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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

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

Leopard's Finder Cover Flow: Yuck!

Cover Flow, the file picker interface in iTunes, is now a standard view option in Mac OS X Leopard. Some see it as a great leap forward and others want it banished, hidden deep in some preferences pane. Some users say Cover Flow's view, which presents the...

Tags: David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-11-02

News to know: Google's virtual worlds; Amazon S3; Forsee out; Aviary

Notable headlines: Google tools to power virtual worlds. Gallery right. ReadWriteWeb: Here Comes the Money: YouTube Videos Coming to AdSense. Google: Introducing video units. Amazon S3 gets service level agreement. Larry Dignan: Forsee out at Sprint. Russell...

Tags: Google Inc., S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, SAP AG, Amazon.com Inc., Video, Sprint Communications, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Management

Blog posts 2007-10-09

News to know: Microsoft Live Search; Google 2.0; Newton's return?

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Five take aways on Microsoft's new Live Search. Gallery right. Microsoft's new search guru talks strategy. Larry Dignan: Pondering Google 2.0: How will it get to $100 billion in revenue? Microsoft, Google square off in Washington....

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Live Search, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems

Blog posts 2007-09-27

News to know: Gmail flaw; Leopard; DEMO

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Hackers expose holes in Gmail, search appliance. Trojan attack targets top executives. OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems. David Morgenstern: User group night: Backup, Leopard and productivity rule. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The question is not whether...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, California Institute Of Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Nanotechnology, E-mail Providers, E-mail, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-26

Nine steps to (hopefully) re-lock your iPhone

With an iPhone firmware update coming this week that could potentially be permanently device-crippling to unlocked iPhones, relocking tutorials are popping up. One of the most definitive, if not yet battle-tested, comes from TUAW (The Ultimate Apple Weblog's) Erica Sadun. Not without...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Erica Sadun, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-25

American Express mulling iPhone return policy

I received this from a colleague: American Express has a Return Protection line (1-800-297-8019) in which customers (I think limited to gold and platinum, tho not sure) can return products they're unhappy with for any reason within 90 days of purchase. I took advantage of this to exchange an...

Tags: Apple iPhone, American Express Co., Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Is the iPhone wrecking the web?

Scott Gilbertson, writing at Compiler on Wired News posted a pretty inflammatory piece titled "The iPhone is Internet Explorer 4 All Over Again". As you might imagine, the comment thread is long, heated at times, and populated with the expected mix of "you're an idiot!" and thoughtful replies both positive...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, Web Browser, Marc Orchant

Blog posts 2007-08-18

iPhone can send photos to Web Gallery (updated)

Web Gallery is a slick new feature added in yesterday's Mac.com update and some iPhone users can now send photos directly to a Web gallery if they have a Mac.com account.Ususally, when browsing iPhone's Photos application you have three options when viewing a photo: Use as Wallpaper Email Photo, and Assign to ContactAccording...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Photograph, Web Gallery, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2007-08-09