Month: December 2011
Apple is once again being accused of unfair business practices, this time in France, where 3rd party retailers are accusing Apple of not supplying all of their products to the re-sellers. While Apple keeps their own stores well stocked with all of their most popular products, they apparently are not doing the same for those resellers in France that sell Apple’s products. French retailer Ebizcuss is suing Apple for said unfair practices. This suit comes on the heals of the…
Those of us in Canada are aware how our government keeps “shooting itself in the foot”. Those outside the country may not be aware just how silly and petty our government can get. For example they have this thing about promoting Canadian culture in the media. Not too bad on the surface of things right? Rather than encourage Canadians to produce our own material they de-regulate the media so they can purchase more American programming. Some of the stuff from…
According to the DigiTimes site, two new versions of the next generation iPad are scheduled to make an appearance in January. While Apple has as usual, no comment about the rumors, this is not unusual for their stance. The funny part of this is that Samsung, Apple’s bitterest and most outspoken opponent in court, is the supposed supplier for much of the technology in the machine. Apple will supposedly release the new machines at iWorld on 26 January 2012. While…
There is another Phishing Scam striking users this holiday season. The latest scam poses as an official Apple email, complete with the official Apple looking email address and graphics. A couple things to note about the scam is that the page you are taken to is not an Apple page, so be sure to check the URL of the page if you click on a link in an email from any company or bank. This particular scam is really difficult…
The latest version of the Mini vMac emulator has been released. The Paul Pratt managed project is now in version 3.2.3 of the emulator. The Mini vMac emulator emulates a 128K Macintosh and runs on a variety of platforms including Mac OS X. One requirement is that you have a 128K Macintosh ROM in file form. The operating system on the other hand is little problem as Apple, Inc. has released all Apple OSes through 7.5.5 as freeware. The Latest…
According to the BGR website, there is a high probability that the latest version of the iPhone will be released in Late 2012. While the iPhone 4S was released as just an update to the iPhone 4, many of the features that were instituted into the 4S are only available on the 4S. However, some changes in design including the case are coming according to BGR. “We have also learned that Apple is planning to use a rubber or plastic…
Apple Inc’s Italian division has been fined 900,000 Euros (1.2 Million USD) for failing to comply with Italian statutes regarding warranties on their products. Italian law requires manufacturers to provide a minimum of two years warranty on electronic products, yet Apple was only providing one year. They also were having customers sign contracts for the two year extension on the warranty, when only one year extension should have been required. The Italian Antitrust Authority has specified that Apple must notify…
Laminar Research announced the latest version of their X-Plan App for the iPad today. The latest version, Version 9.750 adds a new suite of airplanes to the application in preparation for their rollout of their latest version, X-Plane 10. The new planes included in the 9.750 update are: F-16 Falcon fighter, JA-37 Viggen Swedish fighter (don’t go Friggin’ with a Viggen!), P-38 Lightning WW-2 twin tail (the “fork-Tailed Devil”), P-40 Warhawk (black-sheep!), Piper Cub (tail-wheel classic!), Robinson R-44 (best-selling helo……
The Open Emulator is an Apple emulator for multiple platforms, written by Marc Ressl. He announced yesterday in the CSA2 that his version 1.0.2 of the emulator was available for immediate download from the Open Emulator Website. Included in this latest version is the emulation of the True 1977 Apple ][ computer as well as the Apple-1 platform. He has included the following features in the emulator: Emulates the 1977 Apple II Joystick/mouse support with programmable axis and button mapping,…
The Free Tools Association has updated their ActiveGS plugin Apple IIgs Emulation system to version 3.5.750. The latest version is primarily to bring the plugin into line with the latest version of Firefox Browser and also to fix a a few issues with other browsers. The ActiveGS plugin is the primary emulator for Virtual Apple ][ (http://www.virtualapple.org), which is now run by the Gamezyte group (http://www.gamezyte.com). To load the latest version of the plugin, go to the Virtual Apple ][…
A.P.P.L.E. has posted the entire first year of The Australian Apple Review. The Review was produced by Australian business man and media mogul, Garth Powell, from 1984 through 1987. Although this project has been in the works for a number of years, it is finally culminating with the release of the entire collection over the coming months. Permission to scan and distribute the magazine was initially acquired in 2003 by A.P.P.L.E., and re-affirmed in 2009 by Andrew Roughan. Andrew, along…
Google has released an update to their Google Currents application just a week after the introduction of the package. Version 1.0.1 is intended to resolve some of the stability issues with the Application as well as to fix scrolling issues on older versions of iOS 4. There are also some library issues that have been resolved. While this upgrade will work for some folks, several users are complaining about their feeds disappearing from their library. Also errors in the interface…
The latest build of Mac OS X, Build 11D36 is the developer version of 10.7.3. With this update arriving less than a week after the previous build, it is expected that a gold version will be available to developers within about month or so. With the normal upgrade of Apple’s line of computing platforms in early 2012, it is suspected that Apple is trying to release 10.7.3 in time to coincide with the upgrade of the product line. The latest…
According to an article in the New York Post, 141 New York City merchants have been busted in a major crackdown on places which deal in stolen iPhones. The problem of iPhones and iPads being stolen in New York has reached epic proportions and it seems the merchants have been just a bit too eager to help the crooks out with this one. This sting by the New York City Police began at the crook level and worked its way…
Apple has purchased the Israeli Flash Chip manufacturere, Anobit, according to a report in the Hebrew daily, Calcalist(http://www.calcalist.co.il ). The purchase, falling in line with Apple’s current path of owning as much of the manufacturing as possible, was accomplished with a price tag of $500 Million USD. Anobit manufacturers a chip which speeds up flash memory and is already in most of Apple’s mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad. If rumors about the potential of this purchase are true,…
Egan Ford has once again updated the Apple ][ Game Server in what he describes as “hopefully the last update”. This particular updates adds a 3rd download option to the server -TRACK. The TRACK files are CD compatible WAV files (44.1kHz/16bit) with a modified loader for 11025Hz/7350Hz zeros and ones (8820 bps). Egan also has posted a video of usage of the Track files during the loading of a game utilizing an inexpensive CD player. To view the video, check…
The free game of the week from Donut Games this week is the hilarious but fun Icy Escort for the iPhone. Icy Escort is a game in which you play the mother penguin, working your way through a series of mazes, jumping from platform to platform, trying to get all your kids. When the mother penguin reaches a kid, it latches onto the mother and follows along to the next destination. At the end of the puzzle, you will have…
Apple in their infinite wisdom, ave offered those folks who have not purchased their Christmas gifts yet, the possibility of purchasing them and still getting them to the person’s door by the 24th. Unfortunately this offer is for non-customized, non-engraved items and the offer ends tomorrow, 21 December 2011. For more information about the offer check out Apple’s holiday shipping web page at: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/holiday/shippingo
Silver Platter is a NDA HTTP Server for the Apple IIgs computer and is the only one available for the IIgs . The program has been reclassified as freeware by the original author, Kelvin W Sherlock, as of 1 October 2011 and is freely available for download from his website. The current version of Silver Platter supports HTTP versions .9 through 1.1. This product was formerly a commercial product, and is still available from Syndicomm as of press time. Kelvin…
Brutal Deluxe has posted 27 more Apple ][ cassettes to their server, bringing the entire collection to 590 total. These cassettes were recovered from a donated collection and are now available for download from the Brutal Deluxe server at: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/other/
