Posted By Mishary.

Regarding the special event which was held today, Steve Jobs came with:

1. SDK was released.

2. There will be a new update 2.0 which will have a lot of things but it will be on June.

More info HERE.

Posted By Mishary.

PayPal, darling of the Internet, has warned its users to steer clear of Apple’s Safari Web browser because it doesn’t support anti-phishing technologies. I think now Firefox is a MUST 😛

SOURCE

Posted By Mishary.

It’s confirmed: Apple’s next event is scheduled for March 6th, next Thursday. It’ll be a Town Hall event; obviously new MacBooks and MacBook Pros aren’t to be expected, but the unambiguous “iPhone software roadmap” Time will tell us 😛

Posted By Yousef

I walked into a Zain branch today with dark clouds hovering over my head, I wanted to complain. I wanted to make, whoever ignored the phone and let it ring forever, Suffer the wrath of an annoyed customer! All I wanted was to ask if they had eGo Devices in stock and nobody was picking up! But I decided to finish what i came for first, then do the complaining. So, I went took a number (#222) and waited inline. There was a very huge group of people (taking up all of the waiting area) ahead of me and only 1 hour left for the branch to close.

I waited for 45 minutes and still the board read 221, my number was 222. more than 45 minutes have gone by and that board still showing the same friggin number! I saw the lady at the desk and she was NOT busy and to make matters worse, she stood and started walking away from her desk. She talked on the phone, walked around, chatted with her friends. I wanted to yell at something. There was a guy with a ZAIN badge walking around making sure everything is running smoothly. “AHA!!” I thought.

Me: Excuse me! I’ve been waiting here for more than 45 minutes now and i’m still waiting for that number to change! i’m holding the number next to that one!
Him: ok ok.. no problem, let me…
Me: You can’t treat customers like this! i’ve been calling this branch for hours and no one answers! and now you make me wait for almost an hour here!
Him: whats the number you’re holding?
Me: 222!
Him: But Sir? We’re on 225 now.
Me: whah? where??? that board is showing 221!
Him: thats just the desk’s counter, and the lady is taking a break. we have many other desks and they’re still taking customers.
Me: err… uhhh… well you should’ve put a bigger board!
Him: we have a bigger one, its right —> there.
Me: oh.. hmm… aa…. *looks around for the nearest black hole*

Moral of the story: Look around before you open your big mouth. Or better yet, STAY QUIET!!

Posted By Mishary.

The’ve added:

-Penryn chips.

-Multi touch pad “same as the Air”.

-LED backlight (option!) for 17-inchers, as well as LEDs on all the rest of the Pros .

-Added RAM to the graphics cards (up to 512MB for the higher-end 15-inch, and all 17-inch models).

-MBPs rocking 200GB or 250GB options, while the MBs range from 120GB all the way up to 250GB.

SOURCE.

Posted By Mishary.

Today i was talking to Ahmad and he mentioned a SUPER COOL information about Firefox Add-ons, this plug in turns all the prices in the site into any currency you want! No more calculators and NO more multiplying by 0.27xxx, buying in amazon is easy, secure and fast.

If you need a copy of your invoice we got the best invoice tools, you can print one for any order you’ve placed.

As you can see above it will be displayed next to the $ price between brackets. The script comes pre-configured with Amazon.com but you can add all your favorite sites Like Ebay.com, Target.com …ect.

For the MAC users, dont worry it will runs on our OSX 🙂

If your wishing to install it, first you need to install Greasemonkey Add-on, then you need to install Amazon Local Currency script. For those who worry about updating the currency exchange rates, Worry no more! The script will auto update your currency from Yahoo Finance

P.S. this software will give you the feeling that Amazon or ebay is a Kuwaiti site! 😛 😛

Thanks Ahmad for letting us know!

Posted By Mishary.

iPhone hacker Zibri’s just released a new app he’s calling ZiPhone, which claims to jailbreak any version iPhone — including new 1.1.3 phones right out of the box — without messy downgrades and baseband changes.

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Posted By Mishary.

It’s a good day for Leopard users, the latest update (10.5.2) is finally being released, and weighs in at a mighty 180MB. As expected this update has a TON of fixes, including stuff in Active Directory, AirPort, BTMM, Dashboard, Dock, Finder, iCal, iChat, iSync, Mail, Preview, Safari, Time Machine, and more… ect.

Some of those fixes:

AirPort: Improves connection reliability and stability, more.
Dashboard: Widget performance improvements (as in Dictionary), more.
RAW support: Now supports more RAW formats / cameras (presumably more on Apple’s site).
Time Machine: Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features (the menu extra can be enabled in Time Machine preferences), among other things.

SOURCE

Posted By Yousef

I found this nice forum by accident while i was looking for alJawal’s usb modem services (turned out they’re not available yet and the company itself didn’t start its operations in kuwait 😀 ). but anyway, if there are people out there who want a Kuwaiti community to help you out with ur Macs, then this forum should be a great find for you.

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Update:
Turned out they have a Blog too.

Posted By Mishary.

Yes Apple is offering new capacity for both the iPhone & iPod touch.

 iPhone:

They boost it to 16GB  for $499

iPod touch:

They boost it to 32GB for $499

if you want to order click HERE.

Posted By Yousef

Amazon’s digital music catalogue is all set to go global, and although a launch date has not yet been settled, it shall hit sometime this year. Given Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free tracks, which are generally cheaper than iTunes limited, equivalent offerings, we cannot help but think an epic battle between the big As is all set to take off.

click on Amazon and Here for more info. Thanks INM.

Posted By Mishary.

Yes they are 500X larger than the normal ones, They’re battery powered, but run off of AC power, too. USB or minijack.

More info click HERE.

Thanks Ahmad.

Posted By Mishary.

What a nice idea ! i love it walla .. what about an OSX dock in ur mac and even in ur living room and u can arrange them to match ur Mac dock! 😛 if you want to order them click HERE it gonna cost u around KD5.5 for each.

As usual my thanks goes to the blog supporter Ahmad.

Posted By Mishary.

After Steve Job’s keynote, i immediately placed my order for a Time Capsule 500GB in Apple.com, since amazon.com haven’t listed it yet. The reason for placing my order so quickly is that i’ve been already on the look for a hard disk to store my pictures and data. so once i found this time capsule, and knew about the 2 other features (you can sync your time machine and your whole data wirelessly, costing me around KD88 + free shipping) I knew i had to get it!

The bad news is:

They’re going to ship it on 29th of Feb! and Deliver it to my box on 6th of March, PLUS 5 days shipping to Kuwait.. if every thing goes smoothly i’ll be expecting it on the 11th of March 8)

Steve Job’s keynote revolved around 4 announcements:

1-New Airport base with 500GB or 1TB harddisk. now you can sync your time machinr wirelessly.
2-New Iphone and Ipod touch softwares. should be a nice boost to iphone owners.
3-Added Movie Rental feature to the iTunes store.
4-Introduced a new line of laptops, called Macbook Air. the Tiniest laptop in the world. the price ranges from $1799-$3098. a bit expensive.

here are some more pictures..

Link: Apple

Posted By Yousef

macworld san francisco 2008 is 15 minutes away, I really hope there will be an update to their pro laptops line. most of the predictions are saying there won’t be any. I’m kinda curious as to what this year’s solgan “There is something in the air” means!? we’ll find out soon 😀

For LIVE coverage Click here or Here.

Posted By Mishary.

if you found “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep” in your Installer.app dont install it coz it will crash your unlocked iphone.

SOURCE

Posted By Mishary.

Today i’ve checked Apple store to see if there is any update in the specs or so and found that its down ! At CES? A week before Jobs’ keynote? gharebaa !

You can check it HERE

Posted By Mishary.

Yes its confirmed Apple will announce in the couple of days the new update which is v1.1.3 here are the new things:

Pros.

* Google Maps can now display the Hybrid map view
* You can now drag and drop application icons on your home screen.
* The home screen supports pagination.
* You can now add web bookmarks to your home screen .
* The ability to send an SMS message to multiple people.
* Google Maps application can now pinpoint your location using cell tower triangulation .

Cons.

* Will LOCK YOUR iPhone again !

* Cant be down graded to 1.1.2 or 1.1.1 to be unlocked.

* cant be activated for Installer.app so no hacked software in 1.1.3

Posted By Mishary.

1976 through 2007 “31 years of technology”