PDF Studio, a full-featured PDF editor positioned as an alternative to the more expensive Adobe Acrobat, has upgraded to v6.5 -- a significant update that adds several new features and offers improvements in every area. The most significant changes include a new batch dialog to manage, open and view several documents at once on startup, a new callout annotation tool, a calibration tool to supplement the existing measuring tool which will allow users to set scale directly from a drawing, and dragging and dropping pages across documents, among others....

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PCMag has posted a review, hands on video and unboxing slideshow of the new Apple TV which should be arriving in customer's hands this week.

Their hands on video shows the new Apple TV's interface which looks much like the exi...

The first reviews of the new Apple TV are starting to appear and we're rounding them up for you. Here's a look at the early impressions:

Fox News' Clayton Morris had plenty of good things to say about the Apple TV's features, but he also had a big concern:

The new Apple TV is small — hockey-puck small. That's impressive, but we all know size doesn't matter, whereas speed does. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly it connected to the iTunes library on my desktop computer. The Apple TV does this noticeably faster than its ancestor using a 'home sharing' option, which connects with any iTunes account in...

Some folks at the Hacker publication 2600 decided to compile a list of words that are restricted by Google Instant.Except in extreme and special cases, Google is known for anything but censorship, but as weve said before, there are some terms the web giants new instant search feature wont work with.We understand Googles intentions; the team over there is trying to make sure that no one sees pornographic or violent results they might fight disturbing unless they really mean to search for them. When asked about this feature a few weeks ago, Googles Johanna Wright said the restrictions are in place to protect children.But Google has opened itself up to a potential PR problem, because some of these omissions will be at best bewildering and at worst offensive to particularly sensitive (or progressive) users who dont understand how Google Instant actually works.For example, bisexual and lesbian are among the restricted words. Type them in to Google and the instant search will immediately...

Singluar Software's PluralEyes, a software companion to Final Cut Pro that allows for synchronizing multiple sources of audio to FCP video sequences without timecodes or clappers, has been updated to v1.2 which the company describes as "a major update," and brings new merged clips management and support for locked tracks, along with support for audio from DSLR video-shooting cameras....

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Mozilla has outlined its future plans for Firefox Home, the App Store utility that serves as a bridge between the desktop Firefox experience and iOS browsers. Although the app has been periodically updated with additional features from the desktop software, the company claims it is not working to make mobile Firefox browser for the iPhone....

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The Apple Peel 520, an iPod touch case that effectively turns it into a phone, will be coming to the US and UK soon.

Developed and built in China, the Apple Peel 520 fits onto the iPod touch. It's got a dock connector, battery, and slot for a SIM card. Once users have got the thing set up, they can use the iPod touch to make phone calls and send text messages. Go Solar USA will be the American distributor for Chinese developer Yoison Technology.

Go Solar USA claims that customers can expect the Apple Peel's 800mAh battery to deliver nearly five hours of talk time and 120 hours of standby use. Note that this does require a jailbroken iPod.

The Apple Peel has been available in China for a while now, first as a black market item. With...

MacNN has reviewed PCsync for Mac, describing how the recently PC-only software works with its new Mac-host that allows for PC-to-Mac syncing. The syncs are good but Mac-PC file-naming differences are an issue and the Mac software feels like PC software, in that it is slightly counter-intuitive....

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Apple tonight posted both iOS 4.2 beta 2 and a new, first beta of iTunes 10.1 to the Developer Center. It's unclear what the two provide besides bug fixes, although iTunes 10.1 is said to support some level of printing and is likely needed to make a computer an AirPlay target. More details are expected soon....

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Apple gets ready to talk numbers, COO Tim Cook puts a stop to an ugly rumor, and Gizmodo totally scores another Apple scoop.







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Looks like iOS 4.2 Beta 2 is now available for download in the iOS Developer Center. We'll be taking a look and letting you know what's new since the last beta shortly. [Apple]

In the midst of shipping the Apple TV, Apple has released Remote 2.0, the newest version of its iOS app for controlling iTunes and Apple TV.

Per Macworld, Remote 2.0 introduces several new features, not the least of which is a long-awaited interface designed for the iPad. The new software also features a gestures tab for controlling an Apple TV with iOS-like flick and drag motions.

The new app also supports Home Sharing, an easier method for sharing and streaming your media that Apple introduced in iTunes 9. If you enable Home Sharing in Remote 2.0 on your iPhone or iPad, it will automatically discover and let you control shared libraries on your network from a Mac or PC running iTunes, or a new Apple TV.

Remote 2.0 also boasts high-res graphics for the iPhone 4’s Retina display...

A few years back, a certain late night host popularized a word that may or may not be in your dictionary: truthiness. Stephen Colbert was referring to what has become a very effective political tool, namely, statements that many people will accept as true because they feel right, even if they have no basis in reality. A small cottage industry has since sprung up to evaluate the amount of truth that exists in a potentially truthy statement (Politifact is probably the best example). Now, a bunch of academics at Indiana are attempting to use a combination of crowd-sourcing, Twitter, and automated text and network analysis to bring instances of political truthiness out into the open.

The team has set up a site, Truthy....

Remember a couple of weeks ago when Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn said that the iPad had cut into netbook sales by as much as 50 percent? Then the next day he said the statements weren’t accurate? Today he tried to clarify his statement even more. “I was brutally misquoted,” Dunn told reporters, including Fast [...]

The upcoming MacTech 2010 conference will feature a panel on virtualization moderated by Macworld Editorial Jason Snell, and readers can take advantage of discounted registration.






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I've been a big fan of Xmarks for a while now -- I work on a few Macs and PCs regularly, and while MobileMe is nice, I've always appreciated Xmarks' ease of use (after a one-time setup, it basically worked automatically) and compatibility across whatever browsers I happened to use. That's why I was disappointed to hear yesterday that they're calling it quits. Around 90 days from now, the servers will shut down, and Xmarks will be no more.

Co-founder Todd Agulnick goes through the story of the service on that blog post. It was originally developed as Foxmarks, and it was designed to work directly with the Firefox browser to sync bookmarks there. Eventually, they brought in large numbers of users with tons of bookmarks in their browsers, but...

You hear about interesting uses for the iPad all the time, and many times, those uses are merely theoretical. Sure, using an iPad at an archeological dig sounds cool and practical and all, but does anybody really do it? As it turns out, the answer to that question is "yes."

In some of Apple's online promotional galleries, the company highlights a team of archeologists making use of the iPad for tasks such as text and graphical data entry. One of those in charge of the dig says that using the iPad for this work has saved countless hours of data entry that would have otherwise been done back at the field office.

Sure, the iPad needs to be sufficiently protected from the elements (such as, y'know, flying hunks of rock), but that's likely a small price to pay vs. paper notebooks with one's chicken scratch that someone needs to translate...

RIM during a breakfast at the BlackBerry DevCon session today said the QNX foundations at the heart of the BlackBerry PlayBook would eventually replace BlackBerry OS itself. Confirming a rumor, a vice president said the roots to the currently isolated BlackBerry Tablet OS would eventually spread to the smartphones. BlackBerry 7, which doesn't have a timeframe, would likely be a gateway ahead of the full switch....

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Google pulled out its wallet and went on an acquisition spree this year, according to research firm CB Insights.







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In a blog post published today, 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 des...

That's right -- Office for Mac 2011 now has an on-sale date; it's October 26th, which is just about a month away. The suite will be the first Mac OS X version that offers Outlook rather than Entourage, and it will come in a few different flavors. Home and Student 2011 will be available for US$119 (or $149 for a three-copy family pack), and it will come with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Messenger. Home and Business 2011 will have the whole enchilada and will sell for $199 (or $279 for a two-install pack).

The announcement came with the cheery video above, which runs through a few new features of the software and shows you a few of the kind folks running the Mac Business Unit. A couple of us have been using Office for Mac 2011, and we'll have some impressions for you later on. Stay tuned -- if you've been waiting for a brand new Office for Mac, the wait is almost over.

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After using Migration Assistant in Mac OS X v10.6.x to migrate data and applications, you may be prompted to enter the serial number when opening a migrated application from any of the following products:

Aperture 3
Final Cut Studio (2009)
Logic Studio (2009)
Logic Express 9

After entering the serial number and clicking OK, the application may not respond.

Apple has sued Nokia in Britain, accusing the Finnish smartphone maker of violating nine patents it owns and extending the legal battle between the two companies.

Aimersoft has launched a new video editing and conversion tool, Video Studio Express for Mac. The program cuts, splits and joins video files, and supports a range of formats such as AVI, MPEG, MP4, QuickTime, and Flash. It also works with imported DV and camcorder video. Tools adjust settings like brightness, contrast and saturation....

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Apple has taken its patent war with Nokia to the UK. The company says Nokia is using technologies in Apple's patents to copy the iPhone.

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Jabra has unveiled the Go 660 in an attempt to stand out in the crowded Bluetooth headset field. The earpiece hinges on a new noise cancellation technique that Jabra claims is no-compromise. Although it uses dual microphones like most active noise reduction, the Go 660 is said to counteract the noise without lowering the audio quality of the call itself....

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Hulu Plus, the premium subscription service from Hulu, is coming to several devices this fall, including Roku and TiVo Premiere set-top boxes. Alas, the revamped Apple TV doesn't seem to be among them.

As we reported earlier, Apple has updated the free Remote app for iPhone and iPad. It's about time. The new version looks fine on the iPad since it is not up-scaled. To pair the Remote software to your iTunes library, you must enter a 4-digit code* into iTunes on your Mac. From there, you are on the way. You only need to pair once.

Control over Wi-Fi is fast and responsive. The iPad makes a really nice remote for controlling media. Sonos will also soon offer an iPad remote (to join its popular iPhone app) for its whole house music system, and there are a...

TotalFinder by BinaryAge is a $15 utility that lets you browse your Mac’s hard drive with tabs, just like you browse the Web.







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A Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed down mixed results for Internet music providers today in a ruling in New York. The appeals panel rejected claims by the royalty group ASCAP that downloads were live performances and said that transfers alone didn't amount to a public airing. Terms in the Copyright Act made it clear that a performance involved actual playback or a live show, none of which was guaranteed....

Peripherals - Hardware - Audio -...

H2O has released its new Surge 2G Waterproof Sport Headphones. The new Surge 2G headphones are 100% sweatproof and waterproof, and features a new design for improved sound, an aerodynamic profile that provides an improved fit and reduces drag, 8mm neodymium drivers, and five included sets of Elastomer earplugs…

Singular Software, developer of automation applications for post-production, has released version 1.2 (http://www.singularsoftware.com/downloads.html) of its flagship product PluralEyes for Final Cut Pro.

The new version will include improved workflow for dual-system audio, clock drift correction, increased synchronization control, broader coverage of media types and customer-requested enhancements. It does not overwrite the previously installed PluralEyes 1.1, and can run alongside that version. Just remember that beta software is unfinished software, so use with care.

Office for Mac 2011 is officially going on sale on October 26th, Microsoft has announced. The timing is in line with an earlier target of late October, and just a day prior to a rumored release date. The difference is moot for some businesses, as volume license distribution began roughly a week ago....

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Xsilva Systems has been at the forefront of Mac Point-of-Sale systems for a while with their LightSpeed software. Now, they're bringing another member of the Apple hardware family into the LightSpeed fold.

LightSpeed Mobile is designed to extend LightSpeed away from a traditional cash register, by using an iPod touch and Linea-Pro "sled" to scan bar codes and swipe credit cards from anywhere in the store. If this sounds familiar, it's because the hardware is the same that is currently used in Apple retail stores, although they use a proprietary app.

For existing LightSpeed customers, LightSpeed Mobile is an additional US$1,299 (iPod touch not included). Complete turnkey...

Apple iPad is one of the best selling gadgets of the year 2010. Many people who were in need of a portable PC selected iPad as their mate. When the Apple iPad was announced many companies started planning a tablet for their own brand and the iPad Killers were born.

Another day, another lawsuit. Apple has sued Nokia in Britain, reiterating the claims it has already made in a lawsuit in the US, reports "Reuters" (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68R45G20100928).

Could Lowtide be targeted towards playback on the iPad? That's what indications in the application's Info.plist property list seem to hint at. As TUAW continues to explore the new Apple TV iOS disk image, all kinds of interesting hints keep bubbling out. The property list in question lists two entries for its UIDeviceFamily property.

UIDeviceFamily = (
3,
2
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In human terms, those numbers refer to both Apple TV (the 3 device family) and the iPad (the 2 device family). As you might guess, the 1 device family includes the iPhone and iPod touch. These device families generally group related physical form factors. All...

According to a pair of reports from MacStories, several European countries have seen the debut of iPhone 4 commercials centered around the device's FaceTime video calling capabilities. The four new commercials are all set to Louis Armstrong's "When ...

Apple today sued Nokia in the UK today over most of the same patents that have covered its US countersuit. The claims cover nine of the 13 original claims covering the touchscreen technology of the iPhone and other computing technologies. Nokia said it was investigating the claims but had yet to offer a formal response....

Apple - Nokia - Patent - Macintosh -...

Todays deals include a selection of items from iMacs and flash drives to HDTVs. MegaMacs.com currently has a 20-inch iMac for $929, which is currently the lowest price available on this iMac model by about $122. This iMac offers a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive along with dual layer SuperDrive, Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme WiFi, iSight Webcam, and it includes a USB keyboard and mouse....

US-Mexico Border - iMac - Apple -...

TechCrunch has reported this morning that the Google Voice iOS app has been approved and should be on the App Store soon. They quote "sources" who claim that the app simply needs some tweaks for iOS 4 multitasking, and that it should be out within "the next few weeks." This is potentially huge news for Google Voice customers.

Getting to this point wasn't easy to say to the least. Here's a brief recap of the saga. First, Apple pulled all Google Voice related apps from the App Store in July of 2009, which prompted an FCC inquiry. Apple responded by saying, in so may words, "Uh, we were just studying Google Voice." Google shot back with...

Kindle owners tend to be wealthier and more educated than Apple iPad and iPhone owners, while iPads are attracting a largely young, male following.

Are you looking for some cool and handy jQuery Plugins, you landed at right place. Here are few of the most useful and handy techniques that you can use in your next project and make it stand out.

Kingston has released its fastest memory card, the CompactFlash Ultimate 600x, which supports the UDMA mode 6 interface and offers read and write speeds of up to 90MBps. The card is designed for sports and action photographers who both shoot in high resolution and yet need burst modes often or capture HD videos, helping eliminate a bottleneck beyond the camera. The cards are available in 16GB and 32GB capacities....

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Steve Jobs' replacement home in Woodside, California should differ significantly from those of some other CEOs, newly exposed plans suggest. Originally submitted to town council to justify demolishing the historic Jackling House versus restoring it, the plans show a new single-family home roughly a third the size of its predecessor, and worth about $8.45 million. The layout is in fact relatively utilitarian for an executive, with five bedrooms, a three-car garage and a vegetable garden. More decorative elements include decks, lighted stone walkways and indigenous...

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The Deal Brothers found a dock and stereo system for iPod and iPhone from Sanyo for $79.99. The Sanyo DMP-692 Dual Dock Music System has an AM/FM radio, multiple alarms, speakers, and more.






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This photo editor gained a number of perks in its Photo Browser, including support for Aperture and PhotoBooth libraries in addition to iPhoto.







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Seagate (http://www.seagate.com) has introduced what it says is the industry’s highest-capacity, 4-bay and 2-bay, desktop network attached storage solutions to help data-intensive small business address evolving storage needs.

The BlackArmor NAS 440 network storage server and BlackArmor NAS 220 network storage server, extend the capacity range of Seagate’s BlackArmor family of storage solutions, enabling businesses to now scale from 1TB to 12TB.

The New Yorker launched its own digital magazine for the iPad, and actor Jason Schwartzman introduced the new app in a YouTube video. Mr. Schwartzman is known for his roles in Bored to Death and Scott Pilgrim vs the World, and now for navigating his iPad with his tongue.






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Today Apple's online store is offering refurbished MacBook Pros for as low as $1019, down $180 from the list price. This MBP features a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, 8x double-layer SuperDrive, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor, SD card slot, Bluetooth, AirPort Extreme WiFi, glass multi-touch trackpad, backlit keyboard, and a built-in battery that lasts for up to 10 hours on a single charge....

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Apple has released a knowledgebase article outlining a problem with the ATI X1900XT video cards included in some Mac Pro systems between August 2006 and January 2008, where people have experienced distorted video output.

OakTree Software has updated its Accordance Bible Software (http://www.accordancebible.com) to version 9.0. The upgrade offers new search capabilities and interface enhancements. According to the folks at OakTree Software, Accordance 9.0 offers:

° Workspace zones that make it easy to keep your Bibles, commentaries, lexicons, and other study aids neatly arranged yet easily accessible;

° A revamped Search All feature that lets you search thousands of resources in seconds and quickly browse the results to find what you're looking for;

Apple has released a new version of its Remote app, which is free, for iOS, brings new features, retina display support

注意：この記事では、Microsoft Windows 互換コンピュータのみに関する情報を紹介します。Mac OS X での iTunes コントロール機能の管理については、こちらの記事 および こちらの記事 を参照してください。 iTunes 環境設定からペアレンタルコントロールを設定する方法については こちらの記事 を参照してください。システム管理者は、ペアレンタルコントロールや、企業向けのエンタープライズコントロール、教育機関向けのエデュケーショナルコントロール機能を使って、iTunes に表示されるコンテンツを制御することができます。この記事では、iTunes for Microsoft Windows でペアレンタルコントロールなどの制御機能を事前設定する方法について紹介します。以下の情報は iTunes 7.1 以降に関するものです。重要：以下の手順では、レジストリエディタ (Regedit) を使って Windows レジストリを変更します。レジストリの編集に関する十分な知識をお持ちの場合でも、編集を行う前に必ずレジストリのバックアップコピーを作成しておいてください。Regedit の操作を間違うと、コンピュータの動作がおかしくなったり、Windows が起動しなくなることがあります。また、レジストリ値の変更を誤ると、ソフトウェアが正常に動作しなくなることもあります。この場合は値を修復する必要があります。Windows XP、Windows Vista、Windows Server 2003 でレジストリをバックアップ、編集、復元する方法Windows 2000 でレジストリをバックアップ、編集、復元する方法

Despite perceptions, the Retina Display on the iPhone 4 is overall better than that on the Samsung Galaxy S, DisplayMate discovered in a close look at smartphone screens. Apple's screen was undersaturated and too high contrast in photos, but its brightness, deep blacks, high contrast ratio and 960x640 resolution all made it the overall best display of five different models. The Galaxy S' Super AMOLED was better in blacks and contrast but, like many OLEDs, had oversaturated color and was noticeably dimmer....

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Hog Bay Software has released PlainText 1.0, a slimmed down text editor with Dropbox support, for the iPhone and iPad.







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Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook, has denied a rumor he is considering the CEO position at HP, according to Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshall. The earlier claim led to a drop in Apple stock on Tuesday morning, although prices have since rebounded. Marshall explains that he later ran into Cook in Palo Alto asked him about the matter. "Tim Cook will not be going to HP, he loves Apple," says Marshall....

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Good design, like any art or fashion, has roots. What's hot in web logos right now, and what's been done to death? Check out this detailed rundown of the biggest trends.

Apple has released Remote 2.0. The new version of the iTunes and Apple TV remote control app adds iPad and Retina Display support. It's free and available at the Apple App Store.

You can now control iTunes and Apple TV shared libraries from your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Remote 2.0 adds support for iTunes 10 and the Apple TV "Take Three." It also supports Home Sharing.

Apple has been granted a patent (number 7,804,453) for antennas for wireless devices. The invention relates to antennas, and more particularly, to dielectric antenna windows that allow antennas to operate from within electronic devices such as laptop computers.

You knew Steve Jobs was tearing down his old mansion. You didn't know what he was building in its place. Until now.

After nearly a six years of detailed cost comparisons, environmental impact surveys, court appeals, and unrelenting legal kung fu with state and local preservationists, it appears the 1920s Woodside mansion Jobs bought in 1984 will finally have its date with the bulldozers.

In its place, the Apple CEO plans to erect a brand...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 7,804,453) for antennas for wireless devices. The invention relates to antennas, and more particularly, to dielectric antenna windows that allow antennas to operate from within electronic devices such as laptop computers.

For the second time, reference to two unknown iPhone models have appeared, this time 'round in the Apple TV firmware. With the iPhone 4 known as "iPhone 3,1" internally, could "3,2" and "3,3" be alternative carrier versions?

That's what we wrote off April's leaks as, which were found in the iPad OS filesystem. Five months on, and another product down, and there they are again. If you believe every tale you hear, you'...

This major upgrade to Apple's Remote app for iPhone brings an iPad interface, much easier control of your media with Home Sharing, and support for iOS 4.







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A new Nielsen study has identified some of the demographics of iPad owners, and made some significant contrasts with other devices, Fortune notes. Of 400 surveyed iPad owners, a large majority -- 65 percent -- were found to be male. The imbalance was paralleled only in a group of Sony PSP owners, which slanted 62 percent towards males. Another e-book reader, the Amazon Kindle, only recorded a 52 percent male bias....

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Microsoft today announced that Office for Mac 2011 will launch on October 26th, with pre-orders available through Amazon beginning today. The company also posted one final behind-the-scenes video from the Office for Mac team, highlighting speed impr...

After a prolonged wait, Apple today posted Remote 2.0 (free, App Store). The controller app is now universal and supports the extra screen area of the iPad. Apple's device now also recognizes the extra resolution of the iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch and supports the new Apple TV as well as shared libraries....

IPhone - Apple - Smartphones - Handhelds -...

Microsoft officials say that a leak earlier this month was correct and that Office for Mac 2011 will be available for purchase starting Oct. 26, reports ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-office-for-mac-20...).

Apple will end the year with 21 percent of the mobile advertising market, IDC predicts, with Google and Microsoft paying the price.







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Apple has released an update to its Remote application for iOS devices, adding native iPad support and compatibility with iTunes 10 and the new Apple TV. Remote 2.0 provides a slightly redesigned user interface on the iPhone and iPod touch to reflect changes in the iOS 4 iPod and Music…

Members of the iPhone Dev Team have dropped hints on Twitter that it will be possible to jailbreak the new Apple TV. Team members pod2g and iphone_dev have both mentioned that the SHAtter exploit has been able to decrypt the Apple TV firmware's keys. While Apple TVs are not yet in people's hands, the firmware is available from Apple's public distribution servers.

Team Member MuscleNerd also warned potential jailbreakers via Twitter: "Those interested in *potential* AppleTV JBs, better buy early! Remember iPhone 3GS hardware was updated to fix JB hole." Indeed, Apple has already released a firmware update for the Apple TV, though we don't know if it addresses...

Best Buy today once again took an opportunity to correct is stance on the iPad's effect on PCs at its stores. The retailer said that Apple wasn't hurting notebooks as a whole but that they ate "40 to 50 percent" of netbook sales. It didn't give out specific numbers in the remarks....

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Toshiba (http://www.toshibastorage.com) has introduced the CanvioM 3.0 portable hard disk drive (HDD) featuring a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. It's available in storage capacities of 500 GB, 750GB or 1TB for US$119.99, $129.99 and $179.99, respectively.

Canvio 3.0 drives are backward compatibility with personal computers and other devices equipped with USB 2.0 ports. Which is good for Mac users as Macs don't currently support USB 3.0.

We have been waiting for this one for a long time, but here it is: Apple Remote 2.0 is now available at the Apple Store. And oh boy, it's dee-lish on the iPad. Updated with hands-on.

The new version is optimized for the Retina Display on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, as well as for the iPad, with its own interface. It also supports Shared Libraries and the new Apple TV (I couldn't try it with the new Apple TV because I haven't got mine yet, but I can only imagine that it will work just the same).

Hands-on

Apple Remote is one of my favorite iOS applications. Simple and easy to use, it does just what it says it does: Remotely access your media libraries and play your songs or...

DisplayMate testing concluded that Samsung's Super AMOLED screens offer significant improvement over traditional AMOLED, but crowned the Apple iPhone's LCD the best.

Apple released Remote 2.0 on Tuesday, adding iPad and Retina Display support to the iTunes and Apple TV remote control app.









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Mac OS X users have not needed the ability to defragment their hard drives. Most defragging is done in the background by the OS. There is one caveat: OS X does not defragment files larger than 20 MB. Quite often, many game files are easily larger than 20 MB. Fragmentation of game files will negatively impact performance of games, particularly FPS games.



Valve has included a defragmenter in the Steam client. Each game installed can be selected and right clicked to bring up the properties box. Once in the Properties box, select the Local Files tab and click Defragment Cache Files to begin defragmenting the game.



The author's blog has some screenshots of the process.



[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one....

Wondershare Software has released Wondershare Video Studio Express for Mac 1.0 (http://www.applemacvideo.com/mac-video-studio-express.html), a video editor and converter. It allows users to edit and customize their video clips, including merging, trimming, splitting, cropping, adding effects and rotating.

Wondershare Video Studio Express automatically detects DV cameras, camcorders, iPhone, iPod, and imports video clips from these devices. It largely facilitates the video editing effects with three timeline tracks to organize and manage video, audio, background music separately.

With the first wave of orders for the new Apple TV on their way to customers, initial reviews of the device are beginning to appear. The first one comes from FoxNews.com's Clayton Morris, who calls the revamped device "very promising" with the poten...

Privacy watchdogs are growling as the Feds plan government-mandated back doors in encryption software and all communications systems.

By Greg Mills

The Stuxnet Windows worm I wrote about recently has begun to spread uncontrollably through personal PCs in Iran, as well as being found in completely isolated industrial servers not even hooked up to the Internet.  

Microsoft on Tuesday said Office for Mac 2011, the latest version of its productivity suite would be available on October 26. I’ve been using Office for Mac 2011 for a little while and have been very impressed so far. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of the Office apps run as fast as they [...]

cgriffin21 writes "Apple is getting more media attention right now than any other technology company, including Google. Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball. That's the upshot of a study released Monday (PDF) by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, which found that Apple was the focus of 15.1 percent of media coverage between June 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Google received 11.4 percent of media coverage during the period, while Microsoft garnered just 3 percent."

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Pixelmator - Shareware - Windows - Proxying and Filtering - Operating Systems

iSuppli has released its estimate of the sixth-generation iPod nano’s Bill of Materials (BOM) cost. The company tore apart the low-end 8GB version, and found that the device’s flash storage and RAM represented the highest materials cost at $14.40. It was followed by the display/touchscreen module, estimated to cost…

The firmware for the new Apple TV has been discovered at Apple's website, and contains references to unreleased hardware, news sources say. The file is marked as a version of iOS 4.1, and like its siblings contains a PLIST file with USB configurations for different devices. Unusual in the new code are references to two new iPhones, marked as "iPhone 3,2" and "iPhone 3,3," respectively....

Apple - AppleTV - Macintosh -...

The continued growth in popularity of the iPad is represented in the latest data from ad firm Millennial Media, which found that iPad ad requests grew 76 percent month over month.

HP executive Todd Bradley says his company will not follow Apple’s lead as it decides what products to develop around the WebOS. HP purchased Palm and the new WebOS earlier this year, raising speculation that HP would compete with Apple, especially with the iPad. But HP has a variety of products that could benefit from [...]

Internet search giant Google recently extended its contract with Apple, making the outfit the default option on devices running iOS, including the iPhone.

Per BusinessWeek, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt talked about his company’s relationship with Apple. Rose asked about tension between Google and Apple since Google began partnering with smartphone makers for the Android mobile operating system.

“Apple is a company we both partner and compete with,” Schmidt said. “We do a search deal with them, recently extended, and we’re doing all sorts of things in maps and things like that.”

He continued: “So the sum of all this is that two large corporations, both of which are important, both of which I...

I’m working on a plan to eliminate most paper magazines from the household by using my iPad instead.  Here’s my first report on Zinio for iPad and my first two digital subscriptions. 






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Many a nerd has dreamed of exploring space—the final frontier—as a child. Despite visions in books, comics, TV, and film of a future where space travel is commonplace, that dream is still far from reality. But a handful of "self-admitted nerds" from the interactive design firm Sevnthsin are taking to the skies with a weather balloon, a hacked cooler, and the latest in mobile technology.

Calling their project Yavin IV (after a rebel base in the Star Wars universe), the small group from Minneapolis, Minnesota completed their first full launch on Friday. Ars was on the scene to capture the event, and we spoke with project...

The official Google Voice application for iPhone has finally been granted acceptance into the App Store by Apple.

Per TechCrunch, a source stated that the application will be released in the next few weeks. Apple reportedly accepted the application submitted in mid-2009, though Google plans to update it to support the iPhone 4 and multitasking capabilities in iOS 4.

Last week, applications that access the Google Voice service began appearing in the App Store, after being banished for more than a year. The first two that became available were GV Mobile + and GV Connect.

The opportunity for Google Voice applications to return to the App Store came after Apple revised and published its own App Store Review...

Writing apps for devices like tablets and smartphones could become challenging as mobile chips gain CPUs and hardware accelerators.







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Android has grown enough to break the iPhone out of its majority of mobile ad share, Millenial Media found in its latest study. Google's share of the US smartphone space saw it jump seven percent in August to reach 26 percent of ad traffic. iPhones still had a clear lead in share but were pushed back to under half at 48 percent with "flat" growth. The BlackBerry also grew slightly, but at 19 percent was now more clearly being outpaced by Android....

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New research from the insurance industry claims that the prohibition of texting while driving does not reduce auto crashes … and may actually increase them.

As Apple is getting ready to ship its newly redesigned Apple TV before the end of this week, I can't help but wonder what world NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker is living on. I think he's in a slightly parallel universe -- unless I'm the one in a parallel universe and I happen to see the ripples of the real universe on the Web every now and then. Either way, I'm having a hard time seeing how Apple's new 99 US cent TV show rental program can "devalue" NBC content. Seriously.

The official Google Voice application for iPhone, which was the subject of controversy over a year ago, has reportedly been granted acceptance into the App Store by Apple.

For more than four decades, David Bowie has adopted personas the way most of us adopt internet handles. No other musician, actor or genre-bending celebrity has been able to replicate the process with such artistic integrity.

I want to see terrorism fought as much as anyone, but where do we draw the line when it comes to our personal privacy. In yet another example of the federal government wanting more power, the Obama administration is developing plans that would require all Internet-based communication services -- such as encrypted BlackBerry e-mail, Facebook, and Skype -- to be capable of complying with federal wiretap orders, reports "Fox News" (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/27/seeking-expand-internet-wiret...).