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It’s official. Apple has passed the 10 billionth download from the App Store. This includes applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Some lucky sod will has won a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. May the Force be with you!
http://www.apple.com/itunes/10-billion-app-countdown/
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Do you use iMovie? It’s a great piece of movie editing software for beginning to intermediate videographers, but did you know it can handle some advanced features like picture-in-picture? I didn’t.
But the gang over at Mac|Life did and they share in this tutorial how you can do it to. They will teach you how to add a custom logo as a lower third in your video presentations to improve the professional look of your video.
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Original Article from Cult of Mac (thanks!)
Some insight is emerging as to what Apple product (hardware, software, or media) is earning the most bucks. Turns out, at the core of success for the Cupertino, Calif. company might be software. Earlier this week, Apple announced its iOS-powered triumvirate — iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — comprised 65 percent of the $17.3 billion in the last-quarter revenue.
Additionally, sale of Mac OSX products accounted for 20 percent of all sales. Combine those two with sales of the Mac OSX software and the various App Store products and 90 percent of Apple revenue is coming from software, according to analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco.
“That speaks volumes not only for the importance of software to Apple but for the cohesion of an extensible, flexible architecture that allows it to inhabit a portfolio spanning from a music player and an enterprise server,” the analyst wrote Friday in a blog post.
So, to answer the initial question: is Apple a software, hardware or media company? The iPhone, iPad, iPod, iOS, Mac OSX maker is all three, Dediu says
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OS X vulnerabilities on the rise
Virus writers finally paid some attention to Apple Macs in 2010, with several new types of malware appearing to puncture the myth of the platform’s security invulnerability, security company Intego has reported in its annual review.
The numbers are still tiny and hard to meaningfully compare to PC equivalents, but it does look as if there has recently been a modest rise in the sophistication of Mac malware.
Perhaps the most interesting was October’s Koobface/Bonnana variant, which installed a malicious Java applet using social media sites to spread infection. This gained more attention for its cross-platform capabilities, targeting Mac, Windows and even Linux users, and holds a warning for the future: malware writers might start using Java more often to ‘weaponise’ browser malware for a range of platforms and not only Windows.
The company also mentions the appearance of backdoor malware, HellRTS, and an unamed ransomware program that both appeared during the year…
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Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, talks about intuition, hard work and being prepared for the time when you moment will come. Decisions are not always intellectual. Intuition plays a large part in guiding you toward you future success.
Watch as Tim gives the Commencement Address at is Alma-mater, Auburn University.
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Today is the day of the big call. Apple will hold their press release call to report earnings for the first quarter (Q1) of 2011. The call is set for 2:00pm PST/5:00pm EST.
But before that call happens TUAW weighs in with some predictions about the numbers and the recent announcement about Steve Job’s health and how these things my impact the end result.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has just announced that he is taking a medical leave of absence. He will continue as CEO, but will pass day-to-day operations of the company to COO Tim Cook.
This is the email memo that Jobs sent to Apple employees today according to Business Wire.
Team,
At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company.I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple’s day to day operations. I have great confidence that Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011.
I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy.
Steve
Jobs has not given a reason for the medical leave of absense. This is his second medical leave, following a battle with pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant in 2009.
Apple is slated to give its quarterly earnings report tomorrow, and perhaps more details will be forthcoming at that time.
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Over here at MacSupportCasts we support Mac users. And I can never seem to pass up a great tutorial to expand the knowledge of Mac users. So if you’re new to the Mac, or maybe you’ve never ripped a CD with iTunes we’ve got you covered.
Over at Macworld they’ve put together this great little tutorial that walks you through the steps to converting all those CDs into digital files.
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On Tuesday Google announced that they are dropping support for H.264 video in favor of their own WebM. The announcement sent shockwaves across the tech world.
Google says that they are dropping the support for their Chrome browser to “enable open innovation” quite a contradiction since they will still continue to support the extremely closed Adobe Flash.
You can catch the news of this announcement over at Mac|Life.
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Verizon will not be engaging in its usual practice of side-loading apps onto iPhones, according to Apple Vice President Phil Schiller. Mr. Schiller told Ars Technica that Apple intends for the iPhone experience to be consistent whichever carrier they might be using.
“We want the experience to be the same for every iPhone user. So there are no special Verizon Apps preinstalled,” Mr. Schiller said. “AT&T offers customers some apps via the App Store. I’ll let Verizon comment if they are working on anything for that.”
Verizon’s iPhone won’t look like this
Verizon is all but notorious for installing its own apps onto devices, and in some cases the company has made it all but impossible for users to uninstall these apps. For instance, one Android device has Bing and other Microsoft services replacing Google’s search engine and related apps. To remove these side-loaded apps, users would have to jailbreak their phones.
Whether or not Verizon would do the same with an iPhone was the subject of debate amongst Apple pundits and other observers, with anyone unfamiliar with Apple CEO Steve Jobs arguing that Verizon wouldn’t give in on this issue. Side-loaded apps are a solid revenue stream for carriers, just as they are for PC makers – Apple doesn’t put side-loaded apps on its Macs, either.
Ars Technica also noted that Verizon’s iPhone FAQ said that its iPhones would come pre-loaded with a hotspot app, but that this is really a system setting and not an app at all.
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