What's New - Mar 19, 2008

By: Benjamin Martin - Revised: 2008-03-25 ben

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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

  1. Safari 3.1
  2. Security Update 2008-002
  3. DiskWarrior 4.1
  4. MS Office 2008
  5. Apple Retail News
  6. iPhone Software Roadmap
  7. iPhone No. 1 Mobile Browser
  8. iPhone vs. Smartphone Usage
  9. Flash coming to iPhone
  10. WWDC 2008
  11. Google Code University
  12. FileSystems: Intro, history, evolution
  13. Fun Stuff

Safari 3.1

Reference: http://images.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_Product_Overview.pdf

  • HTML5
    • Offline storage support
  • CSS Animations
  • CSS Web Fonts
  • Mac + PC
  • Improved SVG (scalable vector graphics) support



Security Update 2008-002

Reference: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

  • Patches for:
    • AFP
    • Apache (version++)
    • Kerberos
    • PHP (version++)
    • X11

DiskWarrior 4.1

Reference: http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/support.html

  • DiskWarrior 4.1 update out
    • Free to 4.0 users
  • 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

MS Office 2008 12.1

Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948057

  • Corrects faulty install permissions
  • Security
  • Numerous stability improvements for Word, Excel and PowerPoint

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







Flash coming to iPhone

Reference: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9897861-7.html?tag=nefd.top

  • According to Adobe CEO Flash is coming to the iPhone
  • No date yet
  • Steve Jobs has alluded to Flash NOT evre coming to the iPhone?

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!

File Systems: Intro, history, evolution

Reference: http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/past-present-future-file-systems.ars

  • Good introductory article ... summarizes history and evolution
  • If you're a bit sketchy on filesystems I'd say it's a must read!