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Circumventing iPod's FairPlay DRM

One of the first complaints you'll hear from new iPod owners is that they can't (edit: automatically) sync their new toy with more than one computer or that they can't sync more than one iPod with one computer. Stop by any Genius Bar and you'll hear this common refrain. ...

Tags: Software, Apple iPod, Apple iTunes, FairPlay DRM, TUAW, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-03-25

iPhone firmware 1.1.1 succumbs to hackers

Engadget reports that a new iPhone milestone has been reached. iPhone firmware 1.1.1 has been hacked. The amazing iPhone Dev Team have managed to Jailbreak the new iPhone 1.1.1 firmware update. According to the report third party applications are now working but most will need to be...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Hacker, Firmware, TUAW, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2007-10-09

Additional Resources

Rumor Mill: iSight HD, new Intel chips, iPod touch 2G, patents (updated)

Happy Friday! Let's take a look at some of the latest Apple rumors floating around. A MacRumors reader found references to an unreleased High Definition USB iSight in Apple's QuickTime system files. The line says "Next Generation USB iSight" in QuickTime's localizable.strings and also carries a reference...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iSight, Patent, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, 2G, Camera, Intel Corp., Chip, MacBlogz, Digital Music, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-20

iCall will let you transfer a cellular call to VoIP on your Apple iPhone

I was checking out TUAW this morning and saw that a very cool VoIP application is under development for the Apple iPhone. This is not an application for jailbroken phones, but for iPhones that have been upgraded to the latest firmware supporting 3rd party applications. What makes this VoIP application...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iCall, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Fusion: new, tiny developer Mac?

TUAW posted some blurry photos of what appears to be a diminutive new Mac targeting developers called Fusion. I'm not a big fan of fuzzy (camera phone?) pictures of anything on WWDC eve – they make it too easy to hide fakery – but it's worth...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Camera Phones, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-09

News to know: Jobs speaks; Microsoft; Healthline; Enterprise 2.0; HTC

Notable headlines: WWDC kick-off: Larry Dignan: Jobs' Apple as a platform mantra to accelerate PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac Matthew Miller: SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple's WWDC this week News.com live...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Sales Strategy, Digital Video, Desktops, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?

There's a rumor circulating that Apple may either demo or release to developers a build of Mac OS 10.6 that's fully 64-bit clean and Intel-only. "10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on "stability and security" writes TUAW. 10.6...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-04

News to know: Apple; AMD; Metasploit; Yahoo; Open SUSE

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Wagering on WWDC 2008 TUAW: Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? News.com: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday Tech Trader Daily: How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., SuSE, E-TEN, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Rumor Mill: no iPhone content (updated)

Hey, Jake here. It's Friday, which means that its time to round up all the latest Mac rumors. I don't know about you, but I'm already sick of the iPhone 3G. Aren't you? I'm already so over it. Granted, I'm guilty as any for being part of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Desktops, 3G, Notebooks, Hardware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Yo Philly: iSepta perfect for Philly iPhone users

Having spent almost 20 years in Philadelphia iSepta is one application that I can relate to. SEPTA, for the uninitiated, is the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. SEPTA runs Philly's popular Regional Rail line which is a series of trains that connects downtown Philadelphia with its suburbs....

Tags: Train, Apple iPhone, Philadelphia, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-20

The Mac desktop, set to music

A friend emailed me a link to the above video from YouTube, which is a music video for The Bird And The Bee's "Again & Again" created entirely on/in a Mac OS X desktop. I especially like the creative plug to buy the song on iTunes at the end of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, Music, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Rumor Mill: What's on the Apple horizon

Hey there, it's Jake, Jason's evil twin. It's Friday which means that it's my turn to take the wheel for trip down Apple rumor lane. Fasten your seat belts because here we go: Apple Developing Wiimote-Like Controller? – AppleInsider reports that a new Apple patent application reveals...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iLounge, 3G, E-mail, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-09

News to know: Ubuntu; Microhoo; IT scapegoats; XP; Google

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Pondering the alternatives to Yahoo Microsoft should walk away from Yahoo WSJ: Ballmer's big choice Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04 Gallery: A peek at Ubuntu 8.4 Jason Perlow: Ubuntu: I'm...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Information Technology, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Help Desk, Podcasts, Web Services, Microsoft Windows XP, Middleware, Call Centers, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Security, Spam And Phishing, It Operations, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-28

PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated)

Online payment giant PayPal said yesterday that they're going to block Web browsers they deem unsafe from accessing their Web site. At issue are browsers that don't have strong anti-phishing protection. We are in the process of reimplementing controls which will first warn our customers when logging in to...

Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browser, PayPal, Phishing Protection, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Airport firmware update enables AirDisk backups

Airport firmware update enables AirDisk backupsI hope they make an update for the AirPort Express. [nt]nt.It worksI did the update and, though it wasn't intuitive nor easy, it did work. The problems are:1. You must mount your drive. In other words, you see it in Finder, but...

Tags: Backups, backup, AirDisk, AirDisk backup, Airport firmware update

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Security update breaks printer drivers, Instant Hijack component

Security update breaks printer drivers, Instant Hijack componentDifference being....This isn't a business environment, these are personal machines.how odd!I updated 2 desktops and a laptop to Vista SP1 yesterday - all three completed in less than the time promised. All three work, network access is a little snappier.Oh well, I am...

Tags: Printers, Patches, PostScript, Instant Hijack, printer driver, printer, security

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

Nicewear: SmartSleep

Apple added a hibernate feature called Safe Sleep to their notebook starting with the PowerBook G4 (Double-Layer SD). Safe Sleep saves the notebook's state to disk and is handy if you run completely out of juice while sleeping with unsaved documents or windows open. It's that...

Tags: Freeware, Disk, Apple MacBook, Safe Sleep, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-02-28

iPhone update 1.1.4 available, better reception and device speed?

It is nearing the end of February when many of us iPhone owners were hoping that the SDK release would occur. That still hasn't happened yet, but iPhone update 1.1.4 is available and TUAW is writing about it as they go through checking out all the details. At this time,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Update, Apple Inc., Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-26

The case of the missing iPhones

The case of the missing iPhones#2 is on the moneyArrests in NY over the theft of 300 iphones enroute from Valley Stream, NY (that's near Kennedy Airport) to Hong Kong confirms there's a gray market in iphones.How the NY shipper ended up with 300 of these for export to a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

QuickBooks for Mac deletes Desktop folder (update 3)

If you use QuickBooks 2006 or 2007 for the Mac–don't launch it. An apparent bug in the software update code causes the accounting software to throw a vague "you don't have enough memory" dialog after attempting to download a 100k update while it simultaneously deletes your desktop folder....

Tags: Desktop, Apple Macintosh, Intuit QuickBooks, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2007-12-17