Apple just released updates to both iTunes and iPhoto… well there is also a Canon Printer Software Update but that seems rather irrelevant. As usual Apple is keeping tight lipped about what the updates bring but recommends all iPhoto and iTunes users to tun the update.

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OS X 10.6.3 out now!

Apple just released OS X 10.6.3 their latest update for Snow Leopard. Get your copy either at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1018 or use Software Update to load this beast (730MB!!) of an update.
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Join us for our March meetup at The Montagu Pyke in Soho, entrance at both 105 Charring Cross Road & 20 Greek Street, WC2H 0BP (Map).

An informal gathering for anyone into Apple Mac & iPhone OS, a full range of beers, lagers and ciders, and JD Wetherspoon’s bargain food if you’re hungry.

7pm until late

Come and join us for our February Meetup at The Metropolitan Bar (7 Station Approach, Marylebone, London, London, NW1 5LD) next to Baker Street tube station [map].

An informal gathering for anyone into Mac & iPhone OS, a full range of beers, lagers and ciders, and JD Wetherspoon’s bargain food if you’re hungry.

7pm till late

Looks like the rumors were true…. well sort of. Turns out instead of the January 26th Apple is holding their special event on January 27th showing off their “latest creation.” The event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, and will get underway at 10AM Pacific (6PM GMT)

Come and join us for our very first London Mac Geeks meetup.

We’ll be meeting at the Globe opposite Baker Street station. (43-47, Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 5JY / map)

See you there!

I have been using The Cloud‘s WiFi service for a couple of years now and it is great when you are out and about and need to get online.  The Cloud are the UK’s premier WiFi service, they provide the actual service for most of the well known names out there so chances are that if you have used WiFi outside of work or home then you have already used their service.

There are 3 subscription options and a Pay As You Go option.  I normally prefer PAYG but with WiFi it seems far too expensive (almost as much for 1 hour as you would pay for a whole month!) so I am going to be discussing the subscription options here: Read the rest of this entry »

This has been rumored for some long time, but it’s now confirmed by AppleInsider that Apple will be presenting at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Wednesday 9th September. This surely has to be the 64GB iPod touch, probably more iPods with built in cameras, and possibly one more thing….

Alternatively, the tablet(s) may be held over for a January event.

Apple and every other software author that I’m aware of have always used the historic convention of 1024 bytes (B) in a kilobyte (kB), 1024kB in a megabyte (MB), 1024MB in a gigabyte (GB), and 1024GB in terabyte (TB). Hard disk manufacturer’s have always used the convention of 1000000000 B being 1 GB, instead of 1073741824 B being 1 GB.

On the introduction of OS X 10.6, Apple have adopted the convention used by hard disk manufacturers, as explained by Apple at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419, updated the day before Snow Leopard became publicly available. This clouds the issue of space being recovered by installation of Snow Leopard, though that is undoubtedly true.

The difference increases to almost 10% when measuring terabytes. Confusion will surely ensue when comparing file sizes between Leopard and Snow Leopard Macs, not to mention Windows and Linux PCs. I sense that this has something to do with the previous legal cases over iPod capacities.

As reported at 9to5Mac, the larger on screen keyboard that comes with OS X 10.6 can be used with the multi-touch trackpad. This paves the way for a tablet Mac running full Mac OS X, not just a limited device using a scaled up iPhone OS.

When will this device be with us?
http://www.9to5mac.com/snow-leopard-soft-keyboard