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More Details on Jony Ive's Flat iOS 7 Design: Heavier on Black and White

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Eric Slivka

24 May 2013 | 6:30 am

9to5Mac shares more details on Jony Ive's redesign for iOS 7, noting that not only will it bring a flatter look to the operating system but also more emphasis on black and white design elements.Sources have described iOS 7 as “black, white, and flat all over.” This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements. [...] For the upcoming operating system, which Apple says will be unveiled at its June Worldwide Developers Conference, Ive has not simply picked areas of the software design to tweak. He has essentially made his…
Kool Tools: Kensington USB 3.0 docking stations, multi-display adapters

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dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:06 am

Thank you, Kensington. The company has made its line of USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter products compatible with Mac OS X. Now sporting a new DisplayLink driver for the Mac, Kensington’s productivity devices will work with OS X 10.6 and higher. The new compatibility enables Mac users to supplement connectivity to their devices, including MacBook Air, Pro or iMac. Using either of the Kensington USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter, Apple users can now add multiple monitors, use additional USB ports, and leverage Gigabit Ethernet for fast data connection. read…
'Iron Man 3' Review - An Endless Flyer That Occasionally Crashes and Burns

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James Paterson

23 May 2013 | 4:33 pm

You smash down into the outside of an airport. There are a swarm of yellow baddies attacking the place. J.A.R.V.I.S. tells you to get going while you can. You touch a button on your suit. You’re flying through the air. This is how Iron Man 3 [Free] begins, the iOS game based on the $1B grossing film of its namesake. Gameloft’s latest casts you as the famous Tony Stark, on a quest to save the world from the evil ne'er-do-wells. While fun, the game sadly is in stark contrast to its business model, which partly goes against the protagonist. The first thing you’ll notice are Iron Man 3’s…
Rumor: Fifth-gen iPad to receive rear-facing mic, thinner, lighter design

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Chris Barylick

24 May 2013 | 7:27 am

A rear-facing mic might be in the next-gen iPad’s future. Per Macotakara and AppleInsider, the fifth-generation iPad is expected to ship after Apple’s anticipated “iPhone 5S.” Reports have pegged Apple’s next iPhone for launch around September, which would be around a year after the iPhone 5 went on sale. According to author Danbo’s sources, the next 9.7-inch iPad will gain a rear microphone next to the camera, much like Apple added to the iPhone 5 in 2012. The report noted that prototypes of the iPad mini also included rear microphones, but were not…
Evernote 5.1

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24 May 2013 | 4:37 am

Adds reminders capability with in-app and email due-date notifications. (Free, 40.8 MB) Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products.

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Apps: Dupin, HoudahGeo, Clear

24 May 2013 | 8:28 am
Forums: Bluetooth problems on iPad after iOS update and more

24 May 2013 | 8:26 am

When Senior User "chasg" was unable to connect Bluetooth devices to their iPad mini after they updated to iOS 6.1.3, they turned to the forums for some help. Earlier this week Grizzled Vetran "jeff k" started a thread after noticing that sometimes posts don't "snap into place" when using calendar, and couldn't quite figure out what that was all about....
Apple deals: refurbished iMacs from $1,099

24 May 2013 | 8:25 am

Right now at Apple's online store save on refurbished iMac models starting as low as $1,099 for the refurbished 21.5-inch iMac with a 2.7GHz Intel quad-core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. The 21.5-inch iMac with a 2.9GHz Intel quad-core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive has been reduced by $230 to $1,269....
DealNN: refurbished iPod nano, only $90

24 May 2013 | 8:20 am

Currently WalMart.com has the refurbished 7th generation 16GB iPod nano for only $89.99 with $3.97 for shipping. That's $50 less than the MSRP, and $35 less than the lowest price we've seen on this iPod anywhere else. Sales tax applies for residents of most states. The iPod nano features 16GB of storage space, 2.5-inch Multi-Touch display, Bluetooth, built-in Nike+ support, and built-in battery that provides up to 30 hours of music playback....
Apple releases new iPhone ad touting music

24 May 2013 | 7:40 am

Continuing with a nearly voiceless and poetic new campaign, Apple's latest TV ad for the iPhone is called "Music Every Day" and carries on the theme begun in the previous "Photos Every Day" ad, touting a major feature of the iPhone that is not unique to it, but more widely used on the platform than on any of its rivals with visually beautiful montages anchored to a single, simple piece of music....

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Evernote 5.1

24 May 2013 | 4:37 am

Adds reminders capability with in-app and email due-date notifications. (Free, 40.8 MB) Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products.
Google Drops Support for Standards-Based Chat

23 May 2013 | 12:00 pm

Google will no longer support the XMPP standard for its chat system as it moves from Google Talk to Hangouts. It has already severed ties with compatible, federated systems. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products.
TextExpander touch 2.0 Gains Features from Mac Version

23 May 2013 | 7:03 am

Version 2.0 of TextExpander touch, the iOS version of Smile’s text expansion software, offers fill-in snippets, date and time macros, rich text support, and other features familiar to users of the Mac version. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other…
How to Relocate a Dropbox Subfolder to Another Disk

22 May 2013 | 8:37 pm

Jeff Carlson wanted to use Dropbox’s Camera Upload feature for automatically copying photos from iOS devices, cameras, and memory cards, but doing so would fill up his 256 GB SSD with image files. Instead, he created a symbolic link (symlink) in Mac OS X to relocate the Camera Uploads folder to a separate volume. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual…
Twitter Adds Two-Factor Authentication

22 May 2013 | 11:34 am

Twitter joins a growing club of sites that let you reduce the chance of a hijacked login with two-factor authentication. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become a TidBITS member! Members also enjoy an ad-free version of our Web site, email delivery of individual articles, the ability to make long comments with live links, and discounts on Take Control orders and other Apple-related products.

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AltWWDC announces AltLabs dedicated lab space

Dave Caolo

24 May 2013 | 10:30 am

No WWDC tickets? No matter. AltWWDC is a free, five-day event that will be held in San Francisco June 10-14, 2013. Today, the group has announced AltLabs, which will serve as dedicated lab space for attendees. Each lab will be staffed by helpful folks who are there to answer your questions or just act as a sounding board. In addition, several special labs have been announced, including one on connectivity and web services, hosted by Matt Thompson of Heroku and AFNetworking; Isaiah Carew of Kiwi and Kirby Turner. You'll find the full run-down here. Keep an eye out for familiar faces while…
Best Buy to begin month-long iPhone sale on Sunday

Michael Grothaus

24 May 2013 | 10:00 am

AllThingsD is reporting that Best Buy plans to begin a monthlong iPhone sale on Sunday. iPhone prices will drop by US$50 when bought in conjunction with a two-year contract from AT&T, Sprint or Verizon. All current models of the iPhone -- iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 -- are included. This coming Monday in the United States is Memorial Day, and the weekend prior is a big shoppers' weekend. Best Buy is also offering discounts on several popular Android handsets, but those discounts are expected to expire on June 1. There's no word on why Best Buy's iPhone sale will carry on for an…
Smule users record 1 billion songs

Steven Sande

24 May 2013 | 9:00 am

Smule may be only 5 years old, but the California development firm started in part by Jeff Smith and Stanford Assistant Professor Dr. Ge Wang has had an amazing impact on the world. The company shared some stats with Evolver.fm that are incredible -- Smule's apps have been downloaded over 100 million times, are used by 15 million people a month and that audience has recorded over 1 billion songs. Sure, those songs may be amateur auto-tuned, auto-rapped or karaoke trash, but the statistics -- and Smule's bottom line -- prove that the company is on to something. While such venerable music…
Apple expands iOS Maps' 3D Flyover coverage in California, including Disneyland

Michael Grothaus

24 May 2013 | 9:00 am

Apple is continuing to roll out increased Maps 3D Flyover coverage. The latest update was first spotted by AppleInsider and appears to include large parts of California. Specifically, the latest update includes the cities of San Bernardino, Riverside, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Moreno Valley and more. This update covers Anaheim as well, so users can now view a 3D Flyover of Disneyland in Apple Maps. It seems like Apple is continuing to roll out aggressive server-side updates to Apple Maps. Only a little more than two weeks ago Apple added 3D Flyover coverage in Paris.Apple expands iOS Maps'…
Verizon Cloud comes to iOS devices

Michael Grothaus

24 May 2013 | 8:00 am

Following up on an announcement made at the end of April, Verizon has begun rolling out its Verizon Cloud storage solution to iOS devices today. Verizon Cloud offers Verizon users a free 500 MB of cloud storage to backup their photos, videos, contacts, music, call logs and text messages. Users who want more storage can buy it at a monthly fee of US$2.99/month for 25 GB, $5.99/month for 75 GB and $9.99/month for 125 GB. The Verizon Cloud service lets users stream music and sync data between devices, including photos, videos and documents. Users can also access their files via the web and…

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Apple Slashes Prices on Refurbished iPad Mini and iPad 4 Models

Eric Slivka

24 May 2013 | 8:14 am

Apple today significantly reduced prices on refurbished models of the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad, with all models now carrying approximately 15% discounts relative to brand-new units. iPad mini - 16 GB Wi-Fi: $279, down from $299 previously and $329 brand-new - 32 GB Wi-Fi: $359, down from $389 previously and $429 brand-new - 64 GB Wi-Fi: $439, down from $489 previously and $529 brand-new - 16 GB Wi-Fi + Cellular: $389, down from $429 previously and $459 brand-new - 32 GB Wi-Fi + Cellular: $469, down from $519 previously and…
More Details on Jony Ive's Flat iOS 7 Design: Heavier on Black and White

Eric Slivka

24 May 2013 | 6:30 am

9to5Mac shares more details on Jony Ive's redesign for iOS 7, noting that not only will it bring a flatter look to the operating system but also more emphasis on black and white design elements.Sources have described iOS 7 as “black, white, and flat all over.” This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements. [...] For the upcoming operating system, which Apple says will be unveiled at its June Worldwide Developers Conference, Ive has not simply picked areas of the software design to tweak. He has essentially made his…
AT&T's GoPhone Prepaid Brand to Gain iPhone and LTE/HSPA+ Support Tomorrow

Eric Slivka

23 May 2013 | 7:33 pm

MacRumors has learned that AT&T's GoPhone prepaid wireless brand will be undertaking a significant expansion of its services starting tomorrow, offering support for AT&T's fastest LTE and HSPA+ data networks for the first time and also adding official support for the iPhone. Until now, GoPhone has allowed iPhone users to sign up for service, but without cellular data access. With the changes coming tomorrow, the iPhone will have access to the full range of AT&T services through GoPhone, including LTE data and Visual Voicemail. GoPhone will support three service plans for the iPhone, including…
Apple Posts New iPhone TV Ad 'Music Every Day'

Jordan Golson

23 May 2013 | 7:12 pm

Apple started running a new iPhone ad this evening called 'Music Every Day', the second in a series that launched last month with a spot entitled 'Photos Every Day'. Both ads in the campaign focus on people actually using the phone, rather than just the phone itself. Every day, more people enjoy their music on the iPhone than any other phoneIn a series of colorful clips, the iPhone is used by owners to listen to music at school, in the shower, at the gym, at a club, at a swim meet and more. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Letter to Brazilian Apple Repair Centers Suggests June 2013…
Microsoft Inaccurately Depicts Windows Tablet as Larger than iPad in New Comparison Ad

Juli Clover

23 May 2013 | 2:32 pm

To go along with two previously released anti-iPad Windows 8 tablet ads, Microsoft has released a side-by-side comparison of the iPad and various Windows 8 tablets, such as the ASUS VivoTab Smart, the same tablet that was used in the aforementioned ad. In the comparison, Microsoft points out the many reasons why the VivoTab is superior, noting its thinner size and lighter weight. Microsoft also includes a diagram of the 9.7-inch iPad next to a 10.1-inch widescreen tablet that looks visibly larger. That image is not to scale, however, as Elliot Temple of Curi.us (via Daring Fireball) details…

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The Week in iOS Apps: Music all around you!

24 May 2013 | 9:30 am

Like music? Like making it? Discovering new artists? Figuring out who the heck is singing that song on the TV commercial? We’ve got you covered in this week’s roundup of new and updated iOS apps. The Doors Father! Yes son? I want to buy the $5 The Doors app for iPad, which features more than 700 images and over 100 music and sound clips featuring Oliver Stone’s favorite band. There are also a half-dozen short films—we call them videos now—featuring some of the band’s most beloved songs. C’mon baby, take a chance with us. Guitar! by Smule To read this article in full or to leave…
Horace Dediu's four questions for Tim Cook

24 May 2013 | 7:38 am

The ever sharp tech analyst has four incisive questions for the Apple CEO ahead of Cook's appearance at next week's D11 conference. (asymco.com)
Bugs & Fixes: iTunes 11.0.3 update improves app updating

24 May 2013 | 6:00 am

Along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, the recently updated iTunes 11.0.3 introduces several interface tweaks. For my money, the most welcome addition is one that Apple doesn’t even mention on its “About iTunes 11.0.3” page: a redesigned interface for checking on and downloading updated apps. On the downside, if you’re among the unlucky minority, the new iTunes version may crash on a regular basis. Updating apps gets a welcome makeover Back in 2010, I detailed several problems with how the app update process worked in iTunes — and how it could be improved. The…
Review: Battle with comic legends in Injustice: Gods Among Us for iOS

24 May 2013 | 5:30 am

Comic book characters have so far struggled to score a smash hit on a mobile platform, with few titles proving worthy of the Marvel and DC Comics' names. But Injustice: Gods Among Us for iOS hopes to change all that with a huge cast of iconic characters, a savvy trading card game mechanic, and an enticing price of free. While Injustice still feels like a cheapened version of the console game it's based off of, Warner Brothers has at least produced an addictive and fun title that will appeal to its younger fan base. The game is billed as a collectable card game first and a fighting game…
Mac Gems: Eye-Friendly is a handy resolution switcher for Retina MacBooks

24 May 2013 | 4:05 am

Jörg Jacobsen’s $5 Eye-Friendly (Mac App Store link) is the third resolution-switching utility for the Retina MacBook Pro that I’ve looked at, after Pupil () and QuickRes (). In my quest to find the ideal resolution-switching app for my Retina MacBook Pro, is the third app the charm? Eye-Friendly’s menu on a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Like the other two apps, Eye-Friendly appears only in the menu bar. When you want to change your display’s resolution, you click the Eye-Friendly icon and mouse over your display (the menu lists your laptop’s built-in display, as well as any external…

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Judge: court will likely rule Apple worked to inflate ebook prices

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 7:17 am

In a pre-trial "tentative view," Judge Denise Cote said the U.S Department of Justice will likely be able to prove that Apple colluded with major book publishers to falsely inflate the prices of e-books sold through the iBookstore, reports "Reuters" (http://tinyurl.com/nfw824c). While she stressed that the view was not final and that she had read only some of the evidence so far, her comments could add to pressure on Apple to settle the lawsuit, in which the Justice Department accuses the company and five publishers of conspiring to fix e-book prices, the article adds. read more
Disk Order for Mac OS X gets a Dropbox plug-in

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 6:50 am

LikeMac Group (www.likemac.ru/english/) has released Disk Order 3.2.4, an update of the double-pane file manager for OS X with advanced features. A Dropbox plug-in is now included. It makes it possible to browse through files on a server, download and upload, or even view and edit them. Simple file dropping is also supported. read more
Spatial Infographics Solution comes to ConceptDraw Pro

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:07 am

CS Odessa (www.conceptdraw.com) has introduced a Spatial Infographics Solution for ConceptDraw Pro 9. The new solution permits users to draw professional infographics that orient viewers so they can be self-directed to a point of interest. read more
PDF Nomad 2.0 adds scanning, OCR, more

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:04 am

SintraWorks has updated PDF Nomad, a PDF editor for Mac OS X (10.7 and higher), to version 2.0. The upgrade adds scanning, OCR, AppleScript support, automatic page deskewing, bookmarks management and more. PDF Nomad's features include simple text search and extraction, file merging, page splitting, form creation, markup and annotation, booklet/magazine creation and more. You can create and fill out PDF forms, mark-up text and annotate pages with rectangles, ovals, arrows, lines and more. read more
Akvis Retoucher 6.0 gets batch processing

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:02 am

Akvis has released Akvis Retoucher 6.0 for Mac OS X and Windows systems (http://akvis.com/en/retoucher/index.php), an update of the app for restoring damaged photos by removing dust, scratches, stains, and by reconstructing the missing parts of a photo automatically. Version 6.0 adds a Batch Processing feature that lets you automatically process a series of images. Also, there are some bug fixes. read more

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YES: 'Pizza Vs. Skeletons' Creator Riverman Media Announces Its Next Title, 'The Executive'

Brad Nicholson

24 May 2013 | 9:18 am

YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. Sorry, I'm excited about this one. In Pizza Vs. Skeletons [$4.99] creator Riverman Media's next game, The Executive, you play as the CEO of a company that has been infiltrated by well-dressed werewolves. Naturally, your job is save your company -- and eventually the city. We've got video of the game in action just below, and you'll want to see it. It's got an amazing hand-drawn look, as well as some pretty sick animation.
'Running With Friends' Review - Zynga's Late to the Party, but their Latest Social Game is at Least Satisfying

James Isabel

24 May 2013 | 5:00 am

Zynga gets a lot of flack for a myriad of reasons. This is typically due to ripping off other people's original ideas, spamming your Facebook feed (and your friends) with useless requests, or making a game that primarily exists to be an IAP cash cow. Did the inevitable finally happen, and they actually delivered a game that at its core is designed to be fun and playable? Running With Friends [Free / Free (HD)] has been out in Canada for a while and was finally released worldwide a couple of weeks ago. I decided to check the game out for myself since it's free, and much to my delight, Zynga…
'Iron Man 3' Review - An Endless Flyer That Occasionally Crashes and Burns

James Paterson

23 May 2013 | 4:33 pm

You smash down into the outside of an airport. There are a swarm of yellow baddies attacking the place. J.A.R.V.I.S. tells you to get going while you can. You touch a button on your suit. You’re flying through the air. This is how Iron Man 3 [Free] begins, the iOS game based on the $1B grossing film of its namesake. Gameloft’s latest casts you as the famous Tony Stark, on a quest to save the world from the evil ne'er-do-wells. While fun, the game sadly is in stark contrast to its business model, which partly goes against the protagonist. The first thing you’ll notice are Iron Man 3’s…
'Mosaique' Review – If 'Klax' Was a Shooter

David Wolinsky

23 May 2013 | 3:10 pm

Appearances can be deceiving. In the App Store, Mosaique [$0.99] looks like it might be a generic block-pusher game, or some sort of warped Tetris clone. The truth is that developer Winning Blimp uses these familiar aesthetics to create something altogether completely different. In Mosaique, Colored squares assemble onscreen in a seemingly random pattern, and you must navigate the screen’s perimeter to clear them by going to the side you want and then dispatching your colored square out into the field. You can only remove same-colored squares – send it out against something not matching…
HyperDevbox Announces an 'ExZeus' Sequel is Heading to iOS

Jared Nelson

23 May 2013 | 1:15 pm

I woke up to some very exciting and unexpected news today as HyperDevbox Japan has announced that ExZeus 2 is in the works and is heading to the App Store soon. If you aren't familiar (and I won't blame you if you aren't), the original ExZeus [$2.99] was a somewhat obscure arcade game that came out in 2003 and went on to see limited releases on various other platforms like the PlayStation 2, PC, and even as a Wii title in 2007 under the name Counter Force. In 2009 ExZeus released for the iPhone, and we took a close look at it as well as a hands-on video of the game in motion, as in those…

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Apple levels its latest patent complaints at Samsung’s Galaxy S4

Megan Geuss

22 May 2013 | 4:30 pm

Apple is yet again pursuing patent infringement claims against Samsung (and Samsung is counter-suing Apple). The pair's newest patent battle is happening in the US District Court of Northern California and it's a similar lawsuit to the infringement case heard last year that resulted in a $1.05 billion verdict in favor of Apple. This time around, however, Apple and Samsung are pursuing claims against the latest generation of products. Last week, Apple added a footnote to a filing, saying it hoped to include Samsung's Galaxy S4 in its infringement suit. Now the company has filed a motion to…
Tim Cook confirms: Apple spending $100 million to build new Macs in Texas

Andrew Cunningham

22 May 2013 | 7:08 am

Apple is looking to bring even more Mac production back to the states. Andrew Cunningham Last week, we learned that Apple was looking to devote about $100 million to bring the manufacturing of one of its Mac product lines back to the United States. At yesterday's Senate hearings on the company's untaxed overseas pile of cash, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the new Mac would be manufactured in Texas. The computer will also "include components made in Illinois and Florida and rely on equipment produced in Kentucky and Michigan.” Moving away from solid facts and into informed speculation,…
Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billion back home

Joe Mullin

21 May 2013 | 1:20 pm

Apple CEO Tim Cook. Chris Foresman There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate see it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International (AOI), which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according…
Senate report shows Apple avoided billions in taxes on foreign income

Nathan Mattise

20 May 2013 | 6:00 pm

A new Senate report (PDF from The New York Times) shows that Apple has employed potentially sketchy business methods to avoid heavier tax burdens. According to the investigation, the company dodged billions in potential taxes on $44 billion in foreign income during the past four years. Some of the interesting bits from the Senate's report: three Apple subsidiaries in Ireland claim no responsibility to pay income taxes to any country. Apple Operations International, one of the Ireland three, reported $30 billion in income during 2009 to 2012 despite having no employees and not filing income…
iOS default despair: Where Ars staff turns for better app experiences

Jacqui Cheng

19 May 2013 | 6:00 pm

Aurich Lawson Third-party apps didn't exist when the iPhone first launched in 2007. At that time, Apple offered its own set of built-in iOS apps, and users were relegated to Web apps if they wanted tools made by someone else. Luckily, things have changed since; we now have hundreds of thousands of apps to choose from for our iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. Many of them even offer similar or better functionality than the default apps from Apple. Users still can't delete Apple's default apps from iOS devices (grumble grumble…), but there are plenty of useful alternatives out there for…

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Missing the Xserve? Sonnet has a rack-mounted answer

Topher Kessler

23 May 2013 | 11:15 am

If you're missing Apple's Xserve line of computers, then Sonnet's xMac Mini Server is one way to get your Mac back into the rack.
Help protect yourself from signed malware in OS X

Topher Kessler

23 May 2013 | 8:55 am

With the discovery of malware signed with a valid Apple ID, here are some steps you can take to help prevent the remote chance of any such programs infecting your computer.
How to migrate a user account to another OS X system

Topher Kessler

21 May 2013 | 2:12 pm

There are several ways you can move a user account from one computer to another without having to set up the account again from scratch.
Optical drives not working with Mountain Lion for some

Topher Kessler

21 May 2013 | 12:47 pm

After installing OS X Mountain Lion, some people are finding their internal optical drives are no longer functioning.
How to create custom PDF compression filters in OS X

Topher Kessler

20 May 2013 | 4:13 pm

You can make your own filters for reducing or otherwise adjusting images when exporting in OS X's Preview application.

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Fecal Transplants Could Possibly Save Thousands Of Lives A Year

24 May 2013 | 9:25 am

That is, if the FDA would allow them.
So There Was A Mini-'Fresh Prince' Reunion At A London Club

24 May 2013 | 7:32 am

Fresh Prince Of Bel Air may have stopped filming in 1996 - but the cult status of the show means that when Will Smith, Alfonso Ribeiro and Jeff Townes get together it's automatically a reunion.
This Is The Most Gorgeous, Most Ridiculous Way To Squeeze A Lemon

24 May 2013 | 7:29 am

This is absurdly useless, yet we still want one.
Germany's Shady Soviet-Era Drug Trials

24 May 2013 | 7:13 am

Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, major pharmaceutical companies conducted hundreds of drug trials in East Germany. In all more than 50,000 East German patients served as guinea pigs—many without their knowledge or consent.
Former French President Courageously Reveals He Survived A Panda Attack

24 May 2013 | 7:13 am

Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has revealed he was once jumped on by a panda when he dared himself to enter its cage.

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Apple Airs New iPhone 5 Commercial: “Music Every Day”

Federico Viticci

23 May 2013 | 7:36 pm

Following the “Photos Every Day” commercial first aired last month, Apple today posted a new iPhone 5 ad called “Music Every Day”. As the name suggests, it is a follow-up to the previous commercial, this time with a focus on music. Music Every Day doesn’t show music apps — instead it puts the spotlight on people enjoying music with their iPhones and Apple’s distinctive white earbuds. The commercial includes a variety of everyday situations — from exercising and waiting in line to a DJ set and a group of friends listening to music in their car.
→ Using Tweetbot Searches to Replace RSS

Federico Viticci

23 May 2013 | 10:52 am

Sean Korzdorfer shares a Tweetbot tip that I didn’t know about: you can construct complex searches with boolean operators and filters and launch them with a URL scheme, both on OS X and iOS. And not just regular searches — you can apply a query to look for specific keywords inside a Tweetbot search. Basically, Sean is using Tweetbot searches to replace RSS feeds. By saving searches that filter out RTs, mentions, and tweets in foreign languages, he receives a stream of tweets containing links from a specific set of users. Sean has turned his searches into Alfred workflows for…
Apple Confirms WWDC Keynote on June 10

Federico Viticci

23 May 2013 | 9:45 am

As first reported by John Paczkowski at AllThingsD, Apple has confirmed its WWDC ’13 keynote for June 10 in San Francisco. Speakers haven’t been revealed yet, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see CEO Tim Cook kicking off the keynote, with other executives following up on news and announcements during the event. WWDC ’13 was announced on April 24. Running through June 14, the conference will allow Apple to show developers “the latest advances in software technologies and developer tools to help them create innovative new apps”; Apple has also confirmed new…
→ Save Keyboard Maestro Macro Screenshots with Keyboard Maestro

Federico Viticci

23 May 2013 | 9:01 am

Patrick Welker goes all meta with a macro to save Keyboard Maestro macros as screenshots — a new feature of version 6.0. ∞ Read this on MacStories
Auto Tag Songs in the Background with Shazam for the iPad

Cody Fink

23 May 2013 | 8:15 am

Shazam is one of those things that has always felt entirely magical. With a tap of a button, usually any song playing from a static filled speaker is correctly tagged, and sorted into a tab where you can revisit it on your accord at a later time. It’ll pluck songs out of the air in a noisy bar, identify what’s playing on TV, and even tell you whether MSTRKRFT’s remix of Monster Hospital is playing before the keynote starts. And Shazam is always in my pocket, ready to settle disputes on what band is actually playing and what the name of the song actually is. There’s a…

MacDailyNews
Don’t tax Apple, tax its shareholders

MacDailyNews

24 May 2013 | 9:30 am

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook appeared...
Gundlach: ‘We own Apple’

MacDailyNews

24 May 2013 | 9:02 am

Apple (AAPL) finally has a friend in Jeffrey Gundlach...
Asymco’s Horace Dediu’s questions for Tim Cook

MacDailyNews

24 May 2013 | 8:32 am

Why is the iPhone not sold as a portfolio product?
AT&T Mobility adds $0.61 per month administrative fee to all users

MacDailyNews

24 May 2013 | 8:01 am

AT&T Mobility "has started billing customers $0.61 per month...
Jony Ive’s remade iOS 7: ‘black, white, and flat all over,’ sources say

MacDailyNews

24 May 2013 | 7:12 am

Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Jony Ive...

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A New iPhone Is Just Like Having A New Girlfriend

Ray Basile

3 May 2013 | 11:31 am

Every new relationship begins with that glorious honeymoon period. You spend as much time as you can together. You're constantly holding each other. You spend time in bed with her and every little thing she does seems so amazing. It's love at first sight. That's exactly how it feels to embrace a brand new iPhone and fondle it with loving care right out of the box. It's the first thing you see every morning when you wake up and the last thing you see going to bed at night. College Humor pokes fun at this sad but true loving relationship between a man and his precious…
Upcoming iOS 7 to Launch at WWDC 2013 With Flat Interface Design

Ray Basile

3 May 2013 | 1:27 am

The myth of a flat earth which became widespread during the first half of the 20th century shares a common bond with recent reports that the upcoming iOS 7 interface design driven by Apple's SVP of Industrial Design Jony Ive — is said to be “very, very flat”. If those reports are accurate, the latest streamlined iOS 7 will lose all signs of gloss, shine, and skeuomorphic design elements like faux leather-stitching and wood veneers evident in both current and past versions of the popular iOS. A longstanding design aesthetic based on real-life visual metaphors blessed by the…
North Korea Nukes App Targets The App Store

Ray Basile

4 Apr 2013 | 9:21 pm

If San Francisco indie developer Elam Nikserof has his way with Apple — a wicked new multi-player game called “NK Nukes” will be worming its way into the App Store within the next few weeks. His free novelty app let's players target major cities across the United States from North Korea — giving users the option of choosing a Kim Jong-iI or little Kim Jong-Un likeness to ride atop an array of nuclear bombs as they soar through the air in an attempt to obliterate America. Nikersoff used the wildly popular iShoot tank game as his inspiration, but…
This Iron Man Mark VII iPhone 5 Case Flashes An Obnoxious Nerd Alert

Ray Basile

2 Apr 2013 | 7:40 pm

There's really very few things that would cause Tony Stark to quietly shuffle off into the shadows from instant humiliation — until now that is. With Iron Man 3 finally hitting theaters, I would expect this official MARVEL iPhone 5 Mark VII protective armor case to signal the start of a long comic geek parade of grand consumerism. The arc reactor located right above the sculpted abs on this bulky little marvel can be set to illuminate for incoming calls — sending a clear nerd alert signal to everyone in the room. An alert which will instantly cause that one ultra-shy hot…
Apple Begins New iPhone Production This Quarter

Ray Basile

2 Apr 2013 | 1:05 pm

Apple is planning to begin production on its new iPhone in Q2 2013 according to a WSJ report — with the size and shape remaining similar to the current iPhone 5 device. Earlier analyst reports anticipated a summer launch of the next-generation iPhone which many believe will only be another incremental upgrade. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told CNET that he expects the iPhone 5S to launch in late June with a faster A7 chip processor, upgraded software and a better camera on board and LED technology called “Smart Flash.” The much-rumored fingerprint reader security feature…

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Apple Satisfaction Rating Dips

Mel

22 May 2013 | 7:07 pm

This news is a wake-up call for Apple. In a recent survey conducted by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, consumer satisfaction on Apple’s products has dropped. Even though the Cupertino-based giant is still the leading brand in the mobile industry with an 81 percent customer satisfaction score, it is 2.5 percent lower than the score it received last year. In and of itself, this 2.5 percent drop may be insignificant, but in the same survey, Apple’s biggest rival in the mobile space, Samsung, has received a large increase in its customer satisfaction score – a 7 percent increase…
Siri the Movie Critic

Robin Parrish

21 May 2013 | 3:38 pm

Playing around with Siri, I’ve discovered a new side of her personality by asking her about popular movies. Her tastes may not surprise you, but her attitude probably will! Ask Siri what a movie is about and see what she says. The majority of the time, she’ll have no opinion and simply bring up a standard plot synopsis from an external website. But every now and then, you may stumble across some movies that Siri has not only seen, but has some very strong opinions about. She seems to prefer movies that feature robots or artificial intelligences, although she has some……
Review: Bluetooth Keyboard Case for iPad

Robin Parrish

19 May 2013 | 1:17 pm

The Bluetooth Keyboard Case, as seen from the side An iPad keyboard case shaped like a MacBook “clamshell” might just be the holy grail of iPad accessories. A Kickstarter campaign last year famously made this idea a reality. Since then, MacBook clamshell cases have popped up in the catalogs of several accessory makers. I’ve been itching to try out one of these cases for eons, so this Bluetooth Keyboard Case, for sale exclusively at MobileFun.com is my first. Just how much would one of these class of iPad cases feel like using a MacBook? Can working on an iPad (with the help…
iPad Mini 2 Leaked!

Noemi Tasarra-Twigg

15 May 2013 | 8:05 pm

It’s time for the inevitable leak. With Apple fanboys and fangirls waiting not so patiently for the the details on the latest iPads (and iPhones, and iOS, and everything…), there has never been any doubt that a leak of some sort would come out. And what better time than a few weeks before the WWDC? I practically woke up to the news of an iPad Mini 2 leak, except that it probably is not going to be called iPad Mini 2. According to Mobileaks, Apple has diverged from the practice of naming their gadgets following number sequencing. We see this from the “New iPad”. Of…
Apple Says Publisher Deal Improved Competition

Mel

15 May 2013 | 6:33 pm

Apple is under fire from the United States Department of Justice for allegations that it has conspired with other book publishers to illegally fix the prices of e-books. The DOJ has has said that Apple’s defense against the allegations are unconvincing and “untethered from both precedent and logic.” But in an 81-page April 26 filing that recently became public, Apple has denied the accusations. The company has gone on to say that the discussions described by the DOJ are not a proof of collusion but were nothing more than tough business negotiations. It further said that the end result…

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Best Buy to begin $50 discount off iPhone 5 beginning this Sunday

Chris Barylick

24 May 2013 | 7:47 am

The shall be SAVINGS this holiday weekend!!! Per AllThingsD, retailer Best Buy will be extending a US$50 discount on every current iPhone offering when purchased with a 2 year contract starting this Sunday. This promotion is said to make a 4 week run and will drop the price of an iPhone 5 down to just US$150. Historically speaking, iPhones do not typically see many discounts until they near the end of their life cycle when retailers try to clear old stock. But the iPhone 5 has been on sale a couple times already, as low as US$127 from a Walmart in-store promotion. It’s believed that…
Apple expands Maps application’s 3D flyover coverage, accuracy to parts of California

Chris Barylick

24 May 2013 | 7:40 am

It’s a slow process, but it’s hopefully getting better and more accurate. Per 9to5Mac, Apple’s iOS 6 Maps application apparently now offers improved support for San Bernardino, Riverside, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario and Moreno Valley and other areas in California. With the additions, Maps offers nearly unbroken Flyover coverage of cities from San Bernardino to the Pacific Ocean… As with the previous expansion of the flyover feature in Paris and surrounding areas of France, the update was a silent one, so it’s possible that other areas have been added too – please let us…
Rumor: Fifth-gen iPad to receive rear-facing mic, thinner, lighter design

Chris Barylick

24 May 2013 | 7:27 am

A rear-facing mic might be in the next-gen iPad’s future. Per Macotakara and AppleInsider, the fifth-generation iPad is expected to ship after Apple’s anticipated “iPhone 5S.” Reports have pegged Apple’s next iPhone for launch around September, which would be around a year after the iPhone 5 went on sale. According to author Danbo’s sources, the next 9.7-inch iPad will gain a rear microphone next to the camera, much like Apple added to the iPhone 5 in 2012. The report noted that prototypes of the iPad mini also included rear microphones, but were not…
Dropbox updated to 2.0.21

Chris Barylick

24 May 2013 | 7:13 am

Never doubt a steadily-updated program. On Friday, Dropbox released version 2.0.21 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 29.3 megabyte download (via MacUpdate), which adds the following fixes and changes: Fixed: - Fix Windows installer sometimes failing to install properly. New: - A new tray popup that combines the old tray menu features with a timeline of the most important sharing events in your Dropbox. - Notifications menu is only enabled on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and above, and on Windows XP and above. Dropbox 2.0.21 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to…
Apple receives patents for push-to-talk, double-sided touch panel features

Chris Barylick

23 May 2013 | 12:26 pm

If you’re hankering for new hardware features on a next-gen iPhone, the patent office is on your side. Per AppleInsider, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently published 26 newly granted patents for Apple, and among them were the Cupertino company’s take on a push-to-talk feature and a double-sided touch-sensitive panel, both of which could possibly appear in future iPhones. No current models of Apple’s bestselling iPhone support the Push-to-Talk (PTT) feature that many carriers have made available for years now. Users do have access to a number of apps in the iTunes…

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Free Apps Roundup for May 24, 2013

Jake Gaecke

24 May 2013 | 8:34 am

This week on the Free Apps Roundup: It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S.A., and that means you have extra time to spare on Monday. Good news for you is that there are a ton of great games available for free this weekend. There’s a new Tetris game, there’s the movie tie-in game to EPIC, Angry Birds Space is free, and more. If you don’t find something on this week’s list then you probably just don’t like games. Have fun! The Top Three Free Apps: Tetris Blitz – Yet another Tetris game, I know. But the truth of the matter is that most of us just can’t get enough Tetris…
Apple product rumors: iPhone 5S, low-cost iPhone, and iPad 5

Arnold Zafra

24 May 2013 | 8:25 am

Up for some Apple product rumors? We’ve got some pretty interesting ones here regarding the iPhone 5S, a low-cost iPhone and the iPad 5. Low-cost iPhone Citing various reliable sources, Macotakara claims the rumored low-cost iPhone may come in various colors. The website is actually citing two different sources, each of which its own claims for the colors in in which the low-cost iPhone will be made available. One tells of…Continue reading Apple product rumors: iPhone 5S, low-cost iPhone, and iPad 5Related posts:Tethering officially coming to the iPhone through AT&TiPhone firmware…
Evernote Reminders for Mac, iOS rolled out, makes Evernote app more useful

Arnold Zafra

24 May 2013 | 3:46 am

Evernote—one of the more popular note-taking apps available for iOS, Mac and the web—has just been updated with a new feature that will certainly make the app even more useful: Evernote Reminders. With Reminders, you’ll be able to enjoy three features in one: in-app and email alarms, quick note based to-do lists, and the ability to pin notes to the top your note list. Reminders are connected with Notes you created. On Mac, for example, while on a particular…Continue reading Evernote Reminders for Mac, iOS rolled out, makes Evernote app more usefulRelated posts:You write the songs with…
Shazam for iPad adds new music map and background auto-tagging

Kaled Ali

23 May 2013 | 8:05 pm

Shazam has updated its app once again, except this time they have completely reworked the experience for the iPad. The music tagging application has a number of new features to ease the tagging process for its users. One of the key features of Shazam for iPad is background auto-tagging, which allows users to use other apps on their iOS devices while Shazam identifies music in the background and saves it in the “My Tags” section of the app. Shazam is one of the more popular apps on the App…Continue reading Shazam for iPad adds new music map and background auto-taggingRelated posts:iPhone…
Mailbox app now optimized for iPad

Arnold Zafra

23 May 2013 | 7:30 pm

Mailbox—that cool and hip email app which was released for iPhone—has just been updated to support the iPad. Those who have been hooked on the Mailbox app for iPhone app, which is now under the ownership of Dropbox, are sure to be pleased that there’s now an iPad optimized…Continue reading Mailbox app now optimized for iPadRelated posts:Dropbox for iOS now automatically uploads photo and videosDropbox iOS app updated with Twitter, Facebook, AirPrint supportDropBox updates iPhone and iPad app with new features

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The Promise of Cinnamon – TechFan Podcast #120

Tim Robertson

24 May 2013 | 9:39 am

Download or listen here Subscribe in iTunes Topics include the XBOX ONE, UFO and Big Foot sightings, subsidizing internet connectivity and computers, and Tim reviews the Monster NCredible N-Pulse headphones. Link: Monster NCredible N-Pulse
The J-Men Show – MyMac Podcast #458

The MyMac Podcast

22 May 2013 | 4:10 am

Download and listen here Subscribe in iTunes Before We start I’d like to say RIP Tim Verpoorten he was a massive influence on me when I started podcasting and it is with great sadness that I learnt of his death this weekend. I’d like to dedicate this show to him. No Guy this week, but [...]
Mac Kung Fu – Book Review

Julie Kuehl

21 May 2013 | 10:00 pm

Mac Kung Fu, Second Edition – Over 400 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for Apple OS X Author: Keir Thomas Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf Price: US $39 (print) | US $26 (ebook) 424 pages ISBN: 978-1-93778-507-9 Mac Kung Fu is a collection of hundreds of little things that can make a big difference in the [...]
Double Vision – TechFan Podcast #119

Tim Robertson

17 May 2013 | 8:49 am

Download the show here Subscribe in iTunes Google Glass is the discussion this week, as well as Tim and David disagreeing on the state of evil. Wait, what?
Mac Hacks – Book Review

Julie Kuehl

17 May 2013 | 4:52 am

Mac Hacks - Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X Author: Chris Seibold Publisher: O’Reilly Media Price: US $24.99 (print) | US $19.99 (ebook) 330 pages ISBN: 978-1-449-32558-9 The cover of Mac Hacks features a Swiss Army knife, which is very fitting given the breadth of topics this book addresses. The hacks covered [...]

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Did WWDC Really Sell Out In 2 Minutes, Or Is Apple Covering Up?

Killian Bell

24 May 2013 | 9:27 am

WWDC tickets sold out unbelievably quickly this year. We knew it was highly unlikely they’d be available for as long as the two hours it took them to sell out last year, but we also weren’t expecting them all to disappear in under two minutes. But did Apple really sell out of WWDC tickets that fast? The Cupertino company has since been calling developers to offer them a place at its event this June, and that’s led some to question whether all tickets were really sold or whether Apple’s too embarrassed to admit that its servers couldn’t cope with the demand they…
Apple Store Drops Prices On Refurbished iPad Minis And iPad 4

Buster Heine

24 May 2013 | 9:11 am

Apple might unveil a new iPad mini at WWDC, but if the rumors are true that it might not have a Retina display, then you might want to consider getting a first gen iPad mini. The Online Apple Store just dropped the price on all refurbished iPad mini and iPad 4 models today. The price drops aren’t huge (although a lot of models are not $100 cheaper than a brand new unit), but it’s a better deal than buying one brand new and you get the same warranty. Here are the new prices: iPad mini 16GB Wifi $279 32GB Wifi $359 64 GB Wifi $439 16 GB LTE $389 32GB LTE $469 64 GB LTE $549 iPad…
How You’ll Use The iWatch With iOS Or Google Maps [Image]

John Brownlee

24 May 2013 | 8:46 am

Martin Hajek’s oft-shown iWatch model has been dusted off yet again, this time to show how the iWatch could act as a second-screen compass for Apple Maps running on an iPhone. Got to say, first obviously compelling use for an iWatch that I’ve seen yet. Source: Flickr The post How You’ll Use The iWatch With iOS Or Google Maps [Image] appeared first on Cult of Mac.Related StoriesHow Laurene Powell Jobs Keeps The Jobs Family Philanthropy Under WrapsApple Will Double Its Lobbying Efforts This Year To Simplify U.S. Tax CodeApple Stops 24-Hour Dispatch For Some International…
Apple Will Double Its Lobbying Efforts This Year To Simplify U.S. Tax Code

John Brownlee

24 May 2013 | 8:41 am

By Silicon Valley standards, Apple doesn’t lobby much in Washington. Last year, they spent a little under $2 million on lobbying, a drop in the bucket to Google’s $18 million spent. But scrutiny of Apple in Washington is starting to heat up, especially the company’s accounting methods. That’s why Apple is looking to double its lobbying spending this year to close to $4 million. According to Reuters, as part of Apple’s plan to get the U.S. tax code overhauled — vastly simplifying it by eliminating corporate tax expenditures, lowering overall tax rates, and…
Apple Stops 24-Hour Dispatch For Some International Online Stores

Killian Bell

24 May 2013 | 8:12 am

Apple has stopped advertising 24-hour dispatch for products sold through some international online stores. Many of the Cupertino company’s popular products offered 24-hour dispatch providing they were in stock, but in some markets that’s now been increased to 1-2 business days. That’s not a massive difference if you place your order on a weekday. But if you order on a Friday or Saturday, or before a public holiday, then 1-2 business days could mean a fairly lengthy wait. Friday orders, for instance, could be dispatched as late as Tuesday. It appears the change applies to…

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50 Billionth Download for the Apple App Store

Brandon

22 May 2013 | 6:00 am

On May 16th, Apple announced that customers had downloaded over 50 billion apps from the App Store. To commemorate the 50 billionth app downloaded, which was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC, Apple gave Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio a $10,000 App Store Gift Card. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services also noted that it took less than five years to hit this momentous milestone and that Apple thanks all its customers and developers for making the App Store what it is today. The App Store has been consistently growing, with downloads over 800 apps…
LENSPEN

Marshall

14 May 2013 | 8:46 am

The company: Lenspen has been a long time around with their simple goal to make products that remove fingerprints. They have been around long enough to provide their famous Lenspen, used for removing the grimy fingerprints from the front of lenses of DSLRs and the likes, for companies like Nikon, Canon, and Nasa. Design: Its small functional design and reliability make the Lenspen quite the portable tool. This becomes extremely important for the everyday photographer who needs something they can fit into their pocket or camera case. For myself, the Lenspen has truly become a savior…
Photo USA

Marshall

30 Apr 2013 | 10:58 am

Photo USA offers products ranging from iPhone cases to Christmas ornaments, all of which can be customized with your own photos. The good news is that these cases come at a reasonable price especially when customization is factored in. Although the images are high quality, the cases themselves are not. The iPhone cases are made fully of thin, factory plastic and simply snap on to the back of the iPhone with small hinges. If you are looking for customization, you may have stumbled across a goldmine. If you are looking for protection, you may want to look elsewhere.
What’s in it for Apple? A financial outlook:

kenny

24 Mar 2013 | 1:37 am

Let me preface this article by saying that I am by no means an expert in finance, risk calculation, or the current state of the stock market. That said, I think there has been a lot of jumbled advice being thrown around about Apple (AAPL) in the past few weeks, and I mean to throw in my two cents about the company with a little bit more resolve. Take it how you please. As most investors know, for the last 4 years Apple has been an incredibly profitable company to invest in, provided you invested correctly. The stock was at a 52-week low in 2009 at about $90, shooting up to a high of $705 in…
For Those of You Who Have Trouble Sleeping

Joe

18 Mar 2013 | 6:00 am

Having trouble sleeping at night? One problem might be that you are using your computer before you goto bed. Instead of going into the complex science of eye stimulation (which I do not quite understand myself), I will give you the brief over view. On f.lux’s website they explain it to us that the blue lights that your computer emit can keep you up late at night, so the purpose of f.lux was to eliminate these blue lights. They have done this by making your computers screen adapt to the time of the day. For example, on there website they state: “When the sun sets, it makes your…

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Apple's defenders count the errors in Microsoft's anti-iPad ads

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

24 May 2013 | 8:43 am

Did Microsoft stretch the truth in spots promoting a tablet that runs Windows? FORTUNE -- You'd think Microsoft (MSFT) would get some credit for running a couple light-hearted TV ads that -- unlike those awful 2008 Jerry Seinfeld spots -- aren't cringeworthy. But in the Windows tablet ads that debuted this week, Microsoft used Siri to badmouth the iPad, and some Apple (AAPL) aficionados were not amused. AppleInsider's headline set the tone: Microsoft caught lying about MORE
U.S. Judge in e-book antitrust trial says Apple is likely to lose

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

24 May 2013 | 5:05 am

It doesn't start until June 3, but the judge is already working on a draft of her decision. FORTUNE -- This does not bode well for Cupertino. Asked during a preliminary hearing Thursday to share her thoughts about the Department of Justice's case against Apple (AAPL) in the long-awaited e-book antitrust trial, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said this, according to Reuters: "I believe that the government will be able to show at trial MORE
New Apple TV ad series: Every day, more people ...

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

24 May 2013 | 2:58 am

First, take photos. Second, enjoy their music. What's next? FORTUNE -- With the release Thursday night of the second "Every Day" spot for the iPhone, it's now clear where Apple's (AAPL) new series of TV ads is headed. With Samsung nipping at its heels in the U.S. -- and leaving it in the dust in overseas markets -- Apple is capitalizing on studies that show that despite diminishing market share, more people use MORE
Apple, Android and a truckload of watermelons

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

23 May 2013 | 12:04 pm

Looking at market share vs. profit share every which way to Sunday. FORTUNE -- "Have you heard this one?" asks John Kirk in Android's Market Share is Literally a Joke, a Tech.pinions piece posted Thursday. It starts like this: Two farmers bought a truckload of watermelons, paying five dollars apiece for them. Then they drove to the market and sold all their watermelons for four dollars each. After counting their money at the end MORE
Jon Stewart on Tim Cook, Apple's taxes, and the subcommittee

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

23 May 2013 | 10:01 am

"Who are those people? What is the opposite of a Genius Bar?" FORTUNE -- You knew The Daily Show wasn't going to pass up a chance to comment on a hearing as unintentionally comical as the Senate subcommittee's probe into Apple's (AAPL) taxes. Apologies for the fuzzy YouTube clip. There's a better version on Comedy Central's Daily Show site. Filed under: Apple 2.0

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Judge: court will likely rule Apple worked to inflate ebook prices

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 7:17 am

In a pre-trial "tentative view," Judge Denise Cote said the U.S Department of Justice will likely be able to prove that Apple colluded with major book publishers to falsely inflate the prices of e-books sold through the iBookstore, reports "Reuters" (http://tinyurl.com/nfw824c). While she stressed that the view was not final and that she had read only some of the evidence so far, her comments could add to pressure on Apple to settle the lawsuit, in which the Justice Department accuses the company and five publishers of conspiring to fix e-book prices, the article adds. read more
Disk Order for Mac OS X gets a Dropbox plug-in

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 6:50 am

LikeMac Group (www.likemac.ru/english/) has released Disk Order 3.2.4, an update of the double-pane file manager for OS X with advanced features. A Dropbox plug-in is now included. It makes it possible to browse through files on a server, download and upload, or even view and edit them. Simple file dropping is also supported. read more
Spatial Infographics Solution comes to ConceptDraw Pro

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:07 am

CS Odessa (www.conceptdraw.com) has introduced a Spatial Infographics Solution for ConceptDraw Pro 9. The new solution permits users to draw professional infographics that orient viewers so they can be self-directed to a point of interest. read more
Kool Tools: Kensington USB 3.0 docking stations, multi-display adapters

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:06 am

Thank you, Kensington. The company has made its line of USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter products compatible with Mac OS X. Now sporting a new DisplayLink driver for the Mac, Kensington’s productivity devices will work with OS X 10.6 and higher. The new compatibility enables Mac users to supplement connectivity to their devices, including MacBook Air, Pro or iMac. Using either of the Kensington USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter, Apple users can now add multiple monitors, use additional USB ports, and leverage Gigabit Ethernet for fast data connection. read…
PDF Nomad 2.0 adds scanning, OCR, more

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:04 am

SintraWorks has updated PDF Nomad, a PDF editor for Mac OS X (10.7 and higher), to version 2.0. The upgrade adds scanning, OCR, AppleScript support, automatic page deskewing, bookmarks management and more. PDF Nomad's features include simple text search and extraction, file merging, page splitting, form creation, markup and annotation, booklet/magazine creation and more. You can create and fill out PDF forms, mark-up text and annotate pages with rectangles, ovals, arrows, lines and more. read more

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‘Music Every Day’

John Gruber

23 May 2013 | 7:47 pm

Love this campaign. ★
Daring Fireball T-Shirts

John Gruber

23 May 2013 | 2:20 pm

Now available for a limited time: a new round of DF t-shirts, including a new heather grey shirt. We’ll take orders through the start of next week, print them mid-week, and start shipping on Friday. Last month marked the seventh year that I’ve been writing Daring Fireball as a full-time endeavor. T-shirt sales no longer constitute the majority of this site’s revenue, but they remain a significant part of it. My original (years ago) goal was to take this site full-time based on nothing but direct reader support; that didn’t work out, but t-shirt sales and donations remain, to me,…
Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Joe Nocera on Tim Cook

John Gruber

23 May 2013 | 2:19 pm

Philip Elmer-DeWitt: But what will be remembered about Nocera’s latest Apple column is that he called Tim Cook a liar — accusing him of telling, under oath, a “whopper” and a “flat-out lie.” Nocera implies, but doesn’t actually say, that he makes those charges after watching Cook’s testimony. I watched Cook’s testimony — twice. I find it hard to believe that Nocera saw any of it. And having read the documents and news articles he cites, I believe that on the points with which he has factual disagreements with Cook, he’s…
HP Envy Remains the Most Aptly-Named Product in PC Industry

John Gruber

23 May 2013 | 2:13 pm

Sean Hollister, The Verge: This year, it’s not just thin-and-light laptops getting the treatment: according to company representatives, CEO Meg Whitman has now mandated a unified design language across HP’s entire portfolio of consumer machines. “She took a look at our portfolio and said, ‘I don’t know what’s HP.’” Apparently she decided the MacBook Pro is HP. (Maybe she’s confused about that crazy HP iPod still being a thing?) ★
Innovative Use of the Word ‘Still’

John Gruber

23 May 2013 | 1:21 pm

Larry Popelka, “founder and chief executive officer of GameChanger, an innovation consulting firm”, in a piece for Businessweek headlined “Google Is Winning the Innovation War Against Apple”: Google appears to be on the verge of taking over the tech innovation throne once held by Apple. A sure sign of this was the success of Google’s annual I/O developers conference last week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Tickets to the 5,000-seat, three-day conference sold out in just 49 minutes at $600 [sic] a pop. […] This is only Google’s sixth year holding the I/O…

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Propellerhead's ReBirth for iPhone headed for death

Peter Cohen

24 May 2013 | 8:24 am

Sad news from Propellerhead, the makers of Reason and other excellent music software for Mac and iOS: They're planning to stop selling and supporting ReBirth for iPhone effective June 1st, according to "Synthhead" at Synthopia. ReBirth is the pitch-perfect iOS recreation of Propellerhead's phenomenal "Techno Micro Composer" software that started out on the Mac - an emulation of three absolutely vital components for dance music: Roland's TB-303 bass synth and its TR-808 and 909 drum machines. FX units and pattern sequencers let you build out entire songs. Propellerhead still sells and supports…
Feral Games Bundle offers six sweet Mac games for $20

Peter Cohen

24 May 2013 | 7:51 am

If you don't take advantage of this, you're crazy. Feral Interactive and Mac Game Store have teamed up to offer the Feral Games Bundle, a collection of six Mac games conversions by Feral for a mere $20. The promotion runs from May 27th through June 2nd, but pre-orders are now being accepted. The bundle includes: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which combines content from all six Star Wars movies DiRT 2, a spectacular off-road racing game Battlestations: Pacific, a World War II-era action strategy game that puts you in command of land, air and sea forces The Movies: Superstar Edition, a sim…
Deal of the Day: 49% off the Marware rEVOLUTION for iPhone 5

Brent Zaniewski

24 May 2013 | 7:01 am

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Latest rumors suggest iOS 7 to be "black, white and flat all over"

Richard Devine

24 May 2013 | 6:23 am

The latest rumors surfacing about iOS 7 suggest that it will be "black, white and flat all over." Everyone seems to expect that Jony Ive has gone through iOS with the sandblaster, and the latest rumors suggest just that. The latest comes by way of 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman: "Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over.' This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." Speculation -- and excitement -- continues to build ahead of WWDC in just a few weeks where we strongly anticipate seeing the fruit of Ive's…
1Password 4 for the Mac on the way, sign up to beta test it now!

Richard Devine

24 May 2013 | 1:56 am

The new 1Password 4 for Mac is on the way, and you can sign up to help test it out in the private beta now! 1Password 4 launched for iOS in late 2012 and brought a stack of new features to the popular password management tool, that now finally will be on the way to the desktop version. In terms of a release schedule, all we know is that the updated version will drop "later this year." But, if you want to get in and take a look ahead of that, hit the source link below and go sign up. Source: AgileBits

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Create secure passwords with Siri

24 May 2013 | 7:30 am

Siri's ability to access Wolfram Alpha lets you access a huge amount of interesting data by talking to an iOS device. One useful thing thing Siri can do for you is ask Wolfram Alpha to generate a very secure, random password. To do this, invoke Siri, then say "Wolfram password," or "Wolfram Alpha password." This retrieves an 8-character random password, along with a list of a half-dozen others. You can also have Siri get longer passwords, if eight characters doesn't ring your bell. Say, "Wolfram 14-character password," for example. The downside to this is that you can't copy this password,…
Put Mac to sleep with Drafts on iOS

23 May 2013 | 7:30 am

Agile Tortoise's Drafts is a nifty tool for writing texts and doing things with them on an iOS device. I use it mostly for the more comfortable writing environment, and send texts as emails or tweets, but there's an entire sub-culture that's been hacking Drafts to do many things. (Check out the Drafts actions directory.) David Sparks posted an interesting use of Drafts (credited to Milosz Bolechowski; I couldn't find the original on his site), together with noodlesoft's Hazel - a tool that automates tasks on your Mac - to put a Mac to sleep. In essence, Hazel looks for a file named "MB sleep"…
Use Flickr as a cloud drive

22 May 2013 | 7:30 am

Flickr has announced that all users will now have 1 TB of storage for free. With that much space, surely it would be interesting to figure out how to use Flickr as a cloud drive. Ricardo Tomasi has done just that with Filr, a command-line tool that turns Flickr into a storage repository. This solution isn't ideal, since it's only available for now from the command line, and has only been tested with certain types of files (images), and only on files of up to 15 MB. But it's worth highlighting, and I'm sure others will come up with better solutions very soon.
Quick way to get artwork from currently playing iTunes track

21 May 2013 | 7:30 am

iTunes makes it easy to retrieve the artwork from the currently playing song. Just drag & drop the artwork displayed in the iTunes LCD (the bar at the top of the iTunes window, showing artwork, progress bar, etc.) or the MiniPlayer to the Finder, or to any other application that you can drag images to. You'll get a graphic file of the current artwork.
Control iTunes AirPlay streaming with AppleScript

20 May 2013 | 7:30 am

iTunes 11.0.3 provides AppleScript support for controlling AirPlay devices. Below is a basic script that illustrates how AirPlay devices can be selected and applied using some of the new iTunes AppleScript classes and properties: tell application "iTunes" set apDevices to (get every AirPlay device whose available is true) if apDevices is {} then display dialog "No Airplay devices available." buttons {"Cancel"} set apNames to (get name of every AirPlay device whose available is true) set selAirplayDevices to (get name of every AirPlay device whose selected is true) set chosenNames to choose…

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Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver

samzenpus

22 May 2013 | 4:17 pm

An anonymous reader writes "The open-source Intel Linux graphics driver has hit a milestone of now being faster than Apple's own OpenGL stack on OS X. The Intel Linux driver on Ubuntu 13.04 is now clearly faster than Apple's internally-developed Intel OpenGL driver on OS X 10.8.3. when benchmarked from a 'Sandy Bridge' class Mac Mini. Only some months ago, Apple's GL driver was still trouncing the Intel Linux Mesa driver."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds

Unknown Lamer

21 May 2013 | 5:06 am

mspohr writes with news that Apple might be in a bit of hot water over its policy of offshoring revenues to favorable tax jurisdictions. Only they take it a step further, from the article: "Apple relied on a 'complex web of offshore entities' and U.S. tax loopholes to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in offshore income over the past four years ... The maker of iPhones and iPads used at least three foreign subsidiaries that it claims are not 'tax resident in any nation' to help it avoid paying billions in 'otherwise taxable offshore income,' the Senate Permanent…
Apple Mobile Devices Cleared For Use On US Military Networks

timothy

19 May 2013 | 3:05 pm

puddingebola writes with this excerpt from a Bloomberg report: "The Pentagon cleared Apple Inc. (AAPL) devices for use on its networks, setting the stage for the maker of iPhones and iPads to compete with Samsung Electronics Co. and BlackBerry for military sales. The Defense Department said in a statement [Friday] that it has approved the use of Cupertino, California-based Apple's products running a version of the iOS 6 mobile platform. The decision eventually may spur a three-way fight for a market long dominated by Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry.'" Also, Apple devices are best for…
Paul Otellini: Intel Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Win the Mobile War

Unknown Lamer

16 May 2013 | 10:46 am

kenekaplan writes "In an interview with The Atlantic before stepping down as CEO of Intel, Paul Otellini reflects on his decision not to make a chip for the then yet released iPhone. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
After Paul Otellini: Intel Lost the IPhone Battle, But It Could Win the Mobile War

Unknown Lamer

16 May 2013 | 10:46 am

kenekaplan writes "In an interview with The Atlantic before stepping down as CEO of Intel, Paul Otellini reflects on his decision not to make a chip for the then yet released iPhone. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Judge: court will likely rule Apple worked to inflate ebook prices

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24 May 2013 | 7:17 am

In a pre-trial "tentative view," Judge Denise Cote said the U.S Department of Justice will likely be able to prove that Apple colluded with major book publishers to falsely inflate the prices of e-books sold through the iBookstore, reports "Reuters" (http://tinyurl.com/nfw824c). While she stressed that the view was not final and that she had read only some of the evidence so far, her comments could add to pressure on Apple to settle the lawsuit, in which the Justice Department accuses the company and five publishers of conspiring to fix e-book prices, the article adds. read more
Disk Order for Mac OS X gets a Dropbox plug-in

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 6:50 am

LikeMac Group (www.likemac.ru/english/) has released Disk Order 3.2.4, an update of the double-pane file manager for OS X with advanced features. A Dropbox plug-in is now included. It makes it possible to browse through files on a server, download and upload, or even view and edit them. Simple file dropping is also supported. read more
Spatial Infographics Solution comes to ConceptDraw Pro

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:07 am

CS Odessa (www.conceptdraw.com) has introduced a Spatial Infographics Solution for ConceptDraw Pro 9. The new solution permits users to draw professional infographics that orient viewers so they can be self-directed to a point of interest. read more
Kool Tools: Kensington USB 3.0 docking stations, multi-display adapters

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24 May 2013 | 4:06 am

Thank you, Kensington. The company has made its line of USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter products compatible with Mac OS X. Now sporting a new DisplayLink driver for the Mac, Kensington’s productivity devices will work with OS X 10.6 and higher. The new compatibility enables Mac users to supplement connectivity to their devices, including MacBook Air, Pro or iMac. Using either of the Kensington USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter, Apple users can now add multiple monitors, use additional USB ports, and leverage Gigabit Ethernet for fast data connection. read…
PDF Nomad 2.0 adds scanning, OCR, more

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:04 am

SintraWorks has updated PDF Nomad, a PDF editor for Mac OS X (10.7 and higher), to version 2.0. The upgrade adds scanning, OCR, AppleScript support, automatic page deskewing, bookmarks management and more. PDF Nomad's features include simple text search and extraction, file merging, page splitting, form creation, markup and annotation, booklet/magazine creation and more. You can create and fill out PDF forms, mark-up text and annotate pages with rectangles, ovals, arrows, lines and more. read more

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Best Buy to shave $50 off iPhone starting May 26

Lance Whitney

24 May 2013 | 6:55 am

The retailer is also offering discounted deals on specific Android phones.
AT&T's GoPhone prepaid service adds 4G support

Lance Whitney

24 May 2013 | 6:32 am

The revamp means that 4G devices, including the iPhone, can now access data over the network instead of just relying on Wi-Fi. Originally posted at News - Mobile
Apple's iOS 7 overhaul said taking a black-and-white tack

Don Reisinger

24 May 2013 | 5:40 am

The textures and look and feel that iOS users are accustomed to are being tossed out for a "black, white, and flat all over" design, reports 9to5Mac.
New iPhone 5 ad celebrates Generation Me-Me-Me, La-La-La

Chris Matyszczyk

23 May 2013 | 11:49 pm

Having shown in a previous ad how everyone wants to photograph everything with their iPhone, a new Apple ad shows everyone navigating the world, while listening to their own soundtrack. Originally posted at Technically Incorrect
iPhone 5 repairs won't come cheap

Dara Kerr

23 May 2013 | 8:40 pm

Fixing a busted iPhone screen can cost a pretty penny. And, it appears that repairs for each iteration of the device are getting more expensive.

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Jon Stewart Takes on Apple's Appearance in Front of Senate Committee

Jordan Golson

23 May 2013 | 10:20 am

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ran a satirical segment (via Apple 2.0) on last night's show about Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance in front of a U.S. Senate Committee examining the tax strategies of multinational corporations. Stewart suggests that a number of Senators are Apple fanboys for praising Cook and his company, as well as questions asking Apple executives what they think should be done with the tax code. Though the embedded video below is Flash-based, iOS users should be able to view the clip at The Daily Show's website.
Evernote Adds Reminders to Mac and iOS Apps in Update

Jordan Golson

23 May 2013 | 9:04 am

Evernote has added the ability to set reminders and alarms to its note-taking and organizational app, a popular new feature request the company says. For the millions and millions of people around the world that use Evernote everyday to achieve their goals, we’re excited to announce a new part of Evernote that will keep you on track every step of the way. Reminders are here. Our three most requested features rolled into one small package: - In-app and email Alarms - Quick note based to-do lists - Pinning notes to the top of your note list Evernote has additional details on how the new…
Former Gartner Research Director Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple's Marketing Team

Eric Slivka

22 May 2013 | 12:10 pm

Forbes reports that former Gartner research director Michael Gartenberg has joined Apple. While his exact position at Apple hasn't been revealed, Gartenberg is said to be working under Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller.This isn’t Gartenberg’s first time jumping into one of the technology companies he tracks — though his last foray lasted less than a month. In Feb. 2007, he joined Microsoft as an “enthusiastic evangelist,” a job he described at the time as being designed to “engage and work with enthusiasts and other influencers and show them all the cool stuff that Microsoft is…
Twitter for Mac Updated with Notification Center Integration, Bug Fixes

Juli Clover

22 May 2013 | 12:03 pm

Twitter has updated its Mac app today, adding notification support. When a Direct Message or mention is received, users will now be alerted with a popup notification. This option can be configured in the app’s Preferences window. The update also brings a number of bug fixes:- Fix for Growl notifications not working in Lion and Mountain Lion - Fix for bug that prevented un-favoriting tweets - Fix for missing account switcher in composer - Fix for error message when posting a tweet with a pasted image - Fix for enlarged avatar when dragging a tweet into an email - Fixes for crashes and…
Apple Named World's Most Valuable Brand for Third Year in a Row

Husain Sumra

21 May 2013 | 8:33 pm

Millward Brown today released its annual BrandZ study of global brands (via AllThingsD), which found Apple to be the world's most valuable brand for the third straight year. Although Apple topped the list once again, its brand value only increased 1% to $185 billion, which is not as impressive as the 19% increase (from $153 billion in 2011 to $183 billion in 2012) it received last year. Apple rival Google jumped back up to the second spot with a brand value of $137 billion (a 5% increase) and Samsung clocked in a 51% increase and a $21.4 billion brand value at the 30th…

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Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Friday, May 24, 2013

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24 May 2013 | 11:56 am

• Apple Tops Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 Rankings For Sixth Straight Year • Should You Upgrade To OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion At This Late Date? • How to Set Up Your Mac to Allow AirPrinting From iOS • Apple Shows It's Time to Abolish Corporate Taxes • AMD's Three New Low-power Chips Pose Potent Challenge To Intel.......Continue Reading Tags: News | Tech-Industry |
Applelinks iOS News Reader - Friday, May 24, 2013

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24 May 2013 | 11:47 am

• 7-inch Tablets: What User Experience Benchmarks Show - iPad mini Out In Front • Apple's Fifth-gen Ipad Rumored To Debut After 'Iphone 5s,' Feature Rear Mic • iWatch Version Of iOS Shifts Apple Smartwatch Rollout To Late 2014 - Analyst • Microsoft Shifts Ad Campaign for Failing Surface To Anti-iPad Innuendo • Microsoft's Cheap Shot At The iPad Actually Points Out Exactly Why Windows 8 Tabs Suck • Microsoft Allleged To Be Misrepresenting Surface Tablet Display Size In Comparison To Apple's iPad • PayPal Global Study Spells Doom for the Wallet - Consumers…
Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Thursday, May 23, 2013

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23 May 2013 | 3:13 pm

• High-Tech Lynching: Senate Attempts to Crucify Apple - Limbaugh • Of Course Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes and It Should • Apple CEO Tim Cook Exposes The Ugly Truth About Keynesian Economics • Apple To Build 'Made in the U.S.A.' Macs In Low-Tax Texas • Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple • Free Scroll Reverser 1.6 For iOS Released.......Continue Reading Tags: News | Tech-Industry |
Applelinks iOS News Reader - Thursday, May 23, 2013

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23 May 2013 | 2:57 pm

• Is Apple Losing Its "Cool" Cachet With The Popular Kids? • Artisan Mobile Addresses Senator McCain's Frustrations With iPhone App Updates • Soluto Metro Apps Usage Report - Fewer Than Half of Windows PC Users Use Them • Logitech Introduces Its First Keyboard for iPad Specially Designed for the Classroom • Trunk iPhone Charging Cable Holds Its Shape • New Rugged Smartphone From.... Caterpillar?! • WaterField Designs Debuts Leather Finn Wallet for Cash, Cards and iPhone • BodyGuardz Turns Accessories Market Upside Down with Launch of The Guardian…
Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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22 May 2013 | 3:20 pm

• Apple Tops 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2013 Survey Again • Chrome App Launcher Coming To The Mac • How To Create A 4GB/S RAM Disk In Mac OS X • HGST Launches the Highest Capacity Hard Drive for the Mainstream Mobile Market - 1.5TB Capacity in Standard 2.5-inch 9.5mm Form Factor • Prosoft's Data Rescue 3 Rated The Best Mac Hard Drive Recovery Software by TopTenReviews.......Continue Reading Tags: News | Tech-Industry |

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Apple Ads Stay Positive Despite Microsoft’s Negative Campaign

Jeff Gamet

24 May 2013 | 8:29 am

Apple has yet another new iPhone commercial out touting the smartphone's features by showing it as a personal device and a part of people's daily lives. In contrast, Microsoft's latest ads take a more negative spin by trying to show Apple's products are inferior.
AT&T Hits Customers with a New Administrative Fee

Jeff Gamet

24 May 2013 | 7:18 am

AT&T Wireless added a new US$0.61 a month administrative fee in May its customers will pay as part of their regular bill. The fee may be new to AT&T, but it's already standard practice at Verizon and Sprint. The Mac Observer Spin: Like it or not, cell service providers can add "administrative fees" and consumers will have to pay. At least AT&T didn't try Verizon's short-lived $2 fee for paying your bill by phone.
Google, Facebook May be Facing Waze Bidding War

Jeff Gamet

24 May 2013 | 6:22 am

Facebook isn't the only company interested in buying up the community-fed mapping and navigation company Waze. Apparently Google is negotiating with the Waze, too, and that could drive the company's price up over US$1 billion. The Mac Observer Spin: Assuming the Waze team really is interested in a buyout, a bidding war would be a great thing. While there is a lot of value in the company, the bigger value in the end for Facebook and Google may be keeping Waze out of competitor's hands.
Terminal: Using “lsof” When Files Won’t Delete

Melissa Holt

24 May 2013 | 3:22 am

Got a file that's preventing you from emptying your Trash? Got a disk image that won't eject? Then we've got a Terminal trick you'll like. This command will show you what programs are accessing a file or volume, so you can quickly figure out what to quit to get on with your life.
Judge Cote Likely to Side with U.S. Against Apple

Bryan Chaffin

23 May 2013 | 6:31 pm

Judge Denise Cote said on Thursday that she expects the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will be able to prove that Apple conspired with publishers in the run-up to the release of the iPad. The judge issued a "tentative view" to attorneys representing the DOJ and Apple to that effect, adding that the opinion is based on reading through some of the evidence. The Mac Observer Spin: This case drives us nuts. On the one hand, Apple mostly likely did act as ringleader in getting the publishers to shift to the agency model for pricing. At the same time, before Apple did so, Amazon had monopoly…

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Apple’s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download

16 May 2013 | 11:31 am

Apple has announced that customers have now downloaded over 50 billion apps from the App Store. The 50 billionth app — Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC — was downloaded by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, who received a $10,000 App Store Gift Card to commemorate the milestone. “The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We’re absolutely floored to cross this milestone…
Ailing UK School Makes Dramatic Turnaround

2 May 2013 | 3:57 pm

A new video profiles Essa Academy, a once struggling school in one of the most disadvantaged areas of England. New principal Showkat Badat has reinvented the school as a hub of technology-assisted learning, and helped incorporate an ecosystem of Apple products, including iPad, Mac, and iTunes U, into the classrooms. The students’ excitement about the technology and direct access to information is reflected in dramatically improved test scores. Since adopting the technology, Essa went from a 28 percent pass rate to 100 percent. “I don’t see technology as an add-on, a nice option to…
Apple Is Tops When It Comes to Computer Tech Support

30 Apr 2013 | 10:46 am

According to the latest Consumer Reports reader survey, Apple tops the list of brand-name computer manufacturers for the quality of its tech support, far surpassing other large companies. The report points to “ease of contacting staff, clarity of advice, technical knowledge, patience, and time for follow-up” in the phone and online support areas. Service at the Genius Bar rates equally highly. In addition, Apple improved on its own scores from last year’s survey.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 10 in San Francisco

24 Apr 2013 | 9:41 am

Apple announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 10 through June 14 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. At the five-day conference, developers from around the world will learn about the future of iOS and OS X. WWDC will also feature more than 100 technical sessions presented by over 1,000 Apple engineers and hands-on labs to help developers integrate new technologies. And the popular Apple Design Awards will showcase the most outstanding apps available through the App Store and Mac App Store. Tickets for this year’s WWDC go on sale Thursday, April 25,…
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

23 Apr 2013 | 2:43 pm

Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013, posting revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share. During the quarter, Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones, compared to 35.1 million in the year-ago quarter. And it sold 19.5 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 11.8 million in 2012. “We are pleased to report record March quarter revenue thanks to continued strong performance of iPhone and iPad,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware,…

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Logitech announces wired iPad keyboard

23 May 2013 | 7:34 am

Logitech announced an interesting new keyboard for the iPad. To date pretty much all keyboards have connected to iPads via wireless Bluetooth. The new Wired Keyboard for iPad, as the name suggests, connects to the iPad's Lightning or 30-pin dock connector via a cable. Logitech says the keyboard is designed specifically for classroom labs where keyboard are not tied to a specific device. Added bonus is teachers won't have to manage keyboard battery life. The wired keyboard is expected to ship in August for devices with the Lightning connector and a 30-pin model is slated for October. The…
Twitter launches two-factor authentication

23 May 2013 | 7:26 am

Twitter joined the recent ranks of online services with new two-factor account verification. The system is used by Google and recently Apple to send a text code to your phone as an extra verification step. This should help users secure their Twitter accounts from attackers and phishing scams.
Otterbox acquires LifeProof

23 May 2013 | 7:20 am

Otterbox Wednesday announced it purchased rugged case maker LifeProof. The company made its name with cases resistant to the elements, including water, dust, snow, plus shock protection. The company has a line of products for most Apple devices including the iPhone 5/4/4s, iPad 2/3/4/mini, and iPod touch 4. At CES, Otterbox announced their Armor line, which is their first water proof case. In addition to companies like Griffin Technology and Liquipel, water proof concepts have been an area of innovation in device protection. LifeProof is based out of San Diego with about 250 employees, while…
iMap Weather Radio app sends severe weather alerts to your iPhone (Video)

22 May 2013 | 7:26 am

iMap Weather Radio is pretty cool app that sends alerts right to your phone when severe weather is approaching. It's pretty customizable for specific alerts and always tracks your location without requiring a large battery drain.
ZAGGKeys Cover and Folio keyboard cases for iPad mini

22 May 2013 | 7:24 am

Tuesday ZAGG announce two new slim keyboard cases for Apple's iPad mini. ZAGGKeys Cover and Foilio feature a Bluetooth keyboard in a thin design. The Cover is 6.3mm thick while the Folio is 6.9mm. Both keyboards also feature black lit keys, which is fairly unique to these products. Also, the rechargeable batter promises up to three months of use. Both cases can be propped up for desktop viewing/typing and offers protection for the iPad screen when not in use. Both the cases are expected to ship this fall for $99.99.

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Haswell chips could bring 50% more battery life to Apple's next-gen MacBooks

24 May 2013 | 9:36 am

The next generation in Apple's MacBook line could see 50 percent greater battery life thanks to the processors expected to go into them, according to Intel.
Verizon Cloud iPhone backup software launches on Apple's App Store

24 May 2013 | 8:39 am

Verizon this week launched a new iPhone application for its subscribers that gives access to the carrier's cloud-based syncing and backup service.
New service delivers passes for Apple's Passbook via text message

24 May 2013 | 6:44 am

Users of Apple's Passbook feature for iOS have a new option for getting tickets, coupons, and more delivered to their devices, as Skycore has launched support for cross-carrier delivery of Passbook passes by MMS.
Steve Jobs's family has been giving money away anonymously for more than 2 decades

24 May 2013 | 5:38 am

While late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs never brought public attention to his philanthropic efforts, he and his family have been giving money away anonymously for more than 20 years.
Judge says evidence will likely show Apple culpable in e-book price fixing case

23 May 2013 | 11:44 pm

In rare pre-trial "tentative view," Judge Denise Cote said the U.S Department of Justice will likely be able to prove that Apple colluded with major book publishers to falsely inflate the prices of e-books sold through the iBookstore.

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22 May 2013 | 9:07 am

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iOS App Reviews - Scanner Pro, City Guides by National Geographic

20 May 2013 | 11:22 pm

This week, a sophisticated camera utility which turns photos into scanned documents, and a new travel guide with city-based photos and information from National Geographic. Scanner Pro When the technology is accessible, we really like to digitise things. Apps like iTunes made it possible to take an entire CD collection and play any of its tracks instantly, just as photo conversion and book-to-eBook services do. A scanner at home has long been able to do the same for old paperwork, loose sheets and handouts, but they occupy precious space in

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EVGA GEFORCE GTX 680 Graphics Card in an Early 2008 Mac Pro--How fast is it?

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Hands-On Report: Apple Thunderbolt-FireWire Adapter--How fast is it?

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The Mac is Back: All-time record quarterly Mac sales for Apple's 2011 Q4

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Directional for iOS Goes Universal, Adds iCloud Scoring and More

admin

24 May 2013 | 8:45 am

Birmingham, United Kingdom – Indie developer Mike Hince is announcing today that his Directional Dash 1.4 Puzzle Game is now available to download on the App Store. Directional Dash is an addictive and intelligent puzzle game for iOS, with 3 unique gameplay modes and 9 great game types. Directional Dash has two times modes and one limited moves modes. Directional Dash is available in two versions. One premium paid application and one fully unlocked ad supported version. What’s New in Directional Dash 1.4: Directional Dash is now Universal, meaning it will look great on your iPad…
Tharle Games Announce the Release of Gravity Fall HD 1.0 for iPad

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24 May 2013 | 7:15 am

Bangalore, India – Tharle Games is pleased to introduce iOS gamer with their new and first gravity based running game Gravity Fall HD 1.0, with amazing and challenging game-play. Gravity Fall HD is a running game with scenes of comic graphics and amazing backgrounds. Players will also encounter different kinds of obstacles to jump over. Gravity Fall HD is available for iPad on App Store. The game posses an unlimited level, the more you are into the game the urge of scoring high will bound you with game for longer period. We have brought you something that defies the laws of physics.
Boldomatic Gives Voice and Colour to the Silent Majority

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24 May 2013 | 7:05 am

Zurich, Switzerland – Nerves just released version 1.2 of its free iOS App Boldomatic. New features include hashtags and location stamps. With over 150,000 crafted text-images, users now have the chance to browse the globe for boldcards – Boldomatic post cards dropped by writers from over 160 countries. “Twitter offers possible litigation. Facebook offers possible judgement. Boldomatic offers endless fun with other sick minded philosophers who enjoy the freedom and exploration of thought,” as one writer describes it. Italics, underlining, and all-caps never have the…
Speed Tracker 5.0 for iPhone and iPad, GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer

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24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

Feasterville, Pennsylvania – AppAnnex LLC has proudly announced the worldwide availability of the newest Speed Tracker 5.0. GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer. Just in time for the summer driving season you can now use its full power. Speed Tracker did a great job by combining GPS speedometer, Trip Log and Trip computer in one unique application. No more need for endless list of applications on your iPhone and iPad. Just take Speed Tracker app with you and record automatically your location, speed, time, distance and many many more. Version 5.0 has new stunning graphics and support for…
RV Helper for iPhone, Nook, Google Play Store and Kindle

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24 May 2013 | 6:45 am

Cromberg, California – MICOM Software is proud to announce the release of RV Helper 1.0 for iPhone, iPad, Play Store, NookHD and Kindle tablet available now. The only app designed for RV owners to help them with their RV, motorhome or trailer, this app is easy to use and full of valuable information. Using this app once will save money. The app works great on all iPads including the new mini-iPad. Topics covered include: how to back up and hook up a trailer, how to hook up a weight distributing hitch, how to hook up a 5th wheel, and more. If you own or going to buy a RV or trailer this…

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Directional for iOS Goes Universal, Adds iCloud Scoring and More

24 May 2013 | 9:45 am

UK based developer announces Directional Dash v.1.4, an addictive and intelligent puzzle game for iOS that has gone Universal. Directional Dash is an addictive and intelligent puzzle game for iOS, with 3 unique gameplay modes and 9 great game types. Directional Dash has two times modes and one limited moves modes. The update adds iCloud scoring, iOS6 Sharing, iPhone5 support and the much requested single swipe control system, making it easier and faster to play.
Tharle Games Announce the Release of Gravity Fall HD 1.0 for iPad

24 May 2013 | 8:15 am

Tharle Games is pleased to introduce iOS gamer with their new and first gravity based running game Gravity Fall HD 1.0, with amazing and challenging game-play. Gravity Fall HD is a running game with scenes of comic graphics and amazing backgrounds. Players will also encounter different kinds of obstacles to jump over. The game posses an unlimited level, the more players are into the game, the urge of scoring high will bind them to game for a longer period.
Boldomatic Gives Voice and Colour to the Silent Majority

24 May 2013 | 8:05 am

Zurich based agency Nerves just released version 1.2 of its free iOS App Boldomatic. New features include hashtags and location stamps. With over 150,000 crafted text-images, users now have the chance to browse the globe for boldcards - Boldomatic post cards dropped by writers from over 160 countries. Italics, underlining, and all-caps never have the full effect of emphasis. Boldomatic allows users to command attention to whatever message they want to convey in a simple, customisable, bold way.
Using Konica Minolta CS200 for DICOM Calibration on Mac Now Possible

24 May 2013 | 8:02 am

Konica Minolta CS200 luminance and chromaticity meter integrated into Mac-compatible PerfectLum DICOM calibration software by QUBYX. Konica Minolta CS200 is capable of measuring any light source on a wide range of luminance levels starting with only 0.01cd/m2. An updated auto mode allows determining the speed of measurements according to the light source that is measured. Due to a lightweight battery, Konica Minolta CS200 is operable for a professional device & relatively easy to move around.
Speed Tracker 5.0 for iPhone and iPad, GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer

24 May 2013 | 8:00 am

AppAnnex LLC Speed Tracker. GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer 5.0. The app combined GPS speedometer, Trip Log and Trip computer in one unique application. It records automatically your location, speed, time, distance and many more. Speed Tracker is available for special price of $0.99 USD which is 75% off regular price of $3.99 exclusively through the iTunes App Store in Navigation category. The promotional price will be in effect until May 27th, 2013.

Inside Mac Games
Pre-Order The Night Of The Rabbit Now

24 May 2013 | 6:00 am

May 24, 2013 6:00 AMDaedalic Entertainment's The Night of the Rabbit is available to pre-order now at Mac Game Store. The adventure game centers around the adventures of 12 year old Jerry, a young man who dreams of magic. After traveling to a magical world Jerry and his friends must foil the schemes of an evil wizard.Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.It is here that…
Guns Of Icarus Online Adventure Mode Kickstarter Concludes

24 May 2013 | 6:00 am

May 24, 2013 6:00 AMMuse Games has announced the successful conclusion of a Kickstarter campaign to fundGuns of Icarus Online: Adventure Mode, an expansion for its multiplayer airship combat title. Adventure Mode will expand the original co-op airship combat game to include full co-op player vs. environment (PvE) settings, allowing for player progression, questing, and an immersive setting within the Guns of Icarus world.CEO Howard Tsao had this to say about where the funds will go and what features to expect, "First I would like to thank all of our supporters, including those that purchased…
Get Six Feral Games For $19.99 At MGS Starting May 27

24 May 2013 | 6:00 am

May 24, 2013 6:00 AMMac Game Store recently announced it will be releasing a special bundle of six Feral Interactive game titles for $19.99. The sale begins on Monday, May 27th, and continues until Sunday, June 2nd. The bundle includes LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga, Dirt 2, Battlestations Pacific, The Movies: Superstar Edition, Tropico 3: Gold Edition and Batman Arkham Asylum.We are pleased to announce the upcoming Feral Bundle! The Feral Game Bundle, coming May 27th to June 2nd, will be available for $19.99. It will feature 6 amazing games.Check out the Mac Game Store Facebook page for more…
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Remote Console FAQ Released

24 May 2013 | 6:00 am

May 24, 2013 6:00 AMAspyr Media has released a FAQ explaining the features of the new Remote Console Application for Call of Duty: Black Ops. The standalone app allows players to configure their own dedicated server for the multiplayer first person shooter, offering features like custom map rotations and adjusted game rules.Q: Okay, cool. What can a dedicated server do?A: With the addition of player hosted servers, clan servers, custom map rotations, adjustments of game rules, and many other game customizations are now a reality for the Call of Duty: Black Ops Mac player.Q: Can I choose the…
Mahjong Adventure - Paris Turning Tiles At MGS

24 May 2013 | 6:00 am

May 24, 2013 6:00 AMMac Game Store recently added Mahjong Adventure - Paris from Rokapublish to its list of game titles available for download and purchase. Players join Marie in Paris for 60 levels of mahjong challenge in either Adventure Mode against the clock, or in Relax Mode for a more sedate experience.Join Marie for an exciting day in Paris.When Marie woke up early this morning, she had no idea what an exciting day awaited her—and neither did you! Join her for a chaotic, action-packed day full of crazy coincidences in the French capital of culture.“Mahjong Adventure - Paris” is a…

MacUser
Apple confirms WWDC keynote for 10 June

Kenny Hemphill

23 May 2013 | 2:17 pm

Apple has confirmed that it will kick-off its Worldwide Developers’ Conference with a keynote speech on Monday 10 June. It hasn’t said who will deliver the keynote, though it is likely be CEO Tim Cook. Nor has it given any indication of the content of the speech. Marketing chief, Phil Schiller did say on the day Apple announced the date of this year’s conference ‘Our developers have had the most prolific and profitable year ever, and we’re excited to show them the latest advances in software technologies and developer tools to help them create innovative new apps. We…
Analyst: Apple iWatch not a watch and won’t ship til 2014

Kenny Hemphill

22 May 2013 | 3:42 pm

Apple’s much talked about iWatch is on the way, but won’t ship until late 2014, according to one analyst. Perhaps more surprisingly, it won’t be a watch. So says Ming-Chi Kuo, according to a research note seen by AppleInsider. Kuo, who AppleInsider said has ‘a proven track record in accurately predicting Apple’s product rollouts,’ claimed that the device ail have a 1.5in or 2in screen and will use the same GF2 touch-screen technology as the current iPad mini and iPod nano. “Investors shouldn’t be misled by the word ‘Watch’. We think iWatch will…
Tim Cook defends Apple tax arrangements at Senate hearing

Kenny Hemphill

21 May 2013 | 2:40 pm

Tim Cook was grilled by US Senators today over allegations that Apple was the ‘Holy Grail of tax avoidance.’ During the hearing, Cook claimed that the company paid ‘all the taxes we owe. Every single dollar,’ and that its actions were ‘in the letter and the spirit of the law.’ Much of the hearing centred around Apple’s use of three subsidiaries based in Ireland, but not resident in any country for tax purposes. One of those subsidiaries, Apple Operations International, had $30bn allocated to it over the last five years, but hadn’t filed a single…
Yahoo buys Tumblr as users seek sanctuary in WordPress

Kenny Hemphill

20 May 2013 | 10:20 am

Yahoo confirmed today that it had shelled out a hefty $1.1bn (£723m) for content platform, Tumblr and, perhaps in acknowledgement of what has happened to Flickr under its ownership (update: Yahoo has now fixed and improved Flickr), promised not to ‘screw it up.’ That assurance from Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer may not be enough to allay the fears of users, however. In the days before the formal announcement, as rumours about the deal circulated, 72,000 blog posts an hour were moved from Tumblr to WordPress, according to WordPress creator, Matt Mullenweg. That number compares with an…
Tim Cook hints about US-built Mac

Kenny Hemphill

17 May 2013 | 10:43 am

Tim Cook has again talked about the Mac Apple will build in the US later this year. The Apple CEO told US politics website, Politico that the US-produced Mac, the first to be made in the country since 1994, will be a new version of an existing product and that as well as being assembled in the US, many of its components would be made there. ‘We’re going very deep in this project,’ said Cook. The Apple CEO told NBC last year that the company would invest $100m in moving production to the US, though he also added ‘This doesn’t mean that Apple will do it ourselves, but…

Macenstein
DragonVale: How to breed a Jade Dragon

Dr. Macenstein

16 May 2013 | 12:52 pm

JADE DRAGON: INCUBATION TIME: 30 Hors, 26 min BUY-IT Price: 700 GEMS HOW TO BREED: PLASMA AND SALAMANDER (This guide is part of a larger DragonVale breeding guide. For the full list of breedable dragons, click here. If you would like to help support my rushing breedings & incubations to discover the latest dragon combos [...]
Review: bem wireless Mobile Speaker

Dr. Macenstein

15 May 2013 | 10:45 am

As a long-time Apple user, I’m used to seeing hardware get progressively smaller, thinner, and lighter, and for the most part, as with phones and laptops, this “smaller is better” attitude has largely been successful. Even camera lenses have been able to produce above-decent images at less than 1/8th the size of traditional camera lenses. [...]
Macenstein’s Mac Chick of the Month May 2013: Dani Mathers

Dr. Macenstein

15 May 2013 | 6:57 am

Welcome to Macenstein‘s “Mac Chick of the Month”. Each month we feature a different die-hard, Mac-loving girl who is (almost) as well designed as the Apple products they love. This month we have the lovely Dani Mathers! PHOTOS by the talented: Mark Kuta Model Mayhem / Facebook (Be sure to follow him for more beautiful [...]
DragonVale: How to breed a Bouquet Dragon

Dr. Macenstein

3 May 2013 | 1:40 pm

BOUQUET DRAGON: INCUBATION TIME: 9 Hours BUY-IT Price: 150 GEMS HOW TO BREED: Flower and Seaweed / Flower and Water / Flower and Swamp (This guide is part of a larger DragonVale breeding guide. For the full list of breedable dragons, click here. If you would like to help support my rushing breedings & incubations [...]
If only people THIS attractive would be the ones using these…

Dr. Macenstein

2 May 2013 | 7:48 pm

To be honest, given how pioneering the adult industry is in adopting the latest technologies, I am surprised it took 6 years for someone to invent this. Behold Fundawear, the remotely controlled, vibrating underwear from the geniuses at Durex (the condom people). Unfortunately, if watching HBO’s horribly disappointing Real Sex series has taught me anything, [...]

MacUpdate: Recent Mac OS X
Leawo Tunes Cleaner 2.1.0 - iTunes cleanup tool. (Demo)

24 May 2013 | 9:48 am

Leawo Tunes Cleaner is an intelligent smart iTunes cleanup tool to seamlessly organize and repair your iTunes music library within few simple and easy clicks. It could help you delete duplicates in iTunes, get album artwork for iTunes music files, add missed information including artists and album, add music information by searching key features of music files under manual input. Based on the powerful online database, this iTunes cleanup tool provides massive fixes fast and accurately. By automatically scanning your iTunes music library, Leawo Tunes Cleaner for Mac saves you time and energy,…
Leawo Video Converter Pro 2.8.0 - DVD ripper and video converter. (Demo)

24 May 2013 | 9:39 am

Leawo Video Converter Pro is an all-in-one DVD/Video converting tool that can be used as a Mac DVD ripper and a video converter for Mac as well. It can manage almost every common video formats including HD video formats like M2TS, MTS, TS, etc. DVD videos and audio formats like MP3, AC3, WAV, and so on. The video editing features like crop, trim, place watermark, adjust effects, plus the advanced settings of output profile will definitely help to customize the output videos. Key features: A wide range of the supported input and output formats for your choice. Convert 2D DVD/video to 3D video…
ACTPrinter 3.0.1 - Send documents from a Mac to an iOS device. (Free)

24 May 2013 | 8:43 am

ACTPrinter is the free companion application to the paid iOS / Android application ACTPrinter. ACTPrinter allows you to "print" any document from your Mac to your iOS / Android device. Finally your documents travel with you! Ever wondered why you always end up printing those so-called electronic tickets and boarding passes? No more! Wasted a sheet of paper to remember that "will call" pickup number? Stop wasting paper! Want to read documents on the go? Go paperless! "Print" documents, e-mails, Web pages, and more from any program on your Mac/PC directly to your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or…
CM PDF Page Extractor 1.1.8 - Extract and save PDF pages in various image formats. (Commercial)

24 May 2013 | 8:36 am

CM PDF Page Extractor is a Mac OS X based application which is designed to extract pages from within your PDF files into a new PDF file, Multipage TIFF, JPG or even PNG files. CM PDF Page Extractor works with the powerful PDF framework from within Mac OS X and enhancing it further by allowing you to work with a huge batch of PDF or Multipage TIFF files at one go. Features: Extract a Page or Pages from a PDF or Multi-Page TIFF File Save Extracted Pages as PDF, Multi-Page TIFF, PNG or JPG Set Dots Per Inch of Extracted Pages Convert PDF to Multi-Page TIFF and Multi-Page TIFF to PDF Perform the…
FormEntry Server 2.3 - Share form docs from authors to multiple iDevices. (Commercial)

24 May 2013 | 8:25 am

FormEntry Server is a smart and effective way to share form docs from authors to multiple iPads, iPhones & iPod touches. FormEntry Server comes with all the built-in features you need from an easy to use Bonjour Wi-Fi server. All working with unlimited number of FormEntry for Mac authors and unlimited number of iPads, iPhones and iPod touches. Distribution made easy.Version 2.3: Converted to ARC based. Improved ability to handle FormEntry documents better. Faster processing of forms and distribution of forms based on UUID of FormEntry Touch. Numerous defect fixes. OS X 10.7 or later Download…

The Mac Lawyer
Siri vs. Google Now – Which Do You Prefer?

J. Benjamin Stevens

22 May 2013 | 8:00 am

Which do you prefer – Apple iOS’s Siri or Google Now? My friend Jeff Richardson took an in-depth look at the two and discussed the pros and cons at iPhone J.D. I’m curious to hear which my readers prefer and why. Take a look at Jeff’s excellent article and let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Fonts for Lawyers

J. Benjamin Stevens

6 May 2013 | 8:00 am

About a year and half ago, I asked whether attorneys gave any thought as to why they use a particular font. After all, lawyers are hired to advocate their clients’ positions as effectively as possible. Fonts transmit the written word, and they are a daily part of most lawyers’ lives, whether they realize it or not. That article discussed Equity from Matthew Butterick, which is still my font of choice. Matthew has recently released a new font, Concourse, and I asked him to write the following post to introduce it to my readers: As I told Ben in my last guest post, it…
10 Security Tips to Protect Your Mac

J. Benjamin Stevens

30 Apr 2013 | 7:30 am

Although Macs are already very secure, there are steps that you can take to lock down your system. The ten following tips will help ensure that your system is as safe and secure as possible: Enable Firewall :: Although there may be better firewalls out there, the one built into your Mac is sufficient for most peoples needs. To enable it, open System Preferences, select the Security & Privacy pane, select the firewall tab, and make select the ‘Turn On’ button. (Note: If this is greyed out select the lock at bottom to enable the settings.) Encrypt With FileVault :: FileVault is a…
Which Web Browser Do Lawyers Prefer?

J. Benjamin Stevens

25 Apr 2013 | 6:00 am

A few years ago, I conducted a similar poll, and I am curious to see which browsers my readers prefer in 2013. Please take a moment to vote below, and I invite you to use the Comments below to state the reasons for your preference. Thanks. Blog Polls
Learn How Lawyers Can Use Circus Ponies NoteBook in Trial

J. Benjamin Stevens

22 Apr 2013 | 6:30 am

Circus Ponies NoteBook is a unique productivity tool that can be used in many different ways. My good friend, Kern Lewis, a trial attorney in Grapevine, TX, has used this program for several years to help organize his cases and present them at trial. Kern recent conducted an hour long webinar to demonstrate his techniques, and he was kind enough to record it and allow me to share it with my readers. I have uploaded the video to YouTube, which you can view here or below. Kern has also been generous enough to share his NoteBook template referenced in the video. You can get your own…

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“Music Every Day” Is Latest Feel Good iPhone Ad

Christopher Meinck

24 May 2013 | 9:14 am

Apple’s new campaign which is less about specs or features rolled out a new ad last night titled ‘Music Every Day’. The feel good campaign shows people, using their iPhones. The last ad was about taking photos, but it wasn’t about megapixels, low-light or aspects of the camera app. At then end of the clip, we’re reminded that ‘Every day, more photos are taken with the iPhone than any other camera.’ This latest ad embodies the same look and feel, with the focus squarely on music. ‘Every day, more people enjoy their music on the iPhone than any other phone.’ What I find great…
iOS 7: “Black, White and Flat”

Christopher Meinck

24 May 2013 | 8:45 am

There have been numerous reports that iOS 7 will see a rather thorough overhaul of the interface, led by Jony Ive who late last year took over for the departed Scott Forstall. While Forstall had been instrumental in pushing skuemorphism, Ive is reportedly in favor of a flatter UI, with less textures. According to 9to5mac, their sources have said that iOS 7 is “black, white and flat all over.” Gone will be the heavy textures, replaced with a more simple, flatter design. The interface has supposedly been through a succession of changes, so it’s entirely possible that elements that were…
Mailbox App Coming To iPad

Christopher Meinck

23 May 2013 | 2:42 pm

Since being acquired by Dropbox, the developers behind the popular Mailbox app for iPhone have been hard at work on an iPad version. A completely fresh take on managing email, Mailbox was all about achieving inbox zero, a feat made easier with their heavily gesture based app that would archive, delete or file for later reading. When it was initially launched, buzz about the app grew even louder due to the virtual lines, that required customers wait for access after downloading the app. If you braved the long lines and enjoyed much of what Mailbox offers, you’ll be pleased to know that much…
How to add contacts to iPhone and iPad

Christopher Meinck

22 May 2013 | 2:13 pm

If you are a new to the iPhone or simply learning your way, the experience will only improve as you start to personalize your iPhone. Apps are a big part of the iPhone, with increasingly more starting to rely on information you have setup for your contacts. At some point, all of us transitioned from either a smartphone or regular cellphone to the iPhone. Often that leaves your contacts in disarray or worse yet, empty save for the default Apple, Inc contact. There are a few ways to add contacts to iPhone and iPad, with even more ways to organize and manage them. Read on for full guide and in…
Tantrum Case Makes It Ok To Drive Over Your iPhone With A Dodge RAM Truck

Christopher Meinck

22 May 2013 | 1:28 pm

A new Kickstarter project has been launched by Kurt Ludwigsen that is being billed as the indestructible iPhone case. As you can see in the promo video for the product, they put that claim to the test by driving a Dodge RAM truck over an iPhone 5. They’ve done some extensive testing that has included throwing it out of moving car. The Tantrum case has an aluminum frame, enabling it to withstand several thousand pounds of force. With stainless steel hardware, it also offers a high level of weather protection. The project founder says the case differs from others in that it relies on the case…

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Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac

MacZOT

23 May 2013 | 10:01 pm

Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac Recover Images, Videos and Audio from Mac and More Deletion Recovery and Deep Recovery fully recover photos from Mac Thumbnail preview lets you check photos pre-recovery Read-only application; doesn't overwrite or modify the original data; Recover photos from Mac and most storage devices. Normally: $49.95 ZOT Price: $24.98 Click to macZOT! Download Trial Lost Your Digital Photos? Keep Calm! Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac: Rescue photos from any storage device or digital camera. This Mac photo recovery software tool lets you recover all…
iBank 4

MacZOT

16 May 2013 | 11:07 am

iBank 4 The Gold Standard for Mac money management. Normally: $59.99 ZOT Price: $37.99 Click to macZOT! Download Trial With iBank, you'll stay organized and up-to-date. You can easily monitor your account balances, pay bills on time, cut spending, plan savings, watch your investments and secure your financial future! mac360.com: "What Quicken would be if Intuit actually cared about Mac users. iBank may be as good as it gets for managing money on a Mac." TUAW.com: "You probably haven't heard of IGG Software, but you will. It's the…
Intego Mac Premium Bundle 2013 – 1 Year Subscription Plan

MacZOT

12 May 2013 | 10:01 pm

Intego Mac Premium Bundle 2013 – 1 Year Subscription Plan Want comprehensive protection? This is it. Normally: $89.99 ZOT Price: $49.99 Click to macZOT! Download Trial Want comprehensive protection? This is it. You insure your car before you take it on the road, right? It only makes sense to protect your Mac before you connect to the Internet. Let’s face it, there’s a lot that can go wrong: viruses and malware, network attacks, dangerous predators, the theft of personal data, inappropriate content in front of your kids, system failure and data loss. Mac Premium…
Mini Design Bundle

MacZOT

10 May 2013 | 8:46 pm

Mini Design Bundle Save 92% on Royalty Free Graphic Design Resources Give your design projects a professional head start. Normally: $379.90 ZOT Price: $29.99 Click to macZOT! Mini Design Bundle for Creative Mac and/or PC Users Imagine having the toolbox below when you start your next design project… You'll have a huge array of design elements to build from, be inspired by, and use "right out of the box." Icons, Templates, Buttons, Backgrounds, Talk Bubbles, and the list goes on and on… Only $29.99 for a limited time (save 92%, total value is…
Mail Archiver X

MacZOT

5 May 2013 | 10:01 pm

Mail Archiver X Protects one of your Mac-based small business’ most important assets. Your Email. Normally: $34.95 ZOT Price: $17.00 Click to macZOT! Download Trial Keep your emails safe Archive with one click Make your email client fast again Archive with one click After you've set up archiving, future archives can be created automatically with the scheduler component. And these are smart archives – taking only what you have not archived before. Email clients and services All major email clients are supported: Apple Mail, Eudora, Outlook, Entourage,…

Apple
Changes ahead: more details on how iOS 7 will look

Erica Ogg

24 May 2013 | 7:23 am

As the calendar ticks down to Apple’s first public event since October 2012, more details are starting to emerge regarding what the company will present. It’s fairly clear WWDC 2013 will primarily be about software, for both iOS and Mac OS X. And a new report contains some hints about the coming visual overhaul to iOS. 9to5Mac, which earlier reported that iOS 7 would get a new look with “very, very flat design” and see some default iOS apps get a refresh, has a report with far more detail about the coming changes. The sources are anonymous and obviously final decisions…
Why you should do your own mobile app store research before buying a phone

Kevin C. Tofel

24 May 2013 | 6:57 am

Have you heard the latest app store numbers? Apple and Google now offer 800,000 or more apps each. Google’s store has crossed the 42 billion app download mark, while iTunes surpassed 50 billion. Big numbers, indeed. That means Microsoft and BlackBerry, both with far fewer apps, simply can’t offer the same experience. Or does it? Last night I was reading a mobile app store report published by research firm Canalys on Thursday that suggests the “app gap” is still huge. And when talking about overall available apps, it is. Microsoft has around 145,000 apps for its Windows…
Don’t forget these apps when packing for your Disney trip

Geoffrey Goetz

24 May 2013 | 6:30 am

One thing you will not see in Disney’s own Carousel of Progress is a huge crowd of people being led around an amusement park by their iPhones. But that is exactly what you will see when you visit any one of Disney’s theme parks. So what is it that is so interesting on all of these iPhones? Disney theme park tourist apps. Where to go, what to see and even how long it will take. I can attest that the following are the best apps out there for a Disney trip after field testing on a recent visit to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Before you go: Trip planning with ebooks You…
Apple ebook antitrust trial set for 9-12 days in early June

Jeff John Roberts

23 May 2013 | 2:00 pm

The Justice Department, state governments and Apple met in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday before U.S. District Denise Cote to make arrangements for an upcoming trial in which Apple is accused of colluding with big publishers to fix the price of ebooks. The purpose of the hearing was to set schedules, review witness lists and go over last-minute evidence objections ahead of the trial. Cote proposed that each side should be given 22 hours over a four day period plus a final day for closing arguments; the federal government said it would need at least 30 hours to make its case, and Apple…
Smule users record one billion songs, generate $12.6 M in revenue in 2012

Janko Roettgers

23 May 2013 | 11:53 am

Music games on consoles may have fallen on hard times, but they’re alive and well on mobile devices: Smule, the company that brought us apps like I am T-Pain and Ocarina, earned $12.6 million in revenues in 2012. The company told Eliot van Buskirk over at Evolver.fm that it is on track to reach $20 million this year. Smule also shared some other interesting stats with Evolver: Its apps, which have been downloaded over 100 million times, are now being used by 15 million people a month, which have recorded one one billion individual songs so far. That’s a lot of auto-tuning, auto-rapping…

Mac Tricks And Tips
Selecting The Audio Output Within VLC

admin

21 May 2013 | 11:14 am

Hey, If you have setup a sweet home audio system you can play the audio through a set of speakers. Todays post is going to tell you how to set up VLC to play the audio through a HDMI or thunderbolt port, alternatively allow you to quickly switch the audio between your external speakers and the internal speakers. This allows you to play a music or video file on your Mac without it being played on your larger external speakers. Changing VLC Output Source VLC is a powerful program and as a result there are many features which you can change and alter. To change the audio track select Audio from…
Increase Finder (& Mail) Sidebar Icons Size

admin

20 May 2013 | 11:08 am

Hey, Customising your Mac is very easy to customise, however some of the customisation can be quite difficult to find. One of these is the size Finder sidebar icons. The default size may not be to your taste. Editing the size is a simple case of altering the preference setting, the required size change is within System Preferences and not in Finder. This change will also allow you to change the size of Mail’s sidebar icons. Changing Finder’s Sidebar Icon Size To change the size of Finder icons within the sidebar open System Preferences. Select the General preference pane. Within…
Start Your Mac From A USB Stick – When Hard Drives Fail

admin

16 May 2013 | 12:03 pm

Hey, When you Mac doesn’t boot it can be the end of the world. Hard drives are fragile and when they fail it can stop your from starting your Mac and booting. Although your Mac has a built in recovery partition it is always worth having a USB version to boot into in case your hard disk drive is toast. Creating a bootable USB drive allows you to repair your hard drive, reinstall the OS and restore from a Time Machine backup. Create A Bootable USB Drive The first step is to find yourself a USB flash drive. You only need a drive 1GB in size. If you have a bigger one the space will be…
Determine Which Graphics Card Your Mac Is Using

admin

15 May 2013 | 12:29 pm

Hey, New Mac laptops come with two graphics cards. One is a built in graphic card which runs the majority of the time, it is low power and allows you to save power. The second is usually a more powerful dedicated graphics card that allows you to use its horsepower to play games and graphic intensive applications. You Mac will automatically switch between the two, allowing both good battery life and good graphics. It can be interesting to see which graphics you are using. Finding Out Which Graphics Card Your Mac Is Using Determine which graphics card you mac is using is very simple. One the…
Mac Your Mac Unique With These Accessories

admin

14 May 2013 | 11:40 am

Hey, The current iMac and Macbook range feature a cool brushed aluminium that is both simple and elegant. The problem with this is that it isn’t very unique. Today’s post is going to list some amazing and interesting accessories such as decals, cases, and little gadgets that make your Mac stand out. This allows you to make your mac that little bit more unique and interesting. This post follows on from one at the beginning of the month where I listed some must have accessories. These accessories are listed in no particular order. They come from a variety of different sources across…

MacBlogz
Apple Slashes Prices on Refurbished iPad Mini and iPad 4 Models

Eric Slivka

24 May 2013 | 8:14 am

Apple today significantly reduced prices on refurbished models of the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad, with all models now carrying approximately 15% discounts relative to brand-new units. iPad mini - 16 GB Wi-Fi: $279, down from $299 previously and $329 brand-new - 32 GB Wi-Fi: $359, down from $389 previously and $429 brand-new - 64 GB Wi-Fi: $439, down from $489 previously and $529 brand-new - 16 GB Wi-Fi + Cellular: $389, down from $429 previously and $459 brand-new - 32 GB Wi-Fi + Cellular: $469, down from $519 previously and…
Different Drummer Review

David Biedny

24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

One of the most amazing things about the App Store's offerings is the fact that you get so much punch for relatively few bucks; so when a drum app shows up that costs a whopping $49.99, it’s hard to think that it’s truly better than 10 existing $4.99 drum apps combined. While Different Drummer does indeed offer a unique take on the process of laying down a beat, it’s a bit rich at the current price, which is a pity – there's some real innovation to be found here.Different Drummer really lives up to its name: It’s a drummer, alright, but it’s radically different from any other iOS…
Different Drummer Review

David Biedny

24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

One of the most amazing things about the App Store's offerings is the fact that you get so much punch for relatively few bucks; so when a drum app shows up that costs a whopping $49.99, it’s hard to think that it’s truly better than 10 existing $4.99 drum apps combined. While Different Drummer does indeed offer a unique take on the process of laying down a beat, it’s a bit rich at the current price, which is a pity – there's some real innovation to be found here.Different Drummer really lives up to its name: It’s a drummer, alright, but it’s radically different from any other iOS…
iPhone repair costs are soaring

Yoni Heisler

24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

Marketwatch recently took a look at the rising price of iPhone 5 screen repairs, pointing out that the $229 Apple sometimes charges to repair a broken iPhone 5 screen is often more than the cost of the device itself, with a two-year contract of course. At the root of rising iPhone repair costs are more expensive components coupled with a lower supply of said components. The replacement components for the iPhone 5 are much more expensive than similar parts for prior models - so expensive in fact that many independent repair services cannot compete. "Due to the high cost of replacement parts,…
More Details on Jony Ive's Flat iOS 7 Design: Heavier on Black and White

Eric Slivka

24 May 2013 | 6:30 am

9to5Mac shares more details on Jony Ive's redesign for iOS 7, noting that not only will it bring a flatter look to the operating system but also more emphasis on black and white design elements.Sources have described iOS 7 as “black, white, and flat all over.” This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements. [...] For the upcoming operating system, which Apple says will be unveiled at its June Worldwide Developers Conference, Ive has not simply picked areas of the software design to tweak. He has essentially made his…

MacCast - For Mac Geeks, by Mac Geeks
Maccast 2013.05.20

Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)

20 May 2013 | 11:21 pm

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 445. Skipping stalling iRadio deal? Apple ID signed trojan surfaces. Possible new Macbook Airs at WWDC. iTunes updated to 11.0.3, not minor. Suppliers ready for iPad updates? Over 50 Billion App Store apps downloded. iWatch project still moving along. Apple Retail customers provide profits. Creative Cloud follow-up and FAQs. Quick update on SSD boot times. What's the deal with iWork Updates? Moving "Home Movies" in iTunes. Using multiple monitors on your Mac. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to…
Maccast 2013.05.15

Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)

15 May 2013 | 3:37 pm

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 444. Subscription based AppleCare? Some interesting iPhone reports. AT&T is now offering iPhone 5 in the US. Ups and downs at Pegatron. Streaming "iRadio" service stalled. Your iPad could kill you. iPhone 5S. Image editing alternatives to Photoshop. iMovie adding double frames. Fix for slow SSD boot times. Removing software. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Squarespace - Go to Squarespace.com/maccast and click "enter an offer code" under the pricing and put in the maccast3…
Maccast 2013.05.07

Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)

7 May 2013 | 10:18 pm

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 443. More Flash storage options for iMacs. Debate over Apple OS delays. Small iOS update for iPhone 5. Low-cost iPhone, not so low? Google Glass SMS and Map support coming for iOS owners. Will iPad mini see a Retina display this year? Clarification on tablet shipment numbers. More accurate Apple Maps. Be careful upgrading Transporter drives. Troubleshooting iOS Wi-Fi issues. Quickly dismiss banner notifications. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Sharefile by Citrix - Try it FREE…
Maccast 2013.05.01

Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)

1 May 2013 | 11:06 pm

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 442. Apple's latest quarterly results. iPhone 5 Retina screen has met it's match. WWDC the hottest ticket in tech. Macbook's share growing, more coming. What's coming in iOS 7 and OS X 10.9? iPad competition rising. iTunes tops in Video on Demand. Odd bug truncates iMessages. Other tips on Finder column widths. Keeping RAW out of Photostream. Unmounting drives before disconnecting. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Sharefile by Citrix - Try it FREE for 30 days. Use offer code…
Maccast 2013.04.22

Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)

22 Apr 2013 | 11:31 pm

A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 441. Continued iPhone 5-next speculation. More speculation on next gen iPad. Are iOS device sales dropping rapidly? Apple sells less, but makes more. Apple keeps Siri data for 2 years. Interview with Mark Salata of Werkz Publishing. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Smile - PDFpen 6 and PDFpen Pro 6 available now, smilesoftware.com Sharefile by Citrix - Try it FREE for 30 days. Use offer code MACCAST Shownotes in: HTML or OPML Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or…

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MacMost Now 869: iOS Music Equalizer Settings

Gary Rosenzweig

24 May 2013 | 8:00 am

You can choose from a list of equalizer presets in iOS to adjust how you hear music from your Music app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The best way to use it is to play some music and try different settings. The Late Night setting is a little different as it applies to [...]
The Government Should Do Something!

Gary Rosenzweig

23 May 2013 | 7:39 am

“Apple figures out all sorts of ways to charge top dollar for their products and avoid paying taxes on their profits. The government should do something!” “You know our retirement account is up 1000% over the last 10 years because of all the Apple stock we own, right?” “I’ve always liked Apple. It might be [...]
iTunes Update, Made In USA Mac Coming Soon

Gary Rosenzweig

23 May 2013 | 7:28 am

Version 11.0.3 of iTunes for Mac, available through Software Update, includes a new MiniPlayer with album artwork and a progress bar, an improved Songs list view and better grouping for multiple-disc albums. Last week Tim Cook mentioned the upcoming change that will bring production of one Mac model back to the United States. Rumors point [...]
MacMost Now 868: All My Files

Gary Rosenzweig

22 May 2013 | 8:00 am

The special All My Views view in the Finder gives you access to all of your user files in one list. You can arrange these to group them by application, size or date. You can also sort inside the groups and search to narrow down the list.
MacMost Now 867: Using Google Calendars With Mac and iOS

Gary Rosenzweig

20 May 2013 | 7:23 am

You can use a Google Calendar on Mac or your iOS device just as easily as you can use an iCloud calendar. There is no need to \’sync\’ between them as using one or the other is all that is needed. Google Calendars can be shared between your Mac, iOS, Android and Windows devices.

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Fotor

Mark

18 May 2013 | 7:40 pm

Collection of image editing tools includes white balance, exposure, brightness, color contrast, saturation, and sharpness. Also, straighten, crop, rotate, and manipulate the image.
Viber

Mark

8 May 2013 | 7:48 pm

Send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users, on any device and network, in any country. Viber syncs contacts, messages and call history with your mobile device. Start the conversation on the Viber mobile app and continue from your Mac.
RedQuits

Mark

25 Mar 2013 | 10:15 pm

When you click on the red button in the top-left of a window on a Mac, it closes the window — but the program keeps running. With this RedQuits, the program quits.
TipTyper

Mark

12 Mar 2013 | 9:49 pm

Text editor created by developer frustrated with TextEdit. Features include lines display, words and characters counters, automatic backup, full-screen support, retina display, dictation and speech support, spell check and grammar check.
Moof! Notes

Mark

7 Mar 2013 | 9:45 pm

Add notes to the edge of your screen with Moof the classic cow dog showing the way. Also works as a menu bar item.

Mac Tutorials - HD
0400 - Google Drive & Cloud Print for Mac [HD - Trailer]

ScreenCastsOnline

17 May 2013 | 5:00 pm

Its been a while since I covered the core Google services, and things have moved on significantly. Google have introduced Google Drive, a centralised store for all your Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations and more. They've also improved Google Chrome to support offline access, as well as releasing new Mac and iOS applications to access your data. In addition, they've also released Google Cloud Print, a new way to access your printers across the web, plus allowing you to print PDFs directly into Google Drive from Chrome or Google Mobile Apps.
0399 - TextSoap 7 [HD - Trailer]

ScreenCastsOnline

10 May 2013 | 5:00 pm

If you work with text, you need TextSoap! TextSoap is the perfect application for fixing or cleaning your text. With over 100+ built in text cleaners, TextSoap will fix all those niggling problems with your text, from extra spaces and returns to stripping out unwanted strings or even HTML code. You can even create your own simple text cleaners to match your requirements exactly, or built complex conditional cleaners to do things you never thought possible. Either way, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
0398 - iWeb Migration [HD - Trailer]

ScreenCastsOnline

3 May 2013 | 5:00 pm

So it looks like Apple won't be replacing iWeb anytime soon! I've already covered moving your iWeb hosting from MobileMe to another service provider [SCOM0345] but you may want to consider migrating from iWeb to a new application or service. In this week's show, Todd Olthoff takes a look at some of the alternatives to iWeb, and gives some pointers on what steps may be required to move.
0397 - App.net on the Mac [HD - Free Tutorial]

ScreenCastsOnline

25 Apr 2013 | 5:00 pm

Imagine an ad free service or platform that put its users first. One that was wasn't beholden to advertisers or offered a free service but didn't sell on your data making you the product. One that offered a rich development platform embraced by many of the leading Mac and iOS developers, crafting new and exciting applications. Well you don't have to imagine any more, because we have App.net! Seen by many as just a Twitter replacement or alternative, App.net is now showing it has the potential to be so much more. As well as the standard social media features you might expect, App.net also…
0396 - MM28 - FontBook, Font Panel & Placeit [HD - Trailer]

ScreenCastsOnline

19 Apr 2013 | 5:00 pm

A Mac montage show this week, but with a bit of a theme. And the theme is Fonts on OSX. In this multipart show I explore the hidden virtues of FontBook, an application included with OSX to manage, organise and repair your fonts. I also take a look at the standard Font Panel accessible by many OSX apps to format and tweak your text. One further related section is a new Alfred workflow I found that allows you to easily search for and select "special" characters from Alfred itself. Finishing off with a very cool, free web service that allows you to create hi res photos of your Mac or iOS…

MyAppleSpace: All Site Activity
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24 May 2013 | 12:28 am

MyAppleSpace added a video Apple - iPhone 5 - TV Ad - Music Every Day
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24 May 2013 | 12:27 am

MyAppleSpace is now a friend with MochaChips
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23 May 2013 | 11:00 pm

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23 May 2013 | 7:58 am

MyAppleSpace added a video Apple CEO Tim Cook Testifies About Avoiding Taxes- Part 1 of Hearing
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23 May 2013 | 7:58 am

MyAppleSpace added a video Apple CEO Tim Cook Testifies About Avoiding Taxes- Part 2 of Hearing

Softpedia News - Apple
Apple’s iPhone Ads Are Getting Better and Better

Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

24 May 2013 | 7:52 am

Apple has another winner on its hands with the new iPhone advertisement, “Music Every Day,” which promotes the popular smartphone as an entertainment device for all ages and all genders. With its new TV spot, the Cupertino giant continues to build on the success of the voiceover-free ads which tout the best features of the iPhone. Granted this last ad is not exactly narrator-free as it features a short statement in the final seconds of the clip, “Eve... (read more)
iOS 7 Launching This Fall, Pre-Installed on New iPhone/iPad, Sources Estimate

Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

24 May 2013 | 6:41 am

The same sources that leaked a ton of details regarding Jony Ive’s overhaul of iOS earlier today were also generous enough to provide an estimate on the actual launch date of the software. While Apple does plan to showcase the redesigned mobile software at its Worldwide Developers Conference next month, it won’t be until later in the year that the software will reach end-users. People familiar with the development of iOS 7 are telling 9to5mac that “I... (read more)
iOS 7 to Sport Panoramic Wallpapers, According to New Leak

Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

24 May 2013 | 6:14 am

A new iOS 7 leak provides a treasure trove of information regarding the future of Apple’s mobile operating system, including one particularly new feature involving panoramic wallpapers. According to the sources cited by 9to5mac, iOS 7 will mark a complete overhaul of Apple’s mobile operating system, though not necessarily a complete departure from the existing apps, features and services offered throughout the software. One particularly exciting new additi... (read more)
iOS 7 Leak: Redesigned Apps

Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

24 May 2013 | 6:01 am

Apple’s Jonathan Ive is making sure iOS 7 will be a hit when Apple unveils the software at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June. In addition to all the system-wide UI tweaks, Ive has commissioned a lot of specific changes to the stock apps as well. According to a lengthy piece at 9to5mac citing sources who are familiar with the software, iOS ... (read more)
Leaked: iOS 7 Is “Black, White, and Flat All Over”

Softpedia News (Filip Truta)

24 May 2013 | 5:38 am

People familiar with the development of iOS 7 have leaked new details pertaining to the aesthetic tweaks commissioned by Human Interface chief Jony Ive. In a nutshell, the new iPhone/iPad OS is “black, white, and flat all over.” Corroborating the majority of rumors regarding iOS 7’s overhaul, sources speaking to 9to5ma... (read more)

9to5Mac
Apple trolls us with ‘iWatch’ tease in latest iPhone music ad

Michael Steeber

24 May 2013 | 9:38 am

Here’s an amusing little image for your Friday: the screenshot above is a clip from Apple’s newest “Music Every Day” ad, which was posted on their YouTube channel last night. If you pay attention at around 0:30 in the commercial, you’ll see what would almost appear to be someone wearing a large, wrist-device while listening to music on their iPhone. While obviously Apple wouldn’t leak a real product through their advertisements, we can’t help but think that this is perhaps a subtle troll on Apple’s part.
FDA begins cracking down on medical diagnosis apps starting with ‘uChek’ iPhone urinalysis app

Jordan Kahn

24 May 2013 | 9:29 am

Bloomberg reports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is launching a first of its kind inquiry into medical diagnosis apps starting with the ‘uChek’ urine analysis app from Biosense Technologies. The free app, which is currently still on the App Store, requires users to purchase a kit containing urine test strips that can be visually analyzed with the iPhone’s camera. The problem, according to a letter sent to Biosense from the FDA, is the fact that the test strips have only been cleared for “direct visual reading” and not automated analysis from an…
Apple cuts prices again on refurbished iPads

Seth Weintraub

24 May 2013 | 8:25 am

From 9to5Toys.com: Apple this morning dropped prices across the board on iPads in its refurbished Apple Store as noted by MacRumors. We’ve recently seen quite a bit of iPad price reductions at 9to5Toys, some even steeper than this. For instance, Walmart has a new iPad mini for $80 off and refurb iPad Mini 16GB for $250. The new Apple Store prices: iPad mini - 16 GB Wi-Fi: $279, down from $299 previously and $329 brand-new - 32 GB Wi-Fi: $359, down from $389 previously and $429 brand-new - 64 GB Wi-Fi: $439, down from $489 previously and $529 brand-new - 16 GB Wi-Fi + Cellular: $389,…
HP expands Mac-cloning design approach across all of its latest notebooks

Ben Lovejoy

24 May 2013 | 7:27 am

Photo: The Verge HP appears to be taking its If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em design philosophy to something of an extreme with the new HP Envy notebook. A gallery posted by The Verge shows just how closely HP has copied Apple’s MacBook Air designs in almost every respect, from the wedge profile through the chicklet keyboard, trackpad and colors … Take away the logo, and at first glance, you could easily mistake the HP clone for the original. The heading used here by HP even appears to be a shameless admission of the approach: The irony of HP CEO Meg…
Judge in Apple eBook case says U.S. government has evidence to prove pricing conspiracy ahead of trial

Jordan Kahn

24 May 2013 | 6:39 am

Earlier this month we heard that Apple submitted to the courts that it engaged in “contentious negotiations”– and not a pricing conspiracy– at a time when publishers were already considering methods of getting Amazon to increase pricing. According to the latest comments from a judge in the high-profile eBook pricing case, Apple might not be able to prove its case when it goes to trial early next month. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote believes that the U.S Justice Department will indeed be able to prove a pricing conspiracy took place (via Bloomberg): “I believe that the…

SurfBits, Home of the Mac Reviews
Zendock, A Kickstarter Program I Really Like

Tim (Surfbits)

6 May 2013 | 5:02 pm

Over the last few years I’ve followed and backed my share of Kickstarter programs. Some turned out to be real duds, but other were programs that had some great ideas and turned out to be real winners. I found one I think will be a winner, Zendock from Zenboxx. Zendock is a small, simple, but eloquent solution for docking your MacBook Pro. Plug in all your cables and connections into one end and just plug the other end into your MacBook Pro. The Zendock can be permanent solution on your desk, or a handy portable solution for the MacBook owner on the go. Here is a link to a video that…
Mailplane: The Best Gets Better

Tim (Surfbits)

17 Apr 2013 | 3:20 pm

I’ve used Mailplane as my stand-alone mail client on the Mac for years. I used it since my main account is Gmail based and all my other domain-based account are funneled through the Gmail account to take advantage of the spam filter. Mailplane did everything I needed it to do. An adjustable toolbar that allows you to place every function within one click. It supported attachments, screen captures, and all the web-based Gmail layout and features. It was a solid and dependable email client. Enter Mailplane 3. In addition to the features of Mailplane 2, it supports Gmail’s new…
STM Bags: Solid Bag, Fair Price

Tim (Surfbits)

3 Apr 2013 | 9:15 am

Anyone that knows me, remembers that I’ve reviewed and have been very happy with the Tom Bihn bags for my laptops, iPads, or just basic backpacks and cases. So when I was approached by the PR firm for STM bags asking me to look at their new line of laptop and iPad bags, the Linear Messenger bag, I thought it was a great chance to see what was available. For those of you that are not familiar with STM Bags, founded in 1998 in Sydney, Australia, STM Bags offers a full range of lifestyle-oriented laptop bags, iPad cases, iPhone cases and accessories. STM Bag’s mission is to provide a…
Review: Markdown by David Sparks and Eddie Smith

Tim (Surfbits)

22 Mar 2013 | 7:58 am

I’ve been a self-taught HTML writer since the early 1990s. During that time I designed hundreds of websites for local businesses and online businesses throughout the world. But in the past 10 years HTML has become much more difficult and i find that when I need to write a website I’m using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver. Basic HTML has been left for blog postings. Therefore when David Sparks from MacSparky and Eddie Smith from Practically Efficient decided to release their new book Markdown I had to download it and see what all the fuss about Markdown was about. The iBook is…
iSkin’s fuze 360 Case Means Total Protection

Tim (Surfbits)

26 Feb 2013 | 9:13 am

There are times I want my iPhone case to be mean and lean, then there are times I’m looking for total protection. Since I’ve owned an iPhone, there’s only one case company I felt confident in trusting my precious with when times were tough, iSkin. iSkin make a lot of different styles of cases, but when they claim that the fuze 360 is “Ready for Action”, they mean it. The fuze 360 provides complete impact and shock protection and next-generation, high-impact screen protection for the iPhone 5. The fuze 360 is a two-piece case that gives you a soft inner layer for…

MakeUseOf » Mac OS X
Evernote Adds Reminders Feature To Its Web, Mac, and iOS Apps [Updates]

Bakari Chavanu

24 May 2013 | 4:00 am

On Thursday, Evernote released a much requested Reminders feature for its popular notebook application. In a blog post, the company says that the new feature includes in-app and email alarms, quick notes based on to-do lists, and the ability to pin notes to the top of your note list — all rolled into one. The new update will be available on Evernote's Web, Mac and iOS versions — for both free and Evernote Business users.The post Evernote Adds Reminders Feature To Its Web, Mac, and iOS Apps [Updates] appeared first on MakeUseOf.
Why Do Macs Leave Garbage Files Like “ds_store” On My Flash Drive, And How Do I Stop It?

Justin Pot

23 May 2013 | 1:01 pm

Indexing, trash bins, folder positions – OS X keeps track of all these things, on every drive connected to your Mac, by creating files. These files are fine on a Mac – OS X uses them regularly, and hides them from the user. Plug a drive mainly used with Windows into a Mac, however, and in Windows you'll see a variety of useless files cluttering things up. Do you want to stop the madness? You can.The post Why Do Macs Leave Garbage Files Like “ds_store” On My Flash Drive, And How Do I Stop It? appeared first on MakeUseOf.
Monolingual – Remove Languages You Don’t Use From Your Mac

Justin Pot

22 May 2013 | 10:01 am

Free up some space on your Mac – delete languages you will never use. Monolingual is a simple Mac app that anyone looking for more hard drive space should check out. Modern hard drives are big, but sometimes we all need just a little more space on our primary drive. Whether you've installed a solid state drive in your Mac or simply filled up your primary one, sometimes a little extra space can help a lot.The post Monolingual – Remove Languages You Don’t Use From Your Mac appeared first on MakeUseOf.
Byword Offers Fullscreen Distraction-Free Writing Pleasure On Your Mac

Simon Slangen

20 May 2013 | 2:31 pm

Taking your pen to hand - or more often keyboard, in these times - is not always a simple undertaking. That's not to say writing is bothersome. No, rather the opposite. Writing is wonderful, awesome, enchanting, and a hundred other things. The problem then is that there are too many distractions. Loud noises, flashing lights....not just outside of your window, but on your computer as well.The post Byword Offers Fullscreen Distraction-Free Writing Pleasure On Your Mac appeared first on MakeUseOf.
Power Up Your Mac Desktop With RSS Feed Reader NewsBar [Mac & iOS]

Bakari Chavanu

20 May 2013 | 12:00 pm

Despite the popularity of social networks like Twitter and Facebook, RSS readers are still arguably the best way to monitor and manage daily news items and subscriptions on both our computers and mobile devices. With the pending death of the Google Reader, we on the lookout for alternative RSS reader clients that go beyond Reader's capabilities. One of the newest readers on the block is NewsBar for Mac and iPhone. Even though I've been a longtime user of NewsRack, I was immediately impressed with the NewsBar's features.The post Power Up Your Mac Desktop With RSS Feed Reader NewsBar [Mac…

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San Francisco Store Moving to Dramatic New Location

Gary Allen

16 May 2013 | 11:35 pm

Faced with an additional four years of underground transit tunnel construction in front of the San Francisco (N. Calif.) Apple store, and feeling the general crush of increased store visitors, the company will move retail operations two blocks away, into a stunning two-level, glass storefront location facing the city’s main square. Significantly, the plans were announced by SF mayor Ed Lee, who said he hopes the new store would help reverse waning retail activity in the area. Lee did not say if the city had offered Apple any incentives or permit accommodations to make the move. At a…
Lincoln Road Expansion Up For Approval–Again

Gary Allen

13 May 2013 | 12:23 pm

Apple is making a second proposal to the city of Miami Beach (Fla.) to build an expanded store along the Lincoln Road pedestrian shopping mall, after being denied permission to demolish and rebuild in 2011. The new project is next door to the previous proposal, which eventually became a Gap clothing store, and just 1,000 feet from the existing Apple store that opened in July 2006. Like most early stores, the original store was built on a 30-foot wide model that covers 3,000 square-feet, and has become increasingly crowded with visitors. As part of a general plan of expanding smaller stores,…
Big Switch: More In-Store iProduct Repairs

Gary Allen

10 May 2013 | 9:30 pm

The workload of Apple retail store Genius Bars is scheduled for a huge increase later this year, after the company introduces a revamped AppleCare product that includes a longer list of iPhone, iPad and iPod problems that will repaired in-house. The changes will reportedly save the company $1 billion a year, but could also significantly lower customer satisfaction with time-consuming repairs, instead of being handled in five minutes with a swap-out. According to AppleInsider, Apple vice president Tara Bunch announced today to employees that in-store repairs will be expanded to…
Apple Defies Speculation, Reports Quarterly Records

Gary Allen

23 Apr 2013 | 4:08 pm

After weeks of financial analyst pessimism about Apple’s product sales and a resulting plunge in its stock price, the company announced record unit sales and revenues during the second quarter of 2013, and teased new product categories in the future. The retail stores participated fully in the sales success, with record second-quarter sales of $5.24 billion, also the third-highest revenue in the chain’s history. Retail store profit was $1.1 billion, exactly the same as the year-ago quarter, but still considered strong. Without explanation, the company said fewer new stores will…
Apple Revises One to One, Limits Data Migration

Gary Allen

18 Apr 2013 | 3:09 am

For reasons that aren’t obvious, Apple has restated the terms of its retail store One to One service to limit how data migration services are offered for new Macintosh purchases. The service is significant, since the company reports that over half of Mac purchases are to new-to-Mac customers, including those with Windows PCs who want to move their existing data to a Mac. The U.S. term revisions appeared yesterday on the “Details” Web page for the One to One service, which is offered to new Mac buyers for $99 per year. For that price, a customer can receive Personal…

The MacTrack - iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch and Mac News
Directional for iOS Goes Universal, Adds iCloud Scoring and More

Richard

24 May 2013 | 8:45 am

Birmingham, United Kingdom – Indie developer Mike Hince is announcing today that his Directional Dash 1.4 Puzzle Game is now available to download on the App Store. Directional Dash is an addictive and intelligent puzzle game for iOS, with 3 unique gameplay modes and 9 great game types. Directional Dash has two times modes and one limited moves modes. Directional Dash is available in two versions. One premium paid application and one fully unlocked ad supported version. What’s New in Directional Dash 1.4: Directional Dash is now Universal, meaning it will look great on your iPad…
Tharle Games Announce the Release of Gravity Fall HD 1.0 for iPad

Richard

24 May 2013 | 7:15 am

Bangalore, India – Tharle Games is pleased to introduce iOS gamer with their new and first gravity based running game Gravity Fall HD 1.0, with amazing and challenging game-play. Gravity Fall HD is a running game with scenes of comic graphics and amazing backgrounds. Players will also encounter different kinds of obstacles to jump over. Gravity Fall HD is available for iPad on App Store. The game posses an unlimited level, the more you are into the game the urge of scoring high will bound you with game for longer period. We have brought you something that defies the laws of physics.
Boldomatic Gives Voice and Colour to the Silent Majority

Richard

24 May 2013 | 7:05 am

Zurich, Switzerland – Nerves just released version 1.2 of its free iOS App Boldomatic. New features include hashtags and location stamps. With over 150,000 crafted text-images, users now have the chance to browse the globe for boldcards – Boldomatic post cards dropped by writers from over 160 countries. “Twitter offers possible litigation. Facebook offers possible judgement. Boldomatic offers endless fun with other sick minded philosophers who enjoy the freedom and exploration of thought,” as one writer describes it. Italics, underlining, and all-caps never have the…
Speed Tracker 5.0 for iPhone and iPad, GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer

Richard

24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

Feasterville, Pennsylvania – AppAnnex LLC has proudly announced the worldwide availability of the newest Speed Tracker 5.0. GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer. Just in time for the summer driving season you can now use its full power. Speed Tracker did a great job by combining GPS speedometer, Trip Log and Trip computer in one unique application. No more need for endless list of applications on your iPhone and iPad. Just take Speed Tracker app with you and record automatically your location, speed, time, distance and many many more. Version 5.0 has new stunning graphics and support for…
RV Helper for iPhone, Nook, Google Play Store and Kindle

Richard

24 May 2013 | 6:45 am

Cromberg, California – MICOM Software is proud to announce the release of RV Helper 1.0 for iPhone, iPad, Play Store, NookHD and Kindle tablet available now. The only app designed for RV owners to help them with their RV, motorhome or trailer, this app is easy to use and full of valuable information. Using this app once will save money. The app works great on all iPads including the new mini-iPad. Topics covered include: how to back up and hook up a trailer, how to hook up a weight distributing hitch, how to hook up a 5th wheel, and more. If you own or going to buy a RV or trailer this…

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New Microsoft video slams the iPad on multitasking, PowerPoint and price

23 May 2013 | 3:59 am

A new Windows video (presumably a TV commercial) knocks the iPad over multitasking, its lack of a PowerPoint app and the price of the 64GB configuration.
iOS 7 wishlist: web-based account administration

22 May 2013 | 4:15 am

Apple needs to add more web integration if iOS is going to be competitive with Android.
Google Play Music All Access (unofficially) coming to iOS

21 May 2013 | 3:44 am

Google snubbed iOS users with its All Access music subscription service, but developer James Clancey has submitted an app to the App Store that will bring Google music subscriptions to the iPhone.
Is Apple discontinuing some, or all, of its old-school mailing lists?

20 May 2013 | 3:41 am

A note posted to a longstanding mailing list run by Apple said that Cupertino in late April would "transition" the lists to other support sites. However, some lists appear to still be running.
Apple releases Mac firmware update for Thunderbolt fixes

13 May 2013 | 5:44 am

While the Thunderbolt Firmware Update v1.2 appears to be solid, some users report problems.

The Loop
In which Internet cat owners make themselves look like Jim

Peter Cohen

24 May 2013 | 9:13 am

Cat bearding. ∞ Read this on The Loop
Elderly Japanese artist creates traditional art using MS Excel

Peter Cohen

24 May 2013 | 6:20 am

A 73-year-old Japanese artist uses Excel to produce beautiful traditional artwork. ∞ Read this on The Loop
“Can the Maker movement save Radio Shack?”

Peter Cohen

24 May 2013 | 6:11 am

Radio Shack’s close ties with Maker Faire and Make magazine promise to bring hobbyists back in the doors, but is it enough to save the ailing electronics store? ∞ Read this on The Loop
“If You’re Obsessed With ‘Winning,’ You Don’t Understand the Mobile Market”

Peter Cohen

24 May 2013 | 5:33 am

Harry McCracken tries to explain a bit about the mobile market for people who think this is a repeat of the PC business in the 90s. ∞ Read this on The Loop
The Loop Magazine Issue 2 available

Jim Dalrymple

23 May 2013 | 4:42 pm

The Loop Magazine Issue 2 is now available for download from Apple’s Newsstand. There’s a great line-up of writers in this issue including Joe King, the co-founder of Denver-based rock band The Fray, UI expert Matt Gemmell, iMore Editor-in-Chief Rene Ritchie, Peter Cohen, Stephen Hackett, and The Next Web’s Managing Editor Matthew Panzarino. You can download The Loop Magazine from the App ∞ Read this on The Loop

My Technology Guide: Windows, Mac, Linux, Internet, Software, Review
Back Up Your Valuable Data with Carbonite

Mezanul

17 May 2013 | 1:00 pm

Technology is progressing each day. People are now relying more on their computers, laptops and mobiles for their day-to-day work and thus are saving gigabytes of data. Digital data is more personal than ever. We now keep our pictures, videos, important documents and every other small thing saved on hard disks, SSDs, memory cards and [...]Continue reading Back Up Your Valuable Data with Carbonite at My Technology Guide © Copyright 2009-2012 My Technology Guide Related posts: How To Create and Use Backups Using the Backup and Restore Center [Windows] Google Takeout: Easily Liberate and Backup…
Microsoft Windows Blue Will Be Windows 8.1, Will Be Free Update From Windows Store

Mezanul

16 May 2013 | 3:35 am

Microsoft has some fresh new updates about its upcoming next Windows update titled Windows Blue. Microsoft’s Tami Reller (Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Windows), while speaking at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, announced that the upcoming next Windows version previously called Windows Blue will be officially called Windows 8.1. It will [...]Continue reading Microsoft Windows Blue Will Be Windows 8.1, Will Be Free Update From Windows Store at My Technology Guide © Copyright 2009-2012 My Technology Guide Related posts: Microsoft’s…
Public WiFi Networks: A Hotbed For Hacker Activity

Mezanul

4 May 2013 | 12:55 pm

Most people who constantly use public WiFi networks must understand the importance of having proper security measures to avoid exposing sensitive data. A recent report by ThreatMetrix found that banking information and personal files are vulnerable through WiFi networks, like those which are available open at the local coffee shop round the corner. The threat intensified with [...]Continue reading Public WiFi Networks: A Hotbed For Hacker Activity at My Technology Guide © Copyright 2009-2012 My Technology Guide Related posts: LivingSocial Hacked: 50 Million Customer Names, Emails,…
LivingSocial Hacked: 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Encrypted Passwords Leaked

Mezanul

28 Apr 2013 | 2:05 am

LivingSocial is the second biggest online daily deals website after Groupon in the US. LivingSocial is owned in part by Amazon has announced that it has been hacked. The attackers got away with data which includes names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords of 50 million customers. That’s a huge amount of data which is now [...]Continue reading LivingSocial Hacked: 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Encrypted Passwords Leaked at My Technology Guide © Copyright 2009-2012 My Technology Guide Related posts: About Password Security Strengthening, How To Protect Your Account If Your…
Get Office 365 Free for Three Months and 20 GB of SkyDrive Storage

Mezanul

11 Mar 2013 | 11:18 am

Microsoft’s new range of office suite, Office 2013 and Office 365 are already released. To promote the new Office 365 office suite, Microsoft has started a brand new campaign. The campaign specifically targets students who might want to give Office 365 University a try. Through this special promotion, Microsoft is offering Office 365 University three-month [...]Continue reading Get Office 365 Free for Three Months and 20 GB of SkyDrive Storage at My Technology Guide © Copyright 2009-2012 My Technology Guide Related posts: Online Microsoft Office Training by Webucator: Exclusive…

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How to Clear Call History on the iPhone

Paul Horowitz

23 May 2013 | 4:13 pm

It’s really easy to delete calls from the iPhone call history log, and you can get quite specific in the process. You can delete a single specific call, outbound calls, incoming calls, all missed calls, received calls, basically, if it is included in the Phone app “Recents” list, it can be deleted with ease. While we’re on the subject, we’ll also show you how to recover anything that has been deleted from iPhones call history. Delete All Calls and Clear All Call History This will provide you with a blank slate of calls: From the Phone menu, choose…
How to Enable a Hidden Debug Menu in Photo Booth for Mac OS X

Paul Horowitz

23 May 2013 | 11:55 am

Photo Booth is the goofy picture taking application in OS X that can take normal shots or apply a bunch of weird effects to distort faces. It’s not the most complex app in the world and that’s by design, but if you like to dig into things a bit more than the average Mac user, you can enable a hidden debug menu that can adjust some behavior of Photo Booth. This won’t give you any new effects (though you can reveal some hidden ones separately if you’re into that sort of thing), but it does offer a few features that may help performance on Mac models. Enabling the Debug…
Quick Fix iPhone Stuck in “Headphones” Mode & Speakers Not Working

Paul Horowitz

22 May 2013 | 4:04 pm

Ever had your iPhone get stuck in Headphone mode? The symptoms are fairly obvious; you go to change the volume level and the little volume indicator says “ringer (headphones)” like shown below, and no audio our sound works through the normal speaker output. Some people interpret this as their iPhone speakers suddenly not working or that something is broken, but that is actually pretty rare, and you can usually fix the issue really quickly with nothing but a q-tip and a set of headphones or earbuds (yes, you read that right, you will use a pair of headphones to get the iPhone out…
Use FileVault to Get Full Disk Encryption in Mac OS X

Paul Horowitz

22 May 2013 | 12:52 pm

FileVault is an amazing disk level encryption feature that comes with Mac OS X. When it has been enabled, it encrypts everything, all disk contents, and actively encrypts and decrypts data on the fly, meaning any newly created data or document will instantly be encrypted as well. It’s fast and incredibly secure, using XTS-AES 128 encryption to keep things far out of the reaches of prying eyes. Should you use FileVault or not? FileVault is excellent and easy to use, and offers some enormous added security benefit, but it’s not for everyone. Most people just don’t need this…
How to Change the Dock Indicator Lights Color in Mac OS X

Paul Horowitz

21 May 2013 | 2:37 pm

The color indicators in the Mac OS X Dock provide an easy way to tell what apps are running just by glancing at the Dock. OS X basically provides you with two options for those indicators, which is to either show them or not, but because we like to customize things we’ll cover how to change the indicator light appearance so that they display as a different color completely. Optionally, this could include using a simple indicator that also removes the glowing appearance, which can leave the OS X Dock looking a bit more minimalist like this: There are actually two ways to go about…

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Apple Systems Trader Chart Anatomy

ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

22 May 2013 | 9:14 am

This video guide will help you understand the live streaming video of the AiT240 systems trader that trades Apple stock. The system is available for people to observe and this week, they can even register to have trade alerts sent via text message. The most important pasts of the AiTrader chart to grasp, if you are going to take signals, is to understand where trades start and end, and whether they are short or long trades. This video goes into sufficient detail and is simple to comprehend. Trade Room – free registration Post a comment below...
Apple ($AAPL) Trade Signals 9 Consecutive Wins

ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

21 May 2013 | 10:32 am

The AiT240 has made 9 consecutive winning trades. It is a system that was previously part of a hi-beta pool of systems being used by Diamondback Capital and other respected prop trading firms on Wall Street. AppleInvestor has exclusive rights to this system, as well as many others that we will be introducing to the general public, that have similar performance characteristics. Trade Room – free registration Apple investors want to know what you think, comment below...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Explains Dodging Taxes To Congress

ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

20 May 2013 | 5:07 am

Well, we all know about Apple’s magnificent hoard of cash, and that most of it ($102.3 billion) is in overseas banks outside the reach of the US Internal Revenue Service. So, now members of congress, sensing a windfall payday and the chance to make hay on corporate greed, wants Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, to explain why he shouldn’t just hand over billions of dollars to the US Treasury. These sleaze balls in Congress didn’t like the accounting jujitsu that Apple performed by issuing bonds to the iTune of $17 billion, which is debt by the way, something Congress should be…
Apple Still Abusing Chinese Employees AT Foxconn

ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

16 May 2013 | 10:41 am

Apple and Foxconn were accused of violating China labor laws again, according to the Wall Street Journal. I guess Apple is now a serial slave labor violator. As you may already know, Foxconn assembles iPhones and iPads for Apple. Last time Foxconn was reviewed, it was found they complied with over 98 percent of the action items Apple and they agreed to with the Chinese Fair Labor Association (FLA). Apparently the sticking point is the number of working hours these people are “forced” into. China labor laws are pretty strict, saying that anything over 40 hours a week is criminal,…
Apple Automated Trader 8th Consecutive Winner

ernie@apple-investor.com (Ernie Varitimos)

15 May 2013 | 9:41 am

The AiTrader 240 minute system trades Apple stock, and is doing quite well so far this month, working on it’s 8th consecutive winner, with totally out of sample data. The companion system is a 60 minute trader, and while it is also doing well this month, it lags behind the 240. Last month the 60 minute system was the big winner, although it tends to be a bit streaky, where as the 240 minute system is robust and solid as a rock. Both systems hare the same engine, which was developed and conceived by Greg Simmons of Scope Labs, originally used at Diamondback Capital and with several…

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Stormy Weather

Jack Beckman

22 May 2013 | 12:01 am

With the advent of the tornado season, and especially after the terrible disaster that occurred on Monday in Oklahoma, it’s important for everyone to keep up with the weather. Yes, that mundane subject that occasionally has us scurrying for cover. One of the best ways to protect you and your family is with a weather radio. Look for one that will alert you and wake you up in case inclement weather comes in the middle of the night. I can recommend Midland radios as working well for me over the years. Don’t forget too that your local National Weather Service branch has a web site…
Instashare

Phyllis Evans

21 May 2013 | 12:01 am

I’ve been a big fan of AirDrop since Apple introduced it a couple of years ago. It’s the fastest way to transfer files from one Mac to another, and it can be used even if no wi-fi network is available. It would be great if Apple would extend it to iPhones and iPads, but so far no luck. What we do have, instead, is Instashare. Like AirDrop, you don’t need an internet connection, just your built-in wi-fi or Bluetooth. So far, it’s just for Mac and iOS, but they are also working on Windows and Android versions. Like AirDrop, Instashare is easy to use. And fast! Transfer…
No More No More

Jack Beckman

15 May 2013 | 12:01 am

As I’ve mentioned, I’m working from home most days. This means I’m using my MacPro, with its nice large monitor, and remoting in to my two work computers (one a local laptop, the other a remote desktop). For some reason, my Magic Mouse has lost its magic. There’s usually some slight lag to mouse movements when you use a remote desktop program – and the slower the connection, the greater the lag. Lately, it’s becoming extremely aggravating trying to use the Bluetooth Magic Mouse with these remote sessions. I don’t know if it’s because I am using…
How To Create a Bootable Mountain Lion USB Thumb Drive

Terry White

12 May 2013 | 9:01 pm

Long gone are the days where Apple sells Mac OS X on discs. To get Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) you buy it online from Mac App Store, download and install it. That’s great as long as your Mac is working properly and online. As we all know there are times when you may need to reinstall Mac OS X, install it on a fresh system or external hard drive. When you install it on a Mac you need to be able to boot from an external disc especially if you want to reformat the hard drive or do repairs with Disk Utility. Apple used to make it kinda easy to create a bootable disc, but for some reason…
Home Automation Has Come a Long Way Since “The Clapper”…

Chita Hunter

8 May 2013 | 9:01 pm

Home Automation Doesn’t Have to be a Monthly Charge And, it Doesn’t Have to be Expensive… The Belkin WeMo Switch gives a fun, and low-cost alternative to automating your appliances to meet your daily needs while you are at home or far away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWMBUnAVnjI Belkin WeMo Switch

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Directional for iOS Goes Universal, Adds iCloud Scoring and More

Richard

24 May 2013 | 8:45 am

Birmingham, United Kingdom – Indie developer Mike Hince is announcing today that his Directional Dash 1.4 Puzzle Game is now available to download on the App Store. Directional Dash is an addictive and intelligent puzzle game for iOS, with 3 unique gameplay modes and 9 great game types. Directional Dash has two times modes and one limited moves modes. Directional Dash is available in two versions. One premium paid application and one fully unlocked ad supported version. What’s New in Directional Dash 1.4: Directional Dash is now Universal, meaning it will look great on your iPad…
Tharle Games Announce the Release of Gravity Fall HD 1.0 for iPad

Richard

24 May 2013 | 7:15 am

Bangalore, India – Tharle Games is pleased to introduce iOS gamer with their new and first gravity based running game Gravity Fall HD 1.0, with amazing and challenging game-play. Gravity Fall HD is a running game with scenes of comic graphics and amazing backgrounds. Players will also encounter different kinds of obstacles to jump over. Gravity Fall HD is available for iPad on App Store. The game posses an unlimited level, the more you are into the game the urge of scoring high will bound you with game for longer period. We have brought you something that defies the laws of physics.
Boldomatic Gives Voice and Colour to the Silent Majority

Richard

24 May 2013 | 7:05 am

Zurich, Switzerland – Nerves just released version 1.2 of its free iOS App Boldomatic. New features include hashtags and location stamps. With over 150,000 crafted text-images, users now have the chance to browse the globe for boldcards – Boldomatic post cards dropped by writers from over 160 countries. “Twitter offers possible litigation. Facebook offers possible judgement. Boldomatic offers endless fun with other sick minded philosophers who enjoy the freedom and exploration of thought,” as one writer describes it. Italics, underlining, and all-caps never have the…
Speed Tracker 5.0 for iPhone and iPad, GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer

Richard

24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

Feasterville, Pennsylvania – AppAnnex LLC has proudly announced the worldwide availability of the newest Speed Tracker 5.0. GPS Speedometer and Trip Computer. Just in time for the summer driving season you can now use its full power. Speed Tracker did a great job by combining GPS speedometer, Trip Log and Trip computer in one unique application. No more need for endless list of applications on your iPhone and iPad. Just take Speed Tracker app with you and record automatically your location, speed, time, distance and many many more. Version 5.0 has new stunning graphics and support for…
RV Helper for iPhone, Nook, Google Play Store and Kindle

Richard

24 May 2013 | 6:45 am

Cromberg, California – MICOM Software is proud to announce the release of RV Helper 1.0 for iPhone, iPad, Play Store, NookHD and Kindle tablet available now. The only app designed for RV owners to help them with their RV, motorhome or trailer, this app is easy to use and full of valuable information. Using this app once will save money. The app works great on all iPads including the new mini-iPad. Topics covered include: how to back up and hook up a trailer, how to hook up a weight distributing hitch, how to hook up a 5th wheel, and more. If you own or going to buy a RV or trailer this…

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Wired on the Man That Brought Down Google

JT

15 May 2013 | 8:09 am

Wired has an excellent piece on the con man who helped the DoJ extract $500 million (.04 Motorolas) from Google’s coffers. From the look of it, they got off pretty cheap. The Feds used David Whitaker, a man faced with the prospect of otherwise dying in prison, to construct an elaborate sting to implicate Google’s AdWords salespeople as facilitators for illegal drug company advertising. Under supervision from the Feds, Whitaker was able to repeatedly get Google representatives to not only tweak websites for obviously illegal drugs to get them to pass Google’s automated…
Bill Gates’s Microsoft Surface Plug as Good as His Financial Advice

JT

6 May 2013 | 12:03 pm

CNBC had Warren Buffet and Bill Gates on this morning’s edition of “Squawk Box” and of course Gates seized the opportunity to plug Windows 8 and his company’s contributions to the tablet landfill landscape. When asked by Joe Kernan about this “tablet thing”, Gates showed himself as Ballmer’s Sith Master by inaccurately slagging Apple while fellating his company’s own failed products. I guess Gates did manage to impart one skill on his successor. Kernan’s lead in was humorous enough: “Microsoft still does 80 billion a year in…
Eric Schmidt Wants to Talk About Thor

JT

25 Apr 2013 | 9:36 am

Google’s Eric Schmidt fancies himself a tech guy who can also sling politics. You can check out his parlor act at any one of the numerous Senate Subcommittee meetings he has appeared at, where he is able to spin plates for hours on end while never really saying anything. He’s been expanding his political ambitions to tech ambassadorship, having already visited North Korea, much to the delight of the U.S. State Department. His message seems to be “teh tecknologees iz gud”. It’s too bad he knows so laughably little about them. In what may be my only use ever for…
Apple Earnings Prompts Tech Press Limbo Contest

JT

23 Apr 2013 | 7:19 pm

Getting pretty bad out there isn’t it? All of the faux-anxiety preceding Apple’s earnings call this afternoon brought out the usual caste of knuckledraggers, hit-whores and never-rights, and they were working hard for your pageview. The stench was overpowering. Is Apple looking for a replacement for Tim Cook? In what ways does Tim Cook resemble Steve Ballmer? The lead-up to Apple’s announcement has sunk the trolling hook to new depths. If only the line would catch on a sunken wreck and drag all these idiots to a watery grave. So how did it get this bad? One of the biggest…
Microsoft’s Mac Office Updates Are a Paragon of Seamlessness

JT

16 Apr 2013 | 10:41 am

Is there a company that illustrates its mindset as hilariously as Microsoft when it comes to updating their software (I mean, besides Adobe, but their Acrobat updates are at least only annoying in their sheer number)? I have the ill fortune of having to use Office 2008 to cater to the will of the other 95% of the enterprise – mostly because I have yet to figure out how to unregister and transfer my Office 2010 license from an old machine. I guess if Redmond made that easy, Microsoft’s Office division might start posting Entertainment and Device-type earnings. Check out this…

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Your Order History Gets A Makeover

Michael Burl

24 May 2013 | 9:00 am

Our IT department has been hard at work over the past month (not that they ever stop working hard) making improvements to our website. Their main goal has been to make it easier for our online customers to shop and for our local shoppers to have access to their records. We’re happy to announce that Smalldog.com has a revamped Order History system. Order History 2.0 (not its official name, but it’s fun to say it) includes a lot more info then the old one ever did. It can show you all of your orders, regardless of the source. For example, if you purchased something from our retail…
MacPractice: Your Resource for Healthcare Office Management

Rob Amon

21 May 2013 | 8:10 am

Are you a healthcare professional and an Apple fan? Did you know there’s an Apple solution to manage your healthcare business? You can enjoy the same Apple quality, reliability, and ease of use in your practice as you do at home. Small Dog Electronics is now partnering with MacPractice, Inc., the oldest and largest developer of healthcare practice management and clinical records systems based exclusively on the Apple platform. MacPractice products are designed to leverage the powerful features of Apple’s latest versions of OS X and iOS. All MacPractice products provide robust yet…
Failure to Boot...Camp

Michael Burl

20 May 2013 | 7:00 am

To give a little background before launching into this article: I am a junior technician compared to some here at Small Dog Electronics. I have spent more time diagnosing and fixing PCs than Apple Products, so the conversion was a complete one-eighty degree turn for me. I have never attempted to install Windows alongside OS X before, but because of needs here at the ‘office’ and data backup/transfer options, having every tool available is a benefit. That is why I attempted to install Windows alongside my OS X installation. The problem is my personal machine only supports Windows…
WWDC 2013

Stephanie Farrell

1 May 2013 | 2:22 pm

The Worldwide Developers Conference is coming up in San Francisco on June 10-14. Too bad, so sad if you didn’t remember to buy your tickets, because it’s already sold out (whaaat?)! Apple announced the ticket sale time a day in advance instead of selling them the moment they announced details (which made some people in other countries a bit mad) for the annual conference. Last year, tickets sold out in under two hours. So how quickly did they sell out this year? In record time: under two minutes. Bonkers! Each ticket costs $1,599, which is not cheap. But that also means that Apple…
Green Mountain Software Can Write an App for That

Small Dog Blog Admin

23 Apr 2013 | 8:30 am

We have a guest post from the "*developers at Green Mountain Software!*":mailto:john@greenmountainsoftware.com ***** Certainly you've heard the expression: "There's an app for that!" but if there __isn't__ currently an app for that, Green Mountain Software can write one for you. Now located in the Innovation Center in Burlington, Vermont, Green Mountain Software (GMSW) was founded in 1993 by Lou Krieg and his wife, Ann Pettyjohn after attending the '93 MacWorld trade show where the Apple "Newton" was first introduced. Lou and Ann realized that mobile technology was going to be a huge part of…

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Judge: court will likely rule Apple worked to inflate ebook prices

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 7:17 am

In a pre-trial "tentative view," Judge Denise Cote said the U.S Department of Justice will likely be able to prove that Apple colluded with major book publishers to falsely inflate the prices of e-books sold through the iBookstore, reports "Reuters" (http://tinyurl.com/nfw824c). While she stressed that the view was not final and that she had read only some of the evidence so far, her comments could add to pressure on Apple to settle the lawsuit, in which the Justice Department accuses the company and five publishers of conspiring to fix e-book prices, the article adds. read more
Disk Order for Mac OS X gets a Dropbox plug-in

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 6:50 am

LikeMac Group (www.likemac.ru/english/) has released Disk Order 3.2.4, an update of the double-pane file manager for OS X with advanced features. A Dropbox plug-in is now included. It makes it possible to browse through files on a server, download and upload, or even view and edit them. Simple file dropping is also supported. read more
Spatial Infographics Solution comes to ConceptDraw Pro

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:07 am

CS Odessa (www.conceptdraw.com) has introduced a Spatial Infographics Solution for ConceptDraw Pro 9. The new solution permits users to draw professional infographics that orient viewers so they can be self-directed to a point of interest. read more
Kool Tools: Kensington USB 3.0 docking stations, multi-display adapters

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:06 am

Thank you, Kensington. The company has made its line of USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter products compatible with Mac OS X. Now sporting a new DisplayLink driver for the Mac, Kensington’s productivity devices will work with OS X 10.6 and higher. The new compatibility enables Mac users to supplement connectivity to their devices, including MacBook Air, Pro or iMac. Using either of the Kensington USB 3.0 Docking Stations and Multi-Display Adapter, Apple users can now add multiple monitors, use additional USB ports, and leverage Gigabit Ethernet for fast data connection. read…
PDF Nomad 2.0 adds scanning, OCR, more

dsellers

24 May 2013 | 4:04 am

SintraWorks has updated PDF Nomad, a PDF editor for Mac OS X (10.7 and higher), to version 2.0. The upgrade adds scanning, OCR, AppleScript support, automatic page deskewing, bookmarks management and more. PDF Nomad's features include simple text search and extraction, file merging, page splitting, form creation, markup and annotation, booklet/magazine creation and more. You can create and fill out PDF forms, mark-up text and annotate pages with rectangles, ovals, arrows, lines and more. read more

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Free App Friday: Attack of the Knock-Offs Pt. 1

Cody Cardarelli

24 May 2013 | 7:46 am

In the shadow of the dearly departed Skyview Drive-In Theater, Santa Cruz's weekend flea market was another bit of my youth's paradise. Between all of the horrendous and delicious fried foods, and the empty promises of a vegetable chopper destined to make your life more convenient, the true prize would always lay between plastic, cardboard and twist-ties. Some would call them Hero Rangers, Adventure Turtles, or even Chopper Rats from Pluto, but despite their off-paint jobsm they often could provide as much enjoyment as their copy-written cousins. Knock-offs are what make budget-conscious…
Different Drummer Review

David Biedny

24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

One of the most amazing things about the App Store's offerings is the fact that you get so much punch for relatively few bucks; so when a drum app shows up that costs a whopping $49.99, it’s hard to think that it’s truly better than 10 existing $4.99 drum apps combined. While Different Drummer does indeed offer a unique take on the process of laying down a beat, it’s a bit rich at the current price, which is a pity – there's some real innovation to be found here.Different Drummer really lives up to its name: It’s a drummer, alright, but it’s radically different from any other iOS…
AT&T Adding LTE/HSPA+, iPhone Support to GoPhone Prepaid Service

J.R. Bookwalter

24 May 2013 | 5:29 am

AT&T's prepaid GoPhone service and the iPhone have always had a complicated relationship -- mostly because the carrier limited its service to voice and text. But that's about to change at long last.MacRumors reported Thursday that AT&T is about to expand its prepaid GoPhone service, which will now include support for the carrier's 4G LTE and HSPA+ network for the first tim ever.Prepaid and no-contract services have been heating up over the last year or so, particularly now that so many of these carriers now support the iPhone. AT&T has been a curious omission since Apple debuted…
App Recap: 1Password 4 Mac Beta, Units 2.0, Mailbox Goes Universal

J.R. Bookwalter

24 May 2013 | 5:06 am

Whether you use a Mac, iPad or iPhone, the last 24 hours or so have produced some welcome updates to your favorite apps -- including universal support for Mailbox, and signups for the next version of 1Password for Mac.AgileBits announced Thursday that a new beta for the Mac version of 1Password is on the way -- and if you act quickly, you might even be able to help work out any final kinks as a beta tester."We're excited to announce that 1Password 4 for Mac will be released later this year!" the brief newsletter signup page reads. "We are expanding the beta gradually and would love for you to…
Unofficial Google Music App for iOS Adds Support for All Access Subscriptions

J.R. Bookwalter

24 May 2013 | 4:46 am

Google may be the enemy in the eyes of many iOS users, but it's hard to deny the search giant has brought most of its coolest toys to Apple's mobile platform -- so why did it take a third-party app to add support for Google Play Music All Access?Interactive Innovative Solutions LLC released the latest version of its unofficial Google Music app for iOS on Thursday, and gMusic 6.0 is a big one for those looking to take advantage of Google's latest music offering.That's because gMusic is the only iOS app capable of supporting Google Play Music All Access, the search giant's $9.99 per month…

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Apple moves away from Foxconn, Pegatron steps up

EdibleApple

13 May 2013 | 12:56 pm

Cult of Mac reports via Reuters: Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn, has long been Apple’s biggest manufacturing partner, with around 60-70% of its revenue coming from the Cupertino company. But local rival Pegatron is hoping to change that. By offering Apple more competitive prices and sacrificing its profit margins, Pegatron appears to be securing iPhone and iPad assembly orders that would have normally gone straight to Foxconn. What’s more, it’s though that Pegatron will play a big part in manufacturing Apple’s rumored low-cost iPhone after the company announced…
iWork is still alive and kickin’

EdibleApple

13 May 2013 | 12:49 pm

AppleBitch reports: Despite many assumptions to the contrary, it seems that Apple hasn’t forgotten iWork altogether as the company has today posted a job advertisement looking for a software QA engineer to work on the next generation of iWork software. The position advertisement is specifying a software engineer who can ‘work on the next generation of Desktop, Mobile and Web application/services‘. The position appears to be focused on bug detection, isolation and reporting in the iWork suite.
What is Siri grateful for?

EdibleApple

8 May 2013 | 10:27 am

Siri certainly is sassy these days. But on other days, she’s just glad to make it through the boring ole’ 9-5.
More reports that Apple iPhone 5S production will start this June/July

EdibleApple

8 May 2013 | 9:39 am

Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley isn’t the only one with news of Apple’s plans to kick off iPhone 5S production this Summer. We also have a report from Nikkan which notes that displays for Apple’s next-gen iPhone will be manufactured by a trifecta of Sharp, LG, and Japan Display. Sharp also begin in June the mass production of the next model for the liquid crystal panel of the (multi-function mobile phone) smartphone that Apple is planning on. Appears to have embarked on production readiness of consecutive holidays from May Kameyama Plant No. 1 of Apple smartphones LCD…
Apple to release multiple new iPhone models this Summer, says Morgan Stanley

EdibleApple

8 May 2013 | 9:28 am

After returning from a trip abroad in Asia, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty recently wrote in a note to investors that Apple is planning to kick off production on multiple new iPhone models sometime in June or July. If this timeline is, in fact, accurate, that lends more credence to reports that Apple’s next-gen iPhone, and perhaps a low-cost iPhone, will hit store shelves sometime this Fall. In addition to the anticipated iPhone 5 successor, Apple is also rumored to be working on a new low-end iPhone that would be targeted at customers who are not interested in carrier contract…

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CW programming coming to Apple TV, when are others?

Andrew Dodson

16 May 2013 | 5:17 pm

The CW Network said Thursday that its bringing its vampire-loving content to Apple TV — the first broadcast television network to do so. Now the content isn’t live, rather, it will air its programming 24 hours after it [..] Related Posts: HBO Go coming to Apple TV? Can Apple make 99-cent TV shows work? App for voice over Wi-Fi coming to iPhone
New Apple MacBooks coming to WWDC

Andrew Dodson

29 Apr 2013 | 2:53 pm

Tickets to Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference sold out in two minutes. The lucky few who were able to score tickets to the big show can expect to see a completely refreshed MacBook lineup. Not the sexiest or even the most exciting [..] Related Posts: WWDC 2009: Only scalpers have tickets now Is GPU hardware decoding of h.264 enabled on new MacBooks, Pros and Airs by Apple? Apple WWDC rumor roundup
10 Places to Buy Apple Products for Cheap

Andrew Dodson

4 Apr 2013 | 1:05 pm

Who doesn’t love a trip to the Apple retail store? It’s beautiful and if you walk out of the store with an expensive new toy, you leave with a glowing face and a urge to rush home and open it up. You soon find yourself depressed, however, [..] Related Posts: iTunes App Store passes 10,000 products mark Will the iPad hurt other Apple products? Top 10 worst Apple products of the decade? Maybe not
Siri Eyes Free now being advertised

Andrew Dodson

25 Mar 2013 | 3:21 pm

Apple’s in-car technology — “Eyes Free” — that incorporates Siri is now being advertised in national chevy advertisement for its 2013 Sonic. The ad features up-beat music that you would expect from an Apple commercial: “After using the limits of pushing buttons, we’re introducing the button to [..] Related Posts: Expect to see Siri in Mac OS X 10.9 Apple acquires Siri personal assistant Mac OS X 10.9 to integrate Siri and Maps
Apple security hole finally patched

Andrew Dodson

23 Mar 2013 | 11:42 am

Hacking an Apple ID is as simple as knowing a birthdate and email. That’s what was reported this week, and even though Apple has corrected the security problem, it should still raise some eyebrows. The Verge initially reported that the Apple ID login system was compromised, allowing [..] Related Posts: Cupertino warns of Apple Learning Initiative security breach [u] Mac Security Alert: Three vulnerabilities uncovered in Apple iCal 3.0.1; Mac 10.5.1 (Leopard) Is your Mac safe? New Java security vulnerability discovered

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How To: Hide Folders on Your Mac

the rocr

24 May 2013 | 12:35 am

The simple way is (almost) always the best. Whether you want to hide important business documents, or a collection of “adult material,” the method that gets the job done with the least amount of fuss at lowest cost is best. ...The post How To: Hide Folders on Your Mac appeared first on FairerPlatform.
Apple Updates: FujiXerox Drivers, New TV Ad, QuickTime for Windows

the rocr

24 May 2013 | 12:30 am

Tick-tock, the mouse hot footed it up the clock to tell his rodent kin that there are fresh Apple updates for OS X and Windows users, too. For the fairer platform faithful, there are fresh FujiXerox drivers and Apple’s latest ...The post Apple Updates: FujiXerox Drivers, New TV Ad, QuickTime for Windows appeared first on FairerPlatform.
PPC Mac: Skype Cuts Tiger Loose, Flash Player Hack Gets a Bump

the rocr

23 May 2013 | 1:53 pm

Old software and old Macs make for a volatile mix. Fundamentally, if Apple, Skype, Adobe, Facebook and a whole bunch of other developers would just leave well enough, that old PPC Mac running OS X 10.4 would be useful forever. ...The post PPC Mac: Skype Cuts Tiger Loose, Flash Player Hack Gets a Bump appeared first on FairerPlatform.
How To: Use Facebook Chat in Messages

the rocr

23 May 2013 | 11:17 am

Facebook Chat is insanely easy to use — if you’re logged in, it’s available. However, if you use other IM services (i.e. Messages, Google Talk, Yahoo, etc), consolidating them in a single window can be very helpful — here’s how ...The post How To: Use Facebook Chat in Messages appeared first on FairerPlatform.
Mr Cook Goes to Washington: Senate Testimony Video, Transcript

the rocr

21 May 2013 | 11:10 pm

Is Apple a tax scofflaw? Some people seem to think so. However, Apple CEO Tim Cook’s appearance before a US Senate committee looking into the emotionally charged and complicated issue of corporate taxation, or the lack of it, has drawn ...The post Mr Cook Goes to Washington: Senate Testimony Video, Transcript appeared first on FairerPlatform.

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Keep your inbox clean…seriously!

Justin Esgar

9 May 2013 | 7:21 am

Lately we’ve seen a trend amongst higher level employees at companies – they keep every e-mail in their inbox! When we ask them why, their response most of the time was “I need to access old e-mails frequently”. This theory is quickly disproved by showing them they have e-mails from 2005 sitting in their inbox that they never read. So why is a full inbox a bad thing? Both Apple’s Mail.app and Microsoft’s Outlook (née Entourage) both launch into your inbox. If you have a lot of mail there, all that mail has to load each time you launch the app. When you…
Adobe CS is now Adobe CC – all cloud!

Justin Esgar

7 May 2013 | 6:30 am

Adobe’s MAX conference is this week in California. Adobe usually takes this time to show off it’s suite of products that will be coming soon. This year they made a turn that we all saw coming – they are going fully cloud based. Last year Adobe started with Adobe CS 6 Common Cloud edition. Man that’s a mouthful. This year they announced that coming this year will be Adobe Creative Cloud. No more standalone applications to be installed. Creative Suite 6 (the current release) will continue to have some bug fixes but will be the last version of its kind. Adobe’s…
Apple’s smartphone market share near 40%

Justin Esgar

6 May 2013 | 6:41 am

comScore released their quarterly report surveying the smartphone market in the United States. Up 2.7 points in the January-March period from last quarter shows that Apple’s smartphone market share is at 39%, followed by Samsung at 21%. This is only for the iPhone hardware. In iOS software Apple keeps the 39% but Google has 52% of the market. This makes sense as there are WAY more Google OS phones than iPhone’s. comScore smartphone percentages. Since Apple doesn’t license it’s iOS, Apple has a tight control on how the iOS runs on it’s hardware. For those who…
Countdown to 50 Billion app store downloads, and more

Justin Esgar

3 May 2013 | 8:42 am

© thanks for pix itunes The lucky person to download the 50 billionth app in the App Store is going to be one lucky S.O.B. Apple is holding a contest for that person and they will win a $10,000 gift card to Apple. Apple recently crossed the 25 billionth download back in February 2012. Do the math folks. In just over a year another 25 billion apps will have been downloaded. That’s a lot of downloads (and a lot of money for Apple). Apple will give $500 gift cards for the first fifty people to download apps after the 50,000,000,000. So if you are semi-lucky end up being the 50,000,000,043…
MacBook Pro declared best Windows laptop!! and other Apple news

Justin Esgar

2 May 2013 | 6:56 am

The 13″ MacBook Pro has been listed as the “best-performing” Windows laptop based on a “frustration analtic” according to C|Net. As per Soluto who ran the test: “A main factor in this machine’s metrics is the fact that every Windows installation on it is clean. With PC manufacturers loading so much crapware on new laptops, this is a bit of an unfair competition. But, on the other hand, PC makers should look at this data and aspire to ship PCs that perform just as well as a cleanly installed MacBook Pro.” So what was calculated you asked? Well…

Apple Toolbox
Exchange Account: Unable to Verify Information; fix

ATB

23 May 2013 | 10:28 pm

Several users have reported that they are getting the following error message when setting up a work email on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad; to synchronize an iOS device with an Exchange server: ”Exchange Account: Unable to Verify Information”. If you are having this issue, please follow these steps until the issue is addressed: Note: [...]Apple Toolbox
How to delete iCloud backups

ATB

23 May 2013 | 2:50 pm

iCloud lets you store your content (music, photos, apps, contacts, calendars and videos etc.) and automatically push them to all your iOS devices (iPad, iPhone or iPod) and computers (Mac or PC). For various reasons, you may want to delete your iCloud backups. This short article explains how to delete a backup from iCloud: iOS: iPhone, [...]Apple Toolbox
iOS: iCloud backup message won’t go away; fix

ATB

23 May 2013 | 10:03 am

Several users have reported that their devices (iPads or iPhones) are stuck or frozen; while an alert message saying “iCloud Backup. This iPad (or iPhone) hasn’t been back up in two weeks. Backups happen when this iPhone (or iPad) is plugged in, locked and connected to Wi-Fi.” Users have also reported that simply pressing the home [...]Apple Toolbox
How to completely secure your iOS device

ATB

22 May 2013 | 5:15 pm

Criminals have been stealing iPads or iPhones for years. In fact, stealing iOS electronic devices like an iPad or iPhone is becoming more and more common, this has been given a nick name “Apple Picking”. So how can you protect iPhones and iPads from Apple Picking? Keep your iPhone or iPad tucked away out of [...]Apple Toolbox
How to report problems with Apple Maps

ATB

22 May 2013 | 2:00 pm

Is your business missing or your new home is not on the map? There may be some cases where addresses or driving directions might be wrong or locations might be missing. You may easily report problems like this to Apple as you encounter them. You may also correct information about specific locations (e.g. a place on the [...]Apple Toolbox

Apple Laptops
MacBook Air – Is Apple Phasing It Out?

B. Kibsgaard

19 May 2013 | 6:06 am

The post MacBook Air – Is Apple Phasing It Out? appeared first on Apple Laptops.It is a while since Apple updated their MacBook Air lineup and supply at various resellers aorund the world are getting low. Usually this means that Apple is currently planning to refresh the product line. Some rumours say that Apple is going to release a refresh at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which starts on June 10. The MacBook Air and the thirteen inch Retina MacBook Pro have some similarities but due to the premium price Apple demands for their prodcts I still think there is a place for…
Build Your Own Mac Pro, With GeForce GTX TITAN

B. Kibsgaard

30 Apr 2013 | 11:17 am

The post Build Your Own Mac Pro, With GeForce GTX TITAN appeared first on Apple Laptops.When Apple switched over to Intel it spawned a community where modders / and DYIers began modifying OS X so it works on regular boring PC hardware. When this “movement” started and was in its infancy the methods to install OS X on a regular computer was complicated at best and not something you would take on if the interest wasn’t there. However during the years this process of installing OS X on regular hardware has become a much easier task. If you can read instructions, buy the right…
HowTo Delete iPhone Photos On Your iOS Device All At Once

B. Kibsgaard

14 Apr 2013 | 10:39 am

The post HowTo Delete iPhone Photos On Your iOS Device All At Once appeared first on Apple Laptops.After transferring all videos and images from my iPhone I wanted to get some space back so I was looking for a way to delete iPhone photos from the camera roll. In my opinion Apple should add a feature where you can do this directly in the phone without having to manually select each image / video. Apparently it isn’t possible at this moment. You need to physically connect your iOS device directly to a computer. In OS X it is easy. Just open the app called Image Capture (it is included…
OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion and Retina MacBook Pro SMC Update

B. Kibsgaard

17 Mar 2013 | 2:02 am

The post OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion and Retina MacBook Pro SMC Update appeared first on Apple Laptops.10.8.3 and rMBP SMC update finally fixes isses with 15 – inch Retina MacBook Pro. If you don’t know already Apple have released some updates that probably would make retina MacBook Pro users very happy. At least it did for me because it fixed some annoying problems with my rMBP. First of all the 10.8.3 update fixes some annoying software bugs like stuttering audio and graphic glitches and flickering browsing some websites. Also problems regarding sleep & shutdown, Windows 8…
iOS 6.x Jailbreak (iPhone 5: Yep) Available Now

B. Kibsgaard

4 Feb 2013 | 9:22 am

The post iOS 6.x Jailbreak (iPhone 5: Yep) Available Now appeared first on Apple Laptops. The wait for Jailbreaking your iOS 6 device is now over. evad3rs have released their evasi0n – iOS 6.x Jailbreak after some testing. The jailbreak opens up for fiddling with your iOS device in any way you want. Also for you iPhone 5 owners out there. This is a untethered version meaning the jailbreak will still work if you reboot your device. At the moment it supports the following devices: iPhone 5 iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS iPad 4 iPad 3 iPad 2 iPad mini iPod touch 5 iPod touch 4 Apple TV 2…

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Siri a smarter assistant!

24 May 2013 | 2:57 am

Introduced in fall 2011, Siri was the major novelty of the iPhone 4S. This voice assistant then beta should evolve to become more intelligent, but it is clear that we are far off. Spring 2013, Siri... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Evoluent Vertical 4, a special Mac mouse!

22 May 2013 | 11:53 am

The Apple Store sells exclusively the Evoluent Vertical 4 for Mac. Little known on this side of the Atlantic, the Evoluent mouse are known for their ergonomics. With their unusual shapes, they avoid... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Flickr offers 1TB of storage now!

22 May 2013 | 11:36 am

Flickr is one of the Yahoo! site dedicated to sharing photos and it has just now received a significant update. All its users are now entitled to 1 TB of storage for their photos, which can store... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Enterprise Information Technology

21 May 2013 | 12:20 am

Reliable service providers have been in operation since 1992 in producing customized solution with amazing results in video, voice, data cyber security, enterprise information technology, etc. with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
IPhone 5S with new iOS 7 soon available!

16 May 2013 | 7:05 am

According to information from insiders, the new iPhone 5S will be available as early as July and included iOS7 be delivered. Apple wants to offer its mobile system updated more frequently in a year,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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iPhone App – CryFace

Ben Lingen

16 May 2013 | 12:37 pm

I have a ton of pictures on my phone because I take pictures of friends, animals, nature, and of course my family. One of the reasons I love to take pictures on my phone is that my iPhone is loaded with applications that let me tweak and adjust pictures at will. I can make [...]Related posts:Using the iPad as a Digital Picture Frame Nothing is as precious in life as to keeping memories,...Share All Your iPhone Pictures on Facebook One of the great things about the iPhone is the...iPhone Photo Sharing If you own an iPhone and love sharing photos, than...
App Review: Dash and Bash

Ben Lingen

7 May 2013 | 9:33 am

Game apps are difficult to get right. Some are too easy while others are too hard or lack interesting context to keep you playing. However when I come across a game which gets it right I’m hooked for hours. Dash & Bash is a game that got me hooked. It’s an amazingly inviting game that [...]Related posts:iPad App Review: Turtle World We love it here at Maciverse when developers ask us...App Review: Musaic I love to do puzzles and I really like to...Augmented Reality Star Wars Arrives on the iPhone Besides Apple Products two topics that always seem to grab...
Tales of Pirates for iOS

Ben Lingen

23 Apr 2013 | 7:05 pm

As a parent I am always working to make my kids happy while at the same time hoping that the happiness I bring them includes a bit of learning and discovery. One thing that is great about the iPhone and iPad is that the apps developed on them are often fun and educational. “Tales [...]Related posts:An a-MAZE-ing App Its not every day that you come across a beautiful...App Review: Countdown Timer+ As a parent and a teacher with poor time management...Ultimate Productivity App Showdown: Things If OmniFocus is the fabled king of the productivity world...
App Review: Picerty

Ben Lingen

22 Apr 2013 | 12:26 pm

I am not what you would call an organized individual. I love my family and love taking pictures of them but struggle to figure out the best way to organize them and which ones I should share with the world. One of the things I struggle with most is trying to figure out how to [...]Related posts:iPad – A Digital Photo Frame Apple has always been good at combining multiple electronic devices...iPad App Review: WhiteNote When Apple announced the iPad the focused on the device...Using the iPad as a Digital Picture Frame Nothing is as precious in life as to keeping memories,...
Motion Backgrounds – Sandy Beach 3D

Dan Hinckley

18 Apr 2013 | 8:44 pm

About 8 months ago I moved my family down to Florida. One of the best things about living down in a tropical climate is being just a few minutes away from the beach at all times. I love finding excuses to work outside, especially during the winter months, and I’m not above sharing pictures of [...]Related posts:OS X Lion – Spaces & Different Desktop Backgrounds We’ve had the opportunity to spend the last few weeks...OS X Lion: Initial Likes & Dislikes Its been a little over a week since Apple officially...

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5 Mac OS X Accessability Featurers & Tips

admin

15 May 2013 | 5:33 pm

Since I know you all live to find ways to tweak those OS X devices, the below few tweaks lifts up those hidden rocks that are normally left alone. The Accessibility panel of System Preferences is one of them. 1. Change the cursor size OS X Change Cursor Size A very common use for Mac’s is to hook them up to big screen or even TV screens to consume media, an issue that can occur unless you have superman vision is that the minute cursor is hard to follow and control. Well you can change the size of the cursor making it any size that suits form a little bigger to massive. Go to Apple Menu >…
How Do I Run Android Apps on Mac OS X Desktop

admin

13 May 2013 | 7:54 pm

Have you ever wanted to run Andorid Apps on the Mac OS X, just like an regular application, hell yea, I hear you say. Well ofcourse, Android has a huge marketplace full of excellent Apps that would be great to run on MacBooks and any Mac computer. Instructions Thank fully there are a growing number of excellent Android apps, and these can easily be run on Mac. Here’s how: Good to know, that there are a great number of cool Android apps that can be run on the Mac. See below for detailed instructions on how to get this going … First we need to: 1.) Download and install Bluestack. 2.) We…
Watch Netflix on your Apple TV, Ipad, iPhone in Any Country including Australia and New Zealand

admin

12 May 2013 | 5:06 pm

So, I need to come clean. I have had Netflix setup on my Apple TV for the last month and, love it! The way a TV should truly be enjoyed, fully on demand and with no ads. Best of all it’s only $7.99 a month. Netflix Signup Despite the above plug, the purpose of this article is not to evaluate Netflix. I will let you do that for yourself. I will just leave this topic saying you may very well start looking for an article on how to setup Hulu Plus. I have foudn that Netflix is great for older achive content and Hulu Plus is latest up to the minute shows. So to be frank, “pirating” is a…
iPhone 5S Features: Whispering Birdies say Possible Finger Print Security and NFC

admin

12 May 2013 | 4:40 am

The next Apple smartphone prove to be one of the most secure and have stronger mobile security, says a PayPal executive. According to MacWorld, PayPal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett believes the end of passwords is imminent. “Passwords, when used ubiquitously everywhere at Internet scale are starting to fail us,” he said during a keynote speech at Interop. Barret noted that the next Apple smartphone, whether it is the iPhone 5S or iPhone 6, will provide better security. iphone-5 “It’s widely rumored that a large technology provider in Cupertino,…
New to the iTunes App Store: Amazon Cloud Drive Photos for iOS Devices

admin

10 May 2013 | 10:55 pm

Cloud computing is changing the way we operate and this new launch by Amazon is surely to consider. Amazon has just launched it’s new iOS app, Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, the app lets you upload your photos to Cloud Drive. So if you’re looking for a new solution to back up your iPhone’s photos to the cloud and access them on other devices, ie not only Apple devices Amazon has a new solution for you. Amazon Cloud Photo The app works across both iPad or iPhone and will store 5GB of images for free, which is pretty standard and the same as majority of free cloud storage services such as…

AppleSlut.com
Analyst Says We Won’t Have The iWatch Until 2014

Craig

23 May 2013 | 4:57 pm

Earlier this week, another iWatch rumor surfaced saying Apple’s wearable tech could have a 1.5-inch OLED panel and would be available later this year. But...This post taken from http://AppleSlut.com
The iWatch To Have A 1.5-Inch OLED Screen?

Craig

22 May 2013 | 5:05 pm

Aside from the iTV, Apple has another pet project-on-the-side which has garnered a lot of attention and its own set of speculations from the rumor...This post taken from http://AppleSlut.com
Production Of Lightweight 5th Gen iPad Slated For July?

Craig

21 May 2013 | 4:56 pm

We’re off to a rumored-filled week today as the speculations for Apple’s next gen iPad (making it the 5th) claim that our favorite firm from...This post taken from http://AppleSlut.com
SemiRestore: Restore Your iDevice Without Losing Your Jailbreak

Craig

20 May 2013 | 4:33 pm

Jailbreaking is perhaps the most popular thing most people do after buying themselves an iDevice. A jailbroken iDevice is a lot more fun than a...This post taken from http://AppleSlut.com
Royalty For Skipped Songs: A Problem Between Apple and Sony/Warner Music?

Craig

18 May 2013 | 5:59 pm

Long rumored Apple music streaming iRadio may have hit another stumbling block and may not launch during next month’s WWDC as Sony finds Apple’s royalty...This post taken from http://AppleSlut.com

Friends of Mac
Mastering iCloud On Your Mac | Cult of Mac

FriendsofMac

5 May 2013 | 4:28 am

iCloud is a pretty neat system, working in the background across a ton of different apps without much input needed from us users, except our login name and password. It lets you sync Notes, Reminders, save documents, keep game saved-states, and even manage your music collection Track Your Notes With iCloud I still like Stickies, but Notes synced via iCloud may actually be better. I’ve been a big fan of Apple’s Stickies app since way back in System 7.5. It’s great to be able to have a little floating place to type notes and keep track of things right on the Mac, without having to resort…
WWDC 2013 Set For June 10-14 | Redmond Pie

FriendsofMac

24 Apr 2013 | 11:59 am

Apple has just officially announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, recognized most frequently as WWDC, will be commencing from the week of June 10th, 2013. Usually, WWDC is the occasion for the Cupertino company’s major announcements, and with various reports suggesting some major releases this year, products unveiled could range from new iPhones, iPads, Macs, and perhaps even that elusive iWatch. As ever, there’ll be 100 technical sessions running through the week, presented by in excess of 1,000 Apple engineers, offering both iOS and OS X developers a great…
Apple Expands Mac Accessory Line To Over 4,700 US Radio Shacks | 9to5Mac

FriendsofMac

21 Apr 2013 | 5:28 pm

Radio Shack, a US retailler with over 4,700 US locations, has expanded its lineup of Apple products online and in stores. While Radio Shack has long carried iOS devices and accessories including Apple’s Wireless Keyboard, the retail chain is now offering Mac specific accessories including Wired keyboards, Mice/Trackpads, Magsafe power adapters, video adapter/cables and more. The additions were first noticed by MacRumors. The move follows Apple’s addition of Staples to it’s stable earlier this year and the combined total of new places to find these items near 6,500 locations in the…
Todays Apps Gone Free: Acting Out, Run A 5K, Little Red Hen And More | AppAdvice

FriendsofMac

21 Apr 2013 | 3:24 pm

Play video charades at your own pace with Interconnected Gaming’s turn-based game, Acting Out! We also have a fitness app that will help you achieve a 5K distance, and an interactive storybook app that tells the tale of a Little Red Hen. All app prices are subject to change at any time and without notice regardless of stated free duration. Price changes are solely under the control of the developers. iPhone: Run a 5K! 7-Week Training Plan, GPS & Running Tips by Red Rock Apps ($2.99 → Free, 28.5 MB): Not much of a runner but want to achieve a 5K distance? Then this is the fitness app…
How To Supercharge The Stock Camera App On iPad With Advanced Features | Redmond Pie

FriendsofMac

20 Apr 2013 | 7:38 pm

It’s debatable whether using an iPad as a camera is really all that of a good idea, but that doesn’t stop people from doing it, still. There isn’t a major event that goes by without there being some video footage of someone either filming it or taking photos of it with an iPad. So, if you do insist on using a 10-inch camera, then the least you can do is make the best of it. That’s why jailbreak tweak CameraTweak HD is so interesting, and if you’re a secret tablet photographer, then you’ll want to check it out. Available to download for $0.99 from Cydia right now, CameraTweak…

AppLecture: Apple News and Rumors
Visage Lab – a Portable Beauty Laboratory for Facial Photos

Michael Wilson

30 Apr 2013 | 12:33 am

While browsing through the App Store, you can find plenty of photo editing apps. Though they allow editing photos with multiple tools, filters and effects, not many of them are able to retouch portraits. Welcome an app that lets you ...
Don’t Assume Your Mac is Safe From Malware

Chris Warren

29 Apr 2013 | 1:27 pm

“I’m buying a Mac,” your friend tells you. “Macs don’t get viruses.” As anyone who has felt the panic that comes with realizing their PC is infected with malware can tell you, the lure of a virtually virus-proof Apple product ...
Reasons to Get Rid of Your Old Blackberry Phones

Chris Warren

25 Apr 2013 | 5:27 am

There is no denying that mobile phones have become a ‘must-have’ item for today’s busy lifestyles. From teenagers to the over 60s, whether it’s for work or leisure, owning and using a mobile phone has become second nature. But what ...
The 3 Benefits of Using a Recruitment Agency for IT Job Ads

Chris Warren

24 Apr 2013 | 6:36 am

When you are interested in filling an open IT job, using job ads can be a good way to find applicants. While you could try to do the job ads yourself, it may be in your best interest to hire ...
Signature – Protect Your Information with a Signature

Sung

16 Apr 2013 | 4:47 am

Do you have a collection of photos, texts and notes on your smartphone? Are you looking for ways to keep them safe, away from people who like to snoop around? Your phone offers many options to protect your personal data. ...

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