As more and more details come to light about the forthcoming “Snow Leopard”, one of the bright spots is Apple’s work in making app’s more lightweight. This is mainly for the purpose of being able to run on mobile devices which require and use SSD drives that rock a significantly lower capacity. (more…)
iTunes has surpassed itself in music sales with its 5 billionth song sold in the iTunes digital music store.
5 billionth song! If there are roughly 100 million iPods that 5,000,000,000 divided by 100,000,000 that is roughly 50 songs per iPod downloaded in the history of the iTunes library. The colossal number of songs was reached with the iTunes store serving up 8 million songs to your music plater for you to enjoy.
Also on the menu are 20,000 TV episodes, 2,000 movies (350 of which in the chef’s special high-definition sauce). Apple has shifted 50,000 of their movies per day in either rented or purchased form. These statistics are based on the US alone but in other countries I’m sure that “La Cordon iTunes” is dominating the online music market in a very similar way.
Following on from my recent post detailing the ways in which FireFox 3 is superior to Safari from a security point of view, I just wanted to make a quick post letting you all know that the first stable release of FireFox 3 was made available for download a few hours ago. (more…)
Here in the US AT&T will charge you $199 for the 8GB iPhone 3G and $299 for the 16GB model. With the cheapest voice plan starting at $39 for 450 minutes. You would have to pay an additional $5 for the previously included 200 SMS mesages. You will have to pay $20 to get unlimited messaging. The consumer data plan starts at $30 a month and $45 for business users, on top of the voice and SMS costs. (more…)
Fotomagico has been awarded “Best Mac OS X Leopard Graphics and Media Application Runner-up” in the Apple Design Awards. The awards recognize achievement and technical excellence in OS X software design. Fotomagico has previously been recognized by the awards for “Best Mac OS X User Experience Runner-up” in 2006.
Fotomagico is makes creating slick slideshows a breeze. It also works with Leopard functions such as Quicklook and ichat Theater. It also brings in a Sharing Assistant that makes creating media optimized for DVD, Ipod, Apple TV and other media a complete breeze.
The Phoenix News Times is reporting (and your truly confirmed) that you can now view video clips from NASA’s Mars lander. You can watch the little guy pick up Martian soil (which apparently was giving it some trouble to begin with), The downloads are available through Itunes U for free. Check the link below for the full story.
After a bit of drooling by Mac users, AMD has now released the ATI Radeon HD 3870 card for Mac & PC. According to AMD, the card is optimized for use with Apple’s Mac Pro systems and brings the noise and the funk with 512MB of GDDR4 RAM, 320 stream processors, PCI Express 2.0 support and twin dual-link DVI ports for when you need to rock both of your 30-inch Cinema HD displays.
When it launches in about a month, look to have an extra $129 in your pocket so you can grab one fresh off the line. Check the link below for a full list of specs.
