Microsoft has announced the new HD Zune ("Zune HD"), which features HD video (along the lines of high definition TV (HDTV)), as well as HD radio. In the portable MP3 player wars, this leapfrogs the Zune ahead of the iPod Touch, with the Microsoft Zune being the first to market with HD video and the first to market with one of the first portable HD radio receivers anywhere.
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Articles on Apple & MacMicrosoft has announced the new HD Zune ("Zune HD"), which features HD video (along the lines of high definition TV (HDTV)), as well as HD radio. In the portable MP3 player wars, this leapfrogs the Zune ahead of the iPod Touch, with the Microsoft Zune being the first to market with HD video and the first to market with one of the first portable HD radio receivers anywhere. Apple has just publicly copped to the fact that you can get a "small and quick electrical (static) shock from your ear buds while listening to iPod or iPhone." The problem is not specific to the Apple ear bud type of head phones (those headsets that fit into the opening of your ear canal), but rather is specific to iPod and iPhone, and other sorts of MP3 players, and can happen with any brand of earbud. If you have found yourself wondering "Where are my image files stored in iPhoto?" or "How can I find the actual pictures in my iPhoto library?", well, you're not alone. Judging by the number of people searching to find out where iPhoto stores their picture files, it's a pretty common question. Fortunately, it's very easy to find your image files; your Mac and iPhoto actually hide them in plain sight! Rumours of an Apple Media Pad - a cellular-enabled touch-screen device larger than an iPhone but smaller than a traditional laptop or tablet - are swirling. And it would seem that rumours of the Mac Media Pad are more than just rumours, as industry insiders confirm the imminant announcement of the Apple Media Pad (which may be or be the precursor to the much-awaited Apple Tablet), as well as that they are to be offered through Verizon, along with a Verizon iPhone light version. (Although it won't be called "iPhone Lite", it is rumoured to be a stripped-down version of the iPhone, modified to work on the Verizon CDMA network.) If you believe that Apple really manually reviews and approves (or disapproves) every iPhone application before it can be sold through iTunes, then you have to believe that Apple inexplicably approved an application that simulates a crying baby which can only be quieted by shaking it to death (demonstrated by the cessation of the crying, and red Xs over its eyes). Oh goody. The anti-privacy folks at Flexi Spy, who brought you cell phone tapping software for Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones back in 2007, have just announced a new iPhone cellphone spying software version of FlexiSpy. Whee! For those of you who are easily offended, stop reading right now. Otherwise, well, you have to know where to draw the line, and Apple apparently does. Flatulence is in - jiggling breasts are out. That is the message behind Apple's banning the newly minted iPhone iBoobs application, while iFart has rocketed to become the #1 in the iPhone appstore (the applications store). A neurological study of what triggers people to buy, using FMRI (Functional MRI), has found that people who are devout Apple fans manifest exactly the same neurological responses to exposure to their "god" as do devout Christians. Amazon Remembers is a new iPhone application that lets you send a picture of anything to Amazon, and if it is at all available for sale within Amazon's huge network of products, they will send you a link to purchase it within 24 hours. A woman whose husband sent a picture of himself, in a compromising position, to another woman, has turned to the online Apple community for help in confirming that her husband is cheating on her. If you have an Apple iPhone 3G, then you are affected by the just-announced recall of all Apple iPhone 3G power adaptors! Apple announced over the weekend that they are recalling all of their Ultracompact USB Power Adaptors which were packaged with the new 3G iPhone, because the prongs can snap off while inside an electrical outlet, creating a hazard of shock. Did you know that your iPhone is capturing and storing screen shots of everything you do? And while we can assume (and hope) that it deletes it as soon as it not longer needs the information, it could be relatively easy for forensics experts to uncover - essentially "undelete" - that information. Are you "waiting for Time Capsule to restart" while you are trying to set up Time Capsule to add itself to your existing wireless network, only to find that Time Capsule never does restart? And then, when you hit "rescan" it can't find the Apple Time Capsule at all, even though it had just found it moments before? Here's what to do. For any number of reasons, you may want to know how to delete Internet history from your computer. Whatever the reason, here is how to delete the Internet history from your computer if you are using Internet Explorer, Safari, IE7, or Firefox, and also how to clear your search history from Google Toolbar and even Google itself. Is anyone else as surprised as am I that people were waiting in lines again - all night - to be the first to get an iPhone when the new 3G iPhone went on sale this morning? It happened, all over the United States. What the heck? This is a phone, after all - there are people in other countries who are waiting in line just to get some soup and bread! And people who just wanted to update their "old" iPhone to iPhone firmware version 2.0 got the white screen of death! Have you suddenly found Safari automatically downloaded and installed on your Windows Vista or Windows XP machine? If so, you're not alone. Apple started pushing the Safari for Windows download and installation through their iTunes for Windows update this week, and reports are starting to come in that Windows users who never intended to have Safari for Windows downloaded onto their machines are suddenly finding Safari there, automatically downloaded and installed. Whether it's weather widgets, spelling widgets, or any other Apple widgets, Mac users just love their Mac widgets. There are hundreds of free widgets for Mac users to try, but only a handful really make it to "must have on a desert island" status. So, among all the Mac widgets out there - what is your one "must have on a desert island" Mac widget? Cellular News is reporting that Apple have just launched a brand new iPhone, with double the memory capacity, at 16 gigabytes. The new iPhone is available through all outlets, including Apple stores and Apple online. What's a person to do when their hard drive crashes, and they lose all of the songs that they purchased from iTunes? There is no option to redownload all of your iTunes purchases offered through either iTunes or the Apple website. However, while you may get chastised for not backing up your iTunes library (which you will do from now on, right?), it is possible to redownload iTunes songs again, and restore your iTunes library to its pre-crash state. Chalk up another to the growing number of Apple iPhone complaints. As if there weren't enough iPhone problems already, a new study has revealed that even experienced users of the Apple iPhone have more than twice as many errors when typing as do those using regular hard mobile qwerty keyboards, such as on a Blackberry. What's more, they don't bother correcting them nearly as much, either. If you're looking for free online music downloads - legal free music downloads and free music videos downloads - then have we got news for you! Spiral Frog is a new free legal music downloads service offering free music downloads! That's right, absolutely free music downloads! Rather than charge for its music downloads it is instead advertising supported - so you get music downloads free while Spiral Frog gets to show you ads. The twist is that these totally free music downloads will not play on iPods or Zunes. It also won't work with any Apple computer. So you can get all your music downloads free, but they won't work with your Mac, iPod or Zune. That is because Spiral Frog relies on the Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM) system its free music downloads. Steve Jobs has taken the unusal step of offering a formal apology, in the form of an open letter on the Apple website, for dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 just weeks after the iPhone was released. The apology also includes an offer of a $100 credit for use at any Apple store. Everyone expected that Apple's big announcement yesterday would include the release of a new iPod, and they weren't wrong (the wifi-enabled iPhone Touch has an interface like an iPhone, and is a wifi iPod to boot). And while it wasn't expected, the news of a partnership between Apple, iTunes and Starbucks - utilizing the newly announced iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store - was interesting (under the partnership if you hear a song you like while in Starbucks, you can use their T-Mobile connection to access iTunes on your iPhone or iPod Touch and buy the song on the spot). But what was unexpected is that Apple would drop the price on their iPhone by a full $200, just two months after creating some of the biggest hype in the history of either Apple or cell phones. Wow, are the people who stood in line for days, to buy an iPhone for $599 just a few weeks ago ticked off that now they cost only $399? You bet they are! The much ballyhooed launch of the iPhone turns out to have been much more of a flop than the long lines and all the hoopla in the press would lead you to believe. While there have been claims of as many as 500,000 iPhones sold in the first days, the reality is that during the first two days of the launch, only 146,000 iPhones were actually activated, and the numbers rapidly plummeted following the initial frenzy. An independent security research outfit has found a gaping security hole in the iPhone. They have found that someone needs only embed the correct malicious code on a web page, and when an iPhone visits the web page, it will essentially cooperate with any instruction given to it through the code. Some of the most hardcore computer geeks - and those who simply can't live without full access to the Internet for more than 5 minutes - wanted to know this about the iPhone: is it possible to tether a laptop or other computer with the iPhone? In other words, is it possible to use the iPhone as a modem for one's computer? And the answer is... Here is the hands-on Apple iPhone review (sometimes called the Cingular iPhone or the AT&T iPhone - there is no Verizon iPhone Verizon users, for you - so sorry!) they don't want you to see and you won't see in any of the other Apple iPhone reviews: it's the 7 bad things about the Apple iPhone that they don't want you to know. Thanks to our exclusive interview with Shawn King, of the Your Mac Life Show, who spent time up close and personal with the Apple iPhone / Cingular iPhone / AT&T iPhone a week before its release, and to some digging on our part, we bring you the 7 things about the iPhone that you'll never see in an Apple ad, because they don't want you to know about it. If you are one of the people who has considered Apple ProCare (or even one of them who has rejected Apple Pro Care out of hand), we're here to tell you that, yes, it's a very good deal! Just read on to learn our tale of woe, and how having Apple Pro Care saved the day! (And how the Genius Bar folks at the Apple store in Palo Alto rock!) Using your cell phone as a modem is perhaps the most overlooked of all Internet connection options. But a mobile phone Internet connection, whether as a tethered modem or, using bluetooth, a wireless cell phone Internet connection, is easy to set up, and with a laptop and cellphone you can check email and surf the web from anywhere, any time! If you are anything like me, you quickly got tired of having to delete the "On such-and-such a date, so-and-so wrote:" attribution quote line every ..single ..time ..you replied to an email in Mac's native mail program, Mail.app. Here's how to change it. The much-rumoured and long hoped-for Beatles iPod, in the form of a Yellow Submarine iPod - a yellow iPod with the entire Beatles catalog loaded on it - came one step closer to reality with Apple Records (properly known as Apple Corps LTD) and Apple Computer burying the hatchet and bringing to a close their long-standing feud over the Apple trademark. Early adopters who have rushed out to grab their copy of Windows Vista have found that it has broken iTunes. As a result, Apple has suggested that people hold off upgrading to Vista "for a few weeks", at which time a new version of iTunes is expected to be released. They are also offering an iTunes Repair Tool for Vista, for those who have already made the switch. Consumer Reports has released their recommendations for the best anti spam software, the best anti spyware remover, and the best anti virus software. Those of you who have been waiting for a MacBook in tablet format need wait no longer. The ModBook was officially introduced at this year's Macworld, although you may have missed it what with all the hoohah over the iPhone. Referred to by some as the "Apple tablet PC", the Axiotron ModBook sure is sweet! It should come as no surprise at all - at least to any regular readers of the Internet Patrol - that Cisco has filed a lawsuit against Apple over the iPhone (the Apple cell phone) trademark. As we told you earlier, Cisco aquired the Linksys iPhone, along with the trademark, when Cisco aquired Linksys several years ago. Was Apple relying on an expectation of neighborly cooperation from fellow Silicon Valley giant Cisco when they knowingly chose to use Cisco's trademark for their own iPhone, announced this week? Or did they perhaps expect their now famous use of the letter "i" to help them carry the day on this one? As expected, Apple announced their iPhone - combination Apple cell phone and iPod - this week at Macworld. What wasn't expected was that they announced a product which won't be available for at least six months, and which may not even exist yet other than as a handful of iPhone proto-types. Here's what we think is going on. Are you one of those people for whom iChat audio and video chatting used to work, but suddenly it has stopped working, for no apparent reason? Are you getting "user has declined your invitation" or "communications error" errors, or maybe even the dreaded "error -8"? Have you changed nothing at all on your end, but suddenly you simply can't audio chat or video chat with some people - or maybe anybody? Well, you're not alone. The long-awaited announcement by Apple of an iPhone - an Apple cell phone - is believed by many to be due in just a few short weeks. However news that Linksys, now a division of Cisco, has owned the iPhone brand for years has the market abuzz and agog. Does this mean a legal battle brewing between giants Cisco and Apple? Regardless, emotions run surprisingly high over such a seemingly small thing as a name and even the letter "i". Microsoft has advised that they are working on investigating a vulnerability in Word for Windows and Mac which allows attackers to gain access to a user's home computer. All of the following version of Word are at risk: Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006. Starbucks has just struck a deal to have their own "Starbucks Entertainment" area on Apple's iTunes internet music store. According to Starbucks, their Hear Music catalog will be available through the iTunes website. Forget your fancy Mac MP3 players! Did you know that you can play an MP3 on the fly on your Mac without using or loading any separate Mac MP3 players, and without even loading or using iTunes? RssToolbar from Electronic Technologies, Inc. checks all of your favourite blogs, news, and other websites for any newly published articles, and then displays any new headlines in an unobtrusive bar along the top of your browser. The newest version of iTunes comes complete with its own privacy issues. In fact, some people find the invasion of privacy by the iTunes 6.02 "MiniStore" service, so bad that they have nicknamed it "Spytunes." Rumours of an Intel based Mac have been flying for months. Now the "Mactel" MacBook Pro (nee PowerBook) and iMac are here, and, somebody has to say it: So what? Why should we care about Mactel? Do we really care if we have Intel inside, even if "For years it's been trapped inside ordinary PCs. Doomed to performing dull little tasks"? iTunes Video, also known as iTunes 6, offers videos and television shows for downloading and playing on your PC or Mac, as well as on your snazzy new video iPod. A Firefox flaw which allowed for remote code execution was publicly disclosed yesterday. Today Mozilla, who distributes the Firefox software, released a patch for the Firefox flaw. The Apple rocker phone, as some are calling the new iPhone, and the iPod Nano, were announced this week by Apple. Where the ROKR based iPhone (some are calling it ROCKR or even ROCKER, but it's actually "ROKR") is indeed a rocker phone, the new iPod Nano is more like an executive iPod. Motorola ROKR phones are being confirmed as the new iTunes phones, sources say. Pictures, if accurate, show that the iTunes phone even sports the iPods scroll wheel. Ipod cell phones, or video iPods, or maybe video iPod phones, are rumoured to be the subject of the big announcement which Apple is making next week. Adobe is warning that a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader could lead to someone creating a "malicious PDF" file, and when the unsuspecting user opens the PDF file with a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, the software could ... For those of you who haven't already heard, Amazon is offering a new short story download service, Amazon Shorts. It's really cool, in that it offers new short stories, not available anywhere else, by authors including some very well known, and well-loved, ... In a decision in which the Canadian Private Copying Collective (somewhat analagous to the U.S.' RIAA, except that the CPCC actually represents the interests of the artists) says that it is "disappointed", the Canadian high court has this week let stand a ruling ... Yahoo will be announcing on Monday that it has purchased Arlo Rose's Konfabulator for an undisclosed amount of money. Yahoo will also be announcing that it will drop the price for Konfabulator from the current $19.99 to zero. That's right. Zippo. ... Late last month Apple announced that with the release of its newest iTunes software, version 4.9, it would be offering podcasts through the iTunes store. And indeed it is. Now a tempest in a teacup is brewing over what some are dubbing "porncasts" ... The Mozilla Foundation has just released their Firefox 1.0.5 security update for Firefox, coincidentally at the same time as Microsoft released their own monthly security patches for Windows. Firefox 1.0.5 also upgrades and improves the browser's stability itself, but the most important aspect ... Security experts are saying that Apple's iPod is the newest rage. Not among the teen set, Gen-Xers, or even baby boomers, but among criminals. Now, it's true that the use isn't novel, just the choice of device, but as Marshall Mcluhan so deftly ... Much has been made of the recent announcement that Apple is going to start using Intel CPUs. For the most part people think that this is either pretty cool, or no big deal, depending on where you sit. Many people seem to think ... "Sure, I could get a Mac, but the time I spend with my daughter removing spyware is very precious." A great line, already being attributed to Intel CEO Paul Otellini, but actually penned by Good Morning Silicon Valley's John Paczkowski on the ... The Federal Court in Florida has denied a request for an injunction by computer retailer TigerDirect in their lawsuit against Apple over the name for their latest version of OS X, "Tiger". It seems that, like Aunty, the court believes that TigerDirect's claims about ... That gaping hole in Tiger's Dashboard is no air vent - it's a wide-open, highly exploitable security threat for users of Apple's newest version of OS X for Mac. And we have Stephan.com's Zaptastic and Goatse widgets to thank for showing us ... The early reviews of Mac's new Tiger have been mixed, to be sure. And in addition to the usual bugs, it seems that folks are really up in arms about the UI (User Interface). Indeed, enough people of sufficient clue ... Computer mail-order outfit Tiger Direct has sued Apple, Inc, in the 11th hour, over Apple's use of the name "Tiger" on Apple's newest release of OS X. How stupid is that? Apple's Tiger for Mac goes on sale to the public tonight, Friday, ... iPod Mini fans do lots of interesting things with their tiny machines, but George Masters has taken it to a new art, literally. Masters has created the ultimate advertisement for his tiny machine, basing his homemade iPod Mini commercial on, appropriately enough, ... DVForge, known to Mac lovers the world 'round for such products as the SightFlex, MacMice, and the Ball, has cancelled its contest in which it offered $25,000 to the first person who wrote a virus directed at OS X, and who could incapacitate ... Rogue Amoeba, the software company who has brought us such innovative software as Audio Hijack and Nicecast, have done it again with Airfoil. Airfoil, Rogue Ameoba's newest offering, allows you to stream audio from just about any program, wirelessly, to your Airport Express ... |
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