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In an interview with the New York Times, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the Macintosh has a lot of momentum and the upcoming Mac OS 10.5 Leopard release will anchor a schedule of product upgrades that may continue as long as a decade. "The Macintosh has a lot of momentum now," said Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, in a telephone interview last week. "It is outpacing the industry." Recent...

Amborsia Software has released a maintenance release to its popular iToner software for syncing custom ringtones to a user's iPhone. iToner 1.0.4 provides increased compatibility with iPhone OS 1.1.1 and reportedly fixes a minor bug found in iToner 1.0.3. Ambrosia had released iToner 1.0.3 earlier this week, which provided support for iPhone OS 1.1.1. iToner 1.0.4 is a free update to all ...

Multiple .Mac users report receiving emails from Apple regarding a .Mac sync update scheduled for today. Dear .Mac member: Due to improvements being made to .Mac Sync on October 19, 2007, please note the following changes. Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger users: To ensure uninterrupted service, you must be using Mac OS X version 10.4.10. To check which version...

Apple has posted a guided tour of Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard." Apple has been steadily expanding the flow of information about Leopard in the days leading up to its release, detailing all 300 features. Readers may also be interested in recent stories detailing some of the more less talked about features and under the hood improvements, as well as system requirements analysis. If you haven't...

Apple has released XSan 1.4.2, a maintenance release to its enterprise-class storage area network solution. Whats New in this Version The Xsan 1.4.2 update addresses numerous issues related to overall reliability, usability and compatibility. It includes specific fixes for: - mounting Fibre Channel LUNs on Mac OS X Leopard - metadata controller failovers during power outages and network...

With Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard's" formal announcement, many readers have been reading through Leopard's list of over 300 new features and their associated technical requirements. With the list being quite extensive, we will attempt to analyze some of the less talked about points here. Under The Hood Leopard has seen many enhancements that many users may not be immediately aware of. AutoFS claims ...

Apple announced today the expansion of iTunes Plus to 2 million songs including artists from Sub Pop, Nettwerk, Beggars Group, IODA, The Orchard and many others, along with EMIs digital catalog. iTunes Plus songs have been discounted to $.99 each (from $1.29 each). The announcement comes after Apple quietly began lowering prices of its DRM-free songs to $.99. Arstechnica had reported at the...

AppleInsider believes the Mac Mini is end of life, despite being recently refreshed.The site has said that the Mac Mini will be discontinued. There have been recent rumblings around the web regarding a replacement named the "Mac Nano", however the origins of this rumor are from extremely unreliable Mac OS Rumors, and remain unconfirmed by any traditionally reliable...

Hitachi claims to have made a breakthrough in increasing hard drive capacities. By successfully shrinking the read head using nanotechnology, Hitachi claims that they expect to quadruple the current capacity of hard disks by 2011. Researchers at Hitachi have successfully reduced existing recording heads by more than a factor of two to achieve new heads in the 30-50 nanometer (nm) range, which is...

Our readers have noted, and now several sites are reporting that it appears that Apple is gearing to launch an official iPhone Web Application directory. AppleInsider believes such a directory may launch as early as today. Our readers, as well as 9to5mac, have submitted observations that Apple's recent download's RSS feed contains iPhone web applications and a link to a currently inactive...

Engadget's Ryan Block has confirmed that a beta test of the latest jailbreak method for the 1.1.1 firmware of the iPhone and iPod touch works. The current method uses a vulnerability in 1.1.1's mobile Safari to gain root access to the device. Currently, this is the only method available to jailbreak an already upgraded iPhone or iPod Touch, as previous methods relied on firmware 1.0.2 still...

Apple has reportedly halted shipments of its MacBook Pro MagSafe power adapter according to AppleInsider. Several people familiar with the matter say the Cupertino-based firm began pulling inventory of the 85W power supplies from its retail stores a few weeks ago. Those same people say Apple also discontinued shipments to third party retailers ahead of "redesigned" models that are expected to ship ...

Various readers and sites have been noticing that one of the findings of the preliminary iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak was that Apple was referencing com.apple.mobile.radio and com.apple.mobile.nike. The most obvious implication of this is that Apple appears to be preparing for Nike+ support for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch. Apple's reference of mobile.radio may also indicate that the iPod Radio...

Apple's U.S. exclusive provider AT&T is continuing to expand its network with the acquisition of Aloha Partners' wireless spectrum. The buy enhances AT&T's network by adding 12 MHz of spectrum covering 196 million people in 281 markets. The spectrum covers many major metropolitan areas, including 72 of the top 100 and all of the top 10 markets in the United States. The deal should be...

Cerulean Studios, maker of popular windows AIM client Trillian, has announced that it is developing a Mac version of Trillian. Though this first alpha build of the OS X version of Trillian is still very preliminary and minimal - the functionality pulled through is about the same as the Flash-based web version - the code for every single feature on the Windows version is there in the underlying...

The effort to develop native applications on iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 has made the most progress over the past 24 hours than it has since the release of the firmware, thanks to the efforts of the iPhone Dev Team. Erica Sadun has been blogging her effort to recreate a solution which gives access to the iPhone 1.1.1 file system. Such access is a big step to allow developers to recreate the third...

Apple has acknowledged an iMac freezing issue that was published by AppleInsider earlier this week. AppleInsider had noted two growing Apple discussion boards filling with complaints regarding the issue (one, two). Indeed, MacRumors' own forums have dealt with the issue. It has been suggested that the ATI graphics drivers are to blame, as the issue became more pronounced after iMac...

Apple has released Battery Update 1.3, which addresses battery performance issues with the 15-inch MacBook Pro. The updater will check to see if a battery needs to be updated on startup, wake from sleep, and when a battery is inserted if the power adapter is plugged in. Also released today is Security Update for QuickTime 7.2 for Windows. According to Apple's supplemental security...

Verizon and LG are launching the latest iPhone rival today, dubbed "Voyager." Reuters quotes Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman as saying that "[Voyager] will kill the iPhone." The phone matches many features of the iPhone and includes some additional features including 3G and a tactile keypad. The phone does not appear to include a multi-touch capable interface however,...

Apple's iPhone "SDK" will remain web-based for the foreseeable future, according to an Arstechnica source. However, the source elaborated to say that Apple is actively working to expand the capabilities given in the web-based SDK. Improvements are said to be forthcoming to Safari to allow off-line storage capabilities which would gain the ability to run 3rd party web-based code without...