It ’s a mega - giganta - humungo edition today , as we cover everything from Apple losing yet another prototype iPhone , to a neighbourly Steve Jobs , to Tim Cook ’s electronic mail habits . understand along with the remainders for Wednesday , August 31 , 2011 and help close out August in style .
Apple fall back another unreleased iPhone(CNet )
To paraphrase my human beings Oscar Wilde : “ To lose one unreleased prototype iPhone may be reckon as misfortune ; to lose two facial expression like carelessness . ” But grant to CNet , that ’s exactly what happened . The scene of the crime ? A barroom , once again . This — presumptively iPhone 5 — prototype has not yet surfaced , although it reportedly may have been sold on Craigslist for $ 200 . Huh . I wonder if that was the pricewitha two - class contract .
My Neighbor , Steve Jobs(PaloAltoPatch )
Palo Alto resident Lisen Stromberg reminisces about Steve Jobs not as a technical genius , but as a neighbor . My personal favorite part , no joke : a tarradiddle about Steve dressed as Frankenstein for Halloween . It ’s merely delightful in its un - Steveness .
A Look at Apple ’s Handling of Customer Emails to Executives as Tim Cook Takes Charge(MacRumors )
One way in which Tim Cookisapparently come after in his herald ’s footsteps ? Answering random emails from the great unwashed on the Internet . The newly promoted Apple CEO has reportedly replied to at leasta couple of messagesfrom well - wishers . However , I do notice that Tim ’s e-mail lacks any sort of touch line , so let me suggest “ ship from Steve Jobs ’s iPad . ”
Apple will put in place new puppet for symptomatic of breakdowns of devices under iOS(HardMac )
Gallic Apple site HardMac describe that Apple has build a Web - based diagonostic tool that service force can use to transmit introductory information about an iOS machine back to Cupertino . It can also purportedly determine whether you ’ve been naughty or dainty .
Shrine of Apple(Shrine of Apple )
These nutty folks are prove to catalog every Apple product ever made in high - quality pic . All I ’m say is that there better be some blastoff of aPippin .
Apple wants its 3 G MacBook paradigm back(CNet )
call back that3G - equipped MacBook prototypethat surfaced a few weeks ago ? Apple apparently need it back from Carl Frega , the North Carolina world who has it . human race , between this and the iPhones , I ’m set out to think that Clive Owen’swalled himself into 1 Infinite Loop ’s epitome research laboratory .
Apple ’s Designers Work Towards Storefront Symmetry(ifoAppleStore.com )
In newsworthiness that wo n’t descend as a gross shock , it become out that Apple Stores are design to be symmetrical . This explains one of the companionship ’s weird hiring pattern , where all the personnel on one side of the store are command to be left - handed , while the other side are all right - handed .
intersection News :
Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.8 – Apple ’s latest update add together RAW image compatibility for several cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’ 11 . Free .
Animation Desk for iPad 1.5 – The latest update to Kdan Mobile Software ’s life app for the iPad has been update with the ability to reassign files between iOS devices , new foreground and in-between - terra firma layer options , the ability to change coppice opaqueness and sizing , a thumbnail scroller , and underage hemipteron fixes . $ 5 . The $ 3 iPhone version also sportswoman data file transportation capableness and minor hemipteran fixes and adds Chinese support .
Nisus Writer Pro 2.0.1 – Nisus Software has updated its word processor , Nisus Writer Pro , to version 2.0.1 , adding compatibility for Mac OS X Lion and a fistful of hemipteron pickle . New license : $ 79 ; rise : $ 49 , or complimentary for owners of Nisus Writer Pro 2.0.The newly updated Nisus Writer Express 3.4also adds Lion compatibility , include full - screen mood , and beleaguer jam . New license : $ 45 , upgrade : $ 30 , or free for owner Nisus Writer Express 3.x .
