News for Thursday, 1 November 2007

While the new MacBook have been released, the offer for MacBook Pro has also been updated. One can now chose to have a Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.6GHz as a BTO, as well as a 250GB HD spinning at 5400rpm.
European Apple Stores are not all reflecting those changes.

Markspace announced that the Missing Sync for iPhone should be available by the end of the year.
This application will allow you to easily transfer contents from Palm OS, Windows Mobile or BlackBerry-based handhelds to the iPhone without requiring any manual input.
This is a good solution for those of us you do not want to invest in an iPhone due to the poor integrated synchronization solution currently available.

While Front row 1.x was requiring users to own a Mac shipped/equipped with a remote control, this is not the case anymore with Front Row 2.0. The new version shipping with Leopard can be used on any Mac following the hardware specification required for Leopard. A Mac Pro, iMac G4 or PB G4 can finally be used as an Apple media center.

To manage functions in Front Row, you can use either the keyboard, or the Apple remote control, a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone or even a third-party IR receiver/remote.

Many readers were surprised to notice that Filemaker and Leopard are currently not compatible.
Things should evolve in a near future, as an update is expected as soon as today. It should fix some of the compatibility issues. One will have to wait several weeks before getting Filemaker fully Leopard compatible.

Here they are! The new MacBooks based on Intel Santa Rosa platform are now available from the Apple Store (currently only US store)

Specifications are really similar to the previous model, with some speed bump (2.2GHz instead of 2.16GHz) and of course the introduction of the integrated graphic chipset GMA X3100.