heise online - Marktforscher: Apple ist profitabelster Mobiltelefon-Hersteller: "Apple bleibt mit seinem iPhone trotz angespannter Lage im Mobilfunkmarkt weiter auf der Überholspur. Nach jüngsten Erhebungen zog der Computer- und iPod-Hersteller im vergangenen Quartal sogar erstmals an Weltmarktführer Nokia als profitabelster Anbieter vorbei.
Das iPhone habe einen operativen Gewinn in Höhe von 1,6 Milliarden Dollar eingefahren gegenüber 1,1 Milliarden Dollar, die Nokia erwirtschaftete, ermittelte das Marktforschungsunternehmen Strategy Analytics aus Boston. Vergleichsweise hohe Preise, kombiniert mit einer guten Kostenkontrolle habe wesentlich zum Erfolg beigetragen, so die Analysten."
Mittwoch, 11. November 2009
heise online - Marktforscher: Apple ist profitabelster Mobiltelefon-Hersteller
Smart Scroll 3.4 - Enhances window scrolling, scroll from keyboard and much more. (Shareware)
Smart Scroll 3.4 - Enhances window scrolling, scroll from keyboard and much more. (Shareware): "

- Super Scroll offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling. And it lets you reverse scrolling on the Mac to match your iPhone. Try it!
- Hover Scroll makes scrolling as easy as pointing to the top or bottom edge of a window.
- Grab Scroll gives you a Hand tool to easily move (and 'throw'!) any window's contents.
Other features include Universal Scroll Keys, trackpad and scroll wheel accelerator, and more.
- Support for Mac OS X 10.6.2
- New check for updates feature.
- Various fixes and improvements.
- For Mac OS X 10.3.9, please use Smart Scroll 2.8.5 for Panther.
(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
Samstag, 7. November 2009
Replace Your MacBook's Hard Drive Yourself
Replace Your MacBook's Hard Drive Yourself: "It may not seem like it, but your MacBook hard drive is no different than that of any other laptop. Replacing it without Apple's help might void your warranty, but it sure is a lot cheaper if you do it yourself.
(Via Wired News.)
Ionic batteries could multiply battery life by 11
Ionic batteries could multiply battery life by 11: "
A new development by partly government-backed Fluidic Energy could potentially extend the battery life of notebooks, cars and other devices well beyond existing lithium-ion cells. Known as Metal-Air Ionic Liquid (MAIL), it would improve energy storage beyond relatively efficient zinc-air batteries by using an ionic liquid salt to conduct electricity that is much more stable and isn't prone to drying out either by accident or by eventual decay. The move would let battery makers use metals denser than zinc and therefore hold a much larger charge in a given volume....
(Via MacNN.)
ZippyRippy 1.0.4 - Rip DVD media for display on personal devices. (Shareware)
ZippyRippy 1.0.4 - Rip DVD media for display on personal devices. (Shareware): "

ZippyRippy is a new program developed with one goal in mind, ripping DVD media for use on personal devices. ZippyRippy is set apart by the idea that DVD conversion should be automatic without the need to endlessly tweak controls.
If a DVD with a valid VIDEO_TS folder is detected when ZippyRippy is launched, it will start going into action based on previously established preferences.
- Create an .iso disk image of the DVD for archiving or backup.
- Convert for all Apple devices including: iPod, iPhone/iPod touch, AppleTV.
- Rip the main feature of a DVD squeeze itself to a standard 4.3 GB DVD. This is also handy to skip menus and previews on most DVD’s.
- h.264 mpeg4 encoding option, great for AppleTV
- Set it up to launch when a video DVD is inserted into the drive for automatic ripping and encoding.
- Fixes an issue where some users were getting AppleScript errors depending on the speed of their computer. This was caused by a process holding for a fixed amount of time before proceeding. Adjusted that process to look for certain attributes of the disk state before moving on.
- Fixes some GUI issues
- Adds an ‘Eject Disc’ option in the preferences which will eject the disc when the conversion is complete.
- Fixed an issue where the program would not quit when the conversion was done even if the checkbox was selected.
- Streamlined some code so the program would be more efficient.
(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
Default Folder X 4.3.3 - Enhances Open and Save dialog boxes. (Shareware)
Default Folder X 4.3.3 - Enhances Open and Save dialog boxes. (Shareware): "

Default Folder X... Recently rated 5 mice by MacUser UK and 4.5 mice by Macworld, Default Folder X attaches a toolbar to the right side of the Open and Save dialogs in any OS X-native application. The toolbar gives you fast access to various folders and commands. You just click on the buttons to go to your favorite and recently used folders, manage the folders and files shown in the list, and make changes to your settings.
Default Folder also fixes a number of problems in Open and Save dialogs, 'rebounding' back to the last selected file, putting the path listing back in the top menu, and correcting bugs in scrolling column views.
Corrected a bug which could cause Default Folder X to use excessive amounts of CPU time when a file server was mounted on the Desktop under Mac OS 10.5.
The shift key now works in the menus for Finder Windows, Disks, and Favorites to reverse the order of the menu items.
The installer now automatically starts Default Folder X after installation, and provides a tip on how to get started.
Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to stop working in Carbon applications when running under Mac OS 10.4.
Safeguarded against possible errors which might cause a file dialog to be reset to have a zero width.
Enabled Default Folder X in Jing.
(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
Mittwoch, 4. November 2009
heise Security - Gehackte iPhones via Mobilfunk-Netz gehackt
heise Security - Gehackte iPhones via Mobilfunk-Netz gehackt: "In holländischen Foren wie tweakers.net suchten am Wochenende viele Anwender Hilfe, weil ihr iPhone ganz offensichtlich gehackt wurde. Der Bildschirm zeigte dies als 'Wichtige Warnung' an. Dahinter steckte anscheinend ein Jugendlicher, der anfänglich 4,95 Dollar für die Anleitung wollte, wie man das iPhone wieder säubern und anschließend sichern könnte.
Es stellte sich heraus, dass er ein längst bekanntes Sicherheitsproblem ausgenutzt hatte, das nur auf iPhones mit Jailbreak zum Tragen kommt. Die beiden Benutzer-Accounts root und mobile haben auf allen iPhones das gleiche Passwort. Auf der geschlossenen Plattform spielt das keine große Rolle, da man ohnehin nicht an die Benutzerzugänge herankommt. Installiert der Anwender jedoch nach einem Jailbreak den SSH-Server, kann erstmal jeder von außen als Administrator auf sein iPhone zugreifen."
BlackSn0w für den Jailbreak eines iPhones mit OS 3.2.1 und Baseband v05.11.07
BlackSn0w für den Jailbreak eines iPhones mit OS 3.2.1 und Baseband v05.11.07: "Während viele Besitzer eines iPhones gar nicht erst daran denken, die softwareseitigen Limitierungen zu entfernen um dann unter anderem freie Hand bei der Installation von Software bzw. der Freischaltung gesperrter Softwarefunktionen zu erhalten, warten andere bereits seit dem letzten Update des iPhone OS auf aktualisierte Software zum Jailbreak. BlackSn0w ermöglicht seit dem heutigen Tag die Entsperrung des iPhone OS 3.1.2 samt aktivier...
(Via MacTechNews.de > News.)
Dienstag, 3. November 2009
beaTunes 2.0.18 - Analyzes your iTunes library to build better playlists. (Shareware)
beaTunes 2.0.18 - Analyzes your iTunes library to build better playlists. (Shareware): "

Here are some more examples of what you can do with beaTunes:
- Automatically determine BPM (beats per minute) and store the result in iTunes
- Automatically determine the musical key your songs are in
- Sort existing playlists so that matching songs succeed each other
- Create matchlists, i.e. playlists based on one or more sample songs
- Browse songs from your music collection that match the currently selected song
- Find all songs iTunes marks with an exclamation mark and remove them from the library
- Fix for different release year inspection.
- Fix for deletion of orphaned songs with iTunes 9.
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
- G4 or better (Intel highly recommended)
- iTunes 8.0.2 or later
- Java 5.0 release 7
(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
Montag, 2. November 2009
VLC Media Player 1.0.3 - Versatile multimedia player. (Free)
VLC Media Player 1.0.3 - Versatile multimedia player. (Free): "

- Video outputs:
- Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
- New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
- Decoders:
- Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
- Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
- Encoders:
- x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
- Input:
- Update for appletrailers lua script
- Fixes on the RAR stream filter
- Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
- Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
- Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
- Service discovery:
- New udev module for linux
- Qt4 interface:
- Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
- Translations:
- French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009
RSUploaderX 0.922 - Upload files to Rapidshare. (Free)
RSUploaderX 0.922 - Upload files to Rapidshare. (Free): "

(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009
X-Plane 9.40 - Fly an airplane in this OpenGL-based 3D environment. (Updater)
X-Plane 9.40 - Fly an airplane in this OpenGL-based 3D environment. (Updater): "

Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Space Shuttle. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several thousand more are freely downloadable from the internet. (See www.X-Plane.org as a good place to start).
X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth between -60 and +74 degrees lattiude. We also have MARS scenery! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs.
Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts! Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists!
X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).
X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim.
X-Plane's accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), user-customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh.
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
- 1GHz G4 or faster
- 32MB video card
(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
Supportdokument von Apple: Wechsel des Arbeitsspeichers beim neuen iMac
Supportdokument von Apple: Wechsel des Arbeitsspeichers beim neuen iMac: "Apple hat ein neues Supportdokument veröffentlicht, das den Austausch des Arbeitsspeichers beim iMac 21,5' und 27' zeigt. Wer bereits dem Vorgängermodell mehr RAM spendiert und den Wechsel selber durchgeführt hat, muss sich die Anleitung gar nicht mehr ansehen, da Apple nichts am Ablauf verändert hat. Ansonsten findet sich im Dokument eine bebilderte Anleitung der recht einfachen Prozedur. Benötigt wird SO-DIMM DDR3 SDRAM, pro Steckplatz...
(Via MacTechNews.de :: News.)
Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009
Sydney Morning Herald: Apple stellt das Mac tablet Medien-Unternehmen vor
Sydney Morning Herald: Apple stellt das Mac tablet Medien-Unternehmen vor: "Die Einschläge werden dichter - kurz nach der Plauderei des New York Times-Chefredakteurs Bill Keller ( wir berichteten ) berichtet nun der australischen The Sydney Morning Herald , dass der Hersteller aus Cupertino erste Spezifikationen eines 'neuen Gerätes' an Medien-Unternehmen verraten hat.
(Via macnews.de Newsticker.)