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The Age of Reason BBS which runs on a real Apple //e is down at the moment. This week, Washinton state has several back to back storms causing power outages throughout the western part of the state. A power spike sent the machine into oblivion and in talking with Gene Buckle, the curator of the BBS, he still doesnt know exactly what is wrong with it. Age of Reason runs on GBBS Pro, a BBS package written by Greg Schaefer…
Kevin Dady is known for his strange hacks over the years, but this one is actually useful to Apple //c Owners. Not wanting to purchase an Apple //c joystick, Kevin set out to build himself one, using a thumb controller from an XBox controller. The result of that and a few parts from Radio Shack is a game controller that looks every bit the modern piece of equipment except for the old 9 pint //c connector. Kevin has posted a…
Apple Inc (AAPL) took a small dip after a fairly rambunctious morning trading session. With no clear definition in the market prior to 10am, trading stayed in the $447 USD a share range. However, with the start of MacWorld today and no Apple presence, the stock began to take s slow downward spiral until stabilizing in the $444 USD range. The stock closed the days regular trading at $444.63 USD a share and is now up clightly in the After…
Karelia Software has released an update to their Sandvox Website Creator. Sandvox is an easy to use website creation package which allows users to create entire websites within a matter of minutes rather than days and weeks. Sandvox 2.5 has included some automatic features allowing notifications to be sent to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even email. Also included in this version are the following changes: Version 2.5 requires a minimum of Mac OS X 10.6.and now has Full screen mode. …
Yesterday, Tim Cook held a town hall meeting with employees of Apple Inc. While there were several items discussed, perhaps the biggest surprise was the new employee discounts that Apple employees will get. Each employee will get $500 off Mac Purchases and $250 off iPad purchases, once every three years. The discounts will begin in June 2012 and it is only available to employees who have been with the company for more than 90 days. It is also not applicable…
Motorola files a lawsuit against Apple claiming infringement of 6 patents. The lawsuit came with the full permission of Google who has been going after Apple in a proxy war to claim more of the pot of gold. The lawsuit filed today asks the courts for an injunction against the iPhone 4S and Apple’s iCloud service saying that they are infringing upon the following patents: U.S. Patent No. 5,710,987 on a “receiver having concealed external antenna” U.S. Patent No. 5,754,119…
Apple, Inc. (AAPL) soared to more than 455 USD yesterday, however today, it is trading down ad 446.50 as of 5:14pm EST. Apple’s stock price shot up more than 30 dollars a share immediately after first quarter profits for 2012 were announced on the 24th. The stock traded mostly flat on the day as several analysts projected that Apple stock will go through the $650 mark specified by Rob Cihra of Evercore Partners. Analyst comment from Wedbush Securities gave the…
The book that has created the most buzz lately is Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky. The book delves into the inner workings of Apple, Inc. and how they manage to maintain their competitive edge with their shroud of secrecy. Talked about over the past several weeks by many in the media, the long awaited book is now available in the iTunes Store To Download the book in iTunes, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/inside-apple/id444015286?mt=11
Opera Software ASA has posted an update for their Opera Browser. The update, version 11.61.1250 updates a bevy of issues in a number of realms within the software including: User interface Issues New web handlers tab in the Site Preferences dialog cut off, dialog not wide enough Crash when clicking “Use master password to protect saved passwords” checkbox Occasional crash when clicking a link or opening a new tab Opera crashes when closing a tab that has the Star Menu…
Apple, Inc. (AAPL) is continuing the trend set yesterday evening, with the stock at 453.00 at 7:17AM EST in pre-market trading or up 32.59 USD (7.75 percent) from yesterdays close. The record profits announced by Apple yesterday has been driving the climb and in spite of some issues in the supply chain, this upward trend is not likely to change for a while, or at least until the rest of the market digests the numbers. The tech sector as a…
Lim Thaye Chen has made his Virtual GS Programming book available in both PDF and iBook format on the Virtual GS website. The book is the first Apple ][ specific book to have been created with the new iBooks Author package introduced by Apple this month. You can download the book in it’s entirety for free from the Virtual GS website at: http://virtual-gs.appspot.com/web/Book.html
A great graphic on Gizmodo last evening shows the amount of cash Apple has on hand when stacked would soar to an altitude of 6,583 miles above the earth. That distance represents a distance more than 32 times that which the International Space Station orbits at. Source: Gizmodo
Apple, Inc. has released another update to the upcoming release of Mac OS X, 10.7.3. The Build 11D50 is a 997mb download and while there are still questions about what Apple has planned, the laast few builds have been fairly stable. To download the latest build, you will need a Developer account. The build can be downloaded at: http://developer.apple.com/
Readdle has released an update to the PDF document control software, PDF Expert. Version 3.2 of PDF Expert incorporates a number of enhancements to the package including: Document Search now looks far beyond the file name. It lets you find the needed documents faster and easier than ever before! New sorting panel lets you reorder the files based on Name, Date or Modified Date. Just scroll the document list to the very top to reveal it, pretty much like in…
Apple’s Conference Call with the media yesterday is now available online. The Phone Conference to announce the quarterly profits was held at 5pm EST 24 January and announced Apple’s record breaking quarter. To listen to the entire audio of the event, go to the quicktime page at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq112/
Apple had a slam dunk, in your face type of quarter in quarter 1, 2012. It’s profits were beyond that of any belief. The stock price jumped to over 455 USD a share at one point after profits were announced. The number of iPhone 4S’s sold were more than 4 million units beyond that of even the most optimistic analyst. It was a huge success, but there are cracks in the mirror. Supply is an issue for the iPhones, hard…
iBooks Author, the app which allows educators to produce their own textbooks, has pushed over 600,000 downloads in 5 days. It was previously thought that this number was under 90,000, however Apple announce in this morning’s conference call that this plus a total of 3 million iTunes U downloads is pushing the education initiative along mightily. The fact that iBooks Author only runs on Mac OS X Lion should also drive future Mac OS X sales or even machine sales…
After Apple announced their quarter one profits this morning and the stock price went through the roof. At press time, the price was at $451.51 USD in after hours trading, up more than $31.10 USD or 7.40 percent. With groups like RBC Capital posting a buy level at $525 USD a share, this is not much of a stretch at this point. The increase in share price makes Apple Inc. the number one company in the US as far as…
Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced their first quarter results in a conference call today posting sales of $46.33 Billion USD. They sold 37.04 billion iPhones or more than 4 billion more than anyone expected this number to be. iPads sales were strong but not quite at expectations at 15.4 $billion Units and 5.2 million Macs. This quarters sales puts the total number of iPhone units sold globally by Apple Inc over the of the products at 315 million units. Cash on…
According to a report by GigaOm, Apple has overtaken all of the other large hardware manufacturers to become the number one purchaser of semiconductors. The report states that Apple spend a total of $17.3 Billion USD last year on semiconductors. This change in the top rank has been spurred on by the iPhone and iPad’s popularity and demand. Source: GigaOm
