Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Friday, August 15, 2008

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MacBook Air Revision Imminent, Full Penryn, More Power
Rumor hints 2GHz MacBook Air with 120GB disk
Intel Offers USB 3.0 Draft Spec
Intel releases USB 3.0 controller interface spec
Intel launches smaller SSD for netbooks, mini-desktops
Macs Are Cool, but Marketing Can't Help Linux
Psystar 'Definitely Still Shipping' Mac Clones
Why your student should take a Mac to college
Creating Coloring Book Art With Photoshop Elements Tutorial Posted
A Chip Too Far?
Intel drops Centrino from Atom brand after five months
Former Apple lawyer to pay $2.2m for cooking books
Roadworthy Printers
The Mac Night Owl: The Plight of the Apple Early Adopter
Revision3 Adds Hak5 Program to Hit Lineup Inviting Geeks andHackers to 'Trust Your Technolust'






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MacBook Air Revision Imminent, Full Penryn, More Power
PhoneNews's Christopher Price says:

PhoneNews.com can confirm that Apple is preparing to release an newrevision of the MacBook Air. While that in and of itself is not asurprise to many, we can confirm some of the specifications of theunit.

Much of the MacBook Air's external design will not change. However,the internals will receive a significant revision from the initialrelease back in January. The MacBook Air is currently powered by acustom version of the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, from theMerom-class. That processor had been modified with a lower voltageprocess to conserve power.

The new MacBook Air however, will trade that CPU out for a standardPenryn-class Core 2 Duo....

To read more, click here.
http://www.phonenews.com/macbook-air-revision-imminent-penryn-more-power-4126/






Rumor hints 2GHz MacBook Air with 120GB disk

Electronista reports:

Apple's first revision to the MacBook Air will see a clock speedboost as well as a storage upgrade, according to a newly prominentrumor. The report claims the 13.3-inch lightweight portable willswitch from Apple's custom-ordered 65 nanometer processors to areference 45 nanometer, Penryn-based design. Upgrading willallegedly reduce the clock speed gap and let the MacBook Air's Core2 Duo chip push 2GHz "and beyond," according to the leak.

However, this swap will allegedly create a power increase andrequire that Apple supply the system with a 60-watt power supplyrather than the smaller 45-watt unit that comes with the existingmodel. The internal design is described as closer to that of thestandard MacBook, though whether it will be based on somecomponents of Intel's Centrino 2 platform or use a rumored customdesign is unknown.....

For the full report visit here:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/14/macbook.air.update.rumor/






Intel Offers USB 3.0 Draft Spec

Macworld's Peter Cohen reports:

Intel has released part of the draft specification of UniversalSerial Bus (USB) 3.0, the next major revision to the peripheralinterface standard used throughout the computing world. The companyhas provided information on the Extensive Host Controller Interface(xHCI) to members of its USB 3.0 Promoter Group, made up of HP,Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and others.....

USB 3.0 (also called "SuperSpeed USB") is expected to operate at4.8 gigabits per second (Gbps), ten times faster than the 480megabits per second (Mbps) theoretical maximum of USB 2.0. USB 3.0will be backward-compatible with existing devices.

For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135013/2008/08/usb3.html






Intel releases USB 3.0 controller interface spec

The Register's Tony Smith reports:

Intel has provided chipset makers with a draft specification for aUSB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Interface (XHCI), making good apromise it made a couple of months ago.

According to the chip giant, the XCHI will allow chipset makers todevelop hardware that can communicate with USB 3.0 system softwarein a standardised, consistent way.

You might have thought that was the job of the chipset makers, butIntel's taken on the task itself to ensure, it hopes, the rapidroll-out of USB 3.0 - aka SuperSpeed USB. To that end, it's makingthe draft spec available under a licence that requires no royaltiesto be paid.

For the full report visit here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/14/intel_posts_usb_3_hci_spec/






Intel launches smaller SSD for netbooks, mini-desktops

IDG News Service's Dan Nystedt reports:

Intel launched a much smaller version of its Z-P230 SSDs (solidstate drive) aimed at netbooks and mini-desktops....

The new SSD is based on a miniature card module that weighs just 8grams, compared to 11 grams for the original Z-P230, which Intelannounced in June.

For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135006/2008/08/intel.html






Macs Are Cool, but Marketing Can't Help Linux

Low End Mac's Frank Fox says:

"I bought a Mac because it is so cool.

"It never occurred to me that I could use it to run a huge varietyof software. I didn't listen to the talk about it being free ofviruses. No one told me that it comes with a bunch of integratedsoftware that handles my photos, tracks my music collection, andcan help me make better home movies. I think that the people whosay you can run all your Windows program using Boot Camp to load acopy of Vista, are lunatics.

"The only reason I bought a Mac is because I own an iPod, and iPodsare cool. That, and I wanted to use it to play video games."

The only thing I can say, is God bless anyone like the persondescribed above. Apple needs more people like you buying theirproduct (just kidding).

I don't think people like that really exist, unlike Matt Asay, whowrote The Linux Desktop, Macs, and Barking Dogs. His messagewouldn't be so bad, but there are dozens of people reporting thistype of trash, basically calling Mac users a bunch of lemmings whohave been brainwashed by Apple's marketing prowess.

You can put lipstick on a pig and call that marketing - or you canmake a great product and call that marketing.....

For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/fox/08ff/marketing-linux.html






Psystar 'Definitely Still Shipping' Mac Clones

InformationWeek's Paul McDougall reports:

In the latest sign that it has no intention of backing down in itscopyright dispute with computing giant Apple, Psystar saidWednesday that is "definitely still shipping" its Mac clones. Infurther defiance of Apple, Psystar also this week said it is makingLeopard OS restore disks available to its customers.

For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6k8r2n






Why your student should take a Mac to college

The Houston Chronicle's Bob Levitus says:

It's back-to-school time again. So if you're about to send your kidoff to college with a new computer, here are some reasons to makethat computer a Mac....

You can check it out at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/drmac/5937754.html






Creating Coloring Book Art With Photoshop Elements Tutorial Posted

GraphicReporter says:

It's easy to get caught up making creative projects for grown-upslike calendars, photo books, and scrapbook pages... but what haveyou made for the little ones lately? The next time the creative bugbites, consider converting your photos into art for the coloringbook crowd instead.

For the illustrated tutorial, click here:
http://graphicreporter.com/tutorials/elements_coloringbooksketch.html






A Chip Too Far?

Fortune's Michael Copeland reports:

Could faster chips translate into slower computers? That's thesales-threatening prospect furrowing brows in every corner of thePC business, from industry titans such as Intel, Microsoft, andApple to major centers of academe.

For decades the PC industry has juiced performance - and sales -with a regular two-step dance. First, chipmakers jacked up thespeed of their latest offerings. Then the software brains figuredout how to turn all that processing power into faster operationsand cool new functions.

But the latest generation of chips, known as multicore, are socomplex and so qualitatively different from their predecessors thatthey have flummoxed software developers. "We've gone throughchanges in the past," says Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief researchand strategy officer. But this one, he says, is the most"conceptually different" change "in the history of moderncomputing."

For the full report visit here:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/technology/microchips_copeland.fortune/index.htm






Intel drops Centrino from Atom brand after five months

IDG News Service's Sumner Lemon reports:

Intel has dropped the Centrino Atom brand after just five months,opting instead to use just the Atom brand across this part of itsproduct line.

"Basically, we are simplifying and coalescing our efforts around'Atom' as the single brand for Internet devices," said Nick Jacobs,a company spokesman in Singapore.

For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/135009/2008/08/atom.html






Former Apple lawyer to pay $2.2m for cooking books

The Register's Dan Goodin reports:

The former top lawyer at Apple has agreed to pay $2.2m to settlefederal charges she illegally cooked the company's financial booksto conceal backdated stock options issued to CEO Steve Jobs andother top executives.

Nancy Heinen, Apple's former general counsel, also agreed to bebarred for five years from serving as an officer or director of anypublic company. The agreement with the Securities and Exchangecommission settles a case that was scheduled to go to trial nextyear, at which Jobs was expected to be called as a witness. Heinenneither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.

For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/14/apple_stockoptions_agreement/






Former Apple General Counsel Settles Backdating Charges

BusinessWeek's Arik Hesseldahl reports:

Nancy Heinen, Apple's former general counsel has settled civilcharges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2007,the commission announced today.

The settlement calls for Heinen, who had served as Apple's generalcounsel from 1997 until her departure in mid-2006, to pay $2.2million in disgorgement, interest and penalties, and to be barredfrom serving as an office of a public company for five years. Underterms of the settlement, she has neither admitted nor denied anywrongdoing.

Heinen had been accused by the SEC of being responsible for thebackdating of two big blocks of stock options grants to Appleexecutives, a matter that had cast a pall over the company it firstdisclosed the matter in June of 2006, about a month after Heinen'sdeparture. The SEC said that company records pertaining to a grantof 4.8 million options to Apple's senior executive team in Februaryof 2001, and a grant of 7.5 million shares made to CEO Steve Jobsin December of 2001 had been altered to conceal what it called afraud. The result was that Apple underreported its stock-relatedexpenses by nearly $40 million.

For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6kl2hk






Roadworthy Printers

PC Mag's M. David Stone reports:

There's a TV ad for a wireless Internet plan that shows anunfortunate notebook user literally locked in by Wi-Fi when shetries to leave a table. You could just as easily reshoot the adwith her chained to a printer. The simple truth is that one of thebiggest headaches of portable computing is trying to turn whatyou've created on your computer into printed output. One solutionis to bring a printer with you.

For the full report visit here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2327996,00.asp






The Mac Night Owl: The Plight of the Apple Early Adopter

In light of my peculiar line of work, I am one of the first on theblock at least my block to adopt a new computer-related gadget, andcertainly I'm pretty quick to install an upgraded operating systemor application. Of course, this sort of behavior entails certaincompromises.

Here's the URL for today's commentary:

http://www.macnightowl.com/2008/08/the-plight-of-the-apple-early-adopter/

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http://www.macnightowl.com/rss

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Revision3 Adds Hak5 Program to Hit Lineup Inviting Geeks andHackers to 'Trust Your Technolust'

[Press release]

Revision3, the TV network for the Internet generation, todayannounced that it is bringing Hak5, a home-grown hit series fusingunderground culture and mainstream IT, to its weekly lineup of popculture shows. Covering everything from network security, opensource software and forensics, to Do It Yourself projects and thehomebrew scene, new episodes of Hak5 will launch September 8th onRevision3 at: http://www.revision3.com/hak5

"Back when we launched Tekzilla, a few fans accused us of rippingoff Hak5's brick-encrusted set. The correlation was spurious, butrather than alienate the industry's top hackers, we decided itwould be better to team up with Hak5 instead," said Jim Louderback,CEO of Revision3. "Seriously, it's great to have such a hardcorehacking show round out our coverage for tech fanatics everywhere.And given the street cred of the Hak5 team, I'd rather have themwith us than against us."

Hak5, known as a hybrid of technology and geek humor, has been puttogether by a band of IT ninjas, security professionals and gamingenthusiasts since 2005. Within its first few months on-air the showhad become a hit among tech enthusiasts as well as mainstreammedia, and currently attracts fans from around the world.

"With this partnership we intend to focus solely on delivering thekind of unique and high quality content our loyal viewers have cometo expect", said Darren Kitchen, Producer, Hak5. "We're excited tobecome a part of Revision3's great lineup of shows and to extendour devoted audience in the near future."

The first episode of Hak5 will launch on Revision3 on September 8,2008. Episodes will be hosted by Darren Kitchen, Matt Lestock andShannon Morse and will appear regularly every Wednesday at 12 p.m.EST.