Apple is rumored to be releasing tons of new products tomorrow including new Mac Pros, iMacs, that new Cinema Display as well as the Magic Trackpad. Pretty substantial if it happens.
iPhone 3G users got Apple's newest mobile software, iOS 4, however they didn't get all of the features. Multitasking is the obvious one, but what were the others?
One of the classrooms I maintain is comprised of 2.4Ghz iMacs (MB323LL/A) that are dual booted with Windows XP and Mac OS X. Sometimes when the workstations are restarted from XP to OS X the display brightness gets changed to its dim power saver setting. This requires the user manually increase the display brightness by pressing the F2 key, which is inconvenient. I haven't been able to determine the cause of this issue so I wanted to create a login hook to increases the brightness as a temporary fix.
OS X doesn't ship with a command line utility that let's you change display brightness. Fortunately, Nicholas Riley has written a utility that uses OS X frameworks to accomplish this quickly and easily. Here's the code
The Apple Tablet is so irresistible and it might not even be real. However the news today paints a much larger picture, larger in the size of the Tablets and larger in the operating system.
This seems to be getting more and more common. Apple's OS 3.0 is apparently widely available on The Pirate Bay, so we go into commentary mode and make some observations. Avast, Apple!
Many people have been wondering when the third generation iPhone and Apple's OS 3.0 will be coming out. Well, as we inch closer to a probable release date, there may be an exact date to circle on your calendar. Come find out when that is.
The debate over the financial advantages of various OSes first sparked around 15 years ago, when the Gartner Group industry analyst firm came up with the concept of total cost of ownership (TCO). Since then, a number of other theoretical models have also been coined to weigh the business pros and cons of various OSes.
A German company called PearC is selling a variety of configurable Mac clones. Despite the legal trouble Psystar is having with Apple, PearC believes that a German law about the enforceability of EULAs might keep it out of hot water.