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The G5's liquid cooling system is manufactured by Delphi, a pretty well-known auto parts manufacturer.

Apple is most certainly not tying digital identity to the computer.

Your Keychain, in ~/Library/Keychains, is perfectly portable, and designed to be moved from computer to computer, or stored on a device for storing such tokens, such as a USB flash drive.

Further, that certificates are even in your keychain at all implies that you should have access to the original source certificate files, which clearly remain portable.

And finally, rumor has it that Tiger will include much more advanced features for managing, importing, and exporting certificates and CAs.

Not a mistake.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=664

seems like it's audio only

Instead of waiting for GoogleIM to come out (if ever)... try ubergroups.com. We've been building this service for nearly a year now, and we're not launching until next month but in the mean time you can sign up and check out the technology preview of our service.

Instead of person-to-person messaging, we have built this service around the concept of private IM groups (hence the name) that people can join or be invited to. Once you're in a group you can see everyone who's in that group - no screen name swapping or awkwardness. Everything's secure and logged, and you can go back and search through your old conversations or file transfers. You can also share files and thoughts with other group members through private blogs.

Already it's become a core way of operating for us internally. It's very useful for any type of project team or development group.

On the tech side, we've built this IM service on top of XMPP/Jabber so you can use any client you want (iChat coming soon), or you can use our Java client, which is pretty nice and loads through Web Start.

The basic service is free and we'll be rolling out some cool for-pay options down the road as well.

Bottom line: no need to wait for Google to do this. Try ubergroups.com for yourself and see why.

the iPod mini is also rumored to bump up to 6gb. (less is more, suckaz!)

The next version of iChat will include Jabber support.

This is interesting...

In February, Microsoft released the Software Development Kit (SDK) for its forthcoming Xbox 2 video game console. Since the Xbox 2 will utilize IBM processors similar to the ones used in today's Macintosh systems, the SDK was seeded to developers on dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel.

The article implies that the guy who got fired a year or so ago for posting pictures of a Microsoft loading dock full of Powermac G5s may have been fired not because of petty Mac - Windows jealously (or whatever the explanation was at the time), but because those G5s were a tool for the development for Xbox2.

Mac OS X Tiger to support resolution independent UI, larger icons

The base G5 iMac, for $1300, gets you more processing power and HD space than the most powerful $3000 Powerbook, as well as a higher-quality screen.

The iMac has more power, less money, and apparently it is somewhat user serviceable (contrary to your post).

Granted, in form factor is the number one priority and all others fall away in the distance, then there is little difference between a laptop and iMac. So when one does buy a laptop, one gives up both money and power. One gets other advantages, of course, and Apple makes various machines for the needs of different people.

Of the three styles of iMacs, this one is by *far* the easiest to work on. Loosening three screws lets you remove the rear panel for full access to the entire system. Here is a diagram of its insides.

1. Max out the RAM you can afford. Don't buy them at Apple.com, though.
   
2. You will need to re-learn and familiar yourself to the Mac's GUI philosophy. For example, the menu bar is always at the top. You need to get use to new keyboard shortcuts. Don't be frustrated at the change, it's not as difficult as you may think. You just need time. To make it easier, forget about being a power user right away. Mac OS X is flexible enough that you can do many things differently. As you familiarize yourself, start picking hints for doing things more efficiently (tips and tricks).
   
3. When you are stuck at a task, usually the answer is simpler than you think. Many converts try to find a complex answer when it is actually staring at them on the screen. Sometimes, simplicity is hard for people used to runabout ways.
   
4. One button mouse. This always comes up. Mac OS X and apps writen using Apple's guideline are operable using one button mouse. Simple as that. But, you can use CTRL key and the mouse button to simulate a right click. However, if you are a power user or you really prefer multi-button mouse, simply use your old USB mouse. No driver installation is needed.
   
5. If you are familiar with linux, you'll find almost at home with Mac OS X. CLI is a click away and many open source apps support Mac OS X. sourceforge.com is a good start. For searching apps, google helps alot, but it's easier to go to VersionTracker first.
   
6. Lastly, visit lots of Mac websites. You'll find that Mac communities are a helpful bunch. One site you shouldn't miss is MacSurfer. It's a Mac news clearinghouse. It has links to news, rumors, tips, tricks, deals, etc.. From there, you'll find many links to other Mac sites (at the bottom of the page). You can also visit Apple Insider for their excellent forum where you can discuss problems and speculate on rumors.

I wonder how long before it supports other database engines (MySQL, etc)? Then you'd probably be able to layout your forms in Interface Builder and bind the controls to the database... We can wish for it, anyway :-)

Here's your link.

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Anyway, this of course means a WiFi/video iPod is not in development yet, IOW we'll have to wait a bit for it to come out.

I read about this last Tuesday on Apple Insider

It has more details on the source of the rumor, and this is very old news that's been spreading around the web for a week. It was also on Macrumors and several other sites last week.

Jason
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I know that it being a fake is old news, but open the image in Photoshop and turn on only the blue channel like they did here. In conclusion: fake fake fake

My theory may be completely off-the-mark, but just following the threads of Apple's recent products, I'm lead to consider this sort of possibility.

One of Apple's strongest selling lines has been their notebooks. Considering that some people actually buy notebooks as desktop replacements, you may not be completely off-the-mark. A desktop iMac with a small footprint and a dockable tablet that links wirelessly would fit this market well, working as a desktop, yet providing portability. It would fit the same niche market for people that use notebooks around the home, while alleviating the problem of dealing with plugging and unplugging cables. Steve Jobs did seem to give a clue that Apple may be working on some kind of wireless product- here's a quote from AppleInsider...

When Jobs was demonstrating the new Airport Express, Walt Mossberg said that the biggest problem he saw was that users had to get up and walk to their computers to change play lists. Jobs joked that walking was good, but when pressed, he smiled a wry smile. AppleInsider correspondents took this to mean that Apple is developing in this area, and the Airport Express is just a step along the way.

Indeed, the original story in appleinsider stated that this was an elevator at Paris Charles de Gaulle, where the photographer (a handler) had intercepted the package. Well, that screamed "hoax" at me; Apple don't tend to bundle top-secret prerelease hardware to their expos in the retail packaging. clickety - original story

Turns out the photos in the page linked in the original /. writeup do not have those words embedded, the photo on this page does have them.

Yup. A moderator at the AppleInsider forum found this version. Hmmmmm, do you think it looks somehow familiar? :-D

Sorry, it's not mine. Found it here. As well as the other one.

Sorry, it's not mine. Found it here. As well as the other one.

http://hush.cc/fakeduh.jpg

Read about it on AppleInsider

look out that http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&p ostid=666014#post666014

it is an hoax. nice try ;)

bye

In the other forums that have already covered this, such as Mac Rumors and AppleInsider, evidence suggests that the pictures are not the iMac.

But, this can mean many things. It can be the new apple display, or a completely unannounced product. But, just as likely, it is an old display, or something photoshopped to look like something new from Apple that is not from apple at all.

As sent to the editors:

This has already been debunked as being just a LaCie panel in an Apple box. See: http://www.engadget.com/entry/3611729073994828/

Or from the horse's mouth: http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&p ostid=666014#post666014

I'm having a big problem with that! In fact, I had to place a drip-pan under my capacitors to catch all the leaking!

Of course, that's nothing comparied to the floods that people get when their new 2.5 GHz G5sstart to leak.

If this is a tablet computer equipped to do a network boot of OS X through 802.11g, would it be possible to have the unit work as some sort of a thin client without a hard drive? Perhaps rather than a unit working independently of a computer, it would be a thin-client supplement for a desktop or laptop. I've always wondered if this could be done, because I presume that it would lengthen battery life and could be very thin in design. I would love to see a tablet computer that simply looked like a detached screen of a powerbook without all the buttons and extraneous shapes the Tablet PCs have. That may be possible by excluding a hard drive, CD/DVD drive, and keyboard from the unit.

I recall reading something that may have been a hint about this alleged product. Here's a quote from AppleInsider...

"When Jobs was demonstrating the new Airport Express, Walt Mossberg said that the biggest problem he saw was that users had to get up and walk to their computers to change play lists. Jobs joked that walking was good, but when pressed, he smiled a wry smile. AppleInsider correspondents took this to mean that Apple is developing in this area, and the Airport Express is just a step along the way."

but it seems like patents for a tablet style PC could easily be applied to the next generation iMac. It's likely that it's an all in one design with the components behind the lcd.

See here: http://www.thinksecret.com/ and here http://www.appleinsider.com/.

We may be getting iTunes direct from Apple:

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=578

In related news, AppleInsider posts that Virtual PC 7.0 is delayed until October. According to the "inside-info" (which is to be taken with a grain of salt), the delay is due to the push back of Windows XP SP2 into August.

Well, for those of you who had read the "Apple settles Rendezvous trademark dispute", you would have noticed a link to thios story at the bottom of the previous story.
But for those who didn't, here's a link to a yahoo story for it

Yeah, they registered it a long time ago. Like, Yesterday. Idoit.

There was an article at Apple Insider discussing the new iMac and speculating on the possible design.

It sounds like they will make a unit much like the IBM Netvista X series with the internals built in to the LCD and have no base unit. Presumably the styling will resemble the new Cinema Display monitors with a Netvista X-looking hump on the back for the internals.

I personally welcome this design if it is in fact the way it shall be. With an optional VESA FDMI mount, Bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse, and AirPort Express the new iMac will take up zero desk/floor space aside from your broadband modem.

The overall footprint of the new iMac is said to be very compact, aided by a logic-board that is mounted behind the computer's LCD screen. A purported manufacturing sketch of a pre-production iMac obtained by AppleInsider in June shows a thick display module which hovers above the desk from a single support.

When private browsing is turned on, webpages are not added to the history, items are automatically removed from the Downloads window, information isn't saved for AutoFill (including names and passwords), and no one will know that you went looking for "bukakke" [sic] on Google. But we're not cleaning up those skanky-ass tissues for you, so pick up after your damn self, okay? Perv.

I agree. Does anyone think that Spotlight's interface, with the smooth blue bars and little ( i ) buttons, looks XP-ish?

That aside, using portions of Spotlight's new look mixed in with the old brushed-metal of the Finder creates a confusing, overcomplicated search window. I liked the old search.

I agree. Does anyone think that Spotlight's interface, with the smooth blue bars and little ( i ) buttons, looks XP-ish?

That aside, using portions of Spotlight's new look mixed in with the old brushed-metal of the Finder creates a confusing, overcomplicated search window. I liked the old search.

if you notice, those are the system specs for that system, the actual requironments for that system are here.

Here you will find a photograph and In here the schematics of the cooling system used.

And yes, there is a pump in there. So 'dynamically' is not a mere buzzword in this case. And no, it's not a simple heat pipe.

Oh, and it's not Burnoulli tube, but Bernoulli tube.

Now, did you really need to be that rude with someone only because he had a different opinion (even if you forget the fact that he was actually right and you wrong)?

In an interview today with Tom Boger, Apple's Director of Power Mac Product Marketing, he says there will be no G5 Powerbooks or a G5 iMac before the end of the year. Perhaps the aluminum LCD monitors previously rumored will be revealed.

When Jobs was demonstrating the new Airport Express, Walt Mossberg said that the biggest problem he saw was that users had to get up and walk to their computers to change play lists. Jobs joked that walking was good, but when pressed, he smiled a wry smile. AppleInsider correspondents took this to mean that Apple is developing in this area, and the Airport Express is just a step along the way.

Here's a link that spares you the need to scoll past a bunch of ridiculous speculation:

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&t hreadid=42736#post627583

Also, in the process of looking at the source to figure out how to make the above URL, I found these comments in the HTML starting at line 45:

"DO NOT CHANGE THIS AGAIN
THERE NEEDS TO BE A WAY FOR MEMBERS TO RETURN TO THE CONTENT"
(some HTML code removed here)
"DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE
GO FUCK YOURSELF - The Management"

Nice. It's always good to see design arguments that have escalated into profane insults embedded in one's publicly visible HTML source. The least they could do would be to use the scripting language's comment syntax so those little love notes wouldn't be visible to anybody looking at the source code...

Check this link out from Appleinsider under the user name "windowsblowsass". I thought that was humorous.

Apple Insider, Mac Rumors and a bunch of other sites have been reporting this for at least a week.

While I'm sure many people here would have no trouble filling a 60GB iPod, the real reason they're increasing the space so rapidly is their new feature Home-on-iPod. This, coupled with home folder encryption, would allow for truly portable computing; just plug your iPod in and it's your Macintosh, with all your preferences set and all your libraries available. Sounds great to me!

I prophesized that any European version would sell tracks for 99 pence per track instead of the equivalent of 99 US cents, or even 99 EU cents.

The rumours I've read (here and here for example) say the tracks will be EUR1.29, which is around GBP0.86, which is around USD1.54.

I hope you're wrong, and the tracks are going to be 13p cheaper than your 99p prediction, but it's still 30p more expensive than the US price.

The real question (rumor?) floating around other mac-specific news sites is whether or not this is just to hold us over until the release of G5 notebooks sometime in the not to distant future (January?) A couple interesting threads:

Apple Insider

MacNN

Might as well just get a the full sized iPod or another MP3 player unless you don't mind waiting till July.