Make sure to check the Mac buying Guide in Saudi Arabia. The new line of MacBook Pro notebooks has arrived in Saudi Arabia. MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.26GHz: 5,690SR on Arab Computer’s site. 5,649SR from itechia. 5,590 SR from i-weaver. MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.53GHz: 6,990SR on Arab Computers’ site. 6,899SR from itechia. Before Update 2 it was: 7,499SR at Global.Store, 7,999 ...
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Updates: Final Cut Pro, AirPort firmware, Apple TV
Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 was released and it improves real-time playback capabilities with Mac Pro (Early 2009) models and Xserve (Early 2009) models when working with complex sequences or high-bandwidth media formats. Final Cut Pro is Apple’s video editing software. For AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express and Time Capsule network devices Apple released AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.4.2 which can ...
Read More »Steve Jobs return, a million iPhone 3GS and more news
Here’s the Apple news from the last few days. Steve Jobs is back at work after his 6 month leave of absence for medical reasons. Apple announced that it sold 1 million iPhone 3GS units in the first 3 days of the product release. The iPhone OS 3.0 was also downloaded by over 6 million customers. Memphis Hospital Confirms Steve ...
Read More »A hidden MacBook Pro feature (amazing video)
Special thanks to holycool for showing me this video (in French) displaying the latest feature of the new MacBook Pro. Of course it was a 3d render and not real. The quality was amazing though. Video was found here and was an ad for this French website, apparently.
Read More »Where is Mobily Visual Voicemail?
One of the features of the iPhone 3G is “visual voicemail” which lists all of your voice messages and play them in any order that you want instead of sequentially. On Mobily’s website visual voicemail is listed as an iPhone 3G feature. However on this official knowledge base article Mobily doesn’t have visual voicemail supported. Is this false advertisement or ...
Read More »Comparing iPhones with 3.0 Software
Apple published in a knowledge base article that compared the different iPhone models with 3.0 software update and which feature is available on which model. Thanks to 9to5mac.
Read More »Increase iPhone 3G bandwidth on Mobily
Mobily Connect is Mobily’s broadband Internet service which is available for all Mobily customers. The current iPhone 3G bundles are very limited so it’s best to increase the bandwidth by adding Mobily connect packages. You can add packages to your current iPhone 3G packages. So if you have a 99 package (99SR monthly and 200MB bandwidth) then added a 1GB ...
Read More »iPhone 3G tethering with Mobily/STC Guide
UPDATE: We just added a guide on how to enable tethering on iPhone 3G with Mobily (and even STC). iPhone 3.0 software was finally released yesterday and one of the new features is “Internet Tethering”. Enabling tethering with Mobily is not possible according to this image: I contacted Mobily’s support and the employee told me to install “pdanet”! PDAnet is ...
Read More »iPhone 3.0: Arabic, copy & paste and more
Apple will be releasing iPhone 3.0 software today June 17th 2009. The update will work on all iPhone and iPod touch models. Arabic support After 2 years of the release of the iPhone Apple has finally added Arabic support. Before the release of iPhone 3.0 software you had to jailbreak the iPhone then install this application to add Arabic support. ...
Read More »Java vulnerability in Mac OS X fixed
Apple has finally addressed the Java vulnerability effecting Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. For Leopard the update is called Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 which is 158MB and for Tiger it is Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 9 and 81MB. Updates are available from Apple Software Update or downloaded directly.
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