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Apple released version 2.0.2 firmware for iPhone and iPod touch and is only available via iTunes.
Apple’s short description is:
This version of the software includes the following improvements and supersedes all previous versions.
* Bug fixes
Expect more details as they become available. Most anticipated is a fix for the connection dropout.
Apple Inc. is working on a software fix for its new iPhone 3G to remedy dropped phone calls that some users are experiencing, including those outside the US. The update is rumored to be available as soon as next week. newsfactor.com has more details including what may be causing this.
ars technica covers a phishing taking advantage of numerous MobileMe email about outages and system difficulties. Cleverly they sent an email about trouble with payments and it all looks so natural. They have a screen capture of the phishing message. There will be a test.
September 7, will be available in the Best Buy Mobile stores, a joint venture comprised of Best Buy and CarPhone Waarehouse, made up of 970 stores-in-a-store and more than a dozen standalone shops.
Adding Best Buy Mobile to the mix could goose sales even more. “We get many customers a day asking about [the iPhone],” says President Shawn Score. Score says the two companies have been working on an alliance for “many months,” but didn’t sign a deal until last week. Best Buy Mobile will sell the phone for the same prices Apple and AT&T (nyse: T – news – people ) offer: $199 for an 8-gigabyte model and $299 for a 16-gigabyte version. As in their stores, the phones will be locked to AT&T’s network and require a two-year contract. Forbes
Averaging one million a day, the App Store is beyond expectations. Apple is making money for doing very little. Stock was finality up. Designed around the iTunes Store, access iPhone apps is like purchasing music. The rush is driven by an estimated 3 million iPhone sold. Imagine 30 million iPhones. $10 million a day in app sales. Easy money. Fortune
Dictionary Cleaner gives you access to that wonderful tool the built-in spelling checker. Providing a means to see what words you have added
Features
* Simple, easy to use interface to view, add, and delete your learned spellings
* Easy to find System Preferences pane is just two clicks away from anywhere
* Support for English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Portugese, Polish, and Finnish
* Don’t have a custom dictionary? Dictionary Cleaner will create one for you, in your preferred language
* Remove misspelled words
* Takes advantage of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Objective-C 2.0
* Totally free!
Lotus iNotes is planned for released this year. With email, calendar and contacts. it gratifying iNotes is based on well tested Lotus Domino Web Access infrastructure. IBM has screen shots of each feature.
Camino 1.6.3 is a browser that distinctions itself while using the open source Mozilla engine. Unarguably, Camino has endeavored to have a more Mac like interface. Ad blocking is relatively outstanding. According the release notes, the update is to incorporate version 1.8.1.16 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.
In a predictable move, not often Apple (rather Steve Jobs) is embarrassed, Eddy Cue assumed the head of MobileMe. This was added to his responsibilities for iTunes and App Store, putting most of the internet services under one lead. Now how to get a listening bug on a fly on the wall of the first meeting of the new head and the MobileMe department? This semi-public apology added to public admittance of a mistake, is all good
That was probably the most important step, internally as well as externally – to say that’We screwed up, said Mike McGuire, a Gartner analyst.
ComputerWorld, via Macworld
Wikipedia: BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor.
There are a number of BitTorrent applications, but few if any equal Transmission in features, a Macworld Summer of Mac Gems selection. Small envelope and simple interface may lead you to think not much under the hood.
While the article is about Transmission 1.22, version 1.30 has been available since June.
Transmission 1.30 is available for download
what is new:
All Platforms:
+ The “Clutch” web interface is now bundled with Transmission (as a beta)
+ Ability to add and remove tracker addresses
+ Ability to create torrent files with multiple tracker addresses
+ Added support for HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style)
+ Added proxy support for communicating with trackers
+ Allow torrent creation with no tracker address (required by some trackers)
+ New JSON-RPC protocol for clients to interact with the backend
Mac
+ Quick Look integration in the main window and inspector’s file tab
+ Transfers can be dragged to different groups
+ Option to only show the add window when manually adding transfers
+ Status strings are toggled from the action button (they are no longer clickable)
+ Colors in pieces bar and pieces box more accurately reflect their corresponding values
+ The port checker now uses our own portcheck.transmissionbt.com
+ Turkish localization
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