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Apple updates iLife and iWork applications

Nothing terribly significant except bugfixes.

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Review: Jobs for iPhone

Lawyers and designers in May do not seem to have much in common. But, like many other people tend to deal in billable hours and both need a simple and reliable way to track time spent on client projects. Bjango employment provides a simple yet functional solution to this challenge.

Job allows you to track and manage customers and jobs. The clientele are only definitions in the name of a company, but May be linked to a contact in your address book. Unfortunately, one can bind to a single client. If you work with more than one person at a company, you must create multiple entries. Selecting a client to display the jobs associated with that customer and the value of the copyrighted work. This information can be exported (via an e-mail application for employment), which granted summary information or details in a variety of formats (XML, CSV and plain text).

You can name a job, and there is space to write notes. Schedules and fares flagfall the latter term refers to a set of initial charge at the beginning of a work based by default, but you can change each time you create a job.

Time tracking is very easy to simply select a contact and the start button. Monitoring Group until the time is the press, even when the device is asleep, run other applications, or receive a call on your iPhone. Especially for the worker, it is possible to run multiple timers at once.

Each start / stop cycle record results during a meeting, the documentation for the amount of time devoted to a task. Each session, the files can be edited, deleted, or even if it is not added to the capture of a work session. You can also mark the work invoiced.

Although employment plays on its core functions, which could benefit from some additional features. The application does not provide a way to detail the costs of a problem if your care costs to a client. And use of a space in your mail client to export data, instead of your default email application on the iPhone or iPod touch, will be a problem for some users. All information is sent by servers that provide Bjango no privacy and reliability. The mail client to the lack of integration with Address Book, you can not find alternatives beneficiaries. More »

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Apple Planning Special Event March 24th?

Only a rumor for now, according to Apple and Apple Worldwide My Guide (via Engadget), and will probably be a “Spotlight Turns to blows with PC architecture for the Mac mini, iMac, and / or Mac Pro compatible with NVIDIA chipset and the latest generation of mobile Intel procs received last fall, and perhaps a new 30 “LED Display, March 2008, but not see the iPhone SDK Event Guide, so is not over in May hoping to be some iPhone news on our horizon.

When Apple announced it had ceased to attend Macworld, also said he would be calling their own news on their own timetable, on March 24 the same data must be regarded as a fluid and depending on the final Product (s) and service (s) to be announced. Given that Apple rarely sends invitations to less than a week before the fall of the day, anyway, all we can do is wait … and perhaps drooling …

Steve Jobs is not, of course, since May, it will still be off, but Phil Schiller made the last speech, and also the last show new iMac form factor (even if the employment was at its previous license) with some suggesting that the story in May the main man of the stage.

Meanwhile, what do you expect to see in March, a special event at Apple, and what do we really want to see?

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Macintosh System 7 now running on Apple iPhone

“Nostalgic fans of older Mac OS iterations should find comfort in the work of the MacOS iPhone Project, the team who was able to create an iPhone-ready version of Mac OS 7 (Classic), also known as System 7. The software took many weeks to accomplish what the screens below show, but everything from System Properties to MacPaint now works great, according to the team at MacOS iPhone Project,” Softpedia reports.

Softpedia reports, “System 7 was codenamed “Big Bang”, and also referred to as MacOS 7. The single-user GUI-based operating system for Macintosh computers was introduced on May 13, 1991 by Apple Computer. It succeeded System 6, and was the main Macintosh operating system until it was succeeded by Mac OS 8 in 1997. Features added with the System 7 release included cooperative multitasking, virtual memory, personal file sharing, an improved user interface, QuickTime, and QuickDraw 3D.”

Full article, with links and more screenshots, here.

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