Over the last few weeks I have been visiting the Apple website as I have been considering buy the new iPhone 4 when it is release later this week. After many attempts I have noticed that loading  most pages on the Apple website load extremely slow, to the point where it doesn’t ever finish loading the page.

After investigating this issue I discovered that if I turned off my anti virus, Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, the site would run fine. After taking my questions to Google I found it has to do with Apple using third parties to host images and some of those third party solutions use some incorrect code. A Kaspersky representative had this to say about the issue on the Kaspersky forums:

We have analyzed problem with apple.com WEB-resources.
Apple use third part CDN for content delivery.

It’s Akamai Accelerated Networks
(http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html)

Some Akamai’s proxy servers roughly violate the http-standard for output content.
Substantially for the USA customers.

Appropriated fixes have been made and will be accessible in the next path/CF for KAV/KIS 2011

It looks like updates will be pushed out soon to fix this problem but in the meantime you can fix it yourself by adding apple.com to your list of exceptions.

Check out this great how to from Kaspersky here: http://www.kaspersky.com/support/kis2011/all?page=14&qid=208282422

Steve Jobs has announced that the iPhone 4 will be released in Australia and 16 other countries on the 30th of July 2010. Apple made the announcement during a small press conference they called after the several weeks of bad publicity about the antenna problems.

Virgin have now put up a iPhone 4 register of interest form on their site. They now are the 4th carrier in Australia to confirm that they will be selling the new phone. View the “coming soon” page here: http://www.virginmobile.com.au/iphone/?i_cid=100506333.

Today I sold my iPhone 3G on Ebay. Before I went to send it off I wanted to erase all my settings and content. I used the feature called “reset all content and settings” which is found in the settings. It notified me that it may take up to two hours to do this so I left if for awhile. After 4 fours of constant restarting I started to this something wasn’t right.

After search for a problem I came across a way to fix this problem and restore the iPhone. The following fix it thanks to Vitaliy Isikov.

1. Plug your phone into your computer and have iTunes running.
2. Hold down both the home and power buttons until the phone reboots and the screen is completely blank.
3. Let go of the power button and keep holding the home button until you see iTunes has recognized your phone in restore mode.
4. Restore your iPhone

Let me know if it worked for you in the comments!

Apple has announced the 4th generation iPhone today. It sports a front facing camera for video calling, an upgraded 5 megapixel camera for high quality photos and HD video. The phone features the new iOS 4 operating system which has the following new features: Multitasking, Folders, iBooks, 5x digital zoom, customisable wallpaper, spell checking and wireless keyboard support.

During Steve Job’s presentation the quality of the build of the phone was emphasized, with Apple using special glass and plastics. They also packed the insides tight so they could fit a larger battery and increase battery life.

Power and battery²

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
• Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter

• Talk time:

  up to 7 hours on 3G

  up to 12 hours on 2G

• Standby time: up to 300 hours
• 

  Internet use:

  up to 6 hours on 3G

  up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi

• Video playback: up to 10 hours
• Audio playback: up to 40 hours

Full specs can be found here: http://www.apple.com/au/iphone/specs.html.