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This may also shed some light on the recent news that Apple might - possibly maybe - drop support for PowerPC chips when Snow Leopard comes out. PA Semi currently makes PowerPC chips, and if those were to end up in iPhones, Mac OS X …

iLounge reveals that Apple has included a second proximity sensor to the iPhone 3G to provide more accurate face-detection. This brings the total number of sensors to three (two proximity sensors, one ambient light sensor).

Apple prev…

Leaked case mold (left), and final product (right)
In the months leading up to the iPhone 3G launch, there were a few early 3rd party case leaks that claimed to depict the upcoming iPhone 3G design. First reports of the case specs ca…

AppleInsider publishes some information released to some developers this week about how they can submit their iPhone/iPod Touch applications to the iTunes App Store.

Applications are submitted via iTunes Connect and do have an absolute…

I use Mail.app to get my GMail via IMAP. The official recommendations for using GMail this way suggest that I shouldn’t let Mail automatically move messages it detects as junk — because GMail already does most of the legwork for you. I tend to agree, but this is quite frustrating in terms of my other accounts, as this is an application-wide setting.

However, there is a solution! By adding a simple mail rule, you can continue to set “Move it to the junk mailbox” in Mail’s preferences, but have Mail ignore messages in GMail that it thinks are spam. First, make sure that, in Mail’s preferences on the Junk Mail tab, Filter junk mail before applying my rules is unticked. Without this, the rule won’t be applied. Now, add a new rule that says:

If all of the following conditions are met:

• Message is Junk Mail
• Account: GMail

Perform the following actions:

• Stop evaluating rules

And there …

This hint explains how to view an in-motion Doppler weather radar image from The Weather Channel on your desktop. A little precaution is in order, though: this will eat up quite a bit of CPU cycles (between 12% and 30% on an Intel Mac mini). I use it on a machine that does monitoring/notification, but I’d never use it on a machine I use for normal work. The “animation” is somewhat slow, but tolerable in my opinion. This hint requires use of the command line. Also, I make no guarantees that it won’t break something, etc. I’ve only done this on Leopard, but I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work with Tiger (no Panther or earlier, because they don’t have launchd).

There are two components to this: A unix script to retrieve the images from The Weather Channel or NOAA or wherever else, and a launchd agent that periodically runs the script.Here’s the shell script: …

… you should be able to install and use the latest version of Mac OS X (10.5 Leopard). Three years after abruptly announcing plans to ditch the PowerPC world and adopt Intel processors, though, Apple seems to have decided…

Apple announced the winners of their annual Apple Design Awards (ADA) tonight.

The Apple Design Awards, held at Moscone West during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, recognize technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding…

Apple has posted an update for its Airport Utility, bringing it to version 5.3.2. Here is the description provided by Apple for this update:. Advertisement:. read more.

iPhone 3G will also leverage MobileMe, a re-branded version of Apple’s .Mac Internet service that pushes email, contacts, and calendars from an online “cloud” to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. …