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  • Final Cut Pro X wins PC Magazine's 'Editor's Choice'

    MacNN
    8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am
    Final Cut Pro X, a radical re-thinking of professional video editing that initially sparked more a revolt than the revolution Apple intended, has gone on to win PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice" award after a review of the program and the features restored and improved by its third free update. The latest version, released at the very end of January, restored multi-cam editing, broadcast monitoring and richer XML support to the suite, enabling Final Cut Pro 7 projects and third-party plug-ins. In doing so, it has begun to silence its critics....

  • Georges Clooney is Mac guy. What else?

    Mac Amour
    Hedi Regaya
    21 Jan 2012 | 6:46 am
    What else? Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

  • 'Battlefield 3: Aftershock' Hits the US App Store for Free

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    Jared Nelson
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    EA announced an iOS version of the latest console release of their massively popular Battlefield franchise way back in August of last year. Since then, we've gone hands on with early preview versions of the game this past October and again the following month. At both events the game felt extremely early in development, and despite Battlefield 3 launching on consoles in late October, EA really didn't seem to have any idea when the iOS version would hit. And then today, pretty much out of nowhere, Battlefield 3: Aftershock [Free] popped up in the US App Store. Unfortunately, early impressions…

  • Apple Brings Lion Internet Recovery to More 2010 Macs

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    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:44 pm
    Apple today released a series of three EFI firmware updates bringing Lion Internet Recovery to the company's Late 2010 MacBook Air, Mid-2010 iMac, and Early 2010 MacBook Pro. Available firmware updates include: - MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3 (2.98 MB):This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Air (Late 2010) models and addresses an issue where the system could restart if the power button is pressed immediately after waking from deep sleep.- iMac EFI Update 1.8 (3.02 MB):This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on iMac (Mid 2010)…

  • Best Browsers for iPad Other Than Safari

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    William Taylor
    6 Feb 2012 | 12:05 am
    Read online at AppleSlut.com iPad is a mobile internet browsing device. The shape, design and ease of use make surfing the Internet on this device easier in comparison to a laptop. The Safari browser appears to be lacking in certain features that many iPad users would like to see. The following are iPad browser apps that can prove fabulous alternatives to Safari. 1. SkyFire Web Browser for iPad ($4.99) | Download Apple does not allow Adobe Flash applications on the iPad.  SkyFire Browser for iPad is one exception to this rule. SkyFire proves unique with the browser allowing users to view…
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    MacNN

  • Nokia cuts 4,000 smartphone factory jobs, moves them to Asia

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:30 am
    Nokia showed the toughening conditions of the smartphone field on Wednesday after it detailed plans to cut 4,000 manufacturing jobs. Positions both in its home territory factory in Salo, Finland, as well as in Komarom, Hungary and Reynosa, Mexico, would be eliminated by the end of 2012. Smartphone production would be moving more towards Asia, where it wouldn't just be cheaper to make devices, but faster....

  • Sprint sells 1.8m iPhones, gets best adds since 2005

    8 Feb 2012 | 6:50 am
    Sprint on Wednesday revealed a huge upswing in subscriber additions through its inaugural quarter of iPhone sales. It sold 1.8 million iPhones during the fall, 40 percent of which went to people new to the network. Apple's device was almost single-handedly responsible for returning Sprint to performance it hasn't seen in years: at 1.6 million net new subscribers, it saw the most adds since 2005 and had set a new high for its customer base at 55 million....

  • Hands-on: Sony Walkman Z and Balanced Armature headphones

    8 Feb 2012 | 5:25 am
    Electronista has had the opportunity to go hands-on with the forthcoming Sony Walkman Z Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) media player and its core range of high-end Balanced Armature in-ear headphones. Although both product lines were announced late last year, due to the natural disasters in Japan and Thailand, Sony are only now in a position to bring them to the US and other markets. We came away impressed, but particularly with the new Balanced Armature earphones, which are the best in-ear headphones Sony has released....

  • Final Cut Pro X wins PC Magazine's 'Editor's Choice'

    8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am
    Final Cut Pro X, a radical re-thinking of professional video editing that initially sparked more a revolt than the revolution Apple intended, has gone on to win PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice" award after a review of the program and the features restored and improved by its third free update. The latest version, released at the very end of January, restored multi-cam editing, broadcast monitoring and richer XML support to the suite, enabling Final Cut Pro 7 projects and third-party plug-ins. In doing so, it has begun to silence its critics....

  • Apple goes to Euro telecom authority seeking FRAND clarity

    8 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am
    Apple approached the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in November seeking clarification on what it says is a lack of "consistent policy" on how manufacturers can license and set royalty rates on patents used by mobile devices. The tech giant, which has been sued and is suing several companies worldwide over patent issues, called for ETSI to develop clear, transparent rules and policy particularly with regards to so-called FRAND licensing, which in several cases is the core of Apple's argument, reports The Wall Street Journal....
 
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    TidBITS

  • Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.4

    7 Feb 2012 | 2:27 pm
    Long list of new features, bugs, and tweaks highlighted by support for archiving Lion Recovery HD partition and cloning a Lion installation disk image. (Free update, 6.0 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.

  • ChronoSync 4.3 and ChronoAgent 1.3

    7 Feb 2012 | 2:27 pm
    Refines connections between ChronoSync and ChronoAgent with SSL encryption, plus additional new features. ($40 new for ChronoSync, $10 new for ChronoAgent; free updates; 29 MB, 8.1 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.

  • Audio Hijack Pro 2.10.1

    6 Feb 2012 | 1:36 pm
    Includes latest version of Instant On component for pulling audio from sandboxed application from the Mac App Store. ($32 new, free update, 5.2 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.

  • 50%-Off Sale on All Take Control Ebooks

    6 Feb 2012 | 12:09 pm
    To celebrate the introduction of Bookle, our new EPUB reader for Mac OS X, we’re having a 50-percent-off sale on all ebooks in the Take Control catalog through 15 February 2012. It’s a great opportunity to stock up on EPUBs for reading in Bookle. 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…

  • Introducing Bookle, an EPUB Reader for Mac OS X

    6 Feb 2012 | 11:58 am
    We’ve branched out from ebooks into software with Bookle, a Mac OS X application for reading DRM-free EPUBs that we developed in collaboration with our friend Peter Lewis of Stairways Software. It’s a straightforward EPUB reader that maintains a library of your EPUBs. 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…
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    RoughlyDrafted Magazine

  • Radio: Windows Phone 8, Android

    danieleran
    5 Feb 2012 | 12:46 am
    Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about Windows Phone 8 and Android. Also on the show are Peter Cohen and Jim Dalrymple of The Loop and Rich Sloan of StartUp Nation You can tune into the live broadcast stream Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Pacific, 10:00 PM to 1:00 [...]

  • Video: Weekend Tech Review: Macworld Week 4 2012

    danieleran
    29 Jan 2012 | 2:49 am
    Here’s a video recap of the top tech stories involving Apple for the fourth week of 2012, including a look at Apple’s earnings, Macworld, product news, the week’s business stories, and upcoming events. You can also follow us on Twitter: @appleinsider and @DanielEran.

  • Video: Weekend Tech Review: iBooks Event Week 3 2012

    danieleran
    22 Jan 2012 | 2:29 pm
    Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s a video recap of the top tech stories involving Apple for the third week of 2012, including a look at Apple’s iBooks Event, product news, the week’s business stories, and upcoming events. You can also follow us on Twitter: @appleinsider and @DanielEran. Weekend Tech Review: iBooks Author Week 3 Jan 2012 – YouTube

  • Radio: CES 2012 and the tech industry

    danieleran
    20 Jan 2012 | 5:46 pm
    Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about CES 2012 and efforts by Intel, AMD, ARM, Apple, and Google. Also on the show are Kirk McElhearn of Macworld and Rob Pegoraro of USAToday. You can tune into the live broadcast stream Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00 PM Pacific, 10:00 PM to [...]

  • Shit Tech Guys Say

    danieleran
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:38 am
    Daniel Eran Dilger Shit tech guys say
 
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    TUAW

  • Daily iPhone App: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective scares up some fun

    Mike Schramm
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    I've been waiting for this one for a while. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a title that won accolades on the Nintendo DS last year, and it's now arrived on iOS in a universal version (that's free to download to boot). The idea is that you're a ghostly "phantom detective" who must solve his own murder. You can't directly interact with the living, but you can mess with inanimate objects in their world. So move objects around and try to change the fate of other dead people. It sounds morbid, but there's a fun sense of humor and style that keep it entertaining. The first two chapters are free…

  • EFI Firmware Update brings Lion Internet Recovery to 2010-model Macs

    Chris Rawson
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:30 pm
    Apple has released three EFI Firmware Updates for 2010-model Macs, including the iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. This update enables Lion Internet Recovery on those older Macs. Introduced in OS X Lion alongside the mid-2011 updates to the MacBook Air and Mac mini, Internet Recovery enables access to disk repair or OS X Lion installation options via a broadband internet connection. This is intended for use on a failed hard drive or a blank drive that's never had OS X installed on it. Together with a series of earlier firmware updates, all Macs introduced from 2010 onward now have access to…

  • Mass Effect 3 getting an iOS game

    Mike Schramm
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Mass Effect 2 got its own iOS game when it was released on the traditional consoles a few years ago, and since Mass Effect 3 is due out in another month or so here, you probably won't be surprised to hear that EA is again planning another iOS game tie-in for the release. This time around, though, it sounds like they're doing it a little more intelligently. The last game focused on the first companion you met in the full console game, telling a little bit about his backstory through a pretty straightforward (and honestly, kind of boring) action game. This time around, the iOS title will again…

  • VP of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman leaves Apple

    Mike Schramm
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:00 pm
    David Tupman, the VP of iPhone and iPod Engineering at Apple, made his exit from Cupertino at the end of last year, according to reports at 9to5Mac. Tupman, who grew up in the UK, has a background in engineering, and has been in the position ever since the introduction of the first iPod, all the way up through the release of the iPhone 4. It's unknown where Tupman is headed next -- it's rumored that he may be headed to work on Nest with another former Apple Engineer, Tony Fadell, but Nest denies those rumors. As for Apple, it'll be fine, of course. A company doing as well as Apple will likely…

  • VooMote Zapper universal remote for iOS: A first look and a rant

    Steven Sande
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:30 pm
    Zero1.tv has released its new VooMote Zapper (US$69.95) universal remote for iOS devices into the wild, and it's also now in your nearby Apple Store. I had an opportunity to try the new device out over the last week, and while less expensive and smaller than the VooMote One remote we mentioned at its release last last year, the Zapper still seems to have some of the same issues that many other iOS remotes have. First, the good news. The tiny Zapper plugs into the 30-pin Universal Dock port on the bottom of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. As such, it's able to provide the infrared…
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    MacRumors

  • Apple to Stream Live Paul McCartney Concert to iTunes and Apple TV

    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:18 pm
    Apple today announced that it will be supporting Paul McCartney's new album release with a special free video stream of a live concert on Thursday, February 9 [iTunes Store]. The concert is not only being streamed via iTunes on Mac and PC, but will also be available directly on users' Apple TVs, signaling new efforts by Apple to increase the utility of its set-top box.To celebrate the release of Paul McCartney's latest album — available now — we're streaming his exclusive performance at Capitol Studios on February 9 at 7 p.m. (PST). Watch the concert on iTunes on your computer, or stream…

  • Apple Brings Lion Internet Recovery to More 2010 Macs

    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:44 pm
    Apple today released a series of three EFI firmware updates bringing Lion Internet Recovery to the company's Late 2010 MacBook Air, Mid-2010 iMac, and Early 2010 MacBook Pro. Available firmware updates include: - MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3 (2.98 MB):This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Air (Late 2010) models and addresses an issue where the system could restart if the power button is pressed immediately after waking from deep sleep.- iMac EFI Update 1.8 (3.02 MB):This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on iMac (Mid 2010)…

  • Apple Board Has Been "Considering" Dividends and Buybacks Since 2005

    Jordan Golson
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Much has been made of the recent comment by Apple CEO Tim Cook that the Apple board of directors has been "actively discussing" what to do with its enormous cash pile. Some see it as a sign that Apple will soon pay a dividend or initiate a share buyback program -- except Apple's board has been discussing what to do with its cash for nearly 7 years. MacRumors went through Seeking Alpha's entire Apple earnings call transcript history to find out what Apple has been saying about the likelihood of a dividend. Between July of 2005 and October of 2010, Apple execs had very little to say about what…

  • iPad's Momentum in Restaurants Grows with Buffalo Wild Wings Trial

    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:28 pm
    Ever since the iPad was introduced two years ago, its potential to revolutionize the restaurant industry has been widely touted, with some restaurants already moving to replace their traditional point-of-sale devices with iPads and companies such as Square seeking to fill that need. And while iPads in restaurants have been catching on here and there, the concept could be ripe for major expansion if a pilot program from restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings proves worthwhile. As detailed by Computerworld, Buffalo Wild Wings is expanding an initial pilot program at one of its Toronto area…

  • Apple Faces Potential $38 Million Fine in China as $1.6 Billion Lawsuit Over 'iPad' Trademark Proceeds

    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:57 am
    iSmashPhone summarizes a pair of reports from China claiming that Apple is facing a potential 240 million yuan ($38 million) fine from governmental authorities over alleged trademark infringement involving the "iPad" name. The fine pales, however, in comparison to the $1.6 billion Proview Technology, which claims to own the name, is seeking to win in a series of lawsuits filed against Apple. Proview is also said to be seeking an apology from Apple and an injunction preventing the company from using the iPad name in China. Proview first accused Apple of trademark infringement back in…
 
 
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    MacTech News

  • Zevrix releases Output Factory for InDesign

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:02 am
    Zevrix Solutions has announced Output Factory 1.0, its new solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. It's available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.7 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CS5.5. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign, and is anupgrade of the company's BatchOutput plug-in. In addition to the output of multiple files, single page export and variable file names, Output Factory offers array of new solutions, such as layer versioning, preflighting, workflow presets and processing history. read more

  • New ebook lets you 'Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion'

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:58 am
    TidBits has released "Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion," an US$10, 103-page ebook by Glenn Fleishman. It offers the latest advice on screen sharing with iChat, Back to My Mac, the Screen Sharing application in Mac OS X, and Skype, and describes the current versions of iTeleport and LogMeIn, iOS apps that let you run your Mac remotely by tapping and dragging. Although this new edition has "Lion" in the title, it is also the go-to Take Control ebook for questions about screen sharing with users of 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. read more

  • Canon introduces three new all-in-one printers

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:33 am
    Canon U.S.A. (http://www.usa.canon.com) has announced the addition of three Pixma Office printers to the lineup: the MX512 Wireless1 All-In-One (AIO), MX432 Wireless1 AIO and the MX372 AIO.  Available for both new wireless models is the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint mobile app, for use with compatible Apple and Android smart phones and tablets, allowing documents  to be scanned on the printer and sent directly to a compatible device. Users can print PDFs of documents that were created with the app directly from compatible devices, whereas in the past only photos could be printed.  read more

  • Timesheets for Mac OS X gets project expense tracking

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 5:46 am
    Senomix Software has released Senomix Timesheets 4.1, an update to their Mac OS X and Windows time tracking system. The new version adds project expense tracking and employee expense claim entry. With the addition of expense tracking, Senomix Timesheets can now be used to record project costs through the same networked applications provided to track employee effort hours. The software enables both in-office and off-site employees to track effort and expenses directly from their computers. read more

  • Analyst: Apple has 80% of mobile profits

    dsellers
    7 Feb 2012 | 4:23 pm
    In a note to clients -- as reported by "Barron's" (http://macte.ch/qVPgC) -- Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt, says that, after looking at data from all makers of phones who have reported for the quarter so far, "Apple simply dominated Q4:11 handset/mobile computing trends." He adds that Apple now accounts for nearly 50% of the revenues of the entire industry and over 80% of the profits by his calculation. McCourt notes that global mobile computing revenue rose 34% with Apple’s results included, but sagged 0.4% in the fourth quarter when Apple is taken out of the picture.
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    Touch Arcade

  • Indie Arcade Racer 'Ignite' Heading from Steam to iOS

    Jared Nelson
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    Ignite is an indie arcade racer released on Steam last October, and developer Nemesys Games has sent word that a port to iOS is currently in progress. I haven't tried Ignite myself just yet, but I've heard good things. It's your typical stylish arcade racer, but has an interesting twist where you can earn points for pulling off fancy driving maneuvers, stunts, and destruction. Once you've earned 1000 points, you can use it immediately to gain an advantage in the race or you can save it until the end and get a time bonus instead. Ignite features 3 different modes, 35 circuits across 7…

  • 'Battlefield 3: Aftershock' Hits the US App Store for Free

    Jared Nelson
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    EA announced an iOS version of the latest console release of their massively popular Battlefield franchise way back in August of last year. Since then, we've gone hands on with early preview versions of the game this past October and again the following month. At both events the game felt extremely early in development, and despite Battlefield 3 launching on consoles in late October, EA really didn't seem to have any idea when the iOS version would hit. And then today, pretty much out of nowhere, Battlefield 3: Aftershock [Free] popped up in the US App Store. Unfortunately, early impressions…

  • 'Mass Effect Infiltrator' And Mass Effect Datapad Slated For iOS

    Brad Nicholson
    7 Feb 2012 | 3:17 pm
    So, Mass Effect is returning to the iPhone. At a recent EA event, the publisher passed around a pamphlet announcing Mass Effect Infiltrator for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad. In a nutshell, it's a third-person shooter featuring universe's trimmings, and it will apparently tie into Mass Effect 3's Galaxy At War component. EA also announced a companion app called Mass Effect Datapad, but revealed nothing about it except its platform: iPad. On to what we know then. In Infiltrator , you'll "help free prisoners from a hostile Cerberus base" and receive rewards as you gather evidence of…

  • 'Paper Monsters' Wants You This Valentine's Day

    Brad Nicholson
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:13 pm
    If you don't have someone to curl up to this Valentine's Day, you might want to consider snuggling with your iPad instead. It doesn't have skin or emotion or whatever, sure, but it'll have plenty to give you over the holiday stretch. For example, Paper Monsters [$.99] has received a themed update in celebration, adding an entirely new level pack and decidedly less romantic, but necessary bug fixes and level tweaks. Of course, Paper Monsters won't be the only title receiving an update like this: in the past, most "big" games, like Angry Birds or Cut The Rope, have received a little nod to the…

  • 'Reckless Racing 2' Review – A Bold Sequel With Another First-place Finish

    Eric Ford
    7 Feb 2012 | 9:45 am
    When Reckless Racing [$0.99 / HD] hit the scene back in October 2010, we praised it for the incredible top-down racing experience it offered. Now, the folks at Pixelbite Games are back again with Reckless Racing 2 [$4.99], the long awaited sequel to this arcade racer. Improving on nearly every facet of its predecessor, Reckless Racing 2 is hands-down one of the top arcade racers I’ve ever played and is well worth the price of admission. From a presentation standpoint, Reckless Racing 2 makes some significant changes in comparison to its predecessor. Gone are the country themes present in…
 
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    MacFixIt

  • Apple knowledgebase Web pages not loading in Safari

    Topher Kessler
    7 Feb 2012 | 4:55 pm
    Apple's knowledgebase articles have not been loading properly for some Safari users.

  • Boot argument options in OS X

    Topher Kessler
    7 Feb 2012 | 4:14 pm
    The OS X boot arguments are useful for troubleshooting problems with system startup and how the system behaves when running.

  • Purge the OS X disk cache to analyze memory usage

    Topher Kessler
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:01 pm
    The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using.

  • Apple fixes Rosetta problems with new security update

    Topher Kessler
    3 Feb 2012 | 8:29 pm
    Apple has released a new version of its Security Update for Snow Leopard, which fixes the Rosetta bugs caused by the first release.

  • Q&A: MacFixIt Answers

    Topher Kessler
    3 Feb 2012 | 4:46 pm
    Where can you get new feet for a MacBook system, and what can you do when Mail's toolbar suddenly disappears? Here we answer these and other questions from MacFixIt readers.
 
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    MacStories

  • Sprint Q4 2011 Results: 1.8 Million iPhones Sold, 45% Of New Customers Bought iPhone

    Graham Spencer
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:59 am
    Sprint has just announced their Q4 2011 financial results, revealing that they sold 1.8 million iPhones. 40% of those iPhones sold were to new Sprint customers, a high percentage and one that was needed for Sprint. After continued losses, Sprint needed to add more customers to its network and in Q4 it achieved 1.6 million new users – meaning 45% of those new subscribers signed up with an iPhone. “Our strong fourth quarter performance illustrates the power of matching iconic devices like the iPhone with our simple, unlimited plans and industry-leading customer experience,”…

  • Evernote For iOS Gets Some Nice Improvements In 4.1.8 Update

    Graham Spencer
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:58 pm
    The Evernote iOS app today got a little bit better with 4.1.8 update, bringing some nice additions and improvements. We’re big fans of Evernote here at MacStories, but their iOS app isn’t as good as it could or should be. Thankfully today’s update (although minor) directly addresses some of my complaints which makes me optimistic that the team is hard at work on making Evernote for iOS a truly great app. Perhaps the best improvement for me is the “better editing, copying, pasting and more”, which translates to faster editing and improved preservation of styles.

  • MacBook Air, iMac, MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Updated With Internet Recovery Support for 2010 Models

    Federico Viticci
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:46 pm
    Earlier today Apple published two EFI Firmware updates for its iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro lines. The updates, available through Software Update or Apple’s website, bring Lion Internet Recovery to more Mac models from 2010 — the mid 2010 iMac, late 2010 MacBook Air, and early 2010 MacBook Pro. - iMac EFI Update 1.8 This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on iMac (Mid 2010) models. - MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3 This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Air (Late 2010) models and addresses an issue where the system…

  • #MacStoriesDeals – Tuesday

    Chris Herbert
    7 Feb 2012 | 3:53 pm
    Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on iOS, Mac, and Mac App Store apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end! Mac Hardware & Amazon Deals New! Refurbished MacBook Air Laptops: $849 + free shipping Apple iPod touch 8GB: $188 + free shipping Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard: $40 Apple iPad 2 16GB WiFi Tablet Valentine Bundle: $479 + free shipping Refurb Apple iPod nano: $99 + free shipping Refurbished Apple iPad 2 Tablets: $419 Griffin Technology: 15% off with coupon code BARGAINS112 _________________________________________ Mac Apps New! Mac…

  • iOS Monitors (And Cursors)

    Federico Viticci
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:48 pm
    Gabe Weatherhead has an interesting take on my iOS-ification of Apple’s Ecosystem piece: But there is one feature missing from iOS that will prevent it from ever being effective with an external display: a cursor. I know this seems blasphemous but if you have ever tried to us an iPad with mirroring, you know that you must still look at the iPad to get anything done. To use the iPad as a desktop replacement, mirroring is not enough. I need a cursor displayed where my finger touches the iPad (or iPhone) so that I have context on the external display. Every time I see iOS app demo videos…
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    iPhone Savior

  • Jay and Silent Bob Want To Eat Your Brains

    Ray Basile
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:57 pm
      Because I'm a huge closet fan of hetero life-mates Jay and Slient Bob, these iconic iPhone cases matter. Kevin Smith is all about pimping merchandise — so why not add iPhone 4 cases to the mix. You can expect to pay $40 for my favorite comic book inspired "Eat Brains" case, or any other one of the 9 different designs on Kevin's Smodcast website. All of these SModCo iPhone 4 cases are Case-Mate brand so you can be sure they will make a quality fit. I'm hoping that "Bulntman and Chronic" iPhone cases won't be too far behind. What do you say Kevin?

  • Apple Warns Developers About Manipulating App Store Chart Rankings

    Ray Basile
    6 Feb 2012 | 11:01 pm
      Apple posted an announcement on Monday warning developers that anyone involved in manipulating App Store chart rankings or user reviews will end up losing membership in the Developer Program. Adhering to Guidelines on Third-Party Marketing Services "Once you build a great app, you want everyone to know about it. However, when you promote your app, you should avoid using services that advertise or guarantee top placement in App Store charts." said Apple. "Even if you are not personally engaged in manipulating App Store chart rankings or user reviews, employing services…

  • Social Media Explained — With Donuts

    Ray Basile
    6 Feb 2012 | 10:30 pm
      The creative team at Three Ships Media didn't plan on their hysterical "Social Media and Donuts" post to go viral. But after making the rounds on Facebook, the team has proved that "sometimes the best ideas are the easiest." "There are plenty of projects that can and should require hours of work. But sometimes the best ideas – and the most successful — are ones that fly off the hand," said Adam Rhew. "We used donuts because we had just been talking about a weekend road race in which participants ran two miles, ate 12 glazed Krispy Kremes, and…

  • If You Try To Get Rid of Siri — She Will Kill You!

    Ray Basile
    6 Feb 2012 | 7:25 pm
      By now I'm sure you're familiar with Siri, and of course there is also Siri Pro, but now witness the worst iPhone nightmare ever — "Psycho Siri" as imagined in this epic special effects thriller. This creepy, full-throttle sci-fi video begins innocently enough when one of the characters brings home an abandoned iPhone 4S. Let's just say the find was a 'killer deal'. Hell hath no fury like Siri scorned.    [The Next Web]

  • "I don't even own a Galaxy Note and I've already misplaced the pen"

    Ray Basile
    6 Feb 2012 | 6:12 pm
      Although Samsung's Galaxy Note Super Bowl commercial was designed to mock Apple hipsters waiting in line for the newest iPhone, it was the company's emphasis on their revolutionary "stylus" that caused a huge Twitter backlash on Monday.  You know the chatter on Twitter has hit critical mass when the attention begins to focus on losing the pen rather than the stuff that truly matters like the large 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED touchsceen with 1280×800 resolution. My favorite Tweet from the lot is a hysterical one from Paul Madsen. "I don't even…
 
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  • Apple Planning To Set Up Mini Apple Stores Inside Sam’s Club Outlets?

    Mel
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Apple’s many products are huge sellers and bring a lot of attention to the company. One way, Apple has made Apple products more ubiquitous at the consumer level are the many Apple Stores that operate in many major cities all over the US (and in the rest of the world). Apple Stores are hip places where you can get your desired Apple product in an environment that celebrates all things Apple. Unfortunately, not all cities have Apple Stores. This means people who want to buy Apple products have no choice but to either online or shop at electronics stores and malls. If you’re still hankering…

  • Review: The Wonders of Geology

    Robin Parrish
    6 Feb 2012 | 4:13 pm
    At first pass, you might think that The Wonders of Geology exists purely to show off the incredible photography of Michael Collier. While that’s certainly a good reason, it also functions as an excellent textbook, sure to instill enthusiasm for geology into any student. Michael Collier is more than a photographer. He’s a geologist, too. Read his words or listen to him speak, and you’ll hear the kind of passion that a cook might use to talk about their favorite recipes. The bulk of the app is made up of a slideshow of Collier’s photos, which are jaw-dropping on the…

  • Top 10 iPhone Apps for Business Users

    Guest Blogger
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:53 am
    Having an iPhone has become a standard in many people’s lives. An iPhone is useful, advanced and full of entertainment features, and nowadays most people feel more attached to their smartphones than they do to their computers. That is why it has become the ultimate tool for the business user, as phones are able to increase productivity, put various resources into one device and even boost work performance. That is all thanks to the many apps that have been created specifically to improve the work experience of the owner. Here are 10 must-have apps for anyone who is business oriented in…

  • This Week’s Best Apps #20

    Robin Parrish
    4 Feb 2012 | 4:40 pm
    Fill up your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad with these brand new apps, released just this week. Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night for iPad Price: $4.99 Interactive storybook for kids that teaches all about bats. Blot for iPhone & iPad Price: $.99 Clever side-scroller where you help a blot of ink get across a page. Disneyland Explorer for iPad Price: FREE Terrific interactive simulation of Disneyland, which you scroll to explore and tap objects and characters to view photos, watch videos, or play minigames. Doodlecast Pro for iPad Price: $3.99 Easily create PowerPoint-style presentations. Dream…

  • Apple Planning To Make an iTV?

    Mel
    3 Feb 2012 | 6:05 pm
    Apple may be cooking up something that will potentially add to their list of must-have products. According to Gene Munster, an analyst for Piper Jaffray, Apple is currently communicating with various component suppliers and this is leading to speculation that the much rumored Apple-branded television set is going to be released this year. Munster’s information was contained in a letter he sent to investors last January 31. In that letter he claimed that he was able to speak to a “major component supplier” who claims that Apple talked to him about the possibility of making a connected…
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  • AT&T begins data throttling on “Unlimited” data plans at 2GB mark

    Chris Barylick
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:03 am
    Sometimes it’s as if the wireless carriers WANT you to be disgruntled with them. Per iLounge, AT&T has begun to throttle—or downgrade the data speeds of—customers on unlimited data plans that go over 2GB in data usage for the month. As AT&T customer John Cozen wrote on his blog, “I received a message during my last billing cycle, warning I was in the top 5% of my region and would experience reduced data speeds next time I reach that level of data use. I immediately checked my data usage on the AT&T iOS app. 2.1 GB. Less than I expected considering AT&T offers a…

  • Updated Mac OS X 10.7.3 user interface notes could point towards Retina displays for future Macs

    Chris Barylick
    7 Feb 2012 | 9:25 am
    Analyze the new Mac OS X update’s source code and you find some interesting stuff. Per Daring Fireball, a series of newly-upgraded high-DPI UI elements in Mac OS X 10.7.3 has led to some speculation that Apple is continuing to lay the groundwork for high-resolution Mac displays that approach the pixel density of its Retina Displays. The article pointed to a series of Twitter posts (1, 2) outing UI resources that scale to larger sizes in the latest release of Mac OS X Lion, which arrived last week. The new elements include the pointing-finger cursor in Safari, the “grabby…

  • Analyst sees Apple potentially forming partnerships with cable partners for exclusive “iTV” content

    Chris Barylick
    7 Feb 2012 | 9:15 am
    An Apple-branded HDTV is potentially awesome, but without content, it won’t get off the ground. Per AppleInsider, analyst Peter Misek with Jefferies presented his “what if” analyses related to content on the so-called “iTV” in a note to investors on Monday. In what he sees as the most likely scenario, Apple could gain access to non-exclusive content for its television set and forge deals with existing cable providers. By potentially partnering with carriers and cable operators, Apple could enter the market on a level playing field with everyone else for content.

  • Carbon Copy Cloner updated to 3.4.4

    Chris Barylick
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:55 am
    Late Tuesday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, reached version 3.4.4. The new version, a 6 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: - Made several changes to the preset configurations. Both the wording and some of the settings have been changed in response to user feedback and typical usage scenarios. - New feature: CCC now provides support for archiving and cloning the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Recovery HD partition. Choose “Disk Center” from CCC’s Window menu to find this functionality. New feature: Scheduled…

  • Tim Cook hints at no ARM-based processor for future generations of MacBook Air

    Chris Barylick
    6 Feb 2012 | 8:32 am
    It’s when Apple executives begin dropping hints as to upcoming product lines that things get interesting. Per AppleInsider, after meeting with Apple chief executive Tim Cook and chief financial officer Peter Openheimer, Citi analysts noted a strong iPad outlook leaving little likelihood of an ARM-based MacBook Air. Citi analyst Richard Gardner reported Cook reiterating his comment, originally made during the quarterly earnings conference call, that the market for tablets would eventually grow larger than the conventional PC market. Apple doesn’t refer to iPad as a PC, but as a…
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  • Halliburton dumps Blackberry for iPhone

    Erica Marceau
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:24 am
    Halliburton has used RIM’s Blackberrys for more than 10 years, but AppleInsider has learned they will phase out thousands of Blackberrys in favor of the iPhone over the next two years.According to an internal newsletter obtained by AppleInsider, Halliburton conducted “significant research” and came to the conclusion that “the iOS platform offered the best capabilities, controls and security for application development.” Later, a spokeswoman confirmed the company has about 4,500 employees using Blackberrys and is “engaged with Apple on this…

  • Apple releases EFI Firmware Updates targeted at 2010 Mac models

    Patrick Lutz
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:14 am
    Apple has just released three new EFI Firmware Updates, all of which are meant to benefit 2010 models of the iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. The main purpose of the updates is to add Lion Internet Recovery to these Mac models.Release notes for each update follow:MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.6:This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Pro (Early 2010) models.MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3:This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Air (Late 2010) models and addresses an issue where the system could restart if the power…

  • Apple issues warning to developers regarding manipulating App Store rankings

    Patrick Lutz
    8 Feb 2012 | 5:44 am
    Developers looking for an easy way to promote their iOS apps on the App Store should definitely avoid taking any illegitimate routes, as Apple has been and is continuing to crack down on those developers that attempt to cheat the system to boost their app sales/downloads.Browsing for ways to boost those sales/downloads will almost certainly bring you upon a service that offers to boost your app’s ranking (such as, within the Top 25) for a fee. This is done through the use of scripts or bots that download an app over and over in order to increase its ranking. While this can be quite an…

  • Macworld | iWorld 2012: iPhone 4/4S case roundup

    Kirk Hiner
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:30 pm
    It’s now been over a week since the Macworld | iWorld 2012 wrapped up in San Francisco, and the shift from the Mac to Apple’s iDevices appears to have been a success. Truth be known, the show was headed that way before IDG embraced it with the name change, as evidenced by the growing number of iPhone case developers occupying booths on the show floor. This year was no exception, as there were numerous companies with snazzy new cases to show off.So, what do you say? Shall we take a look, then?All Jack BoutiqueOne of my favorite items of the entire show, iPhone case or not, was All…

  • OS X 10.7.3 brings higher dpi pointer icons

    Patrick Lutz
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:57 pm
    It appears Apple has updated its pointers in OS X v10.7.3 with higher dpi (dots per inch), something the average user probably wouldn’t notice. The change allows the icons to scale much better at higher resolutions, which could likely be for Universal Access or possibly even to accommodate a future higher-resolution Mac.Various pointer icons included in OS X have been updated in 10.7.3, some with changes other than simply being updated with high dpi, as can be seen in the image to the right. This update is more significant for what it could mean in the future rather than what it means…
 
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  • Piezo Video Review

    Elisa Pacelli
    8 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am
    Piezo Company: Rogue Amoeba Price: $9.99 US Version: 1.1.1 Requires: Mac OSX 10.6.0 or higher Mac App Store link

  • Visual QuickStart Guide: iCloud Book Review

    David M. Acklam
    8 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am
    Visual QuickStart Guide: iCloud Author: Tom Negrino Publisher: Peachpit Press Price: US $24.99 195 pages ISBN-10: 0-321-81410-X ISBN-13: 978-0-321-81410-4   When Lion and iOS 5 were released, I timidly stepped into the Apple iCloud experience and began using some of its offerings. Although I still do not use all of the iCloud features, what I [...]

  • The Twitter Book, Second Edition Book Review

    Mark Greentree
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am
    The Twitter Book, Second Edition Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein Publisher: O’Reilly Media Print ISBN: 978-0-596-80281-3 | ISBN 10: 0-596-80281-1 EBook ISBN: 978-0-596-80410-7 | ISBN 10: 0-596-80410-5 Price: eBook: US$15.99 | Print: US$19.99 How complex could Twitter be? After all the service condenses messages into 140 characters! Twitter is one social network service that you [...]

  • Mac OS X Lion, The Missing Manual Book Review

    Sam Negri
    6 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am
    Mac OS X Lion, The Missing Manual By David Pogue O’Reilly Media ISBN: 978-1-449-39749-4 US $34.99, CDN $36.99 909 pages David Pogue’s latest “missing manual” has much in common with the many other “how-to” computer books he’s produced. Like the others, it is written in plain English, it’s readable, at times mildly entertaining, plus comprehensive [...]

  • Leggo my Eggo TechFan Podcast #64

    Tim Robertson
    3 Feb 2012 | 11:16 am
    Download and listen to the show here Subscribe in iTunes Tim and David discuss the hotest topic of the year: is an Eggo a Waffle? Plus, thoughts and stories from Macworld Expo, IT departments distain for Mac users, and upgrading DropBox. Email us
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    The Digital Lifestyle - Your Apple Authority Blog

  • Hey, Where'd Everybody Go??!?

    Ryan Ritchey
    3 Feb 2012 | 7:42 am
    If you've been a long time reader/viewer of The Digital Lifestyle, you have no doubt noticed that blog posts have slowed as of late, and seem to have outright stopped. An explanation is in order. When we started TDL, the idea was to create a 24-hour online technology channel, focusing primarily on Apple products/news. That was back in 2007. Believe it or not, a lot of things were different then. In some ways we were ahead of our time, and in others, we were behind. We launched after the iPhone first debuted, but in a lot of ways, we approached the project from the old way of thinking about…

  • Retro Tech Tuesday: 70's Tech from the History Channel

    Ryan Ritchey
    3 Jan 2012 | 12:55 pm
    Hey folks, let's face it: this probably won't be the most productive week at the workplace. Between swapping holiday stories, finishing off what's left of the holiday cookies, and generally taking it easy while the boss enjoys another few days off, productivity this week is in the toilet. So what a perfect time to dive in to 42 minutes of 1970's technology. Rather than our usual bite-sized portions of retro tech, today we bring you a whole decade, courtesy of the History Channel. enjoy:

  • Happy Holidays, Everyone

    Ryan Ritchey
    24 Dec 2011 | 3:00 am
    I know, I know... the un-written rule of the online world is that there's never a day off for an online publication. Well, we're going a bit old-school, and closing down our little content factory until 2012. So Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, and most of all, thank you for making it another great year here at TDL. Also, look for a post early next year to talk about some changes and plans for the future of the site. Thanks again, and please take some time as we are to actually have a few days off, and maybe, just maybe, not even check…

  • Retro Tech Tuesday: Mario Bros. for... Atari?

    Ryan Ritchey
    20 Dec 2011 | 4:29 am
    The 1980's brought some strange bedfellows to the world of videogames. Take, for instance the game cartoonishly highlighted in this ad. Mario Bros... for Atari. Yes, Atari. Remember, Mario made his debut in Donkey Kong (as mentioned in the ad) which ironically was a huge breakthrough home arcade hit for Atari rival Coleco. Long before he was making his way through side-scrolling, mushroom-taking adventures, Mario had to jump and bump platforms with his brother, who is quizzically the star of this ad. Enjoy:

  • Retro Tech Tuesday: Famicom

    Ryan Ritchey
    13 Dec 2011 | 5:17 am
    Before you and I knew it as the NES in the United States, the Japanese had the Famicom, or family computer. It was the same basic system, but as you'll see in this compilation of ads, there were some interesting tweaks before the system made it to American shores. You'll notice in lieu of the futuristic light gun, the Famicom sported a more realistic (and anachronistic) six-shooter style gun, with holster! And look closely at those controller buttons, and you'll see they're not the circular mashers we're all familiar with. And hey, what's with putting the game in the top!? How are kids in…
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    Cult of Mac

  • Battlefield 3: Aftershock Provides A Free Taste Of Online Multiplayer, But It’s A Bitter One

    Killian Bell
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:53 am
    EA has launched Battlefield 3: Aftershock in the U.S. App Store today, providing first-person shooter players with the opportunity to enjoy online multiplayer gaming for free on their iOS devices. However, it’s not quite the Battlefield 3 release we were expecting. There’s just one map to enjoy and only five weapons to choose from — one of which you must unlock. The title seems to be a promotional release for Act of Valor, rather than a complete title, and it provides only a very brief taste of online gaming. There aren’t really any nasty catches here, either; it’s…

  • Repeat Timer Pro Is A Great Thing For Timing Things [Review]

    Giles Turnbull
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:28 am
    This is the timer-tastic Repeat Timer Pro, a two-dollar multitimer for iOS. Inside it you’ll find three configurable timers. All the timers can run simultaneously, and of course there are plenty of alarm sounds to choose from. If you need timers to repeat themselves 99 times, you can do that too. You can even run an interval timer to time the times between your timers. For those of you who constantly find yourselves cooking pasta, working out, and, erm, timing some other thing, Repeat Timer Pro might be a lifesaver. Cooking and exercise are the two daily activities that immediately…

  • Apple Will Stream Paul McCartney Concert Live To iTunes & Apple TV On February 9

    Killian Bell
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:08 am
    Apple has announced that it will support Paul McCartney’s new album, Kisses on the Bottom, by live streaming a special concert to fans on Thursday, February 9. You can tune in using iTunes on your Mac or PC, or on your television via your Apple TV set-top box. Apple announced the event with a new page on within its music section of the iTunes Store earlier today: To celebrate the release of Paul McCartney’s latest album — available now — we’re streaming his exclusive performance at Capitol Studios on February 9 at 7 p.m. (PST). Watch the concert on iTunes on your…

  • Your Kids Will Probably Enjoy This Cute iOS Platformer [Review]

    Giles Turnbull
    8 Feb 2012 | 3:48 am
    Meet Niko, star of a cute-character platformer for iOS that involves the usual amount of bouncing, running, hopping and collecting things. The flick-to-jump UI is quite entertaining and not difficult to get to grips with. The pace is slowed down slightly, giving you time to take aim carefully between one leap and the next. If that kind of thing is your bag then it does have some appeal, particularly for younger gamers. I lost interest fairly quickly, but my 9yo son was thoroughly engrossed until he’d finished the six free levels. That’s right – the first six levels are free,…

  • How To Change The Color Of Your iOS 5 Notification Center Banners [Jailbreak]

    Alex Heath
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:22 pm
    Are you itching to change the color of the push notification banners on your jailbroken iOS device? Is Apple’s look not quite cutting it? A simple Cydia tweak allows you to easily customize the color of your iOS 5 Notification Center banners. ColorBanner lets you choose from 10 backgrounds and 5 font colors for customizing your notifications. The tweak costs $1.99, which may be enough to turn away most potential users. I found most of ColorBanner’s themes to be pretty lame, but there are a couple combinations that work decently. The nice thing is that the developer has included…
 
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  • How To: Securely Delete Your Trash

    Joe
    6 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am
    When you have private content that you do not want people to ever be able to access, Secure Empty Trash is the best way to do it. There are two ways to do it. The first way is to be in Finder, then click on the Finder menu option in the top left, and scroll down to Secure Trash Empty. The next way to do this is by again going to the top left Finder menu option, then selecting preferences. After that go into the Advanced section of the newly opened window, and select the box next to Empty Trash Securely. The way this works compared to just regularly deleting your trash is that it…

  • Day 1 as an Apple Employee

    Nick Young
    30 Jan 2012 | 1:55 pm
    According to Business Insider, the typical goal of a new hire orientation at most companies is to excite the employees with the new company. Employees are typically greeted with a shiny new computer and company swag. While some of this is similar to Apple, day 1 as an Apple employee requires you to setup a shiny new Mac.That’s right, no tech support. Apple assumes that if they hired you, you must be smart enough to setup a new computer. This unique way of approaching technology helps break the ice by having employees help one another.Apple has been notoriously know for their secrecy.

  • Review: Targus Spruce EcoSmart Topload

    Joe
    30 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    It is very difficult to find the right messenger bag that combines style and functionality. If it wasn’t for Targus I don’t know where you would be able to find a messenger that combines these aspects for under $65. The Targus Spruce EcoSmart Topload’s large body allows you to carry any computer with screens under 15.6” Mac or PC. In this bag I was able to comfortably fit a 15” MacBook Pro, my iPad, and a few documents without it looking bulky. Then in the front pocket I was able to fit my key chain, two pens, business cards, computer charger, iPad charger, and a small portable…

  • Targus 14″ Proxy Sleeve

    Joe
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    If you are looking for an alternative to the Incase Neoprene Sleeve, the Targus Proxy Sleeve is just as good. In fact if you do not like the simplicity of Incase’s design the Targus Proxy Sleeve will be perfect. The Proxy Sleeve has two pockets in the front: a zippered one and a small one (made for iPods or Phones). The other nice thing about the Proxy Sleeve is that it has a handle, so you don’t have to carry it like a book. Before I go into more depth, let me give you the specs:The Breakdown:-Brand: Targus-Name: 14” Proxy Sleeve-Price:  $34.99 USD- Warranty: Limited Lifetime…

  • How To: View Your Apple Support Profile

    Joe
    10 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Apple Support Profile is a great way to view your history, warranty information, and other details of your apple products. Getting there is easy, just click this link: Apple Support Profile. After that sign into your apple ID account and all items registered under that account will apear. In your Apple Support Profile you will be able to view and do many things like: adding nicknames to your apple devices, viewing/ changing your user information, view serial numbers, unregister devices, coverage details, case activity, repair activity, support resources, and much more. This was a great tip…
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  • Apple's $90 billion run

    Philip Elmer-DeWitt
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:09 am
    The company has gained nearly one Facebook in value since Steve Jobs died On Oct. 4, the day before Steve Jobs passed away, Apple (AAPL) shares closed at $372.50 and its market cap stood at $347 billion. Four months later, the stock is up nearly $100 and it's market cap is $437 billion. To put that $90 billion gain in perspective, it's nine tenths the value analysts have placed on Facebook in advance of its initial public offering. Some believe that Facebook is being overvalued, but it's hard to argue that Apple is. Erik Savitz in Forbes calculates that a Facebook worth $100 billion would…

  • What's on Apple's iTV?

    Philip Elmer-DeWitt
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:29 am
    Jefferies' Peter Misek takes a deep dive into the problem of acquiring quality content Amid all the chatter this week about Apple's (AAPL) putative plans to build a standalone TV set -- from Best Buy's leaked customer survey to the Globe and Mail's report that Canadian telcoms are already testing the thing in their labs -- the 23-page report produced by Peter Misek's team at Jefferies International stands out. Rather than get distracted by speculation about whether it would be controlled by voice, keyboard, arm waving or all three, Misek focuses on the nut that will be the toughest for any…

  • IDC: The iPhone is once again the world's No. 1 smartphone

    Philip Elmer-DeWitt
    7 Feb 2012 | 3:53 am
    Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September Click to enlarge. Source: IDC It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago. Getting comparable figures from Apple's competitors is a different matter, and that's where companies like IDC come in. Samsung, for example, used to report only the number of mobile phones it shipped -- which is not the same as selling them -- and in 2011 it stopped sharing even that. So the report IDC publishes every quarter…

  • Video: Grading the Apple analysts on a scale of A to F

    Philip Elmer-DeWitt
    6 Feb 2012 | 9:59 am
    Two ways of seeing how well (or badly) the pros and amateurs predict Apple's earnings Green = Amateurs, Yellow = Pros Source: Dediu, PED We've been trying for several years to find the best way to show how much better the so-called amateur analysts (some of whom have since gone pro) are at estimating Apple's (AAPL) quarterly revenue and earnings than the Wall Street professionals who do it for the big banks and brokerage firms. Now Asymco's Horace Dediu, who is a master at these things, has come up with an elegant solution. Using the data we've been collecting since 2008 for our quarterly…

  • Android's original standard bearer -- HTC -- falls from grace

    Philip Elmer-DeWitt
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:42 am
    Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, it had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous. The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google (GOOG) to build the Nexus One, the flagship of the Android line. Last November, it edged past Samsung, Apple (AAPL) and Research in Motion (RIMM) to take the lead in the U.S. market for smartphones. How the mighty have fallen. On Monday, HTC reported a 26% drop in fourth quarter profits and…
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  • Zevrix releases Output Factory for InDesign

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:02 am
    Zevrix Solutions has announced Output Factory 1.0, its new solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. It's available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.7 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CS5.5. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign, and is anupgrade of the company's BatchOutput plug-in. In addition to the output of multiple files, single page export and variable file names, Output Factory offers array of new solutions, such as layer versioning, preflighting, workflow presets and processing history. read more

  • New ebook lets you 'Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion'

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:58 am
    TidBits has released "Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion," an US$10, 103-page ebook by Glenn Fleishman. It offers the latest advice on screen sharing with iChat, Back to My Mac, the Screen Sharing application in Mac OS X, and Skype, and describes the current versions of iTeleport and LogMeIn, iOS apps that let you run your Mac remotely by tapping and dragging. Although this new edition has "Lion" in the title, it is also the go-to Take Control ebook for questions about screen sharing with users of 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. read more

  • Canon introduces three new all-in-one printers

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:33 am
    Canon U.S.A. (http://www.usa.canon.com) has announced the addition of three Pixma Office printers to the lineup: the MX512 Wireless1 All-In-One (AIO), MX432 Wireless1 AIO and the MX372 AIO.  Available for both new wireless models is the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint mobile app, for use with compatible Apple and Android smart phones and tablets, allowing documents  to be scanned on the printer and sent directly to a compatible device. Users can print PDFs of documents that were created with the app directly from compatible devices, whereas in the past only photos could be printed.  read more

  • PadSync's iWork moving solution better than Apple's

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Apple's kludge for moving iWork docs between the iPad and a Mac pretty much stinks. It's awkward, unintuitive and very Apple-ish. Enter Ecamm's PadSync (http://www.ecamm.com/mac/padsync/), which offers a better alternative. The software was recently updated to version 1.1.1, fixing an issue that could cause PadSync to malfunction if iTunes Wi-Fi sync is enabled. Pages, Numbers and Keynote let you share files between your iPad and a Mac via iTunes File Sharing. PadSync streamlines the experience with two-way syncing and also works with other apps that support iTunes File Sharing. read more

  • Timesheets for Mac OS X gets project expense tracking

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 5:46 am
    Senomix Software has released Senomix Timesheets 4.1, an update to their Mac OS X and Windows time tracking system. The new version adds project expense tracking and employee expense claim entry. With the addition of expense tracking, Senomix Timesheets can now be used to record project costs through the same networked applications provided to track employee effort hours. The software enables both in-office and off-site employees to track effort and expenses directly from their computers. read more
 
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  • Path Uploads Your Entire iPhone Address Book to Its Servers

    John Gruber
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:29 pm
    Arun Thampi, after examining the network traffic between Path’s iPhone app and their servers: Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new “Path” and repeated the experiment and I got the same result — my address book was in Path’s hands. Path’s reaction, paraphrased: Hey, no big deal. We’re only using the data to…

  • Gartner: Western European PC Shipments Fell 16 Percent in Fourth Quarter of 2011

    John Gruber
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:31 pm
    Gartner: PC shipments in Western Europe totaled 16.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 16 per cent decline from the equivalent period in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. For the year, PC shipments numbered 58.5 million units in Western Europe in 2011, also a 16 percent decrease from 2010. The PC market in Western Europe has suffered four consecutive quarters of shipment decline. Sounds like a trend.  ★ 

  • Chrome for Android Won’t Support Flash

    John Gruber
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:16 pm
    Remember when Android’s (and the BlackBerry Playbook’s, and WebOS’s) support for Flash was supposed to be a competitive advantage against iOS?  ★ 

  • Chrome for Android

    John Gruber
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:59 pm
    MG Siegler reviews the brand-new and long-awaited Chrome for Android: First of all, yes, Chrome for Android is here. Second, it’s only compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich which is currently on — wait for it — 1% of Android devices. But in an attempt to add some silver-lining to the 1% joke, I will say that Chrome for Android is of a much higher class than the previous Android browser, the aptly-named and horribly icon’d: Browser. Browser is dead. Long live Chrome. Thus ends the single most perplexing thing about Android: why its web browser was so horrendous. Conventional wisdom says…

  • That’s No Moon

    John Gruber
    7 Feb 2012 | 4:15 pm
    Samsung is heading into Gordon Gekko territory. Alternate Joke: If your phone is bigger than your face, you have polio.  ★ 
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  • Hasbro’s new Lazer Tag guns use your iPhone or iPod touch for augmented reality and heads up display

    Chris Oldroyd
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:05 am
    Hasbro has announced that its next release of Lazer Tag guns will use your iPhone or iPod touch to provide augmented reality and a heads up display. The Lazer Tag guns can accept an iPhone or iPod touch which is slotted into the gun in a purpose made holder. The user can then download an app from the App Store which can keep track of your gear, power levels and also setup multiplayer games with up to 23 other players. To experience the LAZER TAG game, players download the free LAZER TAG app to their iPhone or iPod touch device, connect their device to their LAZER TAG blaster, and find…

  • iTunes live-streaming free Paul McCartney concert on February 9, 2012

    Chris Parsons
    8 Feb 2012 | 12:58 am
    Paul McCartney is celebrating the release of Kisses On The Bottom, which came out Tuesday, February 7, with a free live-streaming concert on February. 8, 2012. The event is being held at Capital Studios in Los Angeles and will be available to one and all via iTune. Kisses On The Bottom is a collection of music McCartney grew up listening to plus two new songs — My Valentine and Only Our Hearts composed by the former Beatle himself with some help from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder. For the album, McCartney also got help from Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall, whose band who will also be on…

  • iPhone and iPad gifts for Valentine’s Day

    Rene Ritchie
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:51 pm
    Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and if your lover loves their iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you’re in luck, there are some fantastic device, app, accessory, and media gifts to thrill them and score you major brownie points. Whether you’re romantic enough to prepare well in advance, or if you’re scrambling to stay off the couch, sit back and get your groove warmed up — Rene and I decided to do a little written ZEN and TECH this week and help you pick out the perfect Valentine’s Day gifts for your special someone. Dream devices for the person of your dreams…

  • PSA: Popular social network app Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to their servers… in plain text

    Simon Sage
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Do you love Path, the slick, simple, moment-sharing social network app for iPhone? Well, you get ready to dial it back a notch, because apparently they’re storing your entire address book, e-mail addresses and all, on their servers, and in plain, un-encrypted text. What kind of evil deeds does Path have planned for all that data? Well, the CEO, Dave Morin, said that the data is used exclusively to notify you when your friends sign up for Path. He also claimed that it’s the industry standard to transfer that personal information in plain text, even though, as one commenter points…

  • VooMoteZapper turns your iPhone or iPad into universal remote, leaves all your old infrareds to collect dust

    Chris Oldroyd
    7 Feb 2012 | 3:57 pm
    The VooMoteZapper is a small accessory that clips into the dock connector of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and turns it into a universal infrared remote control for your TV and home theater components. Figuring out which remote controls which device, where to find batteries when they run dry, how to fix them when something goes wrong, or what to do when you can’t find them are just some of the problems we face. There are a lot of dedicated universal controls, from cheap dollar-store varieties to incredibly expensive, programable Harmony remotes already. All of them offer to make our…
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  • 10.7: See Exposé view of an app in the background

    7 Feb 2012 | 9:30 am
    This is a feature that allows you to see the Exposé of an app that is in the background. You'll need a Trackpad. In OS X 10.7, the four-finger swipe down toggles app Exposé for the app in the foreground. Except if you place the cursor on the icon of a running app in the Dock, in which case the four-finger down swipe toggles the app exposé of THAT app, not the application that is in the foreground. If you swipe down again without selecting a window from the Exposé view, you are taken back to the app you were in before toggling Exposé. [crarko adds: I'd love to test this, but my Lion…

  • Airport Utility 6.0

    7 Feb 2012 | 9:30 am
    Airport Utility 6.0 was released a few days ago. You may want to keep both 5.6 and 6.0 versions. I used Pacifist, and manually reinstalled the 5.6 version side by side. Lots of missing features in the new utility. No way to tweak wireless options for Mode, Frequency, Multicast Rate or Transmit Power, and such a tiny window for port mapping list. An elegant interface, but at a price. For a thorough review and pointers to stand alone updates, read here. [crarko adds: Consider this a public service announcement. It also appears that AirPort Utility 6.0 only functions with the 802.11(n)…

  • 10.7: Updating Lion Server if using CalDAV and CardDAV

    6 Feb 2012 | 9:30 am
    If you plan to update your OS X Server to 10.7.2 be sure to restart your machine and stop all server services, especially iCal Server and Address book server before applying the update. It happened to me yesterday that I applied the OS X 10.7.2 update to my Mac mini server without closing any apps. I just ran it. After the update it turned out, this was a big mistake. All calendar entries of the past three weeks and many contacts were lost. I was not able to recover anything from time machine. Lion server keeps the CalDAV and CardDAV data in a PostgreSQL database which is apparently not…

  • Make the computer sing happy birthday

    6 Feb 2012 | 9:30 am
    Here's a way to use AppleScript and the 'say' command to have the computer sing happy birthday to you. Enjoy! set currentUser to long user name of (get system info) set firstName to first word of currentUser set lastName to last word of currentUser set noteValues to {56, 56, 58, 56, 61, 60, 50, 56, 56, 58, 56, 63, 61, 50, 56, 56, 68, 65, 61, 60, 58, 50, 66, 66, 65, 61, 63, 61} -- F -- set noteValues to {65, 65, 67, 65, 70, 69, 60, 65, 65, 67, 65, 72, 70, 60, 65, 65, 77, 74, 70, 69, 67, 60, 75, 75, 74, 70, 72, 70} -- D -- set noteValues to {55, 55, 57, 55, 60, 59, 50, 55, 55, 57, 55, 62, 60,…

  • 10.7: Auto-copy Photo Stream images to a folder

    3 Feb 2012 | 9:30 am
    To get the Photo Stream working on my MacBook I found out that I had to BUY an upgrade for an application that I don't want: iPhoto. Looking for a solution I found that iPhoto stores its pictures in a specific location and the Photo Stream is updated even if iPhoto is not running. The goal was to create a script that copies all of the images from many sub-directories into a single folder. As there are many people who know a lot more about OSX I would welcome improvements and feedback. Some areas to look at: Using 'without replacing' which would only copy the missing pictures. A Folder action…
 
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  • Apple Could Lose $1.6 Billion In iPad Lawsuit

    Soulskill
    7 Feb 2012 | 2:51 pm
    redletterdave writes "Proview Technology, which currently uses the 'iPad' name on several of its products including computer monitors, stands to win up to $1.6 billion and an apology from Apple for allegedly infringing upon Proview's trademarked name to use on its bestselling tablet. Proview International, which owns subsidiaries Proview Technology in Shenzhen and Proview Electronics in Taiwan, originally registered the name 'iPad' in Taiwan in 2000 and mainland China in 2001. Proview eventually sued Apple in 2011, and even though the Cupertino-based company retaliated with a counter-suit of…

  • Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM

    timothy
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:29 am
    An anonymous reader writes "Apple hasn't released a Mac OS X device running on ARM yet, but a recently discovered thesis from a former Apple intern going by the name of Tristan Schapp details a 12-week project carried out in 2010 to port the OS to the ARMv5 architecture. The port got as far as booting to a multi-user prompt, but then hit hurdles to do with drivers and cache. The good news is that same intern now works for Apple as part of the CoreOS team. With rumors last year that a MacBook Air running on ARM could appear by 2013, could he be part of a team making that happen? If he is, I…

  • Halliburton To Dump Blackberry For iOS

    Unknown Lamer
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:06 am
    grub writes "Halliburton has decided to drop Research In Motion's Blackberry platform in favor of Apple's iOS for its workforce. 'An internal newsletter outlined the plan for the nearly 70,000 employees who work for Halliburton in more than 70 countries. "Over the next year, we will begin expanding the use of our mobile technology by transitioning from the BlackBerry (RIM) platform that we currently use to smartphone technology via the iPhone."'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won't Run On iPhone 4)

    Soulskill
    6 Feb 2012 | 4:18 pm
    Hugh Pickens writes "Anna Leach reports that Siri support has been a contentious issue for owners of earlier iPhones, but a recent filing from Audience shows that Siri won't run on the iPhone 4 because the phone's chip can't handle it. Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group cracked one of the secrets of the new iPhone's A5 chip after working out that it packs some serious audio cleaning power not available on the iPhone 4's A4 chip. Audience has developed technology that removes most or all of the background noise when someone places a cell-phone call from a restaurant, airport, or other noisy…

  • iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps?

    samzenpus
    5 Feb 2012 | 8:08 am
    First time accepted submitter creativeHavoc writes "Forbes author Tomio Geron takes a look at data accrued by mobile app monitoring startup Crittercism. After looking at normalized data of crashes over the various mobile operating system versions he compares crash rates of apps on the two platforms. He also breaks it down further to look how the top apps compare across the competing mobile operating systems. The results may not be what you expect."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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  • iTV Looms Large

    Rachelle Dragani
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    Apple ended up being the top-selling smartphone vendor for the fourth quarter of 2011, but rumors about an as-yet unconfirmed next-generation Apple TV stole much of the company's spotlight over the last week. In a note regarding Apple, Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek wrote that Apple stock was a smart buy because the company's next entertainment device, which he called "iTV," is on its way. Misek said the TV would possibly have an feature that allows users of Apple products such as the iPad or iPhone to upload content similar to a YouTube-type sharing service.

  • Avid Studio: Thumbs Up on Interface, Sideways on Features, Down on Sound Effects

    Paul Hartsock
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    Back when Apple promised editing features built into the iPhone 3GS (the first iPhone to have a video camera), I wondered how a video-editing program could possibly fit into a phone. It wasn't just a question of available processing power, though that was part of it. It was also a question of screen size. Video editing needs a lot of space. If you're going to be throwing around a few dozen clips and managing multiple tracks for sound, you're going to need some elbow room.

  • 'Inside the World of Dinosaurs' Feeds the Dino Lover in All of Us

    Chris Maxcer
    6 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    As near as I can tell, almost every kid goes through an intense dinosaur phase, and for some adults, the fascination remains for decades. Even years after the movie "Jurassic Park" brought dinos to life, I would still eat up all the dinosaur documentary shows I could find, like "Walking With Dinosaurs." When I saw Inside the World of Dinosaurs as an app made specifically for the iPad, I was interested. When I saw that it was narrated by Stephen Fry, the UK actor, comedian and writer, I bought it.

  • Avid Packs a Prosumer Video Editor Into an iPad

    John P. Mello Jr.
    3 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    Avid is well-known for its chops as a maker of professional video editing suites, but on Thursday it grabbed some notice in consumer circles with a new offering for Apple's iPad 2. Avid Studio, available from Apple's App Store for a limited time at $4.99, brings a solid set of video editing tools to the iPad. For instance, clips can be quickly arranged along a storyboard. Frames can be precisely trimmed in the app's timeline. Cuts can be made on the fly with the software's razor tool.

  • Apple's Enterprise Coup d'Etat

    Chris Maxcer
    2 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    As a long-time Mac and iPhone user, I always enjoy seeing new people I work with embrace the Apple way. At the same time, while out and about at work conferences and trips, I consistently see more and more iPads and iPhones. I'm sure some of this is my ability to recognize an Apple product while my ability to spot two different Android-based phones is a little less refined. As for tablets, though, it's easy enough: Most of what I see are iPads in the hands of business people. Occasionally I see something else.
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  • Zevrix releases Output Factory for InDesign

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:02 am
    Zevrix Solutions has announced Output Factory 1.0, its new solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. It's available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.7 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CS5.5. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign, and is anupgrade of the company's BatchOutput plug-in. In addition to the output of multiple files, single page export and variable file names, Output Factory offers array of new solutions, such as layer versioning, preflighting, workflow presets and processing history. read more

  • New ebook lets you 'Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion'

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:58 am
    TidBits has released "Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion," an US$10, 103-page ebook by Glenn Fleishman. It offers the latest advice on screen sharing with iChat, Back to My Mac, the Screen Sharing application in Mac OS X, and Skype, and describes the current versions of iTeleport and LogMeIn, iOS apps that let you run your Mac remotely by tapping and dragging. Although this new edition has "Lion" in the title, it is also the go-to Take Control ebook for questions about screen sharing with users of 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. read more

  • Canon introduces three new all-in-one printers

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:33 am
    Canon U.S.A. (http://www.usa.canon.com) has announced the addition of three Pixma Office printers to the lineup: the MX512 Wireless1 All-In-One (AIO), MX432 Wireless1 AIO and the MX372 AIO.  Available for both new wireless models is the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint mobile app, for use with compatible Apple and Android smart phones and tablets, allowing documents  to be scanned on the printer and sent directly to a compatible device. Users can print PDFs of documents that were created with the app directly from compatible devices, whereas in the past only photos could be printed.  read more

  • PadSync's iWork moving solution better than Apple's

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Apple's kludge for moving iWork docs between the iPad and a Mac pretty much stinks. It's awkward, unintuitive and very Apple-ish. Enter Ecamm's PadSync (http://www.ecamm.com/mac/padsync/), which offers a better alternative. The software was recently updated to version 1.1.1, fixing an issue that could cause PadSync to malfunction if iTunes Wi-Fi sync is enabled. Pages, Numbers and Keynote let you share files between your iPad and a Mac via iTunes File Sharing. PadSync streamlines the experience with two-way syncing and also works with other apps that support iTunes File Sharing. read more

  • Timesheets for Mac OS X gets project expense tracking

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 5:46 am
    Senomix Software has released Senomix Timesheets 4.1, an update to their Mac OS X and Windows time tracking system. The new version adds project expense tracking and employee expense claim entry. With the addition of expense tracking, Senomix Timesheets can now be used to record project costs through the same networked applications provided to track employee effort hours. The software enables both in-office and off-site employees to track effort and expenses directly from their computers. read more
 
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  • Apple to iPhone developers: No more low-res screenshots

    Josh Lowensohn
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:05 pm
    Apple's now requiring that developers upload the snazzier, Retina Display caliber screenshots of their games to the App Store when submitting their creations. Originally posted at Apple Talk

  • Siri brings nearly 25 percent of Wolfram Alpha traffic

    Joe Aimonetti
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:50 pm
    According to a report by the New York Times, Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant Siri accounts for nearly 25 percent of the traffic handled by search engine Wolfram Alpha. Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

  • Apple chortles as the PC market melts down in U.K., France

    Brooke Crothers
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:31 pm
    While the PC market skids in the U.K. and France, Apple coasts to market share gains--possibly presaging a similar trend in the U.S. Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog

  • Sam's Club next to get mini Apple stores?

    Josh Lowensohn
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:10 pm
    Wholesale retailer Sam's Club is rumored to be in talks with Apple to bring store-within-stores to Sam's Club warehouses. Originally posted at Apple Talk

  • Best Buy: That Apple TV survey was 'hypothetical'

    Don Reisinger
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:32 am
    Yesterday, a Best Buy survey discussing a $1,499 Apple television leaked. Today, the company says it was blown way out of proportion. Originally posted at The Digital Home
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  • Siri, the woman of your dreams

    Ian Osborne
    8 Feb 2012 | 4:31 am
    Raj has a problem. The India-born astrophysicist from hit American TV comedy The Big Bang Theory suffers from selective mutism, which severely inhibits his interaction with the fairer sex. In a nutshell, he can't talk to women unless he's drunk. But in the recent Season Five episode 'The Beta Test Initiation', he finally finds a woman he can talk to. Siri. He's fascinated by the iPhone 4S's voice-activated assistant, and how he can hold a conversation with her while stone cold sober. Of course, a relationship with Siri is impossible, so Raj can only dream. And he does, with hilarious…

  • MacFormat 244 – 50 ways to improve your Mac and iPad

    Timothy Hardwick
    2 Feb 2012 | 8:54 am
    Your Mac is an incredibly versatile beast, and it’s likely you’ve not even begun to scratch the surface of what it’s capable of. That’s where we come in. This issue you’ll find 30 new and exciting ways to make more of your Mac. And that’s not all. An iPad extends and augments your Mac life, which is why you’ll find 20 top tablet tips to take your iOS use to the next level too. It’s all here! Also this month: Apple’s secrecy is legendary in the technology industry, but to what extent does the company’s continuing success depend on clandestine innovation, and how much is too…

  • Mariner Software MacJournal 6 review

    Ian Osborne
    31 Jan 2012 | 5:07 am
    Key InfoDeveloper: Mariner Softwarewww.marinersoftware.com RequirementsOS: OS X 10.6.8 or later MacJournal 6 is the latest incarnation of the very popular blogging and journal software from Mariner. No matter what you want to keep track of with words, MacJournal can help, be it a private and personal diary or a public and published blog. Blogging is the natural fit for software like MacJournal and it’s no surprise to see you can automatically link MacJournal to several services. Blogger, Wordpress and Tumblr, to name but a few, can all be updated with a copy of MacJournal. As you might…

  • Great gaming bargains!

    Ian Osborne
    30 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    Here's one for the gamers. Top Mac games publisher Aspyr has dropped the price of four of its top titles to just £2.99, but hurry – they go back up again at the close of business on 31st January. The games included in the sale are:  • Duke Nukem ForeverHail to the king, baby! This politically incorrect first-person shooter wasn't well received, but as Andy Dyer argued in MacFormat's review, the journalistic backlash against its legendary development delays went too far. It's a fun blast, and a bargain at a penny under three quid. • PreyAnother first-person shooter, this one takes…

  • New iCade on the Way

    Ian Osborne
    12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am
    ION's popular iCade game controller is getting a revamp. The iCade Core, which is due for release later this year, retains the arcade-style joystick and buttons but moves away from the overall coin-op metaphor. This makes it far more practical in operation. The original iCade worked great when your iPad was in portrait mode, but when playing a landscape-orientated game, it didn't look right at all. The iPad sat in front of the cabinet, without ever appearing to be part of it. The iCade Core's iPad slot is long enough to take the tablet either way, as you can see in the video here. It takes up…
 
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  • Apple Seeking to Bring Store-Within-a-Store Concept to Sam's Club?

    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 9:16 am
    9to5Mac reports that Apple is in "early discussions" with Sam's Club to bring the Apple store-within-a-store concept to the popular warehouse club chain that operates as a division of Walmart.Sam’s Club and Apple are not only in early discussions for the Apple store-in-store program, but a backup plan is also being discussed. This plan consists of Sam’s Club simply selling Apple’s Macs, but without the Apple Store features. Since the discussions are still early, sources could not comment on a timeframe for such partnerships, but we know the store-in-stores will likely not be coming…

  • Id Software's RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store

    Jordan Golson
    2 Feb 2012 | 1:52 pm
    As the Mac becomes more popular, the arrival of A-List titles to the platform is beginning to become a more common occurrence. The latest top-shelf game to hit the Mac is Id Software's RAGE, which has gone live both on the Mac App Store [Direct Link] and on publisher Aspyr's GameAgent online store. The game takes place more than 100 years after the impact of an asteroid destroys most life on earth. The player awakens after being frozen in cryo-stasis without any memory of who he is or what he is supposed to do. The game plays out in a world similar to Mad Max and the like, with the player…

  • Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers

    Eric Slivka
    2 Feb 2012 | 12:47 pm
    As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple today began seeding Safari 5.1.4 to developers for testing, signaling the next round of improvements for Apple's browser software. Safari 5.1.4 is available in versions for OS X Lion, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and Windows, and the release notes ask developers to focus their testing on JavaScript performance, interactions between plug-ins and zooming, and PDF printing.JavaScript Performance Enhancements Safari 5.1.4 on Lion includes many fixes that enhance JavaScript performance. Please test webpages that use JavaScript and look for compatibility issues. Plug-Ins &…

  • Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly $12.5 Million in Stock Options

    Eric Slivka
    1 Feb 2012 | 9:37 am
    As revealed in a regulatory filing yesterday, Apple senior vice president for hardware engineering Bob Mansfield on Monday exercised a set of stock options he has held for a number of years, immediately selling off the stock for a gain of nearly $12.5 million. Under the stock option program, Mansfield was eligible to purchase 30,000 of Apple stock at a price of $36.54 per share and immediately sold them off in several batches averaging $452.28 per share. Mansfield's stock options dated back to an award made in June of 2005 as an enticement for him to stay with the company over the…

  • Intuit Releases Quicken Essentials on Mac App Store

    Jordan Golson
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:46 pm
    Intuit has begun offering its entry-level financial management software Quicken Essentials for Mac on the Mac App Store. This is the standard edition of Essentials that has been on sale for quite a while, not a new version -- something Intuit is quick to point out in the description for the software. It's merely a new distribution point. Quicken Essentials for Mac, a basic starter edition, helps you manage all of your personal finance in one place, so you can see where you’re spending and where you can save. Quicken automatically categorizes your financial transactions, stay on top of bills…
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  • Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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    7 Feb 2012 | 6:27 am
    • What's The Ultra Ultrabook For business Windows? - MacBook Air • OS X Lion: Time Machine's "Local Snapshots" On Portable Macs • Kingston To Slash NAND Flash Product Prices.......Continue Reading Tags: News | Tech-Industry |

  • Applelinks iOS News Reader - Tuesday, February 7, 2012

    webmaster@applelinks.com
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:24 am
    • Apple's Walled Garden: Sledgehammer Needed • 1a Easy Writer Text Processor For iPad - The Power of Simplicity • iPhone Number One Mobile Handset in Q4 2011, but Android Attracts More First-Time Smartphone Buyers - NPD Group • The iPad At Work: Can It Get The Job Done? • Why Tablets Are Important To eCommerce • Apple Tells Authors: All Your Books iBook Files Are Belong To Us • Bendy Battery Gives Smart Fabrics A Charge • Flexible, Solid Electrolyte-Based Lithium Battery Composed of LiFePO4 Cathode and Li4Ti5O12 Anode for Applications in Smart Textiles…

  • Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Monday, February 6, 2012

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    6 Feb 2012 | 5:48 am
    • ARM-Powered iPad-like MacBook Air now unlikely? Can iPad Satisfy Ultracompact Laptop Aspirants? • Snow Leopard Security Update 2012-001 Version 1.1 Fixes Rosetta Issues • Apple Pulls OS X 10.7.3 Delta Upgrade After Crash Complaints, Redirects To Combo Update • Lion (Mac OS X 10.7): A Flea-Bitten Cat • Seagate Predicts Lack Hard Drives for 2012: Truth or A Strategy to Keep Prices High? • Motherboard Prices To Hike By 10% At End Of 1Q12 • Time Machine: How To Transfer Backups From The Current Backup Drive To A New Backup Drive.......Continue Reading Tags:…

  • Applelinks iOS News Reader - Monday, February 6, 2012

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    6 Feb 2012 | 5:44 am
    • Apple CEO Hints At No ARM-based MacBook Air As iPad To "Soon Satisfy" That Niche • Smartphone Sales Overtake Client PCs in 2011 • Apple to Authors: Content You Make in iBook App is Yours, Not Ours • Apple in China: Should We Applaud Instead Of Condemn? • You Bet Apple Could Build The iPhone Here • Why The Tablet is the Ultimate Mobile Personal Computer • You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You • Apple's iPhone Business is Now Larger Than All of Microsoft • AMD Predicts True CPU-GPU Fusion for 2014 • Windows Phone 8 Details…

  • Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Friday, February 3, 2012

    webmaster@applelinks.com
    3 Feb 2012 | 4:45 pm
    • Byte-Dock MacBook Pro Dock Launches Range Of Colours, Plus Free Cable • Snapseed Photo Editor For OS X • Apple's Lead in Tech Support Quality Continues to Slip in Consumer Survey • Notebook Shipments Expected To Rise Significantly In 2H12 • 25 Years of AppleShare Networking • Censoring The Web - Will Licenses Be Required To Surf? • Mac OS X 10.7.3 Supports New Crop Of Compact Cameras • Bean 3.0.6 Free Word Processor Update Released • Quicksilver 64 Keyboard-Driven Application Launcher And So Much More • SeaMonkey 2.7 Browser Suite Released…
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  • News: Halliburton Moving from BlackBerry to iPhone

    Julie Kuehl
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:20 pm
    Halliburton is the latest to deal Research in Motion a blow by announcing a plan to phase out BlackBerry phones and replace them with iPhones over the next two years, according to a report out of Canada.

  • Rumor: Report: Apple Talking to Canadian Carriers About iTV

    Bryan Chaffin
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:56 pm
    As rumors and speculation about an Apple television set continue to heat up, Toronto-based Globe and Mail reported that Apple is talking to Canadian carriers Rogers and Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) about being Canadian launch partners for such a product. Citing unnamed sources, the newspaper went so far as to say that both carriers had prototypes in their labs.

  • Lion: Apple Enables Lion Internet Recovery in Mid 2010 iMacs

    Bryan Chaffin
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:02 pm
    Apple released EFI Firmware Update 1.8, a firmware update for Mid 2010 iMacs that enables Lion Internet Recovery for the first time. Lion Internet Recovery allows Macs to recover or reinstall Lion over the Internet.

  • Rumor: Apple & Sam’s Club Discussing Expanded Retail Presence

    Bryan Chaffin
    7 Feb 2012 | 2:59 pm
    Apple and Wal-Mart’s retail warehouse outlet Sam’s Club are reportedly in early talks about an expanded Apple presence in 47 Sam’s Club locations in the U.S. Online reports said that the talks could lead to Apple stores-within-a-store being set up in Sam’s Club, or it could merely lead to the addition of Macs being offered alongside the iPods, iPhones, and iPads already sold at the discounter.

  • Deal Brothers: 11” MacBook Air 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5:  $849

    Bryan Chaffin
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:10 pm
    The Deal Brothers spooted  a new entry to Apple’s refurbished inventory, the refurbished MacBook Air 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 for $849.00. This system was originally released in July of 2011, and it ships for free.
 
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  • Zevrix releases Output Factory for InDesign

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:02 am
    Zevrix Solutions has announced Output Factory 1.0, its new solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. It's available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.7 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CS5.5. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign, and is anupgrade of the company's BatchOutput plug-in. In addition to the output of multiple files, single page export and variable file names, Output Factory offers array of new solutions, such as layer versioning, preflighting, workflow presets and processing history. read more

  • New ebook lets you 'Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion'

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:58 am
    TidBits has released "Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion," an US$10, 103-page ebook by Glenn Fleishman. It offers the latest advice on screen sharing with iChat, Back to My Mac, the Screen Sharing application in Mac OS X, and Skype, and describes the current versions of iTeleport and LogMeIn, iOS apps that let you run your Mac remotely by tapping and dragging. Although this new edition has "Lion" in the title, it is also the go-to Take Control ebook for questions about screen sharing with users of 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. read more

  • Canon introduces three new all-in-one printers

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:33 am
    Canon U.S.A. (http://www.usa.canon.com) has announced the addition of three Pixma Office printers to the lineup: the MX512 Wireless1 All-In-One (AIO), MX432 Wireless1 AIO and the MX372 AIO.  Available for both new wireless models is the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint mobile app, for use with compatible Apple and Android smart phones and tablets, allowing documents  to be scanned on the printer and sent directly to a compatible device. Users can print PDFs of documents that were created with the app directly from compatible devices, whereas in the past only photos could be printed.  read more

  • PadSync's iWork moving solution better than Apple's

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Apple's kludge for moving iWork docs between the iPad and a Mac pretty much stinks. It's awkward, unintuitive and very Apple-ish. Enter Ecamm's PadSync (http://www.ecamm.com/mac/padsync/), which offers a better alternative. The software was recently updated to version 1.1.1, fixing an issue that could cause PadSync to malfunction if iTunes Wi-Fi sync is enabled. Pages, Numbers and Keynote let you share files between your iPad and a Mac via iTunes File Sharing. PadSync streamlines the experience with two-way syncing and also works with other apps that support iTunes File Sharing. read more

  • Timesheets for Mac OS X gets project expense tracking

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 5:46 am
    Senomix Software has released Senomix Timesheets 4.1, an update to their Mac OS X and Windows time tracking system. The new version adds project expense tracking and employee expense claim entry. With the addition of expense tracking, Senomix Timesheets can now be used to record project costs through the same networked applications provided to track employee effort hours. The software enables both in-office and off-site employees to track effort and expenses directly from their computers. read more
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  • Apple Invades Corporate Market with iPad

    1 Feb 2012 | 4:08 pm
    Bloomberg’s Peter Burrows reports that Apple is making rapid headway selling into corporations — especially financial services and pharmaceutical firms. Burrows writes that Apple’s corporate sales are being driven chiefly by iPad, which “has become a standard business tool.” The article quotes Matt Wallach, co-founder of Veeva Systems, who says: “I’ve seen a lot of devices come and go over the years. Nothing touches the speed of adoption of the iPad.”

  • Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X

    31 Jan 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Apple today released Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.3, a significant update to its revolutionary professional video editing application. Version 10.0.3 introduces Multicam Editing, which automatically syncs up to 64 angles of video and photos; advanced chroma keying for handling complex adjustments right in the app; and enhanced XML for a richer interchange with third-party apps and plug-ins that support the fast growing Final Cut Pro X ecosystem. It also includes a beta version of Broadcast Monitoring that supports Thunderbolt devices as well as PCIe cards. Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.3 is…

  • Final Cut Pro X Update Reinvents Multicam Editing

    31 Jan 2012 | 6:56 pm
    StudioDaily’s Beth Marchant reports on “key features” delivered in Final Cut Pro version 10.0.3. Marchant interviews Radical Media CTO Evan Schechtman — an early adopter of Final Cut Pro X — who calls version 10.0.3 “an even bigger deal than the original release,” noting that his company is “ready to transition completely to Final Cut Pro X now that broadcast monitoring and multicam editing are in the mix.”

  • Apple Reports Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:17 pm
    Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. “We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads, and Macs,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and…

  • Apple Reinvents Textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Apple today announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging, and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, full-screen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, and unrivaled navigation. Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore, with most priced at $14.99 or less. And with the new iBooks Author, anyone with a Mac can create iBooks textbooks and publish them to Apple’s…
 
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    Insanely Great Mac

  • HoverBar from Twelve South attaches iPad to Macs

    7 Feb 2012 | 10:46 am
    Those looking to integrate an iPad into their workstation may find the HoverBar interesting. The iPad stand is designed to attach the tablet device to a iMac, Apple display, or seems like pretty much any edge up to 1-inch thick. This includes counters, desks, and cabinets. Described as the "ultimate sidecar," the HoverBar attaches with a secure clip. Twelve South says the clip is a secure mount and won't blemish the surface of your Mac. The flexible arm allows the iPad to be positioned as desired. By attaching to an iMac or display directly, the iPad is basically pointing the same direction…

  • Canon announces PIXMA printers with AirPrint support

    7 Feb 2012 | 10:35 am
    AirPrint allows iOS devices to wirelessly print to supported printers. Originally HP had the only compatible devices on the market, but slowly other manufacturers are coming on line. Today Canon announced the PIXMA line of wireless printers. The line consists of the PIXMA MG8220, MG6220, and MG5320. Suggested retail pricing on the three models are about $300, $200, and $150. Each are all-in-one photo printers and with up to 9600x2400 dpi to print up to 8.5x11 pages. AirPrint is compatible with Apple devices running iOS 4.2 or later.

  • Power Shine 4000 mAh battery announced from MiLi Power

    7 Feb 2012 | 10:25 am
    Tuesday MiLi Power announced a 4000 mAh external battery for mobile devices. The battery back up features dual USB ports to charge two devices at once. MiLi Power says the battery back up can charge iPhones, iPod, and iPads. Power Shine has two micro USB ports and includes an Apple 30-pin cable. While standard USB would be more practical and allow stock cables to be used, small devices may utilize the smaller USB connectors for save on space. The Power Shine allows smart phone users to increase talk time to 34 hours, up to 26 hours of data, and 90 hours of media playback. The battery back up…

  • Zefyr 2 Cooling Stand Follow Up (Video Review)

    7 Feb 2012 | 10:20 am
    A rare follow-up review addressing comments from the Zefyr 2 review last week. Sort of an update and sort of a re-do.

  • Final Cut Pro X Update, Buying iMac/MacBook Air, Facebook, + More! (Podcast)

    3 Feb 2012 | 9:57 am
    This week we dive into the latest updates for Final Cut Pro X, plus Motion and Compressor. Also, Apple has hired a new VP for retail. Also, when is a good time to buy a new MacBook Air and iMac? Plus the big Facebook IPO.
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    7 Feb 2012 | 4:50 pm

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  • Sponsored Post: Digital Camera Warehouse & Gary Fong

    6 Feb 2012 | 12:13 am
    One of the most important aspects of photography is lighting. Even the best cameras in the world cannot excel to their full potential in poor lighting. What if you could easily control your surrounding light, even out of the studio? Of course there’s no telling what Mother Nature might throw at you, but Gary Fong’s flash accessory line makes it easier than ever to get cleaner, more balanced shots from any DSLR. Sporting a versatile range of diffuser accessories for speedlites and the on-board flash, bouncing light exactly where you want it and diffusing harsh, unflattering glare for…
 
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    Macmegasite

  • My Gift Cards 1.0 released for iOS with iCloud support

    admin
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:40 am
    Chorley, United Kingdom – Independent developer, Andrew Winn today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of My Gift Cards 1.0, his free new financial utility developed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. My Gift Cards is a handy App that helps anyone track their Gift Card balances. Simple and easy-to-use, effortlessly keep track of running balances on individual gift cards, as well as the ability to synchronize transactions with iCloud. This makes it very easy to automatically backup and keep multiple iOS devices in sync. This makes My Gift Cards…

  • Popular Mac Git client Tower now with submodule support

    admin
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:10 am
    Berlin, Germany – fournova today is thrilled to announce the release of version 1.4 of Tower, which has quickly become one of the most popular Git clients for Mac OS X. Tower provides the user with a beautiful and powerful interface that combines all the important features that Git has to offer. This free update integrates Git’s submodule feature directly into Tower. Submodules allow users to keep external libraries cleanly separated from their own code. While a very useful feature, it can be quite difficult to work with from the command line. Tower makes managing and using…

  • Dualis 1.0 released for iOS – Addictive Time Killer Game

    admin
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Moscow, Russian Federation – iOS app developer, Artem Kantalinskiy has announced the release and immediate availability of Dualis 1.0, his addictive time killer game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Dualis is a best example of popular board game realisation for iOS device. Dualis (the original game name is “Numbers”) is quite popular among the students in Russia. If the class is boring the written game can take more space in a notebook than the actual course material. The goal is to remove all numbers from the original list. Just to make sure that you have not made any…

  • Piggy Woogy – iOS Jewel-Matching Action Fusion On Sale

    admin
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Seoul, Korea – Jdea recently launched iOS game Piggy Woogy, a match-3 puzzler with the added bonus of top-notch action, is available for a temporarily reduced price of $0.99. Piggy Woogy normally retails at $1.99, but Jdea is offering the game at a fifty percent discount in order to celebrate its quick success and to give even more gamers the opportunity to become part of the game’s enthusiastic fan base. Piggy Woogy owes its success to the game’s unique concept, which is a fusion of traditional match-three puzzle gaming and action. The game’s premise is reminiscent of…

  • Top 40 Card Game Solitaire Spin Free For A Limited Time

    admin
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    San Mateo, California – Selectsoft, a leading developer of family-friendly games, is offering their top 40 iPhone(R) card game Solitaire Spin as a free download today, tomorrow and Friday only. A fun combination of solitaire strategy with fast-paced action, Solitaire Spin features wild layouts, unexpected power-ups, eye-catching visuals and an exciting levels mode. With over 500 maps, 5 types of cards, 5 backgrounds and 3 game modes, Solitaire Spin will throw you for a loop! Solitaire Spin is available now on the App Store and will be free for three days beginning Wednesday. A top 40…
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  • My Gift Cards 1.0 released for iOS with iCloud support

    8 Feb 2012 | 6:40 am
    Independent developer, Andrew Winn today introduces My Gift Cards 1.0, his free new financial utility developed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. My Gift Cards is a handy App that helps anyone track their Gift Card balances. Simple and easy-to-use, effortlessly keep track of running balances on individual gift cards, as well as the ability to synchronize transactions with iCloud. This makes it very easy to automatically backup and keep multiple iOS devices in sync.

  • Popular Mac Git client Tower now with submodule support

    8 Feb 2012 | 6:10 am
    Berlin based software company fournova today announces Tower 1.4, an update to the company's popular Git client for Mac OS X. Tower provides the user with a beautiful and powerful interface that combines all the important features that Git has to offer. The new release introduces submodule support. Tower is used by 10.000+ developers and designers in more than 80 countries: from independent developers and startups to Fortune 100 companies.

  • Dualis 1.0 released for iOS - Addictive Time Killer Game

    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    iOS app developer Artem Kantalinskiy introduces Dualis 1.0, his addictive time killer game for iOS devices. Based on the original "Numbers", Dualis offers the best example of the popular board game. The goal is to remove all numbers from the original list. Remove the last number in a row and the first number in the next row if they are the same, or give 10 in sum. Simple to understand and play, Dualis features three gaming modes, a steps history as well as results and a hints system.

  • Piggy Woogy - iOS Jewel-Matching Action Fusion On Sale

    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Jdea recently launched iOS game Piggy Woogy, a match-3 puzzler with the added bonus of top-notch action, is available for a temporarily reduced price. Reminiscent of many fairy tales, Piggy Woogy is a fusion of traditional match-three puzzle gaming and action. Jdea is offering the game at a fifty percent discount in order to celebrate its quick success and to give even more gamers the opportunity to become part of the game's enthusiastic fan base.

  • Top 40 Card Game Solitaire Spin Free For A Limited Time

    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Selectsoft, a leading developer of family-friendly games, is offering their top 40 iPhone card game Solitaire Spin as a free download February 8, 9 and 10 only. A fun combination of solitaire strategy with fast-paced action, Solitaire Spin features wild layouts, unexpected power-ups, eye-catching visuals and an exciting levels mode. With over 500 maps, 5 types of cards, 5 backgrounds and 3 game modes, Solitaire Spin will throw you for a loop! Solitaire Spin is available now on the App Store.
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    Inside Mac Games

  • Battle.net Balance Now Available

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    February 8, 2012 5:00 AMBlizzard Entertainment has announced the release of Balance, a new feature for its Battle.net service. The addition gives players a new way to purchase the company's products and services directly through a Battle.net account. Balance allows the purchase of things such as character transfers and digital products, as well as a convenient place to store earnings from Diablo III's upcoming auction house.Battle.net Balance is now live! As we announced previously, Battle.net Balance is a new feature that gives players an alternate way to purchase Blizzard digital products…

  • Toki Tori 2: Porcupines And Knowledge Unlocks

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    February 8, 2012 5:00 AMTwo Tribes has posted a new blog about development of Toki Tori 2, the sequel to their original puzzle platformer. The new posts focus on the redesign of the porcupine for the sequel and the introduction of a new "knowledge unlocks" dynamic.Porcupine Design:As an inside joke I also thought it would be cool to have him be afraid of Toki Tori, since he’s been shot and frozen by him dozens of times in the original game. When he sees Toki Tori up close, he’ll back away until he can’t see Toki Tori anymore.I thought it may be cool to have him be available in a two…

  • The New Frontier Of Drox Operative

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    February 8, 2012 5:00 AMGamercast has posted a new interview with Soldak Entertainment's Steven Peeler about the company's upcoming starship action RPG, Drox Operative. The game will put players in the role of an elite starship captain and will feature warring alien races, fierce space battles, a dynamic and evolving galaxy, and co-op multiplayer.GC: Can we ask how the space battles work?SP: Battles are fairly quick conflicts fought in real-time, but are focused more on tactics rather than good reflexes. You decide where to pilot the ship and which weapons or other ship components to use and…

  • Civilization V Updated, Cross Platform Multiplayer Returns

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    February 8, 2012 5:00 AMAspyr Media has announced the release of a new patch for Civilization V. Among other things the patch updates the game to version 1.0.1.511 and brings the game back in synch with the Windows version, giving Mac players the chance to once again face off against their Windows PC counterparts.Aspyr has just announced that the latest patch for Civilization V Mac is up and running which means the Mac version is now back in sync with the PC version. Now what does this mean for you?Cross-platform multiplayer is now fully functional again!This patch is currently for the Steam…

  • Airport Madness 4 Available At MGS

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 am
    February 8, 2012 5:00 AMBig Fat Simulations' Airport Madness 4 is available now for purchase from Macgamestore.com. The sim title puts players in the role of an air traffic controller working to keep the skies as safe as possible for the passengers of the planes above. The game features six new airports, new aircraft, and new control features.Airport Madness 4 is loaded with six challenging new airports and numerous new control features. Helicopters, float planes and space shuttles are just a few of the new and interesting aircraft you will see. In addition, there are new control features…
 
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    MacUser

  • Latest Issue: Volume 28 No 3

    Adam Banks
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:00 am
    iBooks Author is a brand new and completely free Mac app that lets you create your own multimedia books for the iPad. Just before we went to press, we had the chance to explore its features for the first time, and we’ve put together a full tour for you in MacUser Vol 28 No 3, on sale now. See how you can set up a book and insert your own text and pictures in minutes; the slick interactive elements you can add using tools within the app; the limitation that for some users will prove iBooks’ fatal flaw; and the steps you need to complete before you can sell your iBooks. Last month,…

  • Motorola wins ban on push email on Apple devices in Germany

    Kenny Hemphill
    3 Feb 2012 | 10:18 am
    Motorola has won a permanent injunction in Germany against push email services in Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe. When Motorola enforces the judgement, Apple will have to remove push email from the iPhone and iPad in Germany. Although the injunction is permanent, it can be appealed and it’s likely that Apple will do just that. According to patent expert Florian Mueller ‘Motorola can seek its enforcement anytime now if it posts a 100 million euro bond, but if an appeals court overturns the ruling, Motorola will be liable for premature enforcement of an improperly-granted…

  • Browett won’t bring Dixons to Apple says Tim Cook

    Kenny Hemphill
    1 Feb 2012 | 10:54 am
    Apple’s decision to recruit Dixons CEO, John Browett as its international retail chief caused more than a few raised eyebrows on this side of the Atlantic. The philosophy and sales strategy of PC World and Currys could scarcely be more different to Apple’s, and anyone who remembers the failed ‘store within in a store’ partnership between the two companies in the late nineties still shudders at the thought of trying to get accurate information on Apple products from Dixons’ sales staff. My favourite story was told by a MacUser reader who wrote to us to say that he…

  • NYT admonished by workers’ rights group over Apple China story

    Kenny Hemphill
    30 Jan 2012 | 4:15 pm
    The New York Times has been criticised by an organisation which promotes the rights of workers over a story it ran last week which contained devastating accounts of the treatment of employees at factories in China where Apple products are made. BSR, a group which promotes corporate responsibility and the rights of workers was unhappy with the way it was portrayed in the Times article. In a letter to the Times, BSR President and CEO, Aron Cramer, wrote ‘The narrative you present is an inaccurate picture of the work we have done with Apple, of the role Apple played in the worker hotline…

  • Twitter censorship plan under fire

    Kenny Hemphill
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:12 am
    Twitter has been widely criticised over the implementation of a system which will allow it to block tweets in specific countries while allowing them to be published in others. The social network said it would assess requests to block tweets on a case by case basis and that its approach to freedom of speech would not change. In a blog post the company pointed out that content which was legal in some countries would breach the law in others. It cited France and Germany, where pro-Nazi content is banned, as an example. The new filter would, it said, allow it to block relevant tweets in countries…
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    Macenstein

  • “If you see a stylus, they blew it.”

    Dr. Macenstein
    5 Feb 2012 | 10:22 pm
    Looks like Samsung blew it. As has been the trend in recent years, Apple once again did not bother to fork over the big bucks for a Super Bowl spot, but that doesn’t mean Apple wasn’t represented. Of course, it was in the form of a line of Apple-fanboys lined up in the cold (presumably [...]

  • If there’s anyone who sould be walking…

    Dr. Macenstein
    5 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pm
    Lest anyone think you can’t look cool on a Segway… behold the Woz! Yes, the helmet, the frappuccino, the giant watch, the presumed thyroid problem… it’s all there ladies. Soak it in. (Taken from Woz’s visit to Perceptive Software) [via reddit]

  • Review: Antec Advance Screen cleaners

    Dr. Macenstein
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:06 am
    For most of us, the goto way to clean our iPods, iPhone, and iPads is the old “breathe onto it and quickly rub it with your shirt before the vapor disappears” thing, and with good reason – it works quite well. So given that you have your own built-in supply of hot water vapor, is it [...]

  • How to: Use your iPhone to check your remote control’s batteries

    Dr. Macenstein
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:37 pm
    While researching Jesus and kittens I came across this wonderfully informative clip from EyeHandy.com that shows you how you can use your iPhone to check the batteries in any infrared device you may own. Enjoy!

  • How to: Turn your favorite iOS game’s music and sound files into Ringtones and text alerts

    Dr. Macenstein
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:46 am
    One of the side effects of playing a particularly addictive iPhone game is that quite often you find the soundtrack running through your head at night as you try to sleep, almost BEGGING to be used to make the world’s most annoying ringtone. But how to go about it? Sure, you could try to record [...]
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    MacUpdate: Recent Mac OS X

  • PhotoLine 17.02 - Powerful image effects processor and transparent gif converter.. (Shareware)

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:25 am
    PhotoLine is an imaging processing software, image browser, layout program, vector editor, batchconverter and web editor with many functions.It is available as 32/64 bit application.The imaging functions fully supports Lab, CMYK, 16 bit per channel, ICC profiles and raw data of digital cameras. It offers all tools you need: Painting, cloning, filtering, blending and flood fill, special effects like squirl, shadow, glowing, distorb, morphing, 3d projection. Working layers, clipping layers, dynamic layer effects. EXIF digital camera data and IPTC data are supported. Multiple undo/redo levels,…

  • MathMagic Pro for Quark 8.0 - Equation editor for QuarkXPress.. (Demo)

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:20 am
    MathMagic Pro for Quark is an equation editor mainly for use with QuarkXPress software in editing any mathematical expressions and symbols with WYSIWYG interface and various powerful features. It lets QuarkXPress write or edit beautiful publishing quality equations very fast right inside QuarkXPress documents.Version 8.0:Added: Compatibility with Apple iBooks Author and other applications that are supported by Drag and Drop or Copy and Paste in PDF format. Also supports re-editing of equations by dragging or pasting back to MathMagic window.Added: User can select the way that Vector Accents…

  • MathMagic Pro for InDesign 8.0 - Equation editor for Adobe InDesign.. (Demo)

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:18 am
    MathMagic Pro for InDesign is an equation editor mainly for use with Adobe InDesign software in editing any mathematical expressions and symbols with WYSIWYG interface and various powerful features. It lets you write or edit equations right inside the InDesign documents without going through export/import. The superior quality and productivity of MathMagic was accepted by many DTP professionals around the world.Version 8.0:Added: Compatibility with Apple iBooks Author and other applications that are supported by Drag and Drop or Copy and Paste in PDF format. Also supports re-editing of…

  • MathMagic Personal Edition 8.0 - Equation editor.. (Demo)

    8 Feb 2012 | 7:15 am
    MathMagic Personal Edition helps you to create and edit complex mathematical expressions using point-and-click user interface as well as keyboard shortcuts. Users can create intricated mathematical equations easily using intuitive equation palettes in MathMagic editor. MathMagic let you create beautiful equations very fast, and then use the equations with other software by drag&drop, copy&paste, and export&import. It works well with word processors(AppleWorks, iWork, Nisus, ...), presentation(Keynote, PowerPoint, ...), and other graphic or DTP layout software. MathMagic works with Google…

  • BrainsBreaker 5.1.1 - Design and build realistic jigsaw puzzles.. (Shareware)

    8 Feb 2012 | 6:51 am
    With BrainsBreaker you can create and play with jigsaw puzzles on your Mac with realistic pictures and a very comfortable operation. Almost everything is done with a click of mouse. Enjoy the actual of puzzle solving experience with more advantages, it allows creating your own jigsaw puzzles with any image visible on your screen. From four to more than one thousand pieces with assorted shapes. Rotable pieces, resizing the puzzle while playing, nails, boxes, scores, even a magnifying glass to inspect pieces. Save your job and resume it when you wish, exactly as you left it. Fun for all ages!
 
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    The Mac Lawyer

  • Rocket Matter 2.0 Released, Now Featuring Document Assembly

    J. Benjamin Stevens
    30 Jan 2012 | 12:25 pm
    The Mac Lawyer has long found Rocket Matter to be the leading practice management program for law firms, including my own.  It providers users the ability to quickly and efficiently manage their calendars, tasks, contacts, and time and billing.  Within the last few months, it introduced the ability to integrate with Dropbox and Evernote. Last week, Rocket Matter announced its 2.0 release, which now features document assembly.  Users can merge client and matter data to easily generate customizable documents, with no limit to the number of custom fields that may be used.  This new…

  • Guest Post :: Document Management for the Mac-Using Lawyer with DocMoto

    J. Benjamin Stevens
    12 Jan 2012 | 9:02 am
    Note from The Mac Lawyer:  Among the questions that I am asked most often are: “What document management systems are available on the Mac?” and/or “My firm uses Worldox.  Is there anything similar for the Mac?”  While the Finder may be a suitable solution for some smaller law firms, many others want something more powerful.  I recently had an opportunity to meet face-to-face with the developers of an exciting new product, DocMoto, and view its features.  I was so impressed that I asked them to provide this Guest Post to make my readers aware of their product…

  • Guest Post :: Implications of iCloud on the Legal Field

    J. Benjamin Stevens
    14 Dec 2011 | 7:00 am
    Cloud computing technology has been making serious headway in the past few years. Most of those endeavors have been on the “back end,” allowing businesses to create and implement scalable solutions that rely on third-party, Internet-based providers. The legal field, however, has sometimes been resistant to these technologies. A variety of concerns – primarily those involving security – have kept many cloud solutions at bay. With the advent of Apple’s iCloud, however, the legal field may not be able to hold out much longer. While iCloud isn’t necessarily revolutionary in what it…

  • Guest Post :: 5 Top Law Apps You Must Have

    J. Benjamin Stevens
    12 Dec 2011 | 7:00 am
    The iPod, iPhone and iPad changed how people communicate and do business, and this is true in the legal profession, as well. Lawyers are always on the go and need tools to stay in touch with the office, as well as the courts. The five apps outlined below can be of help. All can be found and purchased in the app store. You might want your iPod Touch white to keep the defense looking innocent or perhaps a black iPhone if you’re the prosecution. Let us see what Apps we have for your device. Fastcase The free Fastcase app offers primary law access for federal law and every state. This includes…

  • Guest Post :: Apple Store in Grand Central Station Opens Friday

    J. Benjamin Stevens
    8 Dec 2011 | 10:40 am
    Grand Central Terminal, the iconic train station in New York City, is planning on unveiling a new Apple Store this Friday, December 9, 2011. This is the fifth Apple Store to be opened in Manhattan and will be 23,000-square feet in size. Apple, Inc. is paying $180 per square foot, amounting to $4,140,000 for the store to be opened. In addition, Apple made a $2.5 million capital investment in the space with a $1.1 million annual rate that will continuously rise each year of the 10-year lease. Furthermore, Apple paid Metrazur, the restaurant that occupied their space prior to building the store,…
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  • Five of the Best and Funniest Spoof Siri Videos

    Andy Boxall
    6 Feb 2012 | 8:30 am
    Siri, the virtual assistant introduced with iOS 5 and exclusive to the iPhone 4S, has already become a household name. This is not only due to the iPhone’s huge success and its mainstream acceptance, but also for videos like the ones you see below – clever spoofs and parodies featuring the software. This list is inspired [...]

  • Top Ten iPhone and iPad Apps Released This Week

    Andy Boxall
    3 Feb 2012 | 12:03 pm
    Looking for a new app this weekend?  Here are ten great new apps for the iPhone and iPad that you may want to check out! Remarks. Make notes, annotate PDFs and sketch out ideas with this iPad app, where documents can be shared with others when collaborating on a project. $4.99/£2.99. The Affection Collection. An Australian RSPCA [...]

  • Five Great-Looking Retro iPhone Games Coming Soon

    Andy Boxall
    1 Feb 2012 | 12:18 pm
    Retro games remain very popular, especially on iOS, and there are plenty of great games in production at the moment that fans of the genre should know about. We’ve gathered together five retro games that are coming soon for iOS, mixing some remakes of old classics with some ‘retro-inspired’ titles from developers with an established history [...]

  • Top Ten iPhone and iPad Apps Released This Week

    Andy Boxall
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:48 am
    Looking for a new app this weekend?  Here are ten great new apps for the iPhone and iPad that you may want to check out! Steam Mobile. This free app lets you join in with the Steam gaming community on your iPhone, though chats, news stores and the various groups.  Free. My Army. An endless run game [...]

  • iPhone/iPad App Review – Smash Cops

    Andy Boxall
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    Smash Cops is a brilliant idea. It’s based on those thousands of police pursuit-type TV shows that feature nothing but the cops chasing down a suspect, all shot from a police helicopter.  They’re trash of the highest order, but compelling and exciting trash nonetheless.  Making a game using that exact formula is inspired, and Smash [...]
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    Mac Amour

  • OS X Lion Update 10.7.3 is finally available

    Hedi Regaya
    5 Feb 2012 | 7:02 am
    The 10.7.3 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac including fixes that: Add... Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

  • Sean Connery bombs Steve Jobs over iMac ad proposal

    Hedi Regaya
    28 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
    Just weeks before the iMac’s first Christmas in 1998, Steve Jobs, a lifelong fan of James Bond, instructed his ad agency to begin work on a special celebrity Christmas ad featuring 007 himself, Sean... Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

  • Georges Clooney is Mac guy. What else?

    Hedi Regaya
    21 Jan 2012 | 6:46 am
    What else? Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

  • John Sculley says he never fired co-founder Steve Jobs

    Hedi Regaya
    21 Jan 2012 | 4:42 am
    Former Apple Chief Executive John Sculley has said in recent interviews that the late Steve Jobs was never fired from the company he helped found, an assertion that runs counter to Jobs’ own... Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!

  • RimAlbumArtDaemon is using all of my MacBook Pro resources

    Hedi Regaya
    21 Jan 2012 | 4:40 am
    This is an issue I’m having since I installed the BlackBerry Desktop Software (BDS) on my MacBook Pro. It makes iTunes slower, Mac overheating and the RimAlbumArtDaemon using up to 98% of my... Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!
 
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  • Timing

    mikeZot
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am
    Timing The Time Tracker you always wanted Now $5.99 – Normally $19.99. 70% off! The developer of Timing and macZOT have come together to DROP the App Store price especially for YOU during today’s ZOT! Normally: $19.99 ZOT Price: $5.99 Click to MacZOT    Available exclusively on the App Store, Timing is the best way to keep track of the time you spend with your Mac. Find out where your time goes – without ever having to start a timer again! Timing automatically tracks which documents you are editing, which applications you use, and the domains of the websites you…

  • Clean Text – Site License

    mikeZot
    5 Feb 2012 | 12:57 am
    Clean Text – Site License (Install on up to five computers!)An Essential Tool to Reduce Text Cleanup TimeGrab the single user version from the App Store at a ZOT price below… Normally: $19.99 ZOT Price: $4.99 Click to MacZOT    An essential tool for webmasters, graphic designers and magazine editors to reduce text cleanup time, and a great tool for any Mac user that needs to cleanup an email, document, or other material. Clean Text is a must when you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another, and you want the text to get the attributes…

  • Union RapidWeaver Bundle

    mikeZot
    4 Feb 2012 | 12:06 am
    Union RapidWeaver Bundle Create Astonishing Web PagesValentina Studio Pro and Udemy Zots Continue… Normally: $525.00 ZOT Price: $49.90 Click to MacZOT    The Union RapidWeaver Bundle by Rapid Ideas includes 17 highly professional themes an 10 stacks for the web design tool Rapidweaver. Our clean and crisp designs and feature rich stacks will turn your project into a web 2.0 website, including many variations to choose from and many features not found in any other themes or stacks. Most of our clients are from the creative or artistic sector who want to present their work in a…

  • Valentina Studio Pro

    mikeZot
    3 Feb 2012 | 12:21 am
    Valentina Studio Pro Visually manage, analyze databases and generate rich reports Weekend ZOT Preview Below… Web Development Code Camp ZOT Continues… Ruby Programming for Beginners ZOT Continues… Normally: $199.99 ZOT Price: $99.00 Click to MacZOT    Valentina Studio Pro is the one information managment tool you need to securely manage databases (local and server) and generate rich reports. Use powerful tools for visually creating database schema, building queries, setting properties and inspecting any element of your data. Pull data in, then turn queries into…

  • Webbla

    mikeZot
    2 Feb 2012 | 12:04 am
    Webbla Organize your bookmarks visually with Delicious and Pinboard support! Web Development Code Camp ZOT Continues… Ruby Programming for Beginners ZOT Continues… Normally: $21.98 ZOT Price: $10.98 Click to MacZOT    If you like to handle your music and photos with iTunes and iPhoto, Webbla is the right application to handle your bookmarks. Webbla is visual bookmark manager for Mac OS X Leopard. Instead of remembering your bookmarks by title, Webbla gives you a new way to remember them visually. Personalizing your bookmarks with tags or keeping them in different…
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    i drank the kool-aid

  • Perfect subject to break a posting fast

    dizzle
    30 Jan 2012 | 6:25 am
    I have been in my appropriate period of mourning for the passing of Steve Jobs. And well have been busy, and have totally lost touch with most things Apple. I was scanning through my RSS reader, and found this absolutely inane drivel from Unclutterer. Read the comments, they are classic. I just wanted to post a comment, actually just one sentence: Guess who feels like an idiot now? The author claims to be a fan of Apple products. Here is my advice to him: sell them all. You are too stupid for them and they might kill you in your sleep and then commit suicide to end their defilement. Posted…

  • totally lost and dazed

    dizzle
    26 Jul 2011 | 6:12 am
    Due to my divorce and all the fall-out, I am completely out of touch with all things Apple. Sad, but true. I am reading Infinite Loop right now, and it is giving me some interesting background insight that I didn’t have before. But honestly, I am totally grossed out that Dear Leader didn’t bathe. Ewwwwww. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Facebook Share this on FriendFeed Post on Google Buzz Email this to a friend? Add this to Mister Wong Share this on Mixx Send this page to Print Friendly Share this on…

  • give us this day our daily kool-aid august 16, 2010

    dizzle
    16 Aug 2010 | 7:57 pm
    The iCon bed for all your iPad sleeping needs (via Cult of Mac), Random Jobsian pic, Via iPhone Savior, 100 Pieces of Steve Jobs Art In One Epic Collage The Macelope’s take on Microsoft’s new PC v Mac page, The web page they’ve set up is quintessential Microsoft in that it feels like a paunchy, balding, Corvette-driving divorcé giving you advice on “keepin’ it real.” Just look at the coolness dripping off the page! The vaguely Mediterranean stock photo girl with an indoor hammock is smiling at you so you know a PC is better than a Mac, dude! Join the soft rock party! And…

  • give us this day our daily kool-aid August 7, 2010

    dizzle
    7 Aug 2010 | 11:12 am
    I can relate… And check out this guy… I guess he won’t be joining Cupidtino any time soon. The iPad is da bomb! The US Army isn’t the only security force adopting Apple’s iOS devices for training and military operations; the UK is also now actively using iPad to train its soldiers.” A lovely Apple tribute, Kevin Rose snaps photo of Steve Jobs leaving Pizza place in San Francisco I love the Macelope, everyone’s got Apple fans figured out. iPad owners are jerks and IT’S ALL JUST A BIG CULT! I want this sign, Poor monkey boy, Subscribe to the comments for…

  • give us this day our daily kool-aid july 31, 2010

    dizzle
    31 Jul 2010 | 12:04 am
    Fox finally figures this out, Quain reports, “So if they wanted to, could Apple devotees actually create an official Apple religion? After all, many believe in the power of the iPhone and millions of consumers would buy any product the company introduces, flaws and all.” Wesley Smith is a man after my own heart. He goes on holiday, and the first picture he features is of an Apple temple, From Stuff Christians Like on Pastors who read sermon notes from an iPad, 2. It’s distracting. The brilliant thing about Apple is that they turn every Apple owner into a disciple and…
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    Apple

  • App Economy has created almost half a million jobs

    Ryan Kim
    7 Feb 2012 | 3:18 pm
    Could the app economy be the cure for the United States’ employment doldrums? A new report suggests that the nascent app economy spurred on by iOS, Android and Facebook apps has generated 466,000 jobs in the U.S. economy since 2007. In the report by technology trade group TechNet, Michael Mandel of the South Mountain Economics, who conducted the research, found that 311,000 app-related jobs have been generated and another 155,000 jobs have also been indirectly created from the app boom. The figures are estimates and are based on calculations on the existing market for app-related jobs.

  • Apple’s iTV and the carrier question

    Ryan Lawler
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:26 pm
    Evidence is slowly emerging that Apple could be working with operator partners for the introduction of its upcoming iTV product. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple may get access to programs through partnerships with carriers such as AT&T and Verizon. And Tuesday the Globe and Mail reported that Apple is pursuing partnerships with Canadian operators Rogers and BCE. But why would Apple feel the need to partner? Because doing so would give it a more complete lineup of content, enable it to offer a better user interface and give it wider distribution than if it went it alone.

  • How to make video Skype calls on HDTV with AirPlay Mirroring

    Geoffrey Goetz
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Sometimes you want to make video calls between two groups of people, not just individual person-to-person calls. For such occasions, here are a few little tips that will make the experience of placing video calls on your iPhone 4S a much better one.  The goal: Live video calls over the internet to a large HDTV in the family room. The challenge is getting the best video quality possible, as well as making the call as convenient to manage as possible. And believe it or not, the trick is to use a smartphone car mount with a hand mirror. That’s right, a common household hand mirror. What…

  • SkyLight project turns iPhones into microscopes

    Kevin C. Tofel
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:34 am
    We already knew the iPhone 4S camera was good thanks to its small pixel size and backlit sensor. That’s helping the iPhone 4S rise up the ranks of most popular camera on Flickr. It may also help the iPhone 4S become the most used smartphone in a microscope. Before you think, “say what?” have a gander at this 400x video scan of a tubular adenoma of the colon, taken with an iPhone 4S and the Skylight, a smartphone adapter for microscopes that’s now a Kickstarter project. The SkyLight actually works with nearly any other smartphone as well, but it should excel with an…

  • IDC: Apple sold most smartphones in Q4, but Samsung wins 2011

    Erica Ogg
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:43 am
    Updated. Both Apple and Samsung have sold a historic amount of smartphones in the past year, and coming up with a tally of who sold more is harder than you’d think. But IDC says they’ve done all the number crunching looking at company shipments and have determined the most popular smartphone maker. Apple’s 37 million iPhones sold last quarter were good enough to just eke out a win in smartphones sold during the final three months of 2011. Meanwhile, Samsung shipped 36 million units during the same time frame, according to IDC. But for all of 2011, Samsung actually shipped…
 
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    Mac Tricks And Tips

  • Photostyler – Adjust, Play and Modify Your Photos

    admin
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:39 am
    Hey With numerous digital cameras attached to most electronic devices and the ability to share those images over the world wide web, making those images unique and different can be a difficult experience. Applying that vintage, distressed or Polaroid look can be a little difficult. However, today’s app, Photostyler takes the problem out of adjusting images and makes it fun in the process. The outputted result aren’t to bad either. Once your download and install the app, you will be presented with a blank canvas ready to modify and change your image. When you load an image you will…

  • Loop / Repeat Terminal Commands

    admin
    6 Feb 2012 | 9:42 am
    Hey I want to extend your Terminal knowledge today by introducing a simple loop command. This is useful if you want to repeat or loop a Terminal command indefinitely. This is a simple bash script that has a variety of uses. The script is a simple one line command that needs very little adjusting on your part. The first step is to open up Terminal. Then copy and paste, or type, the following into the Terminal prompt. bash -c 'while [ 0 ]; do date;done' This will activate a bash script, and will repeat the listed command indefinitely, press Control + C to stop the loop. Replace the word date,…

  • Stress Test Your Mac and CPU

    admin
    4 Feb 2012 | 8:49 am
    Hey When you have a new or old Mac, every so often you will want to stress test your Mac to see if it has any problems or it can handle the heat. There are a variety of different ways in which you can do this, however one of the simplest ways is to use Terminal. This guide will show you how to set your CPU running at max speed, which you can tailor to the number of CPU’s cores you have. Then its just a matter of watching the results in Activity Monitor, watch for stability issues and see the temperature of your Mac rise. The first step is to open Activity Monitor located in Applications…

  • Create CSS Sprites With A Simple App

    admin
    3 Feb 2012 | 9:10 am
    Hey Today I am going to review an application which will be of interest to any one who has anything to do with web development, particularly CSS and HTML. One of the best ways to speed up the loading of a website is to put every image used in the CSS file into one large image. This means when your website loads, it doesn’t have to ask for many small images. It only asks for one large image (called a sprite) this improves loading times. For the new users generating a CSS sprite, where there is one large image that contains all of the images you are going to use can be difficult, if not…

  • Four RSS Reader Apps For The Mac

    admin
    1 Feb 2012 | 10:02 am
    Hey, I like to get the latest content from various blogs around the world via RSS feeds. After having a discussion with a couple of people about the best RSS readers out there in the world wide web I am going to show you four really good RSS readers which you can use to get all of the latest content from your favorite blogs. There are three app’s in the list and one web based RSS reader, all different prices points each with a multitude of features. Like anything, there are a variety of different readers and app to do the job. If you have a particular favourite that you recommend please…
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    MacBlogz

  • EFI Firmware Update brings Lion Internet Recovery to 2010-model Macs

    Chris Rawson
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:30 pm
    Apple has released three EFI Firmware Updates for 2010-model Macs, including the iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. This update enables Lion Internet Recovery on those older Macs. Introduced in OS X Lion alongside the mid-2011 updates to the MacBook Air and Mac mini, Internet Recovery enables access to disk repair or OS X Lion installation options via a broadband internet connection. This is intended for use on a failed hard drive or a blank drive that's never had OS X installed on it. Together with a series of earlier firmware updates, all Macs introduced from 2010 onward now have access to…

  • Apple to Stream Live Paul McCartney Concert to iTunes and Apple TV

    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:18 pm
    Apple today announced that it will be supporting Paul McCartney's new album release with a special free video stream of a live concert on Thursday, February 9 [iTunes Store]. The concert is not only being streamed via iTunes on Mac and PC, but will also be available directly on users' Apple TVs, signaling new efforts by Apple to increase the utility of its set-top box.To celebrate the release of Paul McCartney's latest album — available now — we're streaming his exclusive performance at Capitol Studios on February 9 at 7 p.m. (PST). Watch the concert on iTunes on your computer, or stream…

  • Apple Brings Lion Internet Recovery to More 2010 Macs

    Eric Slivka
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:44 pm
    Apple today released a series of three EFI firmware updates bringing Lion Internet Recovery to the company's Late 2010 MacBook Air, Mid-2010 iMac, and Early 2010 MacBook Pro. Available firmware updates include: - MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3 (2.98 MB):This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Air (Late 2010) models and addresses an issue where the system could restart if the power button is pressed immediately after waking from deep sleep.- iMac EFI Update 1.8 (3.02 MB):This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on iMac (Mid 2010)…

  • Mass Effect 3 getting an iOS game

    Mike Schramm
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Mass Effect 2 got its own iOS game when it was released on the traditional consoles a few years ago, and since Mass Effect 3 is due out in another month or so here, you probably won't be surprised to hear that EA is again planning another iOS game tie-in for the release. This time around, though, it sounds like they're doing it a little more intelligently. The last game focused on the first companion you met in the full console game, telling a little bit about his backstory through a pretty straightforward (and honestly, kind of boring) action game. This time around, the iOS title will again…

  • VP of iPhone and iPod Engineering David Tupman leaves Apple

    Mike Schramm
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:00 pm
    David Tupman, the VP of iPhone and iPod Engineering at Apple, made his exit from Cupertino at the end of last year, according to reports at 9to5Mac. Tupman, who grew up in the UK, has a background in engineering, and has been in the position ever since the introduction of the first iPod, all the way up through the release of the iPhone 4. It's unknown where Tupman is headed next -- it's rumored that he may be headed to work on Nest with another former Apple Engineer, Tony Fadell, but Nest denies those rumors. As for Apple, it'll be fine, of course. A company doing as well as Apple will likely…
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    MacCast - For Mac Geeks, by Mac Geeks

  • Maccast 2012.02.01 - Macworld|iWorld 2012, part 2

    Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)
    1 Feb 2012 | 4:45 pm
    A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 383. The second part of my coverage from Macworld|iWorld 2012 which took place in San Francisco at Moscone Center West. In this episode: TourWrist iBallz Jot (Adonit) Other World Computing Western Digital Blue Microphones Nomadbrush The Omni Group Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or Enhanced AAC

  • Maccast 2012.01.30 - Macworld|iWorld 2012, part 1

    Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)
    31 Jan 2012 | 1:56 am
    A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 382. The first part of my coverage from Macworld|iWorld 2012 which took place in San Francisco at Moscone Center West. In this episode: Nivio Seagate OlloClip CloudFTP (Hypershop) PDFPen for iPad (Smile) iStopMotion for iPad (Boinx) TabletTail (Octa) Dolly Drive Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Circus Ponies NoteBook - The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or Enhanced AAC

  • Maccast 2012.01.25

    Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:15 am
    A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 381. Apple's education event. Apple's 1st quarter 2012 results. Interview with computer historian David Greelish about his interview with John Sculley. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Smile - Disc Label smilesoftware.com. Links Classic Computing Blog John Sculley Interview (MacObserver) Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or Enhanced AAC

  • Maccast 2012.01.16

    Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)
    17 Jan 2012 | 1:45 am
    A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 380. Fifth OS X Beta seeded to devs. With iPad Apple could be largest PC maker. Latest on the iPad 3. Target to get Apple Store in Stores. Using Photostream to find lost iPad. Apple NYC Education event. Apple total media domination. Replacing iDisk. Mail attachment and Outlook issues. Windows on the iPad. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Circus Ponies NoteBook - The Easy Way to Get Organized on the Mac. Try it FREE for 30 Days. Hover – Domain names made simple. Subscribe to the…

  • Maccast 2012.01.10

    Adam Christianson (Mac Geek)
    10 Jan 2012 | 4:40 pm
    A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 379. Apple quarterly results call scheduled. Continuing the March to iPad 3. Cash in the Flash. TV industry "petrified" about the iTV. iOS edited photos lose resolution. Apple TV 2 Jailbreak. Mac OS X, troubleshooting the stuff you can't see. Managing iOS storage. Want more Maccast? Become a Maccast Member. Special thanks to our sponsors: Faronics Deep Freeze Gazelle - THE place to get cash for your used gadgets. Shownotes in: HTML or OPML Subscribe to the Podcast Feed or Get the MP3 or Enhanced AAC
 
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    MacMost

  • MacMost New 668: Combining RSS Feeds In Safari

    Gary Rosenzweig
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:42 am
    Learn how to take multiple RSS feeds and view them all on one page in Safari. You can create your own custom page of news from sources you like to read. You can also search this page to find articles to read.

  • Your iPad and Your Neck

    Ilene Hoffman
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:16 pm
    As a new iPad 2 owner I was rooting around the Web to see what help resources are available. I looked at cases, software reviews, and hardware accessories. What I found are a lot of photos of people with their heads bent down in an odd position while using their iPads. I thought that doesn’t [...]

  • MacMost Now 667: Trimming Audio With QuickTime Player

    Gary Rosenzweig
    6 Feb 2012 | 10:26 am
    You can use QuickTime Player in Lion to edit audio files as well as video. You can trim down the audio, getting rid of unwanted sections at the beginning and end. You can also use the same technique to divide an audio file into several parts.

  • MacMost Now 666: Parts Of the Finder Window

    Gary Rosenzweig
    3 Feb 2012 | 8:22 am
    Take a look at the different parts of the Finder window like the Toolbar, Status Bar, Sidebar, and Path Bar. You can show and hide these elements, as well as customize them and what appears in each one. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. In today’s episode, let’s take [...]

  • Mac Updates: OS X 10.7.3, Final Cut Pro

    Gary Rosenzweig
    2 Feb 2012 | 9:49 am
    Apple released updates to Mac OS X Lion and Final Cut Pro this week. The OS X update, version 10.7.3 includes support for some new languages, as well as bug fixes and security fixes. The security updates are also available for Snow Leopard users. These updates can be downloaded by simply running Software Update. Final [...]
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    thriftmac

  • Aptana

    Mark
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:51 pm
    Open-source web development IDE allows you to create web applications with an all-in-one interface. While it’s great as a free alternative, Mac users may find the look and feel a bit jarring.

  • iFileX

    Mark
    4 Feb 2012 | 10:46 pm
    Quickly search in the nooks and crannies of your Mac where Spotlight fails to shed its light. That includes hidden files, packages content, and bundles content. Filters narrow things down, and boolean operators provide precision.

  • Full Deck Solitaire

    Mark
    31 Jan 2012 | 2:08 pm
    Perennial favourite in the Mac App Store features a slick interface, plenty of features and developers with a love for the game. It’s become the best card solitaire game available for the Mac, and is genuinely free.

  • CleanGenius

    Mark
    29 Jan 2012 | 1:44 pm
    Check your caches, logs, trash and downloads for files that don’t need to be there. Decide whether you want to delete them to free up space on your hard drive. Built-in utilities uninstall apps and check on how much space you have. Nice interface if you find Onyx intimidating. “Pro” version also available, but free version provides plenty of functionality.

  • iBooks Author

    Mark
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Create and publish multi-touch books for iPad with this free tool from Apple. Start with a template and use drag-and-drop to customize it with photo galleries, movies, slideshows and 3D objects. Preview it on an iPad, then submit it to the iBookstore.
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    ScreenCastsOnline Free Version

  • IOS0042 - Skitch for iPad [Trailer]

    Mac Video Tutorials
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm
    Skitch for iPad is a fantastic free annotation tool for the iPad. Skitch for iPad allows you to capture photos, screenshots, web pages, maps or just doodle on screen. Once captured, Skitch has a full set of annotation tools to mark up any images with lines, shapes arrows or text. Once you've annotated you images, you can share via email, Twitter or save them to your camera roll. If you're an Evernote user, you can even save then directly to your Evernote account. With full AirPlay support on iPad 2, Skitch turns your iPad into a really useful presentation device. Annotate images in real time…

  • 331 - QuickTime X vs QuickTime 7 [Trailer]

    Mac Video Tutorials
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm
    [Trailer for Full Show] Quicktime is the foundation of Apple’s multimedia offerings. With the introduction of QuickTime X in Snow Leopard, Apple have begun the process of re-writing QuickTime from the ground up. As a result, many of the original capabilities of the QuickTime 7 player have been left in the latest version of QuickTime X. This first part of a two part series takes a look at both QuickTime X and QuickTime 7, and examines the features still available via the legacy player. In the first section of the tutorial we look at some of the great new features of QuickTime X including…

  • New ScreenCastsOnline Website Overview

    ScreenCastsOnline
    12 Jan 2012 | 10:47 am
    THus video walks you through some of the new features of the ScreenCastsOnline website and contains important information for existing members

  • 328 - Alfred Part 2 - PowerPack [Free Tutorial]

    ScreenCastsOnline
    6 Jan 2012 | 2:18 am
    As promised, it's time to check out some of the more advanced features of Alfred, the superb application launcher and productivity enhancer from Running with Crayons. I covered the basic operations of the free version of Alfred in a previous show (SCO0325). In this week's show, I take a look at some of the more advanced features, enabled by the installation of the optional PowerPack module. I was impressed with the free version of Alfred, but as a staunch LaunchBar user, I missed some of the more advanced features. However, once you purchase and install the optional Alfred PowerPack, many…

  • 327 - ScreenCastsOnline - Behind the Scenes! [Trailer]

    ScreenCastsOnline
    28 Dec 2011 | 8:18 am
    [Trailer for members show] Last show of the year so I thought I'd do something different. This week I take you through the ScreenCastsOnline workflow, from preparation, through recording and editing, on to encoding and subtitles to final testing and publication. The whole process is fairly complex so I've broken it down into manageable chunks. Whilst not intended to enable you to make your own screencasts (although it can be quite simple), the show this week is in response to the may requests I get each week asking to "peek behind the curtain", and see just what is involved in producing the…
 
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    Softpedia News - Apple

  • Apple Orders iOS Developers to Make Retina Graphics

    Softpedia News (Filip Truta)
    8 Feb 2012 | 2:11 am
    Going by an email sent out to registered Apple developers this week, Cupertino wants all titles in the App Store to feature high-resolution Retina display graphics. The email mentions that developers must upload new screenshots in the RGB field with at least 72 dpi (dots per inch) and a resolution of 960 x 640 pixels, or somewhere... (read more)

  • Lion Internet Recovery Released for 2010 Macs

    Softpedia News (Filip Truta)
    8 Feb 2012 | 1:51 am
    Three new firmware updates are available for download onto 2010 Mac computers, enabling Internet Recovery on systems running OS X Lion.iMac EFI Update 1.8 “enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on iMac (Mid 2010) models,” says Apple.MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.6 does the same thing for MacBook Pr... (read more)

  • Canada Has iTV Prototypes in Labs, Paper Claims

    Softpedia News (Filip Truta)
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:11 pm
    A Canadian newspaper is making waves with a story on Apple’s unconfirmed iTV refresh this year, claiming that telcos are already testing the product in their labs. Citing unnamed sources, The Globe and Mail says Apple has tapped wireless operators Rogers and Bell to pursue partnerships for delivering content to iTV-enab... (read more)

  • Vice President of “iEngineering”, David Tupman, Leaves Apple

    Softpedia News (Filip Truta)
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:11 pm
    David Tupman, who has been on Apple’s payroll for over a decade now, is no longer working for the Cupertino, California-based computer giant. The reason behind his departure is unknown. What is known for a fact is that Apple has been leaking executives like a sinking ship over the past year. Tupman was Appl... (read more)

  • iTunes Account Hacking Still an Issue for Apple

    Softpedia News (Filip Truta)
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:11 am
    CNN is running a story on account hacking in iTunes and how Apple has failed to address the matter over the years. A security researcher suggests there's a good chance Apple isn't even trying to fix the problem. The report highlights a few complaints from Apple forum posters, such as this one from a user identified as “glight&rd... (read more)
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    9to5Mac

  • Forty percent of Sprint’s 1.8 million iPhone sales last quarter were to new customers

    Christian Zibreg
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:40 am
    U.S. carrier Sprint, the nation’s third-largest wireless telecommunications network, today announced holiday quarter earnings containing a couple interesting tidbits related to Apple’s iPhone, which helped bring in most of its new customers. Sprint reportedly ponied up $20 billion to land Apple’s iconic smartphone last October, calling the handset launch in today’s statement “successful”, adding: Forty percent of Sprint’s 1.8 million iPhone sales in the fourth quarter were to new customers.  Doing some math, this means some 720,000 Sprint iPhones went…

  • Apple pressuring EU regulators to set FRAND licensing rules

    Christian Zibreg
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:26 am
    After taking a beating by Motorola over FRAND patents this month, Apple issued a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute asking the body to establish consistent royalty fees for patents deemed essential to wireless standards, reports the Wall Street Journal. The body has a role in setting the standards related to GSM, 3G UMTS and 4G LTE radio technologies. Apple, involved in nasty patent disputes with Motorola, HTC and Samsung in courtrooms around the world, previously asserted in court documents that handset maker Motorola refused to license its essential patents…

  • Vonage challenges Skype with new iPhone app featuring 30 percent cheaper VoIP calling

    Christian Zibreg
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    VoIP startup Vonage is determined to continue challenging Skype and other VoIP incumbents so today they issued a brand new iPhone app called Vonage Mobile. Replacing their previous iOS offerings Time to Call and Vonage Mobile application for Facebook, the new program boasts up to 30 percent lower international per-minute calling rates compared to rival Skype. This is based on per-minute rates to the top 50 countries called. Compared to major wireless carriers, Vonage Mobile offers as much as 70 percent lower rates. Calling and texting other Vonage Mobile users or Vonage’s VoIP home…

  • Toys: SanDisk Cruzer 32GB US Flash Drive: $23

    9to5 Staff
    8 Feb 2012 | 2:39 am
    From 9to5Toys.com: Amazon has the highly rated SanDisk Cruzer 32 GB USB Flash Drive for $22.99 with free shipping on orders over $25 or with Amazon Prime.  This drive is ruggedized and features a slide out USB interface. Related articles SanDisk 16GB Cruzer USB Flash Drive for $13 + free shipping (9to5toys.com) SanDisk Cruzer Fit 8GB USB Flash Drive for $5 + free shipping (9to5toys.com) Sandisk 16GB Class 4 SDHC Card, 16GB Cruzer USB Stick: $15/ea+free shipping (9to5toys.com)

  • iTunes will host a free Paul McCartney live stream concert on Thursday

    9to5 Staff
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:37 pm
    Guitarworld noted the new Paul McCartney album Kisses on the Bottom launches this week, and the pop-rock legend will perform live from Capital Studios in Los Angeles on iTunes to celebrate the release. [iTunes link] Here are the details: Paul McCartney will commemorate the release of his new album, Kisses On The Bottom, with a free streaming performance that takes place 7 p.m. PST Thursday, February 9, from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, where much of the new album was recorded. Fans can watch the show for free through iTunes. Kisses on the Bottom, which comes out Tuesday, February 7,…
 
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  • Health Update

    Tim (Surfbits)
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:16 am
    I wanted to take a moment and update you on my health situation. I’ve received so many great emails, tweets, and IM’s from so many of you that I was unable to answer them all. I thought I owed it to you to update you on how I’m getting along. If you’ve wondered why you’ve not heard much from me of late it’s because I’ve just gone through the worse part of my treatments, a month of radiation and Chemo daily. It took more out of me then I’d ever have guessed. I was weak and helpless and thought I’d never get better. But it’s been a…

  • Belkin Folio Keyboard for iPad 2

    Tim (Surfbits)
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:56 am
    Written by Amanda Green. To accommodate those who simply cannot get used to typing on a tablet screen, several companies have released blue tooth powered keyboard attachments for users to connect to their iPads. Most are designed as hardened hinged components that can be tucked under the tablet itself. This is due to the simple fact that in order for a user to operate a keyboard with their iPad, the tablet needs to be propped up. While most product designers solved this problem by building a drawer-like system, Belkin opted to instead integrate the keyboard into a traditional folio form. What…

  • When Will Siri Fully Work?

    Tim (Surfbits)
    20 Dec 2011 | 7:28 pm
    Written by Amanda Green: When the iPhone 4S hit the shelves of retailers, one of the main reasons to upgrade was the promise of a voice-activated artificial intelligence service called Siri. While there are several other improvements with the device, such as a better camera, faster processor, and increased networking options, Siri has fell flat with many users and doesn’t seem like that big of a deal when you actually use it. Siri was supposed to be the hallmark of the new iPhone 4s and the reason those who wouldn’t have upgraded chose to purchase a brand new $600 phone. While…

  • Get Old School with the iCade

    Tim (Surfbits)
    30 Nov 2011 | 4:30 pm
    Contributed by Amanda Green The holiday season is upon us, and for many that means trying to find the perfect gift for gadget enthusiasts or trying to find the perfect gift to put on our own lists as the tech lover in the family.  While many will be asking for new laptops and smartphones this year, iPad and iPad 2 owners will be surely asking for accessories to complement the use they already enjoy with their tablets. Some will request designer iPad bags or cool Etsy cases, but for those serious about having fun on their iPad, they will surely request the ThinkGeek iCade. Originally…

  • Another Great Tom Bihn Briefcase, The Cadet

    Tim (Surfbits)
    11 Nov 2011 | 3:45 am
    Those of you that have read my blog over the years and did not know how big of Tom Bihn fan I am, raise your hand. In my opinion, Tom Bihn is the top maker of quality luggage and gear bags in the country. Since 1972 Tom Bihn has been working out of their Seattle factory making bags by hand and making certain every bag you get from them is top quality. I have been one of the lucky people over the past years to review many of their bags. Here is a list of some of my favorites: Zephyr: CheckPoint Flyer Breifcase: Ristretto for the iPad (My Favorite): Co-Pilot: And the unique Field Journal…
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  • Received Samsung Mob!lers Award at Seoul Korea

    Amit Bhawani
    5 Feb 2012 | 12:51 am
    Samsung Global – Korea has started a country wise program under the name ‘Mob!lers’ where in on an average 20 Mob!lers are selected from respective country and given a different experience considering their efforts and contribution towards Samsung Products without any expectations in return. Out of these 20 Mob!lers from each country Samsung selects 2 [...]Received Samsung Mob!lers Award at Seoul Korea is a post from : Tech Blog Click on the Title for Reading the Complete Article from Tech Blog - Stay Updated with the Latest Tech Info! Related posts: Received Microsoft Most…

  • 39% Traffic Drop with Google Page Layout Panda Update

    Amit Bhawani
    1 Feb 2012 | 8:19 am
    Last week there seems to be another Google Panda Update where in the blogs which were having many advertisements when compared to content were penalized and we also saw a huge drop in our blogs traffic. There were always speculations that blogs which has many ad units when compared to the content would get penalized [...]39% Traffic Drop with Google Page Layout Panda Update is a post from : Tech Blog Click on the Title for Reading the Complete Article from Tech Blog - Stay Updated with the Latest Tech Info! Related posts: Google Panda Update – Top Traffic Losers & Winners List…

  • AddThis.com Sends a Personalized Infographic on Your Site’s Social Trends

    Amit Bhawani
    12 Jan 2012 | 3:08 am
    Thanks to Addthis.com, one of the best services on the web which offer you with a option to share your website’s content on different services easily. Today they have sent us the Social Trends Report for 2011 in the form of a beautiful Infographic which represents the data of our blog. You can find out [...]AddThis.com Sends a Personalized Infographic on Your Site’s Social Trends is a post from : Tech Blog Click on the Title for Reading the Complete Article from Tech Blog - Stay Updated with the Latest Tech Info! Related posts: Top 5 Social Bookmarking Sites Badoo Social…

  • How to Find any Blogs Actual Traffic Certified by Google Officially

    Amit Bhawani
    24 Dec 2011 | 8:09 am
    Before you start reading this blog post for some kind of exclusive tool then you should take a step back because we are going to give you a small hint on a public service offered by Google which can help you in finding out any blog’s actual or real traffic easily. Stop checking out the [...]How to Find any Blogs Actual Traffic Certified by Google Officially is a post from : Tech Blog Click on the Title for Reading the Complete Article from Tech Blog - Stay Updated with the Latest Tech Info! Related posts: Find Detailed Traffic Stats for Specific Webpage in Google Analytics How to get…

  • How long a new website or blog wait before applying for AdSense?

    Guest Writers
    16 Dec 2011 | 12:12 am
    A lot of publishers from India and other Asian countries are puzzled on whether they can use AdSense Ads on new sites or not. Recently Google disabled a massive number of AdSense accounts from India and Pakistan which adds more to the confusion. To make it worse, Google does not mention anything in their policies [...]How long a new website or blog wait before applying for AdSense? is a post from : Tech Blog Click on the Title for Reading the Complete Article from Tech Blog - Stay Updated with the Latest Tech Info! Related posts: Do Indian Adsense Publishers need to wait 6 months for…
 
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  • Apple sells 72 million iDevices!

    T. F. Gregory
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:52 pm
    Apple announced record breaking numbers. Again. This time, 5 million Macs, 15 million iPads, 15 million iPods and 37 (not a misprint) million iPhones! All of this resulted in sales of $43 billion and profits of over $13 billion. More stats can be found at Apple Stats »

  • Ala Moana Store Grand Reopening

    T. F. Gregory
    19 Nov 2011 | 2:13 pm
    Today, Apple had a Grand Reopening for the Ala Moana Apple Store (official #R073). This Apple Store opened on 17 May 2003 and was the first one in Hawai'i. It was Apple's 57th store and had 4,600 square foot. The store was closed from July 2011 for renovation to the new standard size which was achieved by taking over the space previously occupied by San Lorenzo's Bikinis. More pictures can be found at Ala Moana Grand Reopening »

  • Steve Jobs 1955-2011

    T. F. Gregory
    5 Oct 2011 | 7:09 pm
    Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. More tributes can be found at Steve Jobs 1955-2011 »

  • Third Quarter Blowout!

    T. F. Gregory
    19 Jul 2011 | 7:35 pm
    Apple reported their earnings for the third quarter of 2011. The results were nothing short of stunning. Over 41 million iDevices were sold which included 9 million iPads, almost 4 million Macs, 20 million iPhones and 7 million iPods. All of the updated charts, including sales, earnings, updated analyst ratings, Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod sales charts can be found at Apple Stats »

  • Boom!

    T. F. Gregory
    21 Apr 2011 | 5:45 pm
    Apple reported their earnings for the second quarter of 2011. The results were nothing short of stunning. Over 38 million iDevices were sold which included 4.6 million iPads, 3.7 million Macs, 19 million iPhones and 9 million iPods. All of the updated charts, including sales, earnings, updated analyst ratings, Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod sales charts can be found at Apple Stats »
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  • 4 Free Apps To Download YouTube Videos [Mac]

    Matt Smith
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:31 am
    If you want to download YouTube videos to your PC, the options are seemingly endless. There are a huge number of options available that are simple and effective, including not only standalone software but also browser extensions. Mac owners have fewer options to pick from – but that doesn’t mean we’re out of luck. There are several YouTube downloaders available that work as well or better than anything you would find on Windows. ClipGrab If you’re looking for one piece of software that can handle not just YouTube downloads, but also a number of other sites, ClipGrab is a good choice.

  • How To Submit Your Own App To The iTunes App Store

    James Bruce
    1 Feb 2012 | 2:01 pm
    So you’ve programmed your first iOS app and you want to get it uploaded and submitted to the iTunes store? Well, as I found out recently, it’s not quite as easy as it sounds. The latest Xcode 4.2 development tools from Apple have certainly streamlined the process, but it’s still a daunting task your first time around. This is a very in-depth topic, and I can’t possibly write a tutorial that will cover 100% of cases or every problem you might come up against. What I can do is give an overview of the entire process so you have an idea where you’re getting stuck;…

  • 3+ Stickies Shortcuts You Should Use [Mac]

    Joshua Lockhart
    31 Jan 2012 | 7:31 pm
    Based on what I’ve seen, Stickies (the desktop version – not the dashboard) is a built-in Mac app that doesn’t seem to get a whole lot of love. However, in all truth, it’s actually an extremely useful tool whether you want to use it for a long-term project or something simply short term. As a virtual form of the standard office sticky note, it definitely packs a punch. In order to better your experience with Stickies, I’ve put together some shortcuts that you may have not actually tried out. Granted, if you use Stickies extensively anyway, you may actually know of…

  • 10 Tips To Better Organize Your Files & Folders [Mac]

    Bakari Chavanu
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:01 pm
    Most of what we do in any computer is access, manage, and use files and folders. Having a handful of good tips for using files and folders on your Mac can help you get things done faster and more efficiently. The following are a list of the favorite ways I work within the Finder. A few tips are borrowed from Keir Thomas’s Mac Kung Fu: Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for OS X Lion. Bookmark Files In Safari Websites and pages are not the only items that can be bookmarked in Safari or other web browsers. You can bookmark files located in your Finder. You simply select a file and…

  • How To Use Apple’s Lesser Known Podcast Producer [Mac]

    Bakari Chavanu
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:31 pm
    Though the medium of podcasting has been around for over a decade now, it is not limited to professional productions and online celebrities. Also, podcasts need not be posted on iTunes or other popular podcasting sites. They can be created for in-house use for small business presentations, schools and classrooms, and internal communication within organizations. Podcasting has already proven to be an effective way to communicate or entertain, and thus for basic broadcasting needs, Mac users might want to try out a lesser-known application included in Mac OS X Lion, called Podcast Producer,…
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  • Art Show of Snatched Apple Store Photos

    Gary Allen
    1 Feb 2012 | 10:57 pm
    A master’s degree candidate at the University of North Texas will open an unusual exhibition of photos this weekend—snapshots taken by Macs, iPads and iPhones at Apple’s retail stores. Irby Pace traveled to stores in New York City and Texas during 2010 to collect the photos, taken by the subjects themselves while mugging at the camera. Irby told Wired.com‘s Pete Brook that the exhibit is entitled “Unintended Consequences” and “explores changes in behavior for those people who have not considered how these images may be used.” Pace defends his use of…

  • Remodeled Calif. Store To Re-Open Saturday

    Gary Allen
    1 Feb 2012 | 8:11 pm
    The historic and now-remodeled Pasadena (S. Calif.) retail store will re-open this Saturday, with more space and a reconfigured interior. The store opened in January 2003 in the city’s main, upscale shopping district. The storefront was modified slightly in 2006 to remove the original black metal panels and back-lit Apple logos on either side of the entrance. Then last April a temporary store opened a few doors away, and the original location closed. According to permit documents filed with the city, the construction added 3,164 square-feet by tacking on a rear, second-level space that…

  • Apple Reaches To UK For New Retail Chief

    Gary Allen
    31 Jan 2012 | 5:16 pm
    Ending a six-month international search for someone with the necessary skills and enthusiasm to carry Apple’s retail stores through its next 10 years, the company announced late Monday that it has appointed John Browett as Sr. vice-president of the Retail segment. Browett, 47, is a British citizen who is CEO of Dixons Retail plc, a UK-based electronics retailer. He graduated from Cambridge University (UK), and also attended The Wharton School, a graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, variously ranked as the #1 business school in the United States. His appointment will test…

  • Apple Nixes Walk-In iPhone Sales At HK Store

    Gary Allen
    31 Jan 2012 | 3:49 am
    Hoping to discourage scalpers and the Beijing-like waiting line scuffles, Apple has ended walk-in purchases of the iPhone 4s at the IFC Mall (Hong Kong) store, replacing it with a daily lottery procedure. Economic conditions and demand for the iPhone 4s in China has created throngs of paid line-sitters who squeeze out ordinary buyers, sometimes creating disputes that must be broken up by police. The line-sitters funnel their purchases to gray market dealers who sell the handsets in small cities in China and wholesale them to dealers in other countries. Previously, iPhone buyers could walk…

  • Bus Rider, Apple Store & Big Surprise

    Gary Allen
    31 Jan 2012 | 12:10 am
    The only thing on Esther Gonzalez‘ mind as she took the bus to work on Chicago’s north side in 2010 was transferring from one bus to another. She knew nothing about the Lincoln Park Apple store construction, the scaffolding industry or insurance contracts. But she was about to learn. On March 17, the Apple store was under construction on a triangular plot of land on the city’s north side. The project was adjacent to the busy Red Line Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) subway station, which Apple had agreed to remodel for $4 million. But all that construction work interfered…
 
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  • My Gift Cards 1.0 released for iOS with iCloud support

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:40 am
    Chorley, United Kingdom – Independent developer, Andrew Winn today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of My Gift Cards 1.0, his free new financial utility developed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. My Gift Cards is a handy App that helps anyone track their Gift Card balances. Simple and easy-to-use, effortlessly keep track of running balances on individual gift cards, as well as the ability to synchronize transactions with iCloud. This makes it very easy to automatically backup and keep multiple iOS devices in sync. This makes My Gift Cards…

  • Popular Mac Git client Tower now with submodule support

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:10 am
    Berlin, Germany – fournova today is thrilled to announce the release of version 1.4 of Tower, which has quickly become one of the most popular Git clients for Mac OS X. Tower provides the user with a beautiful and powerful interface that combines all the important features that Git has to offer. This free update integrates Git’s submodule feature directly into Tower. Submodules allow users to keep external libraries cleanly separated from their own code. While a very useful feature, it can be quite difficult to work with from the command line. Tower makes managing and using…

  • Dualis 1.0 released for iOS – Addictive Time Killer Game

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Moscow, Russian Federation – iOS app developer, Artem Kantalinskiy has announced the release and immediate availability of Dualis 1.0, his addictive time killer game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Dualis is a best example of popular board game realisation for iOS device. Dualis (the original game name is “Numbers”) is quite popular among the students in Russia. If the class is boring the written game can take more space in a notebook than the actual course material. The goal is to remove all numbers from the original list. Just to make sure that you have not made any…

  • Piggy Woogy – iOS Jewel-Matching Action Fusion On Sale

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Seoul, Korea – Jdea recently launched iOS game Piggy Woogy, a match-3 puzzler with the added bonus of top-notch action, is available for a temporarily reduced price of $0.99. Piggy Woogy normally retails at $1.99, but Jdea is offering the game at a fifty percent discount in order to celebrate its quick success and to give even more gamers the opportunity to become part of the game’s enthusiastic fan base. Piggy Woogy owes its success to the game’s unique concept, which is a fusion of traditional match-three puzzle gaming and action. The game’s premise is reminiscent of…

  • Top 40 Card Game Solitaire Spin Free For A Limited Time

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    San Mateo, California – Selectsoft, a leading developer of family-friendly games, is offering their top 40 iPhone(R) card game Solitaire Spin as a free download today, tomorrow and Friday only. A fun combination of solitaire strategy with fast-paced action, Solitaire Spin features wild layouts, unexpected power-ups, eye-catching visuals and an exciting levels mode. With over 500 maps, 5 types of cards, 5 backgrounds and 3 game modes, Solitaire Spin will throw you for a loop! Solitaire Spin is available now on the App Store and will be free for three days beginning Wednesday. A top 40…
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  • Critical Path: Here’s how Path can save itself, if it acts fast

    Jason D. O'Grady
    8 Feb 2012 | 12:11 am
    Earlier today I posted about how upstart social network Path was discovered uploading iOS user’s entire address books to it’s servers without notification and without asking for permission.Here are four simple things that Path can do to right the ship, but the clock’s ticking…Don’t wait for Apple to approve the 2.0.6 version of your iOS app with the opt-in feature. That could take days or weeks. Allow users to delete their address book contents via your Web portal right now. (And do us a favor and dispense with the PR sounding “Automatic…

  • Path discovered phoning home with your address book

    Jason D. O'Grady
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:39 pm
    It’s a feature, not a bug!That’s basically the response from Path’s management after the popular social networking service was discovered uploading users’ complete address book to its servers.Path, for the unfamiliar, is a relatively new social network, billed as a “smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love.” Think Foursquare meets Instagram meets (insert name here).Developer Arun Thampi discovered the privacy issue and posted this to his blog:It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as…

  • A tip to return a familiar Quick Look viewing feature to Lion’s Finder

    David Morgenstern
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:23 pm
    The default desktop viewing settings for Mac OS X Lion appear to strip out some familiar useful Quick Look features. But they can be recovered easily if you know where to look.Quick Look is a very useful feature of Mac OS X (introduced in Leopard), that lets users quickly peek into a file for a piece of data or to make sure the file is the one they really want to edit — all done without opening up the file’s application. On the desktop, it presents image files as thumbnail icons, and in the past, there was an unlabeled slider on either the upper or lower right hand corner of the…

  • Best Buy SuperBowl ad features mobile tech luminaries

    Jason D. O'Grady
    5 Feb 2012 | 11:14 pm
    The best commercial during tonight’s SuperBowl XLVI (well, after the Acura NSX ad with Jerry Seinfeld and the FIAT girl) was — surprisingly — from Best Buy.In Phone Innovators Best Buy features a veritable who’s-who of mobile technology luminaries, including, Philippe Kahn, creator of one of the first cameraphones; Ray Kurzweil, inventor of text-to-speech; Daniel Henderson, creator of video sharing; Chris Barton and Avery Wang, two of the founders of Shazam; Jim McKelvey, creator of Square Mobile Pay; Kevin Systrom, creator of Instagram; Neil…

  • iBooks Author 1.0.1 EULA: you own the content, we want 30% of .ibooks files

    Jason D. O'Grady
    3 Feb 2012 | 2:27 pm
    Apple today pushed out an incremental (1.0.1) update to it’s controversial iBooks Author software for creating EPUB 3-based iBooks for the iPad. I say based because Apple extended the open EPUB 3 format by adding proprietary extensions (for embedding Keynote files and 3D object, for example) turning it into a proprietary format. But that’s not what got people upset.The iBooks Author 1.0 EULA carried some hefty restrictions around distributing for-profit works created with the tool — namely that they could only be distributed through the iTunes Store, and were thus subject to…
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  • Sprint sells 1.6 million iPhones in Q4

    Jim Dalrymple
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:36 am
    Forty percent of Sprint’s 1.8 million iPhone sales in the fourth quarter were to new customers. The company reported total net subscriber additions of 1.6 million during the fourth quarter of 2011 – the best quarterly result in six years – bringing total ending subscribers to the highest level in the company’s history. It was still a tough quarter for Sprint, reporting a net loss of $1.3 billion. ∞ Permalink

  • 2.1 million people streamed the Super Bowl

    Jim Dalrymple
    7 Feb 2012 | 9:02 pm
    That’s a lot of people. ∞ Permalink

  • The wrong specs

    Jim Dalrymple
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:47 pm
    Ben Brooks talking about an article written by Tim Moynihan: I don’t give a damn about this camera, but I think it offers an interesting glimpse at the market. That is: consumers are looking at the wrong specs. Traditionally in this segment it was all about megapixels, but now it seems to be all about: optical zoom and Wi-Fi. Both are horrible features to care about, let alone to base a decision on. Ben’s right. Consumers tend to focus on specs far too often when making a decision, but when you focus on the wrong specs, you can’t possibly make an informed choice. Things like…

  • ∞ Some more products for Samsung Galaxy Note users

    Jim Dalrymple
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:21 pm
    Since Samsung decided to go retro and include a stylus with its newest products, I thought I’d be nice and hunt down a few other products Galaxy Note users may be interested in. [...]

  • Gannett FAQ for journalists receiving iPhones

    Shawn King
    7 Feb 2012 | 6:18 pm
    Jim Romenesko: This FAQ for Gannett journalists receiving iPhones was distributed today at the chain’s papers. Q: I like my non- iPhone device. Can I just stay with that? A: If the company owns the device, the answer is no. iPhone is the only device that can do all the things we want you to be able to do. Also, iPhone is the only device for which we have training, support and unlimited data lined up. ∞ Permalink
 
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  • Google Chrome for Android Finally Released, But Not Available To Everyone

    Mezanul
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:31 pm
    Google Chrome has finally arrived for Android mobile devices. On Tuesday, in an official Google Chrome blog post, the company announced the release of Chrome Web browser for Android app. While announcing, the company said that like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity. The new browser features seamless sign-in and sync to make sure you get the same personalized web browsing experience wherever you go, across devices. Actually, the Chrome Beta app is only available for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) phone or tablet. So, if you fall in the 99% of…

  • Rip, Save, Convert All Your DVDs, Videos Using Handbrake [Review]

    Mezanul
    6 Feb 2012 | 1:20 am
    Everyone of us likes watching movies and if a movie is worth keeping in our collection, we also look forward to its official DVD/Blu-ray release. After we’ve brought the movie DVD, we either want to keep a copy of it in our computer for archival purpose or want to watch it on our growing collection of portable media devices. Now, you might be wondering how to rip and encode your DVDs for keeping them safe and watch them on your iPod, iPad, Android, iPhone or other portable device? Handbrake is one such good free tool to rip and encode your DVDs for keeping them safe. Handbrake is an…

  • Dashlane: Super Fast, Hassle Free Web Logins and Checkouts [Invites]

    Mezanul
    2 Feb 2012 | 1:28 pm
    February 1st was “change your password day.” Did you changed your passwords? When you’re managing your various accounts, passwords and other sensitive data, it becomes very difficult to keep them secure while accessible. You can easily find many efficient password managers but most of them comes at a premium. Here, we’re going to take a quick look at Dashlane, a user-friendly and secure password manager for Windows and Mac. The app promises to cut the hassle of managing your accounts, passwords and other sensitive data while keeping the data safe from prying…

  • Mozilla Firefox 10 Latest Version Download Links [Stable, ESR Version]

    Mezanul
    30 Jan 2012 | 8:30 pm
    Mozilla has released Firefox 10 Stable version for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Important Note: Bookmark this page (Press CTRL + D) to always Get the latest update about Mozilla Firefox including direct download links for all platforms. Mozilla announced their move to rapid release cycle about nine months ago, since the move, Firefox has moved from version 4 to 10. According to the official beta change log, Firefox 10 brings in a lot of new features, which you’d expect from a six-week update cycle. Firefox 10 features extension management improvements, a forward button that hides…

  • Windows Defender Offline For Disinfecting PCs That Can’t Go Online [Beta]

    Mezanul
    29 Jan 2012 | 12:23 pm
    Microsoft has released Windows Defender Offline, an offline antivirus tool, for PCs that are badly infected by malicious and other potentially unwanted software, including rootkits, to even get full access to the Internet. The offline antivirus tool basically allows a user to boot their infected Windows computer system from a CD, DVD or USB flash drive. It uses the most recent definition update available to scan the PC for malicious and other potentially unwanted software. It then helps the user to disinfect the PC from the hard to detect threats. This tool is particularly useful to remove…
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  • How to Enable or Disable Javascript in Web Browsers

    William Pearson
    8 Feb 2012 | 5:43 am
    Need to re-enable or disable Javascript in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox? Most modern web browsers make it very easy to toggle on or off, and while it’s almost always recommended to keep javascript enabled, there are cases where developers and other users need to turn it off. Safari: Open Safari Preferences Click on “Advanced” and check the box next to “Show Develop menu in menu bar” Pull down the “Develop” menu and select “Disable Javascript”, a check signifies it’s disabled Google Chrome: Open Google Chrome’s Preferences Click…

  • EFI Firmware Updates for MacBook Air, iMac, MacBook Pro Bring Lion Internet Recovery to 2010 Models

    Paul Horowitz
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:30 pm
    Apple has released firmware updates for 2010 model year MacBook Air, iMac, and MacBook Pro. The EFI update brings OS X Lion Internet Recovery, which is accessible by booting into Recovery mode and allows a user to reinstall OS X Lion, to each Mac from 2010. The EFI Firmware updates are available to download from Software Update, or directly from Apple: MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3 iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.8 MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.6 Updating the firmware requires a reboot as usual and the Mac should be connected to a power source before proceeding. The MacBook Air update…

  • New High-DPI Cursors & Interface Elements found in OS X 10.7.3

    Paul Horowitz
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:31 pm
    Mac OS X 10.7.3 added several new high-dpi interface elements, giving another hint that Apple may be working towards releasing Macs with ‘retina’ displays. DaringFireball points out that it’s possible these elements were updated to make Universal Access and cursor artwork more attractive, but also mentions that some Mac Mini users inadvertently booted into high-dpi display modes when connected to a TV via HDMI: The simplest explanation is that Apple only just now got around to increasing the resolution of these elements for the benefit of users who use the cursor-zooming…

  • Minimize and Hide All Windows in Mac OS X with Command+Option+H+M

    Paul Horowitz
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:45 am
    By combining the Hide All shortcut with the minimize keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X Lion, you can use a third ‘Minimize and Hide All’ shortcut by hitting the Command+Option+H+M keys. As the title suggests, this keyboard shortcut will hide all other applications and windows, in addition to minimizing the currently active application or window, effectively clearing the entire screen and giving you a blank view of the desktop. If you have Dock icon translucency enabled as shown in the screenshot, the hidden apps will appear as translucent while the minimized windows from the foremost…

  • iPhone Not in iTunes? Fixing It Is Probably Easier Than You Think

    William Pearson
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:35 am
    The iPhone is connected to a computer with it’s USB cable, you launch iTunes and… the iPhone isn’t shown in iTunes. What gives? Fixing this problem is probably a lot easier than you think, and after fielding a call about this I found the simplest explanation was the solution as to why someones iPhone wasn’t appearing in iTunes: Ensure the iPhone is connected to the computer with a functioning USB cable Launch iTunes Hover over the “DEVICES” item in the sidebar until the “Show” button appears and click on it The iPhone will now be visible, as…
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  • Facebook IPO – INFOGRAPHIC

    Sheeraz Raza
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:06 pm
    Since Facebook IPO news has been on fire – there are reports that the company might file papers for its Initial Public Offering next week – precisely Wednesday – So we have decided to share a great infographic that will help you understand everything you need to know about Facebook’s IPO via: ValueWalk

  • OLX Free Classifieds: The Best Android App To Search And Post Free Online Ads

    Sheeraz Raza
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:49 am
    OLX is basically a New York based company which provides its world-wide users to add free classified advertisements on their website, the company has recently announced its partnership with one of the renowned social networks, Friendster. OLX website manages different domains for different locations, for example if there is a user who is visiting the…

  • Siri v/s Iris: Not Much of a Competition… Yet

    Muhammad Ali
    10 Jan 2012 | 7:32 am
    Recently the giant information database ChaCha teamed with Dexetra, the developers behind Siri’s most serious competition, Iris. The alliance means that you will now be able to get the voice recognition that Iris uses to search for and find answers to just about anything. Apple’s Siri and Android Iris may never be friends, despite their…

  • Reasons And Benefits: Why You Need A VPS Hosting

    Sheeraz Raza
    16 Dec 2011 | 9:00 am
    When it comes to making money online from your blog which is very much common nowadays, What you can do is – you can establish a blog without spending a single penny by registering a blog on any free web hosting website like blogspot, wordpress, and tumblr etc. and after hosting it for free –…

  • Mini iPad coming in 2012

    Muhammad Ali
    16 Dec 2011 | 7:16 am
    Digitimes as it quite often does is upto its rumor sharing ways again and this time it’s spreading a speculation that has been lost in the past few months. Yes, the Taiwanese pulication is claiming that Apple is planning to unleash the small sized iPad in the coming year. What size is it? We answer…
 
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  • Skype App for Windows Phone Undergoing Testing at Microsoft–Release Expected This Month at MWC

    Imran
    4 Feb 2012 | 12:58 am
    Skype App for Windows Phone Undergoing Testing at Microsoft–Release Expected This Month at MWC Microsoft is currently testing the much awaited Skype app for Windows Phone. Ever since Microsoft acquired Skype, users have been anxiously waiting for Skype integration in their beloved mobile OS or even just an app. Seems as if Microsoft has been working on this internally and a stand alone app will be released very soon for Windows Phone 7.5 and full fledged people hub integration will follow in Windows Phone 8. As per The Verge, Microsoft initially promised to release the Skype app in late…

  • Windows Phone Marketplace Now Available in 5 More Countries

    Imran
    4 Feb 2012 | 12:39 am
    Windows Phone Marketplace Now Available in 5 More CountriesThe biggest issue that most people have with Windows Phone, including yours truly, is the lack of marketplace availability in many countries. What use is the platform if you can’t buy its apps or games? Apple has had this covered since the beginning, even in places where iPhone isn’t officially available but only iPod Touch is. Android has been following slowly but has covered most countries as well. We’re not sure why Microsoft, a company with global reach, is being so slow at it though. We’ll still give them the nod of…

  • Quickly Close All Running Apps on iPhone with Weekillbackground Tweak for iOS5

    David
    1 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am
    Quickly Close All Running Apps on iPhone with Weekillbackground Tweak for iOS5iOS 5 is by far Apple’s greatest OS yet.  However, since the release of iOS 4, Apple has began to include multitasking as a feature.  As nice as this is, it can sometimes cause your phone to start to slow down or you notice the battery is draining more than normal.  Before, you would have to hit your home button twice, hold down on one of the apps, and close each one individually.  Now, in iOS 5 we have the Notification Center, which allows us to see our important information with just a swipe down on the…

  • Facebook Could File For IPO Next Week. Could Be The Next $100 Billion Company!

    Imran
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:14 am
    Facebook Could File For IPO Next Week. Could Be The Next $100 Billion Company!If WSJ’s sources are correct, we could all be witnesses for one of the biggest IPO fillings for a US technology company in history. With more than 800 million users, Facebook’s value is estimated at anywhere between $80 to $100 billion and it’s highly expected that the company could raise up to $10 billion in it’s initial public offering. Since a lot of years, analysts have been waiting for Facebook to file for IPO. Meanwhile, Facebook didn’t do so as Mark Zuckerburg didn’t want employees to care about…

  • Absinthe for Mac Version 0.2 is Now Available for Download

    Imran
    21 Jan 2012 | 10:36 pm
    Absinthe for Mac Version 0.2 is Now Available for DownloadQuick heads up – Absinthe for Mac version 0.2 is now released. It fixes some issues such as no reboot after activating VPN or launching the Absinthe app. The white icons after jailbreak have also been fixed. If you’re already jailbroken, no need to do it all over again but if you ran into issues, just re-run this updated version over your current jailbreak on iOS device. Download links update in original post here. Related posts: Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Released! Download Absinthe Now! Absinthe Jailbreak for…
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  • What’s The Matter Here?

    Jack Beckman
    8 Feb 2012 | 2:01 am
    Wow. This week’s post also could have had last week’s title. You really wonder in anybody is paying attention at companies these days. The first brilliant move I want to warn you about is from Logitech, normally not a company to pull bone-headed moves. But in this case, they have made what I consider to be a whopper.  It concerns the Harmony Link, which I have thought about getting at one point. The Harmony Link is a small device that lets you use an iOS or Android device as a master remote control, the way Logitech’s Harmony remotes do. The harmony line is know for its…

  • Sharing URLs

    Phyllis Evans
    7 Feb 2012 | 2:01 am
    Don’t know about anyone else, but I hate it when I have to share long web addresses with others by email. Depending on what the other party is using to read messages, really long URLs can be truncated or broken into segments. For years I’ve used the site TinyURL to create a much more manageable URL. This: http://www.freep.com/article/20120206/SPORTS05/202060332/Red-Wings-backup-goalie-job-is-up-for-grabs  becomes this: http://tinyurl.com/7lnac5u TinyURL has made the conversion even easier. Just go to their website and drag the link into your links bar. Looking at a site that…

  • Time Machine’s Hidden Local Backup!

    Terry White
    6 Feb 2012 | 2:01 am
    I’m a fan of Time Machine. Actually I’m a fan of backing up data in general. Some might even say that I’m paranoid because of the number of different backup methods that I employ. Not only do I use Time Machine but I also do clone backups using SuperDuper! and backups to the cloud (offsite) using CrashPlan. Recently I realized that I hadn’t updated my clone backup that I carry with me as a safety precaution in case I have a hard drive failure while on the road, in a while. I plugged in my portable drive and began the SuperDuper! clone. However, SuperDuper!

  • WatchESPN

    Chita Hunter
    1 Feb 2012 | 11:01 pm
        When? There are iPhone/iPad apps that I have used once and decided they weren’t for me. There are apps that I have used a few times and then found something better. But there is one app that I’ve never been able to use fully, and can’t use because in its present form it is still unusable to most. Every once in a while I launch it to see where it is in its developement, and to read the scathing criticisms on it. That app is WatchESPN. I was thrilled when I heard this app was coming out. I regularly watch tennis matches on my laptop on (was ESPN36, then ESPN3,…

  • I Can’t Explain

    Jack Beckman
    1 Feb 2012 | 2:01 am
    One of the guys at work decided he wanted a Mac Mini, and being the resident Mac expert, he asked me if I’d help him get a monitor and set it up for him. So I started looking around at monitors – the one he really wanted was the one on my desk, but HP had discontinued it. We finally found a monitor he liked from HP in his price range, a 2509p. Looked nice, big 25″ screen, 1080p with HDMI input, built-in speakers – everything he wanted. It even had a built-in webcam, which he thought was great. (Yes, the Apple monitor has all those things – other than HDMI, but it…
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  • My Gift Cards 1.0 released for iOS with iCloud support

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:40 am
    Chorley, United Kingdom – Independent developer, Andrew Winn today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of My Gift Cards 1.0, his free new financial utility developed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. My Gift Cards is a handy App that helps anyone track their Gift Card balances. Simple and easy-to-use, effortlessly keep track of running balances on individual gift cards, as well as the ability to synchronize transactions with iCloud. This makes it very easy to automatically backup and keep multiple iOS devices in sync. This makes My Gift Cards…

  • Popular Mac Git client Tower now with submodule support

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:10 am
    Berlin, Germany – fournova today is thrilled to announce the release of version 1.4 of Tower, which has quickly become one of the most popular Git clients for Mac OS X. Tower provides the user with a beautiful and powerful interface that combines all the important features that Git has to offer. This free update integrates Git’s submodule feature directly into Tower. Submodules allow users to keep external libraries cleanly separated from their own code. While a very useful feature, it can be quite difficult to work with from the command line. Tower makes managing and using…

  • Dualis 1.0 released for iOS – Addictive Time Killer Game

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Moscow, Russian Federation – iOS app developer, Artem Kantalinskiy has announced the release and immediate availability of Dualis 1.0, his addictive time killer game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Dualis is a best example of popular board game realisation for iOS device. Dualis (the original game name is “Numbers”) is quite popular among the students in Russia. If the class is boring the written game can take more space in a notebook than the actual course material. The goal is to remove all numbers from the original list. Just to make sure that you have not made any…

  • Piggy Woogy – iOS Jewel-Matching Action Fusion On Sale

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Seoul, Korea – Jdea recently launched iOS game Piggy Woogy, a match-3 puzzler with the added bonus of top-notch action, is available for a temporarily reduced price of $0.99. Piggy Woogy normally retails at $1.99, but Jdea is offering the game at a fifty percent discount in order to celebrate its quick success and to give even more gamers the opportunity to become part of the game’s enthusiastic fan base. Piggy Woogy owes its success to the game’s unique concept, which is a fusion of traditional match-three puzzle gaming and action. The game’s premise is reminiscent of…

  • Top 40 Card Game Solitaire Spin Free For A Limited Time

    Richard
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    San Mateo, California – Selectsoft, a leading developer of family-friendly games, is offering their top 40 iPhone(R) card game Solitaire Spin as a free download today, tomorrow and Friday only. A fun combination of solitaire strategy with fast-paced action, Solitaire Spin features wild layouts, unexpected power-ups, eye-catching visuals and an exciting levels mode. With over 500 maps, 5 types of cards, 5 backgrounds and 3 game modes, Solitaire Spin will throw you for a loop! Solitaire Spin is available now on the App Store and will be free for three days beginning Wednesday. A top 40…
 
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  • Some Rational Thoughts about Apple and Foxconn

    JT
    3 Feb 2012 | 2:18 pm
    I admit, when I peruse TechCrunch’s articles about Apple, I don’t expect to agree with what’s written (unless its penned by every TC commenter’s least favorite fanboy, MG Siegler). John Biggs submitted a short piece today, however, that outlines something in between the screed of bombastic Michael Moore wannabes and the see-no-evil rationalizations of robot fanboys: To go into the Foxconn factory is to see a place staffed by college-age kids and engineers who work 10 or so hours a day building electronics. There is no great Dickensian work house nor are there sad-eyed…

  • The New York Times: 1851 – 2012

    JT
    2 Feb 2012 | 6:19 pm
    There was a time when any paper worth its salt wouldn’t accept quotes from anonymous sources and considered it an insult to investigative journalism. But as newspapers became more competitive, the exceptions became more common. Their use peaked (for a while) in 1981 when the Washington Post’s Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer documenting the life of an 8 year old heroin addict whose identity was concealed for his protection. Unfortunately for the Post and the Pulitzer Prize Board, the child was a complete fabrication. The use of anonymous sources remains controversial, and some papers have…

  • Apparently, HP is the Standard of Corporate Generosity to Which Apple Should Be Held

    JT
    1 Feb 2012 | 12:13 pm
    I have a few problems with the New York Times pieces on Apple’s responsibility to its supply chain (which I’m still getting my thoughts around), but this passage from the January 25th piece really stuck with me: Many major technology companies have worked with factories where conditions are troubling. However, independent monitors and suppliers say some act differently. Executives at multiple suppliers, in interviews, said that Hewlett-Packard and others allowed them slightly more profits and other allowances if they were used to improve worker conditions. “Our suppliers are very open…

  • Apple’s Earnings Just Shot from Ridiculous to Surreal

    JT
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:55 pm
    It gets hard to talk about how insanely profitable Apple is – every quarter. Aside from running the risk of disappointing retarded analysts, as was the case last quarter when they nonsensically decided to go shithouse the quarter before a new iPhone was released, there’s this feeling that it can’t possibly last. That feeling was exacerbated this morning, as the Street started pushing estimates up hours before the earnings call. Apple’s response to the hype made all of their prior performances look like dainty appetizers. I’ll try to put it in context with a…

  • The Don’t Be Evil Bookmarklet: the FTC Rests Its Case

    JT
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:29 am
    Your money shot starts at 6:28: A current search for “AT&T” puts its Google+ result right below the company’s official website. A “natural search” i.e. the search you used to get before Google+, puts it at the bottom of page 6. Let’s hope the FTC can use YouTube. The Don’t Be Evil Bookmarklet: the FTC Rests Its Case originally appeared on TheMacAdvocate on January 24, 2012.
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  • Puppy Bowl VIII Cuteness Hangover

    Kali Hilke
    7 Feb 2012 | 8:22 am
    Apologies for being in a bit of a Super Bowl haze since Sunday—we’ve had an overload of fun things going on! Of course, the other big event Sunday was the 8th Annual Puppy Bowl, and it was a flurry of adorable pups, as always. Didn’t catch the Puppy Bowl? Do yourself a favor and watch some highlights here on Animal Planet Guaranteed it’ll make your Tuesday morning!

  • Super Bowl Tiiiiiiiime

    Kali Hilke
    3 Feb 2012 | 2:06 pm
    It’s Super Bowl time again, so I’ve rounded up my top five apps that will help you get ready for the big day. But first, a few stats: Last year, 111 million people watched the Super Bowl, with roughly 150 million watching at least part of the game Around 54 million pounds of guacamole will be consumed, along with almost 30 million pounds of potato chips (side note: I thought that would be the other way around) 6% of Americans call in sick the Monday after the Super Bowl (presumably, those 6% were part of the 111 million…however, if not, that’s an unfortunate day to be…

  • Weekly Apple News Recap | 1/30-2/3

    Kali Hilke
    3 Feb 2012 | 12:27 pm
    This week was a busy week for Apple. From the hubbub regarding manufacturing conditions in China to reactions from their quarterly earnings to the ever-present new product rumors the release of Mac OS and software updates, Apple has dominated mainstream news. Here’s a handy round-up of what’s notable from this past week: That NY Times Article As Don mentioned above, the internet (and seemingly everyone else) was hot about the news that conditions in the Foxconn facilities in China were not meeting basic standards of workplace safety. Read the original article that sparked…

  • Mac Treat #175: Expand Mail Threads in Lion

    Kali Hilke
    30 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
    I am a big fan of Mail in Lion—the left-to-right viewing format that they brought over from their iOS is exactly the way I like to organize and read by inbox. Overall, I like how email threads are managed as well, in that replies are collapsed automatically into a list based on the original email. That said, there are some quirky things about it, one of which I found out the hard way. Word to the wise: be mindful when you delete an email in the thread because it just might delete the whole thread if you’re not careful. However, this next tip might help you view exactly which…

  • Win It If You Can Ski Ticket Giveaway, Question #7

    Kali Hilke
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Today is the final installment of our daily trivia question that you must answer correctly in order to be qualified to win a ticket to Mad River Glen! (The questions may range from easy to hard, from product-related to Small Dog-related, and pretty much anything in between. You may know the answer by heart, or you may have to search it out—all answers can be found somewhere on the Smalldog.com website.) Today’s question: Q: What were the three awards Small Dog won in 2011, according to our press releases? To enter: 1) Comment with the correct answer below in the Barkings! blog…
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  • Zevrix releases Output Factory for InDesign

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 7:02 am
    Zevrix Solutions has announced Output Factory 1.0, its new solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. It's available for Mac OS X 10.5-10.7 and works with Adobe InDesign CS3-CS5.5. Output Factory automates printing, exporting and post-processing from InDesign, and is anupgrade of the company's BatchOutput plug-in. In addition to the output of multiple files, single page export and variable file names, Output Factory offers array of new solutions, such as layer versioning, preflighting, workflow presets and processing history. read more

  • New ebook lets you 'Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion'

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:58 am
    TidBits has released "Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion," an US$10, 103-page ebook by Glenn Fleishman. It offers the latest advice on screen sharing with iChat, Back to My Mac, the Screen Sharing application in Mac OS X, and Skype, and describes the current versions of iTeleport and LogMeIn, iOS apps that let you run your Mac remotely by tapping and dragging. Although this new edition has "Lion" in the title, it is also the go-to Take Control ebook for questions about screen sharing with users of 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. read more

  • Canon introduces three new all-in-one printers

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:33 am
    Canon U.S.A. (http://www.usa.canon.com) has announced the addition of three Pixma Office printers to the lineup: the MX512 Wireless1 All-In-One (AIO), MX432 Wireless1 AIO and the MX372 AIO.  Available for both new wireless models is the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint mobile app, for use with compatible Apple and Android smart phones and tablets, allowing documents  to be scanned on the printer and sent directly to a compatible device. Users can print PDFs of documents that were created with the app directly from compatible devices, whereas in the past only photos could be printed.  read more

  • PadSync's iWork moving solution better than Apple's

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 am
    Apple's kludge for moving iWork docs between the iPad and a Mac pretty much stinks. It's awkward, unintuitive and very Apple-ish. Enter Ecamm's PadSync (http://www.ecamm.com/mac/padsync/), which offers a better alternative. The software was recently updated to version 1.1.1, fixing an issue that could cause PadSync to malfunction if iTunes Wi-Fi sync is enabled. Pages, Numbers and Keynote let you share files between your iPad and a Mac via iTunes File Sharing. PadSync streamlines the experience with two-way syncing and also works with other apps that support iTunes File Sharing. read more

  • Timesheets for Mac OS X gets project expense tracking

    dsellers
    8 Feb 2012 | 5:46 am
    Senomix Software has released Senomix Timesheets 4.1, an update to their Mac OS X and Windows time tracking system. The new version adds project expense tracking and employee expense claim entry. With the addition of expense tracking, Senomix Timesheets can now be used to record project costs through the same networked applications provided to track employee effort hours. The software enables both in-office and off-site employees to track effort and expenses directly from their computers. read more
 
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  • Tuesday Recap: Path Privacy Flaw, Chrome for Android, Corel Hearts Roxio

    J.R. Bookwalter
    7 Feb 2012 | 5:48 pm
    Another day, another iOS developer in hot water for playing fast and loose with user data. This time it’s Path, a favorite of the MacLife.com team -- but fear not, the sky isn’t falling, as you’ll discover from reading onward. It’s otherwise been a moderately quiet day on the Apple home front, so we’ve collected a few related tidbits from competitors like Google Android and Research in Motion to keep you entertained for this Tuesday, February 7, 2012.Privacy Gaffe Exposed in Path for iOS AppWe’re big fans of Path here at MacLife.com, which is why it’s disheartening to find out…

  • 23 Must-Have RPGs for your iOS Device

    Andrew Dyer
    7 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pm
    There's a mind-boggling number of role-playing games available for your iPhone and iPad, but a good portion of them aren't worth the money or investing the time playing them. So we put together a spread of worthwhile iOS titles that cover all the major RPG styles, and some that may seem unusual but are totally worth the price. 

  • How to Move your iMovie Projects Around

    Steve Paris
    7 Feb 2012 | 2:28 pm
    Video takes up a lot of space – so what do you do if you run out of room?High-definition video is everywhere. Every modern camcorder records at that resolution and even phones possess amazing lenses, such as the iPhone 4S. This means you’re never really without a camera – so you can end up recording even more footage. But there is a downside to this amazing quality: storage. Even the highly compressed videos taken with an iPhone take up more space than you’d think: 30 seconds from an iPhone 4 uses up a little over 40MB, whereas the same length on an iPhone 4S requires around 96MB due…

  • App Showdown: Google Music Players

    J Keirn-Swanson
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm
    It seemed forever ago that Google announced their Music Beta service. Upload up to 20,000 songs (for free, albeit at a snail's crawl) to be streamed to and downloadable to any computer. Access to the service on iOS devices was limited, for a while, to a clunky HTML-5-based weblication. Eventually, third parties got in on the act.gMusic ($1.99/Universal)IIS bills their app, gMusic as powered by last.fm and offers scrobbling if that sort of thing is important to you in a Google Music player. They also bill the app as fast loading, though this was not our experience whether over WiFi…

  • How to Master your Trackpad, Mouse, and Keyboard in System Preferences

    Craig Grannell
    7 Feb 2012 | 10:46 am
    Take control of the Keyboard, Mouse and Trackpad System Preferences panesUntil an advanced version of Siri comes to the Mac and we can mumble commands at our computers, we’re stuck with traditional input devices: keyboards, mice and trackpads. In their default states, each device has the potential to frustrate. We often find mouse-tracking absurdly slow, forcing multiple swipes to get the cursor across the screen; we regularly prod a trackpad and accidentally activate an on-screen click; and the lack of keyboard shortcuts for useful actions in certain apps drives us nuts.Take better…
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  • Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to investors highlights difference between Facebook and Google+

    EdibleApple
    7 Feb 2012 | 7:17 pm
    Last week, Facebook filed its long awaited IPO and many long-time employees are about to cash in big time. The IPO surrounding Facebook represents a watershed moment with respect to online social communities. Whereas sites like Friendster and MySpace had their time in the sun and eventually lost momentum, Facebook has continued to grow with no end in site. Somewhat recently, Facebook has been challenged by Google with their Google+ offering. While the reasons as to why Google, in my opinion, will never even come close to catching up with Facebook when it comes to user interaction, one of the…

  • Organize your iOS device by putting a “most used apps” folder in the dock

    EdibleApple
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:11 am
    Melissa Holt of MacObserver posts a quick and nifty little trick that should really help you organize your iOS homescreen more effectively. In iOS 4, Apple introduced folders. Users can group similar apps together inside a folder for easy access simply by pressing and holding an app icon – which will cause all icons to start wiggling – whereupon they can drag apps onto one another to create makeshift folders. Okay, easy enough, and certainly a surefire way to keep things organized. But Holt offers a nifty little way to keep things organized and efficient. Instead of grouping apps…

  • Apple may face $38 million fine in Chinese iPad trademark dispute

    EdibleApple
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:10 am
    Electronista reports: A lawyer for Proview Shenzhen, Xie Xianghui, is claiming that a court in the Xicheng district of Beijing is prepared to “slap Apple with a 240 million yuan ($38 million) fine,” according to the Global Times. The Xicheng district administration, though, is refusing to comment. “It is still under investigation, so no official comments on the case can be made yet,” a media officer with the administration states. The China Daily meanwhile quotes Xie as also demanding an apology, and an injunction against the sale and marketing of iPads in China. At…

  • Siri responsible for 25% of Wolfram Alpha queries

    EdibleApple
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:07 am
    The New York Times reports: There was skepticism in 2009, when Wolfram Alpha arrived, with critics saying the approach was very limited, useful mainly for math and science facts. But the technology has come a long way, including delivering many answers for Siri, the question-answering personal assistant in the Apple iPhone 4S… Siri accounts for about a quarter of the queries fielded by Wolfram Alpha, whose staff has grown to 200. Several large companies in health care, financial services and oil and gas recently hired Dr. Wolfram’s private company, Wolfram Research, to do tailored…

  • Canadian broadcast companies have Apple iTV prototypes in their labs – Rumor

    EdibleApple
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:05 am
    Color us skeptical, but The Globe and Mail reports: Canada’s largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, a product that has the potential to revolutionize TV viewing by turning conventional televisions into gigantic iPads. While the iTV product remains cloaked in secrecy, sources say Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has approached Rogers and Bell as it actively pursues…
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  • HoverBar completes your workspace

    Ronald O Carlson
    7 Feb 2012 | 1:08 pm
    Cool things beget cool things and here’s a prime example of that axiom in action. A Mac, any Mac, used together with an iPad is a powerful combination for productivity — keep all your work in front you and within reach. Here’s a great way to do that with a lot of style [...] Related Posts: Jobs, Zuckerberg go for a walk Apple completes iCloud music puzzle Mac software: Hands on with Firefox 3.6, tips and tricks

  • The Macintosh: Coming to a Sam’s Club near you

    Ronald O Carlson
    6 Feb 2012 | 11:18 pm
    Bacon wrapped shrimp samples and Apple’s latest MacBook Air — could there be a better combination? Both Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in these oddly dysfunctional United States both carry the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Soon, however, America’s second-favorite warehouse chain might offer Apple’s Macintosh product line, as well, or so the rumor [...] Related Posts: More Apple gear, Genius Bar coming to Best Buy Apple store finally coming to South Carolina Apple stores sell scads of iPads, Macs

  • Apple answers critics, tweaks iBooks Author EULA

    Ronald O Carlson
    3 Feb 2012 | 10:10 pm
    Apple ships a new product and there’s an uproar. The fans rejoice, seeing all that is good, while the haters, well… Here we are again and Cupertino’s latest opus, or at least the first movement thereof, has caused quite a still. Though the hand ringers are unlikely to go silent, there isn’t much [...] Related Posts: iBooks, Author, iTunes U: Time to change the world again iBooks will come to the iPhone Apple faces lawsuits for defective G4 iBooks

  • The new Apple: Cook gives $50m to Stanford

    Ronald O Carlson
    2 Feb 2012 | 3:20 pm
    Under Steve Jobs, the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPhone, iPad and world style maker was widely criticized for being tight fisted with its money. However, even as Apple stacks on more cash — the company pegs reserves at more than $90 billion — the company’s new chief executive has loosened the purse strings and [...] Related Posts: Tim Cook gets $12.3m in stock for minding the store [very well] Apple stock slides on Tim Cook rumor Tim Cook top candidate for General Motors CEO spot

  • Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3: Up to speed

    Ronald O Carlson
    31 Jan 2012 | 9:22 pm
    The version Apple shipped in June 2011 was greeted with both cheers and jeers. The admixture of superior editing and performance characteristics contrasted sharply with missing features, such as multicam support, backward compatibility and collaboration tools. With this release, Apple has addressed the great majority of problems while significantly upping the performance ante. [...] Related Posts: Apple updates Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro 6.0.3 and Compression 3.0.3 Apple: The stork finally delivers Final Cut Server Final Cut Pro is ‘a jaw-dropper’
 
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  • VideoBox 3.9 offer bug fixes, Leopard to be retired

    the rocr
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:10 pm
    This web video downloader has quite literally been in my Applications folder for years — my go to YouTube + Flash + funky (i.e. .wmv) file conversion app. Interestingly, unlike other downloaders, which come and (mostly) go with the wind, ...

  • Apple releases 2010 MacBook Air, iMac, MacBook Pro EFI Firmware updates

    the rocr
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:05 pm
    Call it a work in progress. Apple keeps picking away at OS X Lion Internet Recovery support in its 2010 model year Macintoshes and there is a fresh batch of EFI Firmware updates covering the Late 2010 MacBook Air, Mid-2010 ...

  • Best Super Bowl Ad? The one Apple didn’t pay for

    the rocr
    6 Feb 2012 | 11:44 pm
    Advertisers spent tens of millions of dollars on Super Bowl advertising. However, as is often the case, Apple stole the show even though they didn’t have an ad buy. When Colts legend Raymond Berry walked the Lombardi Trophy to the ...

  • Who’s being mocked? Samsung’s unSuper television spot

    the rocr
    6 Feb 2012 | 11:15 pm
    A pen based device being shilled by the falsetto squealing frontman for The Darkness in a “Glee-esque” ad featuring iPhone line-waiting hipsters with greasy, frizzy and otherwise unkempt hair. Uncool cool people? Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the ...

  • Apple offers tweaked OS X 10.7.3, Snow Leopard security updates

    the rocr
    5 Feb 2012 | 11:20 pm
    Last week’s OS X Lion update, specifically the delta version, caused some people grief with the result being crashing Apple and third-party apps whereupon a error message garnished with repetitions of “CUI” and question marks — check out a screen ...
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  • A Word on MacPaw’s Gemini Project

    Daniel Feeney
    4 Feb 2012 | 5:01 pm
    MacPaw, the group behind applications like CleanMyMac has announced its newest project, Gemini. Not much has been released about it so far, but a lot more will come soon. Check out it’s pre-launch page here.

  • CES: The Photos [CES]

    Daniel Feeney
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:03 pm
    This year’s overall CES experience was great. All the exhibitors had a lot to offer both on and off the floor. The booths were more than impressive as was the selection of products throughout the convention. Now that the show has come and gone, let’s take a peak at some of the highlights. Libratone is a Danish company known for creating premium AirPlay-ready speakers. After hearing how these speakers sound, I am already picking out which speaker to purchase. The price-tag, however might pose a problem for some. The company’s smaller speaker goes for $699.95 while the…

  • Hub Innovations gathers crowds with good reason [CES]

    Daniel Feeney
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:35 pm
    CES this year was a blast. The products were amazing, booths were stunning, and crowds –for me at least– weren’t hard to handle. One booth, however, was the most memorable: Hub Innovations’. Not only were the people running it an amazing bunch, but so were the products. A prime example of this is from the closing day (Friday) of the convention at 4:30, a half hour past the show’s end. Many booths by that time had been taken down, Ferrari’s which had been being displayed were driving out and the carpet walkways were being torn up, however Hub Innovations’…

  • A closer look at Griffin’s new products, many for kids [CES]

    Daniel Feeney
    14 Jan 2012 | 1:08 pm
    At CES, a variety of products are announced from TVs to Cameras to cases. However, it seems child-related items are not nearly as frequent at the show. This year, Griffin went against the grain announcing a variety of new products including a large number aimed at children. Aside from its kid-friendly releases, Griffin also announced a few products aimed at audiophiles. I was given the chance to take a look at some of the company’s new products. A quick rundown follows… Griffin’s Woogie 2 was announced at CES as “the original huggable case for iPhone and iPod…

  • A Mercedes-Benz photoshoot [CES]

    Daniel Feeney
    14 Jan 2012 | 1:18 am
    I am not going to try and fool anyone by saying I am a car fanatic. To put it frankly, I know just as much about cars as I do Windows PCs. Nevertheless, I refuse to pass an opportunity to take pictures of things which are truly inspiring. A Mercedes-Benz photoshoot follows…
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  • Apple Commercial Nonexistent During Superbowl

    anthony
    6 Feb 2012 | 1:46 pm
    When Apple comes to mind, most people relate their products to great advertising. In New York City this fact can be seen every day with their huge iPad billboards towering overhead and subway posters. Their commercials are also quite striking with a catchy song and visuals depicting their products at work. In todays era, advertising is an intricate part of any new product’s lifecycle. An introduction to a new product during highly watched shows and sports matches can boost sales tenfold nowadays. Apple is no stranger to advertising and have had some of the best campaigns in history. The…

  • Apple’s Record Breaking Fourth Quarter

    anthony
    2 Feb 2012 | 3:22 pm
    Despite initial mediocre reviews of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, Apple had an astonishing fourth quarter and year in general. With over 37 million iPhone sales in the fourth quarter, Apple has also regained the number one spot in brand listing according to General Sentiments. Apple and Google have been switching spots this year, but Apple closed the year off strong. According to Bloomberg.com, Apple Inc. (APPL) shares climbed 6.2 percent to $446.66 and their strong 2011 fourth quarter netted $13.1 billion in profits. This is the highest record profit since Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and…

  • Happy Birthday Macintosh

    Justin
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:15 pm
    On this date in 1984 personal computing changed for good. People were already getting used to the concept of a computer in their home, albeit the IBM or the Apple ][. Then on this day Apple introduced the original Macintosh Copyright lowendmac.com So on the Mac’s 28th birthday we say “Here’s to the crazy ones”.

  • Apple’s take on schools delivers over 350k iBook Textbooks in 3 days

    Justin
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:42 am
    Global Equities Research, a consulting firm that tracks iBooks sales, has gone pubic telling the world that since Apple updated their popular ePub reader, iBooks to now read textbooks, over 350,000 textbooks where downloaded within three days of being available. This is an amazing number since each book is $15/piece! Apple of course gets their 30% of that…so do the math – $5*350,000 = 1.75 million dollars. HOLY CRAP! I checked out the Physics textbook and WOW! I liked Physics in high school, and I can see how much more I would have liked it had I had an iPad with this textbook. Not…

  • Happy Birthday to US!

    Justin
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:48 am
    It was 4 years ago I started Virtua Computers. I can’t believe how much has changed both in technology and me personally. Thanks to everyone who made these 4 years possible, and here’s to another 4 years!
 
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  • Please sign in again. iTunes Match has encountered an error; how to fix

    ATB
    4 Feb 2012 | 11:06 am
    Several users have reported that they received the following error message when they launch iTunes and try to update iMatch running on Windows OS: Please sign in again. iTunes Match has encountered an error.  Please choose Sign Out and then Sign In from the iTunes Store Menu Fix: Right click on your iTunes icon and [...]

  • How to back up your iOS device

    ATB
    2 Feb 2012 | 9:22 pm
    It is important that you know your options for backing up your device. If you are running iOS5; iCloud and iTunes can back up your data on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The back up includes purchased music, TV shows, apps, and books, photos, videos, app data, messages, ringtones etc. Back Up With iCloud Apple [...]

  • How to insert basic Latin symbols on iPad / iPhone and iPod Touch

    ATB
    31 Jan 2012 | 7:50 am
    You may want to insert / type basic Latin characters or symbols (Unicode Latin Letters with Diacritics) or special characters with accent marks using your device’s screen keyboard. For example, say you visited Turkey and you want to email your friends about the food there and tell them about the excellent “döner kebap” you ate. [...]

  • How to delete an international keyboard on iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch

    ATB
    31 Jan 2012 | 7:48 am
    You may have accidentally added a wrong keyboard or you may have no need for your international keyboard and you want to turn off a keyboard. Although adding a new keyboard is pretty straight forward, deleting is not.  To disable an international keyboard that you added, tap Settings > General > International > Keyboards. There [...]

  • My iPad rotation is locked vertically and I cannot unlock rotation, how do I resolve this?

    ATB
    30 Jan 2012 | 8:05 am
    You can use the side switch on iPad to either lock the screen rotation or to mute some iPad sounds. Tap Settings > General and find “Use Side Switch to:” then select Lock Rotation or Mute. If Mute is selected, the switch on the side of the iPad will mute system sounds. If you choose [...]
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  • Feb 1, Media Center

    1 Feb 2012 | 10:41 am
    QUESTION: I am interested in your Mac mini media centre project. Recently, I also bought a 2.3G Mac mini with 4GB RAM for setting up a media centre at

  • Jan 30, Super slow iMac 6,1

    30 Jan 2012 | 1:24 am
    QUESTION: The Mac has been running extremely slow, I tried most of the tips you suggested but to no avail. I have formatted the HDD and am reinstalling

  • Jan 27, can't get rid of full screen

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:39 am
    QUESTION: I have a desktop iMac and using msn keyboard. How do I get rid of a full screen. I have it on only one page of my website. Zoom doesn't work.

  • Jan 25, BootCamp Mac, Stopped Booting After Removing Partition

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:48 pm
    I stumbled onto some problems when removing the bootcamp mac partition. Testdisk helped me!

  • Jan 24, Slow MacBook, Now Superfast!

    24 Jan 2012 | 10:19 am
    Thanks a million! I completed steps 1-4, 6 and 8 - I restarted, cleaned up my dashboard, start up items and deleted lots of files. My macbook which has
 
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  • Author iBooks, heir to HyperCard

    7 Feb 2012 | 11:42 am
    The new edition iBooks have a little deja vu. They have a lot to remember the CD-ROM encyclopedia and the cultural heyday of multimedia. Killed by Internet, multimedia CD-ROM launched an entire... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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  • iBooks 2, Author iBooks, iTunes U: the iPad in all classrooms

    31 Jan 2012 | 3:27 am
    A press conference in New York, presented by Phil Schiller keynote this was not quite ordinary for Apple. Dedicated to education, privileged sector of Apple, he witnessed the presentation of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • A Review of Backblaze, a $5/month Unlimited Backup Solution

    Brian Patterson
    31 Jan 2012 | 10:48 am
    When Mozy raised their prices and threshholds last year, I was pissed.  I had been a customer of theirs for two years and had referred more than a handful of people to them.  The unlimited plan I had at the time was $5/month, and I backed up about 100GB onto their service.  Now, that same [...]Related posts:Online Backup For your Mac Note: Looking for a great deal on Mozy Online Backup?...iPhoto Backup One of the most used and loved applications on the...Bootcamp Backup We’ve covered previously a number of different backup solutions for...

  • Corporations Should Use iBooks Author for Custom eLearning Courses

    Dan Hinckley
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:09 pm
    Earlier this month and before Apple announced their quarterly earnings that quickly made them once again the most valuable company in the universe, they shared a few new tools designed to improve the textbooks that help us learn. The announcement focused on how students, especially those in high school, would be able to learn more [...]Related posts:Quick Tip: Remove Custom Preferences If you’ve installed a third party preference application to your...Embed Custom RSS Feeds Into iWeb While adding Google Gadgets to your iWeb site allows you...iPad App Review: WhiteNote When Apple…

  • iMac Clones Are Here

    Dan Hinckley
    11 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am
    Over the past year Apple has been fighting in courts around the world to keep Samsung devices out of international markets because they believe they violate Apple’s patents and look to similar to the iPhone and iPad. I’m sure the last thing Apple thought would happen would be that another company would clone a different [...]Related posts:My iMac G4 Love Affair Name a product, any product, that was as widely loved,...It’s Time To Fix Apple’s Confusing Product Lineup It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that...News: 1 Million Apple TVs & Mac App…

  • Share All Your iPhone Pictures on Facebook

    Dan Hinckley
    9 Jan 2012 | 3:12 pm
    One of the great things about the iPhone is the powerful camera that is built into it. The iPhone is actually used to take more pictures than any other camera on the market. Apple’s recent improvements to the camera with the iPhone 4s has only helped make it popular as a picture taking device. With [...]Related posts:iPhoto 09 & Facebook Albums One of the new features in the 09 version of...Photo Sharing with Picasa Web Albums iPhoto is a great application for managing your digital photos....Add Facebook Contact Photos to your iPhone 4S One of the first things people do after…

  • The Future of Apple TV Has a Name & It’s Siri

    Dan Hinckley
    7 Jan 2012 | 7:25 pm
    Ever since the biography of Steve Jobs was published there has been increased speculation about Apple’s next big thing. The speculation comes from comments that Steve Jobs shared with Walter Isaacson, his biographer, that he’d “like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use… It would be seamlessly synced with all [...]Related posts:The Secret Value of The New Apple TV It turns out that most of what we were hoping...WWDC 2011 Expectations: Apple’s Cloudy Future Apple’s 2008 Worldwide Developer Conference brought us the App…
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  • How to Choose an iBooks Author Template

    Miraz Jordan
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:20 pm
    How to Choose an iBooks Author Template Mac Tip #522, 08 February 2012 Apple is leading the pack again — this time with a new ebook authoring tool that pushes the limits of ebook publishing. iBooks Author makes it easy for Mac users to create “multi-touch” ebooks that combine text, images, video, and interactive elements with finely tuned page layouts. Our Guest Author, Maria Langer explains how to choose an iBooks Author template. iBooks Author is a free 137 MB download from the App Store. It requires Mac OS X 10.7.2 or later. Maria Langer is the author of more than 80…

  • How to briefly magnify Dock icons

    Miraz Jordan
    4 Feb 2012 | 12:25 pm
    How to briefly magnify Dock icons Quick Mac Tip, 05 February 2012 Do you have your Dock set to not magnify icons? But then are they sometimes too small to see what you need to see? This quick keyboard trick solves that problem instantly. Set the Dock preferences Dock preferences. Look under the Apple menu for the Dock item and the option to turn Magnification on or off, or just call up the Dock Preferences. The screenshot shows I have Magnification turned off — I don’t really use the Dock and all the bouncy stuff just gets annoying. The next screenshot shows a portion of my Dock…

  • How to delete cookies on your iPhone (and why you might want to)

    Miraz Jordan
    31 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    How to delete cookies on your iPhone (and why you might want to) Mac Tip #521, 01 February 2012 Sometimes Safari on your iOS device misbehaves and the only solution is to delete the browser cookies. Here’s how to do that. I use Google Apps with my main email address. That means that I’m using Gmail. But sometimes there’s one big frustration: the error message that stops me even seeing my mail. 414. That’s an error The requested URL … is too large to process. That’s all we know. 414 The requested URL is too large to process. I don’t care very much for…

  • Can I put a Mac app on my iPhone?

    Miraz Jordan
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm
    Can I put a Mac app on my iPhone? Quick Mac Tip, 29 January 2012 Can you move a Mac app to your iPhone, or vice versa? Sadly, no. Here’s the full story. A client asked me the other day: I bought Bejeweled for the Mac. Can I move it to my iPad? The quick answer is No, though it’s slightly more complicated (not much). Bejeweled for iPhone or Mac. Mac OS and iOS are different platforms Apple make both Macs and devices such as iPhones, iPods and iPads. Because they make both they also make them seem very much alike. For example, both a Mac and an iPad run the Safari web browser, and…

  • Gather files fast with this Lion Tip

    Miraz Jordan
    24 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    Gather files fast with this Lion Tip Mac Tip #520, 25 January 2012 If you’re like me one or more of the folders on your Mac has a huge mess of unsorted files in it. To clean up you may like to move those files to various subfolders. Lion’s New Folder with Selection command makes this a whole lot easier than it used to be. Here’s how it works. Quick Start Make sure you’re using Lion, OS 10.7. Select a group of files in the Finder. Choose New Folder with Selection ([x] items) from the File menu. Want more detail? Read the full Tip below. Select multiple files If…
 
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  • Biography App for iBooks – A Journey With History’s Most Influential People

    Lito
    7 Feb 2012 | 11:24 am
    Read online at AppleSlut.com Technology has a way of making even the most boring subjects very entertaining and with the recent release of Apple’s iBooks 2 for its iDevices, our way of looking at textbooks will never be the same. Apple’s thrust to make an impact on our present educational system by employing the use of technology together with its gadgets is, to say the least, very ambitious (in a good sense). It’s the most practical and convenient way to “carry” your textbooks to school/university because you already carry your iPad or other idevices everyday… so why not maximize…

  • Stress Free Traveling With Your iPhone

    Michelle
    6 Feb 2012 | 4:47 pm
    Read online at AppleSlut.com Summer and Christmas are notorious for being one of the most heavily traveled times of the year. Whether you’re going by car, train, bus, or plane to visit your family, today’s iPhone technology can take some of the stress out of holiday travel. Internet marketing companies are praising Next Flight, which tracks departures for more than 4,000 airports worldwide. This one will definitely come in handy if you miss a flight, get bumped or need to leave grandma’s house earlier than planned. If you’re a last-minute traveler, you can find great deals through the…

  • Best Browsers for iPad Other Than Safari

    William Taylor
    6 Feb 2012 | 12:05 am
    Read online at AppleSlut.com iPad is a mobile internet browsing device. The shape, design and ease of use make surfing the Internet on this device easier in comparison to a laptop. The Safari browser appears to be lacking in certain features that many iPad users would like to see. The following are iPad browser apps that can prove fabulous alternatives to Safari. 1. SkyFire Web Browser for iPad ($4.99) | Download Apple does not allow Adobe Flash applications on the iPad.  SkyFire Browser for iPad is one exception to this rule. SkyFire proves unique with the browser allowing users to view…

  • The Right and Wrong Way to Manage Birthdays in iCal

    Tony
    3 Feb 2012 | 3:07 pm
    Read online at AppleSlut.com Are you adding birthdays to iCal on your Mac and setting the event to repeat every year? Congratulations! You’re doing it wrong. Adding birthdays to iCal manually is a pain in the ass, plus it forces you to create another colored label that you don’t need. (and I want to keep iCal as clean as possible.) Don’t feel bad because I was entering birthdays to iCal this way for years… Years. You can understand the problem or skip to the bottom to see the solution – or the right way to enter birthdays in iCal. FYI: This post talks…

  • iPhone 5 with NFC Technology?

    Lito
    1 Feb 2012 | 5:49 pm
    Read online at AppleSlut.comIn our world today, it’s nearly impossible to go anywhere without bumping into some form of access technology. From buses to trains to hotels, almost everything requires some sort of card or pass in order to ride or move through. This access technology is not limited to the transport system, but is also present more so in commerce and payment systems.  When was the last time you booked a hotel or rented a car using cash? Can’t remember? I thought so. Though Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology is not new and has already been with us for more than 20 years…
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  • New Article: Consumerization of IT

    Nick Nicholaou
    3 Feb 2012 | 7:17 pm
    Computer use is going through a significant change… one that is challenging the status quo of most church and ministry networks. The IT world refers to it as the Consumerization of IT, and it is growing.This has become a hot topic among church and ministry leaders, so I wrote an article about it that I hope you find helpful.  Click here to read it!

  • Texting Abuse

    Nick Nicholaou
    14 Jan 2012 | 2:17 pm
    Texting is a great communication tool, except when misused.  Texting is about simple communication in real time; it is not about calendaring or task management.  Here are a few examples of this kind of misuse:I need someone to send me some information they have at their desk, and I think of it while watching my favorite evening television show, so I text them.I want to get together with someone in a week or two, so I text them the date.I remember that I need to give someone some info they need for a task or meeting, and I text it to them off-hours.Sending them a text message, rather…

  • How to Rename Your Kindle Device or Application

    Nick Nicholaou
    3 Jan 2012 | 11:29 am
    I recently gave my wife a Kindle File, and she loves it!  I linked it to my Kindle account so we could share books (wouldn't it be nice if Amazon let us link family accounts for sharing purposes!).  The problem was that Amazon automatically named her Kindle Fire Nick's Kindle.Renaming the device was not obvious on the Amazon website, but the steps to do so are surprisingly easy!  Here they are:Login to www.amazon.com/manageyourkindleClick Manage Your Devices on the left side of the screenClick the Edit link next to your registered Kindle device's nameSync your Kindle device or…

  • New Article: Keyboard Shortcuts

    Nick Nicholaou
    1 Nov 2011 | 10:02 am
    The Windows and Mac OSX operating systems each have built-in shortcut keystrokes that can be great time-savers. While this has always been true, I find that most computer users today have either forgotten many of them, or have never even known about them! Click here to read this short article that will be a great help to you and your crew!

  • Managing Macs in Active Directory

    Nick Nicholaou
    31 Oct 2011 | 1:25 pm
    In one of the communities I'm involved in we had some discussions recently about managing Macs in Active Directory.  Some are adamant that it must be done, while others (me included) don't see the value.It takes a lot of effort to manage Macs in AD, and it's hard to find benefits that make the effort worthwhile.  In a recent roundtable I asked what the benefits were, and the only response was password management, reinforcing my position that it's not worth the effort.We already automount network volumes for Mac users, and we require that Mac users use the same username and password…
 
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