Mac News And Rumors

Apple recently released Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update, and is now available through software update.

this new release addresses quite a lot of issues, among them:

• Various improvements to performance and stability in Mail.app, iCal, Airport and Safari
• Graphical improvements
• DVD player performance improvements
• A new Trackpad panel in System Preferences for portable Macs
• Time Machine and MobileMe improvements

The Update is About 377 Mb For some and 190 Mb for others

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The iPhone-Dev Team has done it again, they have succesfuly managed to jailbreak apple’s new  2.1 iPhone and iPod Firmware.

You can download this App here as a direct download or here as a Torrent file.

This will let you Jailbreak your iPhone running firmware 2.1, install Cydia, Installer, and a nice Boot image.

you can download Apple’s new firmwares from the following links

If You have an iPhone 3G Click Here

If You have a iPhone  2G/ “Old iPhone” Click Here

For instruccions on how to PWN/Jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch you can refer to the iPhone-Dev Blog.

[UPDATE]: The iPhone Dev Team has just released QuickPwn for Mac OSX, Direct Download Here, Torrent file Here

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A few days after the San Francisco Apple event there’s been lots of things going on.

Almost everybody was pleased with the new products:

1. New Nano as expected, Larger screen, round, 8 and 16 Gb improved user interface and in many colors.
2. New iPod Touch round like the new iPhone 3G, improved interface, Built-in Speakers for “casual listening” as Steve Jobs said, because they are pretty small. 8 - 16 -32 Gb <– From $229 to $399
3. iPod Classic now 160 Gb and 80Gb version discontinued and now it is only 120Gb for $249
4. iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 2.1 Officially released {Now Available} improvements;                       - decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
   - significantly improve battery life for most users
   - dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
   - improve email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
   - faster installation of 3rd party applications
   - fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd party applications
   - improved performance in text messaging
   - faster loading and searching of contacts
   - improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
   - repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
   - option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
   - Genius playlist creation
5. iTunes 8 Release, minor visual upgrades, Genius: a utility which creates playlists for you according to different parameters of your itunes library <— really Useful. New Browsing feature. Genius SideBar recomends songs for you. High definition Tv shows and movies available from itunes.
6. New iPod/iPhone Games

it seems you will have to wait till january if you were expecting a Mac Tablet or a Macbook/Macbook Pro Refresh.

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As many have read, theres been lots of speculations concerning a september product refresh from apple.

as the month has already begun more and more mockups appear and they are addapting some of the expected new features.

MacBook Pro

• Glass Trackpad
• Lack of mouse button
• curved case (similar to MacBook Air
• Variety Of colors

iPod Nano

• stretched screen
• taller
• more colors

Pictures After The Break

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Today MacNR is Happy to introduce MobileNR.com as part of the Macnr Comunnity, MobileNR is Currently in Its BETA stage meaning its not completely finished.

MobileNR will be covering basicly everything to do with Mobile Devices So that in some way MacNR is more organized and so that we can offer more specialized News And Rumors from this two different topics

If you experience any problems while browsing MobileNR please inform us at macnr@macnr.com

it’s Been tested and appears to be working flawlessly on the following Browsers;

• Safari 3
• FireFox 3
• Internet Explorer 7

We hope you enjoy MobileNR!

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