Archive - Nov 2007

The Fast Icon has released a new set of icons: Santa Claus Hat, which contains 5 icons to give a festive and funny look to your desktop.

The Santa Claus Hat is available as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for linux or Web.

Orange announced pricing for the iPhone in France today.

Orange will be selling the iPhone for 399 euro along with one of four plans with prices ranging from 49 euros to 119 euros per month. All plans include unlimited internet and visual voicemail.

Mireth Technology Corp. has released version 4.1 of NetShred X, its easy to use internet track eraser that erases internet tracks, such as cache, history and email. NetShred X runs on Mac OS X. Version 4.1 adds support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), support for Safari 3 and support for most other browsers using the custom browser feature.

Dan, from UneasySilence.com posted this really cool article about the eeePC! Here is is!

So, ever since I got the eeePC I’ve loved how easy it is to tinker with. Since I’m not a Linux guy, I dumped the Xandros preload and opted for Windows XP so I could you my EVDO USB datacard and blogging software easier, but I wondered could I install OSX on it? And, after trial and error - you can!

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression, is extending its recently launched Give One Get One program beyond the initial two-week limited time offer through December 31, 2007, in the USA and Canada.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 19, 2007 – The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced that both Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X Server Leopard from Apple Inc. have been awarded a certificate of conformance to the UNIX® 03 standard.

The Apple Store is having their Ready, Set, Shop Black Friday promotion on November 23. No details of the sale have been provided yet.

DEVONtechnologies, LLC announces a 25 percent discount on all software sold exclusively on Black Friday, November 23, 2007. Interested customers should follow the link leading to the promotion page from DEVONtechnologies’ homepage or from the company blog. The link will, of course, be only active on Friday, November 23, 2007.

China Mobile chief executive Wang Jiangzhou said Tuesday his company is in talks to carry the iPhone, but telecom executives familiar with the discussions say a number of contingencies on Apple's part are likely to prolong the process.

Today, Apple released an update called iMac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 which specifically addresses the freezing issue seen on recent iMacs.

DOWNLOAD: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imacgraphicsfirmwareupdate10.html