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In typical Apple fashion, the iPhone SDK program and App Store application process has been clouded in some uncertainty about launch dates and details of the approval process. Today, Apple finally gave developers a firm deadline of July 7th …

Two Apple shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit against present and former Apple officials including Steve Jobs and four members of the Board of Directors, as well as former CFO Fred Anderson and former General Counsel Nancy …

Tom’s Hardware publishes some interesting conclusions based on their testing of Solid State Drives (SSD) in laptops. They report that contrary to popular belief, SSD drives actually reduce the battery life in laptops as compared to traditional Hard …

Net Applications has published their latest numbers on browser and operating system marketshare. The numbers indicate that the Mac’s marketshare, as reflected by their sample population, has continued to increase to as high as 7.94% in June.
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The iPhone 3G will launch on July 11th in 20 countries worldwide. More details have been trickling in about launch times and pricing:

- According to Macworld.co.uk, the UK’s O2 stores will open at 7am on July 11th to begin selling the…

Both Apple and AT&T, the iPhone’s exclusive US wireless carrier and distribution partner, have posted videos hoping to get customers iReady for the big day and, according to a story in Fortune, reporter Philip Elmer-DeWitt says their …

I was chatting with occasional Hints editor Kirk McElhearn this morning, trying to figure out a Word 2008 image placement issue related to using the arrow keys to position the image. If you use the arrow keys alone, the image moves in large increments (10 pixels at a time, maybe?). For fine image movement control, Word 2008’s help says this:

To move an object up, down, or sideways in small increments, click the object, hold down OPTION, and then press an arrow key.

However, this didn’t seem to work — holding Option and pressing any arrow key resulted in no movement at all. Yet Kirk had a document he was editing in Word 2008 whose images would move by fine amounts with Option and the arrow keys. When I tried on my local Mac, though, I had no such luck. After some digging on Microsoft’s Word Forum, I …

I was looking to set up .htaccess on Leopard server, and as I was testing the .htpasswd file I set up for the user (myself), I tried the wrong password and it let me in! It turns out I had used my regular password that’s set up through Open Directory. So I deleted the .htpasswd file, and I removed all references to it in the .htaccess file to further test. This is the resulting .htaccess file:

AuthName "Server Access"
AuthType Digest
require valid-user

Just by using the above .htaccess file, I am able to login with any user that has an Open Directory account. Nice treat, for me anyway. I’m guessing others will have to add restrictions for users they don’t want to have access.

[robg adds: I have no way of testing this one…]

If you search the Apple Discussion boards you will see a lot of discussions like this one — they’re all about Airport and Ethernet internet connections dropping. I think I have figured out a solution to the problem (I use 10.5.3), as I was having it as well.

With certain routers, OS X will choose to use the address of the router as the DNS server’s IP address. Therefore, it will first try and contact the router to get DNS info, and only after a while will it find it’s way to the net. I had a new MacBook Pro with this issue, as well as a new iMac. The latter fortunately showed the wrong DNS server IP (grey fonts), but the Macbook didn’t.

The solution is to go in the Network System Preferences panel and select ‘Manually’ instead of ‘Using DCHP’. Then fill in the IP address, subnet mask, router address, and DNS server address. Click ‘Advanced’ and then go to the ‘DNS’ tab to verify …

Appleinsider reports that an AT&T spokesperson has informed them that customers upgrading to the iPhone 3G could continue to use their original iPhone as a Wi-Fi iPod:

“If the [original] device is not re-activated as a wireless phone …