Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. There is concern, however, among community members that Digg is struggling too much and may not be able to reignite the interest of those who have left.

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Up until now, whenever I wanted to make funny faces at my boss but didn't have the Wi-Fi connection necessary for Facetime, I used the Fring app over 3G. Now I've got a new favorite app for those times: Tango. More »

Apple seeded Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H548 to developers Thursday with no known issues.

The iPhone 4 launch in China this past weekend got off to an incredible start, but iPhone 4 scalpers recently prompted an Apple's flagship retail store in Beijing to shut down temporarily

WordPress for iOS has updated to version 2.6, which adds the ability to record video from within the app and upload it to a blog.

Other improvements include an overhaul of locally saved drafts, which brings it more in line with the web version -- including the ability to autosave while the post is being written. Also, version 2.6 implements a full media library within the app.

WordPress for iOS 2.6 is a free download from the App Store and available now.

[Via Macworld]

TUAWWordPress app now includes video recording originally appeared on The...

Facebook CTO Bret Taylor told attendees at a dinner for New York media that he was "very confident" the two companies would reach a deal regarding Ping, iTunes' built-in social network focused on music, according to a report on Business Insider. Previous negotiations to bring Facebook users into the service collapsed after 18 months, forcing Apple to launch the service without Facebook integration....

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A new report from market research firm DisplaySearch on Thursday shows that while the iPad shipments are on the rise, netbooks are falling quickly. Shipments of the netbook/tablet PC were down 4 percent in the second quarter of 2010 over the previous quarter and up 29 percent year over year. That actually sounds pretty good [...]

The chief technology officer of social networking site Facebook said he expects that his company will reach a deal with Apple to integrate with its own music-centric social networking service, Ping.

If you're looking for a rare piece of Apple history, look no further—I've got a deal for you. Also the grey market for iPhones just went ballistic, and Google has a new URL-slimming plan that's sure to be all the rage.






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One Laptop Per Child project founder Nicholas Negroponte told those at the Mobilize conference today that tablets needed to be more creativity-driven than the iPad. While not directly critical of Apple's design, the OLPC lead said Apple was primarily making "peripherals for iTunes" that were meant for passive consumption. For devices like the XO-3 tablet, the focus had to be on active learning and creation, which Negroponte didn't see as an iPad strong suit....

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Metaview, a stock research and 3D market visualization tool, has been updated to v2.0, adding additional 3D features such as metaplots of volume data and 3D plotting of headlines and historic events. Developer Lyle Andrews has also added a "Dragnet" feature that searches for news stories related to stocks being analyzed, new faster OpenGL graphics and a more streamlined client/server architecture....

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Veni vidi hacki. Just picked up an Apple TV this afternoon at the Cherry Creek Apple Store (shout out to the guys there!) and while I haven't had a long time to play around with it -- hence the brevity of this post -- I have had a few moments of hands-on testing to share with you. Here are the basic highlights.

TUAWApple TV hacking update: PhoneView, ping, VNC support originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A more detailed Verizon roadmap has surfaced today that not only provides more color for its tablet and smartphone plans but suggests trouble for RIM. The Motorola Stingray tablet was supposedly verified as real by the Engadget source and should be a 10-inch, Android 3.0 flagship device running on a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 and 16GB of storage. Unusually, it would only ship with 3G but would be "hardware upgradeable to LTE" for 4G, presumably through a card or a USB modem....

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I installed a ColorWare Grip on my iPad earlier. It's lovely: milled from solid aluminum and surprisingly comfortable to use one-handed. I intended to write a cheery post about it until I saw the price: $300. Is that a joke? More »

Singular Software (http://www.singularsoftware.com), developer of automation applications for digital media markets, says a Mac OS X version of DualEyes, currently a Windows-only audio synchronization application for video production, is in the works.

Facebook Chief Technical Officer Bret Taylor says he is "very confident" Facebook and Apple will figure out a way to work together on Ping, Apple's music social network, reports "Silicon Alley Insider" (http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-cto-very-confident-facebook-and-...).

Nearly lost amid Apple Inc.’s recent product and software rollouts was one of the most significant announcements of all: the arrival of the company’s Airplay audio streaming system, a technology with the potential to become a Top 10 consumer electronics product, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp. (http://www.isuppli.com).

In a follow-up to yesterday's report, the Hexxeh blog was updated with a video of an iPad running on Chromium OS. Now affectionately called the Chromepad, the video (embedded below) shows the modified device's interface shows a mouse cursor, giving more credibility to the claim....

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Mariner Software has brought MacJournal, its unique writing, journaling, and blogging tool, to the iPad, allowing wordsmiths to write on-the-go and keep their journals in sync with the Mac version.






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Apple this week stepped up attack on Nokia over patent violations by filing a lawsuit in the U.K., alleging multiple counts of infringement.







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Apple’s new AirPlay technology could “revolutionize” consumer audio, according to research firm iSuppli. The firm said that Apple’s ability to bring a seamless user experience to the notion of networked audio could achieve the same explosion of the networked audio market that the company brought to digital media devices with the iPod.






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UK-based Pendle Products’s new iPad stand boasts a simple, clean design and can prop up your iPad in an inclined or reclined position.







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Wordpress 2.6 for iOS has been released, includes new video support where you can shoot and upload videos directly to blog posts

Open-First recently conducted a survey of 110 App Store developers to examine how much they've been earning vs. their initial expectations. Nearly half of respondents -- 48% -- revealed that they're earning more than the expected.

The study was conducted between August 30th and September 10th, 2010 via online questionnaire, followed-up by phone. In the end, 78% of respondents rated themselves as satisfied, very satisfied, or somewhat satisfied with the experience of publishing to the App Store, and 99% said they'd continue to do so.

Of course, not all developers surveyed were happy. A full 28% said they're making less than expected. Still, they must be hopeful, as nearly 100% of participants said they'd continue to sell mobile apps through Apple.

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If an issue occurs when sending or receiving email messages in Mail in Mac OS X v10.6, use this information to troubleshoot the issue.

SwitchEasy has launched the TRIM, a new hybrid-designed case for the iPhone 4. The TRIM fuses a softer polymer material, for better grip around the sides, with a polycarbonate back plate for strength. Grooves around the sides offer improved shock absorption and better grip. The case is a one-piece design that is said to be easy to remove and install. The TRIM offers 360-degree protection, with an included screen protector and removable port guards for the headphone and 30-pin dock ports. It offers access to all the iPhone's ports and buttons, while a cutaway provides...

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We’ve been busy over here at Digg HQ and I wanted to take some time to address some of the work we’ve done based on feedback from our community.

A tentative rumor today asserts that Apple has been buying Samsung's AMOLED display supply in a move that would trigger a part switch for Samsung's own phones. Well-known Russian leaker Eldar Murtazin claimed that Apple had bought virtually all of Samsung's Super AMOLED stock for 2011, leaving it with no choice but to switch to LCD for the Galaxy S and Wave. The Korean company is fulfilling carrier contract orders but has allegedly stopped retail deliveries from December onwards....

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A new survey of prospective smartphone buyers has found that hype from the iPhone 4 has died down, and Apple's smartphone is only slightly more preferable to consumers than devices running Google Android.

Guys usually love gadgets and they easily fall for them, but when it comes to girls, they are a little selective and choosy. So, if you have got a girlfriend who love gadgets, here are the three things which you should consider to buy a perfect gadget for her.

MacNN has taken a closer look at iStoragePro's Dock View RAID-iT2DockV. The RAID 0/1 box pairs two 3.5in hard disks with eSATA, FireWire800 -- and 400 -- and USB 2.0 interfaces. The drive offers hot-swap capabilities while still active on the Mac's desktop, allowing for changes to be made to the volume during a disk swap -- although volume rebuilding slows dramatically with drive access by the Mac....

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Apart from making you work more efficiently and faster, you can also impress your friends or colleagues by being able to work without a mouse. This article describes some cool Windows 7 keyboard tricks to get you started.

iPad owners are a different breed from those who own other portable devices and e-book readers, according to a new survey by Nielsen. Nielsen's Connected Devices Playbook finds that, compared to owners of the Kindle and Sony Playstation Portable, iPad owners are more likely to be young, male, and receptive to advertising.

While the survey shows that many devices have a near 50-50 gender split, the iPad and the Sony PSP scales tip towards men—65 percent of iPad owners are male, and 63 percent are also under the age of 35. The Kindle, though, swept some categories away from the iPad: Kindle owners are the wealthiest, with 44 percent earning more than $80,000 a year, and more educated (27 percent have master's degrees or doctorates).

iPad owners stand out, however, for their...

A coming update to PayPal's iPhone app will let users deposit checks directly from their mobile device.







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Apple’s flagship store in Beijing was forced to close its doors early today after a group of iPhone 4 scalpers created a chaotic scene. MIC Gadget reports that Apple removed its limitation on the number of contract-free iPhone 4 units any single customer could buy at the store, perhaps…

ProVue Development's Panorama 6 makes the venerable database program faster, safer, and easier to use.







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Steve Mcleod announced an update to Poker Copilot that adds many new features to the HUD, some of which you can see below. In addition to the new HUD features, the update includes some site-specific improvements and bug fixes.






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The MacTech 2010 Conference -- register with this link for a $50 MacNN discount -- is adding details for the Apple Certification exam being offered on the final day. The conference has two tracks, one for IT professionals and another for Apple developers. The three-day event, which takes place at the Sheraton Universal in Universal City, will have mobile and desktop sessions focusing on the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod. There will also be special speakers, a MacTech Bowl and Apple Certification testing....

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iTunes Store から購入するビデオは標準解像度 (SD) で、コンピュータ、iPhone、iPad、iPod、または Apple TV で再生できます。一部、高解像度 (HD) で提供されているビデオもあります。HD ビデオは高画質ですが、iPhone 4、iPod touch (第 4 世代)、iPad、コンピュータ、または Apple TV でしか再生できません。iTunes Store から HD ビデオを購入すると SD バージョンも同時にダウンロードされます。

On Thursday, Sony introduced the XNV-770BT and XNV-660BT touchscreen [in-dash car navigation systems, which combine GPS, iPod connectivity, CD/DVD playback, and Bluetooth.






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In Windows 7, you may be unable to view or play HD video or content, and you may receive a related alert message.

Macgamestore.com has recently announced two hidden-object/adventure games, Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials and The Clock Man: The Hidden World. Midnight Mysteries, developed by MumboJumbo, requires players to help the ghost of deceased writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, in an attempt to solve a mystery surrounding his murder. The game includes 10 different adventure missions, enabling users to explore the terrain and structures of Salem village, interview apparitions, and solve puzzles....

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Two months ago, Chrome team members shared a list of their favorite extensions on the Official Google blog. This time around, we asked Mac aficionados on the Chrome team to share with us the extensions they like the most. Below is a list of their favorite extensions.

• Google Voice - Make calls, send SMS, preview inbox and get notified of new messages right in your browser (US only).
• Send from Gmail - Makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email.
• iReader - View news stories and other articles in a very easy to read...

Underground parking just got a new meaning!

Hey, you! With the $100 bill burning a hole in your pocket! Why don't you do something useful with that Benjamin?

In this YouTube footage, photographer Enrique Pardo turns an ordinary $100 bill into a fashionable and expensive stand for an iPhone or iPod touch. If you're cheap, you can always use a regular $1 bill for the same purpose, but where's the fun in that?

[via Techi]

TUAWFound Footage: The $100 iPhone / iPod touch stand originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our...

For more than a year, ChangeWave (http://www.changewave.com) consumer smart phone surveys have been chronicling the upward movement of the Google Android operating system and its impact on the smart phone market. Going forward, the research group's latest consumer survey shows another surge in Android momentum among planned buyers.

Verizon has launched a trade-in program aimed at pulling in subscribers from other carriers. Visitors to the Verizon website can have a phone appraised on several different criteria, including make, model and whether or not voice and the display are still usable. Some of the eligible phones notably include the iPhone 4, and 8GB versions of the iPhone 3G and 3GS....

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The second-generation Apple TV is now shipping, and a few owners who have received their units are having difficulties with sharing and streaming from their Macs.

Now that the proverbial floodgates have opened at the App Store, we're starting to see some apps showing up that were previously denied entry. Internet TV provider PlayOn was one of those companies that had tried to get their iPhone app approved months ago, but was told by Apple that their service needed to be a Web app instead. The company complied with an HTML5 solution, but a native app wasn't available... until now.

PlayOn Mobile is a free app that works with a subscription service ($39.99 for first year, $19.99 after that or $79.99 for a lifetime subscription) to stream content from a number of providers to your device over Wi-Fi or 3G. Before you get too excited, though, note that you need to be running PlayOn PC on a Windows PC to get that...

At a tech conference in San Francisco this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt outlined a future where his company's search technology will be autonomous.







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Lyle Andrews has released MetaView2.0 (http://www.metaview.tv/), an update of the Mac OS X application that lets you view stock market data in 3D. New features include 3D metaplots of volume data, a news "Dragnet" feature that searches the Internet for stories related to a particular stock, and 3D plotting of headlines and historic events.  

MetaView 2.0 also boasts faster openGL graphics and a new streamlined client/server architecture. MetaView costs US$49.95, but also requires a subscription to a special MetaView data feed for $15 per month.

There is some steady progress being made on a daily basis.

#microsoft

The most thrilling Microsoft product in years was killed before it ever officially existed. One of its most awesome services elicits more snickers than nods. Microsoft isn't even in the mobile space right now. Redmond, we have a problem. More »

About as many smartphone buyers want an Android device as do iPhones, according to the latest unofficial ChangeWave metric. Plans to get an iPhone have cooled off after the iPhone 4 high in June, and in September about 38 percent wanted Apple's handset, down from exactly half three months earlier. Android interest simultaneously spiked, however, and now has almost as much interest at 37 percent, an all-time high for Google....

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Folks at BestBoyZ have uploaded an interesting video showing a comparison between the video quality of iPhone 4 and the newly launched Nokia N8. At the beginning of the video you cannot notice much difference but at the end, the footage from both the phones are played side by side where you can clearly differentiate between the two

Many causes have leveraged the power of social media in some incredibly creative ways. In connection with the Mashable Awards nominations, we've highlighted the standouts.

Mac OS X アプリケーションに中国語の文字を入力するためのトラックパッド手書き認識をサポートする Magic Trackpad またはポータブル Mac のトラックパッドの使い方を説明します。

The next version of Final Cut Studio has been delayed until 2011, sources claim. Originally rumored to be coming in 2010, the project has allegedly been hit by several setbacks. Among these is work on a unified interface, for which Apple has allegedly been unable to find a suitable compromise -- not only in terms of design, but between the development teams working on Shake and Motion....

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The hacker community is already hard at work at figuring out how to do more with the second generation Apple TV than it is capable of out of the box, and the entertainment appliance’s mini USB port may be just what they need. The USB port can be used to restore the Apple TV’s default software, which also means it can potentially be used to install jailbreak hacks and additional applications.





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An Apple patent (number 20100245250) for virtual input tools hint at some potentially fascinating developments in upcoming versions of the Mac OS X.

A virtual input device, e.g., a virtual representation of a physical input device, is disclosed. In one aspect, virtual coordinates of the virtual input device correlate to real coordinates on the physical input device. Dimensions of the physical input device are proportional to dimensions of the virtual input device, and interactive objects are presented in the virtual input device. The inventor is John O. Louch.

Medical students at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom are being given Apple iPhones to ensure they can access text books when away from campus.







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Apple’s free iPhone 4 case program wraps up at the end of the day on Thursday, but that doesn’t mean procrastinators are out in the cold. Customers that buy an iPhone 4 today can still participate because they have 30 days to submit their claim.






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Macware has released MacFlux 3 (http://www.macwareinc.com/products/MacFlux/overview.html), an update of the web site creation tool for Mac OS X. It's an Universal Binary product so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

MacFlux provides the tools to create and publish your own web site the same day you start using it: pre-designed website templates, a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface, simple palettes for style changes, and an editing interface that shows the website the way it would be displayed on the Internet. Professional web designers can even drill down to the source code.

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I have the worst memory. I also have a bad short-term memory. This makes it tough to remember the things that pop into my head throughout the day, and it makes it especially hard to keep track of tasks and other actions that I must take. I've wanted to use my iPhone to "bottle" these fleeting thoughts for years, but nothing on the App Store allowed me to do this without some sort of distraction.

Enter Captio, a new app from Ben Lenarts of Boonbits. It's a small note taking application that allows you to capture thoughts, ideas, tasks, and other tidbits of information as they come to you. You may say, "But there are a million of those apps on the store, Josh, you handsome man!" Given, but Captio has one killer feature that everyone else has failed to...

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Today is September 30, the last day of thefree case program that fixes the iPhone 4's antenna design problem. So if you didn't get yours, now it's the time to do it following these instructions. More »

By Greg Mills

Today there are a number of interesting issues in Apple news. The Apple TV is being sliced, diced and analyzed.  

Lyle Andrews announced the immediate availability of MetaView 2.0 on Thursday. The new version of the stock market visualization application for Mac OS X added support for plotting volume data in 3D.






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Hardmac reports that Apple's plans for a thorough overhaul of its Final Cut Studio have "suffered significant setbacks" that will see a release pushed back to 2011 from a rumored goal of a 2010 launch and result in significantly scaled-back c...

To the best of my knowledge, no third-party PDF plugin on the Mac allows for the inline viewing of PDFs in Google Chrome, fortunately there is a way. As of Chrome 6, Google bundles an experimental PDF plugin, which is disabled by default.



To enable it:

• Type about:plugins in the omnibox.
• You should see a disabled plugin called 'Chrome PDF Viewer;' click the Enable button under this plugin.

You should now be able to view PDFs in Chrome. There are a few rough edges to this plugin. The occasional PDF will not display properly (in particular, it seems to choke on PDFs that have restrictions in effect — printing, copying, etc), but the vast majority show up just fine. The viewer is very fast, and has resizing controls available in the bottom-right corner of the window.



Note that there is currently no loading indicator for PDFs, so if you click on a large document, it may seem like the tab has frozen,...

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Seems RIM is considering using the more powerful QNX operating system that it acquired the rights to, in its BlackBerry devices to offer a better user experience to compete with Android etc

Critics are going gaga for "The Social Network," Hollywood's take on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Now comes word that Citizen Zuck will also get the Lady Gaga treatment.

A new rumor claims that Apple will release a new version of its Final Cut Studio suite in 2011, but that the project has suffered setbacks in the development process due to "fundamental differences of opinion."

While iPhone 4 buyers in most of the world can participate in Apple’s free case program, it seems Taiwan has been left out in the cold, and customers aren’t happy about that. One local politician, Kao Chia-yu, went to far as to launch a letter writing campaign in hopes of pushing Apple into honoring the free case program.






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The new Apple TV could be Steve Jobs' best sleight-of-hand trick yet. More »

Future mobile devices from Apple could sync and save large amounts of data over the Internet, allowing future access to information when an Internet connection is no longer available and removing the need to tether to a PC.

A new DisplaySearch study today both confirmed and predicted that the iPad was having a cooling effect on netbooks. Breaking down netbooks by category, it showed the 10-inch netbook's sales having dropped this spring by eight percent year-over-year after more than two years of growth. In small netbooks, below nine inches, the effect was even more dramatic as the category plummeted 89 percent to account for just 100,000 PCs worldwide....

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Mobiata, developer of FlightTrack Pro, has released FlightBoard, a virtual airport departure and arrivals board for iOS devices. FlightBoard features a design based on the Arrivals and Departures board at Charles de Gaulle Airport and allows users to turn their screen into a view of scheduled flights for just about…

Tablets are becoming quite the rage on the technical market, with seemingly everyone releasing their own version (and with a variety of operating systems). But in a lot of the cases the buyer of a new tablet device already owns a smart phone, more than capable of doing the same functions as the new tablet.

Zikera announced the immediate availability of Groove 1.4 on Thursday. The update for the music management app for the iPhone and iPod touch added the ability to share music choices via Twitter and Facebook, and also added iOS 4 fast app switching and Retina Display support.






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QNAP has refreshed its NMP-1000 with the new NMP-1000P adding 1080p support to its networked multimedia player. While there is little to cosmetically distinguish between the two models, the NMP-1000P has significantly upgraded internals and an improved user interface. Powering the new system is a Sigma Designs SMP8643 system-on-chip running at 667MHz. It offers better internet services, improved hardware and software decoding and can be integrated with home AV systems by USB, or eSATA connections to a user's PC or Mac....

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Schools in Virginia have teamed up with the educational book publisher Pearson to launch an iPad-based social studies program that relies on Apple’s iPad instead of traditional textbooks. The 12-week test program will include seventh and ninth grade students in two counties, and is the first educational program of its kind.






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Skype and Facebook are close to making a union that will integrate voice chat, Facebook Connect and SMS.

Your new Apple TV might be arriving today.

So why not hack it?

Per QuickPWN, a member of the Apple jailbreak blog iPhone Dev confirmed that if you use Greenpois0n and the SHAtter exploit, you can indeed jailbreak the Apple TV’s iOS 4.1 installation. The Dev-Team managed to jailbreak the film rental since Apple having has firmware on its servers.

The greenpois0n update for 4.1 has yet to be officially released, but at present, various how-to Websites show users how to add a multitude of apps and programs such as Sapphire and Boxee to the old Apple TV. With the jailbreak options readily available for the newbie, (as well as the Apple TV’s mini-USB port at your disposal to add external...

The second-generation Apple TV is almost here and the cool cats at iFixit have posted a complete teardown of the device, which apparently includes a small 8GB of onboard storage and the same 256MB of RAM found in the iPad and fourth-generation iPod touch.

Per the report, the new Apple TV uses a Samsung K9LCG08U1M 8GB NAND Flash chip, which is the same part found during the site’s iPad teardown. The memory is likely used to cache content that is being streamed.

“This is a pretty remarkable amount of storage for a US$99 device,” the solutions provider wrote.

Interestingly, logic board on the hardware shows solder pads that would fit an iPod 30-pin dock connector, perhaps implying what could come in future versions of the hardware.

“This Apple TV seems to be a couple of connectors shy of a full-on...

Digg is planning a comeback by focusing on recommending content to users in a more proactive manner, its founder said Wednesday.







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I've liked the previous incarnations of the iPod touch; I like the latest model even more as it adds still more features. The gorgeous, svelte touch can now record HD video and supports FaceTime video calling -- as well as doing everything it did in prevous versions.

The iPod touch remains a joy to use. Once you turn it on, there's a "slider" at the bottom of the screen that you use to "unlock" the iPod for use.

Denon has introduced its AH-NC800 dual noise-cancelling travel headphones. Incorporating dual noise cancelling technology, the noise from outside the headphones is cut by up to 99 percent. This is the result of two microphones; one that cancel the noise from the outside, and a secondary mic that further suppresses external sound that might leak inside the headphones. Designed for digital portable music players, the headphones incorporate Denonís Compressed Audio Restorer active circuitry that reconstructs MP3 and MP4 recordings so they sound more natural and akin to...

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One of the constant complaints about the Android diaspora is its fragmentation the increasingly diverse multiplicity of OS versions and devices that are so relevant yet so confusing to the average consumers mobile decision-making process.Apparently, the powers that be (at Google, that is) have heard users complaints on this score and have created the Google Phone Gallery, a carousel of devices that displays images, phone features, manufacturer and carrier information and more.You can sort phones by hardware manufacturer, by phone service provider and even by country, a feature we know our international readers will be very happy about.Finally, you can select multiple devices to do side-by-side comparisons.Theres a tab that reads Phones, too. This seems a bit redundant for a Phone Gallery, unless you consider the rising tide of Android tablets. We hope to see a few non-phone mobile devices featured in this gallery in the very near future.All these devices ship with the standard set...

Earlier this week, AOL snapped up TechCrunch, a technology blog network started by former attorney Michael Arrington, for an undisclosed amount of money. The final price is said to be somewhere between $25 million to $60 million. The acquisition has sparked a lot of conversation, especially among his peers.
To me, its an opportunity to reflect on the past decade and the evolution of blog-based media.Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc., have been the torchbearers of this new fast-paced, slightly quirky, highly passionate form of media.
Michael and I, along with my dear friend Rafat Ali, were early converts to this new kind of media. Like Arrington, I learned much about blogging from Dave Winer and Doc Searls. I married blogging to my analytical and old-school reporting skills, and it turned into GigaOM, the company. Rafat took his love of media and content and started PaidContent, which was acquired by The Guardian. Michael took his doggedness and heart-on-sleeve passion for...

The opening of Calgary, Alberta's second Apple Store Wednesday at Chinook Centre managed to overshadow the debut of the mall's $277 million expansion in which the store was located, with more than 200 fans lined up five hours ahead of the 8am opening and most telling local media they were there just for Apple....

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About half of all iPhone app developers are making more money than they expected, while about the same number of Android devs report making less than expected, according to a new survey conducted by IT pollsters Open-First of 110 developers for both marketplaces. A plurality of devs rated Apple's App Store as better overall than the Android Marketplace, with 78% expressing some level of satisfaction with the iOS selling experience and a whopping 99% saying they'd continue to write for the platform. However, the Android Marketplace continues to win favor due to its rap...

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1Password 3.4.41Password is a password manager that uniquely brings you both security and convenience. It is the only program that provides anti-phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding web form filling and automatic strong password generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept secure in one secure place using a highly encrypted keychain.

1Password fully supports most web browsers, including Safari, Camino, OmniWeb, DEVONagent, Firefox, Flock, Fluid, and NetNewsWire. All browser extensions share the data stored in the keychain which means you never need to manually copy your passwords between browsers or from the password manager to a browser ever again!

1Password has received numerous awards, including 4.5 mice from Macworld magazine, MacLife Editors pick, and was the Pick of Week on MacBreak Weekly by both...

Tidy Up! 2.2.6Tidy Up! is a complete duplicate finder and disk tidiness utility.

Here are a few Tidy Up! features:

• With Tidy Up! you can search for duplicate files and packages; by the owner application, content, type, creator, extension, time modified, time created, name, label, visibility and date/age. You can also search by the tag, duration and bit installments of MP3 and AAC sound files and EXIF metadata, search the contents of the iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes, iPod databases and Mail mailboxes, and synchronize deletions with iPhoto, Mail and iTunes.
• Tidy Up! allows you to search for duplicate folders; by name, date modified, date created, label visibility, empty folders, their contents and more.
• Tidy Up! is fast, it doesn\'t index the scanned volumes, so you don\'t waste additional precious space. With its multitasking capability, you can do more searches at a time...

File Juicer 4.24File Juicer is a drag & drop can opener and data archaeologist. Its specialty is to find and extract images, video, audio or text from files which are hard to open in other ways.

It finds and extracts: JPEG, JP2, PNG, GIF, PDF, BMP, WMF, EMF, PICT, TIFF, Flash, Zip, HTML, WAV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MPG, MP3, AIFF, AU, WMV or text from files which contain data in those formats.

Lossless extraction... File Juicer does\'t convert the images/sounds/videos it finds, but saves them unchanged in their original format if possible. See the manual for details.

This is useful:

• if you want to extract the images/sounds/videos from a PDF or Word document
• if you have old files you can no longer open with current applications,
• if you receive emails with attachments you can not open,
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Digg is planning a comeback by focusing on recommending content to users in a more proactive manner, its founder said Wednesday.