Yes, you read it right. The iPhone SDK ist not just for Developers who want to develop native iPhone applications. It’s also for Web Developers who want to take the capabilities of the SDK to write code for their web apps. Apple did a fine work here enhancing Dashcode, the Environment for programming Dashboard Widgets on Mac OS X, with a new feature to directly build your web apps in Dashcode. In Conjunction with the iPhone Simulator you now can, preview, debug, optimize and build your web applications all in Dashcode. Apple also put online an introduction video into iTunes (note: you must have an ADC membership account) which describes new technologies like advanced JavaScript functions, native SVG support, CSS effects, offline data support, full screen mode and gesture events.

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Today, Apple held a conference in where Apple CEO Steve Jobs among others talked about new enterprise features for the iPhone such as full Microsoft Exchange integration, Push Mail, Push Contacts, More VPN procotols and others. Also, they talked about the new iPhone SDK that is released today and is free for download.

The SDK is available from today and is aimed at developers to develop applications for the iPhone. Apple will release a new firmware version 2.0 for their mobile phone via Software Update in June including the App Store, where developers can distribute their apps and customers can than buy them.

Enterprises can apply for a beta program, where they can try out a new beta firmware already including the above mentioned enterprise features.I am sure, there will be some great applications for the iPhone released. Gonna wait and see.

Do you like Flickr? And do you like to upload your tons of pictures to Flickr directly within iPhoto? And you don’t want to spend much money on it? Dustin Li put up a new iPhoto plugin called Free Flickr eXporter for iPhoto. And, you guessed it, it’s free. It supports tags, descriptions, title and sets. What you need in favor to use it is Mac OS X 10.4+, iPhoto ‘08 and of course a Flickr account.

Download it here.

Thanks to TUAW for the notice.

Ready for a possibly redesigned Macbook Pro? Then you have to see this mockup from spicu as seen above. Spicu claims a new one because of the Macbooks already 5 year old design and tells us to wait until the rumored special Apple event later this month. Due this happening, spicu gives us a mockup of a possible newish Macbook.

Source: spicu

Now official it seems, as seen on Apple’s Job Opportunities page. Switzerland gets their first Apple Stores situated in Zurich and Geneva. As I already read about it in an article in the swiss daily journal Tages-Anzeiger on 16th January and on macnews.de and macprime.ch, I am very happy now, that the is going to happen.

Source: apfelblog.ch

The Macbook Air should be in stores in the next few days, so why not post some parodies for the sake of the Macbook Air. Watch after the break.

Now in its 6th iteration, Greenpeace released their ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’ showing the top 18 electronics companies ranked after its policies regarding toxic chemicals and recycling. Interesting here is Nintendo at the very last point and Sony Ericsson and Samsung ranked at the top.

Source: Engadget

Swiss blog “apfelblog“ is claiming the iPhone is coming to Switzerland on 29th of February 2008 and it’s carrier to be Swisscom. The release goes with an updated iPhone version 2.0 with UMTS (HSDPA??), GPS and an upgraded NAND memory to up to 16GB and 32GB.

My thought: The release date could be true, the rest is part of the great Apple rumor mill.

Source: apfelblog.ch

There must be something in the air, but after reading at least four (!) rumor threads today, I thought of giving a little summary. Now, here it goes:

• New video iPods with wide touchscreen and higher capacities due out this August

 

• New ultra slim MacBook Pro with 12 inch wide screen and a thickness of 0.6 to 07 inches and a weight less than 3lbs

 

• New generation iMac with slimmer body and a new type of keyboard

 

• New iPhone nano due out in last quarter / new business centric iPhone

 

Well, well, well. Rumors come, rumors go. As it’s always the same, don’t get your hopes up high. We just know for sure, when the thing’s released for real.

On Monday, Apple released a beta of it’s upcoming Internet browser Safari for Windows. Just over one million people downloaded the new browser for the Microsoft Windows XP and Vista platforms within the first 48 houres after the release. You can download the new webbrowser here.