A new report from Taiwan's Economic Daily News suggests Apple may have finalized its supplier choices for the next-generation iPhone and iPad. The sources claim Qualcomm has been chosen to build the baseband components for both devices....
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| Read more »Sony's watch-sized remote controls the Android phone in your pocket.
I love this idea.
Sony (SNE) Ericsson might be a few generations behind in their Android OS rollout, but their hardware team is right on the mark here. Called the LiveView™ micro display, the watch face has a Bluetooth connection that connects to ...
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The latest iPad iOS 4.2 Beta 2 released yesterday appears to include new tethering options in the settings (pic via Paulgrav). According to 9to5Mac, the options only appear on European carriers and do not yet appear on AT&T devices.
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Oh yes! The ridiculously addictive Angry Birds iPhone app just got an update that gives it Game Center support, Retina Display compatibility, and 15 new levels. There goes my evening! More »
Over time I’ve built something of a reputation as a Digg fan, both within and outside of TNW. I have long enjoyed the community that managed the site and respected the team that built it.
That said, I find myself in something of a dull torpor whenever I visit the new Digg; its vitality has been stripped, and its soul seems to have been crushed. The wonky aspects of Digg that long gave it a unique character are being buried in spam and dull stories.
Digg has always been broken, but in an odd way it used to work. No, it was not the democratic heaven that some people wanted it to be, but it was a strong content destination. That is no longer the case.
Even more, from the publisher perspective, the promise of non-episodic traffic has turned out to be something of a paper dragon. Do we get a few more hits on a day to day basis than we used to? Maybe, but the decline of traffic to Digg’s front page means that the daily crumbs don’t make up the for the massively...
| Read more »NBC isn't the only broadcast company that's fighting Apple on 99 cent iTunes rentals. Apparently Time Warner doesn't want in on the plan, either. That's according to its CEO Jeff Bewkes, who told a conference of media executives in London that Apple is underselling television content by providing cheap rentals to customers. "How can you justify renting your first-run TV shows individually for 99 cents an episode," he asked, "and thereby jeopardize the sale of the same shows as a series to branded networks that pay hundreds of millions of dollars and make those shows available to loyal viewers for free?" The argument seems to be that if Apple offers 99 cent rentals, there's no incentive for syndication on other networks. Why would you watch cable reruns when you could load up old shows...
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Farmville might be the de facto farming game on account of its popularity on Facebook, but both its browser and iPhone iterations are kinda ugly. Also, what if you hate farming, and love the click-and-wait style of gameplay? Play We City....
| Read more »Time Warner chief executive Jeff Bewkes has warned other media execs that low cost rentals from Apple threaten sales of TV shows to branded networks.
Postbox ($40), an alternative e-mail client for Mac and Windows, has reached version 2.0 and sports a variety of new and improved features to increase users' productivity. The Mozilla-based client differentiates itself from Apple's Mail by offering support for add-ons, anti-phishing and malware protection, different views for smaller screens, tabs, built-in archiving and complex searching among other features....
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| Read more »NVIDIA has agreed to provide compensation to owners of Apple, HP and Dell computers as part of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit. The legal action surrounds NVIDIA graphics components in a variety of computers, including 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008. Other systems include certain Dell and HP machines sold between 2005 and 2010....
According to statements made at TechCrunch's Disrupt event today, Digg founder Kevin Rose may have reached the end of his patience when it comes to his problematic product.
| Read more »The first Apple TVs are arriving for customers who pre-ordered the small digital media receiver.
MacDailyNews provides an unboxing image gallery sent by a new Apple TV owner. An unboxing video is available blow.
The new Apple TV was introduced on September 1st at Apple’s media event with a reduced introductory price of $99.
| Read more »ProVue's popular database program Panorama, available on the Mac since 1988, has been updated to v6.0, a major upgrade to the high-performance RAM-based program for Macs and Windows. New features include a major speed boost on Intel Macs, live preview, protections to guard against data loss using Time Machine-like technology, full right-click contextual menus, enhanced search and simplified data manipulation and import/export among others....
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| Read more »A report out of the Far East early Thursday claims that Apple has decided on its lineup of component suppliers for the fifth-generation iPhone and second-generation iPad -- both of which will reportedly obtain baseband chips from CDMA inventor Qualcomm.
Here's some good news about a few popular apps on the App Store:
Apple's recently released iOS 4.2 beta 2 may bring 3G tethering to the iPad for the first time as a finding this evening may have confirmed its existence. A Swedish user noticed that the APN Settings section in Cellular Data has a separate Internet Tethering category that asks for the APN, username and password separately from regular access. The same raw settings were in iOS before it had its finished tethering interface, 9to5 Mac noted....
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| Read more »Pigs fly! Hell freezes! The official Google Voice app may actually appear in the App Store! Also, space gets explored with the help of an iPhone, and RIM says "no, way" to the fart app phenomenon.
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Booq has today unveiled a new line of iPad carrying cases aimed at creative professionals, dubbed the Boa Folio, in either Nappa leather ($90) or a ballistic nylon style ($50). The standout feature of the Boa Folio line is a iPhone-specific exterior pocket on the front flap, as well as a large document pocket on the inside....
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| Read more »Most Target stores may only be stocked with 20 to 30 iPads in the first wave of shipments that will arrive on October 3. Some of the heavy-traffic locations are expected to get more supplies, ranging from 50 to 80 devices, while all stores will get "ample accessories."...
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| Read more »Digg founder Kevin Rose acknowledged that traffic to Digg.com dipped as a result of the site's redesign.
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Our first giveaway this month was a rousing success, with over 500 individuals entering alongside our auto-entered Premier Subscribers. The winners should have received e-mails by now.
September's second giveaway is still open for entry. It's very similar to the first, with one exception. Instead of a CanvasPop print, we're giving away a DNA Print from DNA11 (read on below for more details). Remember, anyone who signs up for a Premier Subscription before the end of this giveaway is automatically entered, and gets all of the other Premier benefits as well.
You may be asking yourself, "Self, what are all...
| Read more »We've covered Postbox in the past, and I've been using it regularly since the beta. Version 2.0 was just officially released, and there's a lot to love in the latest incarnation of this Mail.app replacement.
Postbox already had some great organization capabilities, including "Conversation" views for email threads, and "Topics" for tagging messages and quickly sorting them. With version 2.0, organization is faster and even easier, thanks to features like Quick Move and some new keyboard shortcuts. There's even a Quick Reply feature that lets you respond to a message from within the message or thread by hitting Shift+R (a lot like GMail). There are also keyboard shortcuts for navigating mailboxes and accounts without touching your...
| Read more »Our own Adam Christianson has posted an unboxing video for the new Apple TV through his other hat, host of the MacCast podcast. While we were flaying him alive for not posting it under the TMO brand, Mr. Christianson quickly offered to let us post it, too.¬†
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Though the device just began shipping this week, members of the iPhone Dev Team have been able to use existing jailbreaking tools to jailbreak Apple TV. In a blog post, the hacking group said that it was able to use an exploit called SHAtter to decrypt firmware for the Apple TV that was released by Apple in advance of the device’s release.
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9to5Mac has been digging through the brand new iOS 4.2 beta, and they've found a few new features hidden in the mix. First up, the build offers some new YouTube uploading options -- you can now choose to make your uploaded YouTube videos public, unlisted, or private upon upload. Honestly, I've had hit-or-miss luck with uploading to YouTube straight from my iPhone, but it's nice to know the process is being worked on. Maybe we'll have some optimization come along with the new options.
Second, as you can see above, the iPad has gotten itself a brand new multitasking animation. Instead of just pulling up whatever app you're switching to, it'll actually spin the windows around (this functionality is already up and running on the iPhone, but now it'll be available on the iPad as well). And finally...
| Read more »Battlestations: Pacific, a popular wartime simulation game, is coming to the Mac in early October via Feral Interactive and original publisher Square Enix. A sequel to Battlestations: Midway, the new game features two elaborate campaigns, over 100 types of aircraft, ships and submarines, 14 missons within each campaign, and an opportunity to change history by having the Japanese dominate the Pacific theater....
Apple's new iOS-powered Apple TV has a user interface dubbed "Lowtide" that is compatible with other iOS devices, and which one hacker has already ported to an iPod touch.
Sometimes litigation comes in handy.
Per CNET, a number of users who discovered that their 2007 and 2008 MacBook Pro systems contained graphics problems that showed either scrambled video output or sometimes black screens are in for some compensation.
A recent class-action lawsuit against Nvidia over faults in the GeForce 8600M graphics processors included in a variety of notebook models primarily from Dell and HP, but also in Apple’s 15″ and 17″ MacBook Pro notebooks.
Users who have MacBook Pro systems manufactured between 2007 and 2008 and who are experiencing video problems (black or scrambled output) will be eligible to have their systems fixed for free. Reimbursements will be paid to people who have had these problems fixed at their own expense.
If you feel you are entitled to the benefits of this settlement, you can register to have your system fixed at the Nvidia GPU Litigation Web site. The site...
| Read more »Note: This document applied to iPod shuffle (1st generation) and iPod shuffle (2nd generation).
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iTunes includes a feature called Autofill that can quickly sync audio content from your library or a selected playlist to your iPod shuffle. You can also manually sync content. To learn more, review the steps below. For information on syncing and playing audiobooks and podcasts see this document.
| Read more »Kobo this evening revealed that a version of its eReader app will be preloaded on the BlackBerry PlayBook from the start. RIM said picked the eReader hardware maker as Kobo had an international e-bookstore and was adept at customizing for specific countries. The bookseller in turn said that a WebKit browser made it an ideal fit since it uses the same engine for many of its existing apps, including those on the iPad....
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| Read more »Well-known audio software maker BIAS has debuted a new consumer application aimed at converting records and tapes into digital formats, a popular pastime with music lovers. SoundSaver ($50) promises to combine analog audio capture through a Mac's sound-in port or USB, define tracks and set markers, clean up the sound and export it either directly to iTunes or in other various sound formats....
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| Read more »As mentioned earlier today, my guest for today's episode of TUAW TV Live is Sam Levin, the brains and voice behind AppMinute.com and the AppMinute podcast (iTunes link). I always enjoy having guests on the show, and today's episode ought to be a lot of fun for viewers as well. We tried to do this show last week, but due to technical issues with our streaming provider, we were unable to.
To join in from your Mac or PC, just go to the next page by clicking the read more link at the bottom of this post, and you'll find a livestream viewer and a chat tool. The chat tool allows you to join in on the fun by asking questions or making comments.
If you're driving somewhere and would like to watch TUAW TV Live while you're stuck in traffic, please don't -- keep your eyes on the road! However, if...
| Read more »At TechCrunch's Disrupt conference, Digg's founder Kevin Rose presented a very candid view of the state of Digg during an interview with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. Rose admitted that he and the rest of the team made mistakes when they launched Digg v4. He also admitted that Digg's traffic took quite a dip after the launch of v4. Looking back. Rose also pointed out that Digg once got an acquisition offer for close to $80 million. While he was personally willing to take this offer, the Digg board decided to turn it down.
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Asked about the departure of Digg's former CEO Jay Adelson, Rose didn't go into details, but noted that "Jay was ready for something new and so were we." For himself, though, the role of Digg's CEO was not something he "wanted to take on." Rose also noted that he wasn't around at Digg for quite a while before the departure of Adelson. He pointed out that he likes to roll features out, but as the...
| Read more »Some of us here at TidBITS were very bummed to read Steven Vaughan-Nichols's ZDNet blog post bemoaning the 10 January 2011 shutdown of Xmarks, which synchronizes bookmarks between different browsers, including Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome, even across operating systems. We never got around to writing about Xmarks in TidBITS, but that was merely a lack of time, not a lack of enthusiasm. If only other synchronization services were as good!
 
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| Read more »RIM VP of product platform management Alan Panezic defended BlackBerry App World's low 10,000 app count at DevCon by striking back at Apple and Google. He rejected the notion that hitting 50,000 or otherwise increasing sheer quantity was important and reiterated the notion that RIM valued "super apps," or heavily used apps that will both improve the phone and be helpful to developers. Android and iPhone app counts were considered deceptive since they include a large amount of redundant and low value apps....
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| Read more »Bob Groothuis (http://www.bobgroothuis.com/) has released a DVD called Dutch Skies 360 Volume 3, with royalty free HDRI images of Dutch Skies 360. The images, with the famous Dutch Light, can be used for visual effects, 3D, architecture, game development, etc.
The Dutch Light is famous all over the world. The great painters captured the Dutch light in their paintings. Today there is a online shop that will bring the future version of the Dutch Light in the form of Dutch Skies 360 to the customers.
| Read more »iTunes 10.0 introduces a new orientation of the window control buttons and 10.0.1 introduces a Ping pop-up. ¬†If you want to restore iTunes 10 to the previous way of doing things, here‚Äôs how to fix it.
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As usual, the folks at iFixIt have torn down the latest Apple gadget. They were happy to find that the Apple TV was ridiculously easy to disassemble and contains the same 8GB NAND flash chip that we've seen in iPads.
According to iFixIt, this is what you should know about the teardown:
* The Apple TV has 256 RAM, just like the 4th Generation iPod Touch and the iPad. The key marking of interest on the A4 processor package is "K4X2G643GE," which is identical to the marking found on the iPad.
* We found Samsung K9LCG08U1M 8GB NAND flash chip inside the Apple TV! It's the same...
| Read more »Troi Automatisering has released Troi File Plug-in 5.0.1 for FileMaker Pro an update of the tool for getting access to information outside the FileMaker Pro database. It's a maintenance update with some bug fixes and performance tweaks.
| Read more »An infographic on Apple's iPhone showing its popularity in the U.S. and worldwide.
| Read more »Faster Android boot times seem to be all the rage these days, and who can say that‚Äôs a bad thing? Once we caught a glimpse of how fast the HTC Desire Z can boot, it didn‚Äôt take long to hear that the fast boot-up times will be available in an upcoming version of CyanogenMod.
| Read more »It must be 'iPad Remote Week' because hot on the heels of Apple releasing iTunes remote control for the iPad, Sonos has delivered a very nice, free iPad remote that is feature complete, and elegant in execution.
Previously, Sonos owners had to make do with the iPhone version of the app, which only ran in portrait mode and had to upscale to fill the iPad screen. That's all fixed now, with the delivery of the Sonos Controller for iPad. I gave it a run through last night, and it is a pleasure to use. The larger iPad screen means most functions are right on the front page, so there's no hunting around for hidden functions. You get album art, zone control, and music source selection at the tap of a finger.
Installing the...
| Read more »Computer storage maker OCZ on Wednesday said it has developed a High-Speed Data Link (HSDL) interface to help speed up the transfer speeds of SSD drives. With the bus technology, OCZ hopes to eliminate I/O bottlenecks and enhance high-performance computing for its pro users....
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| Read more »One of the big questions concerning whether or not the new Apple TV will be able to run apps of some sort is "how much onboard RAM does it have?"
That question has been answered by the guys at iFixit, who as usual, have been the first to tear apart and document the internal workings of the Apple TV. The answer: 8GB of NAND flash RAM made by Samsung. The iFixit team speculates that the RAM is most likely going to be used to cache incoming video streams, but it might also be used to temporarily hold apps that could run under iOS on the device.
More interesting news about the Apple TV is bound to come out in the next couple of days; stay tuned to TUAW for all of your Apple TV coverage.
Correction to original post: that's 8GB of onboard flash storage, 256MB of actual RAM. We apologize for the error.
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| Read more »Before the iPad went on sale, well before I had a chance even to touch one of the devices, I predicted the iPad would be a big success, an ‚ÄúInside the Park Home Run.‚Äù¬†I was right.¬†I don‚Äôt say this to impress you. This was an easy call. It didn‚Äôt take much prognosticating to come to this conclusion.¬†However, not all of my pre-launch expectations have been met. In fact, I‚Äôve been quite surprised by the way a few things have turned out. Here are five examples‚Ķ
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Our friends at iFixIt have performed a teardown of the Apple TV that revealed many new features of the device, which just began shipping. First and foremost is the fact that the guts of the device shares many similarities with Apple’s iPad, including the processor, memory, and, of course, the operating system itself, iOS (though that was confirmed earlier this month).
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Hexxeh, which builds Flow Chromium OS-based software for Windows, Linux and Mac computers, has posted an image of what it says is Chromium OS running on Apple's iPad. No details on how this was done were revealed, but they are promised to be forthcoming. The creator of the hack did say it involves a few catches, however, which likely means compromises in functionality....
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| Read more »A Spanish newspaper, La Vanguardia, says it has confirmed the location of a second Apple Store to be built in Barcelona. A lease has reportedly been signed for a 27,000 square-foot space at 1 Paseo de Gr√†cia, located within the city's center. The building was founded in the late 1800s, and features apartments on its upper levels. One corner is noted to face Catalunya Square, making the structure extremely visible....
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| Read more »This phenomenon is the nature of anything that demands processing power, but with StarCraft a couple of people have reported the game causing their hardware to overheat and fail.
| Read more »China Unicom has sold out of initial stock of 100,000 iPhone 4 units in the first four days since Apple launched in the world‚Äôs largest mobile market, IDG News Service reports.
Apple received 200,000 pre-orders for the device since Saturday’s launch and has stopped taking new pre-orders due to the massive demand.
It took over a month to reach 100,000 units sold during the iPhone 3G and 3GS launch in China last year.
Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s during the first launch weekend in the U.S. and four other countries.
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The new Apple TV no longer allows users to purchase and store content on the device, but Apple still managed to cram in 8GB of flash storage, as well as 256MB of integrated RAM. The discovery was made by gadget repair site iFixit during one of its famed product teardowns. iFixit founder Kyle Wiens declared that the Apple TV was "surprisingly repairable."
Since the Apple TV no longer stores video like previous version of the device, some users wondered whether there would be any kind of storage at all. The new Apple TV can only do content rentals from iTunes, and the purpose of the 8GB of storage appears to be caching the rented videos as...
| Read more »A number of owners of the 2007 and 2008 MacBook Pro systems found that there were some graphics problems that showed either scrambled video output or sometimes black screens.
| Read more »Several TUAW readers have let us know that their Apple TVs have arrived, and reader Clint even sent us a link to his MobileMe gallery of his official unboxing of the new device.
As you can see from the photos, the thing is tiny. The Apple TV comes packaged with a power cord, a remote, a small user manual, and of course, the ubiquitous Apple stickers. There's no HDMI cable included, so if you don't have one available, be sure to run to your nearest electronics store to pick one up so you can start playing with the Apple TV as soon as possible.
My personal Apple TV order was supposed to arrive tomorrow; it ended up getting delivered just after I finished writing the first draft of this post. By TUAW tradition, I am supposed to film and post an unboxing video immediately. You can view this instant classic...
| Read more »DIY repair shop iFixit this afternoon finished a teardown of the new Apple TV. The close look reveals that the hub has the same variant of the A4 processor as the iPod touch and has 256MB of RAM, rather than the 512MB of the iPhone 4. Apple has also put just a single 8GB Samsung flash chip to both hold the OS and cache movies during the streaming process....
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| Read more »The inimitable folks at iFixit have disassembled the new version of the Apple TV and declare it to be surprisingly eco-friendly.
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Small businesses and large corporations alike are beginning to embrace Apple by supporting and purchasing iPhones, iPads and Macs for their employees and by creating applications for their customers' Apple devices, according to "CNN Money" (http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/29/technology/apple_enterprise/index.htm?so...).
In July Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said that 50% of Fortune 100 companies are already deploying or thinking about using the iPad for corporate use and 80% were supporting the iPhone.
| Read more »The Deal Brothers found a liquidation sale on¬†PowerMac G5 1.6Ghz systems for $299 along with 1.8GHz systems for $349.
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A look inside the newly released Apple TV has discovered that the device, powered by Apple's custom A4 processor, includes a small 8GB of onboard storage and the same 256MB of RAM found in the iPad and fourth-generation iPod touch.
Here's a great idea from Ryan Cash to put iOS apps unavailable for immediate download into a queue that will automatically resume when they become available.
Ryan notes that he often buys iOS apps when he's out and about, whether it be on the recommendation of a friend, riding in a car, etc. The problem is that many of the target apps are over the 20MB 3G limit. I've experienced this myself, as well as the inevitable conclusion: I forget to try again once I'm within range of a Wi-Fi network, and the app's author has lost that sale.
Ryan suggests an "add to queue" option to accompany or follow the notification at right, which would put that download into a holding pattern until the iPhone found a Wi-Fi network. That way, the download would resume, we'd get that cool app we were motivated to buy earlier, and the author will get the sale.
Additionally, Ryan suggests that a queue...
| Read more »Amazon's upcoming Android App Store will have terms that will let it alter apps against developers' wishes to add copy protection, a leak of the terms and conditions has shown. The tentative developer agreement for the store would give Amazon full rights to change an app to use "technologies enabling digital rights management." Developers could choose to make apps copyable but would have no choice but to use Amazon's choice of DRM, SlashGear's source discovered....
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| Read more »iFixit has completed its teardown of the second-generation Apple TV, and has already revealed several previously unknown details of the device. Notably, the second-generation Apple TV sports 8GB of internal flash storage, equivalent to the $99 iPhone 3GS, and also features 256MB of RAM, the same as the fourth-generation‚Ķ
| Read more »China Unicom has managed to sell over 100,000 iPhone 4s since last Saturday's launch, according to the carrier's vice president, Li Gang. While fast, the sales still mean a backlog, as some 200,000 people had pre-ordered the phone as of last week. Gang says he only expects the next shipment of iPhone 4s to arrive on October 1st, China's national holiday....
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| Read more »**Warning** Computer Uprising Initiated!
| Read more »Stuxnet, the most sophisticated malware ever, is shrouded in mystery. As if it were a sci-fi movie plot, conspiracy theories include Big Brother, psychic spies, UFOs, and one extraterrestrial cyber-worm.
| Read more »Sonos announced Wednesday the release of Sonos Controller for iPad, a controller app for the company‚Äôs S5 all-in-one systems and ZonePlayers. The company has had an iPhone controller app for some time, but the iPad app has been redesigned for its larger interface.
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The teardown experts at iFixit have gotten their hands on the new Apple TV and have already begun opening the device up to have a look at what's inside. Regarding the most crucial piece of information, iFixit has already discovered that the ...
| Read more »The popular Weather HD app that began its life on the iPad now supports the iPhone as well.
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Apple has published a new job posting for a Creative Technology Manager, tasked in part with creating new HTML5 content at Apple.com, with support for iOS devices.
The listing seeks an individual who "...will be responsible for driving web-standard (HTML5) innovation that enhances and redefines the marketing of Apple's products and services to millions of consumers. Work will also include exploring opportunities with apple.com, email and mobile/multi-touch experiences on the iPhone and iPad."
Of course, HTML5-powered content has already begun to appear on Apple's website. Recently, a movie showtimes page has appeared that lets users find location-based movie showings, view theater locations on a map, and view trailers. I've added it to my iPhone's home screen as it's so useful.
Also, Apple...
| Read more »Mozilla again rejected the idea of crafting a version of Firefox for the iPhone, saying that it is instead focusing its iOS efforts on the Firefox Home sync software.
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In general, electronics salesmen hold a respectable place in the salesmen hierarchy. Generally speaking, of course. That doesn’t mean there aren’t bad apples. And by bad apples we mean rotten, maggot-infested shriveled skin-hanging-to-cores that resemble nothing of the sweet, luscious fruit we know and love as apple. We’re using guys to cut down on pronouns, but don’t worry gals, you can suck this bad just as well as the gents.
| Read more »A newly announced settlement in a class-action lawsuit against graphics maker Nvidia has entitled owners of a number of notebook computers, including two of Apple's MacBook Pro models, to repairs or monetary compensation, reports "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com)
Case No. 08-cv-04312-JW relates to Nvidia chips found in some Dell, HP and Apple notebooks sold between 2005 and 2010. For Mac owners, the suit relates to 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro models sold between May 2007 and September 2008.
| Read more »Apple has the highest customer satisfaction rating of any smartphone manufacturer, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study‚ÄîVolume 2. Apple claimed the top spot for the fourth consecutive time with a score of 800 out of 1,000, doing particularly well in the‚Ķ
| Read more »An Apple job posting (http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=63051...) shows that the company is looking to spur the development of HTLM5 web sites. Apple -- or at least CEO Steve Jobs -- prefers HTML5 over Flash.
| Read more »Electronics maker Denon has introduced the RCD-N7, a new small home entertainment center that integrates a CD player and iPod dock. It supports the popular digital audio formats and will support Windows Media Player 11 for syncing through integrated Wi-Fi. It gets DLNA v1.5 compatibility, along with Apple AirPlay support to push audio from an iOS device or iTunes....
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| Read more »Google Apps users will be able to turn off Gmail's contentious ""conversation" view which consolidates e-mail threads in a single inbox entry.
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iTunes 9.1 以降 (iTunes 10 以降推奨) のファイル共有では、Keynote、Pages、Numbers を使って iPad で作成したファイルをコンピュータに送信することができます。また、これとは逆の操作も可能です。つまり、コンピュータから iPad にファイルを送信して iWork アプリケーションで使うことができます。たとえば、iPad で Pages の書類を開いて Mac に送信し、Pages '09 で編集してから iPad に送信しなおすことが簡単にできます。
iPad 用 iWork のファイル共有要件は以下のとおりです。
Mac OS X v10.5.8 以降、または Windows XP SP3 以降
iTunes 9.1 以降 (iTunes 10 以降推奨)
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iPad にインストールされている iPad 用 iWork アプリケーション (Keynote、Pages、または Numbers) のいずれか
 
| Read more »"Fortune" (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/29/apple-tv-has-2-3-week-shipping-de...) is reporting that the Apple TV has a 2-3 week shipping. It's "not clear whether it's high demand or a production hiccup that's causing it," the article adds.
However, I beg to differ. My AppleTV arrived today. Look for a review in the very near future.
-- Dennis Sellers
| Read more »TechCrunch reports that Apple has approved the official Google Voice application for the iPhone. Citing a ‚Äúsource close to Google‚Äù the article indicates that the application has already been approved and is now just waiting for Google to update it to work with the iPhone 4 and iOS 4‚Ķ
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A peek under the new Apple TV's skirt has afforded TUAW a glimpse of some extra fancy firmware garters. As it turns out, users may eventually be able to have the Apple TV experience on an iPad, enabling them to stream content from the Apple Store and to start videos on one device but finish them on another.
We've known for some time that the Apple TV would be iOS-based, creating the expectation that the Apple TV would then be able to run apps and imitate the iPad in some ways. But some features of the Apple TV's interface indicate that its functionality is also intended...
| Read more »The Wireless USB Promoter Group today announced the completion of the Wireless USB 1.1 specification, the technical map for product developers to bring the next generation of Wireless USB products to the market.
Wireless USB 1.1 delivers performance enhancements to Wireless USB technology, as well as added UWB upper band support for frequencies of 6GHz and above, and offers backward compatibility with Wireless USB products currently in use by consumers. Wireless USB is evolving with optimized power efficiency and ease of use, says Jeff Ravencraft, USB-IF president and chairman.
| Read more »Pendle Products has outed its new iPad Stand. The silver-covered stand can hold the iPad in either an inclined or reclined position, and offers full dock connector access in either portrait or landscape orientation, rubber and plastic supports to alleviate scratches, and laser cut steel. Pendle Products‚Äô iPad Stand‚Ķ
| Read more »Due to technical issues last Wednesday, my planned TUAW TV Live episode with podcaster Sam Levin of AppMinute never got off the ground. Well, we're not going to let a little DNS issue stop our fun!
Join Sam and me at 5 PM EDT today as we chat about iOS apps, whether or not Android poses a threat in the tablet computing world, and maybe even do a few giveaways.
Just drop by TUAW.com a little before the start of the show to get logged into the chat and get the Ustream ads out of the way before we begin. I'll have full instructions on how to watch and participate in this live weekly event. And please, think good thoughts so we won't have a repeat of last week's technical problems...
| Read more »The USB IF promised an easier time with wireless support today by posting and detailing the Wireless USB 1.1 standard. It now supports near-field communication (NFC) and proximity detection as a way of setting up peripherals. Owners only need to bring a device next to its host, such as a computer or a hub, to associate the two....
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| Read more »Several MacRumors readers have forwarded us emails they received earlier today notifying them of a proposed class-action settlement for customers who purchased certain MacBook Pro models or other Dell and HP notebooks and have been experienci...
| Read more »Pirating Android apps is a long-standing problem. But it seems to be getting worse, even as Google begins to respond much more aggressively.
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Propellerhead and macProVideo have released a series of training videos for Reason 5 and Record 1.5. The four videos cover core functions in Reason, the new Kong drum machine in Reason 5, sampling in Reason, and a basic primer on using Record.
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Version Release Control is a recently added feature in iTunes Connect that is presented when you submit updates for your apps currently on the App Store. This feature gives you the option to either automatically release an update once it's approved by the App Review Team, or release it yourself through the Manage Your Applications module.
If you select to release a version yourself, it will appear as Pending Developer Release once it has been approved and will remain in this state until you release it to the App Store. You will receive an email reminder to release a version of your app if it is in the Pending Developer Release state for longer than 30 days.
For more details, read the Version Release Control section of the iTunes Connect Developer Guide.
| Read more »Pearson and the Commonwealth of Virginia has launched what they describe as the nation's first-ever complete social studies curriculum (http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PSZy64) for the iPad. Pearson has developed four new iPad Apps plus digital curriculum aligned to the Virginia editions of Pearson's U.S. History and World History programs for seventh and ninth graders. The new iPad program will be piloted in several schools for 12 weeks beginning November 1 as part of Virginia's Beyond Textbooks initiative.
| Read more »For the past 3.5 years or so, NVIDIA has ardently advocated the GPU as a computational platform capable of solving almost any problem. One topic the company hasn't targeted, however, is the tremendous performance advantage the GPU could offer malware authors. The idea that a graphics card could double as a security hole isn't something we've...
| Read more »People who are anxious to get an iPhone 4 without a carrier lock-in in the land of Nokia will now have an opportunity to get an unlocked device.
Finnish broadcaster YLE is reporting that broadband provider Elisa will start selling unlocked iPhone 4s on Thursday, September 30th. The iPhone 4 is currently being sold in Finland with a contract by mobile carrier TeliaSonera.
The pricing for the unlocked phones is €589 for the 16GB model and €689 for the 32GB version. And in case you're wondering what those words below the iPhone 4 banner in the picture above mean? "Coming soon."
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| Read more »The second beta of iOS 4.2 makes some significant improvements to memory usage, testing is said to show. In general the code is observed to use almost a quarter less memory than beta 1, even under the weight of Safari and YouTube. A slightly smaller margin exists when the two betas are idling....
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| Read more »Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth today estimated that Amazon would sell about five million Kindle readers this year. The company should thrive on the combination of the redesign and the lower $139 price. The numbers would more than double over the course of the next two years to reach 11.5 million in 2012....
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| Read more »Being able to work wherever, whenever, untethered by cables is great. To write a blog post in a park or share photos from the beach is one of the most convenient and enjoyable things technology has allowed us to do. People move around a lot these days, and the laptop just makes sense. Yet, though you might call me crazy, for my main, day-to-day computer, I still want a desktop computer. While admittedly, I wouldn‚Äôt only want a desktop, I still don‚Äôt want to live without one.
| Read more »A newly announced settlement in a class-action lawsuit against graphics maker Nvidia has entitled owners of a number of notebook computers, including two of Apple's MacBook Pro models, to repairs or monetary compensation.
Motorola and Verizon this week unveiled the Droid R2-D2, a limited edition
| Read more »Late yesterday morning, a rumor hit the the Internet suggesting that Apple's COO Tim Cook was going to leave the company to become HP's CEO. As a result, Apple's stock took a dip while HP's showed a sudden spike.
In morning trading, Apple's stock fell nearly US$17 (or 5%), while HP's rose by more than $0.40 (over 1%). Clearly, investors like Tim Cook, and they saw his rumored departure as detrimental to Apple and a win for HP. Fortunately for Cupertino, it's not true.
Cook quickly denied the rumor, saying that he "...loves Apple" and is not going to HP. In January of this year, there was a rumor that Cook would become the CEO of GM, which also turned out to be false...
| Read more »Autodesk‚Äôs AutoCAD WS app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad hit Apple‚Äôs App Store on Wednesday. The app lets users view, share and edit AutoCAD DWG files on their iOS devices.
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MacRumors readers are beginning to report in our forums that they have received their new Apple TVs today, with a number of others reporting that online tracking is showing their orders out for delivery....
Facebook and Skype are about to enter a partnership, according to All Things Digital, the Wall Street Journal tech blog.
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Autodesk has launched AutoCAD WS, an iOS version of the company's desktop CAD software. The app lets users view, share and edit DWG files. External references, layers, and image underlays are incorporated, and while editing users can move, rotate and scale objects. Special tools allow for shape creation, text annotations and distance measurement....
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| Read more »Researchers have created Android-based code that tracks what applications on a smartphone actually do with the data they have access to. They do a lot, it turns out, and most of what they do is unknown to the enduser
| Read more »Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer in an interview characterized the Kin phones as a fundamental mistake for the company. The basic feature phones "defocused" Microsoft away from Windows Phone 7 and cut down on what Microsoft could say, the executive said to the Seattle Times. A device needed to be advanced, very concentrated or both to succeed....
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| Read more »The current MacUpdate Promo offers 1Password at a discounted price of $24.
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| Read more »Apple has assembled a "creative technology team" to produce HTML5 content for its website, a fresh job listing indicates. The company is specifically seeking a manager for the team, who will "be responsible for driving web-standard (HTML5) innovation that enhances and redefines the marketing of Apple's products and services to millions of consumers." The job should also involve "exploring opportunities with apple.com, email and mobile/multi-touch experiences on the iPhone and iPad."...
Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes told British media execs at the Royal Television Conference in London that television is entering a second golden age of creativity and reward but warned against the danger of low-cost digital giveaways. Specifically, he cautioned against deals with the likes of Apple and Amazon "that undersold the value of blue-chip TV fare," reports "The Hollywood Reporter" (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i677c428c4dc1...).
| Read more »Apple's Q4 earnings report (and corresponding conference call) is scheduled for October 18. Which details do you want to hear out of Tim Cook and gang?
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| Read more »Can Apple continue the string of unprecedented financial success? Will the 4th quarter of 2010 (ending tomorrow, September 30th) be even more successful than the 3rd quarter, now that the iPad has had time to dominate the market for three more months, and the iPhone 4 has overcome the negative "grip of death" publicity?
We'll all find out on October 18th, when Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, and a rogue's gallery of tech analysts bring us the 4th quarter earnings call for Apple Inc. As usual, TUAW will be providing a liveblog of the event, complete with commentary by our staff of bloggers. The event usually starts about 5 PM ET, and we'll be sure to give you a heads-up as the day approaches.
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| Read more »Xeric Design's EarthDesk, dynamic desktop software that displays a real-time map of the world on your desktop, has been updated with a new 'fit to screen' feature and support for dual GPUs on newer i5 and i7 Macs.
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Hey, what would you do if I told you that Amazon was flogging iLife '09 for just $44 (that's a discount of 44 per cent), but that iLife '11 must be just 'round the corner? Would you wait, in hopes of these goodies, or snap up a bargain while you had the chance? [Amazon via 9to5Mac]
| Read more »Technology is a way of life for today‚Äôs medical students with the majority choosing clinical references on their iPhone device over teachers and peers to answer questions. The fifth annual Future Physicians of America survey conducted by Epocrates (http://www.epocrates.com/company/?CID=PRFPA10) revealed that medical students not only believe in the value of electronic health records (EHRs), but expect availability when they practice medicine.
| Read more »Yesterday, we noted that users digging through the Apple TV firmware discovered that the operating system's interface application, known as "Lowtide", carries hidden settings indicating compatibility with the iPad. The discovery naturally led to spe...
| Read more »A new study by Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1e1e00/future_of_the_inte) says there will be 5.8 billion Internet users, amounting to four-fifth of the global population, by 2016.
The report finds that currently only one fifth of the global population uses the Internet. With a six-fold increase, the growth of
| Read more »GoPro (http://www.GoPro.com), a wearable HD camera company, has released the HD HERO 960, an entry level, US $179 version of the HD Hero camera. It shares the same video and audio capture technology but with resolutions on the HD Hero 960 limited to 960p (1280 x 960) and 720p (1280 x 720) at 30 frames per second, and WVGA (848 x 480) at 60 frames per second.
| Read more »LightSpeed is a complete point-of-sale system that can turn your business's Mac into the most attractive cash register your customers have ever seen. Now the company is bringing point-of-sale capabilities to the mobile sphere.
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LightSpeed is a complete point-of-sale system that can turn your business's Mac into the most attractive cash register your customers have ever seen. Now the company is bringing point-of-sale capabilities to the mobile sphere.
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Xeric Design announced the immediate availability of EarthDesk 5.5 on Wednesday. The update for the real-time Earth view as a Mac OS X desktop added the ability to render images using the dual GPU features in Macs with i5 and i7 processors.
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An iOS developer has managed to extract the second-generation Apple TV’s main interface and run it on an iPod touch. Named Lowtide.app, the interface was built with support for multiple devices, including the iPad, in its list of supported hardware, TUAW reports. Developer Dustin Howett took the application…
| Read more »IDG News Service reports that China Unicom has sold out of its initial shipment of nearly 100,000 iPhone 4s in the four days since the device launched in that country. With the company having taken 200,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4, the ca...
| Read more »Already available for the iPhone and iPod touch, Catan HD brings the classic Settlers of Catan strategy board game to the iPad.
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I’ve been using Pixelmator since it was first released and it just keeps getting better with every update. The newest incremental update improves the Photo Browser by making it faster for users. It also adds support for Aperture, Apple’s professional workflow photography application. According to notes provided with the update, stroke results are better, a [...]
| Read more »Apple has been newly granted some 17 different patents, two of which would allow for a 3G-enabled MacBook, according to Patently Apple. Antennas for wireless electronic devices documents taking advantage of conductive housing in a notebook to produce antennas using dielectric members. In one part of the filing, Apple remarks that "cellular telephone communications could be handled using a multiband cellular telephone antenna and local area network data communications could be handled using a multiband wireless local area network antenna."...
The iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch all use a menu system called "Springboard" that doesn't exist on the new Apple TV. But what the Apple TV uses instead might be coming to iPad.
Lowtide is the AppleTV iOS app...
While the new Apple TV uses the iOS operating system, its interface is even more closed than an iPad or iPhone. You won't be able to load apps from iTunes or browse the web using Safari. (At least not yet.)
Instead, the whole interface is an application called "Lowtide", essentially an updated version of the "Front Row" system that has been on Macs and older Apple TVs for years. Lowtide will handle all the user interaction, as well as the video playback and streaming, connecting to Macs or other iOS devices through AirPlay—it's an one-stop...
| Read more »After four days of availability, China Unicom (CU) has sold 100,000 iPhone 4s in China (here are some photos from launch day). Pre-orders began on September 16th, and CU reported earlier this week that 200,000 orders were taken. Today, all online reservations have come to a halt. Customers must be physically present at a retail store to buy one. For now, the iPhone 4 is outselling the iPhone 3GS many times over.
Phones bought through China Unicom require a two year service contract. However, the phone is also available contract-free at Apple stores.
Liu Liang, an analyst with consulting group iResearch, commented on the iPhone's popularity."The level of smartphone usage is...
| Read more »Apple on Wednesday made good on its promise to deliver the first shipments of its new HD-streaming Apple TV media box to early adopters who plunked down the $99 for the device in the hours following its announcement earlier this month. AppleInsider offers an in-depth first look at the product in this extensive series of unboxing photos.
China Unicom sold 100,000 iPhone 4s in the first four days the Apple smartphone was on sale in China, reports the IDG News Service (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188599/China_Unicom_sells_100_00...).
Earlier in the week, the mobile carrier reported that 200,000 users had pre-ordered the product. China Unicom has already stopped online reservations for iPhone 4, and is instead asking users to come directly to retail stores to sign up for the device, says IDG.
| Read more »The HDCP exploit Intel tried to downplay a couple of weeks ago is now being offered to the public. Created by Rob Johnson and Mikhail Rubnich, the open-source software is said to be capable of decrypting 1080p HDCP video in real-time. This does requires a moderately powerful system, however, with the creators saying a high-end, multi-core 64-bit CPU can decrypt 30FPS, 1080p content using two cores and about 1.6GB of RAM....
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| Read more »A long-time rumor about a potential Apple store location in Barcelona, Spain, seems to have been confirmed by a newspaper story that points to 1 Passeig de Gr√†cia in city center.¬†
| Read more »Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner CEO, isn‚Äôt interested in Apple‚Äôs US$0.99 iTunes Store TV show rental program because he sees it as a platform that will hurt broadcast partners.
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Apple's newly formed "creative technology team" will be responsible for creating new, interactive HTML5-based content on the company's website to support owners of iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.
The Golden Ratio was apparently the basis of the design for the new Twitter.
| Read more »You can battle your way to victory on land, sea and air as Feral Interactive announces the release of¬†Battlestations: Pacific¬†for the Mac¬†on Friday, Oct. 8. Developed by Square Enix London Studios,¬†the game¬†takes the action/strategy game play of¬†Battlestations: Midway¬†to the next level with two campaigns.
| Read more »IMVU (http://www.imvu.com/signup/index.php) -- an online community and social entertainment network where members use 3D avatars to meet new people, chat, create and play games -- has released their first Mac client. In addition, the company is also introducing its first iPhone App, IMVU 2Go, for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Both are free.
| Read more »In a blog post talking about the future of Firefox Home (their iPhone app that syncs Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs from desktop to iPhone), Mozilla dashed any dreams we possessed of a true Firefox browser for iPhone.
While Apple authorized Opera's browser app, Mozilla isn't too keen to try with their browser. They admit that "there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone," and instead are much more focused on Firefox Home, which they intend...
| Read more »If it's a day ending in "y," some company has probably announced that it‚Äôs producing a tablet computer. The latest tablet computing entry was the PlayBook from Research in Motion. The device is aimed squarely at business users, which makes sense since so many businesses insist on tethering their employees to BlackBerrys. What doesn't make sense is thinking someone would be excited about an even bigger BlackBerry.
| Read more »You can now buy the iPhone in Finland can now do so without committing to a separate phone plan, reports "YLE" (http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2010/09/iphone_now_available_without_phon...). Teleoperator Elisa will begin selling the Apple phones without a tie-in sale on Thursday.
Up until now, consumers have had to purchase a fixed airtime contract together with the handset from telecommunications operator TeliaSonera. Elisa is making the phone available to all customers regardless of their operator, says "YLE."
| Read more »Recently I needed to delete 2,000 photos from my iPad manually. Manually clicking on each photo to select it for deleting would take forever. So I figured out this combination of gestures to do it faster.
After coming back from a holiday to Europe I had several thousand photos on my iPad. I had already synced to the Mac, and now needed to delete them from the iPad. The only method I could see would be to turn off syncing. But that also meant that photos I wanted to keep on the iPad got deleted as well. I could have done that and just resynced the images I wanted back to the iPad, but I wanted to just remove some of the images. Looking in the Photos app I could not find any method for bulk selecting the images I wanted to delete. I tried several things and eventually found some tricks.
Trick 1: Multi-selecting images. Normally you tap an image to select it for emailing or deleting. I found that if you tap and hold your finger on the image for...
Occasionally the bluetooth process can decide it doesn't want to connect to any devices. Turning bluetooth off means you can't re-enable, but with Bluetooth Explorer, you can force it to do so.
When in this broken Bluetooth state, trying to connect to any Bluetooth device will cause an error. I usually try turning off Bluetooth when it has issues, but in this state it will refuse to turn back on (the menu bar option for 'Turn Bluetooth On' is greyed out). I'm sure a restart would fix, but I've found that if you have the Developer Utilities installed, Bluetooth Explorer.app will do the trick.
Simply start up the app, located in /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Bluetooth/, and it will give you a message about turning on the controller -- ignore this, as it doesn't seem to help. Once it's started, go to the 'Utilities' menu and select 'HCI Controller Selector'. In most machines, I think you'll just have one 'Apple Inc,...
Booq has introduced its new Boa Folio case for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The Boa Folio is a carrying case for iPad made from Nappa leather or Booq’s Twylon ballistic fabric, and features a dedicated iPhone/iPod touch pocket on the front flap, a closing strap to hold…
| Read more »Vimov has released an update adding iPhone and iPod touch support to Weather HD. Originally designed and released for the iPad, Weather HD displays real-time weather conditions in an artistic high-definition visual display of actual weather patterns. Users can configure the application to provide weather for multiple cities and optionally‚Ķ
| Read more »Hyberbolic Software (http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/) has released Tidy Up! 2.2.6, the latest version of their disk, file and folder processing utility for Mac OS X.
Tidy Up! can find duplicate files and packages using any criteria. Version 2.2.6 adds automatic installation of the new version when available and fixes some bugs.
Tidy Up 2.2.6 requires Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") or higher. Upgrades from version 1.x are $20, and upgrades from version 2.x are free. For new users the cost is US$30 for a limited time.
| Read more »Tension Software has updated Invoices (http://www.pomola.com/products_invoices/invoices.html), a native Cocoa application to create and manage invoices in Mac OS X, to version 2.7. The upgrade adds two new custom fields usable for Order Number and Shipment Track or other references uses. there's also an internal change on how the invoice form view is managed.
| Read more »TUAW has a nice roundup of iOS text editors that have Dropbox support so you can pick them up later from another device.
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| Read more »Apple will be hosting its fourth fiscal quarter earnings conference call on October 18, and today TMO readers are speculating on whether or not financial analysts are accurately predicting the numbers the company will report.
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SwitchEasy has debuted its new Trim case for the iPhone 4. The Trim is a one-piece hybrid case featuring sides made of a scratch resistant hydro polymer material and a polycarbonate back, push-though coverage for the volume and sleep/wake buttons, and open access to the ring/silent switch, screen, and…
| Read more »Dell's mainland China President Amit Midha today said the company's seven-inch Android tablet would ship much sooner than expected. The slate should arrive sometime in the "next few weeks" for an unknown price. A well-known 10-inch model should arrive within six to 12 months, he also told Dow Jones....
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| Read more »Toshiba jumped head first into the mobile phone marketplace when it launched its Windows Mobile-powered TG01 smartphone, one of the first handsets to feature Qualcomm‚Äôs Snapdragon processor.
| Read more »MacXDVD Software has announced the MacX iPod Video Converter Pack (http://www.macxdvd.com/mac-ipod-dvd-video-converter-pack/), which offers support for the fourth gen iPod touch 4 and iOS 4.0/4.1. Iy'd designed with the purpose of ripping DVD movies to iPod touch 640x480 MP4 videos, and converting among all popular SD and HD video formats on Mac OS.
| Read more »This morning we received word from Jesse Grosjean at Hog Bay Software that his new app, PlainText (free, in-app purchase to remove ads), is now available on the App Store. It's one of several iOS text editors that feature support for Dropbox, so we thought a quick roundup of these apps was in order. If you're thinking about joining me for NaNoWriMo 2010 starting on November 1st, it's a good idea to think about what device(s) you'll be writing on and getting your writing software ready to roll as soon as you can. Text editors make excellent writing tools, since they're bare bones and don't get in the way of putting words onto "paper."
First, let's take a look at PlainText (see screenshot above). Hog Bay Software is the same company that...
Flying Meat's VoodooPad 4.3 adds a few new features, including the ability to export your files as a mobile Web app.
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Apple has released its second beta version of iOS 4.2 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, along with its accompanying SDK and a new beta version of iTunes 10.1. It is unclear what new features are present in the update, although it does appear to offer a slightly altered…
| Read more »Xeric Design has released version 5.4 of EarthDesk (http://www.xericdesign.com/earthdesk.php), the real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. The new version adds a new "Fit To Screen" projection and now fully supports dual GPUs on newer i5 and i7 Macs.
| Read more »Twitter has surpassed MySpace in traffic, and taken a place in the top three busiest social networking sites. Twitter's 96 million unique visitors last month (up 75% from last year!) topped MySpace's 95 million (down 17%).
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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has joined others in the TV industry in criticizing 99-cent TV show rentals and purchases from Apple and Amazon. The executive recently spoke at the Royal Television Conference in London. "How can you justify renting your first-run TV shows individually for 99 cents an episode," he said, "and thereby jeopardize the sale of the same shows as a series to branded networks that pay hundreds of millions of dollars and make those shows available to loyal viewers for free?"...
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| Read more »Qoppa Software, which specializes in PDF tools, has updated PDF Studio (http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html), a PDF editor, to version 6.5.The update improves the way users work with multiple documents.
Qoppa adds to PDF Studio's batch document handling capabilities with a new function to Set Initial View. Users may also now transfer data across documents with drag and drop of entire pages or Copy and Paste of images and text.
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Dell's 5-inch Streak tablet
The Wall Street Journal reports on an interview it conducted with Dell executive Amit Midha, who revealed that the company plans to launch a new 7-inch tablet device within "the next few weeks", with a 10-in...
Check out PCMag's exclusive full review and hands-on footage of the new Apple TV¬óincluding the new Remote app.
| Read more »By Greg Mills
The Pew Research people have confirmed what everyone in the tech news industry already knew: Apple hogs the tech news space. Mainstream news commonly has stories about Apple products or goings on. As Apple has risen in the last few months to be the second most highly valued company in the world, every peep out of Steve Jobs' mouth has been tech head lines.
| Read more »Apple extended the playing field in its patent battle with Nokia to include the U.K. The two companies files lawsuits against each other over mobile phone-related patent infringement claims in the U.S., and now Apple has filed a new patent infringement suit against Nokia in the U.K.
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When it comes to iOS downgrading, most people talk about reverting to an older version of the operating system, like going from iOS 4 back to 3.2. The guy who...
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NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker says (ttp://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/09/24/nbc-universal-president-jeff-zucker-step/#content) he'll step down after cable provider Comcast takes control of the company later this year. The news came as Jonathan Klein, president of CNN, was fired and replaced by Ken Jautz, the head of the network's sister channel HLN.
| Read more »While the iPhone is a very popular smartphone, Apple's overall share in the mobile phone market is still very low compared to giants such as Nokia and Samsung.
| Read more »Sonos today released its long in coming Sonos Controller for iPad (free, App Store). The app gives a significantly expanded view for steering a Sonos device such as the ZonePlayer S5 and can show the destination zones, the current music, queue and the source list all at once. It works both in landscape and portrait mode....
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| Read more »He's been called the Mayor of Twitter. Newark Mayor Cory Booker has amassed more than 1 million followers on the social networking site and used Twitter for everything ...
| Read more »This week‚Äôs featured photo is from our iPads Around the World gallery, and shows an iPad in front of a herd of pachyderm in Chobe National Park in Botswana. Interestingly, the shot shows not only the iPad, but also a reflection of‚Ķ
| Read more »The Pixelmator Team announced the immediate availability of Pixelmator 1.6.1 on Wednesday. The update for the Mac OS X image editing application added support for Apple‚Äôs Aperture pro image management application.
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Movie Night Out is a fun and free little app that can help with that seemingly ever-present question: "So what do you want to do tonight?" It's a piece of cake to use. Just punch in what you want to do for your movie night (maybe hit up some shopping, see the movie, and then grab dessert, or do dinner, check out an action hit, and then get coffee). The app will automatically find some options for each of your choices and put together a schedule that will let you do all three. You can check out information and reviews for all of the options, and even map out, share on Facebook or Twitter, or save your "night" for another time. There's not really anything here that you can't find in other apps, but the smooth interface and fun randomization of your choices make the free app worth a download.
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| Read more »Data visualization techniques have been often used in modern maps to incorporate variety of information, for instance for network designs, destination points, and local landmarks. Let‚Äôs take a look at some creative examples of beautiful infographics.
| Read more »While it could just be a screengrabbed imaged displayed in the Photos app, we're inclined to believe it's the real deal as Hexxeh already has a proven track record in Chromium OS builds.
The UK-based hacker tweeted from his compromised iPad, but did say that "I'll dash your hopes later, there are a few catches." In a reply to another tweeter, he said later that "You can't use it as a normal iPad without a restore sadly though."
Only the one grainy picture has been published showing his iPad running the open source Chromium OS, but presumably he'll be letting us in on some of his secrets later. [Hexxeh via...
| Read more »U.S. computer maker Dell reportedly plans to take on Apple's iPad with a smaller, 7-inch device set to launch in a matter of weeks, as well as a 10-inch touchscreen device planned to debut in the next year.
These new sets of custom videos, objects, and clipart from Keynote Theme Park can add a coat of polish to any Keynote presentation.
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Streaming capabilities have been added to BitTorrent via the Tribler client, and more recently uTorrent. Thus far the implementation of these technologies into major websites has been lacking. That position changed this week as the Wikimedia Foundation partnered with P2P Next to use BitTorrent-powered streaming for their video content.Enter a description
| Read more »Shoppers in Finland will be able to buy iPhones that aren‚Äôt locked to a single carrier starting on Thursday. Cell service operator Elisa will sell the iPhone 4 without a service contract to customers so they can use the combination iPod and smartphone on any carrier‚Äôs wireless network.
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Nintendo today set its promised launch date and price for the 3DS with a warning that it would hurt the company's results. The 3D-capable handheld will reach Japan well after the holidays, on February 26, and will cost the equivalent of $299. North America should get the 3DS in March....
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| Read more »IMVU, which describes itself as social entertainment company whose members use 3-D avatars to meet new people, chat, and play online games, announced a Mac client on Wednesday. The release follows the debut of an IMVU iPhone app earlier this month.
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Confusion reigned in the market Tuesday, as the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq each slipped into early-morning freefalls, then rebounded to gains by the end of the day of 46.10, 5.54 and 9.82, respectively. That was caused by weak economic data, with consumer confidence slipping and the price of gold, which bears an inverse relation to the stock market hitting a new record of $1,309.20 an ounce. The confusion saw shares of Apple tumbling to $286.97 at one point, then shooting up to $289.32 in highly volatile trading.
Late Tuesday, Apple released new betas of two major upcoming software releases, the upcoming versions of iOS 4.2 and iTunes 10.1.
Per AppleInsider, Tuesday’s release of iOS 4.2 marks the second beta of the software update, due for a public release in November. It is available for the iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and second-, third- and fourth-generation iPod touch.
People familiar with the latest iOS beta said it is known as 8C5101C.
The first beta of iOS 4.2 was released earlier this month, and marked the debut of AirPrint, Apple’s new wireless printing standard for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. AirPrint will allow iOS device users to print to a shared printer connected to a PC or Mac, or directly to some printers that are compatible with the format.
The previous beta also packed a number of small fixes, including...
| Read more »In a blog post published yesterday, software developer Mozilla effectively announced that it has no plans to bring a full-fledged standalone browser to the iPhone, preferring instead to focus on its Firefox Home application designed to integrate the browsing experience among desktop and mobile environments.
“We are working to bring as much of your Firefox experience as possible to Firefox Home. People have asked about adding more browser-like features to Firefox Home, but there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone. We are focused on building Firefox Home as a rich, cloud-based application and making it a valuable product that people will continue to love and use.”
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| Read more »After debuting in China this weekend, iPhone 4 sales have hit the 100,000 mark.
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Apple's latest version of the iPod nano has come under criticism for omitting features such as -- among many other things -- a built-in camera. However, the previous nano always seemed just too small for that feature (or maybe it's just my aging eyes), so I'm happy to see the small iPod return to its roots as a straightforward music device.
| Read more »NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker says (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/09/24/nbc-universal-president-...) he'll step down after cable provider Comcast takes control of the company later this year. The news came as Jonathan Klein, president of CNN, was fired and replaced by Ken Jautz, the head of the network's sister channel HLN.
| Read more »Tension Software (http://www.pomola.com) has updated DMG Master software to version 2.3.2. It's an app for creating standard Disk Image Archive "Add files" dialog panel and sports an improved "Remove file" handling and interface.
Version 2.3.3 sports a new layout for the Image menu. Also, new commands are available.
DMG Master costs US$20, though version 2.3.2 is a free update for registered users of version 2.0. It's Universal Binary, so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. DMG Master requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
| Read more »Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has released LinkOptimizer 4.4.7, an update of its workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. The new version addresses some Photoshop CS5 operations and introduces interface improvements.
LinkOptimizer lets you reduce InDesign job size and speed up processing by eliminating excess image data and performing essential image adjustments.
LinkOptimizer Light 4.4.7 can be purchased from the Zevrix Solutions web site for US$259.95 , as well as from authorized resellers. LinkOptimizer works with Mac OS X 10.4.2-10.5 and InDesign CS-CS4.
| Read more »CodeRage Software has released Zooom/2 version 2.4.4 for Mac OS X (http://coderage-software.com). It's an US$19.95 Mac desktop application that "redefines how you can resize, move and align your application windows."
You can snap windows up against each other using Zooom/2's built-in "magnetics" function. Zoom/2 also sports an "autoraise" ability, which makes the window under the mouse automatically visible without you having to click on it. Version 2.4.4 provides much integration with the Office 2008 suite, as well as iTunes 10.
| Read more »Seventy percent of cell phone and smartphone owners aren't interested in receiving FM radio broadcasts on their phone, according to a new survey from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
The study, "FM Tuners for Cell Phones -- Measuring Consumer Interest," found most consumers aren't interested in having FM tuners in their mobile devices, and an even broader majority (80 %) doesn'tt support a government mandate that would force manufacturers to include an FM tuner in mobile phones.
| Read more »SmartSound has released two new video tutorials that show a music soundtrack workflow for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 using SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 5. ¬†
The tutorials were created by Adobe Certified Expert, Jeff Foster. Foster has been a long-time SmartSound customer and uses the music in his professional work.
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| Read more »angry tapir writes "The Apple Peel 520, a Chinese-developed product that drew the media's attention for being able to turn an iPod Touch into an iPhone-like device, is coming to America. The add-on device, which just went on sale in China, has been billed as a more affordable option for users wanting to get their hands on an iPhone, but lacking the budget."
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| Read more »The Commonwealth Games 2010 or the CWG 2010 as they are more popularly known now are always in the headlines . Sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for not so good reasons . India has got this opportunity to host a major sporting event . Many would consider this as an honor for the nation to play hosts to an event of such a large magnitude and involving so many nations .But the execution and the run up to this major event has been ridden with a lot of major horrors . So as Indian public , should we consider this an honor or a horror ? That is a very intriguing and complicated question to answer , let us try and look at this whole thing in depth and analyze this .
So how did the games come to Delhi ? The two principal bids for the 2010 Commonwealth Games were from Delhi, India and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A ballot of members was held in November 2003 at the Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Delhi bid won by a margin of 46 votes to 22...
VLC Media Player 1.1.4.1VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
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A leaked legislative proposal would create a net neutrality law while limiting the FCC's ability to create its own rules.
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OCZ's IBIS SSD is the first solid state drive to make use of this new HSDL interface. The IBIS is capable of delivering 750MB/s read/write speeds and up to 125,000 random write IOPS. IBIS SSDs will be available in a complete spectrum of capacities ranging from 100GB to 1TB. HotHardware Review
| Read more »Sonos releases its free, multi-pane iPad controller app.
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We loved the idea of turning our iPads into giant music remotes and we're glad to see that we can finally do it. The Sonos Controller app is now available, free, and should be great for those who own both a Sonos system and an iPad.
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| Read more »The just-posted iOS 4.2 beta 2 (build 8C5101c) reveals a previously unknown feature being considered for final release: allowing users to mark uploaded YouTube videos for public or private viewing. Alongside other additions already announced (such as Airplay and AirPrint), observers are beginning to wonder if the stage is being quietly set for iOS to leap to additional products....
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| Read more »OnyX 2.1.8OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X. It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, to configure the hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock and of some of Apple\'s own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.
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