Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

Apple has opened up operator discounts on the iPhone, and stated that it should be no more than US$199 for the 8GB model, and US$299 for the 16GB model.
So these are the MAXIMUM prices we should be paying. Of course the operators are welcome to try and “seduce us” with a more tempting price by [...]

Next time, we’ll organise a proper Twitter feed… Much easier
It’s on like Donkey Kong! We’ll update tomorrow with the facts…

24 years ago, you could have gotten your hands on this sexy little number for a measly $2,500. If you (or you Dad?) have on of these ‘bad boys’ in your basement, … now might be a good time to dust it off, and slap in on eBay!

Sure you create some major buzz in the middle of CES 2008, the Apple store went down for a while (well it’s a Tuesday!) coming back up to reveal a newly revised Mac Pro. These bad boys now run 8-cores standard, up to 3.2 Ghz each. From the press release the basic config includes:
two 2.8 [...]

Add a new Mac to your Mac. Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard is packed with over 300 new features, installs easily, and works with the software and accessories you already have.
Choose a single-user license for home or office (SGD $238). Or if you have more than one Mac at home, choose the five-user Family Pack [...]

Sources close to the development of Leopard are saying the code for the upcoming OS is now frozen, and a Gold Master (GM) has been built and delivered to manufacturing.
The build is said to be mac OS X Leopard 9A581 - the previously hinted GM build released internally at Apple over the weekend.
Meanwhile, as I [...]

Instead of forking out $50 - $100 to get your iPhone unlocked, you now have an open source alternative. Thanks to the hard working folks over at the iPhone Dev Wiki, there is now a software solution that allows you to sim-unlock your phone.
Tutorials are still being developed but some early instructions have appeared. [...]

It’s not often we “blow our own horn” on our blog, but this is an offer we thought all you ‘Mac Heads’ might be interested in.
Is you sign up for either or “Start-Up” or “Business” hosting plans, then we’ll put you in a draw with 9 other people, and 1 of you will walk away [...]

Look at the symbol top-right in the display.
It appears that the chip is there, but its not switched on. That’s ok Steve, we can manage that ourselves!

Today we get to talk about music, so let’s start with iTunes. iTunes is a pretty amazing phenomenon. Facts and figures: 600 million copies of iTunes distributed. Over 3 billion songs bought on iTunes. “We’re pretty amazed at this.” Giggles. “This is the number one music store in all 21 countries we operate in.”
“We started [...]