Apple Posts a Job Opening for a “Revolutionary” New Mac OS X Feature
This week has been usual to say the least. When the iPhone was released it changed on what was mostly reported on and shifted where most of the news came from. Unlike most weeks this week has been dominated by Mac news, which is a good thing because the mac side of Apple hasn’t seen much love. People were even suggesting Apple forgot about Macs. Well there is still light for all of us Mac users. Apple has posted a job opening today suggesting Apple is working on a awesome new feature of OSX.
Are you looking to help create something totally new? Something that has never been done before and will truly amaze everyone? Are you excited by the prospect that what you helped create would be used every day by millions of Apple customers? Then come and work on with the Mac OS X software engineering team to help build a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X.
It looks like Apple is getting ready to build something up on OSX or maybe even OS XI. Don’t expect anything soon, usually Apple posts these kind of listings and then we don’t see anything about it for a couple of years.
Japan wants more details from Apple over iPod Nano fires
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ordered Apple’s Japan sector to give out more information surrounding the first generation iPod nano fires. The ministry is asking Apple Japan to explain the cause of overheating. Most of the fires occurred while charging the iPod. The Wall Street Journal said:
There have been 27 known cases in Japan where the battery of the device overheats while it recharges. There have been a total of six fire-related incidents, four of which led to minor burn injuries since Apple reported the first case to the ministry in 2008, said Mr. Shimagami.
The most recent event logged was July 13th, the last one before that was July 1st, 2009. If Apple Japan does not contact the Ministry about the issue by August 4, the company could face a minimum fine of 300,000 yen. This is only for first generation iPod nanos. As far as we know there are no issues with any other generations.
OWC says getting your own SSD into the new iMacs is hard
Other world computing (or OWC) has got their hands on a brand new iMac, and tore it down. Usually this is iFixits job but OWC was interested in seeing how hard it would be to install your own SSD as a second drive. Like you would expect, its hard.
The bad news is that, unless your Mid 2010 iMac originally came with an Apple SSD, there’s no graceful way to install an OWC one. The appropriate mounting bracket and connector cables are nowhere to be found on the non-SSD models.
This unfortunate development continues Apple’s proclivity toward making the iMac’s inner workings less “accessible” than they could (or some may say “should”) be.
iMacs have always been hard to work on, so there really isn’t any real surprise here. The real surprise though, is that Apple does not include any cables for the second drive to be put in.
Apple invites local users to join them in Philadelphia Apple Store opening
Today Apple has started sending invites to all local residents in the Philadelphia City area. Those who visit the store when it opens can buy a One to One membership, which is usually a deal only people who buy a brand new Mac can get. That offer is only for the first 250 people. You also get a free commemorative T-Shirt while supplies last.
Come to the new Apple Store, Walnut Street, and bring your curiosity. It’s the best place to get set up with the new iPhone 4, learn all about the Mac, see the amazing things iPad can do—even get advice for your business. When you get to the store, find a Specialist in a blue shirt—they’re your guides to everything from checking in for an appointment to checking out instantly. In celebration of our new store, current Mac owners can buy a One to One membership—normally available only with the purchase of a new Mac.* And if you’re one of the first 1000 customers, you’ll get a free commemorative T-shirt.**
Click here to visit the official page Apple has set up. The store opens up on July 30th.
Apple “looking into” iPhone 3G user complaints about iOS4
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is “looking into” the complaints users have been making about running iOS4 on a 3G iPhone.
Apple’s latest iPhone operating system is powerful, and the iPhone 3G is two years old at this point. The new operating system isn’t compatible at all with the earliest version of the iPhone — but it is supposed to be compatible with the 3G and 3GS, although some features, like multitasking, won’t work on the 3G.
Apple was pretty clear that not all features would work for 3G users, but they didn’t say that it would make your 3G iPhone almost unusable. Some people who have an iPhone 3G and are currently running iOS4.1 say they are seeing improvements.In the mean time most users say buy turning off Spotlight it makes the iPhone 3G feel much faster and responsive.
Developers can now buy iAd spots
Today Apple is letting developers buy spots to advertise their apps through iAds. You will have to download the iAd SDK, which is only 35mb. All iAd’s use JavaScript and HTML5.
iAd for Developers. A great way to promote your applications.
You can now purchase iAd advertising to promote your app to millions of users across the iAd Network. With iAd for Developers, users can download apps from the App Store without leaving the app they’re in. It’s easy to get started, contact us today and learn how you can drive more downloads of your app with iAd for Developers.
We don’t know how much those spots cost, but when we find out we’ll update.
Apple doesn’t like the idea of Magazine subscriptions
All things digital is reporting on Times inc.’s struggle to get a subscriptions to their sports illustrated magazine on the iPad.
Last month, the publisher was set to launch a subscription version of its Sports Illustrated iPad app, where consumers would download the magazines via Apple’s iTunes, but would pay Time Inc. directly. But Apple rejected the app at the last minute, forcing the Time Warner (TWX) unit to sell single copies, using iTunes as a middleman, multiple sources tell me.
Since then, Time Inc. executives “have been going nuts”, trying to figure out how to get Apple (AAPL) to approve a subscription plan. One of the more desperate suggestions, which apparently didn’t get traction: Pulling the publisher’s apps out of the iTunes store altogether.
We don’t really know why Apple is trying to limit or control this. As the info comes in we will keep updating.
Free Bumpers start to arrive
A few lucky people have already started receiving their free bumpers from Apple. Some sites reported that Apple started shipping their bumpers earlier in the week and some from last week.
We aren’t sure if anyone who have chose a 3rd party case have received theirs yet, but we chose a bumper and ours still says September.. Apple still taking their time.
Safari 5.01 Fixes Autofill vulnerability
In Safari 5.01 Apple has patched the issue where if you have the “autofiill web forms using my Address Contact Card” box checked in your Safari preferences a hacker with a simple block of javascript can get your name, city, company, email, and state.
If you would like to test this yourself you can go to this page and click start. It will run the test.
Apple releases Safari 5.01 and Extension Gallery
Today Apple pushed out a new version of Safari. The Extension Gallery is live at extensions.apple.com.
New in this update:
Safari Extensions
Customize Safari with features created by third-party developers
Find extensions in the Safari Extensions Gallery, accessible from the Safari menu and extensions.apple.com
This update also contains improvements to stability, accessibility and security, including the following:More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
More accurate timing for CSS animations
Better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut
Better stability when scrolling through MobileMe Mail
Fixes display of multipage articles from www.rollingstone.com in Safari Reader
Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems
Fixes an issue that prevented Safari from launching on Leopard systems with network home directories
Fixes an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image
Fixes an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on www.facebook.com, www.crateandbarrel.com, and other sites when using Flash 10.1
Fixes an issue that prevented boarding passes from www.aa.com from printing correctly
Fixes an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers
Fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver to misidentify elements of webpages
For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Hopefully this fixes a lot of bugs that we have been experiencing. We’ll let you know!
Update: It looks like Apple has a pretty well stocked gallery at launch. They have eBay, Twitter, MLB, Amazon, Bing and many more.
