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12:02 AM – New iPhone 3GS is available June 19th

11:46 AM – iPhone 3.0 available 17th June

10:48 AM – Snow Leopard available in September – Dev Preview today

10:27 AM – Quicktime 10 (X)

10:23 AM – Safari 4.0 Final Release for Mac and Windows !

10:16 AM – Snow Leopard 45% Faster

10:14 AM – New MacBook Pro 13″

10:06 AM – New MacBook Pro 15″

09:59 AM – It’s about to start !

09:52 AM – June 19th : Snow Leopard release date ?

09:35 AM – OMG, Apple’s online stores are down!

Source :macgeekblog.com

Mac OS X 10.5.4 has been released by Apple and is available through Software Update. The Delta Update weighs in at about 59MB. The update appears to be mostly a bug fixing release. MobileMe support is not mentioned in the documentation. 10.5.4 is safe if you have a vanilla install, be sure to back up kexts however.


Here is a list of the main fixes in the release:

-Includes recent Apple security updates.
-Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files 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.
-Addresses AirPort reliability issues with 5GHz networks.
-Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.
-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.
-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.

Update Info

Netkas has done it again! After some hard work Netkas has not only managed to get Mac OS X 10.6 ”Snow Leopard” up and running on his Intel based Hackintosh, but also in full 64-Bit mode using the 10.0.0d1 64-Bit Mach Kernel.

Aside from the initial statement there is no further information describing how the installation went and if the recently announced EFI-X was ever used.

We’ll keep you posted.

System Conf

Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20 GHz
2MB L2 Cache ,800 MHz FSB
1 GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Desktop Board D945 GCNL Essential Series
160 GB SATA HDD (WD)

After some quite long period of compiling/testing/debugging, semthex 10.4.8 kernel
finally boots to single user mode!

Congrats Semthex!

• This kernel was compiled for SSE2, so it will work for any SSE2 comp
• The NX bit is not required, disabled by JaS.
• HPET has also been disabled.
• Legacy support for socket 7 has been added as a boot option

Here is the semthex 10.4.8 source code: coming soon…

You can get original apple 10.4.8 sources here: www.macgeekblog.com/files/xnu-792.13.8.tar.gz
To compile, you need to install XCode 2.4: developer.apple.com/tools/download/
Download and install the kernel tools: www.macosforge.org/files/kernel-tools-8J2135.root.tar.gz

Execute the following commands in Terminal to install:

$ curl -O http://www.macgeekblog.com/files/kernel-tools-8j2135.root.tar.gz
$ sudo tar xzf kernel-tools-8J2135.root.tar.gz -C /

Then extract the source to a folder in /tmp/sources, and fire a Terminal window:

sudo -s
cd /tmp
chmod -R 777 sources
cd sources
make ARCH_CONFIGS=I386 KERNEL_CONFIGS=RELEASE install
mach_kernel is in BUILD/dst

copy mach_kernel to the root of your test system.

chmod -R 755 mach_kernel
chown -R root:wheel mach_kernel

Source :macgeekblog.com

So you guys wonder what’s going on with the iPhone’s SDK Stevie announced in October.
The countdown has started, 15 days to go before the SDK release (hopefully!).
It has been rumored that some Developers already received the famous SDK to prepare
their applications and that it will only run under the new firmware “1.1.4 Alpha 2″.

So its clear the SDK won’t run on lower firmwares than 1.1.4.
Smart from the dev team to keep their 1.1.3 jailbreak secret until the 1.1.4 release!
With the new jailbreak and unlocks methods out there, we can except a new bootloader
in the 1.1.4 iPhone firmware. Something that will lock down our iPhones for a few months
until someone founds a way to jailbreak and unlock.

It’s time to buy your stock of 113 unlockable iPhones, 15 more days to go…