CNET reports that the police investigation into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a lost iPhone 4 that subsequently made its way into the hands of Gizmodo appears to be nearing an end.
Stephen Wagstaffe, chief...
| Read more »After you enable trackpad handwriting and enable "Show Input menu in menu bar", both in the Input Sources tab of the Language & Text system preferences pane, you may notice that the input menu is not visible in the menu bar.
| Read more »Playrix Entertainment has launched Fishdom: Spooky Splash for Mac OS 10.4 and higher (http://www.playrix.com/games/mac/fishdom-spooky-splash.html). It costs US$19.95; a demo is available for download.
| Read more »AT&T could lose as many at 37 percent of iPhone users if the device became available on multiple carriers in the US, with 23 percent ready to jump to Verizon.
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| Read more »Toshiba has just released a family of new straightforward external drives, the Canvio Basics. Coming in 320GB, 500GB and 750GB capacities, the USB 2.0 drives come without frills and are meant as uncomplicated extra storage. All are available only in glossy black finish....
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| Read more »Twitter's Website fell victim to a cross-site scripting attack Tuesday morning, which led to thousands of spammy tweets.
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Panasonic (http://www.panasonic.com) has announced the LUMIX DMC-GH2, a hybrid touch-control camera featuring full High Definition (HD) video recording and compatibility with an interchangeable 3D lens.
Compatible with the Micro Four Thirds System standard, the LUMIX GH2 is newly designed with an easy-to-hold grip and includes a refined image processing engine and sensor, full HD video recording, and the ability to take 3D photos with Panasonic's new interchangeable 3D lens.
| Read more »Modern meetings are a marvel. With strong competition in the remote presentation/conferencing product space, we now have plenty of capable and feature-rich platforms that offer affordable (sometimes free) remote meetings, most with a good Mac compatibility story to tell. The catch, of course, is that all these technologies depend on Java, Flash/AIR or a bespoke browser plugin to deliver the goods -- meaning that the iPad and iPhone are largely left out of the fun.
Given the demand, it's clear why the Adobe Connect iPhone client and WebEx player for iPad deliver meeting attendance options for iDevices; who wouldn't want to attend a web meeting from the beach...
| Read more »indev software released MailTags 2.5 on Tuesday with support for the yet to be released Mail 4.4 and Mac OS X 10.6.5 updates.
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Safari will often get stalled out and need to be restarted. In many cases, this can be traced to the Flash plugin getting overloaded. You can quite simply restart just the Flash plugin and make Safari work properly again.
You will need to use the Terminal to quit the WebKitPluginHost process. Safari sees that this process has died and automatically restarts it. Refreshing a page that was using the Flash plugin will then reload the plugin.
I have had Safari doing the beach ball of death and used this trick and it fixes it immediately.
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I accidentally stumbled on this one today when I mis-clicked a tab in Safari 5.
Double-clicking the empty space in the Tab Bar just to the right of an open tab in Safari will create and open a new tab. Not sure how new this is, but I can't believe I have never thought to try this method before!
This is an addition to the other well-known ways of opening new tabs:
I'm sure there are probably a couple more ways to do this, but my most common are by far the first and last methods.
[crarko adds: I've seen all the other methods mentioned, but this one is new to me,...
MetroPCS had the distinction today of being the first to switch on an LTE-based 4G network in the US. Its service, starting in Las Vegas, is potentially much faster than even WiMAX Moving to the faster speeds improves web browsing and makes possible media streaming that wasn't an option before; RealNetworks is supplying a video service with video from BET, NBC and Univision....
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| Read more »pple acquired facial recognition software maker Polar Rose, could bring face recognition to iPhone, iPad.
| Read more »iHome has debuted its new iP3 Studio Series Audio System for the iPod and iPhone. The iP3 features a 50 watt class D amplifier, two 3.5-inch coaxial neodymium speakers, Bongiovi Acoustics DPS technology, an adjustable EQ, composite or component video output, a line-in jack, an adjustable dock, a universal‚Ķ
| Read more »Apple's free-case program for iPhone 4 owners comes to an end on September 30th. Here's how to take advantage of it before time runs out.
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Adobe today announced the launch of Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9, the latest versions of the company's consumer-grade photo and video editing software packages for Mac and Windows. It marks the first appearance of Premiere El...
| Read more »Apple‚Äôs Time Capsule can handle the duties of a media server, and today one Mac Geek Gab Crew forum member is trying to figure out why his is so slow.
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Yazsoft has introduced Playback Media Server 1.7 (http://www.yazsoft.com/products/playback/information/), an update of their zero configuration media server for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher. The upgrade sports a new NGINX engine.
| Read more »Despite the fact that Apple has only announced the iPhone 4‚Äôs launch in China this coming weekend, a new report suggests the handset will launch in no less than 13 additional countries by September 26. According to a 9 to 5 Mac report and subsequent comments from international‚Ķ
| Read more »Fujifilm today clarified its launch strategy for the FinePix X100 and confirmed it would reach the US. The rangefinder-like compact should reach the US in March and should have a price near $1,000. Previously, the company had only pledged itself to a launch early next year without a price....
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| Read more »Kapeli has announced moveAddict 2.0 (http://kapeli.com/moveaddict), an update of the Mac OS X app that offers the capability to cut and paste files (with merging folders as a bonus) to the Finder. feature to Mac's Finder. It works with the usual keyboard shortcuts for cut and paste.
With version 2.0, moveAddict has been completely rewritten to make it faster and more lightweight than before. The Finder is now used to move the files, which means that users will see the usual Finder progress indicator dialog while transferring files, as well as be able to undo and stop transfers.
| Read more »Happiness with Macs climbed from 84 points last year to an all-time high of 86 this year. It has a nine-point lead over the maximum 77 point score for Windows PCs, the largest gap of any category in the ACSI.
| Read more »Some individuals are already gaining access to Office for Mac 2011, accounts say. A copy of the work suite is said to have appeared on Microsoft's Volume License page overnight, allowing eligible customers to download a 972MB file labeled Office for Mac 2011 Standard. The package contains all of the key Office apps, including Messenger 8 and the new Outlook for Mac, which replaces Entourage....
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| Read more »Seagate (http://www.seagate.com) has launched what it says is the world‚Äôs first 1.5TB, 2.5-inch portable external drive. Available immediately, the new 1.5TB FreeAgent GoFlex comes in black and has a suggested retail price of US$249.99.
| Read more »Headcase has rolled out its new Etch A Sketch case for the Apple iPad. Made of impact-resistant plastic, the case looks much like the classic children‚Äôs drawing toy, and features felt interior lining, retractable kick stands, rubber feet for laying the device flat, and open access to all ports‚Ķ
| Read more »Adobe on Tuesday announced the launch of Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9 for both Mac and Windows, with "groundbreaking features" added to the No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editing software.
Authorities are close to finishing their criminal investigation into an iPhone 4 prototype Gizmodo purchased ahead of the official product launch. As part of the investigation, police recently interviewed Apple CEO Steve Jobs, too.
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Apple today managed to get its best-ever score on the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) and maintain its lead over Windows PCs. Happiness with Macs climbed from 84 points last year to an all-time high of 86 this year. It has a nine-point lead over the maximum 77 point score for Windows PCs, the largest gap of any category in the ACSI....
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| Read more »Adobe (http://www.adobe.com) has announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 software for Mac OS X and Windows systems. It's the latest version of the consumer photo-editing software to organize, edit, create and share photos.
"The Content Aware Fill technology introduced with Photoshop CS5 is one of our most exciting innovations ever, so we're thrilled to be able to make it accessible to photo and video enthusiasts in this latest Elements release," says Kevin Connor, vice president of product management for Digital Imaging at Adobe.
| Read more »Wolfram Research (http://www.wolfram.com) has announced a technical collaboration with NVidia (http://www.nvidia.com) to integrate GPU acceleration into Mathematica 8.
| Read more »Phases is one of those apps that has a lot of information you wouldn't really think of or need -- until you actually have an app available to give it to you. Basically, Phases tells you everything you need to know about the moon, from when it wanes and waxes, rises and sets, and when and where it appears in the sky. Sure, it might not be the most pressing information to have, but it's kind of fun to check and see if it really is a full moon out, or find out just when the moon will be up in the evening.
And you don't even need an Internet connection -- the app has a database of over 20,000 cities, so even if you can't hook up to the 'net, you can still get information from the app. It's just 99 cents in the store right now, so if the clean design and surprising amount of data available in this...
| Read more »Samsung is proudly showing off their Galaxy Tab. They are making it out to be the hip, new device that is the latest in tablet computers. Some may see it as the iPad killer, but it's far from it.
| Read more »Best firefox CSS add-ons for CSS developers. Thousands and millions of CSS developers use these firefox add-ons for developing purposes right inside the browser.
| Read more »Corrects a vulnerability in AFP in Mac OS X 10.6.4. (Free, 1.93 MB)
 
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| Read more »Twitter users that rely on the social network‚Äôs Web site were in for a surprise Tuesday morning when hackers began taking advantage of a JavaScript security flaw allowing them to redirect users to other Web sites without their permission.
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Apple recently relaxed its rules on the App Store, but are they working? The recent introduction of third-party apps for Google Voice suggests yes.
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Seagate this morning reached another record for storage with a 1.5TB version of the FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-portable drive. The disk is the first 2.5-inch drive to reach the density and still claims a possible edge in speed. It ships with a USB 3.0 cable that gives it a theoretical 5Gbps peak speed, and as a GoFlex drive it can switch to FireWire 800 or another high-speed format....
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| Read more »Apple remains the best in its class for customer service, with the Mac maker again leading all other PC makers for the seventh straight year, despite industry-wide improvement, according to a new study.
BusyMac released a public beta version of BusyCal 1.5 on Tuesday. The test version for an upcoming update for the iCal-compatible calendar application added the ability to sync data with Apple’s MobileMe Calendar beta.
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It’s the stuff Apple buys out that makes future technology speculation kind of fun.
Per TechCrunch, Apple is rumored to have bought a Swedish company Polar Rose. The company has created technology for facial recognition, which could allow for software and devices to recognize unique users.
Though neither party has officially confirmed the purchase, Polar Rose offers a number of products based on its technology, including FaceCloud, which allows facial recognition for Web services, and FaceLib, which brings the functionality to mobile phones.
One of the company’s products, dubbed Recognizr, could take a photo of a user and recognize that same person when shown on video. In a video demonstration, the application places social networking sites associated with that person around their face when seen via a mobile phone’s video camera.
Polar Rose is a small...
| Read more »Amazon's taken a leaf out of Apple's advertising book (Mac vs PC, anyone?) by going head to head with the iPad maker in the most recent Kindle television ad. Most noticeably, the spot delivers a low blow to the iPad's comparatively poor screen visibility in direct sunlight. As far as ads go it's rather ingenious, taking some of the best tricks out of the old advertising, uh, book.
In short, a guy sunbathes in a gray t-shirt (geeky), but can't quite read his "iPad" due to the sunlight. On the deck chair next to him lies a beautiful, bikini clad woman sunbathing while reading her Kindle with a pair of sunglasses on! The geeky guy asks the beautiful woman how she's reading in the sunlight, she confidently...
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There's one thing that Apple's iPad needs more than a camera for FaceTime video calling, and that's a real solution for old-school magazine and newspaper publishers. The iPad is a do-it-all device -- Web, email, e-books, games, video, music -- but it still has a few problems. For instance, for active book readers, it's hard to argue that the iPad is the best solution. The iPad is heavy, and its screen isn't so great in broad daylight. At $139, the new Amazon Kindle is more flexible. It's lighter, which means it's easier to hold for hours on end.
ArrayThere is apparently a security flaw in the Twitter code that is allowing users to have third-party websites open in your browser, and all you have to do is mouse over a link for it to happen.
The flaw, as reported by Internet security company Sophos, appears to be somewhat innocuous for now but holds some pretty nasty potential as it could allow Twitter users to be redirected to other sites that contain less-than-honorable code.
On Monday, Apple released its Security Update 2010-006 patch, a tiny 1.8 megabyte download that fixes one specific bug in Mac OS X 10.6.4’s AFP file sharing implementation that could allow remote attackers to bypass the password validation system if they know the name of an account on the Mac.
Fortunately, previous versions of Mac OS X are not affected and only client users need the update.
The update can be snagged and installed via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature and requires Mac OS X 10.6.4 or later to install and run.
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| Read more »Panasonic kicked off Photokina with the previously leaked Lumix GH2. It stands as the first Micro Four Thirds camera to get a truly upgraded MOS sensor and shoots at 16 megapixels with a wider sensitivity range of ISO 160 to 12,800 and a faster, 23-point autofocusing system. The sensor along with a new Venus Engine FHD processor also makes room for 5FPS burst shooting and 1080i video at 60 frames per second instead of 30....
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| Read more »Steve Jobs and the rest of his Cupertino cohorts did two things when they released the iPad under¬† Apple's unofficial planned obsolescence model -- you know, the one where Apple leaves off obvious features like a USB port, HDMI connectivity, upgradeable storage, and everything else you'd find on even the most thinly spec'd netbook.
| Read more »A recent study by market research firm Technology Business Research (TBR) has confirmed what I've said since the iPad's introduction: its a complement to your primary computer (for me, an iMac), not a replacement. The tablet is good at many things, but it can't handle all the chores a desktop can.
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There is conservatively five trillion iPad cases and sleeves on the market. OK, OK. Maybe more. And they're all pretty much the same, just different, colors, and fabrics. But this case was developed by Quirky, a social development company.
| Read more »Adobe has announced the its latest release of its Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 9 bundle. While Mac users will be familiar with Photoshop Elements, it is the first time that Adobe has released Premiere Elements for the Mac platform alongside its long-standing Windows version. The bundle offers home users a number of professional quality features at a much more friendly price than the professional versions of the applications....
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| Read more »Adobe has announced the release of Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9, which are also available together as a bundle. While Mac users will be familiar with Photoshop Elements, today marks the first time that Premiere Elements has been available for the Mac platform. The software offers a portion of the full apps' features at a lower price....
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| Read more »Gameloft has announced that it has now exceeded 20 million paid games on the the iTunes App Store since it opened in July 2008. Of the 100 games that they have developed for the iPhone and iPad, 25 have reached the number one position. Since January 2010, they have added another 18 iPhone games and 29 iPad games....
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| Read more »A new survey of iPhone owners, which revealed that 23% of AT&T's iPhone owners want to switch to Verizon, alleviates fears about AT&T's stability after it loses U.S. iPhone exclusivity.
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| Read more »Macgamestore.com has announced that Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars √± Director√≠s Cut and Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror are now available for the Mac. Originally released in 1996, Broken Sword follows journalist Nico Collard and George Stobbart as they are thrown into a dangerous conspiracy full of murder and intrigue. In the Director√≠s Cut two additional hours of gameplay have been added, along with new facial expressions, enhanced audio, and new first person perspective minigames. Also incorporated is a new help system to provide assistance when necessary...
Metakine has announced Hands Off! 0.9.1, a new tool for monitoring and controlling internet connections from all applications. The program allows users to keep an eye on what information is being released by applications, as well as control disk access from all apps. Features include the ability to block both outgoing and incoming network connections, multiple sub-domains, and malicious software such as Trojans, worms, and network parasites....
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| Read more »Snarbsoft has launched Everplay 1.5, a major upgrade to its stand-alone media player that syncs with iTunes. The app is designed to take podcasts, movies, and playlists from the user√≠s iTunes library, as well as provide access to LastFM web and radio services. The new release delivers an improved user interface and overall stability, in addition to new library editing capabilities that enable users to rename songs, set track ratings, or correct and add tags. It also provides a new full-screen mode, which includes a built-in Cover Flow browser, and a Party Lock button...
Adobe announced the immediate availability of Photoshop Elements 9 and Premier Elements 9 for Mac OS X on Tuesday. This marks the first time Premier Elements has been available for the Mac.
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Adobe's consumer video editing program makes its debut on the Mac platform.
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Adobe announced the latest version of Photoshop Elements 9, the company's consumer-level photo editing application, for both Mac and Windows. There are a number of features in this version that are new to Mac users including the bundled Elements Organizer.
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SMARTReporter 2.5.3SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending hard disk drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple. Please note that a S.M.A.R.T. alert doesn't...
| Read more »TinkerTool 4.2TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don\'t need administrative privileges to use the tool. With this design, it is no problem to use TinkerTool in professional networks where users have restricted permissions. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.
All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple\'s defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool. No dangerous background processes are used for TinkerTool\'s operation. You may send...
| Read more »Dragon Dictate 2.0Dragon Dictate is a premier speech recognition solution for the Macintosh. Forget about typing; with MacSpeech Dictate you\'re free to focus on what you have to say. MacSpeech Dictate\'s accuracy and capabilities make it as fun, productive, and intuitive to use as the Mac itself.
Dragon Dictate provides:
Amazing Accuracy
Right out of the box, MacSpeech Dictate will astonish you with its accuracy. You simply talk and leave the recognition to MacSpeech Dictate.
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MacSpeech Dictate provides astounding accuracy and productivity. With just minutes of training, you\'ll be using MacSpeech Dictate\'s superior capabilities.
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Instead of using your mouse to select menu commands or your keyboard to type shortcuts, just speak a command. MacSpeech Dictate executes it for you. What...
MacJournal 5.2.4MacJournal is the world\'s most popular journaling software for the Macintosh. Create a personal journal with two level security (password protection and encryption), record daily ideas, add any kind of content, not just text, including PDFs, QuickTime movies, images, and more, create Smart Journals from searches you perform, generate blogs to any of the popular blogging services or .mac account. Even record audio and podcast or video from your iSight and attach it to any entry.
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Nintendo today said its executive VP of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway was leaving the company in a possible sign of a shakeup following its struggling game business and competition with Apple. The veteran will exit as of October 1 and plans to take a position outside of the game industry. Nintendo hasn't named an immediate successor....
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After MacSpeech Dictate (read our initial review, and the follow-up)—the only game in town for voice recognition on the Mac—was acquired by Nuance back in February, it was only a matter of time until the "Macspeech" branding gave way to Nuance's "Dragon" branding. That happened today, as newly-christened "Dragon Dictate" received a version upgrade to 2.0 and some slick new packaging.
Even before the acquisition, MacSpeech had used the Dragon NaturallySpeaking recognition engine under license, providing the program with...
| Read more »Facebook-branded phone makes sense. The name recognition could help it sell, and the marketing opportunities are huge.
| Read more »Approximately 23 percent of current iPhone owners in the US want to switch to Verizon when the opportunity arises, according to a survey conducted by Credit Suisse. The majority of subscribers intend to stick with AT&T, while a small fraction would rather sign contracts with Sprint or T-Mobile....
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| Read more »Google announced Monday that iPad and Android versions of Google Documents with mobile editing capabilities will be arriving "in the next few weeks."
Here's a wild little story that made its way around the blogonets this past weekend -- it was originally posted in June, but it got recirculated on Twitter, and we first heard it from Steve Troughton-Smith. Austin Seraphin is a blind person, and he says that getting an iPhone changed his life forever -- he considers Apple's iDevice to be "the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever." Really high praise, especially considering that we've heard both good and bad about the iPhone in terms of accessibility.
Seraphin's story is a great read, so I just suggest you head...
| Read more »Microsoft tonight expanded its Zune Marketplace services beyond the US for the first time in the run-up to Windows Phone 7. Its unlimited Zune Pass music, MP3 downloads, video sales and movie rentals will be available in France, Germany and the UK later this fall. Spain will get all but video sales, while Australia, Canada and New Zealand will get both of the video services but no music....
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| Read more »St. Clair Software has launched App Tamer, a new Mac utility that can automatically pause applications to help reduce CPU usage and improve battery life. The application works by pausing applications when a user switches to another task, freeing up additional resources, and then restarts any working tasks when the app is brought back into the foreground. App Tamer comes pre-configured to automatically pause Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, while other applications can be setup by users. Users can also view a graphical history of CPU usage, in addition to the average perc...
Reddit, the headline aggregator and discussion site features plenty of talked-about stories. But only recently has it seen news that bodes well for the site’s own business.
Rival Digg’s botched attempt at a redesign and the announcement of a Reddit-inspired rally in Washington D.C. by TV personalities Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have bumped up the site’s numbers.
| Read more »We've seen just about every type of iDevice case ever made, but this one takes the prize for originality.
Based on the famous Ohio Art Etch A Sketch magic screen drawing slate, the Etch A Sketch iPad Case ($39) from Headcase is very realistic looking, down to the cheesy gold paint on the logo. The case should be realistic, as it is officially licensed by Ohio Art.
There are some differences between the case and the real Etch A Sketch: the white knobs won't act as cursor control on your cursor-less iPad, the case has a couple of indentations for the ambient light detector and home button, and the battery life on the original Etch A Sketch is much better. Oh, and the original Etch A Sketch is $17.99, while an iPad costs considerably more.
Check out the gallery below for more shots of this clever iPad case.
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| Read more »Leica has unveiled a special edition camera, the M9 Titanium, which was featured at a special event in Cologne. The camera is an upgraded version of the semi-professional M9, extensively constructed from titanium and designed in collaboration with Volkswagen. Leather trim, LED-illuminated frame lines, and fingerprint resistant overlays distinguish the special edition from its basic counterpart....
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| 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 »Um, yeah. That seems about right. San Francisco local blog SFist spotted this one outside of a nightclub over on Polk Street in that fair city, and we'll go ahead and repost it here for your smirking amusement with no comment. Even if you're fine with your iPhone's reception, you have to admit that's an excellent pun.
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We will say kudos to Red Devil -- it's a rare company that can fess up to providing crappy service. A rare company indeed.
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| Read more »California authorities are close to wrapping up their investigation of the case involving the iPhone 4 prototype obtained by Gizmodo in April. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was interviewed during the investigation.
Shares of Apple, Inc. today soared $7.86 (2.85%), to reach a new all-time closing high of $283.23.
Trading volume was average at 21,631,047. Apple shares last set an all-time closing high on September 16, 2010 when the price hit $276.57 and the all-time intraday price is $279.01 set on June 21, 2010. Apple’s 52-week low is $180.70.
Market value for the California-based company is currently $258.75 billion. Only Exxon Mobil surpasses Apple in market value whereas Microsoft, Berkshire-Hathaway, and Walmart, respectively, follow Apple among top U.S. publicly-traded companies.
| Read more »Mozilla has released an update to its Firefox companion app for iOS devices. Firefox Home 1.0.2 now allows users to type a website's URL into the search bar or search for an unknown term. The latest version also supports user-configured Firefox Sync servers, along with full encryption to protect data transfered during the sync process....
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| Read more »Being the geek that I am, I always have time to annoy my wife by checking into venues with Foursquare whenever we go somewhere. The free location-based social networking iPhone app gained even more awesomeness (their description, not mine) today with the release of version 2.0.
What's new? A to-do list for organizing your explorations. You can search for a location, and then add it to your to-do list. This would be handy for reminding yourself about restaurants that friends have tipped you off to. To-dos can also be added via websites, if they embed the button on their page (think Instapaper for location-based to-dos).
Another new feature is that friends, tips, and to-do items can now be displayed on a map, nice for figuring out where you were planning on going, where your friends have gone off to, and what you were going to do...
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It's time to take a long, cool drink of Hatorade, because we're about to review an iPhone case. Not just any iPhone case—a case that is supposed to keep your phone safe no matter what. Well, excluding water and probably small explosions. The Ballistic HC case is actually a series of layers, and you can use or discard as many as you'd like depending on your needs. This is what your phone will look like with every layer, including the belt clip, attached. Yes, there is an iPhone 4 hidden in that Batmobile.
The case, all armored up
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| Read more »Shares in Apple Inc. closed at a new record high Monday, ending the day at US$283.23 per share, up $7.86 (+2.85%), on strong volume of 23.5 million shares trading hands. The stock traded as high as $283.78 during the day, but gave back a few cents before the closing door.
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Update 8am Tues: Several commenters have raised points about this story, most of which fall into two categories: "I already have an iPhone in Country X and FaceTime works fine" & "I work for the cell carrier in Country Y and we're not blocking FaceTime."
We appreciate the feedback, but neither of these data points is directly connected to the story. For users who already have iPhones in the affected countries, you didn't buy them there -- at least not officially -- and gray-market or unlocked phones from other regions would naturally have FaceTime. From the cell carrier perspective, 'not blocking FaceTime' is irrelevant, since FaceTime is Wi-Fi only and does not transmit over 3G. One point that may be relevant: restrictions on VoIP technology in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which could create a regulatory block for FaceTime.
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Looking forward to that new iPhone 4 in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Yemen? If the preview pages on the...
| Read more »Despite having dropped from the headlines, the investigation into the "finding" and subsequent sale to Gawker Media of the prototype iPhone 4, as reported last April, is ongoing and about to wrap up, according to the deputy district attorney in the case. Police interviewed a number of Apple employees (and other people) in the matter, including CEO Steve Jobs....
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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 »This is pretty fantastic. Dave Girouard, president of Google Enterprise, announced via the Google official blog today that mobile editing for Google Docs is coming to the iPad and Android. Up until now, the Webkit browsers used on the mobile devices have been missing a key capability for handling rich text editing.
While you can access Google Docs through iPad office suites such as Documents to Go and Quickoffice, native access through Google will eliminate the need to purchase a 3rd party app and may make an iPad sound more appealing to those who want to use it to edit documents. It may prompt...
| Read more »Apple has released a security update (Security Update 2010-006) for OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard, which addresses a problem uncovered in the OS where a remote attacker could use a known username to access files in shared folders.
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Apple has entered into a multi-year agreement with Rovi Corporation, allowing it to license intellectual property from the digital content management company, according to an SEC filing. Details on the deal are sparse, but it has led to speculation that Apple may be up to bringing even more content to the Apple TV.
Rovi Corporation is a player in a number of different fields, including software that allows devices to sync with one another, program guides for service providers, and content-protection technology for producers. Because of the nature of Rovi's business, Piper Jaffray's go-to Apple analyst Gene Munster observed in a note to investors (...
| Read more »The new Mac minis are sleek and lovely, but there are times when you simply want to get them out of the way. For example, if you're running a mini server farm, you'd like to get many minis into a small space. How do you do that? A rack mount. What if you'd like to mount a mini under a desk, but still want to have easy access to the ports on the back?
Macessity has announced the answer to these storage questions with a new line of products for the 2010 Mac minis. The MX4-V2 is a rack tray (above) that holds up to four Mac minis so you can "rack 'em and stack 'em" in any standard equipment rack. The $79.99 tray has special holes for cable management and comes with the necessary mounting screws (don't laugh -- you can never find mounting hardware when you need it).
For those who...
| Read more »Om Malik, in a piece headlined ‚ÄúIs Apple Working on a 7-Inch Screen iPad?‚Äù:
Apple, perhaps worried about competition from the Android camp,
may be looking to develop a new version of iPad, this one with a
7-inch screen. It would bring such a device to market some time in
2011, according to a research note put out by Rodman & Renshaw
analyst Ashok Kumar this morning. He writes that the second
generation iPad will have both front and rear facing cameras to
make it easier for video conferencing on the device, using
Apple’s FaceTime.
So why a second generation iPad with different specifications
this quickly? I have a theory.
Will Apple make a 7-inch iPad? And if so, would it be the new size for the iPad, or a second size, alongside the existing just-under-10-inch size? I don’t know. But I do know that Ashok Kumar has...
| Read more »Adobe announced Monday a security fix for Flash 10.1.x to address a serious issue that was first disclosed on September 13th, 2010. Adobe had announced at that time that a fix would be forthcoming on October 4th, making today‚Äôs release an early one.
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Santa Ana accessory maker Macessity has resized three of its support products for the 2010 Mac mini to accommodate the changes in dimensions of the latest model. Offerings include a rack tray for server setups that supports up to four Mac minis, a "hanging" housing meant to be mounted as an under-shelf with full swivel accessibility, and a revision of their original "Hang With Mi" that features a four-port USB2 hub....
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| Read more »The iPhone 4 will be launched in South Africa on Wednesday, Sept. 22, by both the Vodacom Group and the MTN Group. reports Fin24. Other countries poised to get the iPhone 4 soon according to "Edible Apple (http://www.edibleapple.com/china-israel-thailand-and-slew-of-other-count...) include:‚Ä®
° Israel will get the iPhone 4 on Sept. 24 via Orange, Pelephone, and Cellcome.
° The Phillippines will get the iPhone 4 on Sept. 26 via Globe Telecoms.
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Remember when the iPad first came out there were all those Etch-A-Sketch jokes? Now you can own the punchline for only $40. Sadly, the knobs do nothing. Even more sadly, the official Etch-A-Sketch app has iffy reviews. [GetAHeadCase.com] More »
Apple has approved VLC Media Player for iPad, an app that plays a multitude of movie formats unsupported by the tablet's built-in video player.
| Read more »A new version of this system and app tweaking tool gains more preferences to control the behavior of iTunes, Mail, Snow Leopard, and switching apps from the Dock.
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HP in a circulating developer memo from Peter Helm has likened its upcoming webOS tablet to Apple's. In addition to saying the former Palm team was going "full speed ahead" with an apps initiative after being acquired, he explained to developers that HP was working on both webOS for more phones as well as "tablet-style devices similar to the iPad." The PC builder has said for months that it has planned a webOS tablet but until now hasn't made any direct allusions to Apple....
Yes, as you can see above (and in a Software Update near you), Apple has released Security Update 2010-006, the latest OS X issue-fixer of the year. It's recommended for all users, so run your SU, let it download and install, and you'll be good to go.
This one apparently fixes an issue where a remote attacker could have snuck into AFP shared folders without having a password. Apple releases OS Security Updates a few times a year, and given how simple it is to update and install them, you should go ahead and update as soon as possible.
TUAWApple releases Security Update 2010-006 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dave and John answer your questions about AirPort problems, share your tips about iPhoto usage, answer questions about sharing speakers amongst multiple output devices (even across a network!), and more. Subscribe today and download this episode for free!
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Introduces new settings to customize the behavior of iTunes 10, Apple Mail, and Safari. (Free, 1.4 MB)
 
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| Read more »"Silicon Alley Insider" (http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-att-credit-suisee-2010-9?utm_sourc...) notes that a new survey from Credit Suisse says 63% of iPhone owners will stick with AT&T, even if it loses the exclusive right to sell the Apple smartphone.
So where would AT&T iPhone owners go if they had a choice? Approximately 23% will join Verizon, while 3% will go to Sprint, and 2% will go to T-Mobile, says Credit Suisse.
| Read more »At least one company is willing to sell subscriptions through an iPad newsstand, Apple is allegedly telling publishers. The information comes by way of an anonymous source, who suggests that Apple is using the claim to lure more content providers in. Other sources add that Hearst -- parent of magazines like Esquire, and newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle -- has been more accommodating to Apple's plans than other major publishers....
iPhone users download almost twice as many apps from its App Store as those who go to the Android Market or BlackBerry App World Store, according to a report by consumer measurement firm Nielsen.
| Read more »Apple released Security Update 2010-006 Monday, a patch that fixes one security issue with Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) in Mac OS X 10.6.4. The issue was a serious one that could allow the bad guys to take over a Mac with file sharing turned on under certain circumstances.
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On Monday it was announced that Apple made a deal with a company called Rovi that could potentially see the firm's TV listings guide make its way to the Apple TV, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
Per a filing with the US Security and Exchange commission, Rovi Corp. -- a company that specializes in digital entertainment services -- has entered into a multi-year agreement with Apple whereby Apple shall license intellectual property from Rovi.  The specific terms of the license agreement are confidential.
According to claims at the Rovi web site:
| Read more »Yahoo's latest data center brings the decidedly low-tech ideas of chicken farming to the server farm, and showcases the big green potential of small ideas.
| Read more »OnLive this weekend switched on a Wi-Fi play beta. The Mac and Windows service had previously needed a wired link to stream games without hiccups but is now optimized to address the possible temporary interruptions and other connection issues with wireless. Using the wireless induces some extra lag but otherwise works the same as for wired....
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| Read more »How to Prank Digg for $9.95 | ZUG | The #1 site for pranks, stunts, and comedy experiments
| Read more »A minor update to this oddly positioned client for Mozilla's "Firefox Sync" service brings a number of changes, including a much-requested feature: an actual address bar for typing in any Website.
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I've been playing NimbleBit's freemium Pocket Frogs game since it was released last week, and apparently I'm not the only one -- Ian Marsh tells TUAW that the game has been downloaded by half a million people so far. The company is also seeing 200K daily active users, and while Marsh couldn't share exact stats on how many people have taken advantage of the game's in-app purchases, he estimates that 3-4% of the active users have bought stamps or potions in the game.
Over on Twitter, he says that the 99 cent charges are the most common, making up half of the total purchases. But the $29.99 optional charges make up 8% of the purchases, and actually contribute to 49% of total revenue. In other words, just a few people are responsible for half of the game's total revenue -- the freemium model hard at work.
Marsh says that NimbleBit is working...
| Read more »Apple has been accelerating its efforts to bring a newspaper and magazine subscription service to the iPad, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed ‚Äúpeople familiar with the matter,‚Äù the newspaper said that Apple was working on trying to get the service launched within the next two months.
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Ever since the iPad’s release, various manufacturers have been in a race to develop something as good as, or better than Apple’s current industry leading tablet.
| Read more »Andrew and Alexa Kaz have upgraded their Ruler app to version 2.0, completely redesigning it with improved usability and iOS 4 support.
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The oft-mocked Newton OS has made its way to the iPad, if you're able to install it yourself.
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Adds support for Priority Inbox, supports the TrueNew plug-in, allows proxy icon drags to get Mailplane URLs, and fixes several bugs. ($24.95 new, free update, 21.5 MB)
 
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| Read more »Though Apple has revised its App Store review policies to allow services like Google Voice, the search giant has not announced any plans to resubmit its own application, which sat in limbo and spurred a federal inquiry a year ago.
When iOS 4.2 makes it to the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch in November, we'll finally be able to print from those devices with a native Apple capability called AirPrint. In most cases, you'll need to have a printer that has been shared on a Mac or PC, since AirPrint won't have drivers available for the huge variety of printers that exist.
If you're looking for a direct-to-printer solution, though, HP announced that three of its new printers will be ready for the proprietary ePrint technology, which allows driverless printing from iOS devices anywhere as long as they're Internet-connected. These printers also work with AirPrint.
One of the printers was previously discussed on TUAW: the $299 (and up, depending on features...
| Read more »This document describes Security Update 2010-006, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.
For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.
For information about the Apple Product Security PGP Key, see "How to use the Apple Product Security PGP Key."
Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.
To learn about other Security Updates, see "Apple Security Updates".
This is a minor security update that fixes a network file sharing bug. It does not affect previous versions of Mac OS X -- only Snow Leopard users have a download waiting in Software Update.
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Apple on Monday issued a security update for Mac OS X 10.6.4, addressing an issue that could allow a remote attacker to access shared folders without a valid password.
Apple has released Security Update 2010-006 Snow Leopard (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1105). The company says it's recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X.
Security Update 2010-006 Snow Leopard is a 1.93MB download that requires Mac OS X 10.6.4. You can obtain it via the Software Update component of the Mac OS X Systems Preferences app.
| Read more »Original release date: September 20, 2010
Last revised: --
Source: US-CERT
Systems Affected
Other Adobe products that support Flash may also be
vulnerable.
According to Adobe Security Bulletin APSB10-22
there are vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash. These vulnerabilities affect Flash
Player, Reader, and possibly other products that support Flash. A remote
attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code.
Adobe...
| Read more »On Monday Napster launched an iPhone app that streams 10 million tracks from its catalog.
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Apple's device orders are so heavy that it's already asking suppliers for orders as distant as early 2011, assemblers and chipset makers said on Monday. iPad, iPhone, iPod and MacBook demand is strong enough that Apple is scheduling orders into next year. The contacts didn't give Digitimes numbers or to say which models were the most affected....
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| Read more »Just like that, the multi-format video playback app VLC has now made it to the App Store in the form of VLC Media Player for iPad. As Chris reported a couple of weeks ago, the much-beloved open source media tool has been ported and is now available for free download.
We're grabbing our copy right now and will soon be putting it through its versatile paces.
Thanks Bart!
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After much anticipation, VideoLAN has brought its free, open source multimedia player, VLC Player, to the iPad.
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Apple has released a new patch for Snow Leopard, Security Update 2010-006. In contrast with some other updates, the new one fixes just a single vulnerability, found in Apple File Protocol. Through an error handling problem in AFP Server, an attacker knowing a person's account name can bypass password screening and access files in shared folders....
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| Read more »VLC for iPad is finally out on the App Store for free. It can play all manner of video codecs, and so far, people seem to like it.
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| Read more »That didn't take long. Earlier this year, Nuance Communications took over the MacSpeech product, with the intention of improving what was already a good application.
That has now been accomplished, and today Dragon Dictate is available for the Macintosh platform -- a reasonably priced upgrade for MacSpeech users.
The new version offers easier editing, the ability to switch between different microphones, and it uses a computer voice to proofread your dictated documents. The speech engine has been updated to new state-of-the-art technology.
It's nice to see speech recognition on the Mac that finally has feature parity with the PC versions. There are some nice new and unexpected features like saying 'search Google for Greek restaurants', and you can do a Spotlight search by voice.
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| Read more »Applidium has released its iPad port of the very popular open-source VLC media player application for desktop operating systems. The iPad version of VLC includes all of the same built-in codecs present on other platforms, supporting playback of almost any video format that can be found on the Internet,‚Ķ
| Read more »Following a redesign of the Voice Memos icon for the sixth-generation iPod nano, Apple has unexpectedly changed the Voice Memos icon for iOS 4.2 devices including the iPhone and iPod touch. The new icon discards the previous photo-realistic style microphone for a simpler symbol-on-gradient treatment that more closely matches the‚Ķ
| Read more »Apple on Monday released a security update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The issue it fixes only appears in Mac OS X 10.6.4 server and client versions. Security Update 2010-006 fixes an issue where a remote attacker may access AFP shared folders without a valid password, according to notes accompanying the update. The update [...]
| Read more »The new version of the small-business accounting software for the Mac targets countries that don't have a localized version of AccountEdge by offering configurable sales tax and support for multiple currencies.
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"I have seen a lot of technology for the blind, and I can safely say that the iPhone represents the most revolutionary thing to happen to the blind for at least the last ten years." More »
VideoLAN's cross-platform media player, VLC, has finally been released in promised iPad form at the App Store. The app allows playback of video formats outside of Apple's normal MPEG-4/H.264 combination; developer Applidium notes, in fact, that most publicly available codecs should be supported. Users can for instance load AVI files onto an iPad by way of iTunes' filesharing system....
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| Read more »Pixel Qi have issued a status update stating that they are currently ready a seven-inch screen for tablets and e-readers set for mass production in the first half of 2011. Blaming tight supply, 100 per cent factory usage, and the "disruptive" effect of the iPad, the company stated that the situation has "eased" and that they in a position to ramp up production of their new displays....
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| Read more »This document outlines security updates for Apple products.
| Read more »Apple has spent a little bit of that huge cash surplus to buy Polar Rose, a Sweden-based technology company that focuses on face recognition. In a blog post dated September 2nd, Thijs Stalenhoef notes that their face-tagging service is closing down, and, "You may yet see our technology in one of our licensees' products in the future."
Polar Rose produced a cool product called FaceCloud, which brought face recognition to web services. Think photo tagging on Facebook to get an idea. iPodNN guesses that Apple may want to bring the service to MobileMe, thereby providing the Faces feature to those without ...
| Read more »The new iPhone 4 will be available in the APlle Retail Stores all across China from Saturday 25th of September 2010 from 8:00AM, which includes the new Apple Store at the Hong Kong Plaza in Shanghai and Xidan Joy City in Beijing.
| Read more »Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu has bumped his price target for shares in Apple Inc. from $350 to $374. In a research notice covered by Fortune, Mr. Wu told clients that iPad was strong, and that increased availability was, ‚Äúenough to drive significant upside to consensus estimates.‚Äù
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One of the more popular forms of communication is text messaging, and here are the stats made easy with the Text Messaging Infographic.
| Read more »Earlier today, we reported that Apple and Rovi have signed a "multi-year agreement" for Apple to license certain portions of Rovi's intellectual property portfolio. While the regulatory filing revealing the deal offered no insight into which...
| Read more »Apple's newly announced confidential deal with Rovi Corporation has been viewed by one prominent Wall Street analyst as more evidence of a connected HDTV, with live TV and DVR functionality, in the company's future.
Though Apple has not officially enabled Retina Display emulation on the iPad, certain recent iPhone and iPod touch applications have started to display artwork in higher resolutions on the iPad screen, iLounge has discovered. Normally, iPhone and iPod touch applications run on the iPad in an emulation mode limited to…
| Read more »On Friday, Gawker ran the story of Chelsea K. Isaacs and her claimed email back-and-forth with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Now it's all the buzz.
Isaacs, a self-described "renowned college journalist, artist and social fixture" (also apparently North America's "most desirable hand model" at the age of 12, which is, if accurate, rather creepy), didn't get the replies she sought when she reached out to Apple's media relations team over and over for answers relating to a class assignment. Since her three iPad-related questions were apparently the key to her getting an A on her classwork, and she felt that she'd been ill-treated by the silence, she took her case to El Steve.
The...
| Read more »On Monday Orb Networks introduced the Orb Music Player (MP-1), designed to let you stream audio from your computer and various Internet sources to your stereo.
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Despite trying to debunk rumors of a self-made phone, Facebook today was claimed to both still be working on the project but to have picked its choice of OS. A source for SAI maintained that the phone would use Android as its foundation and focus mostly on making the platform more aware of the social network. It's speculated that Android Senior Product Manager Erick Tseng's decision to leave Google for Facebook was to have him head up the phone project....
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Oh, how we laughed at the ClamCase concept, which turned an iPad into a laptop. Then, when this Chinese OEM turned up on FCC, we finally understood. Now? Now you can pre-order one from Brando, for $70. [Brando via...
| Read more »Nuance on Monday released Dragon Dictate for Mac 2.0. This is the first release for the company after its acquisition of MacSpeech earlier this year. Dictate for Mac leverages the new Dragon 11 engine, which also powers NaturallySpeaking 11 for the PC. The new software improves accuracy and performance over its predecessor, according to Nuance. [...]
| Read more »The Deal Brothers found a deal on¬†Dell‚Äôs Ultra Shart U2410 24‚Äù Monitor with Premier Color Technology for $499, with free delivery. It features a 1920 x 1200 resolution, and an 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.
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According to a filing with the US Security and Exchange commission (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424454/000142445410000030/form8-...) Rovi Corp. (http://www.rovicorp.com) -- a company that specializes in digital entertainment services -- has entered into a multi-year agreement with Apple whereby Apple shall license intellectual property from Rovi.  The specific terms of the license agreement are confidential.
According to claims at the Rovi web site:
° Approximately 111 million subscribers and 91 million CE devices worldwide use their guidance technology.
| Read more »Breffo has introduced its new Spiderpodium accessory for the iPhone and iPod. Described by the company as a flexible gadget grip and travel dock, the Spiderpodium features eight flexible ‚Äúlegs‚Äù that can be used to hold an iPhone or iPod while also holding on to a variety of surfaces,‚Ķ
| Read more »Last week the Mercury News reported that Apple is working on plans to sell newspaper subscriptions to iPad owners. Today, a follow-up from the Wall Street Journal suggests that it could launch as early as next month, and will include magazines as well.
While Apple declined to comment, the WSJ's sources note that plans are moving forward, even though publishers are hesitant. Some see Apple's dominance over the online music market as foreboding, while others are leery of Apple's typical 30 percent cut.
Among the reportedly agreeable publishers is Hearst, which owns huge properties like the Oprah Winfrey magazine, Esquire, Cosmo (admit it, you take the quizzes) and The Houston Chronicle, among others. I've used the current...
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iTunes is slow, bloated, cluttered, and generally maddening to search through. iTunes Instant, a super simple iTunes and App Store search cobbled together by a 15-year-old whiz kid, is the exact opposite. Which is to say it's a godsend. More »
Gameloft announced Monday that it has sold more than 20 million games on the App Store since the store opened. The company counts 47 games released since the beginning of the year alone. It’s worth noting that Gameloft’s figure is for 20 million games sold, rather than downloaded – Gameloft president Michel Guillemot was quick [...]
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When you turn the latest Sports Illustrated iPad issue to the portrait position, like a book, nothing happens. Just an error message. That's because Sports Illustrated is too poor to offer it in anything but the landscape format. More »
More light on the reasons behind Intel's promised but shelved Larrabee discrete graphics platform have been revealed. At the Intel Developer Forum earlier this month, the company's director of Graphics Architecture Tom Piazza said Intel faced a performance per watt issue trying to deliver what Larrabee promised....
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| Read more »Apple's anticipated standalone digital newsstand application, which is expected to offer subscriptions to newspapers and magazines on the iPad, could debut as soon as in the next few months, according to The Wall Street Journal.
South Africa will get the iPhone 4 on Wednesday, September 22nd, a national business site reports. Two carriers are said to have confirmed launches, namely Vodacom and MTN. Vodacom sources say the company is planning a midnight launch party at its Vodaworld campus in Johannesburg; MTN may also be planning a midnight launch, but it will neither confirm nor deny the fact....
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| Read more »The recently released print version of The Almighty Bible - Genesis (first book in the graphic novel series) has been welcomed with a positive reception from teens, tweens, parents and grandparents in both Christian and secular communities. Now the team behind this project has announced the release of an app for the iPad and iPhone.
“It is our goal to create a tool that young people will be eager to revisit outside of Sunday school, youth group and Bible study sessions," says Kevin O’Donnell co-producer of the project and creator of the award winning “Liberty’s Kids” from PBS.
| Read more »Adds compatibility for new camera formats, improves overall stability, and addresses other minor issues. (Free update, 321.1 MB)
 
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| Read more »After singer Lily Allen's laptop was hacked into, she turned to Apple for help in identifying the attacker. When they refused, she decided to sue Apple into helping her, according to The Sun.
As The Next Web points out, the Sun's article is brief (to say the least) and the backstory -- was Allen's initial request for help refused by Apple? -- is dubious. It sounds to us like she's motivated to find the attacker, and the lawsuit is not necessarily designed to punish Apple. It seems there are 3rd-party companies that would gladly do what Allen's after, so we're not sure why she's suing Apple.
Also amusing is this profile of Allen and Future Cut that Apple itself put out not...
| Read more »Apple in an SEC filing today revealed that it has struck a "multi-year agreement" with Rovi in what may be a strategy to support the new Apple TV. The terms are considered secret but will let Apple license Rovi's technology over the course of the deal. Neither company has commented on the plans....
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| Read more »DJRumpy writes "Macworld Weekly has an interesting look at the history of OS X from its early origins in 1985 under NeXT and the Mach Kernel to Rhapsody, to its current iteration as OS X. An interesting, quick read if anyone is curious about the timeline from Apple's shaky '90s to their current position in the market. There's also an interesting link at the bottom talking about the difference between the original beta and the release product that we see today."
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| Read more »Zevrix Solutions has updated BatchOutput Server (http://zevrix.com/BatchOutputServer.php), an output workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign, to version 4.5.6. The new version improves long queues handling and addresses several other issues.
Under BatchOutput Server workflow, production artists and prepress operators simply submit files to hotfolders that reside on the network. BatchOutput Server automatically outputs the files from its dedicated station using hotfolder settings, and will auto-activate document fonts as well.
| Read more »Earlier this month, we noted that an iPad version of the popular VLC media player had been created and submitted to Apple for inclusion in the App Store. Early previews of the application suggested that the application would be a solid and v...
| Read more »Quark (http://www.quark.com) will be onsite at the IFRA Expo 2010 in Hamburg, Germany, on Oct. 4-6 in booth #1.551 to demonstrate digital publishing to the iPad, iPhone, desktops, and other digital devices. ‚Ä®‚Ä®
| Read more »Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com) says the adoption of SuperSpeed USB (3.0) will lag that of USB 2.0.
The universal serial bus (USB) specification shipped in more than three billion devices in 2009, including the computer, computer peripheral, consumer electronics (CE), communications, and automotive segments. By 2012, the number of wired USB-enabled devices shipped will exceed four billion, according to Research and Markets.
| Read more »So the new Twitter - which we and about a million of other sites have reported on¬† - is slowly rolling out to users as we speak. On the surface, the new
| Read more »Google has announced that Google Docs, its online productivity suite, will soon support editing via the iPad or an Android device. The technology should roll out during "the next few weeks," and at least allow co-editing of documents produced by others. Support for authoring is unmentioned so far. On a desktop or notebook PC, Docs users have access to form, illustration, presentation, spreadsheet and word processing tools....
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| Read more »Google added a two-factor authentication option to Google Apps on Monday, allowing enterprises to protect user accounts with a one-time code.
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In honor of yesterday's Talk Like a Pirate Day, SecureMac is offering their $29.99 MacScan security software for free today, 20 September 2010 (through midnight, Pacific time). MacScan detects, isolates, and removes malware like keystroke loggers and Trojan horses, and also helps clean up Web tracking cookies. Though avoiding seedy Web sites and dubious software is the best prevention, if you're worried about what's running on your Mac, it wouldn't hurt to give MacScan a try.
 
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| Read more »You wouldn't leave your PC unprotected, so why should it be any different for your phone? And Lookout is such an easy-to-use, low maintenance app, you'll hardly know it's there - until you need it.
| Read more »Macessity has released three new products specifically tailored for the 2010 Mac Mini.
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The Exilim EX-H20G is equipped with motion sensors, a digital compass, and in-camera mapping software, and Casio claims it's the first camera that can geotag indoors.
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Rovi Corp. has announced a multi-year licensing deal with Apple that allows it to use Rovi’s technology. The Wall Street Journal reports that Rovi declined to provide more details as to exactly what technologies Apple was interested in. According to Rovi’s website, the company “licenses leading interactive program…
| Read more »An interesting story developed yesterday, starting with a Mike Arrington scoop for TechCrunch purporting that ‚ÄúFacebook Is Secretly Building a Phone‚Äù:
Facebook is building a mobile phone, says a source who has
knowledge of the project. Or rather, they’re building the
software for the phone and working with a third party to actually
build the hardware. Which is exactly what Apple and everyone else
does, too.
(That’s actually not what Apple does. Apple does its own software and hardware engineering; it only farms out manufacturing. What Arrington is alleging is more along the lines of what Google did with the Nexus One — Google designed the software, HTC the hardware.)
Arrington says Facebook engineers Joe Hewitt and Matthew Papakipos are leading the project. Hewitt wrote the popular Facebook iPhone app....
| 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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Capcom has released its second content update for its Street Fighter IV game for iPhone and iPod Touch. The free update adds two new playable characters, C. Viper and E. Honda, as well as new alternate costumes for Chun-Li and Ryu.
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RIM has fueled speculation about its BlackBerry-influenced tablet with a recently discovered trademark filing. An application at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) for a SurfBook name is vague about the uses of the name but would cover all of the likely devices RIM could make, such as a tablet, a computer or a smartphone. A matching trademark hasn't the US, but it's unknown if RIM is simply waiting or is considering using different names in different countries....
As part of a blog post discussing its "Google Atmosphere" conference on cloud computing and some new milestones relating to businesses moving to its Google Apps platform, Google reveals that it is preparing to roll out support for Google Docs...
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Those who follow Apple rumors know that buzz has been picking up lately about Apple opening an iBooks-like distribution medium for the iPad, but for magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Now, the Wall Street Journal claims to have further inside information about Apple's digital newsstand, saying that Apple has stepped up its efforts to court publishers for a launch "as early as the next month or two."
According to "people familiar with the matter," Apple is pressing news and magazine conglomerates to get on board with Apple. Those in the industry believe the iPad could provide some much-needed revenue and distribution growth, but also fear giving Apple the kind of power the...
| Read more »AT&T's mobile data plans expanded today with its first options for prepaid data. The DataConnect Pass gives those with a 3G modem or built-in 3G in a notebook the option of paying for just a short stint of data without having to commit to a contract.
| Read more »Raise your hand if you remember gorging yourself at the feast that was Napster. After tough times and much retooling, Napster is now available for iOS devices (free) with a per-month subscription model.
Here's how it works. For US$10 per month, users can stream and cache any of the 10 million available songs to their iPod touches, iPhones or iPads. You can create on-the-go playlists, re-order songs, cache up to 100 songs at a time and browse the Billboard charts all the way back to 1955! 80's playlist, here I come!
New customers can enjoy the service for free for a limited time, and then receive 20% of should they become new customers. Have fun, music lovers.
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| Read more »Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu has raised his target for Apple stock from $350 to $374, citing the potential of "significant upside" to iPad shipments. Sources are said to indicate better screen supplies, eliminating a significant production bottleneck. Wu is now calling for as many as 5.7 million iPads to ship in the September quarter, up from a much lower prediction of 3.6 million....
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| Read more »Apple has signed a multi-year deal with Rovi Corporation, a company that offers a variety of digital entertainment services, but the terms of the deal remain confidential.
Only a year ago we heard that Napster wasn't keen on launching phones apps, simply because the licensing fees were too expensive. They seemingly got over that small issue, as you can now download their "free" iPhone App....
| Read more »Games company Dreadnought Design has launched a research poll to investigate the spending habits of iPhone games consumers.
The first in a series of research initiatives designed to better understand the characteristics of the fledgling iPhone games apps market, the poll invites iPhone gamers to declare how much they spend on new iPhone game downloads each month. There are five options to choose from, ranging from less than US$5 per month to $50 or more for big spenders. You can find the polls at http://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/DreadnoughtDesign/121001591273361?v=app_... .
| Read more »HP has taken the wraps off three new printers that have the company's ePrint technology that lets them print images or documents sent by e-mail as well as AirPrint with iOS 4.2. The most anticipated and interesting model is the Photosmart eStation that ships with a detachable seven-inch touchscreen tablet, seen earlier. The all-in-one device can print, fax, scan and copy documents....
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| Read more »Data visualization and infographics (related) are powerful ways to communicate data, stats or information that most communications pros never even consider. And yet in a world increasingly saturated with data and information, they are a potent way to tell your story, break through the clutter and even persuade people to action.
| Read more »HTC's rumored Android 3.0 tablet may aim for the high end of the space to claim an edge over Apple. A purported leak from component suppliers has it getting a very sharp 1280x720 screen as well as NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 250 processor to drive it. The Digitimes contacts also gave it an unusually large 2GB of RAM and 32GB of built-in flash storage....
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| Read more »PowerMax is often referred to as ‚Äúa Mac nerd‚Äôs dream‚Äù ‚Äî and for good reason. There are few places on the web where you can find a collection of high-quality used Macs right next to all the latest Apple computers. Not to mention over 65,000 additional products, including iPods and iPads, all with free shipping on orders over $100. With more than 20 years of expertise helping everyone from old-school MUG fanatics (remember Macintosh User Groups?) to the newest Mac converts find the best Mac for their needs, PowerMax.com has long been home to the best deals and advice for Mac users.
| Read more »The always-fascinating iFixit has turned its gaze, not to mention its screwdrivers, to the PlayStation Move, tearing apart the game controller. The verdict? With so many parts soldered down, there is little hope of repairing a broken unit, although the battery can easily be replaced. There is also a surprising amount of tech for the price.
"The Move contains many of components found in today's smartphones: a processor, accelerometer, gyroscope, Bluetooth transmitter, vibrating motor, and even a MEMS compass," Kyle Wiens wrote about the controller. "It's an amazing amount of tech for the money, even though we still think it's steep to pay $50 for a controller. Compared to a $40 WiiMote, though, it's quite the bang for the buck."
Other neat insights: there is a heatsink on the LEDs, meaning the lights will remain bright and functional for a very long time. They can also produce just about any color you can imagine. The entire teardown is filled with great images and...
| Read more »Pentax Imaging Systems (http://www.Pentaximaging.com) has announced the Pentax K-5 digital SLR camera, which is targeted to high-end prosumers with features such as a: 16.3 megapixel CMOS sensor; up to seven FPS to capture fast action shots.; and an 80-12800 ISO range, expandable to 51200, with improved noise performance overall.
| Read more »The Torch is RIM's first BlackBerry to ship with a touchscreen as well as a hardware keyboard. It's also the first in the BlackBerry line to feature the new BlackBerry 6 OS. RIM's first two touchscreen devices (the Storm and the Storm 2) were met with lukewarm response. With the BlackBerry Torch, RIM is offering a much more user-friendly design than either Storm offered.
| Read more »Apple has purported acquired Swedish face recognition firm, Polar Rose (http://www.polarrose.com), according to a report from "Mac1" (http://mac1.no/artikkel/9307/apple-kjoper-svensk-fototeknologi). The company makes a "high performance, low level face detection and recognition library for custom integration."
| Read more »AT&T was raised to ‚Äúoutperform‚Äù at Credit Suisse Group AG, which said Verizon's anticipated introduction of the iPhone in the first quarter won‚Äôt hurt AT&T‚Äôs business as much as investors fear, reports "Bloomberg" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-20/at-t-raised-at-credit-suisse-gi...).
“The impact from the loss of iPhone exclusivity should be substantially less than current valuations imply,” Jonathan Chaplin, a Credit Suisse analyst, wrote in a report sent to clients today. AT&T is currently the only U.S. company that offer the iPhone.
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