Due to a systems breech in the previous 6 weeks, we have been forced to re-issue all ID’s and passwords to our members. If you are a member of the A.P.P.L.E. Users group and have not received your new ID and password, please let us know. We are currently working to reestablish all of the members systems and integrate them into the main website. Stay tuned for more news and a return to full operations. Non-members are no longer able…
A couple of months ago I posted an article about a “home made” antenna I made from plans on the internet. A couple of days ago I completed an antenna with a different design I also found on the internet. Last night I held a demo of it for some friends (including a couple of retired TV/RADAR/HAM professionals. They were fairly impressed with the results and sensitivity. Considering the darned thing was made of wood and mostly wire coat hangers…
The Spy observes with each passing month that business and the economy seem driven, not by stereotypical hard-nosed logic surrounding bottom line considerations, but by inertia, emotion, and untrammeled greed. This applies to individual enterprises, industry sectors, and whole economies, and is reflected in actual success, stock and bond evaluations, and exchange rates (proxy instruments along with bonds for the equity of nations). Indeed, in the current environment, rhetoric around social agendas or even the general good, sound increasingly hollow,…
This is of concern to people running Intel Macs, PCs, or Virtual Machines. As of May 23, 2012 the official version of Mint 13 is available from http://linuxmint.com. If anyone has the RC version, it seems to have updated successfully to the official version. The release comes on a single layer 800MB DVD. There are two versions at the moment. Cinnamon (a Gnome 3 fork) and MATE (a Gnome 2 fork). I have installed the 64 bit RC of Cinnamon…
Regular readers will know I’m into DIY and fixing things. Lately my Linux PC has been having some hardware problems (which is why people haven’t been seeing a lot of regular posts from me lately). It’s been going on for some time in fact. I’ve checked out a lot of potential hardware issues and ended up replacing most of the computer at one point or another. One thing I haven’t checked out is the SATA cables. Last Friday I borrowed…
Apple has released an update to Safari to address several issues with Adobe Flash. Safari 5.1.7 brings the app up to date and in line with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and addresses the following issues with the browser: Improve the browser’s responsiveness when the system is low on memory Fix an issue that could prevent webpages from responding after using a pinch to zoom gesture Fix an issue that could affect websites using forms to authenticate users Disable versions of…
Apple has released the latest update to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. The Mac OS X 10.7.4 update addresses a number of issues including: Resolve an issue where the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards Address an issue that may prevent files from being saved to a server Improve the reliability of copying files to an SMB server You can download the latest update through the Software Update…
New screen shots of the impending Macintosh version of Eamon Deluxe version 5.0 have been posted on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online Blog. The screen shots show that the new software is nearly complete and seems to be operating nominally. Although the site does not discuss any time frame for the actual release, the screen shots do make it appear that the release date will be very soon. You can check out the new screen shots at the Eamon Adventurers…
The Spy’s tools provide this month’s entertainment, both for his consistency and their diversity. You see, his two sons recently had their birthdays, and predictably, they got tools. After all the well-equipped householder needs his drills, saws, screwdrivers, hammers, power strips, sockets, the box to organize it all, a good work bench and proper ladders. Now, no matter that one is a software engineer, and the other a high school math and history teacher–how else can they get jobs done…
The 2012 rendition of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC sold out in less than 90 minutes this morning. The conference which will be held from June 11th to June 15 as Muscone Center in San Francisco is an annual rite of passage for many developers. Last year the conference sold out in twelve hours, however with the demand for information about Apple products growing at a similar rate as the demand for Apple products, the developers are all…
XperimentalZ Games has released a second update this week on the iOS game Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword. This latest update was released to address an issue with resolution being a bit fuzzy on the New iPad and also a bug we discovered here at A.P.P.L.E., freezing of the game if you exited during screen loading. You can download version 1.1.4 of DRWAPS from the Apple iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dont-run-with-a-plasma-sword/id479907900?mt=8
Apple announced their quarterly profits today with their net profits up a whopping 94% over 2nd quarter 2011. During 2nd quarter 2012, Apple sold a total of 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads resulting in a quarterly net profit of 11.8 Billion USD during the quarter. They also sold 7.7 million ipods during the same quarter. The number of iOS devices is now over 365 million devices thanks to to the sales of the devices this previous quarter. Apple’s…
David Finnigan of the Apple and Macintosh centric site, Mac Gui City has been working hard on a new users guide for the Apple ][ series computers. the new guide with some 600 plus pages and 12 chapters will include information about 6 different Apple ][ series computers and their setup. As for a release date on the new book, according to a recent post in CSA2, david says “The first complete draft (meaning that every section of the book…
Dont Run With A Plasma Sword, the runner game from XperimentalZ Games has been updated to Version 1.1.3. This version of the software was released to address a number of bugs, several of which were discovered by A.P.P.L.E. Staff in our testing of the game, including a bug which caused objectives to be auto completed in one particular level of the game. DRWAPS is a high speed runner game that pits the user against a number of levels of play…
Jordan Mechner posted on his twitter account about the ongoing source recovery of the original source for the game Prince of Persia. The floppies containing the source code was found in a box his father had recently discovered and shipped to Jordan. Now, the source code for the Apple ][ version of the game is available for download to anyone who wants a copy from the GitHub repository at: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Brian Fargo and his InXile team set a lofty goal when they started flirting with the idea of creating the followup to the game Wasteland. With Kick Starter being the go to place for game producers these days, Brian took his ideas to the website and laid out a number of rewards for each level of support. With a funding goal of 900,000 USD, it seemed to be a long shot according to his posts, yet it was funded and…
The Android version of the Mini vMac Emulator has been updated to version 3.2.3, bringing it inline with the current version of the Mini vMac emulator for other platforms. The emulator is available in two versions, Macintosh Plus which is a free download and the Macintosh II, a $1.99 download from the Android Marketplace. You can also download the current source code for the emulator for free as well. Gil Osher has more information about the emulator on his website…
Apple has released the same Flashback Trojan Removal Tool that is found in the Java update for OS X 2012-003 as a standalone tool. The new standalone version of the tool is for those users without Java installed. You can download the Flashback malware Removal Tool from the Software Update feature under the Apple menu or from the Apple support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1517
David Schmidt has released an update to the ADTPro disk imaging package. ADTPro allows users to convert Apple ][ and Apple /// disks to digital images for use with emulators. According to the press release on CSA2, “This release has a couple of snazzy things that folks won’t need to see very often: The bare-metal bootstrapper works in about 1/3 the time it did before. It now shifts the serial hardware into high gear to transmit the bulk of the…
Apple has released a third update to Java for both Mac OS x Lion and Mac OS X 10.6 to deal with the infections of the Flashback Trojan. Infections reached a whopping 600,000 machines globally according to three anti-virus companies that were monitoring it (Dr. Web, the discoverer of the Trojan, Kaspersky, and Symantec) , however, that number has dropped to 270,000 in recent days. The update on the Apple Support Website updates Java to Version 1.6.0_31. This brings it…
