Comments for Mac OS Rumors

Comment on Reader Q&A: When will FaceTime, iMessage and iChat merge across Mac and iOS? by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:20:00 +0000

I am afraid that the current fragmentation and complexity of finding workarounds is a very serious matter.
iPad1 and pre-iPhone4 users are left out of chatting (remedy: use the IM+ app) because there is no camera (although voice and text chat are definitely possible).
Most Macs don’t have FaceTime, because it’s an optional download. (Remedy download and pay if necessary).
FaceTime is hard to configure (What does it all mean? — Do I reach the same public as with iChat?)

In fact I see fewer of my friends on line these days.
All this in a time when even MSN opens up by supporting a non-MS protocol.

Will Apple miss the chat-boat (because of its ultimate FaceTime goal which encompasses live video?).
I’d rather have text chat than nothing at all.

Comment on Next-gen iDevices to feature shatter-resistant OLED displays by blue5ft3

blue5ft3 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:15:00 +0000

I have never had any of mine break from dropping in the house, but I put a crystal case on it that makes it ZOOM, more than the display and a protective case with a batter backup that I did not need I listened to rumors before I got mine, my Iphone4s has fantastic battery usage. seriously

Comment on Next-gen iDevices to feature shatter-resistant OLED displays by blue5ft3

blue5ft3 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:13:00 +0000

So my new Iphone4s doesnot have this? They change so quickly, all of them who can keep up.

Comment on Apple says Carrier IQ unused, will remove it from iOS 5 by blue5ft3

blue5ft3 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:12:00 +0000

All you had to do was click don’t send data etc to Apple or ATT. Wasn’t enough?

Comment on Carrier IQ references found in iOS by Gordon Pavlovich

Gordon Pavlovich — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Bullsh*it.

Comment on iOS 5 due out October 12th by Dakota Wayne Coleman

Dakota Wayne Coleman — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:56:00 +0000

My itunes wont even update to IOS5… weird

Comment on iCloud.com now live by kootenayredneck

kootenayredneck — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:56:00 +0000

I could access the Cloud via iWork but not directly from the site. Go figure.

Comment on iOS 5 due out October 12th by Stephanie Stromenger

Stephanie Stromenger — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:22:00 +0000

There is no ipod touch 5th gen.
It’s just a new color 4th gen. Check the Apple site.

Comment on New iPod Touch gains white model by birdy

birdy — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:37:00 +0000

Anybody know is the new iPod touch ship with the same 8MP camera as the iPhone 4S?

Comment on New iPod Touch gains white model by farhan yusuf

farhan yusuf — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:38:00 +0000

No upgrade of A5 chip or RAM?

Comment on Apple to launch iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud during WWDC by Anonymous

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Comment on Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” Announced by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:35:00 +0000

Can you turn off features you don’t like? For example, using more than one application at the same time has been wildly popular since System 6; what if I don’t *want* one app to take up the whole screen? Or: as things stand now, if my computer is acting peculiarly (rare as that is) I can restart it to straighten it out, but if it brings everything back up as it was before, then what? I know, I know, the folks at Apple aren’t stupid, and they’d never be so boneheaded… but then again, everybody’s an idiot now and then

(For that matter, if Lion is only available as a download, does that mean that if I upgrade and then replace my hard drive I’ll have to dig up my old, scratchy Leopard disc, hope it can be made to work just one more time, and then buy Lion again? Surely not; surely you’re right that they’ll leave a way to create a disc or USB drive or *something*.)

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Comment on First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:41:00 +0000

@Eric: Yes, from everything that is being published, this new approach will be transparent to FV. No more encrypted containers with sparse bundles…

@hyhybt: That should not be an issue, again as this new approach should be at the OS level and transparent to normal file operations, because you are not dealing with encrypted containers.

Comment on First look: Full System Encryption in Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:33:00 +0000

Hisham, the algorithm is XTS-AES 128 (see http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/ under All-new FileVault).

The actual encryption key is not the login password/passphrase. The pre-boot login only “unlocks” the use of the actual encryption key, which is used disk wide under this model, similar to PGP’s WDE and WinMagic, both of which I have used on OSX. Although there, you have a two step login process. First the system wide passphrase, to unlock the encryption and then your user account login. The new FileVault will, in effect, enable single sign-on.

Is it also similar to dm-crypt/luks, which I have used on Linux.

Thus, once a user logs in, account level R/W file/directory permissions, as now, would keep one user from seeing another user’s data. System-wide encryption protects the data from folks who would otherwise gain physical access to the HD, where they don’t have login access (eg. on a lost laptop).

Being disk-wide, it is therefore transparent to the OS and to applications. So real-time encrypt/decrypt of data during HD read/writes occurs, which would now allow, for example, Time Machine to function properly, unlike under the current FileVault implementation. You can also maintain encrypted TimeMachine backup HDs, which I do as well. System-wide encryption also protects other areas, such as system temp files/folders and swap space, where data would otherwise be written in the clear, as is the case with FileVault now.

I have not seen anything published anywhere to suggest that encryption of the individual directory trees (like FileVault now) is being done also. That would require user specific encryption keys, which means that you would be double encrypting, once at the disk level, once at the user level, which would really slow down throughput.

Perhaps they will offer the option to retain the current FileVault behavior at the user level as an option, if you don’t want disk wide encryption.

For external HD’s as noted, the encryption process will require a single login password/passphrase, nothing user specific.

For me, I am happily looking forward to Apple providing this functionality at the OS level, to get away from the aforementioned third party apps.