Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

A recent hiring by Apple for “Handwriting Recognition Engineers” seems to have paid dividends in the latest iPhone SDK, which shows some sort of handwriting recognition software running.
According to the post on the Chinese website, this is how Apple plans to integrate Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) input on the iPhone.
As you “write” with your finger, [...]

A Chinese website is showing off these pics. Not sure if these are real, or just mock-ups built using the latest information Apple has sent out to case manufacturers etc.
Still, they look a damn site nicer than the last lot of supposed iPhone pics…

Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney claims to have heard “from sources in Asia” that Apple has placed a 10 million unit order for 3G iPhones, according to an interview by the iPod Observer.
This order for 10 million 3G iPhones would reportedly be above and beyond the original 10 million Apple had planned to sell of [...]

An Industry source has let slip that Apple’s iPhone will be coming to Singapore in September, under a deal with SingTel.
Its widely expected that by the time it gets out here, the iPhone will be a revised version, presumably utilising the new 3G chipset to keep up with the competition and local network speeds [...]

In case you’ve been in a coma for the last few weeks, 1am local time kicks of the infamous Steve Jobs keynote speech. One of the most interesting rumors doing the rounds is of a tiny Mac portable, called the Macbook Air.Other things of interest should hopefully include:
OS X 10.5.2 Client / Server update
iPhone V1.1.3 [...]

MacHeist is a package of 10 11 fantastic Apps bundled together at an insane price. For every bundle sold, a portion of the proceeds goes to charity.Today they hit their target, and all the Apps in the bundle are unlocked, meaning if you purchase now, you get all the Apps straight away! Yey! Included in the [...]

This is a scammy operator, the first we know of in the Mac software field!Visit this site on your Mac (or even on a PC!), and it will “warn” you that it has found:

As devoted maniacs of all things Apple, we’d like to share what we consider are the Top 10 most useful Mac Apps. This list doesn’t include Microsoft Office, Adobe apps or any of theApps bundled with your Mac. Instead it’s focus is on freeware and shareware apps leveraging the genius of various indie [...]

An interesting find on a Family Guy (Blue Harvest) DVD - which is supposed to be released on Jan 15th (read: Keynote date), was and iPod compatible version of the movie, branded as a “Fox Digital Copy” file.
Apparently it needs iTunes version 7.6 to run, so no doubt Steve will announce that during his keynote. 

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 [...]