Hijinks Inc.

Tag: Apple

  • Clearing up hard drive space on your Mac

    I have a problem: I’m addicted to podcasts. From Diggnation and 1UP Yours, to Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion, my subscription list covers a wide range of interests, and an even wider space on my hard drive. I have an 80 gig hard drive on my Macbook, and as of an hour ago I had 987MB free. That’s not good folks, that’s not good at all.

    I talked to fellow blogger Aaron about it, and he suggested a few applications that would clear up some space without forcing me to delete any programs or media.

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  • Apple Drops NDA (Kinda)

    Apple announced today that they were restructuring their NDA so it only applied to unreleased software.

    That’s great and all, but that means I still can’t talk about my software which doesn’t work… the software that I really need to talk to people about. That’s fantastic Apple.

  • Like Clockwork

    Apple announced their excellent earnings for this last quarter yesterday, and of course the stock started a predictable downward slide.

    It happens every earnings call, Apple goes conservative on the next quarters guidance and Wall Street freaks. Hello! They do this every time! Big deal, everyone knows they’re going to blow away that guidance, so why freak out?

    Anyhow, this an excellent opportunity to pick up some discounted Apple shares.

  • 10.5.4 is live

    Apple released 10.5.4 today, you can grab it from Software Update. Changes listed below.

    General
    Recent Apple security updates.
    Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 ?les on a remote server.
    Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
    Addresses an issue that may result in a partially installed X11 application.
    Improves L2TP VPN client reliability.
    AirPort
    Addresses AirPort reliability issues with 5GHz networks.
    Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.
    iCal
    Improves overall iCal reliability for meeting requests, cancellation notices, delegation, and syncing with iPhone.
    Resolves an issue that prevents deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator.
    Addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability. A checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups.
    Resolves a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window.
    Addresses an issue with copying and pasting attendees from one event to another.
    Resolves an issue in which iCal may not delete events after a speci?ed time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences.
    Addresses an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private.

    Safari
    Addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages.
    Resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages with client certificates that reside on a smart card.
    Spaces and Exposé
    Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
    Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.
    Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.

  • Apple Q3 Earnings Call Announced

    It’s that time of year again, at 2pm Pacific time on July 21, 2008 Apple will rock the world with their earnings call.

    As always though, if the guidance for the next quarter is at all conservative Apple stock will tank… again. Analysts will likely have high expectations for Q4 since the iPhone 3G will be on sale for all but 11 days of that quarter, so when Apple does what they always do and purposefully underestimates their earnings for the next quarter it won’t match up with the hype and their stock will drop like a stone.

    Look for a great opportunity to pick up some shares of Apple a few days after the earnings call.