Apple Special Tuesday Announcement

New iMacs with Thin enclosure

20" 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 250GB HD, 8x DL Super Drive, ATI Radeon HD 2400 wuth 128 MB Memory - $1199

20" 2.4GHZ, 1GB, 320GB, 8x DL SuperDrive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro with 256MB Memory- $1499

24" 2.4GHz, 1GB, 320GB, 8x DL SuperDrive ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro w/ 256MB - $1799

24" 2.8GHz, 500GB, 8x DL SuperDrive,2999

MacMini with Core 2 Duo Processors

1.83GHz 1GB, 80 HDGB HD, Combo Drive - $599

2.0GHz, 1gb, 120GB HD, Super Drive -$799

Updated .Mac

Web Gallery, a new feature for sharing photos and movies

Storage upgraded to 10GB

SUpport for personal domains for iWeb websites - do not sell domain names, they provide steps to get your domain purchased at a domain registrar working correctly with .Mac.

Larger email attachments - up to 20MB

Enhancements to .mac mail- including server side SPAM filtering

The transfer limit has also been increased to 100 GB of monthly transfer for regular .Mac accounts, and 200 GB for family packs.

rolling out the storage increases to current .Mac members over the next week.

ILife '08

iPhoto

iMOvie

iWeb

GarageBand

iDVD ?

iWork '08

New Numbers Spreadsheet

Pages Opens XML documents

Airport Externe Updated with Gigabit Ethernet

MacPro RAID Card - $999 BTO option

PCI Express RAID card that provides hardware acceleration for mirrored or striped disk arrays and enables new RAID 0+1 and 5 modes with both mirroring and striping.

Apple's 3rd Quarter Results

www.apple.com—25results.html

The Company posted revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million, or $.92 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $4.37 billion and net quarterly profit of $472 million, or $.54 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter

Apple shipped 1,764,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 33 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous company record for quarterly Mac® shipments by over 150,000. The Company also sold 9,815,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 21 percent growth over the year-ago quarter. Highest June quarter revenue and profit in Apple’s history, along with the highest quarterly Mac sales ever

IPhone Billing Woes

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports of one user who received a $3000 bill when he roamed with his iPhone overseas. Apparently according to the iPhone plan fine print, international roaming costs $0.005 per kilobyte. According to the user, when using the iPhone in Europe over a 2 week period his bill amounted to $3000. According to the article, AT&T waived the charges, but apparently they do not offer an international roaming data plan for iPhone users as they do for some other devices.

www.tuaw.com—insane-international-iphone-roaming-charges

The New York Time's David Pogue blogged about his first AT&T bill stating that he was charged a total of $150 on his first bill for his $60 a month iPhone plan and the bill amounted to over 9 pages with several pages detailing out kilobyte by kilobyte his data usage. As for the $150 charge, it amounted to one full month, one partial month, the activation fee and taxes.

pogue.blogs.nytimes.com—iphoneatt-billuh-oh

iPhone coming to Best Buy?

www.appleinsider.com—apple_prepares_to_expand_iphone_distribution_points.html

AppleInsider claims that iPhone inventories should start cropping up at other high-profile retailers and prime AT&T wireless partners. AppleInsider goes on to say that All Best Buy stores are expected to carry the iPhone later this fall as Apple strengthens their relationship with BestBuy.

iTunes Tops 3 Billion Songs

www.apple.com—31itunes.html

Apple announced on July 31st that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes store. iTunes now features a catalog of over five million songs, 550 television shows and 500 movies and recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US.

Microsoft Delays Office 2008 for Mac till 2008

Microsoft will delay the release of Office 2008 for Mac until mid-January 2008 and the company is pushing for a MacWorld launch. Microsoft faced big changes with the long anticipated Office 2008, not only did they change file formats and convert the program to a universal binary, they also switched development platforms from CodeWarrior to X11, all of which seemed to make the taks a bigger undertaking than expected.

www.macworld.com—index.php

Intel to Invest Over $200 million in VMware

www.macobserver.com—09.7.shtml

Intel and VMware announced Monday that intel is investing $218.5 million in VMware.VMware develops virtualization software that lets Intel-based computers run applications written for operating systems other than the one the computer is currently using. The company's VMware Fusion application -- in beta testing phase now -- allows Mac OS X users to run Windows-based programs along side Mac programs. The two companies have also entered into a partnering agreement to collaborate on virtualization technology development

VMware Fusion for Mac was released this week for $79.00

www.vmware.com—fusion

Fake Steve Jobs Revealed

www.nytimes.com—06steve.html

The New York TImes has unmasked the blogger famously known as Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve is Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes who writes and edits technology articles and is the author of the upcoming satirical novel written in the voice of the Fake Steve character, “Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody.”Lyons says that he was shocked that it took so long for him to be unmasked.

Front Row 1.3.1

improved iPhoto compatability

www.apple.com—frontrow131.html

iPhoto 7.0.1

This update to iPhoto addresses issues associated with publishing photos from an upgraded library to .Mac Web Gallery

www.apple.com—iphoto701.html

Aperture 1.5.4

www.apple.com—aperture154update.html

Aperture 1.5.4 is required for compatibility with iLife '08. This update is recommended for all Aperture users.

iPhone 1.0.1

Included bug fixes for recently publicized. Also includes the capability of having 50 favorite numbers in the phone application instead of the previous 20, the option to BCC yourself in the mail application instead of just CC, and the ability to now play music through previously incompatible car adapters and speakers originally designed specifically for the iPod. Also includes stability improvements.

Security Update 2007-007

www.apple.com—securityupdate200700710410universal.html

Airport Extreme Update 2007-004

www.apple.com—airportextremeupdate2007004.html

This update is recommended for all Intel-based MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini computers and improves the reliability of AirPort connections.

MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 3.1

www.apple.com—macbookproefifirmwareupdate13.html

This EFI Firmware update fixes a display issue on 2.2/2.4GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This update requires MacBook Pro Software Update 1.0

Firmware Restoration CD 1.3 also released - if Apple releases a restoration CD or uninstaller, it's generally a good idea to keep it handy.

www.apple.com—firmwarerestorationcd13.html

Open Office XML Converter 0.2

This version of the converter improves conversion of Word documents that contain XML content, inline graphics, hyperlinked graphics, WMF/EMF graphics, SmartArt graphics and more.

www.versiontracker.com—32498

Remote Desktop Client for Mac 2.0 Beta

www.microsoft.com—downloads.aspx

Now a Universal Binary, includes Remote Desktop Protocol 6.0, allows multiple sessions, dynamic screen resizing, improved printing support and an improved user experience.

FileMaker Pro 9

www.filemaker.com—fmp

FileMaker announced the immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 9 on Tuesday. The new version of the database application added a new Quick Start screen, conditional formatting that highlights data based on user-created parameters, improved SQL support, link emailing so other users can access your databases, and more.FileMaker Pro 9 is priced at US$299, and upgrades from FileMaker Pro 7, 8, and 8.5 cost $179.

SpamSieve

c-command.com—spamsieve

The new version offers: various accuracy improvements, particularly for messages with attachments; improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard