Monthly Archives: April 2009

[MacOS] rEFIt 0.13 released

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The boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI based Intel Macs has been updated to version 0.13. rEFIt basically allows to explore the EFI environment and supports installation and booting of many operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It also supports booting from external drives.

The update 0.13 supports the newest Intel Macs (like Mac Pro). Also an auto detect feature has been added that should automatically support forthcoming Intel Macs. For installation at least Mac OS X in version 10.4 (Tiger) is required.

» rEFIt on SourceForge…

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[Muzaq] Amazon MP3 Downloads in Germany

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Amazon has opened their music download service for german customers. About 5 million MP3’s can be downloaded. Prices vary between 0.77€ and 0.99€. Complete albums start at 4.95€.
Amazon does not use DRM techniques. MP3’s are encoded at 256KBit/sec. By using the MP3 format these files can be played on virtually any digital portable music player.
Downloading requires Amazon’s MP3-Downloader. Amazon supports all major operating systems like Windows, MacOS X and Linux (Debian 4, Ubuntu 9, OpenSuSE 11, Fedora 9). The growing number of Linux users will most likely appreciate a way to legally buy and download music.

»Amazon’s MP3 Download service in Germany…

[iPhone] Apple disallows SDK to be used for jailbreak Apps

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According to ArsTechnica.com Apple’s latest update of the iPhone SDK agreement contains terms that explicitly forbids developers to use the iPhone SDK to be used to create applications that require jailbreak.

We don’t expect that this will either stop people from developing apps for jailbroken iPhones, as we feel this is a problem Apple addresses in the wrong manner, nor do we think this will stop the hackers like the iPhone Dev Team to create jailbreaks. As long as certain applications (like browsers) are not allowed in the AppStore and as long as Apple denies access to the underlying BSD Unix, people will go on enabling these features on a different way.

The recent developments like the CydiaStore show that there is a market for Apps that run on jailbroken iPhones.

[MacOS] Snow Leopard Beta Build 10A314 Seeded

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Since yesterday Apple seeds a beta build 10A314 of the forthcoming Snow Leopard. Developers report Apple recommends them to test 64-bit kernel extensions (Kexts) to speed up transition from 32-bit to 64-bit.

It does not seem that this build contains the rumored new User Interface (UI) called “marble” , that AppleInsider.com has reported a couple of days ago.