Safari 1.0 Beta 85 Here to Stay? The build of Safari that magically arose and fell from the Apple Developer Connection server earlier in the week, has been resurrected as a possible final candidate, sources tell AppleInsider. Informants were overheard muttering over the possible final release of the Apple branded browser at tomorrow\'s World Wide Developers Conference. Kasper Jade 22 years ago 0
Safari 1.0 Beta 85 Came and Went Yesterday evening, Apple posted Safari 1.0 Beta 85 to the ADC website for download. Sometime shortly thereafter, the build magically disappeared for unknown reasons. According to sources, no explanation has been given. The last known build, prior to 85, was beta 80, which added .Mac bookmark syncing via iSync 1.1. Kasper Jade 22 years ago 0
Power Mac G5 Image Far From Authentic As suspected, we can now positively confirm that image of the suspected Power Macintosh G5 enclosure making the rounds, and featured in Tuesday\'s article, is not authentic. The actual enclosure seen by anonymous sources is not square-edged, retains the trademark handles (though altered) and sports what is said to be a aluminum mesh/honeycomb/cheesegrater panel on the front face of the machine. The FireWire and USB ports on this front panel are also said to be accompanied by a sound port, which was not previously mentioned. Our little birdie was also eager to mention that the actual Power Macintosh G5 is "extremely more attractive" than the one that appeared in Tuesday\'s anonymous submission. Kasper Jade 22 years ago 0
Cupertino Chaos Continues Cupertino, California — The temperature outside Apple's R&D Campus reached a calm and cool 69 degrees this afternoon. Aside from the flags fluttering in the 21 mph wind outside the main entrance, all seemed calm and collected at the 1 Infinite Loop complex. Still, it came as no surprise to this friendly ghost when gasps for air could be heard emanating from the executive offices, as if the thermostat had been cranked, full blast. Kasper Jade 22 years ago 0
1 Infinite Cantina: WWDC Rumors Fly Palo Alto, California — "I love this spot," proclaims a young man in 20's, as he attempts to recline on bar stool with no backing. His buddy quickly races over in attempt to brace his fall, barely spilling a couple of lagers straight from the tap. "Yeah... Palo Alto: a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano." The two men laugh together as one reaches into the cargo pocket of his cut-off khakis, retrieves a pack of smokes, and lights one. Kasper Jade 22 years ago 0
Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC Panther, the next generation of Apple's modern-day Mac OS X operating system, won't be the only thing turning heads three weeks from now in San Francisco. The computer maker, which will not hold its trademark "Keynote" event at Macworld "Creative Pro" conference in July, will use its annual developers conference to showcase this summer's product offerings, sources tell AppleInsider. Kasper Jade 23 years ago 0
Safari Public Beta 2.0 Due Soon, Apple Quietly Seeds v69, v71 On March 23, members of Apple's Safari Software Seeding beta program received an email from Apple informing them that the Safari beta program had seen its last seeding. "Due to Safari 67 postings to the Internet, we have closed the Safari Seed project," the memo read, in part. "We know that the majority of you are not responsible for the leaks to the Internet, and we sincerely appreciate your feedback, time and effort with this project." On Thursday, March 27th Apple pressed on with development of the the company's self-branded web-browser, privately seeding beta 69, and on April 4th, beta 71. A shinny new build of Safari (beta 72) is expected to be seeded to internal staff and testers later today, if it has not been posted already. The focus for the remainder of the Safari 1.0 beta program is to ameliorate the stability and performance of the browser for release as part of Apple's forthcoming update to Mac OS X. Beta 69 marked the appearance of one noticeably new function under the Safari application menu entitled "Reset Safari." "Resetting Safari erases your browsing history, empties the cache, clears the Downloads window, and removes cookies. It also removes any saved names and passwords or other AutoFill text and clears Google search entries," reads the confirmation window. The only other recognizable change to the build was an updated AutoFill button that lies in the button bar. Safari beta 71 marked no noticeable cosmetic alterations or feature additions, but does sport noticeable optimization improvements. For starters, the development team has compressed the browser 3.1 Megabytes in size with beta 71, recoiling the application from 14.2 MB down to 11.1. In distribution form, this leaves the browser just under a 4 MB download. More notably, however, Safari beta 71 marks the beginning of what Apple is calling Safari 1.0 Beta 2, in preparation for the second public seeding of Safari due out any day now. Do you something you want to tell us about Apple or the Tech Sector? Why hold back, you only live once... Drop Kasper a line at [email protected]. Kasper Jade 23 years ago 0
Apple\'s Pay-per-song Music Service Due This Month The current buzz around Apple Computer centers mostly around an in-house music download service integrated directly into iTunes, the company’s digital music jukebox software. Rolling Stone has even written about such a service, which will be backed by almost all of the major record labels. As the public unveiling of this service draws near, details have begun to emerge. Kasper Jade 23 years ago 0
Apple Seeds Safari Beta 67 On Thursday, March 13th, Apple seeded select developers with beta 67 of their self-branded web browser. According to sources, the latest version of Safari boast full integration of both tabbed browsing and forms AutoFill. In previous builds, Safari shipped with these capabilities, but developers could only access them from the Safari "Debug" menu which could be switched on or off via the command line. Full Browser View Screenshot! Cosmetically, the most notable change to the application, is the addition of an AutoFill button between the forward and refresh buttons in the main address bar. This button can be displayed or hidden via the browser\'s \'View\' menu. Additionally, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese languages have seen the early stages of implementation with beta 67 of Safari. Consequently, if your default Mac OS X Language is one of these 3, Safari will crash at launch. The immediate solution is to delete the corresponding language project file from Safari\'s \'Resources\' directory. Apple will officially address the crash issue with the forthcoming build of Safari. Safari is due out this fall as part of the \'Panther\' (10.3) revolution to Mac OS X. More news on that in forthcoming publications. Kasper Jade 23 years ago 0
Mac OS X 10.2.2 Near Finalized with 6F19 Seeding Since our previous report on Merlot, otherwise known as Mac OS X 10.2.2, Apple's Mac OS X Update team has spun-out four builds of the OS upgrade. The last, Mac OS X 10.2.2 6F19, was seeded to developers last Friday evening. 23 years ago 0
Apple to Slash Prices on New iBooks Apple will be revamping its portable line of computers sometime this week. The forthcoming announcement will give way to new versions of the company's PowerBook G4 line, as well as speed-bumped consumer iBooks. Kasper Jade 23 years ago 0
Apple to Revamp Portable Line in November Sources indicate that a revision to Apple\'s portable lines is on the horizon and will likely arrive during the next two weeks — possibly on November 5. Details are sparse at this point, but the updates are said to be relatively minor, consisting of speed bumps and a possible increase in hard drive capacity. Talk of Bluetooth being added on-board to the PowerBook G4 has also been heard. Kasper Jade 23 years ago 0
Apple Seeds Build 6F15 of Mac OS X 10.2.2 Last Thursday, Apple seeded developers with the 4th external build of Mac OS X v10.2.2. The update is code-named \"Merlot\" and provides stability improvements and updates to Mac OS X\'s Address Book, Launch Services, AppleEvents, File Manager, and Mail services. Core Audio and Graphics advancements have also been implemented in the release, along with updates to the Mac OS X kernel, FireWire and QuickDraw. Kasper Jade 23 years ago 0
Apple to Introduce iPhoto Studio & Studio in a Bag Apple will soon be adding another application to their "i" line of digital media editing products that will fall alongside iMovie, iDVD, and iTunes. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
OS X iMac May Contain Widescreen Sources tell AppleInsider that Apple is scheduled to introduce the next generation of their iMac personal computers in July with availability in time for the late educational buying season. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
Inside Mac OS 10.0.1 Update As mentioned in a previous article, Apple has been making diligent attempts to squash bugs and speed up system performance of their new Mac OS X software, via a software update to be released sometime this month. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
Mac OS X Update to Squash Optimization Bug pple successfully released Mac OS X (ten) on the 24th of March, but, like any piece of new software, the system contains several imperfections. A long rumored optimization bug may in fact be correct. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
Apple Retail Store Set for Minneapolis On July 15th 1999, AppleInsider was first to break a story on Apple Inc.'s internal plans to enter the retail market with a series of stores that would be reminiscent of Gateway's Country Stores. The article, entitled Apple to Take a Stab at Retail with Apple Boutiques, presented background information, inventory analysis, and confidential information surrounding the project, almost two years ago. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
New iMac Special Edition to Sport DVD/CD-RW Macworld Tokyo is due to kick off a little later this week, and everyone's favorite fruit company is expected to debut a couple of new or revised hardware offerings. One of the two, that has been confirmed by a number of sources, is a revamped line of the company's consumer iMac line. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
Apple Squashes Bugs in AppleScript 1.6 The AppleScript development team at Apple has spent the last couple of months on major bug fix release of the company's system level scripting language, sources said earlier this week. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
Apple Withholds New Mac OS 9 Components? Sources close to Apple's Mac OS 9 development team recently presented AppleInsider with information that suggested Apple, at the hands of CEO, Steve Jobs, made an extra effort to keep Mac OS 9.1 a less significant operating system update than it could have been. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
Apple Acquires SoundJam, Programmer for iMusic Sources have now confirmed a rumor that was first published on AppleInsider over a month ago. Though it has been kept one of Apple's most prized secrets in recent months, the word from insiders is that Apple has officially acquired the rights to Casady & Greene's SoundJam MP application. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0
Mercury PowerBook to Take Lessons from iBook One could argue that Apple's current line of PowerBooks are among the most stylish on the market today, though an even fancier revolution is rumored to be on its way. Kasper Jade 25 years ago 0