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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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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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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Apple’s 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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Despite the fact that Apple has only announced the iPhone 4’s 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…
| 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 »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 »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 »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 »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.
InformationWeek writers blog on a range of business technology topics: digital life, personal tech, enterprise mobility, Windows/Microsoft, Google, outsourcing, security, IT careers, IT salaries, leadership/management strategy and more.
| 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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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.
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/20/no-comment-the-iphone-of-night-clubs/';
tweetmeme_source = 'tuaw';
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.
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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| 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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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.
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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 »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....
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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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 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.
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!
TUAWVLC for iPad hits the store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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