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| Read more »Six generations on, and the cost of materials has decreased dramatically from the first-ever iPod Nano, which cost $89.97‚Äîfor just 2GB. The 8GB version that came out recently has parts totaling $43.73.
Even the second-gen iPod Nano, which was double the capacity of the first one, cost a whopping $72.24. Of course, this was back in the day when a 4GB iPod Nano cost $199 upfront, compared to the $149 an 8GB-er costs now.
iSuppli has listed manufacturing costs at around $1.37, and while this is the first model to contain a touchscreen component, the screen...
| Read more »Hackers have succeeding in running a jailbreak exploit for a newly posted Apple TV iOS 4.1 firmware file.
Spam me once, shame on you. Spam me twice and it's time to get better moderators. For the second time in three days, Digg has become the pitiful victim of a major spam attack on their Top News section. This isn't the case of a complex algorithm breach or a hidden exploit being passed around the darkest corners of the Internet. The same spam sites that attacked early in the morning on September 26th hit again before midnight on September 28th.
| Read more »The mobile task manager adds a number of features, including passcode locking, integration with a cloud-based syncing service, and -- for the iPhone version -- full iOS 4 support. In addition, Appigo also updated its Corkulous brainstorming app for the iPad on Tuesday.
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Just slightly ahead of the new Apple TV's arrival at purchasers' doorsteps, Apple has posted the restore firmware for the new device (download link). The firmware's filename and .ipsw extension both confirm what practically everyone already knew: the new Apple TV runs on a flavor of iOS, the same operating system running on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. That, combined with the Micro-USB "service port" on the Apple TV's backside, means it's only a matter of time until it gets jailbroken.
Apple TV running iOS also means it would be relatively trivial for Apple to introduce an App Store for the device. In fact, with a more general-purpose version of something like Apple's Remote app, Apple could very easily allow existing iOS devices to act as a universal remote for virtually any...
| Read more »TechCrunch reports that Apple has approved Google's official Google Voice application for the iPhone. The Google Voice app was originally submitted to Apple back in 2009 but was rejected for "duplicating features that com...
| Read more »The App Store review office at 1 Infinite Loop has officially frozen over: we've gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to the iPhone in the next few weeks. In fact, we've heard from a source close to Google that it's already been approved ‚Äî Google just needs to revamp the application to work with the iPhone 4 and iOS's multitasking capabilities. If you're a Google Voice user and you're on an iPhone, this is great news.
It's been a long, long road to get here. Last July, we broke the news that Apple had blocked the official Google Voice application, which eventually sparked an FCC inquiry into the matter. Apple claimed that the application
| Read more »We've seen several third-party Google Voice iPhone apps make their way into the App Store, but we'll be seeing Google's official version soon too according to a report by TechCrunch. Apparently Apple may have even approved the app already:
[TechCrunch has] gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to the iPhone in the next few weeks. In fact, [they've] heard from a source close to Google that it's already been approved - Google just needs to revamp the application to work with the iPhone 4 and iOS's multitasking capabilities.
Sounds like great news, particularly since an official Google Voice app could include features which third-party versions are...
| Read more »A breakdown of the sixth-generation iPod nano's parts by iSuppli places the estimated material cost at $43.73.
XMarks co-founder and CTO Todd Agulnick has posted an open letter on the company's blog informing users of his bookmark-syncing and recommendation engine XMarks that the service will shut down in 90 days. In his post, he explains that the lack of a profitable, growth-driven business model and inability to sell to another company led to the decision to close down the service....
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| Read more »Apple posted the new AppleTV2,1 Firmware (Build 8M89) to their servers this evening. The AppleTV firmware appears to be a version of iOS version 4.1 and can be downloaded here:
AppleTV2,1_4.1_8M89_Restore.ipsw
The firm...
| Read more »RIM today unveiled the PlayBook, its first shot at the tablet space. The PlayBook has a seven-inch, multi-touch display and is just 9.7mm thick. It's designed as a high-powered browsing device with both a WebKit browser as well as Flash 10.1 and AIR support. The slate is billed as a media-heavy device with full 1080p video output over HDMI -- including entirely different content on each screen -- and has both three- and five-megapixel cameras on both the front and back.
| Read more »Microsoft have today updated their free Bing search app for the iPhone and iPod Touch to version 1.3, revamping the travel features, simplifying maps and adding relevant business and neighborhood labels to help users quickly find locations....
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Apple recently posted a support document acknowledging an issue with ATI X1900 XT graphics cards that shipped with Mac Pro systems between August 2006 and January 2008. (via ZDnet and forums )
If your Mac Pro experiences disto...
| Read more »The jailbreaking attempts on iOS 4 devices continues as one of the major players, the dev-team, posts a video of a new iPod Touch running a beta version of the latest exploit in iOS 4 called SHAtter.
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| Read more »Apple's sixth generation iPod nano costs just a third of its selling price to make, iSuppli estimated in a cost breakdown today. The bill of materials and manufacturing for an 8GB iPod nano reach only $45.10. The device is the second least expensive iPod to make so far, being beaten only by the fourth generation $40.80 nano....
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| Read more »Capparsa today updated their personal time-tracking tool TimeTag to v1.03, bringing support for the iPad featuring a new user interface for the tablet device. The app, which runs on all iOS devices using iOS 3.1 or later, features descriptive tags rather than database-like records for a faster and more personal way to see what a user has been doing and for how long. It offers both automatic and manual tag category creation, adjustable time records, and a "one-touch" hour totalling function....
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| Read more »Despite persistent reports suggesting RIM's market share has been eroded by the growth of Android, data gathered by analytics firm StatCounter suggests web usage on BlackBerry handsets has actually grown at the same pace as Google's mobile platform. As Android and BlackBerry show parallel growth from the third and fourth positions, respectively, web usage on the iPhone has slid behind Symbian and within 10 percent of BlackBerry....
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Goldman Sachs analysts are claiming that Apple's 2nd generation iPad will come with a camera, mini USB port and a lighter/thinner design in the second quarter of 2011:
Apple Inc. may introduce its second-generation iPad in th...
| Read more »Bug Labs sells open source hardware modules that lets you build just about any kind of gadget you can imagine. Last week the New York startup got a big helping hand from (who-would-believe-it?) Verizon. At the same time, it finally got the full OK to sell its wireless modules in Europe. Verizon Wireless announced plans to partner with Bug...
| Read more »Tagalicious is a $20 Mac application from the The Little App Factory (best known for their excellent DVD ripper RipIt), which will clean up your iTunes library metadata, fetch artwork, and even find lyrics. So far, it's been extremely impressive both in accuracy and price.
I had a Guns N' Roses song "1-01 Sweet Child O' Mine.mp3" with existing metadata saying it was the song "Sweet Child O' Mine" from their Greatest Hits album. Tagalicious said it was "Welcome to the Jungle." I played the file in iTunes, and sure enough, my metadata was wrong. It was "Welcome to the Jungle." I have no idea how Tagalicious figured that out, but I suspect it is guilty of practicing witchcraft.
The current version 1.0.1 shows a great deal of promise, although it lacks some more advanced features. Then again, that is what version 1.x...
| Read more »Goldman Sachs analysts Henry King and Kevin Lu today claimed to have more details about the next iPad ahead of its launch. Referring to industry checks, the two expected it to have at least one camera, a lighter design and, unusually, a mini USB port. They expected it to keep a 9.7-inch display and ship early in the spring of 2011....
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CineTap for Netflix (US $0.99) is the newest and nicest Netflix management app that I've seen so far. It won't replace the Netflix app, since you still need to have that installed in order to instantly watch movies. But CineTap adds some great features to the experience that the Netflix app doesn't include. The app is amazingly fast and absolutely gorgeous, taking full advantage of the iPad's screen real estate. Instead of lists, it uses posters to represent movies that can be scrolled left or right, or if you tap the Show All button, the line expands to fill the screen with posters that can then be scrolled up or down. In Show All mode, you'll see 20 posters plus a...
(Update: tablet a possibility too?) Amazon is reportedly preparing to launch its own app portal for Android devices. If true, the company appears to be following a similar approach to that of Verizon, which recently announced plans to launch a V Cast app store alongside Google's own Android Market....
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| Read more »You‚Äôd better be sitting down for this one: The Pew Research Center has found that Apple gets more coverage from the mainstream press than any other tech company in the U.S. We know, that‚Äôs not really a surprise, but in sharp contrast to the not-so-distant past, the organization also found that ‚Äúthe bulk‚Äù of that coverage was positive.
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A team of analysts for investment bank Goldman Sachs said Monday that their sources lead them to believe Apple will introduce a second-generation iPad during the spring of 2011 that will feature a camera, mini USB and a lighter design.
iCodeBlog.com has posted the first part of their tutorial in creating a Blackjack card game for the iPhone. In this first part of the series we are going to introduce the core of the game; the deck. We will be building a very generic deck of cards that could be used in any type of [...]
| Read more »New webOS phones confirmed in certification; 960x640 screen as centerpiece feature.
| Read more »Mac gamers who use the Steam gaming service can finally get a taste of the popular Supreme Commander series now that the recent sequel Supreme Commander 2 is available via Virtual Programming's Deliver2Mac download service. The game, first available for the PC and XBox in March, is a top-selling futuristic real-time strategy adventure featuring online multiplayers (up to 8), skirmish mode and spectacular environments that is set 25 years after the original....
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| Read more »Vital Source Technologies, a unit of textbook publisher Ingram, announced the availability of VitalSource Bookshelf, a free app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The program features downloading either from computer or mobile device, automatic syncing of content across platforms, and the full VitalSource library of titles, numbering over 60,000 from a wide variety of major textbook publishers....
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| Read more »CWmike writes "A majority of mobile app developers see Android as the smart bet over the long run even as they vote for Apple's iOS in the short term, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC. The survey polled more than 2,300 developers who use Appcelerator's Titanium cross-platform compiler to produce iOS and Android native apps. Of the 2,300 polled, 59% said that Android had the 'best long-term outlook,' compared with just 35% who pegged Apple's iOS with that label. But three out of four said that iOS offers the best 'near-term' outlook, with 76% tagging Apple's operating system as the best revenue opportunity."
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| Read more »The Canadian Broadcasting Company is reporting that 18 Canadian cabinet ministers and five senior staff members in the province of Saskatchewan are receiving iPads in an attempt to get a handle on the costly consumption of paper. With the cost of the 64GB 3G iPad running about CDN$879 plus fees and taxes, the initial cost of the iPads will run about CDN$23,000. However, the government expects that double that amount will be saved in the first year alone, since paper and printing costs will be cut drastically, and fewer courier runs will be required to deliver physical documents.
One senior official in the premier's office noted that he'll save 68 boxes of paper in his office alone in the first year. He noted that a single cabinet minister can often be loaded down with six to 10 kilograms of paper in a typical week. The government...
| Read more »The iPad's finally got some competition; in the past few weeks, the HP Slate made a brief appearance, the Samsung Galaxy Tab debuted, and just BlackBerry unveiled its business-minded PlayBook today. Here's how they all measure up:
It should be noted that there are still some things we don't know about the PlayBook, and the HP Slate specs are taken from a...
| Read more »CNET TV's Brian Tong discusses the latest in Apple news, notes, tricks, tips, and of course, rumors.
| Read more »HP may have bought Palm and that company‚Äôs WebOS for use in its own Whole Widget tablets and smartphones, but the company is not out to be like Apple, according to one of the company‚Äôs executives. Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President, Consumer Products, made the comments at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 when asked if his company was trying to follow Apple down the iOS path.
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It goes without saying that as more and more people transition to smartphones, the app industry will only get hotter. Pew’s recent report on mobile apps provided us with a wealth of information on the subject, including use demographics, most popular apps, frequency of use, and cost/number of downloads. These numbers make it clear that apps are becoming an increasingly important part of our every day lives.
| Read more »Google and Apple may be at each other‚Äôs throats as often as not, but it doesn‚Äôt mean they still don‚Äôt carve out some private time--just for them. Apple also finds itself on the business end of another vague patent claim, and the Droid you may or may not be looking for has finally arrived.
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Runtime Revolution has dropped the "Revolution" moniker from its self-described "HyperCard descended" cross-platform rapid development environment and updated it under a new name, LiveCode. The new version offers several new features and improvements, as well as the debut of an all-new deployment pack for iOS development....
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| Read more »Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.
| Read more »Patently Apple has a few new patent illustrations from China that may hint at future iPad hardware features. The first is a second dock on the side of the tablet. As you can see above, the connector would come in handy if you wanted to view the iPad in landscape form, but didn't want to have a cable sticking out of the side. Personally, I can't really see Apple duplicating functionality in this way, though -- while a second port would be handy, it seems a waste to have a completely separate port used only half the time. Like most patents, this is only an idea at this point -- Apple isn't required to actually use it in a future release.
The second idea is more interesting, in my mind: the images show what seems to be a touch-sensitive area on the corner of the front of the iPad. PA presumes that this...
| Read more »Microsoft will phase out Windows Live Spaces in favor of Automattic's hosted blogging service WordPress.com.
| Read more »Japan's Hitachi Displays is developing an touchscreen LCD for mobile devices that is just 1.5mm thick, or about 30 percent thinner that today's displays. The touch panel layer was reduced from the 0.5mm thickness in traditional displays to just 0.1mm by eliminating the glass substrate and other materials from the design. The additional inherent noise emission that is a result of this will be handled by Hitachi's touch control software, the company said....
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| Read more »The 7-inch tablet unveiled by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Monday targets enterprise users and will run a new operating system developed by QNX Software.
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Apple is likely to end the year in a dead heat with Google for mobile ad sales, according to an estimate by research firm IDC. Each company is predicted to have a 21 percent share of the market—a far cry from Steve Jobs' assertion that Apple would control 50 percent by the end of the year, but enough to influence a drop in both Microsoft and Google's shares.
IDC predicts that the total mobile ad market will more than double in size by the end of 2010 to $500 million per year. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apple's introduction of iAd has spurred a rush into the mobile ad market with Google, Microsoft, and Apple buying companies and upgrading their systems to adapt.
As the market continues to balloon, all three companies are struggling to get a handle on it. IDC projects that...
| Read more »Previous versions of the Audible.com iPhone app required users to buy books via their computers. No more.
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The other day while I was attempting to clean up my office, I came across a bunch of old MiniDV tapes from various vacations that my wife and I had taken over the years. That got me thinking about the 8mm videotapes from the pre-MiniDV age, and the even older VHS vacation tapes from the Pleistocene Era. Since I have done a pretty good job of going to a paperless office, I figured it was about time to make my other media go digital as well.
I don't necessarily want to edit the movies right now -- at this point, all I want to do is get the raw video transferred to my iMac, and then at some future date, when I have the time (like 20 years from now), I'll transform them into mini-documentaries. The big concern I had was getting the video into my Mac, and since I no longer shoot video with tapes, I needed something that would just get the job done with a minimum of fuss and cost.
A quick Amazon search...
| Read more »As expected, Research In Motion unveiled a new tablet Monday, a device the company is calling ‚ÄúPlayBook.‚Äù The device has a 7‚Äù display and is 10mm thick. It is powered by a dual-core 1GHz processor, and as expected is run on a new operating system called BlackBerry Tablet OS that ¬†was built on technology acquired when RIM purchased QNX Software Systems earlier this year.
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Thanks to the growing popularity of Macs in the business world, Mac users will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of remote deposit capture (RDC) directly from their computers, says a leading bank-software provider. "Remote deposit capture" refers to being able to scan checks and upload the image to a financial institution without ever having to physically deliver the actual check....
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| Read more »A new Gadget Census study, released by Retrevo, has looked into substantive differences between habits of iPhone, Android and Blackberry users on both their handsets and other high-tech devices. Android users were deemed the most "cutting edge," with iPhone users positioned as young, satisfied consumers and Blackberry owners as older and tending to hang on to older technology for longer periods of time. Mac owners tended to have some PCs in the house, while PC-dominated households rarely had Macs around....
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| Read more »Research in Motion formally took the wraps off the
| Read more »In an interview with TechCrunch, HP executive VP of the Personal Systems Group Todd Bradley revealed a few strategies of the division as it relates to tablets. Because he estimates that the tablet market will eventually be worth more than $40 billion, the division will focus on developing the webOS software for mobile devices, growing its app market and improving the interface. HP now owns webOS after purchasing Palm earlier this year, and Bradley said the software platform was the driving force behind HP's decision....
Microsoft has rolled out an update to its Bing app, gracing the iPhone search app with a new travel feature, a what’s nearby feature, and some map enhancements.
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Apple's iAd service is a relative newcomer to the mobile ads industry, which is probably why it's completely falling apart. No, sorry Carol, we're kidding -- Apple's service is doing extremely well, and it's already threatening established mobile advertising services like Google and Yahoo!. IDC claims that Apple will end the year with 21 percent of the market, which means that in less than a year's time, the company will have picked up almost a quarter of a rapidly growing and expanding industry. Google's share is dropping, and that's in addition to the AdMob purchase it made a while back as well. That is a phenomenal start for the iAd platform.
And in fact, IDC is convinced that Apple's gigantic entry into the ads market has actually buoyed...
| Read more »Research in Motion on Monday announced the "PlayBook," a 7-inch multi-touch tablet that represents the smartphone maker's first attempt to take on Apple's highly successful iPad.
When you have "Display visualizer full screen" enabled in Advanced preferences for iTunes 10:
Turning on the visualizer while your library view is set to Cover Flow may cause the visualizer to only appear in the lower-left corner of the screen.
If iTunes DJ is selected and you choose the Visualizer, it displays a small window in the lower-right corner of the screen.
The popular travel app now offers handier controls and an iPad-optimized interface
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Twitter intends to monetize on the desire to collect more followers with the announcement of its Promoted Accounts product tomorrow.
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Apple has updated its social network for music, Ping, which it released at the beginning of the month to less than rave reviews. The changes address a major complaint from users upon its initial rollout -- the dearth of social features. To be sure, Apple hasn't addressed all the issues -- or even the main one -- with Ping. However, the enhancements it has made appear to be mollifying social networkers accustomed to greater control over how they use a platform. Ping's main perceived failing is that it is limited to the iTunes ecosystem.
Research in Motion today announced a new 7-inch tablet device known as the BlackBerry PlayBook. The business-focused tablet, set for launch early next year, will offer a dual-core 1GHz, Cortex A9 processor, 1 GB of RAM, 1024 x 600 display wi...
| Read more »Two highly-anticipated iPad app releases have finally hit the App Store, and they're both magazines: The New Yorker and Gourmet Live.
The New Yorker (free for the app, US$4.99 per issue) joins Gourmet Live as the latest magazine apps from publisher Condé Nast. The navigation is simple: tap anywhere on the screen to bring up the controls. You can quickly move between sections and articles with the scrubber or table of contents. For more leisurely reading, swipe between pages.
One unique feature is how the magazine's famous cartoons are handled. Tap anyone to bring up a scrollable cartoon gallery. Plus, you can enter the regular caption contest right from within the app. It looks great, and we're eager to try it out.
Meanwhile,...
| Read more »Google Apps APIs can now be accessed by the emerging OAuth authentication protocol.
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Twitter is set to announce a new for-fee service on Tuesday at the IAB MIXX conference in New York City, promoted Who to Follow suggestions. In an exclusive report, AllThingsD reported that Twitter will sell promoted spots in its Who to Follow recommendations based on the same algorithms the firm uses for the Who to Follow recommendations you can get right now.
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Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform will end the year with 21 percent of the U.S. mobile advertising market, according to a new report. Citing estimates provided by IDC, Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Apple’s percentage of the market will come at the expense of Google, which IDC also expects…
| Read more »Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find 'em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Fraga-Games has announced FrontCam Mirror 1.0 for iPhone 4 devices. The free app was developed to provide the user with an easy-to-use and straightforward makeup mirror by taking advantage of the front camera of the iPhone 4.
| Read more »Accessory maker SwitchEasy has released a new version of the CapsuleRebel, now designed for the iPhone 4. The case's signature element is its spine-shaped exterior, said to cover over 60 percent of the device and protect common impact points. The design is also intended to improve grip....
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| Read more »The Jabra GO 660 (http://www.jabra.com) is described as the first Bluetooth headset with Noise Blackout Extreme, which eliminates background noise without compromising voice quality. It has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$110.
With the Jabra LINK 320 USB Bluetooth adapter, it simultaneously connects to a personal computer and mobile phone, so your need just one headset. Noise Blackout is dual microphone technology that eliminates background noise.
| Read more »Appcelerator polled the developers who use its cross-platform app-making tools and found that most think Android has a better long-term outlook than iOS. But interest in developing apps for Apple's mobile OS remains high.
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RIM today unveiled the PlayBook, its first shot at the tablet space. The PlayBook has a seven-inch, multi-touch display and is just 9.7mm thick. It's designed as a high-powered browsing device with both a WebKit browser as well as Flash 10.1 and AIR support. The slate is billed as a media-heavy device with full 1080p video output over HDMI -- including entirely different content on each screen -- and has both three- and five-megapixel cameras on both the front and back....
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| Read more »Connectivity solutions provider Gefen has released a new product line called GefenPRO (http://www.gefenpro.com), which are designed to be professionally installed in broadcast, rental/staging and post-production environments.
All products include 24/7 customer support from trained technical service representatives available at Gefen. GefenPRO products also purportedly feature a more rugged construction and internal power supplies using industry standard AC cords to improve performance in the field.
| Read more »DVDthemePAK.com has released all its ThemePAK collections and button products with widescreen formatting and theme family features. Each theme now includes two templates instead of only one.
Each theme comes with a template for the main screen and a template for the chapter's screen. In addition all DVDthemePAK's iDVD products are now downloadable. All themes in each collection are now sold separately in addition to the standard ThemePAK collections.
| Read more »Yes, folks, it‚Äôs time again for one of your favorite Mac Geek Gab segments: Cool Stuff Found. Today it‚Äôs an entire show packed with all the stuff you and your favorite geeks have found in the last month. Listen and find all kinds of stuff you ‚Äî and your Mac ‚Äî just can‚Äôt live without!
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RIM kicked off BlackBerry DevCon today with plans for its own mobile ad service in the vein of Apple's iAd or Google's AdMob. BlackBerry Advertising Service will give app writers access to multiple ad networks to subsidize free or cheap apps. Developers will get a similar 60 percent cut of any ad revenue, but RIM is hoping to avoid iAd-level control and will give the advertisers and ad networks direction over the creative presentation of apps....
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| Read more »Storage products maker OCZ has showed off its latest solid state drive, the Onyx 2 Series. The 2.5-inch SSDs are said to be priced lower than competing products but still sport SandForce controllers. Their maximum read speeds are rated at 270MBps, while write speeds peak at 265MBps....
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Barefeats has benchmarked the first 3rd party USB 3.0 interface for the Mac from CalDigit:
"Wait a minute. Apple hardware and software does not support USB 3.0." Yes but CalDigit has developed OS X drivers for their PCIe and ...
| Read more »Google has apparently extended its agreement with Apple to remain the default search engine on iOS.
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| Read more »I saw the new iPad nano for the first time this weekend, and though I knew it was small, of course, I was surprised by just how small it was. Despite the tiny little touchscreen, it really is about the size of the old shuffle. In fact, it's small enough to fit inside one of the old Visual Memory Units from the Sega Dreamcast. Unfortunately, the original controls don't work, and because the nano doesn't actually run any apps, you can't play anything even resembling the old VMU games that the extra controller units used to play in conjunction with the old console. But it is a nice little case for the new nano, and of course, it's just dripping with nostalgia.
You can find more information and pictures on the maker's website, which is in...
| Read more »Apple's legal team has sent a cease-and-desist request to a popular Polish news site, AppleMania, reports say. The site's name and logo allegedly violate Apple trademarks, which the company also suggests could potentially confuse the public as to the relationship between the two parties. AppleMania is accused of reaping "unfair benefits" that could "lead to the dilution of the distinctive power of Apple's trademarks."...
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| Read more »Apple garners the most media headlines of any tech company, with the iPhone 4 and iPad launches among the biggest stories of the year, while coverage of the company is overwhelmingly positive, one study has found.
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose on a variety of topics. Schmidt revealed that the search deal between Google and Apple had been "recently extended", suggesting that Google will remain the default search opt...
| Read more »Advertisers will be allowed to purchase placement in lists of "who to follow" recommendations targeted to specific users on Twitter, according to the latest report by Peter Kafka ...
| Read more »Sennheiser has unveiled six new headsets featuring Apple-compatible in-line remotes and mics. The IE 8i ($600) is an in-ear headphone offering clear, balanced sound, while the MM 70i ($130) are also in-ear headphones, but are designed to offer more pronounced bass. The PX 100-IIi ($120) and
| Read more »Browser-based Web apps will rival the power of today‚Äôs iPad apps in the next few years, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In an interview with Charlie Rose (posted on Fortune), Mr. Schmidt said that it won‚Äôt be long before developers are able to use open technologies to produce apps that are as powerful and beautiful as iPad apps are today.
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With free iPhone cases abounding, an iffy economy, and a new truck project that's capable of taking every last dollar I can throw at it, why did I buy a $70 iPhone case? Because it's the one I've always wanted.
Wood is the best material. It's second only to leather for how nice it feels in the hand—and even that's debatable. It is theoretically sustainable, assuaging the tortured consumer soul with eco-positive lubrication. And it's just pretty.
While I've got nothing but respect for Dieter Rams, the legendary designer's influence over modern electronics has left us with a world of geometric shapes, cold metal, and monochromatic plastics. The age of wood panelling in...
| Read more »You always have to watch out for a Wi-Fi survey conducted by the Wi-Fi Alliance, but based on our own experiences, we actually have to agree with the findings here. According to results from a new poll conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi is becoming more important than anyone could have imagining just a few...
| Read more »Best free Android photo editing apps for taking images and editing them to share with your friends. Don't look anywhere else for best photo-editing apps for Android.
| Read more »Kno, which is planning dual-screen tablet later this year, today said that it also plans to bring out a single-screen version soon. It will also be aimed at students and provide digital textbooks, letting students take notes on the touchscreen. This device will have a single, 14.1-inch screen....
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| Read more »Apple's advertising for the FaceTime video chat feature on the iPhone 4 is emotional and effective, and now the ads are making it to the European market. All of the ads are backed with the universally-known voice of Louis Armstrong singing "When You're Smiling," and there is no audible dialog, so these ads can be used in just about any European market. So far, they've made it to the U.K., Italy, and Spain.
The ads are sponsored by carriers 3Italia, Vodafone, and Orange. Click the Read More link to view the videos.
[via Macstories.net]
TUAWFound Footage: A look at European FaceTime ads originally appeared on The...
| Read more »AMD's Radeon HD 6700 series has had virtually all of its details leak today through a forum post at Chinese site Chiphell. The new series, now pitched as mid-range, is due to have "twice the horsepower" of the 5700 series it replaces. Clock speeds and memory bandwidth should go higher and give much larger texture fill rates as well as more than a 60 percent boost to the brute computing strength: a Radeon HD 6770 would produce about 2.3 teraflops, or more than the older but higher-end Radeon HD 5850's 2 teraflops....
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| Read more »Apple iOS and Google Android, both are widely used platforms. People usually get confused about the Operating Systems and sometimes they end up making a wrong decision.
| Read more »On Monday, publisher Conde Nast added The New Yorker to its growing list of publications with custom iPad apps for reading magazine issues.
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The New York Times points to a new research report from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism which finds that Apple was the most-discussed technology company in mainstream media between June 2009 and June 2010, servi...
| Read more »If your Mac is laboring under the load of applications running in the background that aren't even really doing anything, St. Clair Software's new AppTamer may provide the respite you need. It can stop applications in the background, reducing CPU usage and thus helping portable Macs run cooler, quieter, and longer.
 
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| Read more »iOS 4 is a free software update offering new features for iPhone 3G,¬†iPhone 3GS, and¬†iPhone 4 (which ships with iOS 4).
Features and capabilities vary between models, with some features available only on newer models.
If you ever played with the ill-fated Twitter rip-off Plurk, iStreamer will seem familiar. It's a social feed service which displays tweets, RSS feeds and other updates in a timeline, scrolling cross-ways like a nice desk dashboard accessory.
Virtually any type of update can be added to the timeline, even search keywords. If you set up an alert for "alligators eating toast" you'll see updates—however infrequent—scrolling across the screen automatically. You can catch up on updates you may've missed if you popped out, by scrolling tactile-ly yourself.
The video below, shot by CrunchGear, shows off the app well. It's a bit of a commitment at $4, so you'll be wanting to ensure it's going to offer what you need from a social app over the likes of the official Twitter app. [iTunes via...
| Read more »Welcome to The Loop Picks for this week. The apps showcased here are Mac software applications found in Bodega that the editors of The Loop found interesting, useful or cool. I hope you enjoy this week‚Äôs choices. Clicking on one of the apps listed below will open the Bodega app and give you more information [...]
| Read more »The Brothers noted that Apple is offering a refurbished Refurbished 13‚Äù MacBook Pro 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $1949, including free delivery.
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Technology journalists stumble over each other to praise Apple, while Microsoft goes neglected, according to a Pew Research Center study.
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Condé Nast Digital has launched Gourmet Live for the iPad, the first major magazine publication to be transformed into a new iPad exclusive publication. The monthly print edition of Gourmet magazine ceased publication last year citing declining advertising sales and shifting food interests among the readership, however Condé Nast continued…
| Read more »The three-day MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, Calif., in November will offer IT professionals and Apple developers a chance to learn and network, and those register early will be eligible for a free $200 Apple Certification Exam.
Next May, Panasonic will unveil the world's largest high-def LED screen at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
| Read more »Here's a bit of news that's no shock to us. According to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, Apple receives more coverage from the press than any other tech company.
The research center recently concluded a year-long study, which found that a full 15.1 percent of all tech articles were about Apple. Google commanded 11.4 percent of articles while 3 percent were primarily about Microsoft. The study used data from 52 newspapers, broadcast, and websites from June 2009 through June 2010.
What's powering Apple's popularity? Its computers represent only a fraction of those in use. However, the iPhone and the iPod's meteoric rise to stardom, and ...
| Read more »iTunes 10.0.1 adds a Ping sidebar that shows contextual and recent activity, along with Ping buttons that make it easy to "like" or comment on a selected or playing track. The changes make Ping significantly easier to use, but don't yet provide any significant reason to use it.
 
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| Read more »The U.S. Department of Justice announced late last week that it had reached an agreement with six major tech companies that prohibited anti-competitive non-poaching agreements for employees.
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After several months in production, publisher Condé Nast has at last released the first iPad edition of The New Yorker, available through a new app. Subsequent issues are set to launch every Monday, and include the same content as print editions. Some bonuses in the current iPad issue include a video tour, an animated cover, extra cartoons and a story reading by Sam Lipsyte....
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| Read more »Apple‚Äôs decision to relax its restrictions on tools developers are able to use to create iOS applications has led the European Competition Commission to drop its antitrust investigation into the company. ‚ÄúApple‚Äôs response to our preliminary investigations shows that the Commission can use the competition rules to achieve swift‚Ķ
| Read more »Stores in China have begun reporting to sell out the iPhone 4 two days after the device went on sale
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Condé Nast Digital has released an iPad edition of The New Yorker Magazine, allowing iPad users to purchase weekly editions of the acclaimed magazine right from within the app. The New Yorker offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, international affairs and the arts along with fiction,…
| Read more »Scosche is now shipping its MotorMouth II plug and play Bluetooth handsfree car kit and streaming audio receiver. Recipient of an iLounge 2010 CES iPod + iPhone Best of Show award, the MotorMouth II is a 3.5-inch connecting accessory and microphone that allows for hands-free phone calls and‚Ķ
| Read more »Apple‚Äôs iAd in-app advertising service is on track to snag 21 percent of the mobile device ad market by the end of 2010. iAd‚Äôs growth will come at the expense of Google‚Äôs own AdMob, which is expected to dip down to a 21 percent marketshare from 27 percent.
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Ascii Studios's Reminder Pro 2.0 adds a handful of new features, including integration with Facebook, a PIN lock for security, and more.
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Disney, Sony and Warner are close to testing a proposed system that would give Internet access to movies before they've reached Blu-ray or DVD, multiple official and unofficial tips disclosed on Monday. Of the three, Disney would be the most aggressive and would let viewers watch movies on any web-connected device and possibly the PS3 and Xbox 360 as well. A Bloomberg contact said Disney would likely be modest, trying one movie under the plan in an early 2011 trial....
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| Read more »Personal audio hardware maker Sennheiser on Monday introduced six new headphones made especially for Apple's mobile products, including the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch and the iPad. All are designated by an 'i' badge and sport an in-line remote and microphone that lets users control playback as well as make phone calls or record audio. All are based on existing Sennheiser products, and include the IE 8i, MM 70i, PX 100-Iii, PX 200-Iii, HD 218i and HD 238i....
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| Read more »The latest update to iTunes 10 fixed a few known bugs with the initial release, but as expected Apple did not change the gray color scheme of the icons in the sidebar.
| Read more »Reports of Apple TV shipping delays have been greatly exaggerated, as e-mailed shipping confirmations are now arriving.
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With the addition of the Safari Extensions Gallery to Apple's website, TUAW will be highlighting extensions that we think are special, useful, or just plain fun.
gleeBox will certainly delight keyboard jockeys, as it replaces many browser-based tasks you'd typically complete by mousing around with super-easy hotkey commands. For example, you can call on URLs by hitting the proper command and typing the name of the URL in the resulting overlay. In fact, it'll recognize what you're typing so you needn't type the whole thing.
gleeBox also executes bookmarklets in the same way, so you can add a long article to Instapaper, for example, without ever touching the mouse.
It's not for everyone, but those who like keeping their hands on the keyboard at all times should find it useful.
| Read more »Despite strong sales, is the iPhone the leading smartphone or the leading mobile device in the world?
| Read more »Apple is poised to control the tablet market for at least the next year, Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley said today. He estimated that Apple would ship 13.4 million iPads in 2010 and 25.5 million in 2011. The next closest, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, would reach 1.5 million by the end of the year and move another six million in 2011....
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| Read more »Recently blogger Rob Birgfeld over at Smart Brief wrote a post on the importance of keeping content short. Unfortunately, it is an ongoing myth that web content must be short. There are no rules with length of successful content.
| Read more »The latest version of iTunes seems to have done away with a feature that many people have come to use regularly: the Genius sidebar. Instead of a Genius sidebar with options for finding new songs based on the ones in your library, there is now a Ping sidebar that gives you access to the social network's ratings and purchasing options.
| Read more »In a note to clients issued Monday morning, Canaccord Genuity's T. Michael Walkley said -- as reported by "Fortune" (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/27/can-anybody-beat-the-ipad/?sectio...) -- that Apple's iPad may outsell its nearest rivals 4-to-1 in 2011 as Android tablets "struggle."
| Read more »New Jersey's Multi-Format has filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the latter company of violating a 2003 patent related to video. Titled Multi-format audio/video production system, the patent describes a way of reformatting content so it can run on different devices. Input "may be translated into any variety of graphics or television formats," documentation goes on, "including NTSC, PAL, SECAM, and HDTV, and stored as data-compressed images, using any of several commercially available methods such as Motion JPEG, MPEG, etc."...
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| Read more »Sharp will enter the e-book market this December with two Android-based readers that it hopes can sell a million units in their first year.
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A 1.1 update to iOS text editor Elements adds much requested features such as file deleting and renaming, sorting options, and search.
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The Nielssen research group says the rapid rise of digital music sales has stalled in the United States, the world's biggest and most important market, with sales in the first half of 2010 flat compared with a year before. However, digital music sales were up 7% in Britain, up 13% in Germany and up 19% in France.
| Read more »Cachet Financial Solutions (http://www.cachetfinancial.com), a provider of remote deposit capture (RDC), hasannounced the development of a new platform for their remote deposit capture solution. RDC Select‚Ñ¢ will now be available to users of Mac OS X systems beginning Oct. 15.
| Read more »The Department of Justice announced that it has reached a settlement with six high technology companies -- Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar -- that prevents them from entering into no solicitation agreements for employees. ¬†
| Read more »In certain situations, after connecting an LED Cinema Display (27-inch) to a Macintosh computer that supports Mini DisplayPort audio, the keyboard volume controls and mute keys may not control the volume on the display.¬†
| Read more »Apple is shipping the revamped Apple TV it announced on Sept. 1. I pre-ordered one and received an email announcement on Monday that it should arrive by Oct. 1 (that's Friday).
| Read more »Apple seems obsessed with researching methods to identify users of iPhones, iPads and other iOS devices. The last effort is a patent that describes a device with sensors capable of figuring out the user's hand shape and adjusting the device's settings and buttons based on the user's profile. The sensors would be placed on the back surface of the gadget. According to the general idea of the patent, the sensors could be used to create button areas under each finger, letting you hold the device whatever way you desire‚Äîright hand or left, both, or death grip. [Engadget and...
| Read more »Monotype Imaging Holdings is accepting entries through Nov. 7, 2010 for the first Web Font Awards, an international competition designed to recognize web sites that incorporate exceptional use of web fonts.
Prizes include two US$3,000 cash awards, iPads and various typeface offerings from Monotype Imaging. Winning entries will be determined at a live judging event on Nov. 16, during the Future of Web Design conference, Nov. 15-17, in New York City.
| Read more »How many times have you thought, "It's a beautiful day. If only I could capture it using my iPod and my head?" If you're anything like us, the answer is hundreds of times. Now, our yearning has come to fruition thanks to Rampant View.
The Rampant View Headcam now accommodates the 5th generation iPod nano. Just pop the nano inside, adjust it for your head (or helmet if you're safety conscious) and start shooting. It looks like a super way to enhance your skate videos. It doesn't look waterproof, so forget the rad kayaking videos, but there are many other fun and hands-free applications we could think of.
The Rampant View costs US$34.95 and is shipping now. There's another demo video on the next page; click Read More to view it.
[Via Engadget]
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| Read more »YUDU Media (http://www.yudu.com), which specializes in ePublishing, says it has developed the "first iPad subscriptions solution today, the only real solution available to publishers looking to sell multiple time-sensitive titles."
| Read more »TMO‚Äôs¬†own Jeff Gamet and Bryan Chaffin will be appearing on a¬†special panel discussion¬†at the 2010 Macintosh¬†Computer¬†Expo on Saturday, October 2. The keynote panel will discuss the future of Apple and the company‚Äôs products and will be hosted by the¬†MacCast‚Äôs¬†Adam Christianson.
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You can listen to music and have conversations using six new Sennheiser headsets (http://www.sennheiserusa.com) specially designed for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and other Apple products. All six versions -- the MM 70i (which has a street price of US$99.95), IE 8i ($449.95), PX 100-IIi ($89.95), PX 200-IIi ($109.95), HD 218i ($79.95) and HD 238i ($129.95) --are based on Sennheiser’s “Portable Entertainment” series.
| Read more »Unity Technologies -- provider of the Unity development platform for interactive 3D content on the web, iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, Android, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, announced that Unity 3 is available.
According to David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies, among the dozens of new features in Unity 3 are:
° Unified Editor, which lets you deploy to any supported platform from one project in one editor;
° Beast Lightmapping, the industry's strongest lightmapper;
° Deferred rendering -- AAA class rendering available on web, consoles and standalone;
| Read more »Apple's iAd should end the year with about 21 percent of the US mobile advertising market, according to an IDC estimate. Google is expected to fall to 21 percent, down from 27 percent in 2009 when including results from AdMob, which the company only formally acquired in May. Yahoo is forecast to drop from 12 to 9 percent, while Microsoft should slide from 10 to 7, and Nokia from 5 to 2....
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| Read more »Web Information Solutions has released a major update to Pocket Informant, its advanced personal information manager for the iPhone and iPod touch. Pocket Informant is an integrated calendar and GTD-based task management application that provides a number of advanced features and synchronization with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal and‚Ķ
| Read more »Online music sales have leveled off in the course of the past year, Nielsen said today. Sales and subscriptions at iTunes, Amazon MP3 and other American stores in the first half of 2010 were roughly similar to a similar part of 2009 compared to a 13 percent increase the year before and a 28 percent jump in 2008. The researchers didn't have a direct explanation but suspected that disenchantment with the music on sale, as well as economic difficulties and a confusion of sources, contributed to the effect....
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| Read more »Over the weekend, the European Commission announced that it has dropped pair of antitrust investigations it had been conducting related to Apple's policies on international iPhone repairs and third-party ...
| Read more »Spoonjuice introduces Night Stand HD v1.5, the critically acclaimed, best selling clock utility for iPhone & iPad. This is the biggest Night Stand yet, with a powerful new Stop Watch, local weather, plus stunning new graphics: Nixie, an iPad-only theme with gorgeous, subtly rendered animations, and the fan favorite World Clock ‚Äî now for iPhone, too. And Night Stand is now universal; buy it once to run on all your iOS devices.
Featured on Engadget, MacWorld, TUAW and TNW, Night Stand has been a critical darling thanks to the stunning design, usability and reliability. Visit the Night Stand website for more details plus video of NS in action.
| Read more »Wow.
No sooner had we published the post about Apple TVs being queued for shipping than our TUAW mailboxes were filled with a steady stream of shipping notices.
The new Apple TVs are now being shipped from Shenzhen, China to a variety of destinations, and most people are seeing either Thursday, September 30 or Friday, October 1 as the delivery date.
I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl about the shipment - a middle-aged, slightly overweight schoolgirl with a beard, but you get the idea.
Thanks to the many tipsters who let us know about the packages that shipped while we were sleeping.
TUAWApple TVs are on the way from Shenzhen originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:15:00...
| Read more »Google recently extended its contract with Apple, making the dominant search provider the default option on devices running iOS, including the iPhone.
French man has been awarded damages against Google for search results that imply he is a rapist
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Reuters reports on data from research firm Nielsen showing that U.S. digital music sales plateaued in the first half of 2010, marking a dramatic decrease from the 28% growth enjoyed just two years ago.
According to research gr...
| Read more »SyntheCept has debuted its new LYCO Adapter for the iPhone. Named after the phrase ‚Äúleave your case on,‚Äù the LYCO is a supportive adapter for the iPhone 3G, 3GS, and iPhone 4 designed for use with Universal Docks that lets users keep their devices in cases. The LYCO is‚Ķ
| Read more »John F. Braun explores StreamWatcher, a utility that shows who your Mac is talking to, and how much bandwidth is being used.
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Business Insider is reporting that Apple and Google have extended the deal that brought Google search to the iOS. In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that his company's arrangement with Apple has been "recently extended."
"Apple is a company we both partner and compete with. We do a search deal with them, recently extended, and we're doing all sorts of things in maps and things like that."
That should extinguish any lingering rumors that Bing will become the default search engine on future iOS devices/updates. Presently, Bing is an option on the iOS, but Google is the default.
[Via...
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The European Commission has dropped not one, but two antitrust investigations into Apple—one for the company's decision to restrict tools used in iOS development, and the other for forcing iPhone users in Europe to return to the country of purchase in order to get warranty repairs. Both of these policies have since been updated since the EU first opened its investigations, and the Commission appears to be pleased with the changes.
The lesser known of the two issues—at least to those outside the EU—concerned iPhone repairs and where, exactly, users could go to get them. Apple said that users who bought iPhones could only get them fixed in the country of purchase, which proved to be a frustrating rule for Europeans on-the-go. (The US equivalent would be if you were restricted to the same...
| Read more »the White House plans to submit a bill next year that would require all online services that enable communications to be technically equipped to comply with a wiretap order. That would include providers of encrypted e-mail, such as BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook and direct communication services like Skype.
| Read more »Mobiata has released an update to FlightTrack and FlightTrack Pro adding improvements to calendar synchronization and integration with the Concur service, along with several other fixes and enhancements. FlightTrack 3.6.5 now adds local flight departure and arrival times to calendar events so that users can easily see departure times regardless‚Ķ
| Read more »Twitter was hit with a second worm over the weekend but again quickly fixed the vulnerability.
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Motorola today detailed a pair of Bluetooth audio pieces that each promise to be much more comfortable than usual. Leading the group, the Oasis has reportedly been researched much more than any other headset and has a behind-the-ear design like the Plantronics Voyager Pro that's balanced, lightweight and well-fitting enough to last for hours. A dual-mic noise cancellation system should also cut out twice as much outside noise as alternatives....
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| Read more »Today TMO readers are talking about Apple‚Äôs market growth, how long the company can keep its lead, and how long it will take for the company‚Äôs stock to hit US$450.
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Apple has begun shipping the new Apple TV, meeting its loose deadline of having the units to customers at the end of September. Customers who ordered the new Apple TV when it was announced have received notices on Monday that their units have shipped. Those people said the shipping notice indicates a Friday delivery date. [...]
| Read more »iTunes 10.0.1 introduces a new feature: most items now have a 'Ping' dropdown button where the Music Store arrow links used to be. These appear even if you've disabled Ping.
The buttons cannot be disabled in the UI, but there's a Terminal fix to do it.
First, quit iTunes just in case. Then, start Terminal.app and enter:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown 1
When iTunes is restarted, the Ping buttons should have disappeared. To reverse, just repeat, using '0' rather than '1', or alternatively delete the setting altogether to ensure default behavior:
defaults delete com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown
Unfortunately, the old 'show-store-arrow-links' hack no longer works. However, it turns out the setting has just changed to 'show-store-link-arrows' and now defaults to off to allow for the default Ping buttons. To restore the arrows:
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The notes I added to a PDF file with Skim were not visible on my iPod Touch after exporting it as a PDF with the embedded notes, dragging it to the books section on iTunes, and syncing. After some experimentation, the solution I found is:
If you don't know it, Skim is an open source PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X. It's got some nifty features. The manual is online here.
[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one.]
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"Please leave us alone," Apple's CEO Steve Jobs fired off in an email to Chelsea Isaacs, left, a senior in the journalism department at Long Island University, this week.
| Read more »European Union competition regulators have dropped a probe into Apple, after the company agreed to relax restrictions on the iPhone, reports "Macworld UK" (http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=3241048).
Apple has agreed to introduce cross-border iPhone warranty repair services for EU purchasers and relax restrictions on development tools for iPhone applications. Apple has now appointed service providers to "offer cross-border iPhone warranty services in those member states where Apple does not directly take charge of repairs," the Commission said.
| Read more »The European Commission has dropped two antitrust investigations concerning Apple's iPhone after the company reversed two policies.
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It's no surprise, but it's official: Apple is the most highly covered technology company, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Forty-two percent of the stories about Apple described the company as innovative and superior, and another 27% lauded its loyal fan base.
Still, there were doubts. According to the Pew Research Center, the most common such negative thread, that Apple products don’t live up to the hype, appeared in 17% of stories about Apple. 
| Read more »Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have swiftly lost share in the U.S. mobile advertising market to Apple's new iAd, reports "Bloomberg Businessweek" (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2010/tc20100926_023792...).
Apple will end the year with 21% of the market, according to estimates provided to Businessweek.com by researcher IDC. Google's share will drop to 21% from 27% last year, when combined with results from AdMob, the ad network it bought in May. Microsoft will drop to 7% from 10%.
| Read more »Apple‚Äôs iPhone 4 launch in China was met with long lines and massive crowds, leading to a quick sellout of the country‚Äôs inventory. China‚Äôs iPhone 4 launch stands in stark contrast to the country‚Äôs iPhone 3GS rollout where it took several days to sell only 5,000 units.
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We received a lot of tips today from people who ordered the new $99 Apple TV on September 1st and have, like me, been anxiously checking the order status in the online Apple Store. As of today, many orders are showing the message you see above -- that the device has been "prepared for shipment" sometime in September.
Well, today is September 27th, which doesn't leave all that much time for Apple or the OEM to ship these devices. My guess is that the 747 freighters are lining up on the tarmac in Shanghai or Hong Kong, waiting to be loaded with the first half-million or so Apple TVs.
Fellow TUAW blogger Mike Rose and I both ordered our Apple TVs shortly after the announcement on September 1st, so whoever gets the first one will probably take dibs on doing a full review of the new iOS-powered streaming video box. Be sure to visit TUAW regularly this week for all of your Apple TV news.
Thanks to all of the TUAW...
| Read more »China Unicom is having a hard time keeping up with the demand for the iPhone 4, according to official statements. The carrier notes that while it actually received some 200,000 pre-orders last week, only about 60,000 phones were sold during Saturday's launch. Of these 40,000 went to individuals, while 10,000 fulfilled direct distribution bulk orders. The remaining 10,000 units are not mentioned in a Unicom press release....
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| Read more »RIM's opening DevCon presentations won't show any actual BlackBerrry tablet hardware but may talk about its software, sources mentioned today. Both BGR and Electronista have unofficially heard that the events on Monday won't be product unveilings and will stick to the development focus of the San Francisco conference. The BGR tip added that RIM would talk about the platform, though to what extent wasn't said....
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| Read more »QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac is now on sale from Intuit (http://www.intuit.com). The latest version of the financial software is available Sept. 28 at a suggested retail price of US$229.95 for a single user license.
QuickBooks 2011 for Mac features new reports and tools to help users track job-related mileage so they can claim the tax write-offs they deserve. Users can also customize reports and forms to reflect their brands and to show the exact data they need to show, says Dan Wernikoff, vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Financial Management Solutions division.
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Bloomberg Businessweek reports on data from research firm IDC showing that Apple's iAd mobile advertising platform, launched on July 1st, appears set to grab 21% of the mobile advertising market by the end of the yea...
If you’re having weak signal issues with your iPhone 4, and your brand new bumper case just isn’t cutting it, I’ve got some great news for you tonight. Turns out, tough man and living legend Chuck Norris is all you need to cure your somewhat common problem.
| Read more »hendrickson software components has released their first REAL Studio plug-in, the Outlook Message Parser Plug-in (http://www.hendricom.com/omppreview.html). It enables REAL Studio (REALbasic) developers to parse Microsoft Outlook Structured Storage (.MSG) files in a cross-platform development environment, including Windows, Macintosh OSX, and Linux.
| Read more »Jumsoft (http://www.jumsoft.com) has released new themes for iWeb, the web site creation component of Apple's iLife suite. The new set offers 20 design themes suitable for multiple types of web sites, including 11 addition.
| Read more »Free software isn't just for Windows. The Mac OS supports a broad selection of no-cost programs. Here are 73 of the best apps.
| Read more »The scariest sites on the Net? They're not the ones you might suspect. Here's what to watch for and how to stay safe.
| Read more »Target confirmed speculation that it will begin selling Apple‚Äôs iPad. The company said it would start selling the device on Oct. 3. The iPad will be available in 1,743 Target stores across the U.S. and will carry the 16GB Wi-Fi model, the 32GB and 64GB Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi+3G models. The stores will also be [...]
| Read more »Apple has started shipping its second-generation Apple TV to pre-order customers. According to a comment made by iLounge reader Chuck, it appears the units are shipping directly from China instead of from a U.S.-based warehouse, with the delivery promised on September 28 or later‚Äîin-line with Apple‚Äôs previously announced intention‚Ķ
| Read more »The Mac Observer‚Äôs Mac Geek Gab co-host John F. Braun joined the Mac Roundtable crew to talk about the state of Blu-ray disc support on the Mac, and Apple‚Äôs soon-to-ship second generation Apple TV.
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A new lawsuit takes aim at Apple's delivery of movies, TV shows and other videos through iTunes, alleging that the service is in violation of a patent owned by Multi-Format Inc.
Apple has shoehorned every feature short of the kitchen sink into the increasingly misnamed iTunes - surely that means the program is a classic example of bloatware? Or is it? Kirk McElhearn, who has written numerous articles and books about iTunes, examines the charges that iTunes is bloated to see if they're valid.
 
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| Read more »Last Thursday at midnight three telecom carriers in Thailand began selling the iPhone 4 to large crowds. The three telecoms, True Move, Advanced Info Service, and DTAC each choose special venues to host their launch events, while DTAC also sent out 100 motorcycles to deliver handsets to customers who had placed pre-orders. Competition between the three carries has resulted in attractive pricing and tariff packages for the iPhone 4. Official sales figures were not released, however AIS and True Move both claimed 50,000 people had shown interest in the device, while DT...
It’s amazing how easily a person can tell stories about the early days of the Internet and make it sound like they went to school in a barn using a horse-drawn carriage to get there.
| Read more »Intel today unveiled its second wave of 32nm notebook processors today with a refresh of its Core i5 and Core i7 lines. Full-speed, dual-core processors have been upgraded across the board; the Core i7 640M upgrades to 2.8GHz (from 2.66GHz) for $349 in bulk; the Core i5 580M moves the top i5 chip to 2.66GHz (from 2.53GHz) for $266, and the slightly detuned but same-speed Core i5 560M costs $225....
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| Read more »I'll be honest -- I heard that Aftermath was a zombie game and almost gave up on it. I wouldn't be offended if you did the same, since lots of developers (especially iPhone developers) are depending a little too much on zombies for their gameplay. Yes, it's fun to fight the walking undead, but they're used over and over again because a) they're easy to program, and b) they let you make a "shooting humans" game without getting involved in the whole morality thing.
But Aftermath is still worth a look. While a lot of zombie games on the store go abstract or silly, this one sticks pretty close to realistic, and it has some serious quality and interesting gameplay behind it. You're fighting zombies and moving through levels, but instead of aiming and shooting a gun, you're actually aiming a flashlight, and your gun automatically fires for you. The projected light...
| Read more »Apple has released iTunes 10.0.1, the latest update to its media purchasing, management, and synchronization software. According to Apple‚Äôs release notes, iTunes 10.0.1 adds the ability for users to Like or Post about music to the company‚Äôs Ping social network directly from the iTunes library, and a new Ping Sidebar.‚Ķ
| Read more »The European Union‚Äôs European Commission is dropping an investigation into Apple‚Äôs App Store policies now that the company is allowing developers to use a wider range of tools when coding apps for iOS devices. The Cupertino-based company had been under investigation for a policy change that limited developers to coding with native iOS tools.
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iPhone 4 started selling in mainland China over the weekend.
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Sharp started the week by detailing the launches of its Android tablets and their accompanying e-book store. Both called Galapagos, the combination focuses on a Kindle-style automatic subscription download service that pushes new issues in the background. The tablets are based on full LCDs and support color images as well as complex layouts for books, including XMDF....
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| Read more »Ascii Studios announced the immediate availability of Reminder Pro 2.0 on Monday. They update for the event reminder app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch added the ability to import contacts with birthdays from Facebook, and also added support for iOS 4 local notifications.
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Apple's new iAd mobile advertising service is poised to take 21 percent of the U.S. mobile advertising market by the end of 2010, giving the company a market share tied with Google and three times larger than Microsoft.
The iPhone 4 is now selling in the United Arab Emirates, but users in that country say the FaceTime video-chat feature has been disabled on the phone.
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In recent days, Apple has shown signs of relaxing its hand on what kinds of apps it will allow into its iTunes store. The first sign of the change occurred when the company opened up its review policies for public scrutiny. Another sign has been the appearance in the store of programs that were previously barred from admission, most notably some Google Voice apps. It's also hung out the welcome sign to categories of apps that have previously been taboo at the store. One of those kinds of apps recently arrived at the shop, VLC Media Player.
A number of customers who preordered the new Apple TV have begun receiving e-mail notifications that the US$99 set top box is now shipping, with an estimated arrival by the end of the month.
Per AppleInsider, shipment notifications began going out to some customers early Monday. The new Apple TV is shipping from Shenzhen, China, to customers in the U.S. via FedEx.
Estimated delivery for shipments is by Thursday, Sept. 30th, meaning Apple will meet its September launch deadline.
On Sunday, a number of users chimed in stating that their orders for the new Apple TV were being listed as “Prepared for Shipment.” The device was also still listed as “Ships: September.”
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| Read more »Microsoft today began inviting media outlets to an October 11 press conference in London that should unveil Windows Phone 7. The very long 2PM GMT (9AM Eastern) to 5:30PM keynote confirms a long suspected date and should reveal the first production devices on the new mobile platform. Europe is likely to be the initial focus, though it may mention a suspected November 8 US release....
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| Read more »Late Friday, Apple released iTunes 10.0.1, the latest version of its digital jukebox/digital hub software. The new version, an 84 megabyte download, sports the following fixes and new features:
- Addresses an issue where the picture quality of a video changes depending on whether the on-screen controls are visible.
- Resolves an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit while interacting with album artwork viewed in a separate window.
- Fixes a problem that affects the performance of some third-party visualizers.
- Addresses an issue where the iTunes library and playlists appear empty.
- Resolves an issue that created an incompatibility with some third-party shared libraries.
iTunes 10 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run and can be located...
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