Steve Jobs consiguió contratar a Mark Papermaster (un veterano de IBM por 25 años) y estará como vice-presidente de la división Devices Hardware Engineering, específicamente en Apple’s iPod and iPhone hardware engineering. Supuestamente este individuo es un “wiz kid” desarrollando cosas nuevas y radicales al estilo de Steve Jobs. Es tan así, que cuando renuncio a IBM para trabajar en una división no especificada de Apple, esta lo demando por tener demasiado conocimiento de cosas en IBM y sus “trade secrets”. Steve Jobs no se esta durmiendo en los laureles y definitivamente la adición de este individuo a su staff comprueba eso. Así que esperen más mejoras significativas en el iPhone/iPod.

Una divertente vignetta su come Twitter ha cambiato il modo di passarsi le informazioni fra i banchi.

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Di unboxing di macchine Apple ne abbiano visti a decine, ma dubito vi sia mai capitato di guardarne uno relativo al Twentieth Anniversary Mac, ovvero il Macintosh che venne introdotto circa 10 anni fa per festeggiare il 20 anniversario dalla nascita del Mac. Sto parlando di un computer risalente al 1997, dotato di un Hard Drive da 2 GB e 32 MB di RAM, il tutto per la mica tanto modica cifra di 7,500 dollari circa. Un computer che, grazie a tutte queste caratteristiche, era veramente avanti coi tempi.

Apple has been a consumers company from day one and all its design and innovation work has served to position Apple in the front of the pc industry, Apple sales have skyrocketed every single quarter, but silently the enterprise sale has been not so excellent, Apple has managed to make son inroad into Business America and now that Windows Vista has been a fiasco, a large number of IT managers have started to look to Mac OS X and Mac as a solid alternative to Microsoft failed upgrade.

Wynnewood, PA - Brainjuice announced today that Blogo 1.1, the latest version of its weblog editor for Mac OS X, is now available to the public for download. Blogo makes posting easy even for users with no knowledge of HTML, and now includes support for the WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, TypePad, MovableType, and typo weblog systems. In addition to Drupal, the application has also added Twitter to its growing list of supported services.

Version 1.1 adds new features in addition to fixes for many outstanding issues. Highlights include:

New formatting options:
Text can now be formatted as quotes and lists, and can be aligned or justified.

Kamloops, British Columbia - Koingo Software has officially unveiled Slideshow Magic 5. The new version of their presentation tool offers numerous enhancements and bug fixes. These include the ability to rotate frames, a completely revamped interface, and more advanced slide titling options.

Whether you are a home user looking to make a photo album to share with family and friends, or a business professional looking to make a multimedia production, Slideshow Magic offers a broad feature set to satisfy nearly any project. Easily add an audio track to the entire slideshow, or add smaller audio clips for each segment. Include transitions with varying durations between slides, and even insert customizable titles!

Richmond, VA - FMWebschool, Inc., Announces a “Free Webinar - Create an Online Social Network and Bulletin Board with FileMaker”. Social Networks are all the rage. Millions of people around the world flock to Social Networking websites to chat and upload pictures.

Social Networking has also played an integral role for businesses. Businesses use Social Networking to meet alike professionals, network, market their businesses as well as introduce new products and ideas to a community.

In this exciting free webinar, FMWebschool will demonstrate how to build a combination Social Networking | Bulletin board for your website. You will learn how to create login systems, enable online conversations, upload and download images and more.

Putney, VT - IGG Software announces iBank 3.1, the latest upgrade to its flagship application for personal and small business finance management. This new release, free to existing iBank 3 users, is available for download. Among the most important changes in the iBank 3.1 upgrade is the ability to preview direct downloads for matching transactions; users are alerted if a duplicate transaction has already been imported to iBank, or advised to proceed when no matching transaction is found.

iBank’s internal browser, which allows users to log in to online accounts without leaving the application, has been enhanced with improved page loading and more banks’ websites available to users.

Mainz, Germany - Never get lost. Navigate even the most complex kinships - in 3D. With our new Virtual Tree, MacFamilyTree 5.2 intuitively displays all kinds of family relations. Hobbyists as well as genealogy experts will fancy the Virtual Tree, making it easy to inspect and navigate one’s entire family tree database.

From all perspectives, close-up and from a broader angle, MacFamilyTree renders a three-dimensional mesh of persons and their relations. Highlight common characteristics using different colors and shapes. Navigating the Virtual Tree is simple: just point, click and drag with your mouse, or use a dedicated Navigator to literally fly through your own ancestry.

Poland - Polo Planet Software announces the release of Phone Wallpaper X 1.3 Retail Edition. The update offers more than 150 professional photos to create unique and impressive wallpapers for any types of mobile phones displays, iPhone, PDA. High-quality ClipArt images can be used even as desktop backgrounds. The update also improves performance of program and appends import of custom folders into wallpapers gallery with automatic creation of backgrounds fitting any display resolution.

Vilnius, Lithuania - Jumsoft announces the release of three of the latest high-quality Page Templates Package for iWork: Frequency Modulation, Modern Furniture and Daintily Alive. This package involves a broad range of document types you are likely to need, such as in business world: brochures, business cards, envelopes, letterheads, memos, and invoices.

Each of the Page Template Package has a separate design and style, what allows you to choose it considering what type of business world you belong to. That’s why this offering has a wide choice of serious and formal, a little bit extravagant, playful and relaxing or somewhere in the middle templates for your documents. Page Templates Packages is compatible with Page 2.0 and all later versions of it.

Vilnius, Lithuania - iPresentee is proud to announce Keynote Show, their suite of high quality add-ons for Apple’s Keynote. Keynote Show includes the latest versions of Keynote Motion Themes, Keynote Animations, Keynote 3D Stuff and new Keynote Themes. From 3D image to animation, from Balloons to Stone Keynote Theme, and a lot more or just everything to create stunning Keynote presentations.

Keynote Themes:
Share ideas effectively. Keynote Themes offer a variety of presentation styles with coordinated fonts, colors, background textures, unique bullets and picture frames. Each Keynote Theme is available in 1920×1080, 1680×1050, 1280×720, 1024×768, and 800×600 sizes in pixels.

Hagenberg, Austria - Ergonis Software today announced KeyCue 4.2 adding support for Keyboard Maestro. KeyCue is quite a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the Command key is kept pressed for a set amount of time, the KeyCue window will appear listing all the keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application.

San Francisco, CA - The Flashforward2008 Conference and Film Festival, the longest-running and largest Adobe(R) Flash(TM) user conference in the world, has opened online registration for the August 20-22, 2008 event which returns to its first-ever location in San Francisco taking place at the Nob Hill Masonic Center.

Beau Ambur, Flashforward Conference and CEO Metaliq, announces his plan to shift the conference focus from training to visionary leadership, creativity, and professional practice reflecting the current needs of Flash designers and developers and the future path of the industry. Pricing for conference registration has remained the same as last year. Online registration for the Flashforward Conference is open.

Cuijk, Netherlands - DiskLibrary is a fun and easy to use media cataloging application for Mac OS X. DiskLibrary is indispensable if you have a lot of media to keep track of. DiskLibrary catalogs not just your complete file structure, it also creates thumbnails, and stores metadata, for most popular media formats. DiskLibrary is capable of importing export formats from CDFinder, FileFinder, WhereIsIt, DiskCatalogMaker X and DiskTracker.