Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

This was snapped by a mac fany at a Costco store in Tukwila, WA (a suburb south of Seattle). Good to see the store staff know the correct usage for Zune - a table to hold iPod gear!

Now, we are not saying this is REAL or anything, but it has been sent to us by a number of people. Could this be what is announced at MWSF 2007..? Well, I guess we’ll know shortly enough!!

I don’t think there’s much we can say about this, that the video can’t say for itself. So go ahead and click play, then wonder no more about what else you can do with your iPod!

File this under: damn cool. The latest build of Leopard (9A321) released yesterday introduces a new feature, which as yet Apple has failed to mention. The new iChat answering preference tab allows you to record a video greeting to serve as an answering message when users are away from their desk. The caller [...]

Rumblings across one rumour site are talking of a 12″ MacBook Pro (missing in the current MBPro line-up), however with drastically thinner proportions than its cousins. Whilst its shipping name isn’t yet know, some of the spec on this beast has been leaked:
- 12″ Widescreen, 1280×800 resolution
- 2.16 or 2.33Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo [...]

This is possibly on the best bargain basement deals of 2006. 10 award winning Apps. Over 80% off the RRP. 25% gets donated to a charity of your choice. You can even try out the App’s individually before you buy them, as each page has a link to a trial version at [...]

Fire up your software update now (assuming you have Aperture of course), and you’ll be treated to the V1.5.2 upgrade. What’s new..?
Improves overall reliability and performance in a number of areas of the application, including contact sheet printing, Smart Albums, watermarks, Lift & Stamp, image export, and versions using an external editor.
Please [...]

An extremely eagle-eyed reader noticed that Microsoft had *cough* *cough* accidentally “borrowed” Apple’s Workgroup Manager (WGM) icon, and slapped it on the Vista Business edition page. After it was raised to the attention of the online media, it’s recently been replaced (twice), by some much more dodgy looking icons, that actually look like MS [...]

Apple recently unveiled its New Zealand iTunes and Online Apple stores to much fanfare. “We’re thrilled to bring the iTunes Store to our customers in New Zealand just in time for the holidays” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s VP of iTunes. So there you have it. That’s great news if you live in, [...]

According to the release notes of the latest build of Leopard (9A326), it includes native support for Office 2007 built right into Text Edit. Looks like we’ll be seeing quite an improvement in that App then, maybe to the power of MS Word!