Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence to focus on his health 2 years after he took a similar leave in 2009. Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, will handle day to day operations. Steve Jobs said the following in a email to Apple’s employees. Team, At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical ...
Read More »One Million Mac App Store Downloads on Day One
Apple has announced that during the first day of the Mac App Store there were over 1 million downloads. The Mac App Store was introduced with Mac OS X 10.6.6 update and it re-introduced the app store for Mac software. Here is Apple’s press release: Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day CUPERTINO, California—January 7, 2011—Apple® today ...
Read More »Saudi Arabian Mac App Store is Now Open
With Mac OS X 10.6.6 update Apple has opened the Mac App Store. Now customers can find and install Mac applications just like the iOS App Store. Just install Mac OS X 10.6.6 and after restart you can find the App Store icon in the dock and in the Applications folder. You can also launch the App Store by clicking ...
Read More »Mac App Store to open January 6
Apple has announced that the Mac App Store will be open on January 6 2011. The Mac App Store will make it easier for Mac users to install, manage and update apps. The Mac App Store should be available for Macs running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Here is Apple’s press release regarding the Mac App Store announcement. Apple’s ...
Read More »Happy 9th birthday, Apple iPod
On the 23rd of October 2001 Apple released their first iPod and it only connect to Macs and a 5GB hard disk. Now, 9 years later, the iPod is more than a simple audio player and its models have varied: iPod mini, iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod touch and iPod classic. Here’s a video of Steve Jobs when he introduced ...
Read More »Apple posts Back to the Mac event video
Apple has released the video of the Back to the Mac event where Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, announced the following: The new edition of iLife ’11 with new iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand Preview of the upcoming Mac operating system, Mac OS X Lion New MacBook Air with prices starting at $999 The video can be streamed directly from Apple’s website ...
Read More »Back to the Mac: iLife ’11
Apple announced a new version of their iLife set of Mac apps during the Back to the Mac event. iLife ’11 features updated versions of iPhoto ’11. iLife ’11 also includes iMovie ’11 with better audio editing, one step effects, people finder, more themes and ability to generate movie trailers. GarageBand ’11 has been update as will with Flex Time, ...
Read More »Live Coverage of Apple’s Back to the Mac event
Only a few hours remain until the start of Apple’s Back to the Mac press event where they will preview the next version of their operating system for the Mac. This is the first Mac related event in 2010 as Apple has been concentrating on iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch). Apple’s Back to the Mac press event will ...
Read More »Game Changers: Steve Jobs [video]
Bloomberg has posted a profile on Steve Jobs in a 48 minute video aired a few days ago and now it’s available on their website. You can watch the video on Bloomberg’s website: Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs. We heard complaints that that there are problems playing that video so we provided a mirror of that video that you can ...
Read More »FaceTime is not available on Middle Eastern carriers
Yesterday Apple updated their Locating iPhone wireless carriers support page to include a small note regarding FaceTime for Middle Eastern countries. Note number 4 says that FaceTime is not available on this carrier. The countries listed without FaceTime are: Saudi Arabia (mobily) – affected model numbers are MC603AE and MC605AE United Arab Emirates (Du and Etisalat) – affected model numbers ...
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