Arnold Kim
Arnold is the Editorial Director of MacRumors and founded the site in February, 2000.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold Kim's Articles
Rumor Wrapup: iMac, Keyboard, iWork, iLife. iPod Details? [Updated]
With yesterday's product releases, we've seen the conclusion to several long running rumors.
iMac
We first heard of new iMac designs back in March of this year with Appleinsider claiming that iMacs would see "striking new industrial designs".
Meanwhile, we heard of possible "brushed aluminum" iMacs in June with initial predictions by ThinkSecret and 9to5mac suggesting a WWDC release....
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iTunes UK Movies and TV Soon?
Arstechnica reports that according to "trusted sources", Apple plans on introducing Movies and TV shows for iTunes UK in a matter of weeks.
According to Ars, everything is set up and ready to go and is "just a matter of flipping the switch".
No details on which shows or movies...
Mac Pro PCI RAID Card Available
Apple introduced a new built-to-order option for the Mac Pro... a PCI RAID card. The Mac Pro RAID card offers improved performance and data protection to your Mac Pro system -- up to 304MB/s of sequential read performance in RAID 0. Ideal for video and creative professionals with demanding storage needs as well as for tower server applications, this hardware RAID option supports RAID levels 0, 1,...
August 7th Updates: iMacs, iLife '08, iWork '08, Mac Mini (Keynote Video)
Apple introduced quite a few updates today, so we summarized them here to make sure you didn't miss any of them:
iMacs - brushed metal, with thin keyboard, up to 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme Processor. (unboxing, more unboxing)
iLife '08 - completely new iMovie and updated iApps (video tour)
iWork '08 - updated Keynote, Pages and new spreadsheet called Numbers. Downloadable demo available.
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Musika: Interactive Visualizer Game for iPod
Sony BMG released a unique iPod Game tonight called musika (iTunes link): Your music, your game! musika is a groundbreaking music visualizer game for your iPod that taps into your song library to create original game play. Characters appear on screen with a wide variety of visual effects. If you see a character that's in the song title, hit the center button. Faster reactions will earn you...
iPhone Alternative: Helio Ocean
While we await "media" coverage for Apple's announcement today, here's another option to explore...
With all the iPhone hype, there's been some notable criticisms and limitations, and if you are on the fence, there is at least one interesting alternative.
Helio.com offers an interesting phone called Ocean which they describe as "The ultimate mobile machine".
The Ocean offers a...
NES Emulator for iPhone
Now we're getting somewhere. A native NES Emulator for the iPhone has been released.
A Youtube video demonstrating the application is available. Appears a little slow at the moment, but certainly functional.
According to the release notes: "Presently there is no sound, and the emulator is a little slow (most likely due to the way I'm drawing onto the screen). And the control is a...
Live Coverage of the Apple Media Event (August 7, 2007)
The following sites will be providing live text (and in some instances, photo) coverage of the Apple Media Event.
Gizmodo
Engadget
SlashGear
MacObserver
Stuff.TV
MacNN
Macworld
The presentation begins at 10 AM Pacific or 1 PM Eastern (converter).
Apple is widely expected to release new iMacs at this Mac-focused event. Other less certain possibilities include iWork '08 with...
iWork '08 with Spreadsheet?
9to5mac believes that iWork '08 will be arriving tomorrow which includes the long awaited Spreadsheet application.
Apple has reportedly been working on a spreadsheet application for some...
iMac with Touchscreen?
An Italian blog claims that the a Google adwords advertisement lists "New iMac with touchscreen" pointing to Apple's website. The ad copy also describes 24"-28" iMac screen sizes.
None of our readers have seen the ad, and the authenticity of the image is in...
New iMacs on Tuesday? Starting at $1199?
Apple is hosting a Media Event on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 for a Mac-focused announcement. There have been long running rumors about potential iMac updates. The Apple iMac was last updated 334 days ago in September 2006.
We've received word that price points for the new "Good", "Better", and "Ultra" iMac models will fall at $1199, $1499, and $1799 price points. No details beyond this are...
Weekly iPhone Games from MyiPhone.pl
Arek Młynarczyk and Sebastian Pietrzak have relaunched MyiPhone.pl as an iPhone game portal with a new game launch every week. This week they've launched Mastermind described as a "famous board game".
Młynarczyk is the programmer behind iPhone Sudoko as well as Bejeweled (formerly Diamenty).
The next game is due on August 13,...
.Mac Update Coming at August 7th Media Event?
Apple's .Mac site warns users that the .Mac service will be undergoing maintenance on August 7th between 10 AM an 12 PM PDT. Due to scheduled maintenance, .Mac members might be intermittently unable to access some .Mac services from 10 AM to 12 PM PDT on 08/07/2007. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Coincidentally, this time corresponds exactly to Apple's Media Event which is scheduled to take...
id Software's Rage
Gamespy provides details and video of John Carmack's presentation at QuakeCon announcing a new game called "Rage".
Rage is a first person perspective game which is a bit of a different direction from their previous titles (Wolf, Doom and Quake). According to Carmack, gameplay-wise, Rage is going to be 50% "run-and-gun" but also with a significant amount of driving action and an adventure...
Flash Based Video iPod in September?
Digitimes reports that Apple is said to be unveiling a 16GB NAND Flash-based iPod video in late September, according to sources at Taiwan-based component makers. The new iPod video will use NAND flash as the major storage media, and will have a storage density of 16GB, according to the sources.
This could be consistent with recent rumors which point to a revised iPod nano with video playback...
John Carmack (id Software) on the iPhone
As noted by iPhoneAlley, Gamasutra has notes from John Carmack about the iPhone.
Specifically, Carmack stated that he specifically argued with Steve Jobs that the iPhone should be an open development platform. Regardless, "Carmack thinks the iPhone is "neat," and has assigned some of his people to look into developing for...
Gallery of Leopard 9A499 Images
WorldofApple has posted an extensive gallery of screenshots from Apple's latest Leopard (9A499) build that was seeded to developers in late July.
They detail visual enhancements that have been detailed before but along with an extensive gallery of images of Apple's upcoming operating system.
Apple has announced that Leopard will be...
Pre Event Fakes: 6G iPod, iMac
The usual crop of fakes have been circulating pre-Apple event. On August 7th, Apple is holding a media event focused on Macs.
Here are two images that have been submitted and are almost certainly fakes:
link (confirmed fake)
link ...
Share your iPhone Story
Apple is asking for your iPhone stories. If you own an iPhone, wed love to hear how its changed your life, or your favorite story about using it. Call and leave a voicemail with your story at 1-800-764-9941, or write us. Were all ears.
In the past, Apple has collected similar Mac stories for publication on their...
iPhone Mobile Terminal App
iPhone hacking efforts have started to bring some rudimentary tools for developers to create their own applications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the process of developing applications or even installing 3rd party applications remains cumbersome to most casual users.
One example application circulating today is Mobile Terminal (video) which allows you to have shell access on your iPhone.
A ...
