What's New - Mar 19, 2008
By: Benjamin Martin - Revised: 2008-03-25 ben
Introduction
What's new for the Mac in the previous month:
- General issues, workarounds and fixes
- New Software and hardware
- Software and hardware updates/patches
- Apple Inc. related news
Contents
- Safari 3.1
- Security Update 2008-002
- DiskWarrior 4.1
- MS Office 2008
- Apple Retail News
- iPhone Software Roadmap
- iPhone No. 1 Mobile Browser
- iPhone vs. Smartphone Usage
- Flash coming to iPhone
- WWDC 2008
- Google Code University
- FileSystems: Intro, history, evolution
- Fun Stuff
DiskWarrior 4.1
Reference:
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/support.html - DiskWarrior 4.1 update out
- Officially supports Leopard
- still lacking support for certain models:
- MacPro / XServe - 2008.01.08
- MacBook Air - 2008.01.15
- MacBook / MacBook Pro - 2008.02.26
Apple Retail News
Reference: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/18/apple-spanks-rest-of-computer-industry-in-february-sales
- Macs 14% of unit sales in Feb
- Macs account for 25% of the dollar share
iPhone Software Roadmap
Reference:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/iphoneroadmap/ - Microsoft Exchange Active Sync
- Push: email, contacts, calendars, remote wipe
- Cisco IPsec VPN
- WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1x
- App Store
- Browse, search, purchase via wireless
- iPhone SDK
- $99 buys you a developer license
- $299 buys you an enterprise license
- SDK is free
- LOTS of documentation
WWDC 2008
June 9th - 14th, San Francisco, Moscone West
Google Code University
Reference:
http://code.google.com/edu/ - MySQL, C++, Java, Python, Ajax, CSS
- Presentation videos, code examples, tools, resources, etc
- Fairly limited for now ... but worth checking out!