Check Point has just announced a quite interesting message to users for their 15th birthday. Accordingly, from 9PM Nov 18, 2008 to 9PM Nov 19, 2008, users can download and use Zone Alarm Pro for free within a year.

Games have come of age on the iPhone, and they're about to get a lot better. The holiday line-up of game titles being releasedshows that developers consider it a solid platform for games alongside other dedicated game devices. Nintendo, watch out!

In the interests of all those readers who need to unlock their iPhone 3G’s for use on different carriers andtested an iPhone 3G unlock that really seems to work. While the iPhone Dev Team plunder the secrets of the mysterious baseband in search of the ever elusive software unlock, some of us regular users just can’t wait.

Pro Applications Update Release Notes
Introduction
Pro Applications Updates improve reliability for Apple’s professional applications and are recommended for all users of Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Server, and Logic Studio.
Pro Applications Update 2008-04 Release Notes
Pro Applications Update 2008-04 addresses general performance issues and improves overall stability.
Applications included in the update:
Final Cut Pro 6.0.5
Compressor 3.0.5
Color 1.0.3
Shake 4.1.1
Final [...]

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Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone's displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows.

Vela Design Group announces VelaClock 1.3 for iPhone 3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch. VelaClock is a world clock that can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, three kinds of twilight for dawn and dusk, moonrise, moonset, duration of daylight, moon phase and tilt, date and times for the next four moon phases, countdown to the next sunrise or sunset, and more. VelaClock is especially popular among photographers looking for the magic hour.

In an average productivity suite, you’d likely find a word processor, a spreadsheet application, and a tool that can help you take in information and organize it into a database. I would be surprised if you don’t have one already installed. Why don’t you use it? Well… I’m betting it’s because most database applications out there just plain suck. They’re just generally unusable, and a task in and of itself to use. In my opinion, there is only one database application that’s worth using, and it’s only available for Mac OS X. It’s called bento.

From contacts and calendars, to emails and events, to files and photos, you can organize just about every type of information you have – all in one place.

Apple está en conversaciones con tres grandes estudios de música que se han resistido a la venta de canciones en iTunes sin protección contra copia, según un informe jueves. Si tiene éxito, la música de Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group y Sony BMG podría formar parte del Apple iTunes Plus.

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With the touch-screen Storm, Research In Motion Ltd. offers a response to Apple Inc. 's iPhone . Unfortunately, the Storm is more like a flurry, failing to add much more than a trace of innovation.

This post helped me to switch to Java 6. It’s simple and easy.

Aquí cuelgo el enlace al video de Mallorca de este año, por si alguién lo quiere ver.

La verdad es que este año nos ha quedado genial

A ver si me espabilo y hago algún manual geek útil sobre Mac OS X

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Apple has patented a new display technology that will allow their iPhones to have always-on displays with almost no battery cost whatsoever.

HDCP has finally arrived in Apple's hardware, thanks to the latest aluminum MacBook update. The technology is being used to protect (what else?) iTunes Store files from playing on any HDCP non-compliant devices.