Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Apple Store: It’s Back!

September 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM

in Gadgetry,Services

Now that the Apple [AAPL] product announcements are done, the final touches to the refreshed Apple Store wrapped up. You can now head over to the ‘store to start ordering the new iPods. N.B. And yes, the iPod shuffle has gotten a revamped color palette. Seems like it color-coordinates with the new iPod nano.

Apple: All Rocked Out

September 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM · 5 comments

in Conferences,Gadgetry,Software

Now that the Apple [AAPL] product announcements are done for today, what do we have? New iPod nano: Bigger than the previous one; more strongly resembles the original iPod nano in overall shape, but with more tapered curviness and 8 rainbow colors. 8 GB: $149 16 GB: $199 New iPod touch Redesigned body: thinner, more [...]

Steve Jobs: I’m Still Alive

September 9, 2008 at 1:17 PM · 3 comments

in Meanderings

Steve Jobs is still alive. At least, that’s what he’s claiming from the front stage of his Apple [AAPL] presentation in San Francisco, CA. Please excuse the quality of my video feed snapshot (from the live CNBC videocast). There was also a close-up pan of Steve, but you can also see from the snapshot above: [...]

MacUpdate Back-to-School Promotion: Update 2

September 9, 2008 at 10:04 AM

in Software

Another quick update on the MacUpdate promotion we touted on 8/28/2008: Still Time to Get the Deal… All of the ten (10) apps in the bundle are now available: LightZone is reported on the MacUpdate Promo page to be unlocked. And with one day left to spare! Unfortunately, I had not seen the unlock alert [...]

Hot on the heels of its iPhone rollout at the Best Buy retail chain that began this past Sunday, Apple [AAPL] is giving its September product announcements under its new “Let’s Rock” program, starting at 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT). There have been a lot of rumors abounding… and a lot of people are [...]

As reported by the WordPress folks themselves, they’ve released version 2.6.2 of their product, which provides a series of security and bug fixes. Topping the list of key liabilities are reported by Stefan Esser: SQL column truncation vulnerabilities found in MySQL mt_rand() and mt_srand() predictability vulnerabilities In addition to the two items listed above are [...]