Halloween is just around the corner, why not show your Apple love and carve an Apple pumpkin? You won’t need much except some patience and an Apple Logo to use as a stencil, but we’ve got you covered.
Alright World of Warcraft fans, the latest expansion is coming very soon. Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be released on December 7 of this year. At a cost of $39.99, you will be able to download the game expansion through the Blizzard store or buy a DVD that is Windows and Mac compatible.
The Blizzard CEO had this to say on the upcoming expansion pack:
“Cataclysm includes the best content we’ve ever created for World of Warcraft. It’s not just an expansion, but a re-creation of much of the original Azeroth, complete with epic new high-level adventures for current players and a redesigned leveling experience for those just starting out,”
In other words, you’ll be glued to your computer for even longer than with previous expansions.
Blizzard makes great games, there’s no doubt about it. To top it off, I’m always thrilled that Blizzard has been so committed to offering a Mac release alongside Windows releases of their games. This has been the case since Warcraft 2 as far as I know. Most recently, the Starcraft 2 Mac client was released and, although it’s had some performance issues, it’s otherwise a great gaming experience. If you haven’t picked it up yet, you can buy Starcraft 2 for cheap through Amazon, which offers a 17% discount on the game.
Limera1n for Mac has just been released to download, making it the latest jailbreak for the Mac OS X platform. Limera1n works to jailbreak iOS 4.1 on the iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G and 4G. It also works on the iPad running iOS 3.2.2.
You can get the Mac download of Limera1n right now by clicking here, the download link is directly from the developers website.
Using the Limera1n jailbreak is pretty easy, just follow the instructions in the app or learn how to jailbreak iPhone 4 with limera1n on our site. The process is practically identical for Mac OS X and Windows, and a Linux version is expected to be released soon.
Update: Apple provided a sneak peak and release date for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. It’ll be available Summer 2011, and many of the predictions below proved accurate. You can see screenshots and features of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or read on for our pre-preview speculation.
The tech world is abuzz about the “Back to the Mac” Apple event scheduled for next week. Apple’s lips are tight as usual, and all we know is that Apple will give us a look at the new version of Mac OS X.
In no particular order, here are a few ideas that are possible for Mac OS X 10.7:
So speculation is fine and dandy, but what do we know about Mac OS X 10.7 Lion? Update: Check out Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Features and Screenshots. Well, nothing really. It’s been showing up in server logs for well over a year, but beyond John Gruber saying the release was delayed, nobody knows anything. Anyone that tells you otherwise is full of it, Apple has an amazingly tight shroud of secrecy around the Mac OS update and virtually nothing has been leaked.
Stay tuned, we’ll know much more next week.
If you had any doubts that Apple and Verizon were working together, this should quiet them. Verizon will begin offering the iPad in their stores starting on October 28. The iPad model offered will be the WiFi model, but each iPad will be bundled with a Verizon MiFi mobile hotspot to insure wireless data coverage.
The Verizon iPad prices will be as follows:
The MiFi hotspot plans will start at $20 a month for 1GB of data usage, there will be no contract required so you can effectively get the same month-to-month data use that you currently get with the iPad 3G data plans through AT&T.
This looks like another sign that the Verizon iPhone release date is approaching quickly, and perhaps the next iPad will be CDMA compatible as well, eliminating the need for the MiFi hotspot.
Verizon iPad release date: October 28 – confirmed through Verizon
Verizon iPhone release date: early 2011?
I recently discussed the Apple Store Pay scale for several positions within Apple’s retail stores. It is my opinion that if you are highly knowledgeable with Apple, to the point of being a developer, you should aim to be an engineer and skip the Apple Store completely.
Some of the best salaries working for Apple come from their software engineers. Being a developer for Apple Corporate has an average salary of $99,160, and the range is from $74,000 to $135,000 a year, as reported by Apple employees to GlassDoor.
The other thing to consider is that if you’re skilled enough to work for Apple directly as a software engineer, you might be skilled enough to work for yourself too. Independent iOS and Objective C Developers are in increasingly high demand which has led to high iPhone & iPad app development costs, which translates into a higher wage for yourself.
Working for Apple is no easy task as the company grows in popularity the demand for their jobs gains strength, and they reportedly have some of the more competitive hiring processes in the industry. Whether you aim to go corporate or go it alone, the high salaries and iPhone development rates make studying up on iOS development
certainly pay off.
How’d you like to get notifications from your Android phone onto your desktop Mac or Windows PC?
This cool little utility will notify you of incoming SMS’s, phone calls, and battery notifications, right on your desktop. The app installs on your Android and also on your desktop PC and communicates through Bluetooth, it’s fully multi-platform compatible so it will work in Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Apple is holding a media event on Wednesday, October 20 titled “Back to the Mac.” The details are as vague as usual, but the image sent out is causing loads of speculation thanks to a lion peeking out from behind an Apple logo. Maybe this will be our first look at Mac OS X 10.7? Maybe we’ll get new Macs? Maybe both? We’ll find out in a week!
Updates: Speculation around the web continues to suggest this will be the official unveiling/preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which must be codenamed Lion at this point, judging by the lion in the picture (we’re all Sherlock Holmes at this point).
The lion and Apple logo appear to be on a Magic Touchpad or similar surface (see below image), suggesting that Mac OS X 10.7 will have touch-features that have been speculated to exist with future incarnations of an iMac touch, MacBook touch, both with Mac OS X + iOS integration.
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Did you know iPhone 4 and iOS 4 allows you to display white on black text, and reversing the on screen colors?
You can invert the display of the iPhone 4 much like you can on a Mac, which changes the text to be white on black for a much higher contrast viewing experience.
AirPort Base Station Agent runs in the background of Mac OS X whether or not you use an AirPort Base Station
. It’s a part of Mac OS X, and as the name implies it handles Airport Base Station connections as well as connections to Time Capsule. If you use either of these Apple products you’ll want to keep the agent running in the background.
Let’s assume you want to stop the agent running. You probably noticed the agent using something like LittleSnitch or lsof when it tries to access an outside server (typically Akamai) when it checks for software updates. With this in mind, you can disable the Airport Base Station Agent by stopping it from looking for updates, and also disabling the agents ability to monitor AirPort. Here’s how to do this:
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Microsoft has announced that Windows Phone 7 will sync to Macs, but Mac users will have to wait until later in the year for software to perform the task.
The following short statement is currently all that Microsoft has said on the matter:
Later in 2010 Microsoft will make a public beta available of a tool that allows Windows Phone 7 to sync select content with Mac computers.
What could make this syncing ability even more interesting would be if Microsoft built a tool to export data, contacts, and media from an iPhone and import them into a Windows Phone 7 device. Whether or not that will be a feature offered to Mac users remains to be seen, but even with this ability would it pull Mac users away from the iPhone? I have my doubts.
Apple has just released iOS 4.2 beta 3 for download at the iOS Dev Center. The latest beta version of iOS 4.2 works for iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod touch 4g, iPod touch 3g, and iPod touch 2g. Alongside the iOS 4.2 beta 3 is the newly released Xcode and iOS SDK (Mac only) as well as iTunes 10.1 beta 2 (Mac/Windows).
Head over to Apple.com: iOS Dev Center with your developer login to grab the latest versions of the iOS software.
The final version of iOS 4.2 is slated for release in November. The devices listed above will all be supported, but nobody looks forward to the update more than iPad owners, since this will be the first version of iOS 4 for iPad that will bring multitasking, folders, and much more to the device.
The hackers that made the greenpois0n jailbreak have delayed the Mac release due to ‘technical difficulties’, but the Mac version is coming soon.
According ChronicDevTeam on Twitter:
“We have no ETA for the Mac release besides “soon”. Bad things seem to happen when we give ETAs.”
And as you can see in the above screenshot, the Mac jailbreak app is “being worked on.” In the meantime, if you have a Windows installation handy you can jailbreak your iPhone or iOS 4.1 device using greenpois0n right now.
Patience is a virtue right? Yea I don’t like waiting either. While the release date is unknown, check back periodically on the greenpois0n download page for the latest news.
Don’t want to wait for the Mac release of Greenpois0n? You can get limera1n for Mac right now instead.
The greenpois0n download was just released and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It’s a pretty straightforward jailbreak that will work on iOS 4.1 with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3g, and iPod touch 4g. The procedure is identical on the Mac and Windows so this guide is the same regardless of the platform.
Basically just follow the instructions within the greenpoison app, which are:
That’s all there is to it, it’s a slightly cleaner and easier to follow install process than limera1n but otherwise not much different. If you’re looking to jailbreak your iPad too it’s basically the same.
Update: A new version has been made available, Download GreenPois0n Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1
The greenpois0n Jailbreak is now available to download. The release is available for Mac, Windows, & Linux (much like the earlier launched limera1n jailbreak).
If you’re into jailbreaking and held off from limera1n, greenpoison is probably why.
Pretty interesting comparison of Apple’s main product now vs 10 years ago. Where will Apple be 10 years from now? Will some variation of an iMac Touch be their main desktop product? What will the iPhone be?
Picture from Flickr
Ever wanted to know where exactly a specific file came from? Perhaps some document that appeared in the Downloads folder of a Mac, or maybe a weird file that’s laying on your desktop, what is the origin of that file? Maybe it’s an archive file, maybe its an mp3 or m4a file that you want to know it’s origin server or download URL, maybe a text document or PDF that you absolutely must recall where it originated from, a dmg for installing, whatever the document or file was, if it was downloaded from somewhere on the internet, you can probably get the details of origin right in Mac OS X with this little-known but incredibly useful trick.
This is the first commercial for Windows Phone 7, which was announced on 10/4/10 at a press conference from Microsoft.
In case you didn’t know or don’t care, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft’s new foray into the mobile world. They’re getting a bit of a late start, but Windows Phone is hoping to compete directly with Apple’s popular iPhone/iOS and Google’s Android (yea, Palm WebOS and Blackberry OS are somewhere in this race too, but I don’t care for either).
Here is the commercial, embedded for easy watching:
