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Wednesday Stuff

Getting right on to today’s news:

• The iPhone 3G launch is coming closer and Friday is the day. The launch time varies across the world from midnight launch events to the regular opening time launch. Already they have been people starting to queue outside stores in different parts of the world and some pre-release unpacking photos are being released. So tell us, will you be there for the launch to get the iPhone 3G? Leave a comment and/or vote in the poll!
   
• As you guys probably know the Adobe trial downloads were unavailable during June but since it is now July, they are back online and you can now download the trials.
   
• A lot of focus is right now set at Apple mainly because of the iPhone 3G. What’s being overlooked though is that late today to early tomorrow their new Mobile Me service will be activated and ready for the world to use. I will have my thoughts up on it once I’ve been able to try it out for a bit.

That’s it for today! I’ll see you back tomorrow for some more extensive blogging.

Late Night Thursday Update

It’s long weekend here in Sweden because we are celebrating the midsummer time. It’s always fun even though it seems like we are getting the sucky and pretty common, rain! I’m not taking any days off work and blogging because I’m behind, but I will be going away for the weekend, from Saturday through Sunday, with net and computer

• Apple has announced today that the iTunes Music Store has sold a total of five billion songs over the years, which is a pretty big achievement. Many congrats to Apple on their milestone.
   
• If you are editing a lot of CSS code you might be interested in a CSS Code Editor. The guys over at Smashing Magazine have tested a few of the available ones and come up with a nice test on their website.
   
• Who doesn’t like the Adobe Exchange? You can get a lot of cool stuff for most of the Adobe CS apps on there. However, a new addition is that there is a new category available, all for Lightroom. So if you like presets etc. visit the Lightroom Exchange.

Visual Voicemail on the iPhone varies by carrier?

The carrier specific features of the iPhone such as Visual Voicemail may now be varying by the carrier. Some carriers that will have the iPhone on July 11 have been asked and some say they will be having the visual voicemail and some will not disclose any further information, leaving us clueless to whether they will have it or not. Over at iLounge they’ve got a list on the carriers asked and their responses.

I sincerely hope the carriers here will step up if they haven’t and start making visual voicemail because it is a wonder it isn’t a standard still when we are living in the age we do…

Late Thursday News

I’m pretty tired after working a full day in the camera store and I’m going to be early because the day is repeating itself tomorrow. Fun but tiresome. Here are at least a few late Thursday news.

• From screenshots of the new Apple App Store we can see that they are imposing restrictions in both price and application size. The maximum size is 2gb and the prices range between $0.99 to $999, where the latter probably is for more enterprise styled applications.
   
• A new build of the Parallels Desktop shows support for both Linux as well as 3D graphics inside of Windows. To get the free update, just go under the help menu and chose Check for Updates.
   
• One of the site visitors sent me a comment yesterday noting me on a tutorial error which is indeed a realism miss. In the Pixelmator tutorial about Creating a realistic sunlight effect I missed to at the end, flip the copied image vertically so that the small piece of the window comes at the top. So for anyone being affected by this miss in the recording, now you know how to fix it.
   
• Over at his blog, Scott Kelby has posted a review of the Ray Flash. The Ray Flash is essentially a ring flash that attaches to a normal hotshoe flash to make it a ring flash. It sounds like a cool product so go and check that out.

That’s that for the news today, tomorrow I’ll be back with the Friday goodies, so stay tuned. Oh and until then, don’t have too much trouble, it is Friday 13th.

Wednesday News Stuff

It’s a split day today, school is over for this time for me and a nice summer is awaiting. However because of the grade I’m now graduating from (our school system is different here) I’ll not go with almost anyone from my old class now that we all move up. A little sad to not see half of the people but I’ll all get over it. Onto the news.

• On Monday, Steve Jobs mentioned in the keynote very briefly that Apple is beginning to seed a developer version of the new Snow Leopard that will be replacing Leopard in the next year. It’s going to be much of a performance update with fewer new features. What we have learnt now from seeing the system requirements is that they will be dropping the PowerPC support to go to Intel only now.
   
• Today you’ll definitely want to check out the guest blogger over at Scott Kelby’s blog, Moose Peterson. He’s one of the best wildlife photographers I’ve ever seen and I love his wildlife work. Give his entry a read.
   
• Are you wanting to go the the Photokina in Colonge coming up on September 23rd through 27th? Then you might want to enter the contest from ThinkTankPhoto where you can win a trip complete with hotel stay and $500 in spending money. Just go to the contest site and read through the rules and enter if you are elgible.
   
• If you are interested in all the happenings at the WWDC Keynote you can view it either online or download the podcast.

.Mac becomes MobileMe

Yesterday at the WWDC08 Keynote, Apple announced its new online service that will replace the outdated .Mac. The new service is called MobileMe and is labled as "Exchange for all of us" and I think it really summarises up what it is. MobileMe features a remake of the old .Mac with a much nicer and cooler interface and with push-features as the main advantage point, perfect if you move a lot between different computers or computer and device. It’ll still cost you the "usual" $99/year but now with an increased value.

You can read more about it over on the Apple website.

3G iPhone Released

The 3G iPhone is here. Or well, it is being released on July 11th! Which is basically a month from now. What’s new then? Well, it is now 3G of course and it boosts a GPS as well. It’ll be available in an 8gb black edition and in a 16gb black or white edition (your choice between colours). What is perhaps the most cool thing is the new price. $199 for the 8gb version and $299 for the 16gb model!

Some news about the 2.0 firmware as well, it’ll also be available soon and will cost $9.95 for iPod Touch users and will be free to current iPhone users.

Lets start the countdown until July 11th! I for one want it to be here now

It’s WWDC Time!

It’s the week for Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Today/tonight (depending on your time zone), Steve Jobs will take the stage and hopefully release the products we’ve been waiting for, like a 3G iPhone. I for one would love to be sitting here at home and post updates here as I find them but I’m not able to do that because I have an end of the year ball to attend to, starting at the WWDC keynote hour. I advise you though if you want the live updates to go over to TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) for updates!

I’m going to be updating you guys on the releases once I get back or when I wake up on Tuesday morning and until then, have a great day

Friday News Goodies

Some news goodies from today to get us in the weekend spirit as always

• Over at his blog, John Nack has posted about coming Photoshop UI updates that will mainly affect us Mac users, giving us a choice to use an application frame, meaning all panels etc. will be covered in one window instead of being stuck to the sides of the screen. Luckily they are going to make it an option to use it or not which is definitely good.
   
• If you are thinking about purchasing a Mac Pro from Apple you should watch out so you don’t happen to order a lot of video cards thinking that you are ordering a higher speed. Terry White had a post on his blog about this and you should give it a read to be aware of what you are ordering.
   
• Coming up this coming week, starting on Monday is the Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) 2008! What we are all expecting is of course a 3G iPhone and a new .Mac service as well as the hidden goodies that they usually manage to come out with. I’m for one looking forward to see what they come up with. It’s a bummer though that I can’t be following the keynote through live posts, I have a end of the year ball to attend that evening, so I’ll recap all afterwards.
   
• Some weekend fun as well and it’s time to get Simpsonized again. Visit the SimpsonizeMe website to get all yellow according to your wish and then you can go and compile your family in Photoshop

Hot Friday News

I really must call today "Hot Friday" because here, that’s exactly what it is with warm temperatures here. The news and goodies for today are pretty hot for themselves as well so there is no sparing on the hotness

• if you are in the Philadelphia area in the US and you are interested in Photoshop and the Creative Suite  don’t miss out that Matt Kloskowski is coming to the Philadelphia Downtown Marriot on June 3rd with some other cool presenters in a free seminar about the Creative Suite 3. You can view the seminar page for more details and to sign up!
   
• Recent rumours suggest that Apple might be renaming and revamping its .Mac service. If they did it would really be a welcome upgrade since honestly the service isn’t that much to be excited about, at the moment.
   
• If you are looking at starting a photography portfolio website now at the start of the summer and want a unique website with unique design check out the portfolio package from XLD Studios. We have also a special discount code that’ll grant you 15% off the package, just enter the code "BM0806" when you are signing up. The offer is valid through June 30th! (If you are not looking at that level of uniqueness, just wait a couple of days for an exciting package from them )
   
• Some users of Adobe products are reporting file corruption when working on network stored files and blames it on the latest 10.5.3 update to Leopard on the Mac. (PC users are not having the problems). Adobe blames the corruption solely on Apple and the updates they did in 10.4.6.