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Black MacBook Images Begin Internet Circulation [Update x2]
With today's release of the Black MacBook notebook which is already being dubbed the BlackBook, Apple has made some design changes to the machines. The new MacBook features a completely magnetic latching system as well as featuring MagSafe, the keyboard has been redesigned and has…
Apple Debuts New iPod Advert
The advert was first shown last night on American TV, the Mac web has been buzzing for most of the day as no signs of the ad had appeared on Apple's website. iPod + iTunes Advert featuring the song Love Train by WolfMother It appears…
Coinstar to Accept Coins for iTunes
Coinstar the coin counting company is letting customers exchange spare coins for iTunes Music Store gift cards. The "Coin to Card" scheme is available on 5,000 Coinstar machines in the US and unlike normal coin-to-cash services which usually charge a processing fee customers of "Coin…
Microsoft Gives Apple Birthday Wishes
The Microsoft Business Unit has posted a little birthday gift to Apple, the image can been seen on the MBU website. Microsoft's Birthday Card for Apple
The Big 3-0 at Regent Street Apple Store
First off if your reading this expecting to see images of a big party at the Regent Street Store then sadly your wrong, but World of Apple did try and bring the birthday spirit to London...
Avie Tevanian to Leave Apple?
SF Gate is reporting that Apple has confirmed that Avie Tevanian will leave Apple to "pursue other interests". It was rumoured back in 2001 that Avie could be leaving. As chief software technology officer, Avie Tevanian focuses on setting company-wide software technology directions for Apple…
Jobs Pays $296m in Tax on Stock Gift [Updated]
Article updated due to the sheer inaccuracy of the original Steve Jobs this week sold 4.5 million of his Apple Computer shares to pay $296 million in taxes. The shares were reportedly sold on the same day that the shares vested to meet tax obligations…
Macintosh Production Line Circa 1984
Flickr user wackymac has posted an image of the Macintosh production line around the year of 1984. wackymac writes: Macintosh production line circa 1984 "This is a photo of the original Macintosh factory in Fremont, California. It was the first of its kind for the…
iPod and iTunes Added to UK Inflation Index
The sale of iPods and iTunes downloads has been added to the list of goods used by the UK government as a standard for measuring inflation. The 650 product list which is compiled and maintained by the Office for National Statistics aims to measure the…
French Lawmakers Approve Draft Law
As reported on last week French Lawmakers voted on an online copyright bill that aims to break exclusive formats from the likes of Apple, Sony and Microsoft. The bill was approved 296-193 and will now be debated by the Senate which is expected to take…
French Law Changes to Cause iTunes Closure [Update]
Yahoo! News has been today reporting that French parliamentarians are hoping to push through a law that could open the iTunes Music Store to anyone and every device or worse close it down completely. The new law would allow consumers to be able to legally…
Windows XP Officially Running on Mac
The contest to boot Windows XP on a new Intel Mac has officially ended with the winner receiving around $14,000 in prize money. The contest asked budding hackers to: Boot Windows XP on an Intel Mac Neither Mac OS X nor Windows must interfere with…
Apple UK Airs Modified Intel Ad
Many readers of World of Apple have pointed us towards the fact that Apple UK has begun airing the Intel advert on many of the mainstream channels. But the advert is different, Apple appears to have modified it from, 'dull little boxes dutifully doing dull…
Happy Birthday Steve!
World of Apple would like to take this opportunity to wish our much beloved man Steve Jobs (1955) a happy birthday. All together now "For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody can…
Easter Egg in Final Cut Pro
A World of Apple reader has pointed us towards an Easter Egg buried within the code of Final Cut Pro 4/4.5. The script can be found in Applications / Final Cut Pro HD / Contents / Resources / Final Cut Pro.rsrc, open it in any…
Multi-Touch Interaction Video
This page contains a video and several images showing some of the touch screen patents that Apple owns. Although the video appears to be for research purposes it contains some interesting footage on just how these patents could be used. Just to confirm to the…
Macintosh is 22 Today!
On this day in 1984 Apple aired a commercial during the SuperBowl that would change the worlds perception of computing and to this day the Macintosh lives on. Happy Birthday old chap.
iWork Second Best Selling Office Suite
A report shows that iWork achieved a 2.7% market share in 2005 which is slightly more than Corels WordPerfect which holds 1.6% share. Naturally Microsoft Office covers 95% oh the share but the interesting fact is when we come down to Mac only stats where…
MacBook Pro Images a Forgery?
We've just been tipped off with some very interesting information about the MacBook Pro on Apples website. The images are quite clearly of a Photoshopped PowerBook G4. This is obviously nothing amazing I'm sure many companies do it but this goes together with the rumour…
CocoaRadio
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