OWC preps 1TB Mercury On-the-Go Pro drives

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Other World Computing has announced a new 1TB capacity for its Mercury On-the-Go Pro external hard d...

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PCalc 1.8 Prevents iPhone Profanity

post from Daring Fireball on 01 October 2009 11:39:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

Never again will a child’s innocence be lost after turning a number like 5318008 upside-down. (Doesn’t yet filter out my personal favorite, though: 3704558.)

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iPhone 3GS Firmware 3.1 Jailbreak Successful

post from iHackintosh on 01 October 2009 11:30:43 AM. © iHackintosh

Finally a good news for those who are waiting for jailbreak their 3GS with firmware 3.1, cpich3g tweeted this a little while ago ?3gs 3.0 pwned->3.1 pwned. Props to Musclenerd, Wizdaz and thanks Bumble-Bee & ToddJG for testing? cpich3g also[...]

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Oppenheimer, Merrill Lynch analysts raise AAPL
targets

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Two prominent analysts of Apple stock have raised their price targets, Barron's writes. Oppenheimer...

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Snow Leopards Leaps in Market Share

post from TheAppleBlog on 01 October 2009 11:00:00 AM. © TheAppleBlog

According to Web metrics firm Net Applications, 18 percent of Mac users are running Snow Leopard just one month after its release. That’s a remarkable upgrade rate for the latest iteration of OS X, especially considering Snow Leopard is Intel only.

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Overall, OS X now represents 5.12 percent of the worldwide OS market, up from 4.87 percent in August. While that might seem like a small increase, it’s up 37 percent from a year ago, and continuing a steady increase for the platform. In contrast, Windows has now fallen below 93 percent, though the release of Windows 7 will likely result in a temporary spike. Nonetheless, OS X is moving up, as is iPhone OS.

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Somewhat surprisingly, the increase from August to September was not as great as one might expect for iPhone OS. Despite the recent release of the iPhone 3GS and third generation iPod touch, iPhone OS is now at .35 percent, up from .33 percent last month, with the iPod touch remaining at .07 percent. Still, .40 percent of OS market share represents more than 50 million users, and with the introduction of the iPhone in China, the growth rate will likely increase soon.

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As for Safari, version 4 continues to increase its share among Mac users, with three out of four now running the latest version. Considering Safari 4 was officially released in June, that’s an impressive feat. However, Safari still lags far behind Internet Explorer, even losing ground to competitors challenging the dominance of Microsoft’s web browser.

Safari, including the Windows version, now holds 4.24 percent of the overall market, up from 4.07 percent last month, but that increase is small compared to Firefox, which jumped about one percent. Even Chrome grew faster than Safari, which showed about the same increase as Opera — ugh. What this means is that there are probably more than a few Firefox users on the Mac, and that Safari for Windows has been an utter failure in taking market share from Internet Explorer.

Nonetheless, September once again demonstrates OS X is running strong on Macs and handhelds, and that’s what really matters.

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Snow Leopard Leaps in Market Share

post from TheAppleBlog on 01 October 2009 11:00:00 AM. © TheAppleBlog

Eighteen percent of Mac users are running Snow Leopard just one month after its release, according to Web metrics firm Net Applications. That’s a remarkable upgrade rate for the latest iteration of OS X, especially considering Snow Leopard is Intel only.

netapplications_0909_osx

Overall, OS X now represents 5.12 percent of the worldwide OS market, up from 4.87 percent in August. While that might seem like a small increase, it’s up 37 percent from a year ago, and the platform is seeing a continuing a steady rise. In contrast, Windows has now fallen below 93 percent, though the release of Windows 7 will likely result in a temporary spike. Nonetheless, OS X is moving up, as is iPhone OS.

netapplications_0909_iphoneos

Somewhat surprisingly, the increase from August to September was not as great as one might expect for iPhone OS. Despite the recent release of the iPhone 3GS and third-generation iPod touch, iPhone OS is now at 0.35 percent, up from 0.33 percent last month, with the iPod touch remaining at 0.07 percent. Still, 0.4 percent of OS market share represents more than 50 million users, and with the introduction of the iPhone in China, the growth rate will likely increase soon.

netapplications_0909_safari

As for Safari, version 4 continues to increase its share among Mac users, with three out of four now running the latest version. Considering Safari 4 was officially released in June, that’s an impressive feat. However, Safari still lags far behind Internet Explorer, even losing ground to competitors challenging the dominance of Microsoft’s web browser.

Safari, including the Windows version, now holds 4.24 percent of the overall market, up from 4.07 percent last month, but that increase is small compared with Firefox, which jumped about 1 percent. Even Chrome grew faster than Safari, which showed about the same increase as Opera — ugh. What this means is that there are probably more than a few Firefox users on the Mac, and that Safari for Windows has been an utter failure in taking market share from Internet Explorer.

Nonetheless, September once again demonstrates OS X is running strong on Macs and handhelds, and that’s what really matters.

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Peter Hosey on Uniform Type Identifiers

post from Daring Fireball on 01 October 2009 10:52:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

Good piece from Peter Hosey last week showing how UTIs are in no way a replacement for creator codes.

While I’m revisiting the topic, I should mention that I realize there are many people who are pleased by the change in Snow Leopard whereby Launch Services no longer looks at a file’s creator code when determining which app should open it, and that there are several completely reasonable arguments to be made in favor of said change. It’s a matter of preference, and I prefer otherwise. What is not reasonable are blathering arguments that UTIs are in any way a replacement for creator codes.

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Peter Hosey on UTIs

Good piece from Peter Hosey last week showing how UTIs are in no way a replacement for creator codes.

While I’m revisiting the topic, I should mention that I realize there are many people who are pleased by the change in Snow Leopard whereby Launch Services no longer looks at a file’s creator code when determining which app should open it, and that there are several completely reasonable arguments to be made in favor of said change. It’s a matter of preference, and I prefer otherwise. What is not reasonable are blathering arguments that UTIs are in any way a replacement for creator codes.

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How Not to Use UTIs

Good piece from Peter Hosey last week showing how UTIs are in no way a replacement for creator codes.

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NEC adds three eco-friendly AccuSync monitors

NEC on Thursday added three new desktop monitors to its AccuSync lineup. All are entry level and env...

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