Unfortunately for Apple users, all emails prior to that date are unavailable. Here is Apple’s official announcement: “As a first step toward restoring service, we restored web access to a portion of your MobileMe Mail account at 10:00 p.m. PDT, July 25. You can now log into me.com, and use the Mail web application to access all the messages you have received since the July 18 service outage. You can also compose, send, and receive new messages as normal. Please note that this interim solution does not provide access to any email messages received or saved before the outage began on July 18.”

Also as a temporary precaution, Apple doesn’t want anyone changing their MobileMe password, emails, or storage allocation.

After the initial round of criticisms and explanations, Steve Jobs announced that the SDK would be released by the end of February. Unfortunately for Jobs the month of February is short, and that time window is slowly shrinking. A source for Businessweek, has said that Apple will announce a delay for the SDK later this week.

Apple has released no official comment, but according to the BusinessWeek source the delay could last aslong as 1-3 weeks. So everyone looking forward to some cool third party applications for their iPhone is going to have to wait.

*On a side note, Happy Birthday to Steve Jobs. He turned 53 yesterday.

There have been numerous improvements made over the original XSan. Probably the most obvious is their improvement to the user interface. Apple boasts about what functions have been improved, “complex tasks such as expanding a volume, optimally configuring volume settings, or managing file system permissions are now easier and less error prone. SAN components — computers, volumes, and LUNs — are logically presented as assets, and an overview of SAN health is prominently displayed.”

The other massive update for Xsan 2 is the introduction of MultiSan. With MultiSan, different computers will be able to access different XSan volumes simultaneously. Having volumes on different XSan controllers improves performance and reliability.

Another pretty cool feature with XSan is the Spotlight. Spotlight works like a more comprehensive search tool that iTunes uses. Instead of just searching for file names, you can search by actual content inside the files.

The XSan 2 retails for $999.00, but hey atleast the Apple store provides free shipping.

Anyway, “The update is available for Intel and PowerPC-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or 10.4.10,” according to the Mac Observer’s Jeff Gamet, “and includes updates for iChat, CoreAudio, PHP, Quartz Composer, Samba, WebCore, WebKit, and more.”

Gamet goes on to get into the specifics – and there are quite a few details to address – but users might be best off downloading first and asking questions later.

“Mac users will (again) have to find a Windows machine if they want to fill out this year’s tax return online,” reports AppleSource’s Brendon Chase. “The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has stated on its Web site that it is working on a solution for Mac users to fill out their tax online and will trial a possible solution in 2008, with the outlook of it being available in ‘future years’ pending on the success of the trial.”

In the meantime, well . . . at least Australian psychiatrists will benefit from this oversight.

Until Apple fixes a problem with the Safari browser, iPhone users should avoid untrusted web pages or WiFi hotspots. A problem in the way Safari handles certain web traffic could result in the injection of malicious code into the browser:

The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.

“We can get any file we want,” he said. Potentially, he added, the attack could be used to program the phone to make calls, running up large bills or even turning it into a portable bugging device.

Once Black Hat gets underway in Vegas this week, there will be plenty of people at the conference willing to try and drive the iPhone open even farther. Apple has been alerted to the situation, but a patch has not yet been announced.

Via the New York Times

Scott was able to create a digital newsstand that delivers a constant stream of current headlines to his living room, and look extremely cool while doing it.

An iCal alarm wakes the mini each morning and sets in motion an AppleScript which takes some screenshots of various online newspapers (including the Birmingham News, of course), crops them (using GraphicCoverter), then launches a PhotoPresenter slideshow of the pics complete with transitions.

Via Macenstein

But that’s not all – Reg Hardware’s Tony Smith notes that Mac OS X 10.4.10 is “the first palindromic – well, sort of – version number to be applied to its Unix-based operating system.” Yay, palindromes!

Big Nerd Ranch Europe is pleased to announce the next opportunity of learning Mac OS X Programming in the most desired Cocoa training course available: Cocoa Bootcamp with instructor Aaron Hillegass. The intensive five-day training taught at the retreat environment of Kloster Eberbach near Frankfurt, Germany is scheduled for August 6-10, 2007.

The five-day class provides the most comprehensive training available for Cocoa developers. The class covers a spectrum of topics, from lessons building on Cocoa fundamentals to more advanced topics that create a well-rounded Cocoa programmer. “As Apple’s market share continues to increase, the demand for Cocoa programming skills is growing” commented Aaron Hillegass, founder of the Big Nerd Ranch, on the explosive demand for Cocoa training.

The course requires no previous experience in coding with Cocoa but students attending the bootcamp should be familiar with an object-oriented language like Java or C++. The primary text for the class is “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X” by Aaron Hillegass, the course instructor. The class is taught on the latest releases of Mac OS X and Xcode with extensive attention given to Core Data.

After class, novice students will understand the design patterns used in Cocoa and emerge fully skilled in the ability to develop complex applications for Mac OS X. Key topics include, but are not limited to:

- Mastering the Objective-C language

- Using design patterns, like Model-View-Controller, delegation, target/action, categories, and notifications

- Using Core Data, including advanced features like unsupported data types, inheritance, and validation

- Mastering Cocoa bindings

- Making your custom view deal with mouse and keyboard events, drag and drop, images, and the open panel

- Handling custom drawing, printing and pagination

- Discovering Nib Files and localization for the global market place

- Creating 3-D views with OpenGL and reusable frameworks

More at the website.