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Remains of the Day: Warrants unsealed, Apple unleashed
Ease yourself into the weekend with these stories, plucked fresh from the Internet just this afternoon and delivered straight to you.
Roommate’s tip led cops to iPhone finder (Wired)
Pursuant to a hearing requested by the media, a California judge unsealed legal documents in the case of the iPhone prototype, which was confirms that the device was found by a 21-year-old named Brian Hogan. The money quote? “Sucks for him,” Hogan told his roommate. “He lost his phone. Shouldn’t have lost his phone.” Once again proving the old adage: he who lives by the "sucks for him" dies by the "sucks for him." (Also worth a look is the e-mail Gizmodo sent to Steve Jobs, which was included in the affidavit.)
Apple may soon be the U.S.’s largest company (SmartMoney)
Under the Gavel: I sue you, you sue me
It’s a sue-or-be-sued world, or so the lawyers would have you believe. You can’t get to be as big as Apple and not expect to hear the distinctive slap of lawsuits from time to time. That’s a sound that can only mean another issue of Under the Gavel, our semi-regular look at who’s going toe-to-toe with the folks from Cupertino.
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Seems like the U.S. International Trade Commission has a new investigation every week (hey, great idea for a TV pilot: an intrepid group of intellectual property investigators; call it ITC: Washington). Now the U.S. agency is looking into imaging devices such as digital still and video cameras and related software, based on a complaint from Apple filed against Rochester-based Kodak.
This, of course, is in response to an ongoing ITC investigation into Apple and other smartphone makers instigated by Kodak , over cameraphone features. In addition, Apple and Kodak have traded lawsuits, each suggesting that the other has violated its patents. It’s all so tricky: how do we know how to believe?
Remains of the Day: Mac, Apple IIe poised for comebacks
If the Internet is any indication, Steve Jobs responds to more of his e-mail than I do of mine, and yet I have to imagine that I'm far less busy than he is. You might say he's better than me, but I prefer to think of it as just another piece of evidence supporting the Robo Jobs hypothesis.
Steve Jobs replies to e-mail about Mac Design Awards (MacStories)
Much was made of the lack of a Mac software category at this year’s annual Apple Design Awards, held at WWDC. What, Steve Jobs worry? Nah. In an e-mail response to one concerned Mac developer, Jobs says that it’s just “the normal cycle of things” and maybe next year will focus on the Mac. He signs off by saying “No hidden meaning here,” which of course has sent every Mac fanboy on the planet poring over the e-mail headers in order to find the message’s hidden meaning. Let Macworld’s crack cryptographers save you some time: if you translate Jobs’s e-mail into Finnish and read it backwards it says “Woz is dead.”
iPad Printing with Mac OS X Server 10.6 (André Aulich)
Software » Networking Utilities
Yazsoft updates ShareTool to version 2
Yazsoft has upgraded its Back to My Mac alternative, ShareTool, to version 2. ShareTool is a utility that lets you connect to all of the Bonjour services on your home or office network from any internet connection via a secure connection. This allows you to use iTunes Music Sharing, Screen Sharing, File Sharing, or printing on any of your Macs from anywhere in the world.
With version 2, you can now connect to multiple home and office networks simultaneously—a feature that could be useful for providing tech support for clients, friends, or family. Other new features include improved security, performance and reliability, and the ability to save login information to your Keychain.
While this may sound quite similar to Apple’s Back to my Mac, ShareTool has a few key differences. For one, while Back to My Mac is limited to sharing screens and files, ShareTool also works with iTunes, iPhoto, SFTP, and a number of third-party apps. Another pleasant difference is that ShareTool doesn’t require a yearly subscription.
Web Services » Web Productivity Apps
MobileMe Mail beta adds server rules, interface tweaks
Apple late on Wednesday announced a new beta program for the mail component of its MobileMe internet service. The new beta offers new interface views, server-based mail rules, SSL-based security, and improved performance, according to the company.
The mail rules feature will allow MobileMe users at last to filter mail into separate mailboxes in advance of downloading them to your devices. A new Archive button allows users to file selected messages to an archive folder with a single click. (These are areas in which MobileMe's mail has notably lagged behind Google's free Gmail service.)
A preview of the new widescreen view.
Remains of the Day: Facebook watches, Letterman switches
Don’t consider your day complete until you have clicked on each and every one of these links, carefully hand-picked for your reading enjoyment by the editors of Macworld. And believe me, we will know if you haven’t. (Okay, maybe we won’t, but Facebook sure will.)
Some Facebook privacy issues are real, some are not (Inside Facebook)
An in-depth look at several of the privacy debates surrounding the uber-popular social-networking site, summarizing recent changes and the issues they raise. The biggest problem? Facebook has yet to roll out a feature suppressing information you’d really rather your friends kept to themselves.
Office 2010: Desktop Heavyweight, Online Weakling (Technologizer)
C4 developer conference will not return
For many in the Apple community, highlights have often been keynotes by Steve Jobs at Macworld Expo or Apple’s own Worldwide Developer Conference. For those on the development side of the community, however, one of the most popular Apple-related yearly events has been the annual C4 conference in Chicago. Sad news, then, as conference organizer Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch announced in a blog post on Wednesday that C4 has reached the end of its run.
Rentzsch cites Apple’s recent alteration of Section 3.3.1 of its iPhone developer agreement—the controversial clause that prohibits the use of some tools and programming languages for creating iPhone applications—as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Specifically, he points to the lack of developer outrage about the change, saying “unlike previous issues such as the senseless iPhone SDK NDA, the majority of the community isn’t riled by 3.3.1.”
Despite expressing his disappointment over the end of the conference, NetNewsWire developer Brent Simmons raised the question of whether or not Section 3.3.1, which only governs development for the iPhone, should affect a gathering that was primarily centered around development for the Mac.
Remains of the Day: Robo Jobs vs. the Androids
Here at Macworld, we strive to paint you a comprehensive picture of the latest news in the realm of Apple, but sometimes stories slip through the cracks. Fortunately, those stories get lodged in our patent-pending remainderizer—think of it like the crumb tray of a toaster, except for stories. Crunchy, delicious stories.
Without further ado, the remainders for Tuesday, May 11, 2010.
Steve Jobs is now ‘fully operational’ (BusinessWeek)
A year after his liver transplant surgery, the Apple CEO is back in the thick of it. But ‘fully operational’? And former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki says, “People like Steve Jobs have a different operating system from you and me.” Both interesting choices of words that do not in the least bit suggest to us that Jobs has been replaced by a robot duplicate.
Goober 3 beta offers HD VoIP calls and video-conferencing
Goober Networks, in a bid to better compete with Skype and its ilk, has announced a public beta of Goober 3.0, its unified communications application. The new version allows HD VoIP calling, multi-user video conferencing, and multi-protocol instant messaging.
Goober 3.0 offers HD voice calls (with higher-quality audio). Rates are a little complicated: it's 1 cent a minute for landlines in the U.S. and Canada, and 1.4 cents for mobile lines. Calls to landlines in Europe are usually less than 3 cents a minute, but some areas are more, and mobile lines are 20 cents and up. Asia calls start at 5 cents, and go up from there depending on the country and type of line. The company is making a point of saying that its advertised rates tend to be lower than Skype's.
Other new phone functions in Goober include call forwarding and dial-in (which lets you receive calls from a landline or cell phone). For your iPhone or iPad, you can also download gooberVoIP, an app that allows you to make and receive calls over Wi-Fi and 3G networks.
Apple and MacLearning.org team up for education conference
If you’re a teacher, administrator, or student interested in educational technology, there’s an event to check out: Apple and MacLearning.org are co-sponsoring a virtual conference, AcademiX 2010, on the use of Apple products and technology in education. To be held on Friday, May 14, it’s the second year of AcademiX. The actual presentations will occur at Northwestern University and MIT. Six campuses will hold a Webcast of the conference, but you can register and view the talks from anywhere if you’re online.
AcademiX 2010 includes six 20-minute talks about changes in education, best teaching practices, open access, podcasting and mobile learning, distance education, and innovations in research and scholarship. MacLearning.org, organized by faculty and staff from a number of universities, is a community that promotes the open exchange of ideas about pedagogy and Apple technologies.
Besides the two physical locations for AcademiX 2010, six campuses will offer a live stream: Duke, Princeton, San Diego State, the University of Kansas, the University of Minnesota, and the University of New Mexico. As you’d expect, participants at these locations and those attending online will be able to interact with the presenters and other audiences.
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