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CrunchGear has posted the first banners at WWDC which promote both “OS X Leopard” and “OS X iPhone”. The “OS X Leopard” banner reads “The world’s most advanced operating system,” while the “OS X iPhone” banner reads “The world’s mos…

CrunchGear has posted the first banners at WWDC which promote both “OS X Leopard” and “OS X iPhone”. The “OS X Leopard” banner reads “The world’s most advanced operating system,” while the “OS X iPhone” banner reads “The world’s mos…

As reported by AppleInsider, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu informed clients that he believed there is a 50-50 chance that Apple would introduce new form factor multi-touch devices at WWDC next week.

Our sources indica…

Apple and SoftBank will bring the iPod to Japan, so goes the news. In the meantime, some of us are left wondering with what’s to happen to DoCoMo, Japan’s largest telco. NTT DoCoMo’s Shiuchiro Ichikoshi was quoted by MacNews.de as …

If a CD or DVD is physically stuck inside your MacBook’s or MacBook Pro’s slot-in drive (e.g. when you’ve inserted a CD with a paper label) this tip might be useful:

When pressing the eject button the disc is moved a tiny bit and pulled back inside immediately afterwards. You can probably see only a very tiny bit if it, but that part can’t be caught by regular tweezers or other tools available in a typical household. I also unsuccessfully tried some tips for removing a stuck DVD floating around the web.

Instead, try to use the shutter of an old 3.5″ floppy disc, and bend both ends of the shutter slightly outwards, so that the disc can easily slip between the ends. Now you have …

I don’t know how long this capability has been available since I didn’t need it until today. Disk Utility in OS X 10.5.3 can now repair a networked Sparse image bundle without mounting it.

Locate the sparse image bundle on the networked drive; the image file will be named ComputerName_MAC-address.sparsebundle. Drag the sparsebundle file into the left column of Disk Utility. Now,select it and click Repair Disk on the First Aid tab. Depending on the size of the file, this could take a few hours to repair. This is, however, much nicer than having to remember the command line procedure!

So I keep experimenting with the new three finger trackpad swipes, and came across the following in Safari. Command and three fingers swiped to the right or left will create the forward or backward page in a new tab. Option-Command and a three finger swipe (left or right) opens the backward or forward page in a new window behind the current one. Finally, Shift-Option-Command and a three finger swipe (left or right) opens the backward or forward page in a new window in front of the current one.

Obviously, for any of these to work, you must have a page or pages in the forward and/or backward buffers.

The WebKit project announced this week a new and improved JavaScript interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish.

SquirrelFish promises 1.6 times faster JavaScript performance as compared to Webkit/Safari 3.1. This is accomplished by using “…

Only one week after the release of Mac OS X 10.5.3, Apple has already started seeding developers with the first version of Mac OS X 10.5.4 (build 9E6). The latest developer seed lists no known issues and details only a handful of fixes to Mac OS X. …

The US Patent and Trademark Office has recently published an extensive patent application, seemingly for features related to the 3G iPhone and software version 2.0, both now expected to be released next Monday.

The device supports a v…