Apple have released an EFI firmware update for their Intel Mac Pros, which:

This update fixes several issues to improve the stability of Mac Pro (Early 2008) computers.

To complete the firmware update process, please follow the instructions in the updater application (/Applications/Utilities/Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update.app). The updater will launch automatically when the Installer closes.

The update can be installed through Software Update, or downloaded from here.

Bank of America financial analyst Scott Craig has cited channel investigations which show an iPhone capable of faster, third-generation cellular Internet access as showing that iPhone 2 will be showing up in small numbers in May, with production increasing from then. That, he says, implies a launch announcement in the calendar second quarter.

Given that so far, the only rumours we seem to be getting about the 3G iPhone are coming from banks and the financial quarters, I’m not going to believe anything until I see something with an Apple logo stamped on it!

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It’s human nature to be inquisitive, and being just that meant iPhoneAlleyhas discovered that the upcoming firmware update for the iPhone may just include .mac syncing.

After some digging around, they found some code saying:

“Syncing with this Dot Mac account will turn off syncing for other Dot Mac accounts and delete any existing synced data.”

This isn’t there in other versions of the software, so it is definitely something from the version released with the SDK. They didn’t find anything else of note, but if anyone has, be sure to let us know !

Every time I make a call, I get a message pop up telling me that I have active diverts. I have to cancel the message before I can do anything else, which is silly beyond belief. I have, however, got a solution!

Fire up ye olde Installer, and add this to your sources: http://www.sendowski.de/iphone.

Once everything’s all nice and refreshed, you should have ForwardMSGfix available to download. Do that, and say goodbye to the message that’s annoyed you oh so much!

Does this happen on any other carriers, or in other countries? Let us know and I’ll list them in the post.

Whilst on my blog-related travels, I’ve come across this little Time Machine tip. MacApper’s Frazer Drew has posted his idea for a cleaner Dock. Delete the Time Machine icon, and put it directly in Finder !

This is all very well and good, but personally I just delete the icon from the Dock, and use the icon that 10.5.2 puts in the taskbar instead, If for some crazy reason you’re not all updated though, this is certainly a nice way to tidy up a Dock that can get all too cluttered so easily.

The guys from Cupertino are advertising for a ‘Handwriting Recognition Engineer’, with a view to writing code for OS X and possibly the iPhone.

Back in 1993, Apple was one of the firs to use handwriting recognition, when it released the Apple Newton. Could they be heading in that direction once again, 15 years later? We shall see.

Not too long after the release of 10.5.2, Apple has sent the 10.5.3 update to testers.

Amongst the apps and utils expected to benefit from bug fixes and improvements are AddressBook, AppleScript, Audio, Back To My Mac, Dashboard, the Dock, DVD Player, Finder, Graphics, iCal, Mail, Portable Home Directories, Printing, Rosetta, Spaces, Spotlight and Time Machine.

The expected release date for this update is sometime in April or May, so keep your eyes peeled.

In a show of collective geekyness, the PWN 2 OWN contest was won by famed iPhone hacker Charlie Miller.

He managed to seize control of a Macbook Air using a web site he built, so presumably using some kind of Safari exploit. Mr Miller now takes home a free laptop and $10,000 in price money, which can’t be bad !

I wish I’d entered now, I can do it in 1min55s *

*honest.

Ken fisher over on Ars technica has apparently heard back from Apple on the dubious legality of Safari on Windows (the original post is here)

The Cupertino outfit has admitted that it was indeed an oversight in the legal mumbo-jumbo, and it has already been corrected.

I’m sure that’s a huge relief for the literally tens of people running Safari on Windows around the globe.

Police have arrested two Apple employees, who thought it would be a good idea to steal 332 iPhones from the company and sell them on themselves. I mean, no-one’s going to miss over 300 iPhones are they!?! The investigation took Police in Salem, NH 3 months, and resulted in the arrest of the 22 and 23 year old men.

The loot had a total value of nearly $150,000, and there doesn’t appear to have been any official word from the company about the ‘bad apples’ within their company.