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Many iPhone 3G S, users are reporting overheating issues with the device, which is apparently dramatically affecting battery life. Reports of this issue first came up on Nowhere Else, but has been confirmed by tech editors David Coursey and Melissa J. Perenson of PC World, who have both personally experienced the problem. According to Perenson, the iPhone became so heated that she couldn’t even touch her face with it.
Safari’s RSS could compromise your personal data
Reports of a new security issue in both the Mac and Windows versions of Safari are stating that there is a “hole” in how Safari handles RSS feeds, which could potentially allow an attacker to capture a user’s personal information, cookies, passwords, etc. through a malicious web page. The discovery of this new vulnerability can be credited to Brain Mastenbrook, who is known for discovering many previous vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.
LG signs 5-year contract with Apple for LCD displays
LG has just signed a five-year contract with Apple which states that they will be providing LCDs for the company. Apple apparently wanted LG’s LCD and next-generation OLED displays for its line of notebooks and Cinema Displays, along with future iPhone and iPod models. LG will receive US$500 million for the displays from Apple under this new contract.
City of Heroes comes to Mac OS X
Another popular MMO, known as City of Heroes, has made its way to the Mac OS X operating system. Mac users already have other popular MMOs such as EVE Online and World of Warcraft, and this is just another addition. Even though it took quite a while for NCsoft to port the game over to OS X, their widely popular superhero massively multiplayer online game is finally available for Mac gamers. On a positive note, there is no annoying DRM on the release of the game, and the port generally runs very well on OS X.
More evidence that iPod touch was a hit this holiday season
There’s new evidence that the iPod touch has sold a lot of units this holiday season, which is specifically the amount of ads reported to be viewed from an iPod touch, and the number has apparently skyrocketed. According to AdMob—a popular mobile advertising network which focuses a lot on the iPhone and iPod touch—they served 292 million ads to iPod touch devices in December, up 3.4x from November, when it displayed only 86.4 million ads to iPod touches.
First look: Five-Column Springboard
For all of those with jailbroken iPhones/iPod touches, there’s a cool new hack to look forward to in Cydia in the near future. Known as FCSB (Five-Column Springboard), it does exactly what the name implies; it allows you to have five columns of apps on your springboard! This new hack is not yet available for public release and is still in development, but it’s definitely something to look forward to, especially for people who need more springboard space for apps.
OpenOffice 3 brings native version to Mac OS X
OpenOffice has released version 3 of its open-source alternative to the Microsoft Office suite of applications, which now includes a native version for Mac OS X.
The new OpenOffice 3 includes the following new features:
- ODF 1.2 Support
- Microsoft Office 2007 Import Filters
- Solver component which allows solving optimization problems
- Support for displaying custom error bars and regression equations
- Improved Crop Feature in Draw and Impress
Apple finally provides iPhone developers with download stats
MacRumors is reporting that Apple is finally providing registered iPhone developers with daily download statistics of their applications to give them a good idea on how they are doing in the App Store.
From the report:
Before today, most developers had been left in the dark about their applications performance, and had to wait until the first of the monthly reports. Apple had originally posted download numbers publicly but quickly removed this feature once it became clear that you could easily estimate a particular developer’s revenue. Registered iPhone developers can find their daily stats at iTunes Connect.
More after the break.
Apple readies Mac OS X 10.5.5 developer seed
It is being reported that developers may receive their first seeds of pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.5.5 as soon as this weekend; Apple’s calling it a “maintenance and security update.” The OS X 10.5.5 Leopard update could provide support for new Apple notebooks that have been speculated about for a while now.
Learn more after the break.
VMWare Fusion 2 Beta 2 now available
The people at VMWare have just released the second beta for VMWare Fusion 2.0, the company’s popular virtualization program for Macs.
The new beta adds a ton of new features, as the video below demonstrates. Highlights of the new beta after the break.
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