Apple releases iPhoto 9.1.1

Apple has released iPhoto 9.1.1….Here\’s the release notes…. About iPhoto 9.1.1 This update adds new email options to iPhoto \’11. It also improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. Specific fixes include: Adds a preference allowing photos to be emailed using an external email application Adds \”Classic\” and \”Journal\” themes to […]

Apple publishes six free e-books for developers

Apple has released a set of free E-Books for the Macintosh / Ios programmer in all of us. iOS Human Interface Guidelines Object Oriented Programming With Objective-C Cocoa Fundamentals Guide. The Objective-C Programming Language iOS Technology Overview iOS Application Programming Guide. While not super exciting for the non-programmer, it\’s a great sign that Apple is […]

ABC & Disney join Netflix Streaming…

Netflix is one of the content providers for the Apple TV, streaming a growing library of old and new movies and TV shows to subscribers who are paying a minimum of US$7.99 per month for instant access. Now the LA Times is reporting that ABC\’s parent, The Walt Disney Company, has reached a one-year agreement […]

Apple Digital Camera RAW update v3.5

Apple today released another Digital Camera RAW Compatibility update. Version 3.5 provides RAW format compatibility for imaging applications like Aperture and iPhoto for these new cameras: Canon PowerShot G12 Leica D-Lux 5 Leica V-Lux 2 Nikon D7000 Nikon COOLPIX P7000 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 These cameras have been added to the list of digital camera RAW […]

AirPlay Reverse Engineered to Send Video From iOS Devices to Macs

TUAW\’s Erica Sadun has put together an alpha version of a Mac OS X application known as \”AirPlayer\” that does exactly that. What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple\’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate […]

Indigo 4.1.15 Released

Indigo v4.1.15 is now available for download.In addition to the major 4.0 improvements and 4.1 features, this update includes: Improved filtering of duplicate messages from the RemoteLinc. Improved Prism Reflector tunnel startup time.

Is there an USB 2 data transfer size limit?

Well, I\’m not a USB protocol engineer but this document from the Intel EHCI USB Specification seems to suggest that the largest USB packet size that is allowable is 1024 bytes and the largest block of data that can be transferred in one go is 24576 bytes, as on page 35: Seven page pointers are […]