Apple has spoken out regarding the rumor that French designer Philippe Starck is working with the company on a “revolutionary” product to be released in the next 8 months. Starck and Apple are working on no such thing, according to a spokesperson from Cupertino. In the interview that caused the original rumor, Strack was instead referring to a yacht he was working on with the late Steve Jobs.
iChat , one of the most famous built-in features of OS X is a fully featured instant messaging application which combines text, video and voice chat into one app, is about to be replaced with Messages.
iChat has always been a very versatile application offering powerful features supported by the fact that it works with a number of services such as Yahoo, GTalk, ICQ and the largest instant messaging community in the United States, AIM.
The Messages app will bring the following features:
Unlimited messages to any Mac, iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.
Start a conversation on your Mac and continue on any other device as it syncs between them all.
The ability to send photos, videos and voice attachments between devices.
Invoke a Facetime call from within the Messages application.
Continue to use additional services such as AIM, Yahoo and Google as they are all built in to Messages.
The Messages app is currently in beta and can be downloaded from the official Apple website free of charge.
Back in the days, the Beatles (Apple Records) was suing Apple Computers Inc. for anything related to music. The reason being that Apple Records believes customers might somehow confuse Apple Computers with music from the Beatles’ Fab Four.
Sosumi is a witty attempt to bypass a lawsuit.
When he created the sound in 1989, Apple sound designer Jim Reekes originally called the the xylophone sounding Sosumi Mac system sound “Chime.” But the Apple Legal thinks the name is too musical.
So Reekes immediately joked about changing the Mac system sound to “Let it Beep,” a spoof of Beatles hit song “Let it Be.” Someone took him seriously and said he would never get away with it, so Reekes responded with “so sue me.”
The result is the name “Sosumi.” Reekes speculates that the lawyers did realized what it meant but willing to let it go, with their sense of humor.
Decades later, Apple still has a sense of humor. Apple’s website actually has a “So Sue Me” easter egg, with the HTML code of legal section under the css class sosumi.
Besides being creator of the iconic Mac startup sound and So Sue Me sound, in an interview with BoingBoing, it is revealed that Jim Reekes’ sound is also used by Steven Spielberg in Jurassic Park (when the computer restarts).
iTunes 10 comes with many new features and improvements, including:
• Introducing Ping. Use Ping to follow your favorite artists and friends or connect with the world’s most passionate music fans. Discover the music everyone is talking about, listening to, and downloading.
• Rent HD TV episodes for just 99¢ each. Watch them on your Mac or PC, on-the-go with iPhone or iPod touch, or in your living room with the all new Apple TV.
• Play your favorites on the all new iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and Apple TV.
• Play music wirelessly with AirPlay on AirPlay-enabled speakers, home theater receivers, and iPod accessories.
• Explore many look-and-feel improvements throughout iTunes.
• Enjoy performance improvements which make iTunes faster and more responsive.
• Additional voice support with VoiceOver Kit for iPod.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
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19/01/2012 5:41 pm
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By Jacques Bastien
02/11/2011 10:43 am
re Quick tip: Disable all Mac OS 10.7 auto-resume features.
When I launch the command (rm -r ?~/Library/Saved Application State/*?) Terminal says “No such file or directory”.
Same thing with the command (chmod -R a-w ?~Library/Saved Application State?)
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Apple has spoken out regarding the rumor that French designer Philippe Starck is working with the company on a “revolutionary” product to be released in the next 8 months. Starck and Apple are working on no such thing, according to a spokesperson from Cupertino. In the interview that caused the original rumor, Strack was instead referring to a yacht he was working on with the late Steve Jobs.
