Apple has announced that this year’s iTunes Festival will take place between the 1st and the 30th of September, at the Roundhouse in North London. Over 60 artists will perform over 30 consecutive nights at the event, which has been held each year since 2007, and all tickets are free – you just need to apply online to win them.
Earlier this week, Sony Pictures confirmed that Aaron Sorkin, the writer famous for his work on The Social Network, A Few Good Men, and the The West Wing, would be one of the screenwriter’s behind the company’s upcoming Steve Jobs movie. To help him do that, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been recruited as an advisor, and Sorkin promises this won’t be a “cradle-to-grave” biopic.
As a number of rumors have claimed in recent months, Aaron Sorkin – the writer famous for his work on The Social Network, A Few Good Men, and the The West Wing – will be one of the screenwriters behind Sony Pictures’ upcoming Steve Jobs biopic.
Apple has finally released an update for OS X 10.5 Leopard which tackles the much-publicised Flashback malware. Weighing in at 1.23MB, Flashback Removal Security Update removes the most common variants of the malware from infected systems and disables Safari’s Java web plug-in for increased security.
It would appear that Apple are planning to add web versions of Notes and Reminders to iCloud.com. Earlier today a beta version of the site was discovered at beta.icloud.com, featuring icons for the two applications alongside the existing ones for Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Find My iPhone, and iWork.
Rovio is a game development studio based in Finland that is famous for the incredibly popular Angry Birds series. Earlier this week, it announced that its physics-based puzzler had amassed over 1 billion downloads on all platforms, but it isn’t about to rest of its laurels. Rovio is developing a new game called Amazing Alex that’s coming soon.
Apple has just released OS X Lion 10.7.4 via Software Update. The update, which is recommended for all users, fixes a bug in OS X 10.7.3 that caused login passwords to be stored in plain text log files, that could be accessed by other system users.
Since the App Store opened its doors back in 2008, it has spawned a new generation of mobile gaming that is unparalleled on any other device. The store is now home to nearly 800,000 titles, one of the most successful of which is undoubtedly Angry Birds, which just surpassed 1 billion downloads.
If you visit technology blogs – particularly those dedicated to Apple – on a regular basis, you’ve probably already heard about the innovative text editing concept designed for the iPad by Daniel Chase Hooper, which has been circulating since late last week. It has been so popular that it has already been turned into a jailbreak tweak, and now it’s coming to the App Store.