Archive: April 2006
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Single of the Week Turns 2
Apparently Apple likes releasing things this time of the year, we had iTMS turning three on Thursday, Tiger turning one and Single of the Week is turning 2. Single of the Week turns 2, holding image from iTunes Music Store Strangely enough Apple is only…
Happy 1st Birthday Tiger
Today April 29th Mac OS X Tiger celebrates it's first birthday, I'm sure we all remember the day well. World of Apple was in attendance of the World Premier of Tiger at the Grand Opening of the Bullring Apple Store. You can relive the evening…
Aperture Team Change Confirmed
It appears that Aperture lives long and prosper, a blog posting by Blake confirms that a new Aperture team is being formed. In case the article goes down, here's the re-post: One of the reasons I left my previous job was to focus all my…
The Countdown to World of Apple 2.0
It begun with the new header and now with a new section, today World of Apple is happy to present a brand new section to the site, The Blog. In light of recent issues with some posts made to the main site we thought that…
Three Years, Three Cheers
You wouldn't believe it but three years ago on this very day, the iTunes Music Store opened its doors to the US market, making it the first viable solution for online music sales. The store was naturally an immediate success with the Apple followers but…
Keyboard Update 1.0 for Intel Based Macs
Apple today released Keyboard Update 1.0 for the following computers: MacBook Pro iMac (Early 2006) Mac mini (Early 2006) Apple States: The Apple Keyboard Update 1.0 addresses reliability of keyboard and mouse functionality. The installer guides you through the steps to install the Apple Keyboard…
Shareholders Meeting Reveals Apples Future Plans
In todays annual shareholder meeting held at Apples Cupertino Campus many questions were raised with some interesting results. Steve Jobs, Peter Oppenheimer and Phil Schiller attended as part of the executives of Apple, during the session all three remained tight-lipped. When one shareholder asked Jobs…
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Apertures Development a Shambles
Think Secret is reporting that Apple has let the majority of its Aperture development team move onto to separate projects. The report claims that the development of said application was a "mess" and the worse they had witnessed from Apple, it is even reported that…
Apple Updates iWorks
Apple today released updates for both Pages and Keynote. Keynote 3.0.1 - 39MB approx Keynote 3.0.1 addresses issues with three-dimensional charts and textures. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. Pages 2.0.1 - 21MB approx Pages 2.0.1 addresses issues with charts and image…
Quanta Withdraws from iPod Deal, Samsung Claims it has the Chips
Back in mid-march World of Apple reported on a story citing that Quanta Computer had won the contract to produce the up-coming iPod Video. It is now being reported that Quanta Computer never acknowledged the order and that the whole thing has been shifted to…
Apple to Place Ads into iTunes
Ad Age is reporting that Apple is mulling over the inclusion of ads within iTunes. The report goes into no specifics but mentions using Podcasts to deliver such content; "Ads will appear while users listen to podcasts," claims the report. "It's a big step for…
iChat 4 to Include Peer to Peer Sharing
Back in January Apple was granted a patent describing a "peer-to-peer active content sharing" application. Although it is not directly mentioned it is expected that such a technology will be built into the next iChat to be included with Mac OS X Leopard. Abstract from…
Apple Announces Shake Coming to Intel Macs
Apple announced at NAB today that it will release a major update to its leading compositing software, Shake. Shake 4.1 will ship in May and will be fully Intel Mac compliant, the application has been demonstrated at NAB running on an Intel Core Duo iMac…
Apple to Update Xsan on Monday [Update x1]
Within the next few hours Apple will released an update to its Xsan software. The release will update Xsan to version 1.3 and will support Fibre Channel Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) greater than 2TB in size and 7TB Xserve RAID users no longer have to…
Garageband Update 3.0.2
Apple today released a quiet update to Garageband via Software Update. The update weighs in at 30MB on PowerPC systems. Apple describes the update as the following: GarageBand 3.0.2 addresses issues with video handling, podcast exporting, and importing QuickTime markers. It also addresses a number…
Apple Releases 17-inch MacBook Pro
As rumoured Apple today released the 17-inch MacBook Pro at NAB 2006. “The 17-inch MacBook Pro delivers the speed and screen area of a professional desktop system in the world’s best notebook design,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With…
Apple Debuts Two New iTunes Features
Apple today quietly slipped two new features into the US iTunes Music Store. The Commercial Success logo on the US iTunes Music Store The first being " Commercial Success ." Currently featuring 26 songs from recent commercials including Apple, Old Navy, Budweiser, Jaguar, AT&T, Cingular…
Apple Expands and Improves Mac Recycling Program
Apple today announced that they have expanded their recycling program and now offer a free computer take back and recycling with any new Mac purchased starting in June. Earlier this week Apple was named a "Forward Green Leader," one of the top ten environmentally progressive…
PowerBook Supplies Thin
Macworld UK is reporting that it believes remaining supplies of PowerBooks (both 12 and 17 inch) are shrinking fast, it expects unfilled orders to be met within the next three weeks. It should be noted that just this week AppleInsider reported the likeliness of a…