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• ARES, ARES Commander promise cross-platform CAD

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am

  Germany's Graebert has formally announced ARES, a new CAD tool. The software is touted mainly as cross-platform, able to run natively on Windows, Mac and Linux systems. Mobile versions are planned for Android, Windows Mobile and the iPad....

• Norwegian shops overwhelmed by iPad pre-orders

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:50 am

  Apple is facing the rare incident of an advance sellout this week as a number of Norwegian resellers have had to stop their pre-order programs for the iPad. Eplehuset (Apple House) has told its customers that "crazy interest" has led it to stop sales in advance. Fellow Apple reseller Humac has also quietly pulled the iPad, as it still has a category but no longer has active product pages....

• Apple acknowledging, investigating Mac Pro problems?

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am

  Apple has recognized and is now probing a critical problem affecting the Mac Pro, sources claim. Some Nehalem-based systems have experienced massive increases in CPU power consumption while playing audio, which are worsened by leaps in heat levels, and performance drops as high as 20 percent. In spite of these changes, the CPU usage does not register in Activity Monitor, and fans fail to kick in at proper levels....

• TI makes single chip with Bluetooth, FM, GPS and Wi-Fi

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Texas Instruments this morning brought out the WiLink 7, a design it says is the first to include four types of wireless on a single chip. It combines Bluetooth, an FM transceiver, GPS and 802.11n Wi-Fi into a single design and lets phone designers cut down on the size and energy needed. The creator estimates that it takes up half as much space as a normal multi-chip approach but also 30 percent less power....

• MobileNavigator 1.5.0 adds MyRoutes, 3D terrain

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:35 am

  NAVIGON has released MobileNavigator 1.5.0, described as a "significant" update to the company's turn-by-turn app for the iPhone. The principal upgrade is the addition of MyRoutes, which creates custom path choices for a destination. Up to three options are presented, with accompanying distance and ETA information. The routes are calculated based on driving habits, as well as day and time....

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• Special Guest Blog Post: Making connections with Office for Mac

  Marshall Nam

  4 Feb 2010 | 4:02 pm

  We’ve got a special guest blog post from a Tristan, a Microsoft Student Partner who’ll be joining us at MacWorld booth this year. We’re excited to have him helping us out this year, so I've asked him to introduce himself to our blog readers before we head to SF. - Marshall   Hello Mac Mojo Readers! My name is Tristan Gibeau. I’m a graduate student in computer engineering at the University of Central Florida and a Microsoft Student Partner and happy to be a guest blogger on Mac Mojo.  As a Mac user, I have people ask me, “Tristan, why did you buy a…

• Find out how Office for Mac Loves You—and maybe get a new MacBook Pro too!

  Mac Mojo Team

  31 Jan 2010 | 11:01 am

  In advance of Macworld (and just in time for Valentine’s Day), the MacBU has put together a little something to open the lines of communication with Office for Mac users through popular social media channels—not to mention giving away custom-color, 2.53 GHz MacBook Pros through twitter!   While we've been listening to you here on the blog and elsewhere, we're now eager to participate in the conversations that are happening on twitter and facebook. We will continue to find better ways to provide useful content here…

• 2009 in Review

  Eric Wilfrid

  22 Dec 2009 | 1:12 pm

   As 2009 draws to a close, I’d like to take some time to reflect on the year here in the MacBU. It’s been a big year for Office 2008, with several significant updates that make your work easier. In 2009, we also got to look forward, sharing the first news with our community about the next major version we have coming down the pipe. In fact, I’m using that version right now, writing this post in a “dogfood” version of Word for Mac - being in the “dogfood” phase means that my team and I use the new Office to get our day-to-day work done. In doing…

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• Does the iPhone OS Need Multitasking?

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pm

  A continuing complaint about the iPhone OS has been that Apple doesn't allow multitasking, a staple of the Mac OS since System 5 first added MultiFinder in 1988. Apple's stance is that allowing apps to run in the background would significantly hurt performance and battery life, but in iPhone OS 3.0, Apple added push notification, which addressed some - but by no means all - of the desires of those who were asking for multitasking. For the most part, requests for multitasking capabilities had died down to a dull roar since the release of iPhone OS 3.0 and its push notifications. It wasn't that…

• TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 8 February 2010

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:48 am

  FontExplorer X Pro 2.5 -- Linotype has released a major update to its professional font management tool FontExplorer Pro. The user interface has been updated and streamlined, a new widescreen mode enables the user to set the Preview area off to the right, a new transparency mode can be used to overlay and preview fonts in a working document, and printing is now enabled. Also, users can now tag their fonts for easier organization. Finally, several bugs related to the Apple font panel have been resolved, support for Adobe InDesign CS3 and CS4 has been improved, and various unspecified crashing…

• ExtraBITS for 8 February 2010

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:40 am

  Not surprisingly, our focus this week was on the iPad, with links to a podcast with Adam, Tonya, and Andy Ihnatko; an interesting article from Macworld's Chris Breen suggesting how the iPad will be used in everyday scenarios; and the news that Amazon is looking to add touch capabilities to the Kindle. Plus, AT&T is relaxing its limitations on what can be transferred over 3G, and will be allowing both streaming video and voice-over-IP calls. Finally, Apple has added iPhone apps to the iTunes Preview Web site, a security firm has identified a theoretical vulnerability in the iPhone OS, and it…

• External Link: Adam, Tonya, and Andy Ihnatko Discuss the iPad, Amazon, and Ebooks

  5 Feb 2010 | 1:56 pm

  In this two-part MacNotables podcast, Adam, Tonya, and the inimitable Andy Ihnatko joined host Chuck Joiner to discuss the dust-up between Amazon and Macmillan. They segued from there into a discussion of the Kindle, the ebook market, and the iPad in general. Well worth putting on your iPod for the evening commute. Read and post comments about this article | Tweet this article Macworld 2010: February 9th-13th, 2010 in San FranciscoA five-day celebration that will educate, entertain, andimmerse you in the Mac community.Register today! <http://tinyurl.com/ycegpfb>   Copyright…

• New Ebooks Aid Remote Support, Collaboration, and Administration

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:42 am

  Do you use screen sharing? We do, all the time. As an editor, I use screen sharing to collaborate with my authors, since it's convenient to discuss the same document in real time, even if the people having the discussion are on different continents. It's also a great teaching and tech support tool that lets me control an author's Mac and show what I'm doing while I explain some odd behavior in Microsoft Word. But the king of remote control is Glenn Fleishman, who uses screen sharing for these and many other tasks, including remote server administration. Glenn's enthusiasm for the topic has…

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• iHat revealed?

  macinquirer@gmail.com

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  Steve Jobs is really rockin’ the hat thing lately. So much so, he’s thrown his considerable tech influence behind the idea of a web/email/multimedia center you wear on your head -- literally. From some really obscure French Mac site that gets one right occasionally, here’s an early prototype of the splash page for...the iHat. (Click the image for a larger view.)(Okay okay, we know. Bear with us. One or two more should be enough to get this hat thing out of our system.)

• Dotcomic: Say hello to iHat

  macinquirer@gmail.com

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:58 am

  Music: "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" by Bob Dylan

• Beauties & The Beasts

  macinquirer@gmail.com

  6 Feb 2010 | 6:58 pm

  Two rather surprising pieces of seemingly unrelated news broke in the past couple of weeks:Apple, Microsoft discuss giving Bing top billing on iPhoneKristin Bell and Dax Shepard engagedNow that’s a pair of truly odd couples: Ballmer’s Google-Killer getting prime real estate on the iPhone? The wholesome beauty who played Sarah Marshall engaged to Frito from “Idiocracy?” This could be a brilliant celebrity branding opportunity:As the old Chinese proverb goes, we’re living in interesting times.

• Jobs Hat Pic II: Electric Boogaloo

  macinquirer@gmail.com

  6 Feb 2010 | 6:27 pm

  Our source at the New York Times has shared another pic with us that goes a long way toward explaining the whole “Steve in a top hat” thing. Apparently, Jobs plugged the iPad in a literal song-and-dance number with Apple Hardware VP Bob Mansfield. It looked something like this: So maybe Steve isn’t as stressed out as first reports indicated. If any NYT’ers got video of the presentation, we’d love to see it.

• Jobs' "funny" NY hat revealed

  macinquirer@gmail.com

  6 Feb 2010 | 5:40 pm

  Steve Jobs took the iPad road show to the Big Apple this week, where he met with various mucky-mucks at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to discuss bringing their content to the Device That Will Change Everything. Normally, an item like that would be ho-hummed by the MacInquirer staff, but one of the key sources for the story provided a bizarre detail that quickly piqued our curiousity: New York magazine reports that Jobs met with the Times folks wearing what they describe as “a very funny hat -- a big top hat kind of thing.”Okay -- NOW we’re interested.We texted a…

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• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 7. It needs cameras

  danieleran

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:17 pm

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment seven in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad doesn’t need a camera for video conferencing. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It [...]

• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 6. It needs HDMI for HD video output

  danieleran

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment six in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad doesn’t need an HDMI 720p HDTV output. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It [...]

• Eccentric but effective Steve Jobs pitches iPad to NYT execs

  danieleran

  4 Feb 2010 | 1:26 pm

  Prince McLean, AppleInsider Apple booked a quiet dinner reception for fifty executives at the New York Times, but the VIP guest ended up being Steve Jobs. Eccentric but effective Steve Jobs pitches iPad to NYT execs . The gathering, as reported by New York magazine, was booked at Pranna, a cellar basement restaurant featuring a southeast Asian menu. The [...]

• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 5. It’s just a Tablet PC or Kindle

  danieleran

  4 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment five in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad isn’t just a Microsoft Tablet PC or Amazon Kindle copycat. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s [...]

• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It was over-hyped and under-delivered

  danieleran

  3 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment four in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad wasn’t over-hyped and then under-delivered. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It was over-hyped [...]

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• SDK devsugar: Re-signing applications

  Erica Sadun

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am

  Filed under: AppleTUAW's devsugar series helps introduce developers to tools and tricks that they might not yet be familiar with. Today's tip centers on signing already-compiled and already-signed applications with a new custom signature. A while back, I posted about a way to sign already-compiled applications with your personal credentials in order to better allow developer-to-developer distribution. By re-signing an application, it allows you to install it on any of the devices you have registered to your account at Apple without having to go through the fuss and bother of normal ad-hoc…

• Apple ships latest version of Aperture for photo professionals

  Mel Martin

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Software UpdateIt certainly caused a lot of excitement when the Apple web store went down this morning. No, it wasn't an updated MacBook Pro line but Aperture 3, Apple's high-end photo editing and image management software. The latest version is U.S. $199.00, and upgrades are available for any existing Aperture users for $99.00. Apple says Aperture 3 has "more than 200 new features", including Faces and Places, brought over from iPhoto '09. There is an enhanced tool called Brushes, which allows photographers to paint adjustments and filters directly onto…

• The Apple Store is back online

  Mike Schramm

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:24 am

  Filed under: Apple Yes, as expected, the Apple Store is down for the morning, presumably to update us with brand new MacBook Pros and whatever else Apple has cooked up for a release. We'll keep an eye on the website along with you readers, and when we see what's been updated, we'll let you know. Do be patient -- as many of us are traveling to Macworld today, we might actually be on the roads and/or in the air when it happens, but we'll update as soon as we can. Stay tuned. Update: It's back up, and it appears the new hotness is... Aperture 3. Thanks to all who sent this in!TUAWThe Apple Store…

• TUAW Giveaway: Win a BearExtender n3

  David Winograd

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  Filed under: Accessories, Hardware Last month, we highly recommended the BearExtender n3 [US $44.97] as a great way to extend a Wi-Fi network to reach those pesky dead spots. In my testing, I found that it's possible to get around three times as much range as from an Airport device. Now the nice people at Rokland Technologies have given us five units to give to you. If you're having weak signal problems, you want one of these. I bought the unit they sent me to review and have been overjoyed and amazed at it performing exactly as advertised. The details of the giveaway are as follows: Open to…

• Navigon adds some unique features to GPS app

  Mel Martin

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am

  Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touchNavigon has been very aggressive about keeping its highly rated MobileNavigator app [iTunes link] up to date. Now, new features are putting it even further ahead of a lot of the competition. The update adds three innovative features: in-app connection to Facebook and Twitter, Panorama View 3D with 3D terrain views powered from NASA data, and personalized route delivery via NAVIGON MyRoutes, an intelligent direction provider. For Facebook and Twitter connectivity, a simple icon tap posts the user's current position, destination, and ETA…

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• Music Labels See Slower iTunes Sales Growth in Wake of Price Increases

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am

  MediaMemo notes that Warner Music Group has reported seeing slower sales growth via Apple's iTunes Store since the introduction of variable pricing last year.Warner Music Group (WMG) said this morning that it has seen unit sales grow...

• Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Faces and Places Tagging Features

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:49 am

  Apple today announced the release of Aperture 3, adding over 200 new features to the company's professional photo editing and management application. The updated version includes the Faces and Places tagging features introduced in iPhoto las...

• Apple Job Posting Suggests Video Recording Coming to Future iPad Models

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:41 pm

  A new job posting on Apple's site suggests that the company is preparing to add still and video camera capabilities to its iPad tablet device in the future. The position is for a quality assurance engineer in the Media Systems division of Apple's br...

• Current MacBook Pro Models Deleted From Best Buy's Inventory System? Updates Imminent?

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:08 pm

  Yesterday, a poster in our forums claiming to be a Best Buy employee reported that the company's internal inventory system had been updated to show that all MacBook Pro models had been "deleted", preventing Best Buy stores from ordering any new units...

• Claimed Fourth-Generation iPhone Parts Surface Revealing Taller Form Factor

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:31 am

  iPhone 3GS on left, claimed fourth-generation iPhone on right iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it claims are parts for the fourth-generation iPhone presumably due for launch later this year. Among the most notable fe...

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• Neo Nectaris strategy game arrives on the iPhone

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:51 pm

  Hudson's nifty turn-based strategy game, Military Madness, enjoyed a revival on Xbox Live last year with Nectaris. Now it's spreading the love to iPhones with Military Madness: Neo Nectaris.

• iHound aims to help you find your missing iPhone

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:31 pm

  At this week's Macworld Expo, iHound Software will hand out stickers aimed at aiding people who find lost iPhones to reunite them with their owners. And for the month of February, iHound has dropped the price on its iPhone app.

• Report: Google to make Gmail more social

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:22 pm

  Google will add social features to Gmail, according to the Wall Street Journal.

• Review: McSweeney's for iPhone

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:07 pm

  A $6 app that provides pieces of random fiction may not be for everyone. But McSweeney's delivers great content in a simple, classy interface.

• Adobe apologizes for 16-month-old Flash bug

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:44 pm

  Adobe apologized over the weekend for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported.

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• 'Fighting Fantasy' and 'Gamebook Adventures' – Two High Quality Interactive Adventure Books

  Eli Hodapp

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  In 1941, Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges published the first book featuring decisions the reader could make to change the way the story ended through two different branching points that asked readers to flip to a particular page depending on which option they choose. Several other early game books were released over the years, but it wasn't until the late-70's that the genre exploded with several different series of varying complexity– The most popular of which was undoubtedly Choose Your Own Adventure with over 200 titles that were almost always checked out of my local…

• TouchArcade at Macworld 2010, GDC 2010 and PAX East

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  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off this week and TouchArcade will be in attendance. If you are a developer and want to meet up to show us your games, feel free to contact us at tips@toucharcade.com. We will also be attending GDC 2010 from March 9-13, 2010 also in San Francisco, CA and PAX East 2010 from March 26th-28th in Boston, MA. Feel free to start contacting us (email) to meet at those events as well. We welcome all developers to reach out and get in touch. If you have nothing specific to show, we'll also be around at the various organized social events and can be contacted via Twitter…

• 'Doom II RPG' Gameplay Footage

  Eli Hodapp

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  Id's Doom II RPG [$3.99] was released yesterday, and so far has had an overwhelmingly positive reception in our forums. Much like Wolfenstein RPG [$1.99], Doom II RPG is a turn-based 3D game chock full of crazy humor, items to loot, and enemies to slay. Here is some gameplay footage of the first few moments of the game: We're still powering through the game for our full review, but right now, it's safe to say if you like silly turn based RPG's, Doom II RPG is a worthy purchase. App Store Link: Doom II RPG, $3.99

• 'Myst' Sequel 'Riven' Coming Soon

  Eli Hodapp

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:13 am

  According to a post on the Myst Online forums, an iPhone port of Riven, the sequel to Myst [App Store], should be available "by early summer at the latest." Myst is a point and click adventure puzzle game first published for the Mac in 1993. Loaded on a CD-ROM, Myst was absolutely revolutionary at the time. We enjoyed the iPhone port in our review, and there's not much reason to think that Riven wouldn't translate to the iPhone just as well. Riven is set immediately following the events that transpired in Myst and the plot is hard to describe without revealing some…

• 'Giana Sisters' 2D Platformer Arrives, First Impressions

  Windburn

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:03 pm

  The Great Giana Sisters, as it was originally known, has an interesting and cheeky history, being pulled off the shelves as soon as it first went on sale in 1987 for the Amiga, Atari and Commodore 64, due to its incredible likeness to Super Mario Bros on the NES– henceforth cementing it as a highly sought collectors item. Many years down the track, it was re-imagined on the Nintendo DS in 2009, a port of which has now made its way to the iPhone as Armin Gessert's Giana Sisters [App Store], named after the C64 version's original programmer. Having just played through the first…

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• Aperture 3 adds Faces, Places, and improved local adjustment

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:23 am

  After a long wait, Apple has released the next major update to its pro-class photo workflow application, Aperture 3. The new version boasts over 200 new features, including the addition of the successful facial recognition and geotagging features, Faces and Places, that were introduced with iPhoto '09. Version 3 also adds edge-detecting adjustment brushes for non-destructive localized editing and touch-ups. Along with numerous UI and performance improvements, Aperture 3 adds full 64-bit support on supported systems running Snow Leopard. Aperture has always had a focus on the workflow of…

• etc: Further evidence has surfaced that new MacBook Pros are on the horizon, as BestBuy has dropped the current SKUs from its system. This usually happens ahead of a refresh.

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:49 am

  Further evidence has surfaced that new MacBook Pros are on the horizon, as BestBuy has dropped the current SKUs from its system. This usually happens ahead of a refresh. Read More: TUAW, MacRumors forums

• Apple investigating Mac Pro performance and heat issues

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:13 am

  Last week, we told you about some unusual issues affecting Nehalem-based Mac Pro models, characterized by abnormal performance degradation and CPU power draw when using on-board audio circuitry. Several sources have told Ars that Apple support technicians are now saying the problem is known, and that the issue is being actively investigated by Apple engineers. The problem is most glaringly illustrated by merely playing music using iTunes. Though Activity Monitor will report just 1 to 3 percent CPU load, CPU power draw will increase tenfold and CPU temperatures will hover near the safe limits…

• Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:40 pm

  "iPad hoopla" has passed, according to a survey by electronics shopping site Retrevo, and consumers have lost interest after the product's unveiling less than two weeks ago. More than twice as many respondents said they were uninterested after the iPad was announced compared to a week prior. Of course, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics—three times as many said they were confident they would buy one after finding out the product's details. Retrevo did similar surveys to gauge interest in Apple's new portable touchscreen device both before it was announced and after.

• Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:11 pm

  The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser's Gecko rendering engine makes the jump from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3. The Mozilla Foundation estimates that there are currently about 1.4 million Tiger users using Firefox 3.5 every day and approximately 36,000 using version 3.6. Those numbers total a little under 24 percent of daily Mac…

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• Apple releases Aperture 3.0

  Topher Kessler

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:28 am

  Apple has released version 3.0 of their Aperture post-production tool for photographers. This latest release offers over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes.

• Manage iCal's automatic e-mail generation for invitations

  Topher Kessler

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:13 am

  While iCal is an exceptionally convenient and robust calendaring program, there are some quirks to how it handles certain functions which can be rather frustrating at times.

• CNET TV Apple Byte: Apple faces critics

  Joe Aimonetti

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am

  Publishing companies are hiking prices thanks to Apple's iBookstore deals, Mac Pros are having issues with heat, and even more problems with the 27-inch iMac.

• Weekly Utilities Update: Net Monitor, MiniUsage, TimeMachineEditor, more...

  Topher Kessler

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:28 am

  Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week.

• Odds and Ends: Essential video codec packs for OS X

  Topher Kessler

  5 Feb 2010 | 4:01 pm

  While most videos use common and open standards such as H.264 that are readily viewable, others may be more obscure and will require you to install a special codec to view them.

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• iPhone/iTouch • Classics • FREE APP

  ageekspot

  28 Jan 2010 | 6:26 am

  iPhone/iTouch • Classics • FREE APP Watch Video Here – Get it FREE Filed under: Apple, apple apps, cool stuff, Free, gadget, geek Tagged: Apple, iTunes

• Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil the revolutionary new iPad.

  ageekspot

  28 Jan 2010 | 5:59 am

  Check out the Video Here Filed under: Apple, cool stuff, daily news, fun, gadget, geek, interesting Tagged: Apple, geek, iPad, steve jobs

• LoopRumors: Analyst: Apple tablet not more than $700.

  ageekspot

  21 Nov 2009 | 1:43 pm

  Analyst: Apple tablet not more than $700.: “Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster does not believe claims that a high-end tablet with an OLED screen would be priced at $2,000, as suggested earlier this week. Munster expects the device to retail for between $500 and $700, as he believes a price above $700 could significantly reduce potential sales. ‘As a point of perspective, iSuppli has reported the bill of materials on the iPhone 3GS is $179. Backing out the phone functionality, we believe the bill of materials is about $160. Assuming the tablet is 3x the size of the iPod touch implies…

• macworld asks – Why go Pro when iMac goes faster?

  ageekspot

  21 Nov 2009 | 1:38 pm

  Why go Pro when iMac goes faster?: “The new Core i7 iMac is a potent machine — so potent, in fact, that it outpaces a couple of Mac Pro models in benchmarks. It’s also an incredible bargain, offering tremendous power given its price. Good Question!!! (Via Macworld.) Posted in Apple, daily news, interesting Tagged: Apple, imac

• Top 23 Free iPhone/iTouch Apps 10.23.09

  ageekspot

  23 Oct 2009 | 8:53 am

  Top 23 Free iPhone/iTouch Apps 10.23.09 1. Photoshop.com Mobile Category: Adobe Systems Incorp Released: Oct 08, 2009 Yesterday’s ranking: Unchanged 2. Kingdoms Live – 20 Legend Points Category: Storm8 Released: Oct 16, 2009 Yesterday’s ranking: Unranked 3. Fling (free) Category: CandyCane Released: Oct 16, 2009 Yesterday’s ranking: Unchanged 4. Hangman Classic Free Category: VirtueSoft.com Released: Aug 18, 2009 Yesterday’s ranking: Unchanged 5. Line Up FREE Category: LabPixies Released: Sep 15, 2009 Yesterday’s ranking: 2 6. Truth or Dare – play…

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• Apple Management: iPad Prices Could Change

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:24 am

  Apple intends to stay "nimble" on pricing of the iPad, possibly lowering prices if the newly unveiled tablet device fails to gain traction among consumers.

• Macworld Expo 2010 Caters to Apple Fans

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:46 am

  Like a Star Trek convention minus Leonard Nimoy, Macworld Conference and Expo 2010 kicks off Tuesday at San Francisco's Moscone Center with no official

• Are You Interested in Tablet Computing?

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:20 pm

  We've been showered in tablet talk in the wake of the Apple iPad announcement, and while we have our problems with it (and so did you), we're still left wondering: Are you interested in some form of tablet computing?

• New iPhone App keeps track of MP

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:20 pm

  Want to know what your local MP is doing? There's an app for that. Labour MP Derek Wyatt has become the world's first serving politician to launch an iPhone app which he said makes him more accountable to constituents.The free MyMP app shows users what their MP is doing, where they are and lets the public send messages to them directly!

• The 10 Oddest Apple-Themed Products [PICS]

  6 Feb 2010 | 6:50 pm

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• Apple offers 'find out how' tutorials as podcasts

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:19 pm

  Apple has re-released the "find out how" tutorial videos from its site as podcasts. Presumably, more videos are on their way to keep aspiring i-everything users occupied.

• Postbox update adds tighter OS X integration

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am

  E-mail app Postbox has just introduced improved Mac OS X integration for version 1.1.1 of this Apple Mail alternative.

• Open ebook battle ends, but the war continues

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:22 am

  Amazon loses the opening battle in a pincer move between publishers and readers, but it's unclear whether this is Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, or Appomattox.

• Apple and the importance of Macworld Expo

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am

  This week, Macworld Expo opens in San Francisco. And, as everyone likely knows, it’s a particularly significant episode of Expo because Apple will not be counted among the participants. No Apple announcements or booth and no Steve-led keynote.

• X2 intros iTablet, no relation to Apple iPad

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

  Talk about perfect timing: A company has released a tablet device in the UK called iTablet just a few weeks after Apple took the wraps off the iPad.

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• DO NOT UPDATE!!!

  rooster

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:03 pm

  Apple just released a new iPhone 3.1.3 OS and updating will kill your chances of Jailbreaking if you are on either the iPhone 3GS or the iPod Touch 2G with “MC serial”. iPod Touch Fans continues. . . It also contains a new baseband that has not been hacked and so if you need to unlock your iPhone 3G you should avoid upgrading. Blacksn0w has not been updated and does not work with 3.1.3 but the ever industrious Dev-Team have made a few tweaks to their recently released redsn0w 0.9 tool so that it will jailbreak OS 3.1.3 on iPod touch 1G, older models of the iPod touch 2G, iPhone 2G…

• The Bad, more Bad, and the Ugly

  rooster

  29 Jan 2010 | 2:48 pm

  As would be expected, the media is literally going crazy over the iPad. Some people are jubilant, others disappointed, and some downright angry. Reviews have been flying through the web at horrendous speeds focusing on this and the other. Of course, more people seem to be more excited about the iPad than seem disappointed. I myself am one of these excited people who was scanning article after article about the triumphs of the iPad. But then I ran into one article that seemed to outline exactly what I was ignoring . . . the bad stuff. And although this list is quite opinionated and harsh, I…

• iPad and the rise of VoIP

  rooster

  27 Jan 2010 | 9:47 pm

  So, as previously hinted, Apple released its new Apple iPad today. Here is the lowdown taken from Mactropolis: General -9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology -0.5 inches thick -1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi) -Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating -Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously -Storage: 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive -Processor: 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip -Accelerometer -Ambient light sensor - On screen keyboard. Can use…

• We have a date!

  rooster

  21 Jan 2010 | 8:32 pm

  Apple has recently let out that its next big release date will be January 27th!!!!! Although Apple is not expected to release the MacPro, Macbook Pro, or new Desktop Monitor (all of who’s product cycles have come to an end) they are expected to release a the long awaited iPad, iPhone 4.0 software, and iLife 2010. The Wall Street Journal reports: … the screen is expected to be 10 to 11 inches and priced somewhere in the ballpark of $1000. . . and In short, it looks like this device is going to be a household appliance used by multiple people to consume media. The device may even…

• More Apple News

  rooster

  13 Jan 2010 | 12:26 pm

  Tablet Update The Apple slate device is said to be missing a much anticipated camera. Unfortunately, it is also been said that the tablet will only house an operating system termed “the iphone OS on steroids” and not include an actual OSX off-shoot. The AppleInsider reports: - The tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control.” - It’s powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU - It runs on the iPhone kernel. - The internal model number is K48AP. - There hasn’t been an updated iPhone OS build because there’s too much tablet-related code/references…

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  MacDailyNews

• Can Microsoft catch up and counter the threat exemplified by Apple’s revolutionary iPad?

  webmaster@macdailynews.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:16 am

  There are several conceits that Microsoft enjoys these days. If one can figure out how to demolish...

• Lonely Planet offers free iPhone city guide app for Vancouver to celebrate Olympics

  webmaster@macdailynews.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:02 am

  In honor of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, Lonely Planet is offering a free iPhone city guide...

• Labels’ insistence over raising iTunes Store music prices leads to slower sales

  webmaster@macdailynews.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:05 am

  After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple–the ability...

• China prefers Apple over Google

  webmaster@macdailynews.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:53 am

  China snubbed Google but picked Apple when it decided to divert some of its $300 billion investment fund...

• Casing photos show Apple’s next-gen iPhone to be larger than 3GS?

  webmaster@macdailynews.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:18 am

  iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it claims are parts for the fourth-generation iPhone...

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  Apple-Project.com

• Lower iPad Prices? Before Launch?

  myonlinelife@mac.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:31 am

  Apple not only makes a little money off the sale of the iPhone, they make money off the AT&T contract, and off the content (apps, music, movies). ...In fact, we think the WiFi-only model will be the most popular (and by that we also mean the 3G model that never or rarely pays ATT a penny). So, while we think Apple’s wise to reconsider the price of the iPad early in the life of the product, we don’t think it will be dramatic. ...Of course, it will look different, and be miles ahead of our current Macs, but the iPad will evolve into a powerful machine capable of all the tasks we…

• Deal of the Day: Magic Mouse $66.94

  myonlinelife@mac.com

  3 Feb 2010 | 6:08 am

  Apple Magic Mouse Now Only $66.94 ...Check out these reviews from Gizmondo, CNET with video, and MacWorld’s review. Ad: Treat yourself to a brand new 27-inch iMac

• Wonder What Jobs Thinks of Google & Adobe?

  myonlinelife@mac.com

  1 Feb 2010 | 6:51 am

  Two competitors were mentioned, Google and Adobe, and Jobs let it be known that he’s not a fan of either. ...Jobs didn’t necessarily need to hammer that home with an overt statement against the company and one of its products (Disclosure: we are _not_ fans of Flash). But, Jobs is human, and as such he’s got opinions about his competitors and partners alike. With that in mind, reports coming from the Town Hall are taken by us with a grain of salt.

• So, When Will Multitouch Hit MacBooks?

  myonlinelife@mac.com

  29 Jan 2010 | 8:10 am

  The more we see the way the user can interact with iWork in the iPad video (here), the more we wonder (1) how will this ever work on a traditional Apple clamshell-designed portable, and (2) after we use Multitouch on the iPad what will we think about using our Apple portables? ...Perhaps this won’t be a problem in practice, that we’ll adjust very well to the different display positions (the iPad and the MacBook), but it’s hard to say now because our MacBooks don’t have Multitouch. ...Given Steve Jobs’ pre-iPad announcement comments, that the iPad was the most…

• Two Post SE iPad Predictions

  myonlinelife@mac.com

  28 Jan 2010 | 8:19 am

  As the analysts’ predictions, or estimates (read guesses) roll out in the press, we’re a bit surprised by the very low sales numbers for the iPad. ...First, we think once potential buyers get their hands on an iPad, see their favorite iPhone/iTouch apps running on the new device they will buy one. ...But in the wake of the iPad’s launch, we think there’s one iPad feature, above all, that will turn out to be more important than any other. ...Apple built processors will eventually find themselves in more and more Apple products, and this is a huge development that could…

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  iPhone Savior

• This iPhone Shoebox Movie Theater Is Spectacular

  Ray Basile

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:33 am

  All it takes is a shoebox, creativity and some fantastical imagination to design your own mini iPhone home theater. The end result of the "Katz Theater" is awe inspiring. It caused instant tingling in my geeky parts. The use of the old theater templates appears to be a key to this project looking so authentic (photos). "All you need is a shoe box, a laser printer, a sharp knife and rubber cement," Gary Katz wrote on his blog. "A snowy weekend can also help." This is the kind of thing that makes the Cult of iPhone an epic force to be reckoned with. You don't…

• Megan Fox Takes Super Bowl Bath for Motorola

  Ray Basile

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:01 pm

  Confirmed Mac chick Megan Fox, photographed on dozens of occasions sporting her beloved iPhone 3G, took a dive for the Motorola money to pimp the Devour in a brand new Super Bowl ad. It sickens me to see Fox, an iPhone goddess, soaking wet in a bath tub pimping some inferior mobile device. Millions of people were forced to witness this farce, this grand mockery of two shams. I don't care how hot Megan Fox is, we all know she's ten times hotter when she's holding her iPhone. She looks ridiculous holding that box-shaped excuse for innovation. Motoblur? Seriously? After watching this…

• MacJacket Adds Skittles Colors To Your MacBook

  Ray Basile

  6 Feb 2010 | 2:59 pm

  STYLE GUIDE: Say hello to The MacJacket. It's a removable vinyl sticker that brings living color customization to your MacBook lid with the greatest of ease. Each decal is especially made to order for a 15" MacBook Pro offered in 16 glowing color choices including black and white.MacJacket covers are created with a matte finish, designed to reflect very little light. The idea of the vinyl sticker has come of age in this latest practical application. I smell goodness here. Expect to pay $21 per sticker and allow 3-5 business days for your order to arrive. Taste the…

• Video: Charlie Rose Gushes Over Apple iPad

  Ray Basile

  6 Feb 2010 | 11:22 am

  Television icon Charlie Rose, recently hosted an iPad review round table featuring WSJ Tech columnist Walt Mossberg, Michael Arrington from TechCrunch and media columnist David Carr from the New York Times. It was clear that Rose is holding some pent-up man-lust for the iPad. I thought the discussion was intelligent, balanced and enlightening. "It's a pretty sexy application for books and it's gonna be hard to resist," David Carr said. "I think there's a whole lot of companies who gotta be looking at this and saying, Is this a bridge to the future or a gallows for…

• This Kevin Smith App Is What's Hot for iPhone

  Ray Basile

  5 Feb 2010 | 1:25 pm

  Hardcore Kevin Smith fanboys have been partying without sleep for days celebrating the release of the filmmaker's debut iPhone app that delivers users a nonstop, obsessive thrill ride into all things Kevin. It could actually be the greatest thing since Morris Day and The Time. Owee owee oh! Kevin Smith ($.99) offers an all access pass to his Twitter stream, cheesy personal snapshots and the opportunity to pose with Silent Bob himself. Something that rabid Jay and Silent Bob fans have secretly lusted after for years now. Photos can be saved, emailed or sent directly to the fan gallery. I…

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  Apple Gazette

• Review: Microsoft Notebook Mouse for Mac

  Kevin Whipps

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:45 am

  Ever since I got my MacBook Pro back in June, I’ve been on the hunt for a decent bluetooth mouse. I wanted something portable, small, and easy to use, without being a small fortune to purchase. Sure, wireless mice are neat too, but I always worry about losing that tiny dongle. Then there’s the Apple Magic Mouse, but I’ve covered my debacle with the Magic Mouse here before. Through it all, I watched a buddy of mine use his Microsoft Notebook mouse, and resisted the urge to buy one. I had used small mice before, and they never really felt right in my hand. Then recently, he…

• ClickToFlash – Make Using Flash Your Choice

  Kevin Whipps

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:42 am

  The past few weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about Adobe’s Flash. The iPad doesn’t run it, and neither does the iPhone, which is either the best thing that’s every happened or the biggest catastrophe since WWII. Me, I’m on the fence. I never really thought that I ran into Flash frequently on the iPhone, but then again, I don’t use my iPhone for web surfing. Recently, I discovered ClickToFlash. It’s a free plugin for Safari that turns off any Flash animations on the browser and replaces it with a little box that reads “Flash.” Click that…

• NewEgg Gets an iPhone App

  Kevin Whipps

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:36 am

  One of the coolest sites out there for buying computer parts online is NewEgg.com. In the past, I’ve ordered lots of things from them, ranging from hard drives to full enclosures, and never once had a problem. The other day, I was surfing around, looking for external storage, and I decided to use the iPhone. That’s when I tried  NewEgg, and I first learned about their new app. As expected, it’s free, and it allows you full access to their line of goods. This isn’t just an iPhone-optimized webpage either, it’s a full-fledged app with customized loading screens…

• iPads and Children

  Kevin Whipps

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am

  As some of you know, I have a baby on the way. In fact, the wife was due yesterday, but that didn’t happen. What you probably don’t know is that I’m also an intense car guy who is buying a crew cab truck in the next few months, and outfitting it with enough technology to run my business on the road. In that plan, I imagined having a baby seat in the back with monitors in the headrest, so that Kevin Jr (no really, that’s his name) can watch Barney while we drive across the country. Of course, that was the plan before January 27th, because now I think that I’ll…

• iPods and the Car

  Kevin Whipps

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am

  Way back in November, I did a post about iPods and Your Car, where I discussed some of the options out there for iPod integration into your car or truck. At that point, I figured I had seen the end of iPod integration into the vehicle. Then today, I saw something on TV which made me think about it a little bit differently. Chop Cut Rebuild is a show on the Speed Network, where they take a few different cars and build them from projects into full show vehicles over the course of a season. Today I watched one of the final episodes on their ‘40 Mercury build, where they finished up the…

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• MWSF: Wisair Introduces Wireless USB Display Dock for Apple Notebooks

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:29 am

  Getting a bit of a jump on the Macworld releases, peripheral company Wisair on Monday introduced a Wireless USB DisplayDock Set, allowing users to wirelessly connect their MacBooks to a desktop-like setup that include a monitor, speakers, a keyboard and mouse. Per Electronista, the device connects to a USB port on any MacBook and Wisair claims there are no delays in sending the keyboard or mouse commands due to the nature of the ultra wideband radio. The pre-paired adapters have a 128-bit encrypted link for security, while maximum range is said to be 30 feet. Video tops out at a resolution of…

• Rumor: New MacBook Pro Model Refresh Seems Imminent, Best Buy SKU System Drops Current Models

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:12 am

  The folks at Best Buy may be letting on more than they intended. Per MacRumors, the SKUs (stock keeping unit numbers) for Apple’s current MacBook Pro notebooks appear to have been deleted from the store’s database system. When that happens, no additional orders can be placed for the deleted item(s), and it’s a pretty safe bet that something new is right around the corner. With this in mind, it may be likely that Apple is getting set to release a new line of MacBook Pro notebooks, the current rumor mill pointing towards something equipped with Intel’s Core i5 line of…

• Microsoft Releases Findings on Windows 7 Battery Issue

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:59 am

  Because a combination of Windows 7 and virtualization makes life interesting. Per Engadget, a Microsoft statement from last week claiming that the company would look into reports of Windows 7 causing premature battery degradation on notebook computers has led to Microsoft stating that Windows 7 isn’t to blame. According to the company’s testing, the new tool, which reports when a battery is down to 40% of its designed capacity and suggests replacement, hasn’t reported a single false positive. Additionally, the tool uses read-only data from the battery, and is in fact…

• Rumor: Fourth-Generation iPhone to be Slightly Taller Than Current Models

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:46 am

  Recently, the cool cats at iResQ leaked photos of what they claim are parts from Apple’s upcoming iPhone 4G, which is anticipated to be released this summer. Per MacRumors, the iResQ pictures focus on a screen that is apparently 1/4″ taller than current models. The site also notes that the screen is glued to the digitizer, which would make screen repair of the next-generation device more costly than 3G and 3GS models. The images also point out that the part has a reflective, mirror-like surface right above the earpiece. It’s generally thought that this is where a proximity…

• Initial Benchmarks Appear for Unreleased Core i7-Powered MacBook Pro

  Chris Barylick

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:13 am

  There’s a new wave of MacBook notebooks en route. And it may arrive sooner rather than later. Per Canadian web site, Geekbench, a recent set of test appears to have show an unreleased Arrandale MacBook Pro notebook running at 2.66 GHz according to MacRumors. The processor shown is listed as an Intel Core i7 M 620 running at 2.66GHz with a Turbo frequency up to 3.33 GHz. The Intel Core i7 M 620 functions as a high end dual core processor with Turbo Boost and Hyperthreading features. The MacBook Pro model designation is listed as “6,1″ and has a non-shipping build of Mac OS X…

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  iPhone, Therefore, iBlog

• AT&T launches FamilyMap iPhone app

  Scott Kleinberg

  5 Feb 2010 | 2:54 pm

  Once upon a time, actually in the spring of 2009, AT&T launched its FamilyMap service to provide parents and families with the ability to easily locate a family member's wireless device using either a compatible handset or computer.FamilyMap can only be established for numbers listed within a shared billing account.  And now, there's an app for that. On Friday, AT&T announced the FamilyMap App and it's available now in the App Store. The app provides iPhone users with access to FamilyMap's popular features, including:-- Interactive Map: View whereabouts within an…

• iPhone OS 3.1.3 is out

  Scott Kleinberg

  2 Feb 2010 | 12:31 pm

  If you've plugged in your iPhone today, you might have noticed an update to the iPhone OS. 3.1.3 is a minor update for iPhone and iPod touch that includes these known fixes.-- Fix for iPhone 3GS battery level reporting-- Fix for app crashes on launch-- Fix for app crashes while using Japanese Kana KeyboardAlso - an update to iTunes was released the other day - 9.0.3 has bug fixes and not much more that I've been made aware of.If you see anything else or any major improvement in your device since upgrading to 3.1.3/9.0.3, please let me know in the comments or on Twitter.Thanks very much to…

• Apple TV and the iPad - they should be one in the same

  Scott Kleinberg

  29 Jan 2010 | 8:00 am

  Live iPad announcement photosLiveblogging the iPad launchA full roundup of the iPad announcement and what it meansMaybe it won't be named iPad after allEverything you want to know about Apple's iTabletSome thoughts on Tablet EveI understand what Apple is trying to do with the iPad - it's about surfing (even though it doesn't have Flash) and it's about gaming. It's about portability and utility. In other words, it can be whatever a user wants it to be and adapted to their lifestyle pretty quickly.So this got me thinking. As I save up for a condo, I talked to iWife and said that if the iPad (I…

• Hmmm. Maybe it won't be named iPad!

  Scott Kleinberg

  28 Jan 2010 | 12:58 pm

  Live iPad announcement photosLiveblogging the iPad launchA full roundup of the iPad announcement and what it meansMaybe it won't be named iPad after allEverything you want to know about Apple's iTabletSome thoughts on Tablet Eve There have been plenty of criticisms surrounding Wednesday's launch of Apple's new iPad, from lacking widescreen to lack of Flash to that horrendous name.I'm one of the name haters. iPad. Ugh. iPod eventually grew on me and perhaps iPad will as well, but so far I'm not feeling it.Interesting to note that Apple's iPad isn't the first iPad. Meaning, it's not the first…

• ROUNDUP: The Apple iPad

  Scott Kleinberg

  27 Jan 2010 | 5:30 pm

  Live iPad announcement photosLiveblogging the iPad launchMaybe it won't be named iPad after allEverything you want to know about Apple's iTabletSome thoughts on Tablet Eve You hear that? That's the sound of the end of another big day in the Apple world. And now it's time to take a step back and really go over what happened today, compare it to what we thought and give an honest assessment.That's where I come in. I'm also going to incorporate some questions from Twitter into this. And, after you are all done reading, please leave me your comments and questions. Or, if you prefer, you can tweet…

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  Appletell

• Games that would sound ridiculous with “extreme” in the title

  NEWS

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:57 am

  FROM GAMERTELL - Some games should not be made to the extreme, here is a list of 10 that REALLY shouldn’t! MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for Appletell. | Comment on this Article »

• Apple announces Aperture 3

  Jake Gaecke

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:56 am

  Section: Mac Software, Apple Software, Audio / Video Today’s Apple Store offline time has brought us Aperture 3. Aperture is Apple’s pro equivalent to iPhoto, and some of the features they’ve added today seem to play off of that relationship.  Aperture 3 now supports Projects, Faces, Places and Brushes. Projects, Faces and Places - Now, Aperture has more tools for organizing your photos. Projects are similar to Events in iPhoto. Faces uses face detection and recognition just like iPhoto to identify specific people across your photo library. And with Places, Aperture now…

• 4th gen iPhone to be taller and include front facing camera?

  Jake Gaecke

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  Section: Rumors, iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, iPhone iResQ has posted some pictures of what they believe to be the glass for the 4th generation iPhone. There are two notable differences from the current iPhone glass. First, it’s taller (1/4 inch) and it has an extra hole. Gee whiz, I wonder what we think that’s for… The rumor that just won’t die. This extra hole in the glass certainly could be for an extra, front facing camera for video chatting. I won’t deny it; I want one, that’s for sure. But at the same time, I find it too good to be true. Parts like…

• The Apple Store is down, new MacBook Pros on the way?

  Jake Gaecke

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:35 am

  Section: Rumors, Apple News, Apple Online and Retail Store Apple Store Down, Apple Store Down, looking like a fool with your Apple Store Down… Yes, the Apple Store is down, just in time to say thanks to Macworld again.  So what’s it going to be this time?  I’m thinking new MacBook Pros with Core i7 processors in them, but hey, anything could happen right?  Maybe they’ll put up an iPad preorder page. See [Apple Store] Full Story » | Written by Jake Gaecke for Appletell. | Comment on this Article »

• Macworld 2010: Navigon updates MobileNavigator

  Jake Gaecke

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:40 am

  Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, iPhone, iDevice Apps Navigon’s at it again. No surprise, really. This time, they’ve been working on Panorama View 3D and MyRoutes. Oh yeah, they also added Twitter and Facebook connectivity. I’m beginning to think the rest of the GPS apps on the App Store are just playing catch up with Navigon. Panorama View 3D uses NASA height and terrain data to make your maps have depth.  Just like map data, it’s stored in the app, so there’s no need for a data connection.  I love this feature because it appears to make your map…

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• Our Macworld Coverage Plans

  ryanrit

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:52 am

  As you read this, I am somewhere over the country, on the way to San Francisco (and enjoying GoGo in-flight internet). I wanted to tell you how we're handling Macworld this year. First, we ruled out a booth for a few reasons: #1: Cost. #2 We want to work hard to bring the experience of Macworld to everyone who can't be there, rather than simply say hello to those who can. Instead, we have a manic schedule of interviews and product demos from a wide variety of exhibitors. The plan is to shoot during the day, and encode and post in the evening. We're taking everything we need to do live video…

• Retro Tech Tuesday: Sony Cassette-Corder

  ryanrit

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:03 am

  Before the Sony Walkman became the largest selling consumer electronic device, (at least at the time), Sony had plenty of other cassette-based products. Here's a glimpse at one that readers of a certain age may remember from classrooms across the country: The Sony Cassette-Corder. We often mock the commercials for products featured on Retro Tech, but this one did a great job of showing why every family should have a Sony Cassette-Corder:

• First Look: Real Player SP with Media Converter

  ryanrit

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:44 am

  A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the folks at Real, to get a sneak peek at their newest Mac player, Real Player SP. The first question from John Schussler, Real's Group Program Manager, was whether I had used the previous version. Frankly, I wasn't even sure if I had Real Player installed. I have a feeling I might not be alone in that sentiment. A new feature set might just make you take a second look at Real. Real Player SP for Mac is being released in beta today, and as you would expect, it's a multi-format player. Unexpected, are new media conversion tools. With Real Player and Real…

• Used Book Review: Inside Steve's Brain

  ryanrit

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:38 am

  Inside Steve's Brain. It is perhaps the best titled Apple-related book ever. Leander Kahney's 2007 book takes us on a trip that rather than painting Steve solely as a maniacal, fearsome leader as we've seen in other books, Kahney paints a picture of a more rational, driven genius. However for me, the most interesting part of the book has little to do with Jobs. It's Kahney's insight into the design process of Jonathan Ive. In fact the book could've been subtitled inside Ive's Brain. Without living in the same enigmatic cloud as Jobs, Ive emerges as an approachable, but intense perfection. Yin…

• Missing From the Super Bowl? Digital Media Ads

  ryanrit

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:14 pm

  There was something missing from this year's Super Bowl. No, it wasn't a Manning; there was one of those. It wasn't played out GoDaddy ads, there were more than enough of those. No, missing this year? Digital Media ads. In the past we've seen Apple partner with Pepsi for music giveaways, buymusic.com take on Apple, and Microsoft's Zune. It would've been logical to expect Amazon to push the Kindle, or Barnes & Noble to promote the nook. No Droid ad, not even a hulu ad. What does it mean? Has Apple conquered digital media so thoroughly, and has the e-reader industry so frozen in their…

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  Cult of Mac

• Daily Deals: iPhone 3GS 32GB $249, 1TB Time Capsule $430, Moto Chaser

  Ed Sutherland

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:28 am

  We start off with a deal on a 32GB iPhone 3GS from AT&T for $249. Next up: a 1TB Time Capsule back-up drive for $430. Finally, once while you are on hold and backing-up your life, take some time to wind down the road with Moto Chaser, a racing game for your iPhone or iPod [...]

• Microsoft’s My Documents Folder Makes Triumphant Return – On iPad

  Giles Turnbull

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:15 am

  Earlier today, I was reading Infoworld’s article, The iPad questions Apple won’t answer. The first question they listed was “Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad?”, and their assumed answer was “No”; they suggested that the only way to do this would be to open a document from an email message. I read that [...]

• Pop Cap’s “Plants vs. Zombies” coming to the App Store on February 15th

  John Brownlee

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:29 am

  Courtesy of PopCap Games’ Twitter account, I can now tell you the exact date that my girlfriend will plant herself in her apartment with her iPod Touch and gradually undergo a zombie-like desiccation process herself: February 15th. Because that’s the day that Plants vs. Zombies is finally coming to the App Store. Plants vs. Zombies is [...]

• Update: Apple Logo Dispute Down Under

  Nicole Martinelli

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:13 am

  Australian retailer Woolworths is buying time in the latest Apple logo dispute. At the core of the corporate tussle is a “W” logo of a peeled apple with leaf filed back in August 2008 for the 80-year-old supermarket chain. The new logo was supposed to symbolize fresh produce, but speculation was that Apple opposed it because the [...]

• DevTeam releases Pwnage Tool for iPhone OS 3.1.3

  John Brownlee

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  It never takes long for the Dev Team to pry open the seams of the latest iPhone OS firmware, tickle its insides and come up with a fresh Jailbreak. Less than a week after Apple released their iPhone OS 3.1.3 update, the Dev Team followed it up with an update of their own: Pwnage Tool [...]

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  MacInTouch

• Amazon Update

  Get TurboTax on sale now at Amazon (or the new version of TaxCut). Save a bunch on MobileMe renewals, too. Amazon has discounts on the brand-new Mac Mini models plus the new iMacs and new MacBook, not to mention the iPod Touch. Amazon also saves you money on the MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and MacBook Air and offers deep discounts on Snow Leopard. Check the great selection of DRM-free MP3 music at very competitive prices (including free downloads!). Digital cameras and HDTV's get outstanding discounts, as well. *And*, while you're saving yourself money, you're also providing critical MacInTouch…

• Report: iPad/Microsoft

  iPad (DVD support, Flash, aviation, standalone use), plus Microsoft discussion

• Report: Applications

  Flash problems; Quicken data export; phone call tracking

• Report: Backup

  ProSoft Data Backup

• Report: Firefox

  Flash/memory leakage

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  BabyGotMac.com

• Long Multiplication 1.2 – Educational Math App for iPhone and iPod touch

  Scott McDaniel

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:48 am

  Independent developer Esa Helttula today released Long Multiplication 1.2, a new update for the popular educational math app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Long Multiplication allows the user to study and practice the standard pen and paper algorithm for multiplying large numbers. The method breaks down a multiplication problem into a series of easier multiplications. Long Multiplication features an intuitive interface with customizable colors and other settings.Continue reading Long Multiplication 1.2 – Educational Math App for iPhone and iPod touch... BabyGotMac is sponsored by…

• Macfriendly – A Software Bundle that is Friendly to Your Wallet

  Scott McDaniel

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am

  MacFriendly today announced their new Bundle of 12 applications for Mac users. The Bundle is available for a limited time and represents a savings of over 85% off the list prices. The bundle includes the latest version of each application. The MacFriendly Bundle provides an unprecedented selection of high quality software at unprecedented low prices. The MacFriendly bundle sale ends on February 26, 2010.Continue reading Macfriendly – A Software Bundle that is Friendly to Your Wallet... BabyGotMac is sponsored by 1Password!

• This Valentines Day – Tweet To Win Some iBacon Love

  Scott McDaniel

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:10 am

  Arizona based G-Monkey Productions today announce the #iBaconLove Twitter contest. One lucky winner will win 2lbs of gourmet bacon shipped right to their door. The Winner will be announced on Valentines Day at 6 pm Mountain Time. ibacon is a novelty game app that uses 30 fps video loops to cook real bacon. Users can pinch virtual cooking tongs to flip individual slices, and even tilt to pour off the bacon grease, tilt to eat bacon, as well as shake to turn off the smoke alarm and more.Continue reading This Valentines Day – Tweet To Win Some iBacon Love... BabyGotMac is sponsored by…

• Catamount Software Releases PocketMoney 3.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch

  Scott McDaniel

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  New Hampshire based Catamount Software today announces PocketMoney 3.0.2, a major update to their popular personal finance manager for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone's unique capabilities and touch interface, PocketMoney lets anyone track their cash flow, understand their net worth, budget, track accounts, and improve the overall health of their finances. Version 3.0.2 sports an improved GUI, browser based file transfer options and more.Continue reading Catamount Software Releases PocketMoney 3.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch... BabyGotMac…

• MonitorMyMac Now Free to Help Parents Protect their Children Online

  Scott McDaniel

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  UK based Arten Science today announced that MonitorMyMac, their Macintosh software which gives Timed Screenshots and Webcam Images with FTP Upload, is now available free of charge for all parents to help them keep their children safe online by monitoring their computer usage. MonitorMyMac takes timed snapshots of your computer Screen and/or takes snapshots from your connected Webcam.Continue reading MonitorMyMac Now Free to Help Parents Protect their Children Online... BabyGotMac is sponsored by 1Password!

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  Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0

• Apple Store back up. No new Macs.

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:43 am

  Apple watchers were hoping for a bigger pre-Macworld announcement Image: Apple.com [UPDATE: The Apple Store is back up with a new version of Aperture but no new MacBooks. Apple's press release introducing Aperture 3, the latest version of its high end photo editing and management software, crossed the wires at 8:30 a.m. ET. ] The yellow "We'll be back soon" sign — the universal signal of an impending product release — appeared Tuesday morning on Apple's (AAPL) online stores around the world. Speculation, echoed in a thousand tweets, centered on the MacBook Pro,…

• Apple grabs 25% of smartphone market

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:18 am

  The iPhone is looking pretty good in a pair of market snapshots Click to enlarge. Source: comScore In the past week, IDC and comScore have both issued reports of the fast-growing smartphone market that show Apple (AAPL) gaining share. In the U.S., according to a comScore report published Monday, Apple's share grew to 25.3%, up more a point, in the fourth quarter of 2009, while Research in Motion's (RIMM) fell to 41.6%, down a point. Microsoft (MSFT) and Palm (PALM) both lost ground while Google's (GOOG) Android gained nearly 3 points to reach 5.2%. See chart at right.

• Could Apple iPad prices fall?

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:42 am

  Management plans to stay "nimble" if sales are sluggish, says an analyst iPad price grid. Photo: Michael Copeland In a report to clients issued Sunday, Credit Suisse's Bill Shope shares the highlights of a recent meeting with Apple (AAPL) management. The one getting the most play — first in the Wall Street Journal's Market Beat blog — is Apple's apparent (and surprising) willingness to talk about iPad pricing. “While it remains to be seen how much traction the iPad gets initially," Shope wrote, "management noted that it will remain nimble…

• Did Apple iPad hype turn off buyers?

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am

  There's more than one way to look at a before-and-after survey Click to enalrge. Source: Retrevo "The more people know about the iPad," writes David Coursey in PC World, "the less they want to buy one." That's how Coursey interprets the results of a survey published Friday by Retrevo, an online electronics marketplace that polls its 4 million users from time to time on a variety of topical issues. "There was too much hoopla," co-founder Manish Rathi told Computerworld. "When the product came out, more than half said 'I don't need…

• 5 things to watch for at Macworld

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  7 Feb 2010 | 12:52 pm

  Can Apple's premier trade show survive without Apple? We'll find out next week Source: IDG There'll be no Steve Jobs keynote, no gigantic Apple booth, and only about half as many exhibitors — roughly 220 vs. nearly 500 last year, according to Ars Technica. But IDG World Expo has determined that the show must go on — at least for one more year — and so from Tuesday Feb. 9 to Saturday Feb. 13, San Franciso's Moscone Center will host the software vendors, accessory makers, iPhone developers, fanmag publishers, celebrity bloggers, AAPL investors and Mac…

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  Daring Fireball

• What’s New in Aperture 3

  John Gruber

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  Faces, places, and brushes.  ★ 

• ComScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

  John Gruber

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:52 am

  Palm, RIM, Microsoft losing market share; Apple and Google gaining. (RIM has the most to lose, of course.)  ★ 

• BashFlash

  John Gruber

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:52 am

  Nice complement to ClickToFlash — BashFlash monitors Snow Leopard’s Flash Player process and lets you kill it when it starts using excessive CPU time.  ★ 

• LESS CSS App for Mac OS X

  John Gruber

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:51 pm

  CSS nerds: have you checked out LESS? If so and you dig it, you might be interested in this.  ★ 

• Panelfly

  John Gruber

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:49 pm

  Gee, I wonder if e-comic-book distributors are excited about the iPad?  ★ 

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  TiPb

• Contest Reminders: Developer Survey and Round Robin — Win a 32GB iPod touch, iPhone 3GS!

  Dieter Bohn

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:12 am

  A couple quick contest reminders as deadlines loom (LOOM I tell you!): The Developer Survey we mentioned here is still running but will end this weekend. Interpret is putting together an exciting set of data about mobile app development and needs your input. Take the survey here and be entered for your chance to win a 32GB iPod touch. Heck, if that isn’t your style, you can also opt for up to $550 to purchase the phone of your choice. Since not everybody will qualify for the developer survey prize, one more reminder: the Smartphone Round Robin contest is still running, but will end on…

• TiPb at Macworld 2010 — Conference Begins!

  Rene Ritchie

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:55 am

  Macworld 2010’s conference portion starts today at the Moscone Center and I’ll be heading over in a few minutes. The Expo starts Thursday, and Leanna will be joining me to bring every complete TiPb coverage. If you’re a developer and you’re going to be at Macworld, shoot me an email (rene@tipb.com) or ping me on Twitter (@reneritchie) and let me know. If you’re a reader, be sure to say hello! And here’s all the Macworld highlights, and a discount code, for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad lovers once again… after the break! Still not sure if you’re…

• Notion Ink Adam — Don’t Call it an “iPad Killer”!

  Rene Ritchie

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am

  Notion Ink’s Atom is one of the next generation “tablet” style devices that will no doubt be compared head-to-head with Apple’s iPad. First, a note to traditional media — if we never read the phrase “iPad killer” it’ll be too soon. We clear? Second and that said, SlashGear shows off some renders and it looks like the Adam brings some interesting ideas with it. the Android-based slate using the latest-gen NVIDIA Tegra chipset and Pixel Qi’s innovative low-power display. Pixel Qi uses a tranflexive display that blends characteristics of LCD (or…

• Apple Store Down — iPad Ordering, New MacBooks, or Just Aperture 3?

  Rene Ritchie

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:48 am

  The Apple Online Store is down again, and it’s a Tuesday, and it’s Macworld — though sadly neither of those two things mean much anymore — and so our email boxes are flooding with heads-up and excited guesses about everything from iPad pre-ordering going live, to MacBook Pro updates, to… Aperture 3. Yeah, Aperture 3. Sorry iPad fans and MacBook hopefuls, but Apple has already put up a PR and so far that’s it. We’ll updated, of course, if there’s anything else. It is a Tuesday after all, and Macworld… Apple Store Down — iPad Ordering,…

• Navigon MobileNavigator Goes 3D, Social, and Intelligent

  Rene Ritchie

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:43 am

  And now we can tell you why Navigon is so excited about their new 3D terrain viewing, social media integrated, intelligent routing version 1.5 update to MobileNavigator [$69.00 on sale -- iTunes link] that they’ve put it on sale and are giving TiPb readers a chance to not only win copies, but get a guided tour at Macworld 2010 on how to use it. Here are the highlights: Connection to Facebook and Twitter: A simple icon tap posts users current position, destination, and ETA without navigation interruption. NAVIGON MyRoutes: Analyzes driving habits, patterns, location, time/day and…

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  Mac Sage

• Apple iPad

  patrick

  28 Jan 2010 | 7:44 pm

  The iPad? Really, Steve? That is one epically bad choice of names. I over-heard one female colleague suggest that it may be the first pad that most males won’t feel ashamed to purchase. I’m not sure that I’m convinced… Apple is making a bold statement about the viability of micro-niches with the iPad. Wedging open the position between the iPhone and the MacBook, Apple seems to want to take on the NetBook and Kindle markets in one fell swoop. One elegant and well-thought-out swoop. The iPad hits most of the major sweet spots for such a device. It has the horse-power,…

• Speaking Words With Dictate

  patrick

  13 Dec 2009 | 4:56 pm

  I’ve been playing with a new piece of software for the last few days. I’m quite excited about it. The software is called Dictate, by the folks at MacSpeech. Dictate is voice recognition software for the Mac. I must admit, I’ve played with voice recognition software in the past and have never been very impressed with the performance. I had been reading fairly good reviews of dictate over the last several months, but I still came to it with the expectation that I would be disappointed. The installation of Dictate was a snap. Once installed, the software takes you through a…

• How Magic is Apple’s New Mouse?

  patrick

  4 Dec 2009 | 10:46 am

  The Magic Mouse Maybe it’s not magic. But it’s well-designed and cool. First, I have to say that it took me awhile to get over thinking I was pushing around a very hard and high tech Madeleine (as in the pastry). I suppose that had something to do with me drinking coffee at the time of my first magic mouse experience. But once I had the short-cake metaphor out of my head, I found Apple’s new mouse to be quite efficient and easy to use. The top of this mouse is basically one shiny touch-pad that responds quite well to all finger movements and clicks. You can program the…

• Video Tutorials with Camtasia for Mac

  patrick

  5 Oct 2009 | 2:12 pm

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a moving picture is worth a thousand pictures. OK, I made that last part up. But you get the idea. When it comes to creating rich learning materials, a well done video can often make a concept or procedure very clear. Until a few weeks ago, the offerings for Mac screencasting software were sparse. While Snapz-Pro and ScreenFlow did allow you to capture screen movement on your Mac, they were limited in their ability to edit. Now, TechSmith has released its Camtasia product for the Mac. Camtasia allows you to capture screen movement and voice, and…

• Snow Leopard – First Impressions

  patrick

  3 Sep 2009 | 10:48 am

  Here kitty, kitty... It’s been 4 days now with the new cat… so far, so good. Right off, there’s a noticeable performance boost in startup, shutdown and general Finder tasks. That, along with the  7GB reclamation of disk space makes Snow Leopard worth the price. The new QuickTime is slick, but lacks the export features of the previous version of QuickTime Pro. Thankfully, Apple anticipated this disappointment, and put the old QuickTime in the Utilities Folder in Applications. Some folks will undoubtedly be using older applications which require Rosetta to run. Again, Apple…

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  MacOSXHints.com

• 10.6: Open generic files in a preferred app via Services

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  Often I need to edit text files that don't have any associated application. This usually occurs when I'm changing system configuration files. My original process was to Control-click on a file and then select Open with and then Other, and then search through the application folder for my text editor program. From another site, I learned that it is very easy to create Services with Automator in 10.6. So now I have a one-click process to open any file in my text favorite text editor. Run Automator and choose the Service template. At the top right, change the drop-downs to read Service receives…

• Edit Google Chrome's 'Other' bookmarks

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  Google Chrome for Mac (in beta) doesn't yet give you a way to mass edit bookmarks in your Other Bookmarks folder. (You can click the yellow star next to a bookmarked page once it's loaded to edit each bookmark one at a time, but that's tedious.) As a workaround, you can do mass edits in TextEdit (or most any other text editor). Turn off Bookmark Syncing If you have the developer build of Chrome (which allows you to sync your bookmarks to Google Docs), turn off Bookmark Sync by going to Chrome » Preferences » Personal Stuff, and click Stop Syncing This Account. You can turn sync…

• 10.6: Use a Service to toggle trash can off and on

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  This hint enables you to turn off (and back on) moving files to Trash when deleting files, thus deleting them immediately when the trash is off. This hint takes advantage of the fact that if the .Trashes folder in a user's home folder is not accessible, Mac OS X ignores it and displays an immediate file deletion warning like the one seen at right. Create a service in Automator that (via the top two drop-down menus) takes no input and is available in any application. Add a single Run AppleScript action that has following contents: on run {input, parameters} do shell script "chown root…

• Use some Mail rules on an as-needed basis via the keyboard

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  If you've ever explored the possible actions offered by Mail's rules, you've probably wished that you could apply some of them to any message on command. For example, you might want to move the selected messages to one mailbox or another at the press of a hotkey, or to replicate Eudora's labels by changing the text color of messages in their mailboxes (Mail's GUI only allows changing their background color, which I dislike as much as OS X's Finder labels). The problem is that Mail's rules are intended to run automatically on incoming or outgoing emails, so such "manual" rules cannot easily…

• Use normal and private browsing at the same time in Firefox

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  I had always thought that Chrome's method of private browsing, which allows you to intermingle private and normal browsing in separate windows/tabs, was better than Safari or Firefox, which are an all-or-nothing proposition. Now Firefox, at least, can emulate Chrome's behavior. With the Firefox add-on Private Browsing Window, the user can have private and normal browsing windows simultaneously. This can be used for things other than simply secure browsing, too. You could, for instance, log into two Gmail accounts simultaneously, or test a web app using two different accounts in one browser.

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  Slashdot: Apple

• The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer

  kdawson

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:24 am

  snydeq writes "Apple's reticence to reveal details prior to a product's launch is legendary. But when Apple extends this silence beyond a product's unveiling, historically this has meant that the product cannot deliver the functionality that analysts and journalists are asking about. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman lists eight key questions for the iPad, about all of which Apple has kept silent. Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad? Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email? Does the iPad support VPN? Configuration management? 'I have no doubt the iPad will be compelling to some…

• Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture

  CmdrTaco

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:11 am

  Barence writes "Mozilla is ready to exorcise support for Mac OS X 10.4 from Firefox's development code, closing the door on Apple's aging OS. The foundation stopped supporting 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in September 2009, but, according to Josh Aas, a Mozilla platform engineer, 'we left much of the code required to support that platform in the tree in case we wanted to reverse that decision." We had come to a point where we need to make a final decision and either restore 10.4 support or remove this (large) amount of 10.4 specific code,' he notes on the Mozilla developer planning forum."Read more…

• Apple's Change of Heart On Flash

  kdawson

  6 Feb 2010 | 2:05 pm

  Dotnaught writes "In a blog post, Walter Luh, co-founder of Ansca Mobile and a former employee of both Apple and Adobe, recounts how Apple once promoted Flash on the iPhone then changed its mind because Flash didn't provide the optimal mobile user experience. 'I think that Apple came to the same conclusion I've come to — namely that Flash has its strengths, but not when it comes to creating insanely great mobile experiences,' he writes. Luh's piece ends with a pitch for mobile development using the Corona SDK, a Lua-based programming environment that strives to recapture the simplicity…

• Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store

  kdawson

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:42 am

  donberryman writes "Apple has told a software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. The developer just wanted to mention that the app was a finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge." The developer complied with apparent good humor. Here is their blog post, which includes the text of the iPhone store's not-quite-rejection.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

• New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic

  kdawson

  2 Feb 2010 | 1:11 pm

  Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. "[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto their iPhones. The result of the attack is that a remote hacker is able to change some settings on the iPhone and force all of the user's Web traffic to run through any server he chooses, and also to change the root certificate on the phone, enabling him to man-in-the-middle SSL traffic from that phone. ... Charlie Miller, an Apple…

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  MacNewsWorld

• Does 'Nimble' Pricing Suggest iPad Won't Move?

  Erika Morphy

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:52 am

  Apple surprised some company watchers with its relatively low price points for the iPad, and it appears prepared to go even lower, if necessary. It will be flexible about pricing if consumer demand for the device does not shape up as expected, according to a note from Credit Suisse reported in The Wall Street Journal. That was the take-away from a recent meeting between Credit Suisse analysts and Apple officials, according to analyst Bill Shope.

• Sorry, You Just Can't Pin Down Apple Consumers

  Chris Maxcer

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  When I first noticed the Retrevo Pulse headline for its study that examines consumer interest in buying the Apple iPad, my first reaction was eerily in line with the traffic-grabbing headline, "Apple iPad Hoopla Fails to Convince Buyers." I'm an unabashed fan of almost every Apple product the company in Cupertino produces, and yet I'm still not convinced the iPad is a worthy addition to my personal Apple lineup. Sure, I love the idea of kicking back on the couch and browsing the Web with flicks and pinches.

• Report: iPad Will Propel Tablets Into Mainstream Use

  Erika Morphy

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:44 pm

  The tablet computer market will see 50 million units shipped in 2014, according to a new In-Stat report -- and if Apple plays its cards right, a significant portion of them could be iPads. In-Stat took several factors into account as it made its calculations, said Jim McGregor, analyst and report author. "Right now, Apple can build these devices for $400 and still make a profit off of them. But the cost will eventually come down -- and so will the price for consumers."

• Tune-Up App Lets You Get More Intimate With Your Mac

  John P. Mello Jr.

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  It's been both a boon and bane for the Mac that it has some characteristics of an appliance. For some users, "it just works" is what makes Apple computers so much more attractive than their competitors. Others, though, just feel incomplete unless they can get under the hood of their byte box. For them, there are programs like MacTuneUp. MacTuneUp, which was recently updated to version 3.6, is a suite of utilities for improving system stability and the performance of a Mac.

• Ripping the Wrong Page From Apple's E-Playbook

  Andrea Belz

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  On January 27, a major speech took place: No, it was not the State of the Union address, but Steve Jobs' announcement of the release of the iPad. The iPad has already started to change the landscape of digital publishing: After a few days of a public battle, Amazon was forced to capitulate to a new deal with Macmillan, one of the six largest publishers; on Friday, Hachette started to make noise too. Previously, Amazon set the prices -- typically a default of $9.99. This scheme lost money for the e-tailer but promoted the sales of the Kindle reader.

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  CNET News - Apple

• Apple's Aperture 3 adds face recognition, GPS

  Jim Dalrymple

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:01 am

  New version of Apple's professional photography software adds more than 200 new features, including the popular Faces and Places introduced in iPhoto '09.

• Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support

  Stephen Shankland

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:34 am

  Dropping support for Tiger means Firefox could be better optimized for newer Mac OS X versions, but Mozilla is meeting some resistance. Originally posted at Deep Tech

• iPad pricing: How low can you go, Apple?

  John Paczkowski, AllThingsD

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:22 pm

  It seems odd that Apple execs would even hint at the possibility of an early price cut lest they give folks already on the fence about buying the first iteration of the device more reason to stay there.

• Adobe promises faster Flash on Macs

  Stephen Shankland

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:43 pm

  The Mac version of the widely used browser plug-in should catch up to the Windows version soon. Also: an apology for mishandling a bug. Originally posted at Deep Tech

• YouTube arrives on next-gen IPv6 network

  Stephen Shankland

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:22 am

  By making its video site available over Internet Protocol version 6, Google takes another step toward solving the chicken-and-egg problem inherent in moving to the next-gen Net addressing system. Originally posted at Deep Tech

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  iPhone Atlas

• Motorola, RIM leading, with Apple on the rise

  Don Reisinger

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:13 am

  Although Apple gets all the attention, Motorola and RIM are still the top handset and smartphone makers in the U.S. Originally posted at The Digital Home

• Tales2Go: Get on-demand audiobooks for children

  Rick Broida

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:44 am

  Tales2Go is a killer app that serves up hundreds of novels and short stories, all of them suitable for prekindergarteners, preteens, and everyone in between.

• iCatchall: 27 apps for free--Monday only

  Rick Broida

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:32 am

  Make no mistake: some of these apps aren't worth the icons they're hiding behind. But iCatchall does have more than a handful of genuinely useful tools.

• Caps lock--David's iPhone tip of the week

  David Martin

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  Here's a little-known keyboard trick on the iPhone or iPod Touch that will activate Caps Lock mode for typing in all capital letters.

• HouseKeeper app reminds you to do forgotten chores

  Rick Broida

  5 Feb 2010 | 1:07 pm

  Did you remember to clean the gutters? Replace the baking soda? Change out the water filter? This flawed but handy app sends e-mail and SMS reminders.

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  CNET Blogs

• Swag Bucks: Earn rewards for searching the Web

  Rick Broida

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am

  It sounds a little too good to be true, but Swag Bucks looks to be a legitimate way to earn goodies just by running Web searches like you normally would.

• How-to set up iTunes Home Sharing

  Donald Bell

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:19 am

  CNET Senior Editor Donald Bell demonstrates the Home Sharing feature in Apple's iTunes 9 music software, which lets users transfer media between computers on their local network.

• The 404 Podcast 515: Where we look to our hands for inspiration

  Justin Yu

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:15 am

  Today's episode of CNET's The 404 Podcast features a pink Ouija Board, the newest Facebook meme, search engine profiling, and Google's latest mapping feature that waves goodbye to your shopping privacy.

• Motorola, RIM leading, with Apple on the rise

  Don Reisinger

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:13 am

  Although Apple gets all the attention, Motorola and RIM are still the top handset and smartphone makers in the U.S.

• McAfee: Spammers exploiting more news stories

  Lance Whitney

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:03 am

  Spammers continue to capitalize on news headlines to try to trick people into clicking on e-mails to spread malware, says McAfee in its latest threats report.

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  Applelinks.com

• Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Tuesday, February 9, 2010

  Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:34 pm

  • MacBook Pro a Revelation To Low End Mac Publisher • Apple Again Tops HP, Dell in Customer Satisfaction • Looking Back at 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop • Analyst: Apple To Be 'Nimble' On iPad Pricing • Execs Say Apple Could Lower Ipad Price If Market Demands It - Report • How Apple's A4 Chip Lets iPad Run Cooler, Save Battery Life • Consumers Lose Interest In iPad After Apple's Unveiling - Survey • Apple iPad Hoopla Fails to Convince Buyers, But There's A Silver Lining • iPad: Gateway Drug To Mac Addiction? • Unannounced Core i7 Apple MacBook…

• Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Tuesday, February 9, 2010

  Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:10 pm

  • Does the iPhone OS Need Multitasking? • The Hidden Blessing Of No Multitasking • iPhone OS 3.1.3 Sees 14% Adoption In 6 Days, New Hack Released • Satellite Radio Coming To BlackBerry • Macworld session to Demystify iPhone and iPad App Development.......Continue Reading Filed under: iPhone | iPhone News | | | | | | | | |

• Apple Continues to Lead in Customer Service Quality in Tech Support Survey

  Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:08 am

  Vocalabs' study shows HP improved satisfaction with agent and automated portion of call.......Continue Reading Filed under: News | | | | | | | | |

• Slip the Apple iPad into Protective Waterfield Designs Ultimate SleeveCase or Suede Jacket

  Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:07 am

  WaterField TSA-friendly iPad cases are manufactured in the USA; Quick and convenient, the Ultimate SleeveCase is now available with a leather trim option.......Continue Reading Filed under: Hardware | | | | | | | | |

• zoomIt SD card adapter for iPhone and iPod Touch

  Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:05 am

  zoomMediaPlus' new zoomIt SD card adapter for iPhone and iPod Touch is a revolution in managing content with the iPhone and iPod Touch.......Continue Reading Filed under: iPhone | iPhone Hardware | iPod | iPod Hardware | | | | | | | | |

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  The Mac Observer

• Quick Look Review: Texas Tea for the iPhone and iPod touch

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am

  Texas Tea is an iPhone app that combines the challenge of matching skills with elements of poker and a timed game. Nancy Gravley put Texas Tea to the test to see if it's a game worth coming back to, or just a quick diversion.

• News: Apple Rolls Out Aperture 3 Video Tutorials

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:25 am

  Along with the launch of Aperture 3, Apple released a series of tutorial videos showing how to use several of the new features in the professional image management and editing application.

• Hot Forum Topic: Backing Up Your iPhoto Library

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am

  Today TMO readers are talking about the best ways to backup the images stored in your iPhoto library.

• Product News: Notebook, iThoughts Add TextExpander touch Support

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:35 am

  SmileOnMyMac announced on Tuesday that Notebook, iThoughts and iType2Go now support TextExpander touch for the iPhone and iPod touch. The announcement brings the number of apps that directly support TextExpander touch up to 16.

• Hidden Dimensions: The Killer Surprises Waiting for Steve Ballmer

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  Computing, as we know it is going to change dramatically over the next decade. A slew of new technologies, appliance computing, better security models, Android, and mobile computing will fundamentally change the nature of our computer experiences.  All of this new technology is being formulated by Apple and Google, and Microsoft, with questionable leadership, is in a very poor position to react.

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  MacMod - Connecting Smart Mac Users

• A4, BINGO!

  27 Jan 2010 | 12:46 pm

  Apple has announced the iPad, in case you hadn't noticed.  The biggest "WHAT" I had was the announcing of the A4 chip.  Apple has most likely taken the technology they acquired in their purchase of PA Semiconductors and produced their own chips.   Does this mean that the future of the iPhone may be Power-PC as well?While it's likely that the computers (desktop/laptops) will remain on Intel chips, as running Windows on a Mac is partially what has driven the Mac sales, what about other projects?  Is Apple completing the circle and moving back to Power PC chips for non-computer devices?

• January 27th event to hold new MacBook Pros

  13 Jan 2010 | 8:06 pm

  Sources confirmed to MacMod that a MacBook Pro update will be rolled out on January 27th.  While this isn't as flashy as the tablet, the MBP's are due for an update.  This is not to say that the upcoming event won't have a tablet release, but it will more likely be the "one more thing" after Steve shows off the next MacBook Pro.The question that comes to my mind is what features of the yet un-released tablet will be in the new MacBook Pros?  Will Apple hold off on updating the MBP's with some of the "new" technology in a tablet until the tablet has been able to be tested (like they did…

• Nokia's lawsuit has a lot of "ifs" and "buts", but not facts

  31 Dec 2009 | 11:33 pm

  Nokia has been at battle with Apple for a while now, and a few days before the ball dropped on 2010 they counter-sued Apple (after Apple counter-sued them).  Where's all of this law suit happiness going?  How many counter-suits will there be?  Well, according to Nokia's own press release (here) I'm not sure if they think they have a leg to stand on.Taken from Nokia's own press release, "It should be noted that certain statements herein which are not historical facts..." which they then go on to list 9 items including their ability to grow their business (c), their ability to develop…

• The utlimate iMac for your desk

  29 Dec 2009 | 10:24 am

  The Mac Mini's case is small and compact, able to fit in almost anything.  Even an iMac DV.  But with all of that extra space, what would you do?  Klaus Diebel, a life long modder, decided to make his a bass booming coffee maker.  Why not?  Now Klaus has the iMac CS for sale (each a custom job) for about 400 euros, plus the iMac case and optional Mini.Take a look at Klaus' site (kiwidee.com) for more info on the iMac CS and his other mods (G4 Power Tower & the iMac RMS, aka mailbox).

• How to Enable Google Chrome Extensions on Mac

  28 Dec 2009 | 9:53 am

  Google's Chrome Web browser has been increasing in popularity in the past year, with some reports claiming it now has roughly the same market share as Safari (a little over 4 percent).  One feature that's noticeably absent from the Mac version is support for extensions, which Google says is coming "soon."Thankfully, the software hacking community has found several fixes for this problem. Read on for more details.

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• Our Macworld Coverage Plans

  ryanrit

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:52 am

  As you read this, I am somewhere over the country, on the way to San Francisco (and enjoying GoGo in-flight internet). I wanted to tell you how we're handling Macworld this year. First, we ruled out a booth for a few reasons: #1: Cost. #2 We want to work hard to bring the experience of Macworld to everyone who can't be there, rather than simply say hello to those who can. Instead, we have a manic schedule of interviews and product demos from a wide variety of exhibitors. The plan is to shoot during the day, and encode and post in the evening. We're taking everything we need to do live video…

• Retro Tech Tuesday: Sony Cassette-Corder

  ryanrit

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:03 am

  Before the Sony Walkman became the largest selling consumer electronic device, (at least at the time), Sony had plenty of other cassette-based products. Here's a glimpse at one that readers of a certain age may remember from classrooms across the country: The Sony Cassette-Corder. We often mock the commercials for products featured on Retro Tech, but this one did a great job of showing why every family should have a Sony Cassette-Corder:

• First Look: Real Player SP with Media Converter

  ryanrit

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:44 am

  A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the folks at Real, to get a sneak peek at their newest Mac player, Real Player SP. The first question from John Schussler, Real's Group Program Manager, was whether I had used the previous version. Frankly, I wasn't even sure if I had Real Player installed. I have a feeling I might not be alone in that sentiment. A new feature set might just make you take a second look at Real. Real Player SP for Mac is being released in beta today, and as you would expect, it's a multi-format player. Unexpected, are new media conversion tools. With Real Player and Real…

• Used Book Review: Inside Steve's Brain

  ryanrit

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:38 am

  Inside Steve's Brain. It is perhaps the best titled Apple-related book ever. Leander Kahney's 2007 book takes us on a trip that rather than painting Steve solely as a maniacal, fearsome leader as we've seen in other books, Kahney paints a picture of a more rational, driven genius. However for me, the most interesting part of the book has little to do with Jobs. It's Kahney's insight into the design process of Jonathan Ive. In fact the book could've been subtitled inside Ive's Brain. Without living in the same enigmatic cloud as Jobs, Ive emerges as an approachable, but intense perfection. Yin…

• Missing From the Super Bowl? Digital Media Ads

  ryanrit

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:14 pm

  There was something missing from this year's Super Bowl. No, it wasn't a Manning; there was one of those. It wasn't played out GoDaddy ads, there were more than enough of those. No, missing this year? Digital Media ads. In the past we've seen Apple partner with Pepsi for music giveaways, buymusic.com take on Apple, and Microsoft's Zune. It would've been logical to expect Amazon to push the Kindle, or Barnes & Noble to promote the nook. No Droid ad, not even a hulu ad. What does it mean? Has Apple conquered digital media so thoroughly, and has the e-reader industry so frozen in their…

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• Introducing Aperture 3

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Apple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 offers more than 200 new features including Faces, Places, and Brushes. A 30-day trial is now available for download.

• Architecture in Motion: RTKL and iPhone

  1 Feb 2010 | 3:06 pm

  In its offices from Baltimore to Shanghai, international architecture firm RTKL uses iPhone to stay in touch, access apps that enable creative collaboration, and travel with ease.

• Apple Launches iPad

  27 Jan 2010 | 11:33 am

  Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store. At just 0.5 inches thick and 1.5 pounds, iPad is thinner and lighter than any laptop or notebook. iPad will be available in March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.

• Apple Reports All-Time Highest Revenue and Profit

  25 Jan 2010 | 5:33 pm

  Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter. The company reported its highest quarterly revenue and profit to date and outlined new accounting standards.

• Logic Pro 64-bit the talk of the NAMM music show

  20 Jan 2010 | 11:10 am

  Last week’s update of Logic Pro to include 64-bit support is getting rave reviews at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) trade show, according to The Loop. Music industry professionals like audio engineer CJ Vanston tout Logic Pro 9.1 as “a game changer,” noting that “the 64-bit gauntlet has been thrown down by Apple with Logic.”

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• Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks and Styluses

  Paul Natsch

  2 Feb 2010 | 3:26 pm

  Paul's handsplint, showing the Pogo Stylus attached with black velcro.When Apple announced the iPad the first thing I thought was “how, as a quadriplegic with limited use of my arms, will I be able to use this device?”. Fortunately I immediately already had a pretty good idea on how this could be accomplished being that I’ve been an iPod Touch 2G user for almost 18 months. Ultimately the iPad is probably going to be able to do quite a bit more than the iPod Touch but the iPod Touch is still essentially the iPad’s “little brother”. So I thought I’d…

• Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions

  Ricky Buchanan

  28 Jan 2010 | 5:20 am

  As expected, at their press gathering this morning Apple announced their new product: the iPad. So what’s an iPad? Will the iPad be accessible, and what will it mean for accessibility in general? What’s An iPad? The iPad, at first glance, looks like an enlarged version of an iPod Touch or iPhone. It’s 9.7 inches diagonally, compared to the iTouch’s 4.7 inch diagonal screen so it’s approximately twice the width and height (so four times the total area) but not thicker than the smaller devices. Like the iTouch and iPhone, the iPad synchronises with iTunes and is…

• Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles project

  Ricky Buchanan

  22 Jan 2010 | 1:54 am

  Apple has a lot of wonderful video tutorials that help users learn to use the Mac, including the iLife and iWork applications. Unfortunately the videos are presented in English only, with no captions or subtitles available. The goal of the Mac Video Tutorials Subtitle Project is to caption these videos in multiple languages, including English. They want to make this great resource available to non-English speaking users, and to those with hearing impairments or language processing problems. The MVTS Project has also provided the MacTutorial Viewer which is a downloadable app containing all…

• Round-Up: Discount Software, Accessible PDFs, Best App Ever

  Ricky Buchanan

  19 Jan 2010 | 5:04 pm

  Looking for some new iPhone, iPod Touch or Mac software? On the 20th of January only take a look at Indie+Relief. A huge group of software developers have got together to sell software at discounted prices with all the proceeds going to charities to benefit Haiti in the wake of their massive earthquake. There’s some really useful software available there, and I highly recommend you take a look at it. Accessible Podcast/iTunes U Guidelines I wrote last year about the guidelines for creating accessible podcast and iTunes University content, put together by The National Center for…

• Dictation For Your iPhone/iPod Touch

  Paul Natsch

  14 Jan 2010 | 7:16 pm

  Back in December Nuance, makers of the award-winning Dragon NaturallySpeaking, surprised everybody by releasing two apps for the iPhone - Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search. The former allows you to dictate text into an iPhone much like Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the PC and MacSpeech Dictate for the Mac. The latter allows you to do a variety of Internet searches using filters such as YouTube, Google, and Wikipedia using your voice. Both apps were received extremely well and were instantly considered must-haves for any iPhone user, especially considering they were both free for a limited…

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• 3D ChemDoodle Web Components

  drc

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:03 am

  WebGL has been quickly progressing, and we have been hard at work building our 3D ChemDoodle Web Components. I present the release of ChemDoodle Web Components 3.0, which contain the alpha development versions of the 3D ChemDoodle Web Components. I also discuss some of the programmatic details involved with WebGL and how to obtain the development browsers required to use WebGL technologies. Lastly, I give a brief review of the current events releated to HTML5/Canvas technology since my last article. read more

• Showcase: PocketCAS

  dgohara

  27 Jan 2010 | 4:43 am

  In 'Showcase' reviews, the reviewer is the developer. No claim of objectivity is made, but it’s a chance for the developer to show off his/her app. Here, Daniel Alm discusses the new visualization package, PocketCAS. Author: Daniel Alm Position: Developer Affiliation: Thomas Osthege and Daniel Alm Software On the occasion of its recent 2.0 release, I'd like to present my application PocketCAS, a computer algebra system (CAS) for the iPhone and iPod touch, in this article. read more

• Intego: The Year in Mac Security 2009

  dgohara

  26 Jan 2010 | 5:22 am

  Just a quick note. Some of you may find Intego's report on Mac/iPhone security interesting. From their analysis, it seems like jailbroken iPhones are particularly susceptible. There were a few proof-of-concept trojans, as well as real world exploits on Mac OS X. Many of the exploits seem to be geared toward taking advantage of user behavior and actions. Common sense computing practices would address most, if not all, of the known exploits reported here. Although there doesn't seem to be an abundance of common sense these days*. I kid...sort of. And keep in mind that Intego is a software…

• Showcase: TouchPlot for iPhone and iPod touch (UPDATED)

  phjo

  23 Jan 2010 | 8:57 am

  In 'Showcase' reviews, the reviewer is the developer. No claim of objectivity is made, but it’s a chance for the developer to show off his/her app. Here, software developer Pierre-Henri Jondot talks about his plotting/graphing application TouchPlot for iPhone and iPod touch. Just a note. The developer has posted that there is a new version of touchplot out (Version 4.0) and he's created a Youtube channel to show some of the features. TouchPlot is a grapher application for the iPhone and iPod touch, which can be bought at the appstore since late july. As the developer of TouchPlot, my…

• NSConference Workshop on Concurrency in Snow Leopard

  drewmccormack

  19 Jan 2010 | 7:31 am

  In case some of you missed it, I am presenting a 6 hour workshop on concurrency at both the UK and US NSConference meetings in the coming months. The workshop will cover Snow Leopard technologies like Grand Central and OpenCL, and touch on other options for parallel computing. I'm just finishing the preparation now, and it should be a fun and educational gathering for performance geeks. Ticket sales for the US conference, which is to be held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta from February 22nd until February 24th, are well underway, but I am pretty sure there is still room. If you want more than…

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• Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance? (PC World)

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:37 pm

  PC World - If Apple is really considering price cuts on its just-introduced iPad, the best advice is to make them before launch, not after.

• iPad's Best Innovation? No-Contract Wireless (PC World)

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:46 pm

  PC World - Apple's iPad, while getting slammed for lack of innovation in some areas, does something no other device seems to have done before: Offer customers 3G service on a month-to-month, no-contract basis. It's about time.

• Apple to Remain 'Nimble' on iPad Pricing (PC World)

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:34 pm

  PC World - Apple could cut iPad prices if the device isn't selling well, the Wall Street Journal reports.

• Analysts See iPad Price Drop, with Some Cannibalization (NewsFactor)

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:27 pm

  NewsFactor - Just weeks before Apple officially rolls out the iPad, financial analysts are making pricing predictions. But could the analysis itself hinder the initial demand for the pricey tablet computer?

• Control Your Nokia N900 With Sony's Sixaxis Controller (PC World)

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:59 pm

  PC World - We recently stumbled across a hack that allowed the Nokia N900 to run Mac OS X. Now another mod has surfaced, but this time it's all about gaming.

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• zoomIt expands storage, connectivity for iPhone/iPod Touch

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:08 am

  zoomIt is a hardware-app combo that looks quite promising in helping iPhone and iPod Touch users increase the functionality of their devices. The device connects to the iPhone/iPod via the 30-pin dock and houses an SD card slot. Media can be placed on the SD card, and then accessed via the zoomIt app.

• Two suede cases announced for iPad from WaterField

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:45 am

  San Francisco-based WaterField announced Tuesday two new cases for Apple's iPad. The latest entries into the iPad accessory field both feature suede designs.

• GT Racing Motor Academy racing app now available

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:04 am

  Gameloft title puts you in the driver seat for the iPhone OS.

• Apple announces Aperture 3

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:08 am

  Tuesday Apple released version 3 of its Aperture graphic program. The release offers up over 200 new features. Headliners include Faces, Places, and Brushes.

• Powermat Wireless Charging System (Giveaway-Review)

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:43 am

  Powermat system consists of home/office charger and a portable/travel mat. Devices can be attached via receivers a included multifunction cable. I was a skeptical, but the convenience factor won me over. Check out the review for more. Also, check the review for the giveaway which ends February 13th.

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• iTunes price increases mean slower sales for music labels

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am

  Since Apple granted music labels the flexibility to set individual song prices between $0.69 and $1.29 on the iTunes Music Store, growth of digital music sales has slowed, one music executive revealed Tuesday.

• Apple introduces 64-bit Aperture 3 with Faces and Places

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:35 am

  Apple on Tuesday released the next major update to its photo editing and management software, with Aperture 3 sporting over 200 new features, including Faces, Places and Brushes for $199 new, or $99 to upgrade.

• Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am

  A strong holiday quarter helped to grow Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market by 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving the iPhone a 25.3 percent share of users, according to a new report.

• iPhone OS 3.1.3 sees 14% adoption in 6 days, new hack released

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm

  A new study has found that 14 percent of iPhone users upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.3 in less than a week of availability, while a new hack to exploit Apple's latest update has been released.

• Amazon rethinking Kindle in the wake of Apple iPad

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am

  Amazon is being forced to rethink many of the design decisions of its Kindle e-book reader after the introduction of Apple's iPad.

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• Wednesday Morning News

  James Green

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:58 am

  When the Apple Store went down last night it was like a Wednesday news reporter’s wet dream. Then I woke up, and found that all Apple had nocturnally emitted was Aperture 3. A ‘personal assistant‘ app for the iPhone. I made my request and two weeks later a dismembered pole vaulter’s arm arrived in the mail. They’ve some work to do. So Amazon are rethinking the Kindle. The guy in this video reckons it looks like something Mennonites made 150 years ago. I didn’t think they had e-ink back then, so I’m not sure that was possible, but hey, he’s the…

• iPhone App Reviews – Synotes, Bills

  Rémy Numa

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:49 am

  This week we look at Australian developer Syncode’s app for wirelessly syncing your notes, and a very stylish expense tracking app called Bills. Synotes Just a few weeks after the release of their copy-and-paste manager app, the folks at Syncode are at it again with an efficient note syncing app. To put it simply, Synotes can wirelessly sync – the vital function that the iPhone’s inbuilt Notes app lacks. It adds a couple of extra features that would otherwise be welcome additions to Apple’s app too. There are quite a few similarities between the Synotes and Syncopy…

• Apple Opening Another Sydney Store: Castle Towers

  Anthony Agius

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:34 pm

  Going by these job posting on the Apple website, it seems that Apple are opening a 4th store in Sydney, this time in Castle Towers Shopping Center, in the suburb of Castle Hills. This is also in conjunction with a Bondi store opening soon too. There’s some discussion of this store opening on our forums. Thanks to the dozens of people who sent this in! Related posts:Apple Opening Retail Store in Bondi, SydneyDoncaster Apple Store Grand Opening Wrap-UpApple Store Chermside – Job listings appear

• Tuesday Morning News

  Raffe Gold

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:10 pm

  Good Morrow fair readers. Hopefully the lark’s song did not wake thee too early and you all have a fantastic day…enough of the Shakespeare talk…here’s the news. MacBook Pro…nice little laptop…we may be getting a new one tomorrow. That’s right, according to a French rumour site, Apple may decide to announce new MacBook Pros. Once again with rumours we always take them with a grain of salt and a heavy dose of skepticism. Are you planning on buying an iPad on launch day and you’re not Decryption??? Well apparently you shouldn’t. Much like the…

• Monday Morning News

  Benny Ling

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:56 am

  Looks like someone accidentally ran GeekBench on one of the as-yet-unreleased i7 MacBook Pros. Oops! Remember how the 27″ panel in the current-generation iMac was praised as “bizzare and incredible“? Perhaps it’s too much so – HardMac say that the firmware of the LCD itself is to blame for all the issues Apple has been having, including the dreaded yellow-tinge-of-death. LaCie are probably better known for making hard drives, and being French. Not that there’s anything wrong with being French, of course – but they’re now making cases for the…

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• Long Multiplication 1.2 – Educational Math App for iPhone and iPod touch

  prMac

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:48 am

  Espoo, Finland – Independent developer Esa Helttula today is pleased to announce the release of Long Multiplication 1.2, a new version of the popular educational math app for iPhone and iPod touch. Long Multiplication was the first long multiplication app in the iTunes App Store. The app can be used to teach and study the long multiplication method. The Long Multiplication Method Step by Step The long multiplication method is the standard pen and paper algorithm for multiplying numbers with several digits. The method breaks down a multiplication problem into a series of easier…

• Macfriendly – A Software Bundle that is Friendly to Your Wallet

  prMac

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am

  Portomaggiore, Italy – MacFriendly today is pleased to announce their new MacFriendly Bundle of 12 applications for Mac users. The Bundle is valued at over $400 and is available for a limited time for only $49.99, which represents a savings of over 85% off the list prices. The bundle includes 12 downloadable software applications, and the latest version of each application is included in the bundle. The 12 programs included in this bundle are: * TwistedWave * Veenix TypeBook Creator * Calico Panorama * Bracketeer * Email Backup Pro * R10Cipher * K Kitchen 3 * Berokyo * CrossOver Mac *…

• This Valentines Day – Tweet To Win Some iBacon Love

  prMac

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:10 am

  Phoenix, Arizona – G-Monkey Productions, the creator of iBacon the iPhone App, is proud to announce the #iBaconLove Twitter contest. One lucky winner will win 2lbs of gourmet bacon shipped right to their door. The Winner will be announced on Valentines Day at 6pm (Mountain Time). * Enter to win by tweeting the contest phrase. * Contestants are allowed to enter once per day (by re-tweeting the contest phrase). * Last chance to enter is 5:00pm (Mountain time), Sunday February 14th, 2010. * Winner will be announced on Sunday February 14th, 2010, at 6:00 pm (Mountain time), and contacted…

• MonitorMyMac Now Free to Help Parents Protect their Children Online

  prMac

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  Ripley, United Kingdom – Arten Science today is pleased to announce that their Macintosh software MonitorMyMac which gives Timed Screenshots and Webcam Images with FTP Upload, is now available FREE of charge for all parents to help them keep their children safe online by monitoring their computer usage. MonitorMyMac takes timed snapshots of your computer Screen(s) and / or takes snapshots from your connected Webcam. These images are stored locally or remotely and are also optionally uploaded to your FTP server or MobileMe Account meaning they can they be accessed from anywhere via…

• Catamount Software Releases PocketMoney 3.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch

  prMac

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  Canterbury, New Hampshire – Catamount Software today is pleased to announce the release of PocketMoney 3.0.2, a major update to their popular personal finance manager for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and touch interface, PocketMoney lets anyone track their cash flow, understand their net worth, budget, track accounts, and improve the overall health of their finances. Featuring a comfortable and simple user interface, PocketMoney is powerful yet easy-to-use and serves as an elegant, yet powerful…

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• Long Multiplication 1.2 - Educational Math App for iPhone and iPod touch

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:48 am

  Independent developer Esa Helttula today released Long Multiplication 1.2, a new update for the popular educational math app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Long Multiplication allows the user to study and practice the standard pen and paper algorithm for multiplying large numbers. The method breaks down a multiplication problem into a series of easier multiplications. Long Multiplication features an intuitive interface with customizable colors and other settings.

• Macfriendly - A Software Bundle that is Friendly to Your Wallet

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:15 am

  MacFriendly today announced their new Bundle of 12 applications for Mac users. The Bundle is available for a limited time and represents a savings of over 85% off the list prices. The bundle includes the latest version of each application. The MacFriendly Bundle provides an unprecedented selection of high quality software at unprecedented low prices. The MacFriendly bundle sale ends on February 26, 2010.

• This Valentines Day - Tweet To Win Some iBacon Love

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:10 am

  Arizona based G-Monkey Productions today announce the #iBaconLove Twitter contest. One lucky winner will win 2lbs of gourmet bacon shipped right to their door. The Winner will be announced on Valentines Day at 6 pm Mountain Time. ibacon is a novelty game app that uses 30 fps video loops to cook real bacon. Users can pinch virtual cooking tongs to flip individual slices, and even tilt to pour off the bacon grease, tilt to eat bacon, as well as shake to turn off the smoke alarm and more.

• MonitorMyMac Now Free to Help Parents Protect their Children Online

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  UK based Arten Science today announced that MonitorMyMac, their Macintosh software which gives Timed Screenshots and Webcam Images with FTP Upload, is now available free of charge for all parents to help them keep their children safe online by monitoring their computer usage. MonitorMyMac takes timed snapshots of your computer Screen and/or takes snapshots from your connected Webcam.

• Catamount Software Releases PocketMoney 3.0.2 for iPhone and iPod touch

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  New Hampshire based Catamount Software today announces PocketMoney 3.0.2, a major update to their popular personal finance manager for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone's unique capabilities and touch interface, PocketMoney lets anyone track their cash flow, understand their net worth, budget, track accounts, and improve the overall health of their finances. Version 3.0.2 sports an improved GUI, browser based file transfer options and more.

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• BioWare's Greg Zeschuk Discusses RPGs

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  February 9, 2010 6:00 AMA.V. Club has posted a new interview with BioWare cofounder Greg Zeschuk. The developer discussed the company's popular role playing game franchises including Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age, covering topics like cinematics, romance, dialog trees, and how the genre is evolving.AVC: Starting with Baldur’s Gate II, your games have also become well-known for the romances that the player forms with other characters in the game. With Dragon Age, the gay sex scene made the news. People are scared that their kids will just all of a sudden end up in this situation in a tent…

• Amnesia: The Dark Descent Reaches Alpha

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  February 9, 2010 6:00 AMFrictional Games recently announced that Amnesia: The Dark Descent has reached the alpha stage. The upcoming new adventure horror title from the creators of the Penumbra series is described as a title which will take players on a "thrill-ride through the depths of madness and explore the dark side of human emotions." It follows the tale of a protagonist on the run from a horrifying foe.So what does this mean? In general terms it means that we now have a large chunk of the game done which we can evaluate and draw conclusions from. More specifically it means:All code for…

• Din's Curse Beta Updated

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  February 9, 2010 6:00 AMSoldak Entertainment has released an update for the beta version of its upcoming action RPG, Din's Curse. The beta version is available to testers and those who have pre-ordered the game. In addition to a variety of quests to complete and monsters to slay the final game will feature 6 characters classes with 18 specialties for a total of 141 possible character combinations.Din, champion of the gods, has cursed you into a second life of service because you selfishly squandered your first one while causing misfortune to those around you. To redeem yourself, you must…

• Missions Of The Reliant OS X Version In Development

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  February 9, 2010 6:00 AMOrange River Studio's Michael Rubin has informed us that his Classic OS shareware game set in outer space, Missions of the Reliant, will be receiving an OS X version. Reliant fan and Mac Programmer Gwynne Raskind has started work on porting the game and will be offering progress updates on her blog.From The Monk's Brew:For those of you who don’t know, I did write one other computer game in the past, The Missions of Starship Reliant (aka, Missions of the Reliant). I had always wanted to write and release a game throughout my childhood, but all I knew back in the 80s…

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• Aperture 3 gets Faces, Places and Brushes

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:45 am

  Apple has unveiled Aperture 3, a new version of its pro photo editing and management software.

• Government rejects call for right to link

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:45 am

  The UK Government has rejected a call for search engines such as Google to be protected from efforts to prevent them linking to websites.

• Adobe admits to Flash crash bug

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:54 am

  Adobe has admitted to failing to address a bug that causes Flash to crash since it was first reported in 2008.

• Google to add social features to Gmail — report

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:13 am

  Google is preparing to add Facebook- and Twitter-style streams to Gmail, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

• File sharing axe threatens human rights says UK Parliament

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:15 am

  The government’s threat to disconnect file sharers could breach internet users’s human rights, according to a parliamentary committee.

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• MacMost Now 355: Sonos ZonePlayer

  Gary Rosenzweig

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  The Sonos ZonePlayers are devices for playing music from your Mac or streaming service through your home network. Take a look at the S5 and the ZP90 ZonePlayers and see how they work. You can also get a ZoneBridge to use your ZonePlayers wirelessly. Sonos Web site. Sonos at Amazon.com.

• MacMost Now 354: Searching Safari History

  Gary Rosenzweig

  5 Feb 2010 | 6:03 am

  Go beyond bookmarks by using your Safari History as an endless bookmarking system. The trick is to learn how to search your history to find pages you have visited hours or days ago. This powerful feature of the Web browser is often overlooked by new Mac users and long-time users alike.

• iPad Backlash, iTunes and iPhone OS Updates

  Gary Rosenzweig

  4 Feb 2010 | 8:29 am

  With so much hype built up around the iPad before its launch, it is not surprising that the device couldn’t live up to it. Many Apple fanboys turned against their favorite company this week, complaining that the iPad doesn’t live up to their expectations. Specifically, many wish it had a camera, multitasking, longer battery life, [...]

• MacMost Now 353: Magic Mouse Custom Gestures

  Gary Rosenzweig

  3 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am

  Since the Magic Mouse’s surface is one big touch-sensitive area, it was only a matter of time before third-party developers came up with solutions for adding custom gestures. By installing free and inexpensive system extensions, you can assign commands to various swipes and taps.

• MacMost Now 352: Saving Money On Apple Products

  Gary Rosenzweig

  1 Feb 2010 | 7:51 am

  You don’t need to pay top dollar for Macs, iPods and iPhones. Other sellers besides Apple have the same products for a little less. Plus you can use educational discounts and credit cards to save even more. Here are some useful tips on how to buy Apple products for less. Online stores where you can buy [...]

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  Macenstein

• Ghost Busting with the Genie Effect

  Dr. Macenstein

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:46 am

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• Enter our “Love is in the Air” Mimobot Valentine’s Day giveaway!

  Dr. Macenstein

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:50 pm

  Well, that didn’t take long. Yes, just 1 day after finally ending our 12 Days After Christmas Giveaway, we’ve once again we’ve teamed up with our good friends at Mimoco to bring you yet another awesome contest! What makes this one so awesome? Well, aside from giving you a chance to win cool stuff, THIS one might actually save your relationship! Admit it, you totally forgot that Valentine’s Day is less than 1 week away. I know I did. Well, here’s your chance to make up for being such a callous oaf and actually give that special someone in your life something…

• Well, that was fun!

  Dr. Macenstein

  7 Feb 2010 | 10:01 pm

  Yes, it’s hard to believe, but we’ve finally cleaned out the prize closet in our “12 Days After Christmas” giveaway – a full 43 days after Christmas. (If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to enter a couple of the contests). Congrats to the winners, our heartfelt thanks to the sponsors who so generously donated their wares, and our condolences to all of you who lost, day in and day out, time and again. It must really suck to be you. But hey, if you didn’t win, don’t despair, I’m sure we’ll have another contest sooner than you can…

• Motorola pulls a Seinfeld with its new Megan Fox ad campaign

  Dr. Macenstein

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:45 pm

  Not since the bizarre casting of infamous Mac-head Jerry Seinfeld as Microsoft’s pitchman has there been such a “What the F?” advertising moment as seeing Megan Fox appear in Motorola’s new Devour Super Bowl commercial. As anyone who’s ever stalked Megan knows, she’s a die-hard iPhone user. It will be interesting to see if she has to start walking around with the Devour as part of her contract, or if she only sold her body, not her soul.

• New study says fewer people thinking of buying an iPad now that they actually know what it is

  Dr. Macenstein

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:34 pm

  Retrevo, everyone’s favorite tech polling site, has published a comparison between its customer’s desire to buy an Apple tablet both pre- and post iPad keynote. The results show a marked decrease in interest in the new Apple product, with half of all respondents now saying they have NO desire to buy an iPad, down from 26% before the announcement. I kind of find this poll interesting in that I had the exact OPPOSITE reaction to the iPad unveiling. For years I had said I would never want to buy an Apple tablet, but each day I find I am more and more interested in buy an iPad. Why?

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  MacUpdate - Mac OS X

• Vienna 2.5.0.2500 - RSS/Atom newsreader. (Free)

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:14 am

  Vienna 2.5.0.2500Vienna is a freeware and open source RSS/Atom newsreader with article storage and management via an SQLite database, written in Objective-C and Cocoa for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are free and available for download. A summary of some of its features: Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts. Simple and intuitive user interface with customisable toolbar. Built-in tabbed browser. Global search of all retrieved articles. Automatic detection of newsfeeds on web pages. Smart…

• AnyToISO 2.6 - Create ISO images from many file types. (Free)

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:13 am

  AnyToISO 2.6AnyToISO Convert BIN, MDF, PDI, CDI, NRG, B5I, IMG, ISZ, ISO, DAA, UIF CD/DVD-ROM images to ISO Universal, fast engine Works on Windows and Mac OS free to convert CD images, Professional license allows to convert DVD images. WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.6: support of ISZ format Extract ISO images some bug fixes REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4.11 or later.PRICEFreeDEVELOPERCrystalIDEA SoftwareDOWNLOADS9125DOWNLOAD NOW (4.8 MB)More information

• Timeline 3D 2.10.0 - Create eye-catching timelines. (Shareware)

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:06 am

  Timeline 3D 2.10.0Bee Docs Timeline 3D... Create timeline charts that inspire. Bee Docs Timeline 3D Edition presents full screen, interactive, three dimensional timeline charts. Full motion 3D Timelines can be sent to Apple;s iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or Keynote presentation software with a single click or exported to High Definition video formats. Stunningly Beautiful Timelines - Film makers, museum curators, professors, novelists, grad students, and business leaders use our software to create elegant timelines. Join them and create your masterpiece today! Create a Timeline in 1, 2, 3 - Your…

• PhotoPresenter 4.0 - Slideshow viewer for your iPhoto library. (Shareware)

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am

  PhotoPresenter 4.0PhotoPresenter is an award-winning, easy-to-use and powerful slideshow viewer. It allows you to quickly present all your pictures and movies, and to create amazing presentations in just a snap. Have you ever been upset by the fact that movies you capture with your digital camera just can't be viewed as easily as still pictures? Or just looking for a simple slideshow viewer to quickly and elegantly present the pictures of your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, or from anywhere else? PhotoPresenter is just what you need! It combines a real ease of use with gorgeous looking…

• iNMR Reader 3.4 - Visualize Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectra. (Demo)

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:26 am

  iNMR Reader 3.4iNMR Reader has all the functionalities of the iNMR application with the same version number, but the user can't save the modified documents. This reader will be used to print, to create pictures and PDF documents. Processing of raw data, deconvolutions and quantum-chemistry computations are also allowed.WHAT'S NEWVersion 3.4: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4 or later.PRICE$50.00DEVELOPERGiuseppe BalaccoDOWNLOADS5844DOWNLOAD NOW (1.4 MB)More information

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  The Mac Lawyer

• AT&T Lowers Cost of Unlimited Plan for iPhone

  J. Benjamin Stevens

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:03 pm

  In an attempt to compete with Verizon’s new unlimited plans and perhaps to make it less enticing for users to jump to Verizon when the anticipated move to Verizon is announced, AT&T has lowered the cost of their unlimited voice and data plan to $99.99 (old price was $129.999) effective Monday, January 18. This is great news for lawyers and law firms paying for unlimited voice and data Nationwide plans. However, as is always the case with AT&T, there is a catch. The change must be made manually either at their website at att.com/wireless or by visiting a store. There is no cost…

• Happy Anniversary to Rocket Matter

  J. Benjamin Stevens

  4 Feb 2010 | 5:49 am

  The Mac Lawyer would like to wish a happy anniversary to my good friends at Rocket Matter, as it has been two years since their public launch.  My firm has been using Rocket Matter from almost the very beginning, and we believe it to be one of the premier online case management systems for attorneys. As part of their anniversary celebration, Rocket Matter has launched Rocket Matter Professional Services, which can help minimize downtime as firms migrate from their old software to this Software as a Service (SaaS) platform.  If you want to know more about Rocket Matter, you can visit…

• Fear Not - Viruses, Worms, Etc. Still No Threat for Macs

  J. Benjamin Stevens

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:01 pm

  PC users are still plagued by security threats from many sources – viruses, worms, and other malware.  Meanwhile, Mac users continue to rest easy because their computers remain safe and secure. Macworld recently reported "we have yet to see any widespread malware for Macs; your risk of infection is essentially zero."  This information should make even the most paranoid among us more comfortable.   You can read more about this topic in the Macworld article by clicking here. Source:  "Mac Security: What You Can Ignore" by Rich Mogull, published…

• iPad Envy? Save Money with Gadget Spa Day

  J. Benjamin Stevens

  28 Jan 2010 | 9:01 pm

  This week marked the much awaited announcement of the Apple iPad. Considering that people’s mouths were watering over the non-event of the iPhone 3G S launch last year, the arrival of the tablet is garnering, as many have observed, the type of interest reserved only for other tablets delivered to the masses several millenia ago (though made out of stone). Money is tight in 2010, so with a sense of sadness and impatience, we must often wait to own our beloved new gadget. Or we dip into college or retirement savings. The Onion hilariously captured our lemming-like excitement over new…

• iPad = iWow

  J. Benjamin Stevens

  28 Jan 2010 | 5:03 am

  I missed Steve Jobs' keynote address yesterday announcing the iPad, but I have watched Apple's video about the it (admittedly several times) in the last 24 hours.  Wow.  I was anxiously waiting to see what Steve had up the sleeve of his black turtleneck with regard to a table computer, but the iPad far surpasses my expectations.  I mean, I was expecting to pay $1,500 or more, but the prices start at $499?  How could you not get one? I am prone to justifying seemingly needless expenditures on new Apple hardware, but with that being said, I can think of…

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  World of Apple

• Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Over 200 New Features

  Alex Brooks

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:53 am

  Apple Aperture 3 Apple today released a major update to its powerful photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 packs over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto ’09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier and faster to organise large photo libraries. Aperture 3 introduces new tools to refine your photos including Brushes for painting image adjustments onto parts of your photo, and Adjustment Presets for applying professional photo effects with just one click. Stunning new slideshows let you share your…

• MacBook Pro Refresh Tomorrow, Core I7 Model Specs Leaked

  Alex Brooks

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:20 am

  French website Nowhere Else is reporting that Apple will release new MacBook Pro models tomorrow, a rumour that comes hot on the heels of a purported leak of a new MacBook Pro model on a benchmarking site. Steve Hemmerstoffer for Nowhere Else writes that, “An anonymous source who works for Apple just tell me that the new MacBook Pro line will be launched tomorrow”. A release tomorrow would coincide with the start of the first Apple-less Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Over the weekend it was revealed that a GeekBench post could potentially refer to an unreleased MacBook Pro model,…

• Apple Could Lower iPad Pricing on Demand

  Alex Brooks

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am

  Apple has stated that it intends to stay “nimble” on iPad pricing if sales are sluggish upon release. The information comes from a note to clients from analyst Bill Shope on behalf of Credit Suisse recounting meetings with Apple executives. Shope starts with downplaying the idea of potential cannibalisation of other Apple products by the iPad. Shope wrote that, “the company [Apple] believes it could eventually be seen as superior to both handheld and notebook devices for browsing the Internet, using the App Store, and consuming mobile media (video, photos, and e-books).

• Apple’s A4 Processors Packs ARM Power

  Alex Brooks

  6 Feb 2010 | 6:21 am

  Apple's A4 Processor inside iPad In an interview with The Guardian, chief executive of ARM Warren East has given the “strongest hint yet” that the company’s technology is inside the iPad. The iPad officially—according to Apple’s spec sheets—uses an in-house Apple A4 SoC (system on chip) processor, but speculation has suggested that the chip incorporates ARM’s Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, more commonly known as the Snapdragon chip. In the interview with the UK newspaper the chief executive hinted that the mystery would soon be over saying, “I would doubt…

• Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D548 Unleashed [Seed Notes]

  Alex Brooks

  6 Feb 2010 | 2:39 am

  Developers received the latest build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 late Friday evening. Since the last build released on January 22, Apple has added a further 9 enhancements and removed any currently known issues. The latest build labelled 10D548 asks for developers to focus on five areas when testing their applications in this build. Seed notes included below. Included in this update Performance improvements for 64-bit Logic Addresses compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications Includes changes to QuickTime X that increase reliability, improve compatibility and address security. Improves…

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  iPhonefreak

• Apple reportedly has remained “nimble” on iPad pricing

  Robert Nelson

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:05 am

  According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, Apple was noted as wanting to remain “nimble” when it comes to iPad pricing. In other words, despite the seemingly nice starting price of $499, if sales are poor that could possibly be lowered. “While it remains to be seen how much traction the iPad gets initially, [...]

• Wordpress iPhone app gets an update; you can now edit and reply to comments

  Robert Nelson

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:47 am

  Wordpress for the iPhone (and iPod touch) has recently been given an update. The app is now at version 2.2 and with that comes a few new features. While not a large set of new features was added, I would say these are going to be welcomed additions. At least welcomed by those who are [...]

• Hutchison Austria preparing to offer discounted iPad’s (on-contract)

  Robert Nelson

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:36 am

  Hutchison Austria is preparing to begin offering the iPad (once available) at a discounted rate. Of course, that means you will be agreeing to and signing a contract which in this case is two years. Price wise, according to the website, the carrier will be offering a discount of €333 for those willing to sign [...]

• ZoomIt Memory Card Reader Announced Today

  Andy Boxall

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:54 am

  Today, zoomMediaPlus have unveiled the zoomIt, a memory card reader which plugs into your iPhone’s 30-pin connector to allow viewing and sharing of all the files stored on it.  The adapter works in conjunction with the zoomIt app, and can be used on both the iPhone and iPod Touch, although they will need to have [...]

• Preschool Adventures App For Toddlers

  Cody Buchanan

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:43 am

  I recently had to babysit my 3 year old nephew. Now, I’m no professional babysitter who knows exactly what kids need and want. But I do know the basics of babysitting. And I knew that I had absolutely nothing in my house that a three year old would like to play with. So, I thought [...]

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  Mac Amour

• iTunes 9.0.3 update released

  Hedi Regaya

  1 Feb 2010 | 2:56 pm

  Available from OS X’s Software update. Share: Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

• First Security Update for 2010

  Hedi Regaya

  20 Jan 2010 | 3:15 pm

  Get it from your software update menu. Share: Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

• New Rumors Around Apple: iPhone4G, iSlate, Apple Tablet

  Hedi Regaya

  4 Jan 2010 | 10:50 pm

  iPhone 4G, that is rumored to get a larger display screen with a 5 Megapixel camera. Maybe a longer battery life too. that will be unveiled later on this year, Apple Tablet/ iSlate (Table Computer... Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

• Is Office 2010 the largest JavaScript app in the world?

  Hedi Regaya

  2 Jan 2010 | 6:03 am

  Superb work from Microsoft. Share: Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

• Snow Leopard Server Wallpaper

  Hedi Regaya

  23 Dec 2009 | 11:04 am

  After posting the original Leopard Server’s wallpaper a while ago here, here is the Snow Leopard’s. You can download it just by clicking here. Share: Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

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  Reality Distortion: Macs, Mac OS X, and Apple stuff

• iPhone Game Review: Trivial Pursuit

  Matt

  25 Jan 2010 | 2:50 am

  Last year Electronic Arts released an iPhone version of the popular Trivial Pursuit trivia quiz game. Here’s my review of the “International” version of the game (I’m not sure what the other versions are called). The game features a single-player option, as well as 2 multiplayer options: “Pass ‘n Play”, where each player takes turns with the same device, and “Wi-Fi Multiplayer”, where each player has their own device. A basic question pack is included, and you can also buy additional packs within the game. The questions are all in…

• Underworlds revisited

  Matt

  21 Dec 2009 | 9:20 pm

  Back in June I reviewed Underworlds, a role-playing adventure game for the iPhone. In the review I mentioned a few niggles with the game, including: Short play time Linear game play A single character class The limit of 10 character levels Fiddly movement controls Since then, Pixel Mine have released a free update to Underworlds that addresses practically all of these issues. I have to say I’m impressed, considering it was a free update. What’s more they’ve even lowered the price of the full app from $5 to $3! The new version has: More than double the content A new city…

• My Super Collection of iPhone Sync Errors

  Matt

  26 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm

  Is it just me, or does iTunes come up with a different excuse for not syncing with the iPhone each and every day? Don’t get me wrong – syncing is pretty reliable on the whole, and whenever an error does occur, a resync or reconnect usually sorts it out. Still, I’m amazed at the sheer number of things that can apparently go wrong during syncing. It doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it? I must get an error dialog of some sort at least once a week. So I started collecting them (sad I know). Here’s the collection I’ve built up so far, over the last few…

• Castle Warriors: A simple iPhone Strategy Game

  Matt

  19 Nov 2009 | 11:19 pm

  Castle Warriors from GameResort is a fun little iPhone/iPod Touch battle game that I’ve been playing with for a while. It falls under the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) category. Rather than waiting for your turn, you make decisions in real time as the action happens around you. In many ways, Castle Warriors is a 3D version of the excellent Galcon. Instead of planets, you have towers. You start with all your soliders in 1 tower; tap it, then tap a target tower to move a certain amount (half by default) of your soliders to that tower. You can move to empty towers or enemy towers this way…

• Should You Buy a Mac?

  Matt

  26 Oct 2009 | 5:59 pm

  My esteemed colleague (and fellow Mac user) Simon Meek recently wrote a piece about why designers tend to use Macs. This got me thinking: Why did I buy a Mac? I’m more of a coder/”computer nerd” than a designer. And what sort of people (apart from designers) are Macs suited to? Here are some handy guidelines to help you decide whether or not a Mac is right for you. First, some good reasons to buy a Mac… You should buy a Mac if: You’re a creative type. Macs are very well suited to designers (as already mentioned), musicians, artists, photographers, and folks in…

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  macZOT!

• PicsAid

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  PicsAidPicture Browser & Recovery Tool for iPod & iPhone Normally: $19.90 ZOT Price: $9.90 Click to MacZOT    How much are the pictures synced in your iPhone or iPod worth? Get them back now with PicsAid for only $9.90 Have you ever noticed that pictures that have been synced into an iPod or an iPhone cannot be accessed nor copied back to a computer? Effectively, iTunes allows only a one-way sync of your favorite pictures: from computer to device… PicsAid will allow retrieval of all the pictures that were synced with iTunes. In the event of a computer crash or simply…

• Call Recorder for Skype

  7 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  Call Recorder for SkypeThe Easy Way to Record Skype Calls! One-click recording of Skype audio and video Normally: $19.95 ZOT Price: $9.95 Click to MacZOT    Call Recorder for Skype The easy and reliable way to record Skype calls and podcast interviews. Call Recorder is an add-on for Skype which automatically transforms your audio or video calls into QuickTime movies. Call Recorder is great for lessons, interviews or just having fun. The Call Recorder window allows you to start and stop the recording, as well as adjust recording options. Features:…

• BannerZest 2

  5 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  BannerZest 2 - Create animated Flash banners in a few clicks!Liven up your website or blog iDive 2 Special Offer available all weekend! Click to Developer’s Site for more info. Special Offer! iDive 2 iDive offers videographers, both professionals and amateur enthusiasts, the possibility of managing video footage collections. iDive transforms your videos into a catalog that’s easy and quick to put together and access.

• iDive 2

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  iDive 2Create and organize your digital video catalog! This Weekend’s ZOT?

• Stor

  3 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

  StorQuick and easy MySQL editor for your Mac. Stor makes using MySQL as simple as a spreadsheet, but it also contains many powerful features. Normally: $26.00 ZOT Price: $13.00 Click to MacZOT    Stor Stor is the MySQL editor from The Escapers, created to be a partner product to it’s flagship Flux 2 web design application. While Flux 2 handles the front-end web design, Stor takes care of your back-end databases. Stor is incredibly simple to use, and allows you to get started with MySQL incredibly easily. However, Stor also has high-end features such as SSH tunnelling, table…

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  i drank the kool-aid

• give us this day our daily kool-aid

  dizzle

  5 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  Let the iPad festivities begin Putting Steve Balmer to good use I was wondering about this, and of course, amongst the Steve-obsessed, I am not the only one (via MacDailyNews) INSERT IMAGE Oh yes, he has put on a few pounds of Jobsian goodness And more from MacDailyNews Well I don’t like much about the obama-mination, but I do like this

• good grief

  dizzle

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:38 pm

  The iPad needs native multi-tasking like a man needs a built-in vagina. I have had it over the anti-iPad whinging. And while the iTampon jokes are a flying, I am almost surprised that there isn’t a groundswell of complaints that the danged thing can’t be used as a tampon. It would make about as much sense as most of the current crop of complaints which amount to nothing more than having a hissy fit because the iPad isn’t a MacBook. It isn’t intended to be. Just like men weren’t intended to have vaginas. They might be better off in that they finally could find a…

• all about steve jobs

  dizzle

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:54 pm

  Here’s is to remind all my readers about this awesome site, all about Steve Jobs. The address has changed due to the godawful vistaster of a movie, All About Steve, that has been a frequent target at the Photoshop Disasters blog. One feature is the image of the month. Here is your February Jobsian pin-up. Grrrr…yow! Yummy.

• give us this day our daily kool-aid

  dizzle

  3 Feb 2010 | 4:49 pm

  I just love this image The world’s deadliest man-purse and the iPad. A perfect match. (please no metrosexual girlie purses) Check out this old Rolling Stone interview with Dear Leader, described as, These days Jobs rarely speaks to reporters, except in short, carefully managed bursts and Apple-boosting soundbytes. This wasn’t always the case. Sixteen years ago, I sat down with him for a few hours in the sparse offices of NeXT Computer, the company he started after getting booted out of Apple in 1985. It was a different world then. The personal computer revolution seemed played…

• one more thing…

  dizzle

  1 Feb 2010 | 4:44 am

  Here is some exciting news. I have been asked to bring i drank the koolaid to the front page of MyAppleSpace in the near future. I hope to write more opinion[ated] pieces at that time rather than just the sippy cup fodder. The blog will remain here as well as I fiercely clutch my dixie cup of apple goodness. Remember, don’t take me or yourself too seriously, and no one will get hurt.

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  TheAppleBlog

• Sponsor post: Atimi Software Joins AT&T Business Alliance Channel Program as an Apple Ecosystem Elite Member

  Edit Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Atimi Software Inc. has joined the AT&T Business Alliance Channel program as an Elite Member in the Apple ecosystem providing mobility solutions. Atimi joins a small number of firms supporting AT&T’s business customers in the United States as they develop and evolve their brand image, e-commerce, and publishing strategies on Apple’s iPhone and other smartphone platforms. Atimi is one of the leading iPhone development firms in North America and by December of 2009 had produced more than 25 iPhone applications for leading U.S. brands in Media & Entertainment; Fashion; Health;…

• Apple Grabs a Quarter of U.S. Smartphone Market

  Darrell Etherington

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:03 am

  Perhaps it has to do with Apple positioning itself as a mobile devices company, but the iPhone is on a serious upswing in the U.S. smartphone market, even while all of its competitors seem to be losing ground. Except for one, that is, and the rate at which that company is building up steam should give the Mac maker cause for some concern. For the moment, though, Apple is doing much better than anyone in the space, really. The latest comScore report, which covers a three month period from September to December of 2009, shows Apple as having 25.3 percent of the total smartphone market share, up…

• Apple Finally Releases Aperture 3

  Nick Santilli

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  A month ago I vented about Aperture 2’s stagnation, and many of you rallied along with me. Well everyone can stow their torches and pitchforks — Aperture 3 has finally been released today by Apple. With over 200 new features, the latest version of Apple’s professional photo processing and organization software should have something to please everyone. The fairly obvious improvements like Faces, Places and 64-bit architecture (for Snow Leopard users with Core 2 Duo Processors) are there, of course. But there are so many cool new features — I won’t touch on all of…

• Apple May Lower the Price of the iPad: This is Not News

  Liam Cassidy

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:14 am

  Sometimes I have to wonder whether everyone has taken leave of their senses. The big “news” doing the rounds in the last twenty four hours is that Apple execs have admitted they are prepared to change the price of the iPad should consumer reception (read: sales) demand it. Yeah, that’s right; Apple admitted it might revisit the price of the iPad sometime in the future, and change it according to sales performance. Shocking, that a company might operate according to a business plan designed to encourage sales and make money, eh? Apparently, that’s somehow mind-boggling news. It got…

• The iPad Could Mean Big Trouble for AT&T’s Network, FCC Warns

  Darrell Etherington

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:44 am

  People are excited about the arrival of the iPad (or at least, some people are), but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is a little more apprehensive about what the device could mean for AT&T’s wireless 3G network. In an official FCC blog posting at Broadband.gov, Director of Scenario Planning Phil Bellaria and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Deputy Chief John Liebovitz expressed that concern. Bellaria and Liebovitz didn’t specifically mention AT&T by name, but it seems fairly obvious who they’re talking about in the FCC blog post last week, especially…

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  Mac Tricks And Tips

• Capture Your Screen With QuickTime

  admin

  7 Feb 2010 | 12:24 pm

  Hey A few months ago I mentioned about Taking Time Lapsed Screen Shots With Terminal, it was a script which would take a screen shot every couple of seconds of your desktop. This is useful if you are taking a time lapse movie, but it is not useful if you actually want to show people videos of your desktop. I have previously written a post on iShowU which can take movies of you desktop. This post will show you how you can do this for free using QuickTime Player which comes with Snow Leopard. To capture your desktop video open QuickTime Player in your Applications folder. Then from your File…

• Change Default iCal Event Length

  admin

  6 Feb 2010 | 2:22 pm

  Hello This is going to be a quick tip for any users who regularly use iCal. When you create a new event, either in the day, week or month viewer  you will realise that the length of the event is one hour long, for most people this is fine. However if you regularly have meetings which are half an hour long, or book rooms for two ours at a time, it may be beneficial and more efficient to adjust the default meeting time. This means you don’t have to fiddle around with the length slot if you regularly use the same event length. This trick, as many tricks on this site do, uses Terminal.

• Disable Front Row’s Keyboard Short Cut

  admin

  2 Feb 2010 | 12:04 pm

  Good Evening, Normally Front Row, Apple’s multimedia interface which I haven’t used in a long time, is accessed by either pressing the keyboard short cut, using the Apple remote or clicking on the applications icon in Finder. I have found that using the short cut (Command + Escape) is a bit cumbersome, I also end up pressing it every so often while I am working. If you don’t use Front Row it can be a good idea to disable to short cut to stop being interrupted by the application starting up. Disabling Front Row’s short cut is very simple. It involves going into the…

• Working With The Date Function In Terminal

  admin

  31 Jan 2010 | 1:24 pm

  Hey Yesterday I wrote a post on the calendar function in Terminal, its designed as a two part series, with the second part being about the date function. I found in bash scripts the two functions sort of work hand in hand. This post is going to show you some of the main features of the date function. The date function is more versatile in that you can easily pick out the piece of information you want, the week of the year, day of the year etc, the calendar function is more graphical. The date function can be used to set the date in your Mac, however I will not be going into this today as I…

• Working With The Calendar Function In Terminal

  admin

  30 Jan 2010 | 12:42 pm

  Hey Today and tomorrows post will be a two part mini-series on the date and calendar function within Terminal on your Mac. If you are ever into scripting or working with GeekTool (I have an old post about GeekTool here) it may be very useful to learn how to work with the calendar function in various scripts or what ever you decide to use it with. The calendar function is very useful for producing graphical representations (in text) of any month of any year. Tomorrows post will feature the date function which complements the calendar function nicely. The commands talked about in post can be…

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  MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News

• How Else Do You Think We’ll Get to Star Trek?

  Aviv

  28 Jan 2010 | 7:06 pm

  Forget everything you’ve heard about the iPad. Put aside all the caveats and seemingly major flaws that people are floating around, and think about what Apple’s really doing here. If you don’t quite get it, don’t worry, it’ll eventually click. A tablet computer, a beefed up iPhone, a touch screen slate, the iPad, whatever you call it, this device’s magnitude won’t be entirely realized for a few years to come. The ambition behind this single device is huge. What Apple’s trying to do here is momentous, it’s unmatched and whether you like it…

• MacBlogz Is With CoCo!

  Aviv

  15 Jan 2010 | 5:40 pm

  MacBlogz stands behind Conan O’Brien. Show your support for the movement and artist Mike Mitchell by purchasing an original I’m With CoCo t-shirt or print. Read more about the I’m With CoCo movement here and here. Related posts:[Photo Gallery][updates] MacBlogz iPhone 3G Launch Line PicsAppleCare. What is it Good For?[Video] MacBlogz iPhone 3G Launch Line continued.

• Ditching the iPhone? I’ll Bet WinMo Has What You Want

  Aviv

  31 Jul 2009 | 11:15 am

  As of late, we have three prominent names publicly ditching the iPhone. Om Malik, from GigaOm, Michael Arrington from TechCrunch, and one person who’s inspired me for ages, macintosh developer Steven Frank from Panic, inc. here in Portland, Oregon. While I have no qualms with their decisions to ditch the iPhone, I’m having a tough time understanding what the hell they’re talking about. The iPhone is a big deal… Period. It radically changed the entire mobile industry. Since its launch in 2007, Apple has clobbered sales records and the iPhone revenue bomb continues to…

• iPhone 3GS: Some Pit-falls Revolving Search, Photos and Videos

  Aviv

  19 Jun 2009 | 4:43 pm

  I’ve had roughly 7 hands on hours with the iPhone 3GS. While the device performs entirely like a newer, faster, more powerful iPhone, a few pit-falls regarding searching and tagging leave me a tad confused. Undoubtedly, the video recording feature is absolutely phenomenal. I’ve already been recording everything around me for the fun of it, and within a few hours, I managed to capture roughly 20 different videos. Alongside this, with the new auto-focus photography feature I found myself taking more pictures. Situations where images would’ve shown up blurry or dark in the…

• Israel Finally (Officially) Gets the iPhone

  Aviv

  15 Jun 2009 | 7:03 pm

  From an article on popular Israeli website nana10, it has been announced that Israel will finally (officially) get the iPhone through national carrier support. As of now, the announcements only state that Pelephone will be carrying the device and that they’ve been told to “get ready” for the launch. What’s perplexing is why Orange isn’t anywhere near these negotiations. They have a major presence in Israel and surrounding nations. Plus they already have deals with Apple to carry the iPhone, and it has been reported that they have upwards of 1 million iPhone users…

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  MacCast - For Mac Geeks, by Mac Geeks

• Maccast 2010.01.27 - Apple iPad Announcement Wrap-up with Clayton Morris

  Adam Christianson (Mac Geek) & Clayton Morris

  28 Jan 2010 | 12:29 am

  A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 290b. A special episode of the Maccast where I am joined by Clayton Morris (ClaytonMorris.com). Clayton was actually at today's Apple iPad announcement, so we get to chat with him and get his first hand perspective on the sexy new device. Enjoy. Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or AAC (enhanced)

• Maccast 2010.01.27 - Apple iPad Announcement Wrap-up with Ken Ray

  Adam Christianson (Mac Geek) & Ken Ray

  27 Jan 2010 | 11:18 pm

  A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 290. A special episode of the Maccast where I am joined by Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken) to go over our thoughts, impressions, and insights on today's Apple iPad announcement. Enjoy. Special thanks to our sponsors: Circus Ponies NoteBook - The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Faronics Deep Freeze Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or AAC (enhanced)

• Maccast 2010.01.17 - CES 2010 with iProng

  Adam Christianson (Mac Geek), Bill Palmer, & Daynah

  17 Jan 2010 | 11:42 pm

  A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. A special episode of the Maccast. We invite the folks from iProng Magazine over to help us run down their top iPhone and iPod picks from the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Links iProng Magazine PHP Princess Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or AAC (enhanced)

• Maccast 2010.01.10

  Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)

  10 Jan 2010 | 11:59 pm

  A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 289. Apple acquires mobile ad company for $275 million. iPhone a touch more accurate than others. Latest Mac tablet rumors. Latest iPhone 4G rumors. New concept Apple Store in Palo Alto. Has Apple finally won over Greenpeace? Small Bonjour update. iTunes 30 second previews get webified. Mac OS X 10.6.3 update goes into wider testing. Time Machine backup isn't all that? Magic Mouse Update. Can't buy OS X for Non-Intel Macs. More info in Get Info… Explaining the different "types" of memory in OS X. Your $0.99 addiction…

• Maccast 2009.12.28

  Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)

  28 Dec 2009 | 11:35 pm

  A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 288. iPhone moves up as a top phone in 2009. International iPhone competition heating up. Rumors of next iPhone spinning up. Apple Store set to open in Philly. Apple updates 27" iMac firmware. 2010 Apple Rumors all about the Tablet. Correcting an error on the Maccast anniversary. More Flash stopping software. More on Apple growth outside the US. Time Machine tips. iPhoto image location, corruption, permissions, oh my. iMovie HD no longer an option, moving on. Lock your Mac from the menubar. Special thanks to our sponsor:…

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  Macgasm

• Apple releases Aperture 3 complete with 200 updates.

  Joshua Schnell

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:32 am

  When everyone was looking for new Macbook Pros, Apple decided to slip in an Aperture update. Those sneaky people at Apple managed to trick us all. It’s nice having a little surprise like that. The rumour mill is so ramped up these days that it’s hard to sneak anything by us. I’m not a photographer, so I can’t really speak to the innovation in this bundle, but Apple does claim that there’s over 200 new features and tweaks, and some of them seem pretty substantial. They now let you manage video, audio, and photos from the application, and you can now create…

• If you like casual games Fall Down’s probably for you

  Joshua Schnell

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Some of my favourite games for the iPhone are ones that let me get in, get my gaming on, and then get out. If I plan to spend some prolonged time gaming, I’ll probably sit down at my computer or my Xbox 360. Fall Down is one of the simpler games on my iPhone, and it’s super fun, especially if you like challenging friends to a game of “Get the best score.” The concept of the game is super simple. Tilt the screen to make the ball roll from left to right, while trying to make sure you don’t get squished between the top of the screen and one of the neon rows. The…

• 3 Things to help you check the condition of your battery

  Joshua Schnell

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am

  Have you ever noticed that your battery is acting little funky, but you have no idea what you can do about it? There’s a couple of applications and tricks available to you to determine whether or not your batteries starting to fail on you. If you’re on a highway to the danger zone you’re going to want to figure out just how much time you have left before you’re flying solo, sans laptop. Option+Click your battery icon The first step is making use of a hidden feature in OS X Snow Leopard. Apple’s introduced a whole slew of handy hidden options, by holding down the…

• iPad Camera kit gets some competition from Zoomit

  Joshua Schnell

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am

  A lot of people criticized the iPad for the lack of an SD card reader, despite Apple releasing the iPad Camera kit. I’m still not sure where I fall on that argument yet, but it appears like someone else has heard the cries from photographers around the world. The fine folks at Zoomit have created an SD card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch lineup. The device pairs up with the companies free  iPhone / Touch application to give users access to SD cards on their mobile devices. There’s no mention of them releasing an iPad version, but I feel fairly confident in my guess that…

• Could Apple be lowering the price of the iPad?

  Gerard Lagana

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am

  How many of us were surprised when we heard that the iPad was starting at $499?  I for one was most certainly surprised, along with the many netbook makers that were planning on undercutting the price of the iPad.  They were planning on dropping the price on the already low cost netbooks; however, this all changed when Steve Jobs announced the iPad at a whopping $499.  Which leads me to my next point.  Can the iPad be sold for less? Well, according to a piece from the Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat, this is exactly what Apple plans on doing.  Now don’t get overly excited.  There…

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  Downloads - Mac OS X - Just Added

• Barcode Studio 9.4.4

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Barcode Studio Generate high-quality bar code images for pre-press requirements and for desktop publishing applications within minutes. Barcode Studio operates on its own, no additional software is required. Barcodes: PDF417, MicroPDF, DataMatrix (ECC200), Maxicode, QR-Code, Codablock, EAN-UCC-Composite, RSS, GS1 DataBar, Aztec.

• Mu Voice 1.3

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Mu Voice Allows you to tune your vocal recordings, apply special effects and add natural sounding harmonies when mixing your track. The proprietary spectral analysis and synthesis techniques set new standards in vocal processing providing a unique tool for your recording studio. Tedious pitch curve editing is history now. An internal delay of only 5.8 ms makes Mu Voice the ideal vocal processor to perform live on stage.

• New Star Tennis 1.05

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About New Star Tennis Unlike any other tennis game out there. It couples a fun and addictive game of tennis with a detailed career mode that gives you a glimpse into the life of a young tennis star. Starting out as a 16 year old newcomer to the circuit you must train hard and win tournaments around the globe as you compete on the NSG World Tour. As you earn points you will move up the ranking chart, earning cash and sponsorship deals along the way. It’s not all tennis though! To keep your spirits up you can spend time in the casino, go karting, play darts, or even buy and train race horses!

• Radioshift 1.5.3

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Radioshift Listen to and record Internet and AM/FM radio from around the world on your schedule. Radioshift’s built-in guide provides over 100,000 listings for radio programs and stations, in all manner of audio formats. Listen in live in one convenient player. Even better, with one click, you can subscribe to any radio program. Radioshift will then record it for later listening in iTunes or on your iPod!

• Flip4Mac Windows Media Components for QuickTime 2.3.1.2

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Flip4Mac Windows Media Components for QuickTime With Flip4Mac Windows Media Components for QuickTime you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.

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  UKMac.net

• Come See Our New Creation Event – Jan 27th

  Scott

  18 Jan 2010 | 3:23 pm

  I have purposely steered away from all the rumouring around Apples forthcoming announcement mainly due to the sheer volume of posts everywhere else, but today the rumours have gone some way to being confirmed after Apple sent out invites to an event on Jan 27th ( just 9 days away from today ). The tagline of “Come see our latest creation” doesn’t really confirm the nature of the event but it is clear that the industry is very much behind the view that this one will finally, after a number of false starts, be the event where Apple show us what they think a tablet computer…

• Pastebot Supercharges iPhone Copy and Paste

  Scott

  10 Jan 2010 | 3:28 pm

  Pastebot from Tapbots is a powerful and flexible clipboard manager for the iPhone that makes copying and pasting images and text between apps straightforward. Clippings are stored in a set of folders which can be kept indefinitely and which can be searched and retrieved very easily. Images can be edited/cropped etc using the built in editing tools then either saved in clipboard, stored in the Photo library or emailed out. The really clever feature though has to be the Pastebot Sync app for Mac. This allows Pastebot on the iPhone to pair itself to one or more Macs running the Sync app and to…

• Facecall for iPhone

  Scott

  10 Jan 2010 | 2:57 pm

  Facecall for iPhone is a clever app that uses Web clips to create an icon on your iPhone home screen that when launched will quick dial a selected entry in your address book. The icon defaults to the contact image from your address book but you can replace this with a picture from your photo library or snap an image using the iPhones camera if you prefer. The images can be adjusted before saving to ensure the person is easily recognisable. You can create as many of these dialer icons as you wish effectively creating a quick dial contacts page on your iPhone. Not a free app but for £1.79 it…

• Apple Blogs : Macgasm.net

  Scott

  18 Nov 2009 | 1:47 pm

  Macgasm.net is a rapidly developing blog for Mac and Apple enthusiasts run by Joshua Schnell ( @macgasm ) and is supported by a growing number of guest contributors. Apart from daily news and reviews Josh and Grant Brunner also record regular audio podcasts which are available on iTunes, there are occasional screencasts providing step through instructions and howtos and recently Josh has announced plans to begin a video podcast. This site is nicely put together and is well worth a bookmark in your browser or favourite news reader. Recommended.

• NHSMail Now Available In Snow Leopard Mail App

  Scott

  16 Nov 2009 | 3:11 pm

  Like many Mac using NHS Staff I was excited then quickly disappointed to discover that the new Exchange 2007 compatibility did not extend as far as allowing me to access my NHSMail email account at home. When trying to configure Mail to connect to the NHS Email service over the Internet the connection would fail during initial setup. This turned out to be due to a compatibility issue with the patch level on the NHS Mail servers and Mail app which interestingly did not affect connections from Macs on N3 ( the NHS Private network ) Thankfully with the release of 10.6.2 this issue has now been…

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  MacMost

• MacMost Now 355: Sonos ZonePlayer

  Gary Rosenzweig

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  The Sonos ZonePlayers are devices for playing music from your Mac or streaming service through your home network. Take a look at the S5 and the ZP90 ZonePlayers and see how they work. You can also get a ZoneBridge to use your ZonePlayers wirelessly. Sonos Web site. Sonos at Amazon.com.

• MacMost Now 354: Searching Safari History

  Gary Rosenzweig

  5 Feb 2010 | 6:03 am

  Go beyond bookmarks by using your Safari History as an endless bookmarking system. The trick is to learn how to search your history to find pages you have visited hours or days ago. This powerful feature of the Web browser is often overlooked by new Mac users and long-time users alike.

• iPad Backlash, iTunes and iPhone OS Updates

  Gary Rosenzweig

  4 Feb 2010 | 8:29 am

  With so much hype built up around the iPad before its launch, it is not surprising that the device couldn’t live up to it. Many Apple fanboys turned against their favorite company this week, complaining that the iPad doesn’t live up to their expectations. Specifically, many wish it had a camera, multitasking, longer battery life, [...]

• MacMost Now 353: Magic Mouse Custom Gestures

  Gary Rosenzweig

  3 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am

  Since the Magic Mouse’s surface is one big touch-sensitive area, it was only a matter of time before third-party developers came up with solutions for adding custom gestures. By installing free and inexpensive system extensions, you can assign commands to various swipes and taps.

• MacMost Now 352: Saving Money On Apple Products

  Gary Rosenzweig

  1 Feb 2010 | 7:51 am

  You don’t need to pay top dollar for Macs, iPods and iPhones. Other sellers besides Apple have the same products for a little less. Plus you can use educational discounts and credit cards to save even more. Here are some useful tips on how to buy Apple products for less. Online stores where you can buy [...]

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  Thriftmac

• MetaX

  Mark

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:57 am

  Tag your MP4 files the easy way with an app that searches the IMDB catalogue and puts the information in for you. Share data via tagChimp, scan DVD barcodes with iSight and search the Internet for movie posters.

• An iPad future

  Mark

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:16 am

  You know about IT. Depending on the size of the company this can be one guy or a group of guys whose job it is to keep the computers running. When a server crashes, they get it back on its feet. When someone loses a file, they find it. When someone is baffled by how a program works, they show them how to use it. We all accept this as normal. Frustrating, but normal. (Apologies to information technology professionals for oversimplifying your work, but I’m trying to make a point.) Now suppose I suggested that those same companies create other departments. How about TT (telephone…

• Simplify Media

  Mark

  29 Jan 2010 | 1:14 pm

  Stream your entire iTunes music collection between computers via the Internet (as long as your library is powered up and online). You can add up to 30 friends’ collections.

• Picasa

  Mark

  26 Jan 2010 | 12:28 pm

  Organize photos wherever they might happen to be on your Mac. Easily upload, email and blog about your photos. Integrate with online Picasa Web Albums and sync with the desktop app.

• Dwarf Fortress

  Mark

  23 Jan 2010 | 11:30 am

  Run a dwarven outpost or play an adventurer in a persistent, randomly generated world with distinct civilizations spanning over 1000 years of detailed history, dozens of towns, hundreds of caves and regions with various wildlife

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  ScreenCastsOnline Free Version

• 236 - [Tr] Boxee Beta [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  3 Feb 2010 | 7:24 am

  [Trailer for Extra! Members Show] Boxee is yet another media centre for the Mac! But at it's latest release, Boxee Beta, it has matured into a feature packed application with a killer user interface. Boxee allows you to access your local media files in a very smart, easy to use, big screen interface. Integration with IMDB and other internet based databases allow your media files to be tagged with artwork and meta data automatically, no configuration required. Boxee is highly integrated with Internet TV shows, with automatic access to internet based TV networks based on geographic location. In…

• 235 - [FS] Path Finder 5 [Free Show]

  Mac Video Tutorials

  28 Jan 2010 | 10:57 am

  [Full Free Show] Another highly requested application this week, and that's the award winning file browser & file management application for OSX, Path Finder 5 Packed with features, Path Finder 5 allows you to customise your view of the Mac's file system with ease, exposing tons of information is easily configurable modules. With Tabs and Bookmarks, it's possible to create shortcuts and groups of locations allowing you to quickly jump from folder to folder. Add in a fantastic dual pane option to see two completely independent locations at a time, and the time saving DropStack, Path Finder 5…

• 234 - [Tr] Mac Maintenance [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  21 Jan 2010 | 1:39 pm

  [Trailer for Members Show] Luckily, most modern Macs need little or no regular maintenance. OSX is pretty much self maintaining, with automated scripts and an advanced file system, most people don't need to do anything to keep their Mac in tip top order. Too good to be true? Well not really, but human nature being what it is, it would be nice to understand what OSX is doing under the hood and perhaps keep an eye on how things are going. If the worst does happen and your Mac starts to slow down, or your favourite application starts to misbehave, what are the simple checks or processes you can…

• 233 - [Tr] Drobo, DroboShare & DroboPro [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  15 Jan 2010 | 6:51 am

  [Trailer for Members Show] As we continue to collect and create more and more digital content, storage and storage management becomes more of an issue. Whilst it's easy enough to add additional external USB and FireWire drives to our Macs, the management of multiple volumes becomes more of a headache. And what about backup? All those precious digital photos and home movies on a single external drive? One answer to developing a robust and extremely flexible storage solution is provided by Drobo. Drobo is now a range of storage solutions which allow you to both protect your data and start to…

• 232 - [Tr] Rapidweaver 4 and Stacks [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  8 Jan 2010 | 10:15 am

  [Trailer for Members Show] It's been a while since I featured Rapidweaver, but it's still one of the most requested topics to cover. This week, I take a brief overview of Rapidweaver, followed by a section on a relatively new plugin for Rapidweaver - Stacks, finishing off with some very cool Stacks plugins from Joe Workman. Rapidweaver is an extremely powerful web creation tool that allows you to create a full website without any HTML knowledge. Simply create blank pages within the application and enter your content. Rapidweaver comes with 10 pre-defined page types for different sorts of…

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  Apple community - MyAppleSpace

• MacBook Pro with Core i7 tested.

  AdventTech67

  A newly discovered Geekbench test appears to have confirmed the upcoming launch of MacBook Pros running Intel's Arrandale platform. The system carries the same MacBookPro 6,1 identifier as seen in a pre-release Mac OS X 10.6.2 build and is listed as running a 2.66GHz Core i7-620M with 4GB of RAM. The processor is Intel's fastest dual-core processor and would be Apple's logical choice for a mid- to high-end MacBook Pro. The test itself is consistent with the upgraded performance and produces a score of 5,260, or just over 32 percent faster than the better scores with a Core 2 Duo. Apple would…

• The iPad Keynote: The Lost Slides

  AdventTech67

• Adobe CTO talks Flash performance on Macs, more

  AdventTech67

  Adobe CTO talks Flash performance on Macs, more In a frank blog post by Adobe’s John Nack, the improvements coming to Flash in 10.1 are spelt out clearly. Less crashes, faster, better on Mac. The key takeaways are: "In Flash Player 10.1 we are moving to Core Animation, which will further reduce CPU usage and we believe will get us to the point where Mac will be faster than Windows for graphics rendering. With Flash Player 10.1, we are optimizing video rendering further on the Mac and expect to reduce CPU usage by half". Adobe have been getting a lot of flack at the moment as developers bite…

• How To Always Empty The Trash Securely.

  AdventTech67

  You can set Mac OS X to always securely empty the Trash just by adjusting a preference within the Finder. Here’s how: * Enter the Finder Preferences by either going to the Finder menu and selecting “Preferences” or by hitting Command+, within the Finder.* Click on the ‘Advanced’ tab icon* Click the checkbox next to “Empty Trash Securely” Now your Trash will always be securely emptied! Note this makes data recovery practically impossible.

• How to sync iPhone Ringtone on Mac

  Steve .J.Geller

  A lot of iPhone users have problem syncing iPhone ringtones. Some questions are like "I can't sync ringtone to iPhone", "it shows up as a ringtone in iTunes, but it won't sync to the phone. I've restarted my phone several times, hoping that would do it. I've removed all my ringtones, then re-synced them...but still nothing. Well, if you ever encounter this kind of problems, the following methods will help you out, especially for Mac users.Tips for sync ringtone to iPhone on Mac. First, make sure that: Ringtones play in iTunesAll the ringtones are under 30 secondsThey show up under soundsThey…

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  Softpedia News - Apple

• What’s New in Aperture 3

  Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:04 am

  “Faces and Places. Brushes for precision retouching. Dozens of adjustment presets. True full-screen browsing and editing. And that’s just part of the perfect picture,” Apple states, answering the question on every photographer’s lips: “What’s new?” Apple has confirmed that over 200 new features have been added in Aperture 3, the... (read more)

• Download New VueScan 8.6.10, Speed Download 5.2.11 for Mac OS X

  Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:39 am

  A couple of handy Mac apps have received maintenance updates today - Ed Hamrick’s VueScan, a powerful scanning software solution available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, and Speed Download, a download manager created by the talented Mac developers over at Yazsoft. “Faster and more secure, more features, ea... (read more)

• Apple Launches Aperture 3

  Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:35 am

  Although the Apple store is yet to go back online, Apple has updated its press room with a new announcement – Aperture 3. As the company’s next major release of the powerful photo-editing and -management software, Aperture 3 ships with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Aperture 3 runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS X Snow Leopard... (read more)

• Apple Store Down - 09.02.2010 [Updated]

  Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:31 am

  In usual Tuesday manner, Apple has unceremoniously taken its web store down, telling customers to sit tight as the company updates the online venue with goodies. It is generally believed that Apple’s Macintosh computers are on track for a number of hardware upgrades. Nothing else new is expected from Apple, this time around. With the iPad hype reac... (read more)

• Apple Hiring Video Expert for iPad Camera, Job Posting Suggests

  Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:11 am

  A job posting over at Apple’s website suggests the company’s camera-less tablet is about to get the necessary video-capable hardware. Whether it’s going to be a minor revision of the iPad, or the second-generation model, remains to be seen. However, we will need more than just a job description to confirm that the ... (read more)

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  9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence

• Apple patents the 3D Apple Store - Alice in Avatar-land

  Jonny Evans

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:32 am

  Seems Cupertino’s been looking at Second Life for a little inspiration here, and has won a patent that suggests the company could in future create its very own 3D universe online. Filed in April 2008, Apple’s patent first suggested a Second Life-located Apple store. Today, One of Apple's Virtual Store Patents have been granted, paving the way for Apple to venture into this new and exciting 3D Internet under construction at this very moment, as reported by Patently Apple. The intention is to...

• Surprise: Warner admits iTunes sales slow on price hikes

  Jonny Evans

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:13 am

  Warner Music revealed its financial results today - admitting more expensive tracks just didn’t sell as quickly. As we know, iTunes now lets labels charge more per track, if they so choose. The effect? Warner admits digital revenue growth in the last quarter of 8 percent compared to 20 percent in the previous year's corresponding quarter. “This is in line with an industry-wide slowdown in which year-over-year “digital track equivalent album unit growth” dropped to 5 percent in the December...

• Apple ships Aperture 3: 64-bit, Snow Leopard/Intel only, 200 features, $199/£169 (demo available)

  Jonny Evans

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:40 am

  Aperture 3 popped its head up and over the parapet this morning, with Apple introducing its newly announced pro photography protege as, “the next major release” of the application, bestowed with an impressive 200 added features at the same $199 price. These new features include: Faces, Places and Brushes. Some of these build on the Faces and Places features inside iPhoto 09, and are designed to make it easier for snappers to track down the right image when rifling through large image...

• Apple Store Down. Can we has Core i7 MacBook Pros?

  Seth Weintraub

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:05 am

  Update: It isn't down any more - we got Aperture 3 (so far). Yes it is down.  Yes we want MacBook Pros with fast processors…with built in 3G.

• Apple podcasts Mac advice video clips

  Jonny Evans

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:55 am

  Apple has unshackled at least some of its instructional Mac using videos from their velvet-lined prison on the company’s own website - at last it has set them free via iTunes. The "Find out how" selection of tutorial videos are organized by application, service, or topic, including Apple applications, the Mac itself, MobileMe and so on. These have long been available via Apple’s own Website, but they are now also available in the ‘Find Out How’ podcast section up there on iTunes. The nine...

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  Smoking Apples

• iTunes price increase results in slower sales for music

  Milind Alvares

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:05 am

  iTunes price increase results in slower sales for music → Peter Kafta for All Things Digital: Warner Music Group said this morning that it has seen unit sales growth at Apple’s iTunes decelerate since the price increase: Industry-wide, year-over-year “digital track equivalent album unit growth” was at 5 percent in the December quarter, down sequentially from 10 percent in the September quarter and 11 percent in the June quarter. They take something beautiful, and somehow manage to ruin it. [via AppleInsider] Touchpad - Transform your iPhone or iPod touch to remotely control your…

• BashFlash for Safari

  Milind Alvares

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am

  BashFlash for Safari → If you’ve enjoyed the ClickToFlash plugin—our stats show you do—you’re gonna love this. BashFlash hangs around in your menubar, keeping an eye on your Flash process. If it’s eating too many CPU cycles, you get to kill it, bringing back the Safari experience you know and love. Only caveat is it needs a 64bit processor, since 32bit Safari doesn’t run Flash as its own process. [via Daring Fireball] Touchpad - Transform your iPhone or iPod touch to remotely control your computer through WiFi. Extended keyboard, Multi-Touch Trackpad and Apple…

• Aperture 3 released

  Milind Alvares

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:10 am

  Aperture 3 released → Pro photographers around the world rejoice! Salient features includes Places, Faces, Brushes, adjustment presets, all part of the over 200+ new features—according to Apple’s math—that we’ll be digging into soon. $199 to buy, $99 to upgrade, and free to try. Touchpad - Transform your iPhone or iPod touch to remotely control your computer through WiFi. Extended keyboard, Multi-Touch Trackpad and Apple Remote.

• Kiwi 1.1 is a stunning upgrade

  Milind Alvares

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm

  Kiwi 1.1 is a stunning upgrade → Remember Kiwi? Great start for a 1.0 twitter client, but was missing some crucial features. Well it turns out the developers were serious about their app. With the new 1.1 release, Kiwi is almost a complete package compelling enough for any twitter user First of all, it brings in a slick inline image viewer for twitpic, Ember and yFrog links, where the image zooms in as you hover over—very cool. It also supports viewing images in a HUD (but sadly, no support for img.ly). Greatly improved notifications support, including a per account menubar notification…

• Postbox, now with improved Mac integration

  Milind Alvares

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:54 am

  Postbox 1.1.1, now with improved Mac integration → I had reviewed Postbox a while ago. It’s a great feature rich client—so if you’re missing something Mail there’s a high probability Postbox has it—but it wasn’t as integrated with OS X as I liked. The new release brings: Full Apple Address Book integration bi-directional communication with iCal Spotlight search for mail and attachments It still reeks of non-nativeness. For instance, the new release has a “Look up in Dictionary” feature, but you can’t ‘Cmd+Option+D’ on a word and…

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  Kagi Specials for Mac

• Macworld Specials Brought To You By Kagi Hot Deals

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:42 am

  Get It While It's HOT! In honor of the 2010 Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Kagi Hot Deals is pleased to announce these EXCLUSIVE deals on popular Mac software! Now through February 14, 2010, you can purchase any of 9 HOT software titles at GREAT discounts up to 50% OFF! Enjoy Your Music TouchCopy 09, from WideAngle Software — NOW ONLY $19.95 (Reg. $24.95) —

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  Downloads - Dashboard Widgets - Just Added

• Milk the Cow 0.6

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Milk the Cow Milk the Cow allows you manage your Remember the Milk tasks in Dashboard. Main features include: - Display tasks with color coded priority - Add a task - Complete a task - Multiple undo - Search and filter tasks - Scrollable task list - Edit task name, due date, list priority, tags and url - Resizable widget - Keyboard shortcuts for manipulating tasks - Growl notification - Auto-update

• Olympic Medals Count 1.0

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Olympic Medals Count Keep up to date with the latest medal counts from Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

• DashNote 7.0

  3 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About DashNote Stay organized with no effort. Let your notes automatically sync between multiple devices. You must have a Simplenote iPhone account in order to use this widget.

• Code Promo 1.0

  3 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Code Promo Will enable you to know about lastest goods available at more than 500 trader sites (in French).

• Daisypath Anniversary, Wedding, Travel and Vacation ticker 0.3

  2 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  About Daisypath Anniversary, Wedding, Travel and Vacation ticker Daisypath Anniversary, Wedding, Travel and Vacation tickers are free daily updating graphics that you can customize. It will automatically calculate the months, weeks and days to your Special Day.

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  SurfBits, Home of the Mac Reviews

• Keep Your Word: Flash Cards for the Mac

  Tim (Surfbits)

  3 Feb 2010 | 3:55 am

  Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast podcast here, hosted at podfeet.com. This week we’re going to look at a flash card application for the Mac called Keep Your Word from http://bambooapps.com/kyw/ bambooapps.com/kyw. I really like flash card applications for some reason. I really do need to spend some quality time with one because, believe it or not, I have a complete blind spot about arithmetic. I took two years of calculus and aced it without breaking a sweat, but ask me to add 5 plus 8 and I’ll start to cry! I blame it on New Math. Hopefully you’re either too young or too…

• The MacReviewCast #236: HardCandy Cases, PDF2Office, MacStitch, iCasual

  Tim (Surfbits)

  30 Jan 2010 | 9:01 am

  This week we look at Hard Candy Cases, MacStitch, PDF2Office, Keep Your Word, iCasual, O’Reilly, Freeware plus much more. I want to thank you for downloading and listening to the podcast. We have the best in Mac hardware, software and websites reviews. We have a lot of great folks on today’s episode with their reviews and comments on software, hardware and websites that make using the Mac special. Plus I’ll have the top freeware Mac apps of the week and much more. You can email me at surfbits at Gmail dot Com. I love to hear from you. Here is the freeware and shareware I…

• Thiphone: What??

  Tim (Surfbits)

  29 Jan 2010 | 6:34 am

  I get a lot of gadgets and gear that cross my desk, my side desk, my drawer cabinet, my office floor, well you get the idea. Anyway, a lot of the stuff is just that, stuff. Then there’s that one gadget that you keep picking up and looking at it and looking at it and you keep thinking of all these uses for it until you decide to give it a closer second look. A pseudo love affair ensues. That’s what happened when I received the Thiphone which can be purchased online at http://www.thiphone.com. What in the world is the Thiphone and why in the world do you want one? Let me try to…

• My Quick iPad Take: Not News

  Tim (Surfbits)

  28 Jan 2010 | 7:59 am

  If you normally read my blog, or listen to the podcast, you’ll know we’re not a news based organization. I like to review hardware, software and apps that make using the Mac special. But, I’ve had a lot of readers and friends that asked me why I’ve not talked about the iPad before the event or when will I make my comments known now that the iPad has been announced. I like to keep my meaningless prognostications to a casual conversation, twitter or maybe a MacRoundtable podcast. Now that the iPad has been announced, but is still 2 months away from actual release,…

• Hard Candy Cases: Fun and Functionality

  Tim (Surfbits)

  22 Jan 2010 | 6:17 am

  For those of us with a MacBook Pro 13 inch, and a White MacBook, Hard Candy Cases have a two piece hard shell for your Mac that will make you smile. It’s their Bubble Shell that comes in six colors, black, blue, red, pink, white and clear – complete with a molded-in bubble design. Why do they make you smile? Because they look so sharp while protecting your computing pride and joy. The model-specific, two piece cases offer complete access to all batteries and ports and are fully vented for total heat dissipation. Bubble Shells for MacBooks and MacBook Pro 13 inch have a retail price of…

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  Macalicious

• Apple’s new beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 includes few changes

  Macalicious Staff

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:45 am

  Apple on Friday evening equipped developers with yet another build of its upcoming maintenance and security update for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that includes few changes from an earlier build distributed two weeks ago. People familiar with the matter say Mac OS X 10.6.3 build 10D548 was distributed alongside an enhancement and focus list nearly identical to build 10D538, which made its way to a small subset of developers last month, as AppleInsider exclusively reported. Read more from AppleInsider

• Apple turns on iTunes Preview for iPhone apps

  Macalicious Staff

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:23 am

  Apple has again expanded the functions of iTunes Preview, the web-based showcase for material at the iTunes Store. In addition to music, site visitors can now see previews of iPhone apps; when opening an app link in a web browser, people will see details and screenshots without having to own iTunes. Actually downloading an app requires following a link back to iTunes. Read more from MacNN

• Apple updates Boot Camp with Windows 7 support

  Macalicious Staff

  20 Jan 2010 | 8:46 am

  Apple on Tuesday updated its Boot Camp software and issued new drivers and utilities to allow users to run Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7. The Mac maker also issued its first security update of 2010, addressing 12 vulnerabilities. Read more from AppleInsider

• Apple Event Confirmed for January 27

  Macalicious Staff

  18 Jan 2010 | 7:19 pm

  At least our speculation regarding the date and time of Apple’s special press event this month can now come to an end. Apple confirmed today, via invitations sent to the press, that there will indeed be a special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27 at 10AM Pacific time. Not only that, but the promotional material for the event bears the tagline “Come see our latest creation.” For those who were still skeptical that Apple would release a tablet at all, I think you should consider yourselves quite wrong. That tagline definitely wouldn’t…

• Unauthorized Mac clone maker Psystar appeals Apple lawsuit

  Macalicious Staff

  18 Jan 2010 | 8:38 am

  Thursday Psystar officially filed a notice of appeal regarding the permanent injunction against the company prohibiting it from selling hardware with Apple’s operating system. According to official court documents, Psystar filed a appeal on Friday regarding the permanent injunction issued by U.S. District Judge William Alsup which prohibited the company from selling hardware able to run the Mac OS X operating system. Read more from AppleInsider

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  Tech Blog

• Google Buzz – A Google Approach to Sharing

  Amit Bhawani

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:35 am

  Google has just launched ‘Google Buzz’ which is a new approach towards sharing. The whole of Internet is currently looking for sharing the information with the fastest routes available and the Social Connecting websites are the best examples. The main thing is most of these sharings are done through links. Either the links are directly sent to others or through private options via email etc. Now Google allows you to share your stuff with others in public which is also listed on your Google Profile Pages. You can also share the private stuff to your contacts, groups etc and…

• Top Ebook Readers Comparison & Review

  Amit Bhawani

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:41 pm

  A Review of The Top 7 Ebook Readers “Ebook” is fast becoming the Word of The Day among techies and consumers alike. For those who love to absorb as much information as possible with as little effort as possible an ebook is certainly an appropriate and savvy way to keep up with your reading and with some of these devices, your own writing. As with any purchase, you get what you pay for and the following list of ebooks reflects what you can expect to pay for what you can hope to receive. Many of these products utilize the same technologies in different combination’s and with…

• How to Start Free Classified Ads Site – Scripts & Make Money

  Amit Bhawani

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am

  We have previously written different articles on how to start a jobs site, mobile site, private blogs etc and this time iam going to write down a detailed article on how to start a free classifieds site, what are advantages of starting classifieds site and how to setup one of these. How Free Classifieds Sites Work? Classified Ads sites are one of the best ways in finding good deals and also a way where you can promote your services or sell your products. Considered as a good way to market your business, the free classified sites would just your time to list the business products and smart…

• MTS India Blaze USB Modem Prepaid & Postpaid Broadband Plans

  Amit Bhawani

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:12 am

  Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) – The largest mobile phone operator in Russia and CIS has over 97.81 million subscribers offering mobile communications in Russia and other nearby countries. MTS is listed on the NYSE since July 2000 and has a excellent brand value since 2006 by offering excellent quality services. The company offers with services like Reliance Netconnect which is a very high internet access service. The company offers the Broadband service under the brand name of ‘MBLAZE’ with two different products. Mblaze Premium – Which costs 3500Rs and comes with 3.1…

• How to Start a Computer Repair Business

  Praveen Kumar

  6 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pm

  People who have a knack in electronics or are especially good with computers will have a greater chance of surviving and excelling in this kind of business. There are chances that such people have even been trained in the field of computer repairs as well. The people who have been working as a computer repairs technician with an already established company can look to start a business of their own right away or else you need to work as a repairs technician in the field of computers for a period of 6 months in the least. The general idea of how the business actually works ,how the billing is…

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  AAPLinvestors

• iPad vs iPhone Stock Price Comparison

  tfjlgregory

  29 Jan 2010 | 10:38 pm

  There seems to be a similarity between the iPhone announcement in 2007 and the iPad launch this week. Note that the iPhone was something that no one has ever seen the likes of before, whereas the iPad is the result of 3 years of developing the iPhone platform. This device was not possible till now. iPhone vs iPad »

• iPod, iPhone, iPad, iLuv

  tfjlgregory

  27 Jan 2010 | 9:29 pm

  Apple just rocked the world again. In 2001 Apple gave us a thousand songs in our pocket, and seven years later put the world wide web in that same pocket. Today, Apple stopped putting things in your pocket and introduced the iPad as the world's worst kept secret. Even though the media knew for months that a larger iPhone was coming, there were more questions to be answered than there are on the last season of Lost. And now, without further adieu... The Answers »

• Apple Reports All-Time Highest Revenue and Profit

  tfjlgregory

  25 Jan 2010 | 3:16 pm

  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter ended December 26, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $11.88 billion and net quarterly profit of $2.26 billion, or $2.50 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.9 percent, up from 37.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue. Apple Financial Results PR Statement »

• Apple Reports Earnings Jan 25th

  tfjlgregory

  11 Jan 2010 | 9:41 am

  Apple’s conference call webcast discussing Q1 - 2010 financial results will begin at 2:00pm PT/5:00pm ET on Monday, January 25, 2010. Apple Financial Results Conference Call

• Best *** of the Decade

  tfjlgregory

  31 Dec 2009 | 9:59 am

  When Steve Jobs returned to Apple as an interim CEO in 1997, he started a corporate turnaround that may never be rivaled again. Apple Computer lost $1 billion in 1997 compare that with 2009 profits of over $5 billion under Steve Jobs 2.0. It is therefore not a surprise to see this accomplishment to go unnoticed by the press. The Best *** of the Decade »

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  EveryMac.com

• Preliminary iPad Specs, A Handful of iPad Q&A, an Enhanced Ultimate Mac Comparison & More - EveryMac.com Update

  1 Feb 2010 | 11:25 am

  If you missed these additions previously, EveryMac.com has been updated with preliminary specs and a handful of Q&As on the all new Apple iPad and a substantial enhancement to the Ultimate Mac Comparison. More serial number "snippets" have been added to the Ultimate Mac Lookup as well.

• New Garage Sale Clearance Deals -- More than 130 Deals Total -- From Site Sponsor OWC - EveryMac.com Sponsor's Special

  1 Feb 2010 | 11:25 am

  Site sponsor Other World Computing has all new Garage Sale Clearance Deals -- 30 different hard drive enclosures/docks for as little as US$17.50, memory for new and old Macs with 1 GB modules starting at US$7.99, 2.5" notebook drives starting at US$27.50, and much more! Over 130 items in total, supplies are limited, first come, first served!

• How does the iPad compare to the iPod touch and iPhone? - EveryiPod.com Q&As

  31 Jan 2010 | 5:35 pm

  At first glance, it is obvious that the iPad is larger than the iPod touch and iPhone, but beyond the size differences there are a number of feature and technical differences that...

• What market is the iPad designed to reach? What type of needs does it address? Who is expected to buy it? - EveryiPod.com Q&As

  31 Jan 2010 | 5:35 pm

  Officially, Apple has positioned the iPad as a "new category" of device between handheld computers and notebooks and intends for it to compete initially with netbooks, tablet computers, and...

• What are the differences between the AT&T Wireless data plans for the iPad? What are the differences between the plans for the iPad and the iPhone? What is the difference in total cost of ownership? - EveryiPod.com Q&As

  31 Jan 2010 | 7:00 am

  For those who are less than thrilled with the iPhone arrangement in the US -- which requires a two-year contract with AT&T Wireless and is locked to the carrier -- it was a pleasant surprise that the iPad is available both...

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  Mac

• Apple acknowledging, investigating Mac Pro problems?

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:58 pm

  Apple has recognized and is now probing a critical problem affecting the Mac Pro, sources claim. Some Nehalem-based systems have experienced massive increases in CPU power consumption while playing audio, which are worsened by leaps in heat levels, and performance drops as high as 20 percent. In spite of these changes, the CPU usage does not register in Activity Monitor, and fans fail to kick in ...[Filtrs in article: "Mac OS X" ][FiltrRank: 6][Source: macnn.com]

• Is a shake-up coming to the Mac CAD market?

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:15 pm

  A longtime German CAD developer on Tuesday introduced a new cross-platform, AutoCAD-compatible program built with a fresh codebase. Could this be the knock on the door or head to spur Autodesk to really committing to the Mac? by David Morgenstern[Filtrs in article: "Mac OS X" ][FiltrRank: 6][Source: blogs.zdnet.com]

• NVIDIA Unveils Optimus Seamless GPU Switching

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:35 pm

  Notebooks with dual GPUs have been shipping for a while now, but switching between the fancy discrete GPU and the low-power integrated one hasn't exactly been painless. Today, NVIDIA introduced a technology called Optimus, which makes the switching process automatic and transparent. In Windows, that is.[Filtrs in article: "Mac OS X" ][FiltrRank: 6][Source: osnews.com/story]

• Apple investigating Mac Pro performance and heat issues

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:29 pm

  Last week, we told you about some unusual issues affecting Nehalem-based Mac Pro models, characterized by abnormal performance degradation and CPU power draw when using on-board audio circuitry. Several sources have told Ars that Apple support technicians are now saying the problem is known, and that the issue is being actively investigated by Apple engineers. The problem is most glaringly ...[Filtrs in article: "Mac OS X" ][FiltrRank: 6][Source: arstechnica.com/apple]

• Apple launches Aperture 3

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:43 am

  Apple has released Aperture 3, a major update of the company's photo workflow software. The program is now 64-bit only, and has also been upgraded with several new features, most notably Brushes and Adjustment Presets. The former allow people to "paint" edits onto a photo, making them more precise without having to open a secondary app like Photoshop. There 15 default Quick Brushes, such as ...[Filtrs in article: "Mac OS X" ][FiltrRank: 6][Source: macnn.com]

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  MakeUseOf.com

• Interact With Your Mac’s Desktop In A Different Way With BumpTop

  Jeffry Thurana

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am

  What is the most cluttered place in your computer? For me (and most of my friends), it’s the desktop. Everything goes there before they are sorted out to their destined location. The problem is, there’s no such thing as “sorting out time” (at least not for me). So, my desktop’s practically a pigsty. And there’s another problem. Desktop is also the first and the last place that you will see (and maybe the most visited place) on your computer. I think I know now what most parents who live with their teenage boys must feel. My temporary, non-elegant solution …

• 3 Easy-To-Create Simple Automator Workflows For Everyday Use

  Bakari Chavanu

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am

  Apple’s Automator is probably one of the most underused but powerful applications that comes installed with the Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems. It enables you to build custom automator workflows for repetitive tasks you perform on your Mac. Here’s a set of Automator hacks articles we’ve previously published on MakeUseOf. This how-to article focuses on three additional hacks: one which creates mobile-formatted web pages on your Mac; another one that helps you quickly print selected documents; and the last one creates a thumbnail copy of a selected image file(s). Each of these…

• SnagIt Beta – Possibly The Most Advanced Screen Capture Freeware Tool [Mac]

  Jeffry Thurana

  28 Jan 2010 | 8:30 am

  If you blog, you know very well that your posts will be so much better if you include pictures with them. Well, at least they will be more visually attractive. Try to look at those big names in the blogosphere, they are richly adorned with pictures. Among the many ways of acquiring pictures, making screenshots is one of the easiest. But that doesn’t mean that good quality screen capture is easy to get. Just like taking pictures in the real world, the quality of the camera is just as important as the man behind it. On my continuing quest searching for the best screen capture freeware for…

• Turning Any Web App Into a Site Specific Browser App with Fluid [Mac]

  Jeffry Thurana

  27 Jan 2010 | 11:30 am

  You don’t need to be an expert in the technology industry to be able to see where the trend is heading: the cloud. More and more web-based applications are available, substituting their desktop-based counterpart. While this is a good idea, the trend brings up some inconveniences. One of them is the unavoidable clutter of the browser tabs. It seems that the concept of opening only one tab at a time is alien to modern day people. If you are similar to most people, you’ll have many open many tabs simultaneously. Terror of the tabs All of these open tabs, which consist of the regulars…

• TotalFinder – A Finder Alternative With Some Cool Extras [Mac]

  Jeffry Thurana

  21 Jan 2010 | 8:31 am

  Ask any Mac user to make a list of applications that opens the most on their machine and you’ll definitely see Finder there. Then someone would say that it’s unfair to allow Finder to be on the list because Mac users don’t even have a choice. Finder always starts automatically with Mac OS X, and there’s no way to close it. I think that’s not a valid statement. Most users wouldn’t want to close Finder even if they can (And FYI, you can close Finder as long as you know the Secret). That’s because Finder is one of the most useful applications on the Mac.

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  ifoAppleStore

• Two New France Stores Confirmed

  Gary Allen

  6 Feb 2010 | 3:20 pm

  A series of tips to a France-based Web site about two new Apple store locations have been confirmed—stores will open in Lyon and the Paris suburb of Vélizy-Villacoublay later this year. As reported by the MacGeneration Web site, a store will open at the La Part Dieu shopping mall in Lyon, in the mid-south of France. The city-center mall is adjacent to the city’s train station, was recently expanded, and attracts shoppers from a wide area. The second store will open at the huge Vélizy 2 shopping mall southwest of Paris, not far from the Palace of Versailles. The mall received a 2007…

• Apple Adds Job Positions to Store Line-Up

  Gary Allen

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:27 am

  Once again, the line-up of employee job positions at Apple’s stores is changing, this time adding two positions at the top and one at the bottom. The changes seem to focus on creating more experience at the lower-level, and broader, more strategic leadership at the top. Apple has created an entry-level Associate position for recent college graduates, allowing them to rotate among various retail assignments over a 24-month period. It appears to extend the retail segment’s annual internship program. At the top, Apple has created a Market Leader position who is “a visionary and…

• Revealed: Retail Stores’ Handheld POS Device

  Gary Allen

  4 Feb 2010 | 8:51 pm

  While Apple Inc. was making news last November with the roll-out of a high-tech iPod touch point-of-sale (POS) system at its 277 retail stores, the company that actually designed and built the sleek device was content to lay low and not take any of the credit. Now their secret is out: It was southern California-based Infinite Peripherals (IPC) that developed that techno-shell that allows an iPod touch to process purchases so elegantly at Apple’s stores. The Linēa-pro allows store employees to quickly scan barcodes, read credit card magnetic stripes and accept customer signatures. An…

• Sign Up For iPad Availability Notification

  Gary Allen

  1 Feb 2010 | 10:12 pm

  Apple’s retail store Web page has sprouted a new panel, offering a notification when the newly-announced iPad is available “at the Apple Retail Store.” Clicking on a link sends you to a “Notify me” Web page where you can enter your e-mail address. Strangely, the text on this page say a notification will be sent “when iPad is available to order,” not when supplies arrive at the stores. The break-through device was announced on January 28th, and Steve Jobs said the Wi-Fi model would be available within 60 days, and the 3G model would be available within…

• Sources Point To Future Shanghai Store Locations

  Gary Allen

  25 Jan 2010 | 11:44 pm

  Sources in China have revealed where the company will open its two announced retail store in Shanghai this year, including inside the city’s tallest building. The Shanghai Daily newspaper reports that Apple spokesperson Huang Yuna confirmed that one store will be installed inside the Shanghai World Financial Center, an impressive 101-story building completed in 2008. The city center building includes offices, a hotel, three observation decks and two levels of retail space. The second Apple store will be on Huaihai Road M, real estate sources told the newspaper, an elegant shopping…

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  Apple MobileMe News

• New MobileMe Gallery App for iPhone

  14 Jan 2010 | 10:00 am

  The MobileMe Gallery app provides a great new way to view published photos and movies directly on your iPhone or iPod touch. You can flick left or right to move through photos, pinch to zoom, or rotate your iPhone or iPod touch for a landscape view. The MobileMe Gallery app automatically stores photos you've viewed so you can quickly access them again, even without a network connection. And you can easily view friends' public galleries by selecting them from your iPhone contacts or entering their member name. See how it works in this video. To install the free MobileMe Gallery app on your…

• Use Your Gallery as Holiday Central for Family and Friends

  23 Dec 2009 | 10:00 am

  Your MobileMe gallery has a great way for your family and friends to view and share holiday photos in one place, whether they are celebrating under the same roof or in a different country. You simply set up a new album in your gallery and enable all of MobileMe's sharing features. Then everyone can participate right on the web. Simply log in to me.com/gallery. Click the "+" button at the bottom to create an album and check all the options under Allow to enable others to download and upload photos to your album. After creating the album, copy the link at the top right and send it to everyone…

• MobileMe iDisk App Updated

  16 Dec 2009 | 9:00 am

  With Mobile iDisk 1.1 for iPhone, you can now copy and paste images in your iDisk to another application — Mail for instance — or save them to your camera roll. Simply view the image from your MobileMe iDisk, tap and hold it, and then select Save Image to save to your camera roll, or Copy so you can paste it later into another application. The update also adds email address auto-complete to make sharing files easier than ever. When sharing a file, just begin typing your recipient's name and it will be automatically completed if the name is in your Contacts list. To see other…

• Use MobileMe Gallery Albums as a Mac Screensaver

  25 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am

  On any Mac running Snow Leopard, you can use MobileMe Gallery public albums (albums that aren't hidden or password-protected) as a screensaver — it's another great way to share albums with friends and family. Simply use the Desktop & Screen Saver tab in System Preferences, click the plus sign and choose Add MobileMe Gallery. Then enter your member name or the member name of a friend or family member, select the albums you want to use as a screen saver and the effects you'd like to apply, and click OK. Next time your screen saver starts, it will use pictures from the album(s) you…

• Mac OS X Snow Leopard Update Available

  10 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am

  The newly released Mac OS X v10.6.2 update improves MobileMe iDisk and syncing performance and is recommended for all MobileMe members running Snow Leopard(Mac OS X v10.6 or v10.6.1). Click here for more details.

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  TheMacTrack

• ObjectDev Launches iPad App Development Services

  Richard

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Deerfield Beach, Florida – ObjectDev, a globally successful mobile application development company focused on delivering iPhone and Android apps, today is pleased to announce their immediately available iPad app development services. For businesses and entrepreneurs who want to capitalize on Apple’s(R) new tablet device and take advantage of this new platform for content distribution and custom apps, tapping into a team of experienced mobile app developers can be a crucial key to success, and ObjectDev’s team has the experience. Since the release of the iPhone SDK in 2008,…

• Macworld session to Demystify iPhone and iPad App Development

  Richard

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am

  San Francisco – A special Macworld 2010 conference session – targeted at corporate and business decision-makers – will attempt to demystify the entire process of producing custom iPhone and iPad software, from start to finish. The high-level session, entitled: “Demystifying iPhone & iPad App Development: A Non-Technical Overview for Decision-Makers and Idea People,” will be held on Saturday, February 13th, from 10:30am to 11:45am, as part of the Macworld 2010 Conference & Expo, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. “What we’re doing here is…

• Postbox Streamlines Email Workflow with Enhanced Support for Mac OS X

  Richard

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am

  San Francisco – Postbox(TM), Inc. today is pleased to announce Postbox 1.1.1, an update to its flagship email product that provides enhanced support for Mac OS X applications and technologies. Postbox now integrates with the Mac OS X Address Book and iCal and extends search to work with Spotlight, making the entire workflow more efficient and intuitive. Postbox gives users powerful new ways to find, use, and view email messages and content, organize work life, and simply get stuff done. After being named to the industry-leading TechCrunch50 in September 2008, Postbox has continued…

• Softpress and SmileOnMyMac team up with Freeway 5 Pro/PDFpen bundle

  Richard

  2 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Oxford, UK and Portland, OR – Softpress Systems and SmileOnMyMac today announced that for a limited period, all purchases of Freeway 5 Pro (full version) will include a free copy of PDFpen when purchased from the Softpress Store. “PDFpen is an application we use all the time here at Softpress,” said Ian Schray, Softpress US Marketing Manager. “We’re excited to help spread the word about this great app!” “We’re excited to work with our friends at Softpress, “said Jean MacDonald, partner at SmileOnMyMac LLC. “It’s always great to…

• Softpress and SmileOnMyMac team up with Freeway 5 Pro/PDFpen bundle

  Richard

  2 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Oxford, UK and Portland, OR – Softpress Systems and SmileOnMyMac today announced that for a limited period, all purchases of Freeway 5 Pro (full version) will include a free copy of PDFpen when purchased from the Softpress Store. “PDFpen is an application we use all the time here at Softpress,” said Ian Schray, Softpress US Marketing Manager. “We’re excited to help spread the word about this great app!” “We’re excited to work with our friends at Softpress, “said Jean MacDonald, partner at SmileOnMyMac LLC. “It’s always great to…

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  Vinko Thoughts On.. » Apple Inc.

• Reactions to Apple iPad [Updated]

  Vinko

  27 Jan 2010 | 12:08 pm

  This morning (10:00 US PST) Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPad to the highly anticipated crowd at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center. The specifications on the device are: Display: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) IPS display Width: 7.47 inches (189.7 mm) Depth: 0.5 inches Weight: 1.5 pounds 16, 32, or 64 GB solid state hard drives Processor: 1 GHz Apple A4 chip Wi-Fi: 802.11n Battery: [...]

• McGraw-Hill’s CEO Jump Spill the Apple Tablet News

  Vinko

  26 Jan 2010 | 7:13 pm

  During an interview with CNBC yesterday afternoon, the McGraw-Hill’s CEO Terry McGraw told CNBC (at 02:50 in the interview) that the yet unannounced Apple tablet “will be based on the iPhone OS.”

• Apple Event January 27, 2010 Confirmed

  Vinko

  18 Jan 2010 | 6:33 pm

  It appears that various media like: Engadget, Ars Technica, FoxNews, have now received the official invitation from Apple for the event on January 27, 2010 at 10:00 (US PST) held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Fox News even went as far as reporting that they have confirmation of the topics that will [...]

• How I Became a SSD User

  Vinko

  15 Jan 2010 | 9:46 am

  I like to share with my readers the process in which I became a SSD (“Sold State Drive”) user. The price of SSD drive is still way more expensive than a regular HDD, especially when you compared the cost per GB (Gigabyte). In Hong Kong on average one can find a reasonably fast 7200rpm 1TB (Terabyte) 3.5″ [...]

• Tethering Finally Returns to SMV iPhone Users in HK

  Vinko

  14 Jan 2010 | 9:50 pm

  Starting January 23, 2010 Smartone-Vodafone (SMV) will become an official Apple carrier partner in Hong Kong, along with 3 HK. May be this will mean that the two long awaited features: “Visual Voicemail” and “Tethering”, will also be officially available to SMV customers (old and new). I was not able to get an official confirmation about [...]

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  The Apple Core

• Is a shake-up coming to the Mac CAD market?

  David Morgenstern

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:08 am

  A longtime German CAD developer on Tuesday introduced a new cross-platform, AutoCAD-compatible program built with a fresh codebase. Could this be the knock on the door (or head) to spur Autodesk to really committing to the Mac?

• The only flight app you need: FlightTrack Pro

  Jason D. O'Grady

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am

  I've used a bunch of flight apps for both the iPhone and Android and the hands-down winner is FlightTrack Pro (App Store, $9.99).

• App Store craziness: banning the word 'Android'

  Jason D. O'Grady

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:16 am

  Apple has apparently forbidden a developer from using the word "Android" in his app's description. Apple should allows its developers to tout their app's awards in the Android Developer Challenge and not give it a second thought.

• Speaking at Macworld 2010

  Jason D. O'Grady

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:44 am

  If you're going to be at Macworld 2010 in San Francisco next week I encourage you to attend my conference session on netbooks and how they stack up to the iPad.

• Hachette Book Group migrating to agency model (updated)

  Jason D. O'Grady

  5 Feb 2010 | 10:18 am

  In the days following the iPad announcement, print publishers have begun bailing from Amazon in droves. Hachette's Book Group is now the third major publisher, following MacMillan and HarperCollins, to push for the agency model.

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  The Loop

• Aperture 3 first thoughts from an iPhoto user

  Jim Dalrymple

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:10 am

  I’m not a pro photography by any means. In fact, Apple’s iPhoto satisfies most of my needs quite well, so that’s how I decided to take a look at Aperture 3.Being an iPhoto user doesn’t mean that I don’t want more advanced features. Having things like facial recognition and GPS locations of my pictures was [...]

• Apple releases Aperture 3

  Peter Cohen

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:20 am

  Apple on Tuesday announced the release of Aperture 3, a major new version of its photo editing and management software for the Mac. It’s available now for $199; upgrades for existing Aperture users cost $99. Apple has also released a 30-day free trial, available for download from the Web site. Aperture 3 sports more than 200 [...]

• Atomic Love Bombs participate in Haiti benefit concert during Macworld

  Jim Dalrymple

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:43 am

  If you’re attending Macworld Expo this week in San Francisco, Calif. you might want to plan to go out Friday night to the Red Devil Lounge for a concert. The concert is being put on as a benefit for the earthquake victims in Haiti, and one of the bands playing — the Atomic Love Bombs [...]

• Take Control of Screen Sharing and Back to My Mac released

  Jim Dalrymple

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:53 am

  Mac personalities Adam and Tonya Engst have released two new ebooks in their popular “Take Control” series.“Take Control of Screen Sharing in Snow Leopard” was written by networking expert Glenn Fleishman, focusing on the ability for Mac users to visibly share their computers with other users. According to Engst, the ebook “walks readers through the [...]

• Sixteen iPhone apps dedicated to Super Bowl XLIV

  Jim Dalrymple

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:18 am

  It’s going to be a big weekend for football fans. The New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts take the field in Miami, Florida on Sunday to decide this year’s Super Bowl champion.There are plenty of ways to keep up-to-date on the latest happenings from the Super Bowl — TV, the Internet, radio, and of [...]

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  My Technology Guide

• Google’s Super Bowl Ad – “Parisian Love”

  Mezanul

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:21 am

  Google’s search engine is the world’s favorite search engine, the reason for its popularity is because it returns relevant results faster and with a no-frills, simple user interface. It became popular not by the traditional means of advertising but via recommendation by its users to their friends, relatives and colleagues to use it.Google rarely used any traditional means of advertising to promote its products and services, but this policy started changing, when Google used billboards to promote GOOG-411 service. Google also aggressively promoted it’s Chrome browser using…

• Rizone Security Restore – Easily Restore your Computer to Default Security Settings

  Mezanul

  7 Feb 2010 | 12:16 pm

  Most of the time, in the event of a virus attack, the virus changes computer security settings to hide itself and do harm. Even though, you may have cleaned the virus by using the various security tools, these changed security settings remains intact in the computer which further causes trouble. You may start getting various “You don’t have permission to…” errors, which is very frustrating. Previously, we have written about tools like Re-Enable, XP Quick Fix Plus and 7 Quick Fix which to some extends help restoring default settings in Windows. We found a new utility…

• Get Free, Lifetime Valid, Genuine License of WinUtilities Pro worth $49.99

  Mezanul

  6 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pm

  WinUtilities Pro is an award-winning collection of tools to optimize and speed-up your system performance. this suite has utilities to clean registry, temporary files on your disks, erase your application and internet browser history, cache and cookies. it also supports to defragment your disk drives and improve computer performance and stability. built-in StartUp Cleaner allows you to control startup programs that load automatically with windows, find duplicate files, fix broken shortcuts and uninstall unneeded software. other features include secure file deletion, recycle bin shredding,…

• My Technology Guide Moved to a New Server [Update]

  Mezanul

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:57 am

  My Technology Guide had a rough day today with around 3 hour, 15 min of downtime in total. The main cause of this was the server on which it was hosted. So we took the issue with Dreamhost Support (our host) to see into the matter. They promptly replied with an apology for the situation explaining about why this was happening. In order to save us from further downtime, they moved us to a new server entirely.The move to the new server was almost transparent and caused little to no trouble at all. I don’t had to do any work on the server or configure anything entirely due to this move.

• Email Client Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 alpha (Lanikai Alpha 1) Released

  Mezanul

  4 Feb 2010 | 1:33 pm

  Mozilla Thunderbird is a very popular desktop email client. Thunderbird email software was recently updated by its developers, Mozilla, to version 3. The update brought many new features and notable changes like better email account integration and configuration options, global search option, etc.The next version of Thunderbird will be version 3.1 and the first alpha release, codenamed “Lanikai Alpha 1” confirms this. Mozilla has asked interested users to test the new alpha release version of the email client and give their opinion. The developer has also warned anyone from…

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  OS X Daily

• Go back to the previous directory via command line

  Bill Ellis

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:28 am

  It’s easy to accidentally change directories to something you weren’t intending to (say, accidentally hitting cd and returning home and losing your place in a complicated directory structure), but thankfully there’s a command that will immediately take you back to the previous directory: cd - It’s that simple, cd – will take you to the directory you were in prior to the PWD, and it will print out the prior directory before you so you will know you’re in the right place. This is very useful if you are working in two different directories and you want to…

• Waterproof your iPhone

  Paul Horowitz

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:14 pm

  Did you know that you can put your iPhone inside a plastic bag and still use the touchscreen? Yes, that’s right, stick your iPhone in an airtight ziplock bag, and you’ll have an instant and amazingly cheap waterproof case for your iPhone. The context of this tip is actually in regards to cooking, First & 20 suggests placing your iPhone inside a ziplock bag so you can keep using it in the kitchen with dirty hands, not a bad idea at all, but the uses for this extend far beyond the kitchen… imagine the possibilities with a waterproof iPhone! Paint your house without…

• Lock the Dock in Mac OS X

  Bill Ellis

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:09 am

  Here’s how to lock down the Mac OS X Dock, all of these commands need to be issued at the command line via the Terminal, so once you’re there enter the appropriate command: Lock the Dock to Prevent Changes to Contents defaults write com.apple.Dock contents-immutable -bool yes Lock the Dock to Prevent Changes in Size defaults write com.apple.Dock size-immutable -bool yes Lock the Dock’s Position on the Screen defaults write com.apple.Dock position-immutable -bool yes After executing any or all of these commands, you’ll want to relaunch the Dock by killing it: killall…

• Ghostbusters scenes recreated with Mac OS X Genie Effect

  Paul Horowitz

  7 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm

  If you’re a Ghostbusters fan you’ll get a kick out of this creative use of the Genie minimization effect in Mac OS X… Matt Mira arranged a bunch of picture windows and strategically minimized a ghost to recreate a few scenes from the 80’s classic movie Ghostbusters. Totally pointless outside of the high amusement factor. and of course, the art museum: [ via Nerdist and @MattMira ]

• Empty the Huge Trash Can

  Paul Horowitz

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:13 am

  I often forget to empty my Trash can but this is taking it to a whole new level. 489GB? What on earth is in there? That’s bigger than my main hard drive! Time to empty that huge Trash can! from Marco.org

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  Geekword

• What comes after Google’s Froyo? Gingerbread

  Muhammad Ali

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:01 am

  All of us like and love the cool codenames that Google assigns to its various Android versions. Donut, Eclair and Froyo represent a series of the magnificent naming convention adopted by the search engine giants for its mobile OS. The codename for next Google Android version has just been unleashed. Gingerbread is the name of Froyo’s successor. Interestingly this name comes at a time when Eclair’s successor i.e. Froyo is yet to be released. This cool information was shared by Brian Swetland, Android’s Kernel guru. Brian while unveiling this cool name also unveiled that the Android 2.1…

• Sn0wBreeze 3.1.3 updated to 1.5, brings iPhone 3.1.3 jailbreak for iPod Touch 2G

  Muhammad Ali

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:27 am

  Sn0wBreeze 3.1.3 updates keep coming thick and fast. This time v3.1.3 of Sn0wBreeze has been updated to version 1.5. What does this update bring you ask? iPod Touch 2G running on iPhone 3.1.3 can be jailbroken using this tool. More details after the jump. Just to refresh your mind, sn0wbreeze is a tool that will jailbreak your iPods and iPhones, setup custom boot logos, activate your iPhone, root partition size, build custom IPSW. Sn0wBreeze 3.1.3 v1.5 which is for Windows only, can jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 running on the following devices: iPhone 3GS (non MC, old bootrom) iPhone 3G iPhone 2G…

• T-Mobile HTC HD2 to bring multi-touch love

  Muhammad Ali

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:47 am

  What is one thing that you always cherish and want to have in your touch-screen phone? Multi-touch is the answer I am looking for. It turns out that T-Mobile HTC HD2 will be bringing multi-touch to USA based users. This is no rumor. This is official. If you don’t believe us just see the official HTC HD2 specification page here. Capacitive touch screen with pinch-to-zoom is the magical line you are looking for. What do we get from this? HTC and T-Mobile are looking to fire in all cylinders and make HTC HD2 a big hit once it rolls. The big question here is this – do you intend to purchase…

• What’s included in Visual Studio 2010 RC

  Muhammad Ali

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:07 am

  A few hours back, we shared with you the news of Visual Studio 2010 RC going live. I just had this curiosity of finding out the contents of the release candidate of Visual Studio 2010. My curiosity was satisfied and thus I am here sharing with you the items you will be getting from the pre-release Visual Studio 2010 version. To make things interesting the RC version brings to you the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2010, which means you can do all sort of possible things without any restriction whatsoever. More after the jump. Visual Studio 2010 RC contents Visual Studio 2010 becomes…

• WordPress for iPhone updated to 2.2, enhances comment moderation

  Muhammad Ali

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:50 am

  WordPress, recently has been pretty much active. During the last week they rolled out WordPress for Android, followed it with the BlackBerry version. iPhone users would have been thinking that WordPress has forgotten about them. But trust us, they haven’t. Enter WordPress for iPhone 2.2. The latest update to the WordPress for iPhone brings enhanced and increased comment moderation capabilities. By the way, the app is available for free. Download link and features list after the jump. WordPress for iPhone 2.2 features The features that WordPress fore iPhone 2.2 brings include: Reply to…

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  ithinkdifferent

• iPhone 4G Leaked Pictures!

  Eddie

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:17 am

   iResQ has released pictures claiming they have the parts of the next generation iPhone 4G. As you can see it’s a bit taller then the last iPhones. But bear in mind, these pictures can be fake, and just for marketing purposes by iResQ. There seems to be a reflective surface over the phone’s speakers, which could mean it’s getting a camera. But don’t believe anything you see until it’s officially announced. Now I saw a lot of people complaining about the lack of big differences in the terms of looks, but does that really matter? I don’t think so. Sure a bigger screen might…

• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 release candidate now available for MSDN subscribers

  Imran Hussain

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:37 pm

  Visual Studio 2010, the latest version of Microsoft’s IDE with a new improved UI built using WPF and tools for Windows 7 and SharePoint 2010 development has already been delayed. Originally slated for 22nd March, the release was delayed to performance issues. The latest launch date has been set for April 12, 2010. Appropriately, Microsoft has delivered a release candidate build for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 framework. It is currently available for download to MSDN subscribers while it will be available for public download on 10th February. According to Mary Jo Foley’s findings,…

• HTC Incredible caught in the wild with Android 2.1 + Sense UI goodness

  Eddie

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:51 am

  Pocket Now got themselves some pictures of the HTC incredible which is destined to be on Verizon’s Network. It’s an Android 2.1 phone with Sense UI slapped on top of it for eye candy and added functionality. Looking at the specifications, we would like to call this the HD2 of Android 2.1 smartphones but then the Nexus One had better specifications ( more RAM ). But is the Incredible really incredible? We’ll let the specifications do the talking:Android 2.1 with HTC SenseRuns 1GHz Snapdragon CPU256 MB of RAM3.5-3.7” WVGA ScreenMay have an AMOLED/OLED screenOptical TrackPad5MP camera…

• Android 2.1 coming to Droid?

  Eddie

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:49 am

  Droid users rejoice! I just got informed that Android 2.1 is now being tested for the Motorola Droid. And from the looks of it, it will be a lot like the Nexus One update. I think Verizon finally listened to the many complaining users about getting 2.1 on the Droid, but bear in mind nothing is for sure, any last minute changes can occur, and the estimated time of release is still unclear. Here are the upcoming features:It’s based on Android 2.1, just like last week’s Nexus One update.Awesomeness: The browser is not multitouch just like Google Maps 3.4, no Flash though, which doesn’t…

• BlackBerry twitter clients: Seesmic or UberTwitter?

  Eddie

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:21 am

  We can’t deny the fact that Twitter is growing everyday. Twitter is now attached to our everyday life. That’s why it isn’t limited just to the desktop, it’s also on everyone’s phones now. You can access it via your data connection ( use the the mobile website ), or just download a twitter client. One of the most popular smartphones, BlackBerry, also has many twitter clients. The top two are Seesmic, and UberTwitter. I wanted to add OpenBeak to the list, but it’s just horrible. Let’s have a look at the two apps and how they compete with each other in terms of various features.

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  Low End Mac

• Do We Really Need Another Mac Email Client?, Charles W. Moore, Miscellaneous Ramblings

  Mac users have a host of free and low-cost email clients to choose from. Does Brent Simmons' 'Letters' project make any sense at all?

• MacBook Pro a Revelation, Dan Knight, Mac Musings

  After using G4 Macs for over a decade, spending a weekend prepping a first generation MacBook Pro was a real eye opener.

• February 9 in LEM history

  00: Think choices - Promoting the Macintosh - 01: Apple vs. Mac clones - 05: Apple and the $100 laptop - Yojimbo - Core Duo vs. G5 - 07: The story behind After Dark - Microsoft Office 2007

• 42 Reasons a Netbooks Is Better than an iPad, Hard Drive Upgrade Value, Faster Netbooks, and More, The 'Book Review

  Also why the iPad can't compete with netbooks, 802.11n WiFi card for older Intel MacBooks and Mac minis, and a DJ keyboard cover for MacBooks.

• iPad Perfect for Handheld Computing, John Hatchett, Recycled Computing

  You can hold the iPad in one hand and operate it with the other, giving it real advantages over a laptop computer.

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  Apple Investor

• Market, Apple (AAPL) Report – Range Bound Near Term

  ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:05 am

  S&P 500 Large Cap Index showing support at 200 day ema and resistance at 20/50 day ema So does a whole weekend quell the fears of investors over a looming Euro financial collapse? Well, at least the talking heads on CNBC are saying that. But the problem didn’t go away, the talking heads and the “pundits” are still high from the spectacular come back the markets achieved after facing near annihilation by touching the 200 day then springing back up, printing what appears to be a Hammer candlestick (see description below). A trading range looks to be forming between the 200…

• Apple (AAPL), S&P Large Cap Index (SPX) Technical Analysis

  ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:10 am

  Ernie Varitimos performs a multi-timeframe analysis on the S&P 500 and Apple, starting from a weekly view, down to an hourly view.

• Is Apple Planning to Screw Early Adopters of the iPad?

  ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

  4 Feb 2010 | 9:13 am

  Early Adopters Get Screwed by Apple All my adult life I’ve been a rabid early adopter. I’m a technology hound, sniffing out the latest and greatest. And it all started with Apple, way back in 1978, when I bought my first Apple computer, the Apple IIe. Apple lit my gadget fire, and they’ve never disappointed. Early on it was all Apple, as my next system was the Lisa, then the 128K Mac, two days after it was introduced back in 1984. Then I moved my interests to all manner of consumer gadgets. Over the years I’ve bought nearly every Apple computer, and every significant…

• Apple iPad Technical Analysis – Did the iPad Bring AAPL Down?

  ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

  30 Jan 2010 | 3:24 pm

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• The Apple Investor Reviews the Apple iPad?

  ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

  28 Jan 2010 | 7:05 am

  Apple has introduced what is essentially a giant iPod Touch. There’s NO Camera! ARG! And AT&T is the carrier, but there’s no need to sign a contract, it’s month to month for 3G access, but no real need to use 3G because it’ll work with WiFi and is free on AT&T WiFi hotspots. Please don’t take this the wrong way. The iPad, hate the name, will be a huge success. It’s definitely a Kindle killer, and at the starting price of $499, the iPad is a big winner! Where the iPad falls flat is no disruptive technology, just a well designed, well put together,…

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  MacNews

• Troubleshooting Tips

  Phyllis Evans

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:01 am

  Even with one of the most stable operating system around, we all manage to run into trouble now and then. Sometimes, the simplest things work. Safari is my problem-prone app. I tend to only reboot my iMac when forced by a system update, and I generally have four or five apps that run all the time. Safari will reach a point where I get spinning beach balls with almost every page change. When that happens, I quit it, then restart it, and the problems generally go away — at least for a while. If quitting an app doesn't fix the problems, try restarting the computer. Restarting fixes a…

• 10 MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Tips

  Terry White

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:01 pm

  First off I'll use the word "MacBook" throughout this post. I'm doing that to keep from having to write MacBook/MacBook Pro, MacBook Air every single time. These tips are for all "MacBook" users despite your particular model. I'm a MacBook Pro user in case you were wondering.   1. Secure it with a password When you first set up your Mac and create a user account by default that user account is set to automatically log you in each time you boot up or wake up from sleep. While this may be less of an issue for a desktop Mac in your home, I highly recommend…

• Quarterback …. Databack…. Which one will come through?

  Calvin Carson

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:28 am

  Many people ask me, "Calvin. How often should I backup?' There are an endless number of responses to that question. Most responses are questions. Let's start shall we?   Here are some example responses   1)      How often do you want to do the same project over that you put 12 or 14 hours into? 2)      Do you like crying cause you lost $372.00 worth of iTunes and the electronic receipts? 3)      You really enjoy reconstructing your computer by reloading the Operating System, all the patches and updates,  all of your…

• You know it’s time for some R&R when…

  Chita Hunter

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  You find stuff like this happening… Do you have those moments when you do something so ridiculous or stupid that you hear yourself chastising you out loud? Don’t bother to answer, I know that the answer is yes. We all do it. I was recently in a local retail store pricing merchandise and of course using my iPhone. I was using an iPhone app that required me to manually enter keywords or a UPC code. As I started to enter the code, I decided to save myself time, make life easier for myself and download an app that would just read the UPC code for me. I’d been waiting to…

• A New Machine – Part 1

  Jack Beckman

  3 Feb 2010 | 12:01 am

  So you've picked up a new Mac (or new to you, anyway) and now you want to get all your music, photos, applications, and settings on your new system so it's comfortable, like your old one. This comes up on the iBBS occasionally, and people start asking about how to move their iPhoto library or their iTunes library.  What they may not know is there's an app for that! If you have a brand new Mac, after you turn it on and register, you may see it come up (and maybe you send it away without a second thought). It;s also in the Utilities folder. This program is called Migration…

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  MacNews

• Troubleshooting Tips

  Phyllis Evans

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:01 am

  Even with one of the most stable operating system around, we all manage to run into trouble now and then. Sometimes, the simplest things work. Safari is my problem-prone app. I tend to only reboot my iMac when forced by a system update, and I generally have four or five apps that run all the time. Safari will reach a point where I get spinning beach balls with almost every page change. When that happens, I quit it, then restart it, and the problems generally go away — at least for a while. If quitting an app doesn't fix the problems, try restarting the computer. Restarting fixes a…

• 10 MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Tips

  Terry White

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:01 pm

  First off I'll use the word "MacBook" throughout this post. I'm doing that to keep from having to write MacBook/MacBook Pro, MacBook Air every single time. These tips are for all "MacBook" users despite your particular model. I'm a MacBook Pro user in case you were wondering.   1. Secure it with a password When you first set up your Mac and create a user account by default that user account is set to automatically log you in each time you boot up or wake up from sleep. While this may be less of an issue for a desktop Mac in your home, I highly recommend…

• Quarterback …. Databack…. Which one will come through?

  Calvin Carson

  5 Feb 2010 | 12:28 am

  Many people ask me, "Calvin. How often should I backup?' There are an endless number of responses to that question. Most responses are questions. Let's start shall we?   Here are some example responses   1)      How often do you want to do the same project over that you put 12 or 14 hours into? 2)      Do you like crying cause you lost $372.00 worth of iTunes and the electronic receipts? 3)      You really enjoy reconstructing your computer by reloading the Operating System, all the patches and updates,  all of your…

• You know it’s time for some R&R when…

  Chita Hunter

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  You find stuff like this happening… Do you have those moments when you do something so ridiculous or stupid that you hear yourself chastising you out loud? Don’t bother to answer, I know that the answer is yes. We all do it. I was recently in a local retail store pricing merchandise and of course using my iPhone. I was using an iPhone app that required me to manually enter keywords or a UPC code. As I started to enter the code, I decided to save myself time, make life easier for myself and download an app that would just read the UPC code for me. I’d been waiting to…

• A New Machine – Part 1

  Jack Beckman

  3 Feb 2010 | 12:01 am

  So you've picked up a new Mac (or new to you, anyway) and now you want to get all your music, photos, applications, and settings on your new system so it's comfortable, like your old one. This comes up on the iBBS occasionally, and people start asking about how to move their iPhoto library or their iTunes library.  What they may not know is there's an app for that! If you have a brand new Mac, after you turn it on and register, you may see it come up (and maybe you send it away without a second thought). It;s also in the Utilities folder. This program is called Migration…