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Re: Apple to launch iPad 3 in early march

Alexander Cardosa — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:47:54 -0000

Yes, its all a delusion from people who do not understand the life cycle of a product. One hardware change per years that all you will ever get. Moving on.

Re: Apple to launch iPad 3 in early march

parshallnet — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:36:31 -0000

Few weeks ago there was a rumor the next iPad release (3) early this year would be quickly followed up with another release (4) later this year. Any more info on that?

Re: Reader Q&A: When will FaceTime, iMessage and iChat merge across Mac and iOS?

vanfruniken — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:20:25 -0000

I am afraid that the current fragmentation and complexity of finding workarounds is a very serious matter.
iPad1 and pre-iPhone4 users are left out of chatting (remedy: use the IM+ app) because there is no camera (although voice and text chat are definitely possible).
Most Macs don't have FaceTime, because it's an optional download. (Remedy download and pay if necessary).
FaceTime is hard to configure (What does it all mean? -- Do I reach the same public as with iChat?)

In fact I see fewer of my friends on line these days.
All this in a time when even MSN opens up by supporting a non-MS protocol.

Will Apple miss the chat-boat (because of its ultimate FaceTime goal which encompasses live video?).
I'd rather have text chat than nothing at all.

Re: Next-gen iDevices to feature shatter-resistant OLED displays

Guest — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:15:43 -0000

I have never had any of mine break from dropping in the house, but I put a crystal case on it that makes it ZOOM, more than the display and a protective case with a batter backup that I did not need I listened to rumors before I got mine, my Iphone4s has fantastic battery usage. seriously

Re: Next-gen iDevices to feature shatter-resistant OLED displays

Guest — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:13:57 -0000

So my new Iphone4s doesnot have this? They change so quickly, all of them who can keep up.

Re: Apple says Carrier IQ unused, will remove it from iOS 5

Guest — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:12:23 -0000

All you had to do was click don't send data etc to Apple or ATT. Wasn't enough?

Re: Carrier IQ references found in iOS

Gordon Paul® — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:00:00 -0000

Bullsh*it.

Re: iOS 5 due out October 12th

Dakota Wayne Coleman — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:56:17 -0000

My itunes wont even update to IOS5... weird

Re: iCloud.com now live

kootenayredneck — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:56:39 -0000

I could access the Cloud via iWork but not directly from the site. Go figure.

Re: iOS 5 due out October 12th

Zach — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:44:40 -0000

I went on iTunes at 7:30 and it said "your version version 4.3.5 Is the latest version available"
Mabey today is not the day...

Re: iOS 5 due out October 12th

Stephanie Stromenger — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:22:27 -0000

There is no ipod touch 5th gen.
It's just a new color 4th gen. Check the Apple site.

Re: New iPod Touch gains white model

birdy — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:37:53 -0000

Anybody know is the new iPod touch ship with the same 8MP camera as the iPhone 4S?

Re: Steve Jobs passes away at 56

Pete — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:08:19 -0000

MOSR was the first apple rumors site I ever followed since before Steve's return to Apple. I felt it somewhat appropriate to say my good bye to him here. RIP Steve.

Re: New iPod Touch gains white model

farhan yusuf — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:38:38 -0000

No upgrade of A5 chip or RAM?

Re: Apple to launch iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud during WWDC

sai524 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:03:24 -0000

Re: Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” Announced

hyhybt — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:35:52 -0000

Can you turn off features you don't like? For example, using more than one application at the same time has been wildly popular since System 6; what if I don't *want* one app to take up the whole screen? Or: as things stand now, if my computer is acting peculiarly (rare as that is) I can restart it to straighten it out, but if it brings everything back up as it was before, then what? I know, I know, the folks at Apple aren't stupid, and they'd never be so boneheaded... but then again, everybody's an idiot now and then :)

(For that matter, if Lion is only available as a download, does that mean that if I upgrade and then replace my hard drive I'll have to dig up my old, scratchy Leopard disc, hope it can be made to work just one more time, and then buy Lion again? Surely not; surely you're right that they'll leave a way to create a disc or USB drive or *something*.)

Re: WWDC 2011 Preview

DIANABOL — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:52:40 -0000

I'm looking forward to the new development tools that should be released at the WWDC.

Re: First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”

Marc Schwartz — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:41:33 -0000

@Eric: Yes, from everything that is being published, this new approach will be transparent to FV. No more encrypted containers with sparse bundles...

@hyhybt: That should not be an issue, again as this new approach should be at the OS level and transparent to normal file operations, because you are not dealing with encrypted containers.

Re: First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”

Marc Schwartz — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:33:28 -0000

Hisham, the algorithm is XTS-AES 128 (see http://www.apple.com/macosx/li... under All-new FileVault).

The actual encryption key is not the login password/passphrase. The pre-boot login only "unlocks" the use of the actual encryption key, which is used disk wide under this model, similar to PGP's WDE and WinMagic, both of which I have used on OSX. Although there, you have a two step login process. First the system wide passphrase, to unlock the encryption and then your user account login. The new FileVault will, in effect, enable single sign-on.

Is it also similar to dm-crypt/luks, which I have used on Linux.

Thus, once a user logs in, account level R/W file/directory permissions, as now, would keep one user from seeing another user's data. System-wide encryption protects the data from folks who would otherwise gain physical access to the HD, where they don't have login access (eg. on a lost laptop).

Being disk-wide, it is therefore transparent to the OS and to applications. So real-time encrypt/decrypt of data during HD read/writes occurs, which would now allow, for example, Time Machine to function properly, unlike under the current FileVault implementation. You can also maintain encrypted TimeMachine backup HDs, which I do as well. System-wide encryption also protects other areas, such as system temp files/folders and swap space, where data would otherwise be written in the clear, as is the case with FileVault now.

I have not seen anything published anywhere to suggest that encryption of the individual directory trees (like FileVault now) is being done also. That would require user specific encryption keys, which means that you would be double encrypting, once at the disk level, once at the user level, which would really slow down throughput.

Perhaps they will offer the option to retain the current FileVault behavior at the user level as an option, if you don't want disk wide encryption.

For external HD's as noted, the encryption process will require a single login password/passphrase, nothing user specific.

For me, I am happily looking forward to Apple providing this functionality at the OS level, to get away from the aforementioned third party apps.

Re: First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”

hyhybt — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:12:07 -0000

Apparently... there was also the other problem of having to log out to reclaim the disk space from deleted files, along with the inordinate time that took.

Re: First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”

Eric A. Stephens — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:58:19 -0000

Have they solved the problem with the need to logoff in order to allow TimeMachine to backup the disk?

Re: First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”

Marc Schwartz — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:58:59 -0000

That's great. So this should be largely a functional replacement for PGP WDE and WinMagic. Both products had lengthy multi-month delays in getting new versions out for Snow Leopard, which delayed users upgrading to 10.6. And in PGP's case, communications have been horrid and concerns notably increased after Symantec's acquisition of them. WinMagic's support has been good if you call them, but proactive communications from them regarding OSX updates and product compatibility issues have been problematic as well. I have no doubt that the OSX client base for both vendors is modest and internal resources are biased towards other platforms. It has reminded me of my years using Linux and dealing with nVidia and GPU drivers. You are the step child in the computer world.

One difference is the use of the user login password as the pre-boot unlock key, whereas PGP and WinMagic use lengthy passphrases, which were not tied to the user account, as seems to be the case for external HDs with Lion. One will want to seriously consider increasing the strength of the OSX user login password as a result.

Re: First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”

hyhybt — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:40:59 -0000

Hallelujah, encryption just became useful again! :)

Re: Is Thunderbolt the next iDevice “Dock” connection?

Stephen Oliver — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:37:33 -0000

Indeed now that Thunderbolt is fully revealed that appears to be the case

Re: Is Thunderbolt the next iDevice “Dock” connection?

Stephen Oliver — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:37:06 -0000

They'd run into a situation where the same pins in the old dock connector would be used for a different purpose, and people would try to plug new cables into old devices, and old cables into new devices.

It might cause real problems if they did that, but I did consider it.