple's Mac OS X development.
A smooth transition to Mac OS X is not just in Apple's hands. Metrowerks, which commands 90 percent of the market for developer tools on the Macintosh with its CodeWarrior product, has nearly equal responsibility.
Indeed - in fact, many might recall that (at that time) ...
Bungie's Assimilation
MacLedge has an interesting email from a former Access employee about his time with Access and the post-Microsoft buyout.
Not a happy story... of course, this isn't to say this will happen at...
MacHack Begins
MacHack begins tonight just after midnight for its 72 hour coding marathon.
Eric S. Raymond ("Open Source advocate and Linux luminary") will speak at the keynote this year, and John Warnock (Adobe's CEO) will be the second keynote speaker. Mac OS X engineers and Mac OS X will also be present.
Final hacks are judged begins 12:01am...
Transmeta Progress
ZDNet reports:
Secretive chip maker Transmeta Corp. will make a splash in the Big Apple next week, revealing the names of several PC makers who are expected to use its Crusoe TM 5400 notebook chips.
Transmeta is the new low-cost, presently x86-only, "code-morphing" processor (Crusoe Explored). Rumors/hopes abound that PPC support will come... but mainstream x86 popularity and ...
Newton Rebirth & Domain name fun
With slim pickings in interesting Mac news of late (other than Microsoft/Bungie, of course) - this one's for entertainment value only...
Seen on As the Apple Turns, this post claims a printing company received an order for Newton-boxes.
Also, of interest is the old "newton-inc.com" domain name (which Apple allowed to lapse) has been registered by pc strategies. Apple still owns...
New iMacs details?
AppleInsider reports:
According to AppleInsider informants, the new keyboard is a full-sized, extended keyboard featuring a normal sized arrow key block and F-Keys, as well as page up and down keys. Additionally, the new peripheral is said to sport new multimedia keys, similar to those on Apple's PowerBook, for adjusting display brightness and contrast and system sound.
There's ...
Mac OS X Q&A
Ars Technica posted some Q&A's about Mac OS X.
Questions Include:
1.Will Mac OS X use filename extensions?
2.Does Mac OS X support long filenames?
3.Is Mac OS X based on the BSD kernel or Mach?
4.Will I always have to "log in" to use Mac OS X?
5.Do I have to log in as an "administrator" to change settings?
6.Is HFS+ is inherently insecure?
7.Does Mac OS X ...
