Posts Tagged ‘Mac Os X’

Apple worth $3.54 billion more than Google

Apple worth $3.54 billion more than Google

I would have said 'you are insane' if you've told me, 'Apple would worth more than Google one day' four years back. However, you would know today that you'd not been wrong at all in predicting that. Yep, Apple is worth $147.56 billion while Google is worth $144.2 billion. This is a sad aftermath of the gloomy adieu of Eric Schmidt from Apple board. The two companies, which we consider once as hand and glove are now going to compete with every bit of their claws and nails. Safari against Google Chrome, Android against iPhone OS and Mac OS X against Read More...

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple Board

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple Board

You were all right, when you cried Eric Schmidt should resign from Apple Board.  Apple has Safari, Google introduced their Chrome, Apple has iPhone OS X, Google has their own Android. Finally, Apple has Mac OS X, Google would be launching their Chrome OS soon. These two companies are going to aggressively compete with each other like never before. Eric Schmidt still sitting as the board member at Apple has been much debated in view of the conflict of interest between the two companies.  As expected Eric Schmidt has finally resigned from his position on Apple's Board.  Schmidt joined Apple's Board in 2006. Well, Read More...

ezShare for remotely accessing files from the iPhone and iPod touch

ezShare for remotely accessing files from the iPhone and iPod touch

The wonders of iPhone OS 3.0 are slowly surfacing in iPhone applications. Developers are effectively tapping the capabilities of Wi-Fi, push notification and many other features that come with the latest OS to let iPhone users experience the climax of wireless fun and productivity.  ezShare from Antecea Inc. fits into this innovative and handy group of applications. ezShare makes you go totally wireless wherever you are. If you have ezShare either on your iPhone or iPod touch you can access files that you have on your home computer or the ones that you have on your office computer.  Features of this file Read More...

How to sync files from Mac to iPhone wirelessly: The Missing sync for iPhone 2.0 is here

How to sync files from Mac to iPhone wirelessly: The Missing sync for iPhone 2.0 is here

You probably would have heard of a man who wrote the major content of his best selling novel on a smartphone. This is possible because there happened to be a way to transfer files from the phone to the PC and vice versa. One major drawback with the iPhone is the inability to do this in a seamless way.  Hey, actually there is a super simple way to do file transfers between your computer and iPhone/iPod touch. You need a handy software on your machine and need to install some free applications on your device to transfer any file, whether it Read More...

Apple schedules WWDC 2009 from June 8 to 12

Apple schedules WWDC 2009 from June 8 to 12

Apple on Thursday announced that  the annual developers conference for 2009 would be held from June 8 to 12. The conference would be held at Moscone West convention center downtown San Francisco.  Tickets for the five day event are now available as early sale offer till April 24th.  A new iPhone and a feature complete Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system are expected to be unveiled during the meet. Via Appleinsider

Dev Talk: “The (iPhone) SDK is one of the main reasons for the success of the App Store:” Jim Brink

Dev Talk: "The (iPhone) SDK is one of the main reasons for the success of the App Store:" Jim Brink

Developer name: Jim Brink Company Website Company Namejbrink.net, LLC Apps at the App Store:4 Location:Chicago About Dev: About your background: what did you do before taking up iPhone development? I'm an academic-turned-software-engineer; about 6 years ago I took a leave from a Ph.D. program in Math to work at a software startup, and have never looked back! I left the startup about 3 1/2 years ago, and have been doing independent consulting work since then. I've been a big fan of Mac since the release of OS X, so it was pretty exciting when iPhone development became a possibility. I started off writing some apps that I Read More...

iPhone SDK and Xcode 3.1.2 for iPhone OS 2.2 released

iPhone SDK and Xcode 3.1.2 for iPhone OS 2.2 released

In line with the release of iPhone OS 2.2, Apple also has released new iPhone SDK and Xcode for developers.  The update comes with a various bug fixes and new features including optional GCC and LLVM compilers, updated project assistant, a simplified toolbar, and additional security enhancements. The update also includes complete Xcode 3.1.2 developer tools for Mac OS X development and SDK components for iPhone OS development. The new features of this update at a glance: SDK support for targeting non-Mac OS X platforms, including iPhone OS SDK. GCC 4.2 & LLVM GCC 4.2 optional compilers for use with Mac OS X Read More...

Apple Product ads blocked in Google AdWords

Apple Product ads blocked in Google AdWords

In a surprising move, all Apple Product related ads are now blocked in AdWords Australia. Australia Macworld reports this mysterious Google strategy. According to the report all sponsored links that have Apple terms and conditions are no longer displayed in the search results. One Apple Authorized Reseller was reportedly sent an e-mail to remove the words 'Apple' and 'Mac' from its ads. Here is an excerpt of the concern voiced by the particular reseller: Last time I looked, I was an Apple Authorised Reseller and hence should be able to promote their wares — which includes their logo and trademarks. It seems Read More...

Apple 3rd Quarter Sales Report

Apple 3rd Quarter Sales Report

Apple has released its 3rd quarter sales report outlining the record sales of the Macs and iPods. Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO is all happy about the revenue growth and says that the iPhone 3G saw a good start and is sure to boost the achievement of Apple when the next report comes out in the coming quarter. Apple has around 10,300 Mac outlets for which 2,496,000 Macintosh computers were shipped during the quarter. This represents 41% unit growth and 43% revenue growth over the year ago quarter. The number of iPods sold in this quarter is estimated at 11,011,000 making 12% Read More...