This week showed a bit of how fickle the market can be when it comes to stock trading. In spite of a good announcement from Apple, Inc. on the 19th of January, the stock fell off the pace more than 11 points. However, RBC Capital recently said that the stock is still a buy and could go as high as $525 a share. While this might be true, the upcoming Conference Call tomorrow evening (5pm EST) will definitely tell a…
Mike Fort has created a version of Mini vMac which has LocalTalk support included. The support is through the serial port in Mini vMac. The beta of the release which is based on the version 3.1.3 of Mini vMac, is now downloadable from Mike Fort’s website at: http://web.me.com/mikefort/Mini_vMac_LT/index.html Mike is also working on a gateway solution which would allow traffic to go beyond the LAN. The beta requires that you be running Mac OS X version 7.x in 32-Bit Mode.
Gerard Puter has released an update to his Virtual ][ emulator. The latest release addresses a couple of issues with the 6.4 release. They include: You can download the update from the Virtual ][ website at: http://www.virtualii.com/
Alex Lee, curator of the What is the Apple IIgs website has written an extensive write up about how Desktop Publishing really changed the computing world. The article shows the changes between the cut and paste era and the digital editing era and how the differences were reflected in the magazines that were produced. You can read the full article here: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/professional-desktop-publishing-and-the-apple-ii/
The latest version of the ActiveGS Plugin has been Released. Version 3.5.762 was released to address and issue with the Chrome extension deployment. ActiveGS is the Apple IIgs emulation plugin written by the Free Tools Association and used in the Virtual Apple ][ website ( http://www.virtualapple.org ) For more information, check out the ActiveGS Plugin Support page at: http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/
For those iPhone and iPad users lucky enough to have downloaded iMame prior to its being pulled on the 23rd of December, 2011, there is a nifty new instruction set available on the Internet for adding more ROMs. iMame came with 10 ROMs but none of them were particulaly exciting from the aspect of the average gamer. The one thing that was exciting was the fact that MAME had made it into the Apple App store. This has been rectified…
Ivan Drucker, creator of Slammer and NuInput has updated his website. The changes include the addition of his recently created A2Server and a new section for other projects he is working on. However, as he says, “There is no other stuff. Yet.”. Ivan’s recently release A2Server is a file server which runs on modern machine allowing the Apple //e and IIgs to connect and boot from the server. Ivan added a version of A2Server ready to go on a VMWare…
While Apple has put camera’s in most every device that they produce these days, many in the military or government cannot use the devices due to the sensitive nature of their jobs. That is until now. The M1 Shop in Singapore has the iPhone 4S models with no camera for sale now. While the cameras are a bit priceier than the camera laden models, they are worth the price for those who must have the phone but cant have a…
If you are in the middle of renaming a ton of files by hand, stop. Now there is an easier way that doesn’t involve the command line. 7 Bit Guys’ Stuff has released Easy Rename for Mac OS X, which resolves the problem of doing a mass rename based on the pattern in the file name. While most UNIX users know how to do such a thing by command line, for those folk who want to do a quick rename…
A quick read of all of the supporting documentation for the iBooks Author program show that there are some limitations to the program. Apple shows the limit at 2GB and actually recommends only 1GB in order to make it easily accessible to the users. While this is not all that unusual for Apple to recommend smaller sizes, a quick check of the current offerings in the Textbook section shows that the Person Biology textbook is over 2.7gb. ALso, E.O Wilson’s…
Apple Inc. (AAPL) Stock price finished the week at $420.30 USD, off over 11 points from the high of $431.37 USD reached just before Apple’s January 19th event. The next time a number will be presented which will allow investors to judge how the company is doing will be the first quarter results conference call which is scheduled for 24 January at 5:00pm EST. In after hours trading the stock price did rebound slightly but is still well off of…
This week, Apple shook up the education and textbook world with the introduction of iBooks 2.0, iTunesU for k-12 and of course their now ever so popular iBooks Author. Many educators we have talked to seemed enthusiastic about the possibilities presented with the new application, however, Apple has a caveat in the End User Licensing Agreement which prevents users of iBooks Author from selling books created with the package anywhere else other than Apple’s iBook Store. While PDF’s exported from…
Apple has released an update to iTunes to reflect the new introductions of software in New York City yesterday. This new version of iTunes allows users to sync their ipads with the new iBook textbooks purchased from Apple through the iTunes store. For more information about the update, go to: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426
This morning, Apple announced their new initiative to make education one of their highest priorities. This announcement has not really changed their stance on the subject of education, but the way in which they did it deserves merit. The first thing that Apple did is to eliminate the physical books and the cutting down of trees to print those books. This alone will save Billions of dollars each year and definitely help save the forests that are so important to…
Laminar Research, the producers of the X-Plane franchise of flight simulators, have released a new video highlighting their latest version of the product. X-Plane 10 was recently released on the desktop for multiple platforms and they have been slowly implementing some of the new features into the latest mobile offerings as well. The video is two minute fifteen seconds long. While we wanted more from the video, it did show brief glimpses of what Laminar Research is doing and the…
The Video from this mornings Apple Event in New York City is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. The event was held at 10am and was primarily focused on Apple’s push for education, introducing iBooks 2.0, iBooks Author, and the iTunesU App, You can download the latest video or any of the previous events from the iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-keynotes/id275834665
Apple Stock (AAPL) closed down slightly today after pre-event trading had the stock pushing over $431.00 in the morning. The close today was at $427.75 USD down 1.36 from yesterdays close. The price per share has pushed even lower in after hours trading with the current price sitting at $426.22 USD per share. Whether the lack of hardware at today’s announcement has anything to do with the fall, one will only have to imagine, however, with the stock having pushed…
Apple held an event this morning in New York to announce a slew of education related items. The first thing off the blocks was the introduction of the update to the iBooks franchise with a version 2.0. This new version includes a ton of rich media capabilities and allows the introduction of school textbooks, which was one more thing Apple did this morning. As we so rightly predicted last week, Apple also introduced a publishing tool, iBooks Author for those…
Apple Inc (AAPL) has a stock price that seemingly is going through the roof. With it closing at a record high close of $429.11 USD yesterday at the final bell, the stock is breaking records again this morning reaching $430.41 USD at 8:25am this morning ET. With an impending announcement of this morning at 10:00am ET and reporting of the quarterly profits coming up next week, the only thing that might slow down the upward onslaught would be a poor…
Filemaker is offering 50% or $150 off the price of FileMaker Pro with the purchase of FileMaker Go for the iPhone or the iPad. The pricing for the iPhone version is $19.99 and $39.99 for the iPad Version. The deal is outlined on the FileMaker Special Page and is limited to end users of the product. The offer is good until 22 March, 2012. More information is available on the FileMaker website at: http://info.filemaker.com/fmgo_promo2012.html
