Archive for November, 2010
It’s the Beatles [back to your knitting]
No live streaming service announcement and no new info on Apple’s big hunk o’ server iron in North Carolina. No, we haven’t gotten iOS 4.2 (yet) either. There are a pair free Beatles movies and some interesting Apple TV ads in the mix, too.
iTunes 10.1 yes, iOS 4.2 no
John, Paul, George and Ringo coming to iTunes
Necessity is the mother of invention. In the present case, the need for money drove EMI to finally strike for digital distribution and, if the rumors be true, Apple will at the very least have first go. The open question heading into Tuesday’s announcement is whether we’ll also hear about the mothership’s ongoing investments in North Carolina.
Apple, live from North Carolina
The headline is pure speculation, though the stars and planets have been neatly aligning for months already. Further, you’ve gotta believe that the mothership will unveil their massive new data farm to the world, sooner or later, giving Steve Jobs, as well as local and state officials who gave so much, a chance to show off.
iPad and iPhone, Apple’s dynamic duo
Black Friday Apple deal details trickle out
Thinking of buying a new Mac or iPod? Unless your need is absolutely dire, you will probably want to hold because retailers will be pulling out all of the stops in order to get you off the couch and into the mall.
Apple unkills Java
Java SE 6 is dead on life support, long live Java SE 7! There was much gnash, gnash, gnashing of teeth when the mothership said it was deprecating Java. Well, it turns out that was, more or less, much ado about nothing.
Will iOS4.2 be late due to Wi-Fi problems?
How to ‘hacktivate’ shared printers in AirPrint
No one’s quite sure why — some up-in-the-air piece of intellectual property is the consensus guess — but Apple pulled a number of files from OS X 10.6.5, which prevents you from using a compatible iPhone, iPod touch or iPad (iOS 4.2 required) to print to a shared printer. Here are two ways to put that functionality back in.




