SSD MacBook Air now $500 cheaper

Apple chopped $500 off the price of the MacBook Air with SSD (solid-state drive). The price drop was not even mentioned on Apple’s home page. The $500 drop, bringing the better Air to a new $2,598, is due to a $100 decrease in the price of the 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo chip and a $400 [...]

Gizmodo gets a look at iPhone 2.0 firmware and iTunes 7.7

Gizmodo posted a short video of the iPhone 2.0 firmware today, showing off some of the new features. Besides the short video, they gave some screenshots of iTunes 7.7 (the version required for iPhone 3G) which show MobileMe support and more evidence of iPhone and iPod touch remotes with an option to look for remotes.

Apple posts iPhone 3G Guided Tour and What’s New videos

Apple posted an iPhone 3G Guided Tour this morning, coinciding with AT&T’s iPhone plan announcements. The familiar face of Bob brings you the same type of Guided Tour as the ones before. Alongside the Guided Tour, they released a “What’s New” video showing off some of the new features in iPhone 2.0 and new hardware [...]

iPhone 3G packaging to be environmentally efficient

iPhone 3G packaging will be considerably more green than the previous iPhone’s packaging due to the inclusion of a paper tray made out of potato or tapioca starch. The new tray produces a carbon footprint a tenth of the size of a plastic tray, like the one in the original iPhone’s box. Apple hired Dutch [...]

Mac OS X Leopard update 10.5.4 released

Apple released an update to Mac OS X Leopard today, bringing the version up to 10.5.4. For the details on the update, check out specs here. So open up Software Update on your Mac and hit the install button.

Apple’s connection to WALL•E

Did you see WALL•E this weekend? Well if you did, you were partly seeing an Apple masterpiece. How is WALL•E, a Disney•Pixar production, related to Apple?
The first connection is Steve Jobs. Back in 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group from Lucasfilm. The Graphics Group later turned into Pixar, which was purchased by Disney in 2006. Jobs is [...]

Happy Birthday dear iPhone! Happy Birthday to you!

iPhone turned one today. June 29, 2007: the day iPhone was released to the public. In less than a year, iPhone has received multiple software updates, had a price drop now and then, increased storage space, and launched in multiple countries. iPhone has even become one of the top phones in the country. So a [...]

@me.com emails working for some

Apple has flipped the switch and activated Me.com email addresses for some .Mac customers. In other words, if a current .Mac customer has username@mac.com, email sent to username@me.com would be forwarded to their .Mac account. @me.com emails are part of MobileMe, Apple’s upcoming replacement to .Mac. For more information on MobileMe – check out me.com [...]

iPhone 3G to include MMS support?

Don’t start jumping up and down just yet, but if this latest rumor is true it would be worthy of much more than jumping. MMS (multimedia message service) support, or the ability to send text, pictures, and possibly video to other MMS capable phones, is one of the most requested iPhone features. iPhone Atlas has [...]

iPhone news: Apple releases iPhone SDK beta 8 and iTunes 7.7 beta to developers, iPhone 2.0 firmware out on July 11, and more

Today was a relatively big day for iPhone news. Let’s wrap-up today’s news:

Apple released the eighth iPhone SDK beta today, providing a new, more stable release of iPhone 2.0 beta firmware. Alongside the release, Apple seeded iTunes 7.7 to developers in the iPhone Developer Program. According to developers, iTunes 7.7 shows Applications and related options [...]

iPhone 2.0 firmware going Gold Master on Friday

According to Gizmodo’s inside sources, the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware will hit Gold Master (ready for public release) this Friday. This is only a tentative ‘planned’ date, but it would be great for developers to get a final version of the software a while before iPhone 3G launch. Now this Gold Master date doesn’t necessarily [...]

Troll Touch introduces the touchscreen alternative for Macs

So, you can’t wait for Apple to release a touchscreen iMac, Cinema Display, or MacBook/MacBook Pro.  Well, a company by the name of Troll Touch has got your back.  They have incorporated touch-screens into basically every Apple computer/display/laptop, and they have made it available to the general public.  They also have a “slipCOVER” which requires no computer [...]

iPhone SDK limits GPS applications

After looking over the iPhone SDK license agreement, one clause looked a little odd. “Applications may not be designed or marketed for real time route guidance…” Is Apple trying to stop GPS makers from getting navigation software on iPhone? It looks like it. According to a TomTom spokesperson, this is just Apple “trying to protect [...]

iPhone Apps to have price and size limitations

After some images were leaked to MacNN, we have now learned about the price and size limits for the App Store. Apps can range from $.99 to $999.99 and have a 2GB size limit. Most of the more expensive applications will probably be higher-end enterprise applications, but games with lots of features might get pretty [...]

iPhone 3G gets a “nano” power adapter

Apple surprises us again with the introduction of the iPhone 3G’s power adapter. Whats new? Its ultra tiny, about one quarter the size of the one that came with the original iPhone. It seems like Steve just can’t stop pulling tricks out of his sleeve. (good rhyme, huh?)