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With build 9A581 considered the GM (Leopard to be released Friday) torrent downloads are in earnest, if only to get a peek. CRN states the download is 6.56 GB, causing some to think this may include developer bug tools. More important, if this is a late developer release, it will expire. More …

After Apple’s stellar results, Bits gives advice as to how to maintain it. As of Tuesday night, Apple shares are at 186.16 (up 11.86). This should move Apple much closer to Cisco, third most valuable technology company. While Bits labels Apple as a software company, it is has been demonstrated before that Apple is a computer company, thus deserving their title. Still an interesting read. More …

In a rare projection, Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer predicted what would be excellent results, as reported by Macworld UK.

I’d give you guidance each quarter that we believe we have a reasonable chance of achieving. Apple has been working incredibly hard for a number of years and now things are just really coming together quite well for us and I couldn’t be happier. More …
This only means Apple will likely exceed $10 billion in revenue.

The iPod was a chance, in the beginning. How long did it take for Apple to see a connection to increased sales? All the time marring each generation of iPod and iTunes to the OS. The iPhone was a given, a direct result of the iPod and Mac OS X.

NY Times’ John Markoff who, includes quotes from an interview with Steve Jobs in an article on the rise of Apple.

“The Macintosh has a lot of momentum now,” said Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, in a telephone interview last week. “It is outpacing the industry.”

In a possible look to the future:

“People don’t understand that we’ve invented a new class of interface,” he said. More …

In a related article, Alex Frankel, was Apple Store trained in order to conduct research in to just how Apple employees interface with customers. More …

The Company posted revenue of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or $1.01 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.84 billion and net quarterly profit of $542 million, or $.62 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 33.6 percent, up from 29.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 40 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 34 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac® shipments by 400,000. The Company sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 17 percent growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,119,000, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 sales to 1,389,000.

We are very pleased to have generated over $24 billion in revenue and $3.5 billion in net income in fiscal 2007,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re looking forward to a strong December quarter as we enter the holiday season with Apple’s best products ever.”

Apple ended the fiscal year with $15.4 billion in cash and no debt,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the first quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $9.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.42.” More …

Apple will provide live streaming of its Q4 2007 financial results conference call utilizing QuickTime®, Apple’s standards-based technology for live and on-demand audio and video streaming. The live webcast will begin at 2:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, October 22, 2007 at www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq407/ and will also be available for replay.

American Technol0gy Research’s Shaw Wu thinks Apple will meet or beat the analysis predictions. More …

Lehman Brothers Raises Apple Price Target by $30 to $190, Expecting Strong Fiscal 4Q. More …

If you are running a previous version of Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger), you may receive the message ‘.Mac Sync Client is out of date.’ More …

Some .Mac improvements will cause reduced functionality for prior versions of Mac OS X. For example, Mac Sync will no longer support syncing calendars between a Mac OS X 10.3.x-based Mac and a Mac OS X 10.4.x-based Mac. More …

Due to scheduled maintenance of the .Mac Sync service beginning on October 19, 2007, members are unable to sync Safari Bookmarks or Mac OS X Address Book contacts to the www.mac.com website. We apologize for any inconvenience. Normal service will be restored ASAP. Read more for interim solutions.

Due to scheduled maintenance of the .Mac Sync service beginning on October 19, 2007, you may receive a dialogue asking “What would you like to do for this first sync?

You will receive this dialogue if your MAC has not been registered for syncing with .Mac or have not recently reset your data on .Mac, you can select Merge data on your computer and .Mac.

Apple has provided the “The Leopard Guided Tour“, a video on the main new features in Mac OS X 10.5. The video comes in the usual small medium and large, but also in formates and sizes compatible with the iPod.

Apple has put more effort in introducing new products.

Camino 1.5.2 is a Mac native open effort which incorporates the Gecko rendering engine.

What’s new in this version:

* Upgraded to version 1.8.1.8 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.
* Large download lists and corrupt site icons will no longer cause Camino to stop loading pages or opening windows.
* When viewing the source of a frame, Camino now uses cached data instead of requesting the frame again.
* When JavaScript code wants to focus a minimized window, Camino now properly restores the window from the Dock.
* Pages which perform actions when the tab or window is closed now function properly.
* Camino no longer adds site icons for local files to the site icon cache.
* Upgraded the “Block flash animations” code to use Flashblock 1.5.4.1.
* Upgraded the bundled Java Embedding Plugin to version 0.9.6.3.
* Improved ad-blocking.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

* Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
* Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
* Mac OS X 10.3.9
* Mac OS X 10.3