It is out now and it is official ! The Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard update has been released. It is a very crucial update and it implements hundreds of fixes since the last few updates, 10.6.3(March 2010) and 10.6.2(November 2009). You can get the update from Snow Leopard’s Software Update, or directly from the Software Downloads page here.
Apple has introduced the new updated Mac mini that has been redesigned in a a big way! With a starting price of $699 for the basic model, you get 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a 320GB hard drive. A big ‘Yay’ for HDMI-out port which is finally included, along with SD card reader, 802.11n wireless adaptor, a Mini Display Port jack, and the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics chip.
Apple Store is back! and guess what? It is now accepting pre-orders for the new iPhone 4. For those of you who want the new full white iPhone 4 are out of luck for now as currently only the black one is available for pre-order.
The developers behind Infiniboard, Infinidock, ProSwitcher and the UI designer of Spirit untethered jailbreak tool for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch has just released the alpha version of ProSwitcher app for iPad. ProSwitcher for iPad enables switching between applications (multitasking) running in background in a beautiful Palm Pre style card view mode. It basically act as a graphical extension to the already popular app from Cydia called Backgrounder to present all opened apps in a tabbed view, similar to the view seen on Mobile Safari browser.
So we now have the confirmation. In case you were wondering, iPhone 4 apps will run nearly in full screen on the iPad as opposed to the current iPhone apps which looks horrid at best on the large screen of iPad. This confirmation comes from the developers of “Make Coffee” app for iPhone who found out when they tried the new version of the app (optimized for higher resolution screen of iPhone 4) on the iPad.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of Facebook is not at all pleased by his brand new iPhone (not iPhone 4) which he only got last week. He posted about his frustrations with the device on his Facebook wall that within a week of getting the device, he has already got himself a bunch of chargers and a landline to move his Apple device from one place to other, and to actually make phone calls. Yes, he was clearly complaining about the battery life and phone calling quality.
Yes, you read that right! Microsoft today at their E3 event has confirmed that Xbox 360 Slim is real, and is available as of today for US $299. This new model brings built-in Wi-Fi 802.11N, compatibility with Kinect for Xbox 360, and 250GB HDD.
The guy behind Spirit untethered jailbreak tool for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch has now managed to run “real” Flash content right on the iPhone and / or the iPod touch. Even though its only a preliminary release, but it looks promising, specially because its coming from non other than well known iPhone hacker named comex. Check out the video after the break.
Following the leaks, Microsoft decided to officially take the wraps off the new title for Project Natal, which is now dubbed as “Kinect” for Xbox 360 ahead of their E3 media event. If you have been living under a rock or something and don’t know what it is all about: Kinect for Xbox 360 (formerly Project Natal) introduces controller-free gaming with which you take full control of the games by simply moving around, jumping, punching and kicking or whatever you feel like doing. It will detect almost anything you do! You can even move through the beautiful interface by swiping your hands back and forth ala Minority Report style!
At this year’s WWDC 10, Apple not only unveiled iPhone 4, but also released iOS 4 GM candidate (formerly iPhone OS 4) for developers registered on iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise program. iOS 4 is fully supported on iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 3rd gen. iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2nd gen will be able to run this version of OS too but without multitasking and background wallpapers (unless you know where to look for it). Both the first-gen iPhone and iPod touch is not supported. An iPad version of iOS 4 is expected to be out by this fall.
