Month of November , 2006

Apple has posted a Security Update for Mac OS X Panther and Tiger, labelled "2006-007".

Apple has posted three new Get-A-Mac ads on its web site. All of them are on the holidays theme and have reportedly already started airing since yesterday.

Gift Exchange

According to CNNMoney, Apple Computer could be in talks with Apple Corps - the owners of the Beatle's discography rights - for an unpreceded and exclusive iPod-iTunes deal.

Smarthouse.com.au cites Taiwanese sources claiming that Apple is working on a Tablet Mac that will be released in 2007.

Apple is reportedly interested in a technology developed by a start-up, Eneco, allowing to convert heat generated by a device to electricity.

Apple's shares reached all time high today on good outlook for iPod sales and iPhone rumours.

The company's stock (AAPL) closed up 2.46%, or $2.13 at $88.60 during the regular trading session and is now trading at nearly $89 in the after hours session.

Apple posts new iPod shuffle ad:

Apple has posted a new ad for the second generation iPod shuffle which was announced on September and is available since earlier this month.

Our first community-oriented feature:

Two months after successfully launching MacScoop, we're proud to introduce the MacCulture Forums.

Today Apple as released an update for its remote administration application Remote Desktop. Both Client and Admin components are updated to version 3.1 with respective weights of 2.5MB and 28MB.

These updates bring several improvements and bug fixes in all areas of features and is available as a universal binary, running on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

Although Apple initiated and now has finished its transition to the x86 architecture hands in hands with Intel, ignoring AMD's efforts and successes in the processors market so far, a report is now claiming that Apple might be developing an AMD laptop, probably due for 2007.

According to Forbes (citing the Commercial Times), the Japanese electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry is said to have received an Apple iPhone contract.

Apple announced earlier today that six major airlines have agreed to offer iPod integration in their planes by mid-2007. But the French airline Air France now denies Apple's press release claims.

After months of buzz and rumours, Microsoft launched today it's very anticipated digital music player, the Zune, which is considered as an "iPod-killer".

The Zune comes in three colors provides similar specs and pricing to the entry-level video-enabled iPod. It has a 30GB hard drive, can play music and videos but also offers some features not available on the iPod, such as Wifi and larger widescreen display.

Here's a brief catch-up for this week's early news:

Japanese Get-A-Mac TV ads:

Readers noticed that Apple has added localized version of its Get-A-Mac ads on it's Japanese web site. The Japanese ads are exact remakes of the original US versions but are shot with local actors.

Apple has posted a few updates on Monday. Among them are five new firmware updates for all of the Intel-based Mac line-ups, another update to X11 and a RAW support update.

Firmware Updates:

Apple has reportedly seeded a new build Mac OS X Leopard late last week. The new build, numbered 9A303 improves performances and fixes several bugs.

UPDATE: The US Apple online store is now up again.

UPDATEx3: Full report here.

UPDATEx2: Apple Store Europe re-opens with new Core 2 Duo MacBooks! Report coming.

Apple has initiated a repair extension program for certain PowerMac G5 owners who encounter issues related to the power-supply.

Affected systems will exhibit one of the following power-related symptoms:

Technorati Profile

PortalPlayer announced that NVidia has agreed to buy PortalPlayer for $357 million.

Apple has just released a new RED product in its iPod nano line-up, as the 8GB version is now also available as a RED product.

RED products fight against AIDS, as a small percentage of their price is donated to the JoinRED association which encourages cunsumer product companies to help AIDS through special editions of their products.

Apple has updated its professional photography retouch software Aperture to version 1.5.1. The update weights ... and provides the following enhancements:

Aperture 1.5.1 addresses numerous issues related to overall reliability and performance in all areas of the application, including:

Keywords
Loupe
Cropping
Previews
Metadata presets
Versions
File renaming
iPhoto Library import

Apple has updated X11 to version 1.1.2. The update weights 51.MB and brings the following enhancements:

This update addresses several issues in the X11 for Mac OS X package, enabling it to better handle:

GLX stereo visuals
offscreen rendering to GLX Pbuffers and Pixmaps
To tell X11 to take advantage of stereo visuals, enter:

$ defaults write com.apple.x11 enable_stereo -bool true

Apple has made available a new version of XCode to registered ADC (Apple Developer Connection) members. Version 2.4.1.

Changes to Xcode 2.4.1:
Stability and security fixes in the Xcode IDE, cctools, debugger, and compiler
CHUD has been updated to version 4.4.3. CHUD also releases independent from the Xcode Tools releases. Current versions of CHUD can be found at: http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/