Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system won't allow tethering, the company said Friday.
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Not many programs make it to 20 years of age -- Photoshop from Adobe (http://www.adobe.com) is one of the few. The feature list of such a mature program (version 12) has to either get shorter but more extraordinary or branch into new areas -- and Photoshop keeps doing both.
| Read more »The revamped Apple TV is due within the next few weeks. If Apple will finally take the device seriously, it has incredible potential as TV viewing is poised for some major changes in the years ahead.
| Read more »A mighty computer code called Stuxnet was found attacking industrialized installations around the world, but mainly in Iran, believably was created by
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The newer "go-to-market" models for digital video content that took Blockbuster down, (NetFlix and on-demand cable TV) is also threatening over-the-air broadcasting. Rabbit ears don't hack it anymore.
| Read more »Notable software releases this week include NoMoreiTunes 1.51, Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3, DEVONthink and DEVONnote 2.0.4, Security Update 2010-006, TinkerTool 4.2, Mailplane 2.2, and Pro Applications Update 2010-02.
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| Read more »It was a busy week here, and all we ran across worth sharing was a fabulous Joy of Tech comic about devices Facebook could work on and an iPhone case from ThinkGeek that gives an iPhone a flip-out physical keyboard.
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| Read more »tekgoblin writes "A patent application has surfaced that shows Apple's attempts at creating a new way for a flash to work on a camera. The way the new flash works is very intriguing: a user can select a dimly lit area of the photo and the camera will try to illuminate just that area with the flash. The way Apple is attempting to accomplish this is similar to the way the autofocus works on the iPhone 4 where you can touch the screen in certain areas to focus on that area. Instead you will be able to light up that area with the flash. This is accomplished by the camera flash passing through a 'redirector' so the flash can be placed other than directly centered when a photo is taken."
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| Read more »Despite fears that the $99 streamer could be delayed for up to 3 weeks, reports of customers receiving shipping notifications have reached our ears today. Let us know when that smaller, lighter parcel drops on your doorstep! [Macrumors]
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It has been less than ten months since we reviewed Parallels Desktop 5, a competent but buggy release from Parallels. Shipping paid updates with stability issues seems to be the company's modus operandi, so I was a little skeptical when I saw that a new version was already being released, since the last one had so many issues that needed ironing out. The feature list of Parallels Desktop 6 isn't what I'd call ambitious—the main focus of version 6 has been on the 64-bit host and increased speed, mostly for 3D and gaming. Gaming was already Parallels' forte, but I was curious to see if the new version would finally make playing modern games with complex shaders, high resolutions, and high-quality audio a reality. If it doesn't...
| Read more »TotalFinder 1.0TotalFinder adds tabs, hotkeys, and other tweaks to the Mac OS X Finder.
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X Lossless Decoder 20100926X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various \'lossless\' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding.
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Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. XLD uses not decoder frontend but library to decode, so no intermediate files are generated. All of the supported formats can be directly split with the cue sheet. XLD also supports so-called \'embedded\' or \'internal\' cue sheet.
Currently you can choose output format from WAVE,AIFF and Raw PCM. In addition, you can choose Ogg Vorbis (aoTuV), MPEG-4 AAC (QuickTime/CoreAudio...
| Read more »Customers who preordered the new Apple TV have begun receiving notifications that the $99 set top box is now shipping, with an estimated arrival by the end of the month.
Following confirmation from Apple CEO Steve Jobs late last week that the first batch of orders for the new Apple TV remain on schedule for availability by the end of the month, a number of MacRumors readers are reporting today that their orders are n...
| Read more »The results are in and the Forbes 400 lists the richest people in America. Results show that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Apple CEO Steve Jobs...
| Read more »We've taken a look at Apple's input device -- the humble mouse -- to see how the design has changed from way back in the early 80s right up to today.
| Read more »We just started Daylight Saving Time in New Zealand yesterday. Since then, many iOS users here have experienced what's probably one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen: our alarms are now going off an hour early. My iPhone's alarm woke me up at 5:50 in the morning today instead of 6:50, and it turns out I'm not the only one.
In the iPhone's built-in Clock app, setting a recurring alarm will cause it to trigger an hour early every time if you're running iOS 4.1, iTunes 10.0.1, and live in a Southern Hemisphere country that's just gone over to Daylight Saving Time (which, for now at least, just means New Zealand). It's also been affecting US users in Indiana...
| Read more »Apple has quickly put an end to talk of Apple TV delays today by getting orders ready to ship. Multiple readers say their orders have been "prepared for shipment" and are likely to start shipping within hours. The timing should ensure that the media hub makes the originally promised late September target for both online and retail buyers....
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Apple is scheduled to go to trial with a startup to fight over a three-letter word: Pod. The trademark battle centers on independent entrepreneur Daniel Kokin, founder of startup Sector Labs, and his video projector in development called Video Pod. Apple had previously filed oppositions against Kokin's usage of 'Pod,' alleging that it would cause customers to confuse it with Apple's iPod products. ... Names that have come under fire include MyPodder, TightPod, PodShow, and even Podium. Sector Labs is the only company to go to trial with Apple over using the 'Pod' branding. Ana Christian, Kokin's lawyer, says the fight is about more than allowing small businesses to use 'Pod' in their product names. She noted a trend in the tech industry, in which large corporations have been attempting to assume ownership of ordinary words."
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| Read more »Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology helped this little iCub learn to shoot a bow and arrow, all by itself. It hit the bullseye after eight tries. Eight. I don’t think I could do that. Granted…the arrow didn’t stick, but still. Eight.
| Read more »In February, there was some speculation about Microsoft having a very good chance at landing a deal with Apple to make Bing become its default search engine for the iPhone. However, Google will apparently remain the default search engine for now.
| Read more »China Unicom said Sunday its supply of iPhone 4 handsets isn't enough to meet demand but that it will boost its stock as quickly as possible, as sales began at a much faster pace than when the network operator first launched older versions of the iPhone last year, reports "MarketWatch" (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-unicom-says-iphone-4-supply-short...?).
| Read more »Apple has released iTunes 10.0.1. You can obtain it via the Software Updates component of Mac OS X's Systems Preferences app.
The update adds a Ping sidebar in which you can "Like" or "Post" about music from your iTunes library. Plus, you can see the recent Ping activity of a selected artist in your library, or of all artists and friends you follow on Ping. iTunes 10.0.1 also fixes several bugs; namely it:
° Addresses an issue where the picture quality of a video changes depending on whether the on-screen controls are visible;
| Read more »I think we can call this one "saved by a policy change." Earlier this month, Apple changed its rules and is now allowing developers to use third-party tools for creating apps for iOS devices. In a statement released this weekend, the EU said it welcomed Apple's changed policies, and that the investigation would be closed.
Apple also loosened policies on cross-border warranty repair of computers and iOS products. Previously, people who bought a product in one EU country and tried to have it fixed under warranty in another EU country encountered red tape or a refusal to fix the product, but apparently that issue's been fixed as well.
This recent change is on top of Apple settling a case with the US Department of Justice...
| Read more »Netflix and NBC Universal have struck a deal to load the streaming video site with tons of content from both NBC and its family of cable networks, including all 35 seasons of Saturday Night Live, and new episodes of the sketch comedy show the day after air.Saturday Night Live just aired its season premiere last night, but were not seeing the episode on Netflix. Apparently the deal hasnt been executed just yet.The day-after premiere episodes will continue through 2012, but neither Netflix nor NBC specified how long the other content deals will last. The Office, Law & Order: SVU and 30 Rock will continue to appear on Netflix with the addition of new seasons, along with all episodes of Friday Night Lights. As far as cable content goes, Syfy properties Sanctuary, Battlestar Galactica and Destination Truth will be presented in their entirety, plus USAs Psych, In Plain Sight and Monk.The press release from Netflix and NBC says some movies from Universal will be added as well, but it...
| Read more »It's Sunday, which means it's time once again to get ourselves into a TalkShoe chatroom, and have a lively talk about what's been up during the last week of Apple news. Tonight on the show, we'll be talking about Microsoft's stance with Apple on Blu-ray, the arrival of VLC and Google Voice on the App Store, the coming glucose meter for the iPhone, and if we have time, we'll chat a little bit about Stevemails and just what they mean. Should be fun -- tune in if you're around!
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| Read more »Early forms of the first Windows Phone 7 ads have surfaced (video below) through a leak this morning that show how Microsoft plans to pitch its mobile OS against its rivals. The two unfinished spots accuse devices like the BlackBerry and iPhone of promoting a culture of staring at smartphones instead of dealing with life itself. Windows Phone 7's at-a-glance home screen tiles help find info faster and help focus on family and friends, the ads discovered by WMPowerUser claim.
| Read more »So you want hold off on an iPod nano upgrade and go adventuring, but you're worried accessory manufacturers are going to leave you behind given all the new Apple iPod kit lately. No worries! Wear this:
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"This" is Rampant Gear's Rampant View headmount for the 5th gen iPod nano. At $35 it's not going to break the bank and the support for the now discontinued 5th gen iPod nano is a nice touch for those of us who do not upgrade according to Apple's annual...
Apple iPhone has been one of the best selling mobile phones all over the world, but have you ever thought about the reasons why people give first preference to iPhone? Most of you must be knowing about the iPhone 4 antenna flaw, but people are still buying it. I am sure that none of you would have figured out the reason behind the same.
| Read more »Gear4 is best known as one of the eclectic iPhone and iPod accessory makers in its UK home: it makes speaker docks, but it also makes cases, chargers, and even karaoke accessories. Gear4 will be entering the US market for the first time in October with three products: the AlarmDock Reveal iPod alarm clock, the StreetParty4 speaker dock and the StreetParty Compact, a smaller version of the StreetParty4 speaker dock. We're reviewing all three Gear4 devices to see how they stack up....
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| Read more »My shocking day job revelation: I write enterprise Java software using Windows. There, my secret shame is finally out.
Now that that's off my chest, I have something to confess about Windows 7: Microsoft must be doing something right because I hate it considerably less than any other version of Windows. For example, it might have taken it eight years to bring the draggable reorder feature from OS X 10.0's Dock into the Windows taskbar, but they got there in the end, and I'm a happier user for it.
One of the things I quite like is Aero Peek. Suppose you are juggling three PowerPoint presentations because you are a SRS BSNS enterprise user, so obviously, you're not doing anything fun. You move your cursor down to the PowerPoint icon in the taskbar, and three medium sized thumbnail icons pop up, each showing the current window contents of the three PowerPoint windows that you have open. This...
| Read more »iTunes 10.0.1 is out, allowing users to "like" or post things to Ping directly from their iTunes libraries.
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| Read more »Despite being a relatively expensive device with not that many apps available for download, Samsung is selling quite a few Wave units in Europe.
| Read more »The DROID X received the highly anticipated Android 2.2 update last week. As with all major updates, some features improve and some, unfortunately, take a turn for the worse.
| Read more »Early demand for the iPhone 4 in China has outpaced initial supply as China Unicom struggles to fulfill the over 200,000 preorders it received last week.
The HTC Mondrian is slated to arrive on AT&T with Windows Phone 7 and is featured in the lastest Microsoft ads to hit the internet.
| Read more »Like many people, I activated Ping when Apple revealed it earlier this month, and then like many people I stopped using it. Where's the, um, social? Why is it saying I like all these Britney Spears remixes? Et cetera.
But the latest software update from Apple might go a little way toward fixing and answering at least one of these pressing questions.
One most notable changes in 10.0.1 is the ability to use Ping from within your own iTunes library, instead of having to manually search out music tracks you already owned in the tedious ether of the iTunes Store. It's a subtle yet important shift for Apple, a company long known for, ahem, control of content and media.
What this means is the previous setup, wherein a user would have to share songs via the iTunes Store and nowhere else, is gone. It's been replaced with a Ping button next to every song you own....
| Read more »Early forms of the first Windows Phone 7 ads have surfaced (video below) through a leak this morning that show how Microsoft plans to pitch its mobile OS against its rivals. The two unfinished spots accuse devices like the BlackBerry and iPhone of promoting a culture of staring at smartphones instead of dealing with life itself. Windows Phone 7's at-a-glance home screen tiles help find info faster and help focus on family and friends, the ads discovered by WMPowerUser claim....
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| Read more »It's been well over three years since we saw OS X hacked onto Sony's VAIO UX, meaning that it's just about time for yet another
| Read more »Safari's Top Sites feature is nifty and all, but what I've really wanted to do is have new Safari tabs open showing me my recent browsing history. I couldn't figure out a way to do this until just now. Maybe if you're an experienced Safari user this is obvious, but I'm still a fairly recent Safari adopter.
If you look in Safari's preferences, it will show that new tabs can be set to Top Sites, Home Page, Empty Page, Same Page, or Bookmarks. There's no "History" option. The good news is that you can work around this by choosing Bookmarks (as shown above), and then click on History (under Collections) at the top-left of the window.
Safari remembers what you had selected in the Bookmarks window, so whenever you open a new tab, it will open to the Bookmarks with the History selected. You could also do this by setting new tabs to open to an Empty Page, and then press Command+Option+2 (Show All History...
| Read more »This was Digg’s front page as of 8 AM EST on Sunday, September 26th. WTF?
| Read more »Dear Digg: Your (our) site is sinking. This spam is getting way out of hand. For over 1 hour at the time of this post, you have been attacked in a way that is beyond a joke. Your front page which is visited by thousands of people per hour is littered with complete trash. There’s no more laughter coming from anyone.
| Read more »In this post we have collected the most useful web design cheat sheets for designers which you can download completely free.
| Read more »Spatial View is developing an app and hardware solution allowing users to watch glasses-free 3D stereoscopic movies and images on their iPhones and Android mobiles. The 3DeeCentral app for the iPhone will appear first. It is a portal to an online movie store where users will be able to download content designed to work in conjunction with Spatial View's 3DeeSlide. The iPhone app has been submitted to Apple for approval, with an Android app in development too. The 3DeeSlide is a clip on lenticular lens attachment, which works in portrait and landscape modes and also s...
ThinkGeek's TK-421 iPhone case features a (working!) swing-out QWERTY keypad and works with the iPhone 4 or 3GS.
| Read more »The DirectTV TiVo that was set to be delivered before the end of 2010 has now been delayed until 2011. CEO Tom Rogers has indicated that beta testing for the device will continue into next January. TiVo executives have also begun to suggest that TiVo will begin to shift towards service delivery, rather purely on manufacturing hardware....
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| Read more »Advertisement is the most important part of the company. They hired highly creative minds for their marketing who have a good sense of humor, ideas, creativity and can convert their ideas into visual form.
| Read more »Computerworld reports on a successful launch of the iPhone 4 in China on Saturday. Over 1,000 lined up outside of Xidan Joy City shopping mall to buy the newest iPhone on launch day. The first customer in line had waited 2 days. IDG shows video of...
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The AlarmDock Reveal retails for $69 and offers users an iPod charging station, alarm clock, and FM radio all in one device. All of the controls for the AlarmDock Reveal are on the top of the device and are relatively easy to access. Programming the time and the alarm settings was not as easy as we would have hoped, but we did figure it out without ......
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| Read more »Fixes a problem where the extension became disabled. (Free, 59.7 KB)
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| Read more »A study on Android-powered tablet computers and has found that American public is generally interested in such devices. Here’s what they’ve found...
| Read more »Synergy 4.4.5Synergy places three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune.
The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide Hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes or accessing its Dock menu.
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Apple iTunes 10.0.1iTunes organizes and plays your digital music and video on your computer. It keeps all your content in sync. And its a store on your computer, iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV that has everything you need to be entertained. Anywhere. Anytime.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 10.0.1:
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WindowShade X 5.0.6WindowShade X provides an exciting and useful way of organizing your work on Mac OS X. With this handy tool, you can assign the following actions to the minimize button and a double-click on the window title:
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WhatRoute 1.10.0WhatRoute is designed to find the names of all the routers an IP packet passes through on its way from your Macintosh to a destination host. It also measures the round-trip time from your Mac to the router, thus enabling you to determine slow links--or hops--in the Internet. WhatRoute can also find dead links, such as routers that don't respond.
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This release does not have many externally visible changes but I have put significant amounts of work into refactoring the code with a net reduction in memory footprint of approximately 10MBytes and a significant reduction in CPU usage.
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If youre thinking of buying a Windows Phone 7 device and using it to connect your laptop to the Internet, think again. The companys new smartphones will not support tethering at all.Thats another item on the list of features (including copy and paste) tech geeks love that wont be present in the new phones. To be fair, though, the iPhone didnt officially do tethering either until very recently, but the feature is well-supported by many Android phones.The Boy Genius Report says that it heard directly from a Microsoft spokesperson, who said that the companys official statement is this: Windows Phone 7 does not support tethering.Thats going to be a dealbreaker for some hardcore techies, but most users wont know the difference. And there are plenty of features left to recommend Windows Phone 7, including Xbox Live integration, the Zune marketplace and some neat Bing Maps features.Windows Phone 7 is ready for release, so were just waiting on manufacturers to start cranking out their...
| Read more »Oil has caused me agita this year, too. It's played havoc with a place I see myself someday, when I'm divorced from work. And it's made me wonder if electric cars--or how much electrification of cars--is in the practical future.
| Read more »GV Mobile+, one of the third-party Google Voice apps available for the iPhone, is free right now. This deal will only last until about 1:00am EST according to the app's developer, so hurry up and save yourself three bucks. [iTunes]
Update 1: Seems that the deal's over, folks. Apparently the developer's intent was for only those who follow his public Twitter account to know about this offer and he did not appreciate it that many folks—us included—saw one of the many, many retweets and decided to share it with our readers.
Update 2: And the app's free again, it seems. The developer claims that it was just a little bit of an error with Apple's setup that caused the early price increase.
| Read more »I was there when it started. I was there when Digg first started chugging along. I remember it being slow, ugly, and crappy. I remember wondering why anyone would ever use something like it. And who cares if 79 other people think a story is worth my time? I browse my own news sites, thank you very much. I dont need to know what the other geeks care about boy was I ever wrong.
I kept my eyes on Digg (and its many, many competitors) over the next several years as I graduated from college, worked, then went back to school. It wasnt until I began studying online communities, however, that I really understood anything.
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If you spend any time on social news sites, youve already noticed the mass migration of users from Digg to Reddit. How did this happen? Where did it all begin? And is this really a bad thing for Digg (or a good thing for Reddit)? Im trying to answer these questions myself, and like all good community mixups, it just turns up more...
iPhone love seems to be on the rise in the world's largest mobile market, as the iPhone 4's Chinese launch looks nothing like last year's lukewarm reception for the iPhone 3 there.
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You've heard of the government's "Do Not Call" list aimed at shutting down unwanted telemarketers—but did you know that many tech companies have a "Do Not Cold Call" list aimed at shutting down competition? The US Department of Justice today announced a lawsuit—and a proposed settlement—over just such behavior at Google, Adobe, Apple, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar.
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| Read more »It launched with much fanfare, but I don't think it was unreasonable to call Ping a dud out of the gate. While pretty much everyone initially signed up to try it out, a few days later, the activity stream seemed to trickle to almost nothing. And there was a good reason for that: Apple's social network for music made it very hard to share stuff -- you know, be social. But an update today makes it at least a thousand times better.
iTunes 10.0.1 released this morning brings some big Ping updates with it. Most notably, you can now use Ping with your own iTunes library. Previously, you could only share songs on Ping through the iTunes Store -- a big difference. This basically meant that even if you already owned a song, you had to hunt it down in the iTunes Store to share it. This was almost laughably tedious, and it ensured that no one would use Ping for more than a couple days.
| Read more »Turns out Big Steve isn’t the ninja we all thought he was. After being pulled aside and searched at Kansai International Airport in Japan, throwing stars were allegedly found in his luggage, and were promptly confiscated by security.
| Read more »A pair of Apple patents for the iPad have surfaced in China that point to designs the company has at least considered for the iPad. One discovered by Patently Apple shows a second Dock Connector port on the left side in addition to the usual at the bottom. The design would presumably be to let the iPad dock in landscape mode and could also keep a peripheral such as the Camera Connector attached while the iPad is docked....
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| Read more »The Tab is coming. Samsung’s upcoming Android tablet may present the best chance yet of challenging Apple’s iPad in the slate space. The Tab will be available on all four major US networks, but pricing and exact launch dates have yet to be announced. We went hands-on with an early version of the Tab at CEDIA 2010.
| Read more »Many of us are prone to using the Shazam music-identification service whenever we encounter unfamiliar songs. But how does Shazam gives us all this information so quickly?
| Read more »Patently Apple reports on some new patent applications that appeared in China's patent database this week. One diagram (above) clearly shows an Apple iPad with dual 30pin dock connectors allowing both landscape and portrait docking orientat...
| Read more »Another new device rumor has popped up, this time about a replacement for the MacBook Air. Apparently, the "old" MacBook Air isn't selling too well, so Apple is looking at refreshing the line with a smaller device equipped with an 11.6" (measured diagonally) screen.
A device of this size is beginning to encroach on dangerous territory, considering how Steve Jobs and company have made negative comments about "netbooks" in the past. AppleInsider conjectures that the power and premium price of a more svelte MacBook Air would place it more in the ultraportable category than that of a netbook.
Not only would the new MacBook Air have a smaller display to differentiate it from the existing models, but rumor has it that the device uses a partial carbon-fiber enclosure...
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This week we discussed the implications of Apple's lawsuit over MagSafe connectors, what happened between Ping and Facebook, the malware risks for iOS jailbreakers, 3D animation on the Mac, and much, much more. In case you missed it, here's the roundup:
An intro to 3D on the Mac, Part II: Animation and Rendering: In Part II of our epic introduction to 3D on the Mac, you'll learn the basics of character animation and rendering, and you'll get an overview of the major 3D software packages on the platform.
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| Read more »It simply had to happen sooner or later. Usually, when it comes to U.S. carriers, they each follow one another. If one does one thing, the other follows suit. Generally, these are minor things. Unlimited calling plan introductions, unlimited texting, etc. But tiered data pricing is a fundamental shift in how mobile data is distributed, and...
| Read more »An update to iTunes answers the question a lot of us have had since iTunes 10 hit the streets: why can't I use Ping to like or post about music that's already in my personal library? iTunes 10.0.1 weighs in at 86.4 MB and also fixes some bugs that have plagued 10.0.
One new feature is the Ping Sidebar, which appears when you're in your library. As seen below, Ping Sidebar shows the recent activity of your friends or artists you follow in a easily-accessed sidebar on the right side of the screen.
The update doesn't require a restart, so fire up Software Update on your Mac and download iTunes 10.0.1 soon.
TUAWSoftware Update: iTunes 10.0.1 brings Ping to your music library originally appeared on The Unofficial...
| Read more »Trackballs were legion in the 1990s, but the input method has largely fallen out of favor in the past decade both as traditional mice gained precision and as the public swung its attention to notebooks. For Logitech and a certain audience, though, the appeal of an in-place pointer is undeniable: it can be comfortable and more precise in the right conditions. We're reviewing the Logitech Wireless Trackball M570 today to see if a long-in-the-making refresh is enough to keep trackball users committed to the cause....
Apple this week released an update to iTunes, with version 10.0.1 adding the new Ping sidebar for easier access to the social networking service, as well as a number of bug fixes.
Electric cars may be coming out in force come December, but the spotlight is now on how their batteries will be resold and recycled several years down the road.
| Read more »The European Commission on Saturday said it was putting an end to an investigation of Apple's app policies. Competition Policy VP Joaquín Almunia claimed that Apple had relaxed iPhone development rules in direct response to EU investigations. Apple's move was characterized as proof change could be voluntary....
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| Read more »It's been said so many times, but I just got stung hard by the DRM bug, and since there's a 'Senior Associate Editor' next to
| Read more »China welcomed the iPhone 4 with large crowds and long lines. The Apple smartphone is available from Apple retail stores and China Unicom.
| Read more »When I was a kid, we just played with regular stuffed animals, and then Teddy Ruxpin came along and blew us all away. But kids these days, they get all kinds of cool stuff. Like look at this thing: they can stick an iPod touch in a "huggable plush accessory" called the Woogie, and run around with it to their heart's content, watching videos, playing with apps, and, I don't know, checking the weather, or whatever else it is that kids want to do on an iPod touch.
I especially like Griffin's selling point on this one -- this case is a bonus for the kids, who get a piece of technology that's a little more fluffy and friendly than Apple's sleek designs. It's a bonus for parents too, as it's much harder to lose or seriously break the iPod when it's wrapped in the big mass of furry green tentacles.
The $20 accessory even comes with...
| Read more »The day when you can place your laptop on a table that has a wireless charger embedded into it and automatically charge your electronics is closer than you think.
| Read more »Apple has posted an update to iTunes to bring it to version 10.0.1. The update is available for download using the Software Update system preference. iTunes 10.0.1 improves Ping, Apple’s maligned social networking service for iTunes, by making it easier to share information about your music with people you’ve connected to on Ping. “You can [...]
| Read more »Apple released an update to iTunes 10 on Friday, which makes some big changes to how the software's Ping music social networking portion works.
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Android, not Symbian, will be the platform of choice for Sony Ericsson moving forward, the handset maker said.
| Read more »We here at TUAW fortunately passed on reporting the obviously fake story of Steve Jobs being denied access to Japan because of ninja stars he was reportedly carrying in his luggage. But we did like this fake Apple page from the folks at Scoopertino, featuring the iPod ninja, a brand new throwing star-shaped iPod. If Steve was carrying around ninja stars (and he wasn't), maybe he was just testing a more weaponized iPod prototype.
For more yuks, be sure to read on about the "death grip" issue ("If you hold iPod ninja in a certain way, you may require immediate medical care."), and I like the fact that sharing music with the ninja is easy -- just wing it across the room at whoever you want to listen in. For just $149 for the...
| Read more »Over a thousand people waited in line Saturday for the grand opening of Beijing's Xidan Joy City store and the launch of the iPhone 4 in China.
Following changes to the iTunes Store terms and conditions yesterday that referred to a "Ping Sidebar" for Apple's music-focused social networking platform, Apple has now released iTunes 10.0.1 to enable the new feature and distribute a numbe...
| Read more »StarDunk is one of my most favorite apps recently, ever since I covered it back for Daily App a little while ago. It's an amusing little 2D basketball game, made even more impressive by the fact that it juggles online multiplayer across the world -- as you throw baskets, you're also playing in real-time against other users, and competing with various powerups and stunts for as many points as possible. The game was also notable for being one of the first titles integrated into Game Center, back when that service first arrived on the iPhone.
But the app hasn't been doing as great as it could be, according to developer Godzilab -- first, they had some issues with piracy, and now they're saying that the game's just not selling as many copies as they'd...
| Read more »Apple overnight released iTunes 10.0.1 (84MB). The patch adds the previously hinted at Ping sidebar and gives listeners a way of tracking artists and friends while still looking at the iTunes library. It's also now possible to Like or Post from the library instead of just the iTunes Store....
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| Read more »The Macalope takes on an outspoken iPhone critic, Steve Jobs's latest irate e-mail exchange, and why, oh why, IT departments and the iPhone can't just get along.
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Apple updated iTunes to version 10.0.1 on Saturday, adding a Ping Sidebar and enhancing Ping’s functionality from within your iTunes library itself. Read more after the jump.
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Apple has enjoyed a huge surge of interest in its iPhone 4 in China. At least one thousand customers lined up at the new Beijing store, with some up to two days before the official launch. They joined 50,000 customers who have already pre-ordered the handset, and does not include the scores who have already obtained one through the booming black market trade in iPhone 4's leading up to the local launch....
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| Read more »The European Union has ended two antitrust investigations into Apple's iPhone policies after Apple relaxed developer restrictions and introduced cross-border warranty repair service.
There’re thousands of incredible Textures are all over the internet. So, you have vast amount of textures available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
| Read more »The same source that leaked a video of the prototype of the HP Slate has posted a second video (below) of the enterprise edition in action. The full specs of the 8.9-inch tablet are detailed and show the componentary from a typical netbook, including a single core Intel Atom Z540, clocked at 1.86GHz, 2GB of DDR2 RAM and a 64GB solid-state drive. The integrated GMA 500 graphic chip is, however, enhanced by a Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator. It also includes a 3 megapixel rear-facing camera, in addition to a front facing camera, much like the Android-based Samsung Gala...
This is one amazing camera, Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH2 is the latest addition to the LUMIX G Micro system. The primary advantage of the Micro Four Thirds system is
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The Rugby II is about the size that most flip phones were about three to four years ago (before Motorola introduced the first RAZR and made thin phones popular). The thick clamshell phone is built with a rubberized plastic shell. Weighing in at just above 3.5 ounces, the Rugby II is about average in weight. The battery compartment on the bac ......
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Veteran trackball owners will find the M570's shape very familiar. Logitech makes this clear that it was on purpose: even on its promo page, the company showed that the design is a dead ringer in many ways for models several years old or more. There's a good reason for it, as the heavily sculpted shape is designed to fit a right hand al ......
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| Read more »The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that it has ordered Apple, Google, Intel and three other tech companies to avoid entering into no solicitation agreements for employees.
This will prevent these companies from forming an agreement not to hire each other’s employees.
“The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with six high technology companies - Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., Intuit Inc. and Pixar - that prevents them from entering into no solicitation agreements for employees. The department said that the agreements eliminated a significant form of competition to attract highly skilled employees, and overall diminished competition to the detriment of affected employees who were likely deprived of competitively important information and access to better job opportunities.”
The Department of Justice cited Apple’s deals with Google, Adobe, and Pixar to prevent the companies from “cold calling...
| Read more »Steve Jobs in an e-mail this evening suggested that Apple TV delays won't prevent the media hub from arriving before the end of September. A buyer worrying that the Apple TV would have to ship early next week to make the target was given a simple "yep" answer by the executive. It's not certain that the Mac Rumors transcript is a confirmation, as a chance exists that Jobs was simply reinforcing the writer's views....
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| Read more »When it comes to releasing a new product, users and pundits' opinions only count for so much, but numbers -- including revenue and traffic-- don't lie. We've
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| Read more »BitTorrent 7.0.0BitTorrent is a protocol for distributing files. It identifies content by URL and is designed to integrate seamlessly with the web. Its advantage over plain HTTP is that when multiple downloads of the same file happen concurrently, the downloaders upload to each other, making it possible for the file source to support very large numbers of downloaders with only a modest increase in its load.
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SMEStorage will soon be releasing an update to their existing iSMEStorage app for iPhone and iPad, to be renamed CloudDav after the technology it uses, which will enable iPad iWork users to edit and save documents stored on a variety of third-party "cloud" storage services, even if they are not normally WebDAV enabled....
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| Read more »The US Mobile industry may be as competitive as any other, but one wouldn't know it based on the monthly bill.
| Read more »The biggest challenge for battery electric vehicles is clearly the cost and the weight of today's lithium-ion battery packs. Now Volvo is experimenting with a new composite material that can store and release energy more quickly than a convention lithium-ion cell and, it says, might one day replace steel for making auto body panels.
| Read more »A significant amount of attention has been focused on orders for the new Apple TV today after it was revealed that Apple had contacted some customers to notify them that their expedited shipping fees were being refunded due to an unspecified ...
| Read more »The growing use of Tumblr as a source for both reading and posting photos and images has inspired Kavasoft to refashion their image search-and-download tool HyperImage v.3.5 into a full-fledged Tumblr image client....
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| Read more »Longtime Mac software maker Chronos updated their SOHO Business Cards program to version 3, featuring new "smart templates" that assist users in the drag-and-drop publishing app by showing them precisely where to drag textures and backgrounds, auto-launching appropriate libraries for portions of the templates that are active, and automatically resizing dragged-in graphics to fit. The program also makes extensive use of a CoverFlow-like artwork browser to make searches faster....
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| Read more »Apple, no doubt, has a history of creating commercials that resonate with consumers. And with the recent Facetime ads, Apple has taken it one step further, appealing to the human emotion. But honestly, sometimes the best commercials are not produced by a big-name agency or a famous director. TechCrunch reader Paul Sanduleac sent us this video of his four-year-old brother using an iPad. It's nothing short of impressive.
Not only is the little boy able to swipe on the device, but he's taped playing various with apps, including a Keyboard app and a few games. You can see he's having the time of his life, while also interacting with the content and learning alphabets and colors as well.
| Read more »Apple and five other major Silicon Valley companies have settled with the U.S. Department of Justice after an investigation into agreements made between competitors to prevent the poaching of each other's workers.
In this week's totally tasty round up: Gourmet, back and more beautiful than ever on the iPad; Mario Batali, in your pocket; vegetables, endeared to your children; New York's best coffee, charted; reminders, set; international texting, made free; and more!
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| Read more »Digital video transcoding software maker Telestream have revamped the user interface of their flagship encoding program Episode as part of a major update to version 6.0, now available for Mac and Windows, which also includes a simplified "one click" cluster setup and a new workflow builder along with new support for Google's WebM format and YouTube uploading....
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| Read more »Once again, Microsoft insists that the PC vs. Mac war is still going. Meanwhile, NBC picks up a couple of allies in its crusade to avoid Apple's TV rental plan, and Apple briefly hits a milestone.
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The researcher who discovered a security flaw with Safari's AutoFill feature earlier this year says the bug is back.
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As reported earlier, the App Store is now allowing apps that create ringtones for iPhones in light of the de-emphasis on ringtones in iTunes v10 (pre-made 30-second ringtones can still be bought for 69 cents, but the ability to make custom ringtones has been withdrawn). French company Phonitive has jumped into the fray with RingBuilder 1.1 ($1)....
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| Read more »The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement late on Friday with six high tech companies, including Apple, Adobe, and Google, that prevents them from entering into deals that prohibit them from poaching employees from each other. In its announcement, the DoJ said the agreements, “eliminated a significant form of competition […] to the detriment of affected employees.”
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Short URLs are cute and easy to scan, and can provide useful tracking features. But using a URL shortening service can be bad for your business. Adam explains why.
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| Read more »Apple allegedly holds sole responsibility for restricting FaceTime access in countries throughout the Middle East. An unnamed source has told The Next Web that Apple preemptively omitted the feature, unbeknownst to the regional carriers. The company reportedly believed the technology would face roadblocks with local VoIP regulations....
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| Read more »Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC Universal, will be stepping down from his position once Comcast has finalized its purchase of 51% of the media company. Mr. Zucker, who has often been critical of Apple and argued at one time that Apple should have to pay media companies a portion of iPod hardware sales, told employees he would be leaving the company, and that it wasn’t his choice.
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(i)Pawn can turn your iPhone into a board game playing surface, but what if you want to expand your battles onto a much bigger playing field, one with mages and cavalry and archangels and big monsters? Then your best option is Ex illis, a new game that uses your iPhone or iPad as a game computer (technically, the "Rule Keeper software") while you act as general and overlord and maneuver your many pawns around the board. Armed with your painted miniatures and a copy of the software (also available for your Mac or PC), you and a friend can spend the afternoon
This is a fairly light miniatures game - it's not heavy like Warhammer or 40K, but it's way beyond Risk - and the software does a find job of making sure battles are won...
| Read more »The Department of Justice today reached a settlement with several technology firms to end anti-poaching job deals between each other. Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar have agreed to end reportedly anti-competitive deals that prevented them from recruiting each other's staff. Companies will be required to allow "cold calls" and other active hiring attempts for at least five years and will have to institute "compliance measures" to make sure the ruling is enforced....
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that it has ordered Apple, Google, and four other companies to refrain from entering into "no solicitation" agreements in which companies agree not to actively seek to hire each other's employees...
| Read more »Putting your Mac in Sleep mode is a good way to restore the system to its last state so you can continue your work where you left off; however, it does not come without a few potential drawbacks.
| Read more »Apple has reportedly extended its search agreement with Google, the search giant's CEO, Eric Schmidt, told BusinessWeek in an interview. The executive downplayed suggestions of animosity from Steve Jobs, following Schmidt's departure last year from Apple's board of directors as Google continued its push into the mobile arena....
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| Read more »Orb made its first venture into hardware today through its MP-1 wireless audio streaming hub. The small puck depends entirely on software on a computer and device to work and only has audio and power connectors. Any Mac or Windows PC running the Orb Caster app can share music from iTunes, Pandora or Sirius XM's Internet service over the Wi-Fi network with an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch using a special remote app....
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| Read more »If you haven’t yet entered our RF3 Envi Earphone Giveaway, there’s still time to do so. In our Giveaway of the Month for September, iLounge and Mobile Line Communications are giving away fifty RF3 ENVi 3.5mm Natural Wood Stereo Earhook Headsets. To enter, simply fill out and submit the…
| Read more »Many times in running their Macs people will install various drivers and system enhancements to customize their Mac experience. While these may work when running your system, there are times when updates to system software can break their function or cause other unexpected behavior.
| Read more »Macworld.com isn't the only place to stay on top of our news, tips, and reviews. Whether you're a tweet-a-holic or you prefer to "like" articles on Facebook, you can keep up with Macworld on your favorite social networks.
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It's amazing to see how things change in a little more than a decade. Back then, Steve Jobs preached the new iMac as the center of your digital life, the internet machine. Now, the internet machine fits in your pocket.
But with sixteen times the memory, eight times the storage, and more than double its raw computational power. All in just a tiny fraction of the iMac's size and at almost half the price. It truly boggles the mind. Back then, if you told this to anyone, they would have thought you were nuttier than Mel Gibson on speed.
It's even more amazing to see how this tiny little thing has dwarfed the Mac. In 2009, Apple sold 10 million Macs—including the desktop and portables—compared to a whooping 45 million iPhones. And the 45 million is not counting the other iOS devices. Next year, the iPad alone is expected to surpass the sales of all Mac computers combined...
| Read more »Here's good news for aspiring Mac techs attending the MacTech Conference in November. Attendees will be able to visit a study session and take their Apple Certification Exams right there at the conference. It's a great idea, as you'll already be in a "tech-y" mood. Here's how it works.
Immediately following the last session of MacTech Conference, Apple Authorized Training Center v.2 Consulting is offering a study hour and exam session: November 5th, 12:30-4:00PM, on site at the conference. Conference attendees can take any Apple Certification Exam that is currently available at the time of testing. The cost of the study session and the exam is included in the US$899 registration fee (a $200 value). You'll find which exams are available here and register here.
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| Read more »The official Twitter account of du, an iPhone carrier based in the United Arab Emirates, has confirmed that FaceTime will be unavailable in the UAE when the phone launches tomorrow. “Our iPhone 4 customers won’t be able to make Facetime calls, as this feature is currently unavailable in the…
| Read more »The FCC late this week published an agenda (PDF) for its next open meeting that confirmed it will tackle high cellphone overage charges on October 14. Agency officials will discuss how to combat what it has called "bill shock," or roaming and heavy use charges that can range into the hundreds or thousands of dollars above the base rate. Extra fees have become an increasing problem as smartphones like the iPhone have added data fees to voice and text messaging costs....
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| Read more »Apple, Google and four other companies are negotiating an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to end practices that limit hiring of each other’s employees, reports "Bloomberg" (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-24/google-apple-intel-said-poised-...?), quoting "people familiar with the emerging accord."
| Read more »Hunt, run, and smash balls with Predators, Mr. Runner, and Virtual Table Tennis, all featured in this week’s Free on iTunes.
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A month ago, popular news aggregator Digg underwent a redesign that many describe as disastrous. Now, despite bad press, site bugs, and a traffic collapse, the company is trying to put a good face on its current state.
| Read more »Aside from the occasional discussion of the Apple-Facebook negotiations prior to the launch of Apple's social networking service for music earlier this month, things have been fairly quiet when it comes to Ping. A change to Apple's iTunes St...
| Read more »A popular Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game has come to the PC and now the Mac, thanks to OnLive's Internet-based gaming service.
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Customers in the Middle East who purchase an iPhone 4 will not have FaceTime video chat functionality, as the feature is "currently unavailable" in the region.
We just got some confirmation on our story earlier this week that FaceTime had gone missing in parts of the world, mostly around the Middle East. @dutweets is the official Twitter account for du, the telecom operator for the iPhone in the United Arab Emirates, and in a tweet just a little while ago, the account confirmed that FaceTime is currently unavailable in that country. The iPhone hasn't even officially launched there yet, but the account also says that FaceTime "won't be working as of the launch" (which takes place tomorrow), so even official customers there won't have access to the video chat feature.
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| Read more »Retail giant Target will begin selling all six models of the iPad at all of its retail locations on October 3.
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Pioneer at CEDIA this week showed a trio of Blu-ray players that add 3D support. The regular BDP-430 as well as the Elite-labeled BDP-41FD and BDP-43FD will all add 3D to their existing slate of features. Networking will still play an important role and should include both Netflix and YouTube streaming as well as remote control with Pioneer's iOS app for the iPhone and iPod touch....
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| Read more »Probably one of the most utilized equipments in the world, the cellphone has become an extension of who we are. From I-phones to droids the ratio of people to cellphoes is undeniably imaginable. See what other statistics that will blow you away.
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The new Apple TV has been delayed into October, but Apple has already rolled out its new iTunes TV show rental service with the iTunes 10 update. Disney/ABC and Fox are on board with the new 99¢ TV episode rental service while other broadcast and cable networks have criticized the service...
| Read more »In this week’s passel of technical news debris, John looks at an aborted iPad ad, a clever tablet move by Hewlett-Packard, how an iPhone changed a blind person’s life, connecting the dots on six future Apple technologies, how the 3D TV market could affect Apple, how Apple’s Death Star absorbs the competition, and a jackpot question: What if Verizon never gets the iPhone?
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Our favorite blogger in China, Maik Lutze of SuddenlyBeijing.com, has provided TUAW with exclusive photos from the official Chinese iPhone 4 launch this morning (9/25). Not only were there lines for the iPhone 4, but there was a new Apple Store being opened in Beijing at Xidan's Joy City today, so he provided photos of the crowds on had for the opening:
Gallery: Apple Store Opening -- Xidan District, Beijing, China
| Read more »Virtual Programming said it would bring the sci-fi real-time strategy game to the Mac earlier this year, and now that moment has arrived.
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Last year I started an official DF Twitter account: @daringfireball. Everything I post to Daring Fireball gets posted to that Twitter account automatically. Effectively, it’s a Twitter version of the DF RSS feed.
Part of the system I wrote to auto-tweet these posts is my own URL shortener. Because it seemed fun and looked sharp, I registered the domain name ✪df.ws. How? Thanks to Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), domain names can now include Unicode glyphs. The DNS system was original conceived as ASCII-only, and IDN works around that by mapping domain names containing non-ASCII characters back to ASCII via an encoding method called Punycode. For example, the Punycode representation of “✪df.ws” is “...
| Read more »Capcom has released Mr. Bill for iOS, a game based on the titular character from 1970's-era Saturday Night Live.
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The latest revision of terms for the iTunes Store may point to a missing feature, observers remark. "We have changed the iTunes Store Terms and Conditions to provide you notice that if you have opted in to the Ping social network and use the new Ping Sidebar," the text reads, "iTunes will send information to Apple about the content you select in your iTunes library in order to provide you with Ping personal recommendations." There is no identifiable sidebar for Ping, whether in iTunes 10 or iOS....
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| Read more »Google Chrome Frame literally puts Google Chrome and its standards-supporting HTML5 features inside Internet Explorer...so long as you have admin privileges.
| Read more »Back before the iPhone was formally announced, there was talk that Steve Jobs was simply not happy with the product because Apple's engineers couldn't figure out how to eliminate all of the physical buttons. There was just no practical way to put the functions of a power switch or home button into a touch-only interface. But all of that hasn't stopped Apple from trying.
A recently-filed patent by Apple clearly shows that the company means business when it comes to sleek, clutter-free interfaces. This particular patent aims to take advantage of multiple sides of a device (in this case, it appears to be the iPad, as pictured), including parts of the casing, in order to perform functions that physical buttons currently handle...
| Read more »Microsoft took its anti-Mac marketing to social networking in the past day with a PC vs. Mac Facebook app on its Australian fan page. The app hopes to disrupt the stereotypes of Windows users created by Apple's ads by having visitors guess each other's computer choices and has them take quizzes to guess their "allegiances," though the questions don't have much association with computers. Visitors get a chance to win an HP Pavilion dv6 notebook in return for an essay on how they'd use Windows 7 to escape a desert island....
The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on additional comments about Apple's 99-cent TV show rental program made by executives at this week's Goldman Sachs conference. Over the past week,...
| Read more »Go Solar USA has begun importing a device called Apple Peel 520 that adds cellphone capabilities to an iPod touch for a fraction of the cost of an unsubsidized iPhone. The device, which requires jailbreaking your iPod touch and installing an unauthorized app, was invented by two brothers in China, where it has been available for some time.
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We've got another weekly roundup of iPhone 4 cases, where we introduce you to the new kids on the block (the cases, not the band).
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Nova Media's new iHub Basic can sync your calendars and contacts to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch wirelessly, on your local network.
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Since the iPad was first announced in January of this year, there's been speculation that a smaller form factor -- say, something between an iPad and an iPod touch -- would be added to the line.
Shanzai.com, a site that follows China's technology industry, has posted a rumor to the effect that Apple's next tablet will resemble "an oversized iPhone 4" rather than a smaller iPad. Shanzai says that they have "ears to the ground in Shenzen," the home of Apple contract manufacturer Foxconn, and that loose lips have stated that the 7" tablet is a "finished product."
Sam Levin of AppMinute.com and I discussed the possibility of a smaller tablet on a podcast...
| Read more »Datacolor has debuted a new colour reference tool that allows photographers to obtain consistent, accurate colour in their shots.
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Seeing this photo of an iPad-controlled bicycle stereo, I immediately imagined a grisly scene of smoke, twisted aluminum, and a tragically shattered IPS display. Oh and there's a dead biker in there somewhere too. [Flickr via TUAW]
| Read more »Apple’s App Store is loaded with far too many applications for one person to sort through, so we threw our team at The Mac Observer at the task and asked them to share some of their favorite finds. We came up with an interesting collection that shows how we use our iPads and iPhones for reading and research, and for expressing ourselves creatively, too.
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It looks as though Apple's long-neglected MacBook Air may finally be getting an overhaul. According to DigiTimes, an 11.6-inch Air is going to be on sale before the end of the calendar year.
It should be noted, first off, that DigiTimes has a relatively poor track record with this type of thing. But regardless of how solid their information is, there's no question that the timing is right for a MacBook Air refresh. Apple's left their ultraportable unattended since 2008. And while its competitors are jumping on Intel's ULV Core processors to crank out thinner, faster...
| Read more »SwitchEasy has launched a new Pastels series of Colors for iPhone 4. The Colors case uses a silicone shockproof material with a smooth coating finish. It provides access points for the buttons and ports and includes SwitchEasy's 'jellybean' home button, a glossy cover in a contrasting color over the iPhone 4 home button. The volume and power buttons are an extra-thick design for better tactile response....
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| Read more »Booq has launched a new line of Cobra laptop and iPad bags, consisting of the Cobra Case L, Cobra Brief L, Cobra Slim L, and Cobra Courier XS. The Cobra Case L is a full-sized briefcase capable of holding any 15 - 17-inch MacBook Pro, and features two exterior quick-access pockets, a large back magazine pocket, one main compartment, and a front exterior pocket with integrated plush lining thatís capable of holding an iPad. Multiple smaller compartments are also included for storing chargers, hard drives, or similar sized accessories....
Accordance, long regarded as the premier Bible study software for the Mac, has a new version 9 that's now available for download.
At first glance, it may look at a lot like version 8, but that's because most of the changes have gone on under the hood. Don't let that fool you into thinking this isn't a big update, though, because it is, and there's more coming.
Four primary new features will appeal to almost all users:
"Workspace Zones" are a new way of grouping tools. Put Bibles in one zone, dictionaries in another, or put related tools for a project together so that you can access them all at once. These also seem to work better side-by-side than what I was able to do previously. Maybe there was a way before, but if so, it's much, much easier now.
Learning a language is more than just translating words; you also have to understand syntax, grammar, idioms, and so forth. This won't make you a...
| Read more »Google chief Eric Schmidt in an interview posted today (video below) from from the Zeitgeist conference provided contradictory answers on why the company refuses to require an option for unaltered Android on smartphones. He insisted to Search Engine Land that the company couldn't make carriers or phone designers give the choice since it would be "violating the principle of open source." The principle demands that everyone have control, even if it means options being locked out for end users....
SpeakerCraft has rolled out its new FloBox and FloBox Mini speakers for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod. Both the FloBox and FloBox Mini feature integrated docks compatible with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod, an FM tuner, AirPlay and DLNA compatibility, and a mini USB port for syncing functionality. The…
| Read more »This article provides some general suggestions when trying to troubleshoot an issue where iTunes for Windows Vista or Windows 7 won't open, stops responding, or unexpectedly quits. It may be useful to print this document before following the steps outlined below.
For a discussion of troubleshooting similar issues in iTunes for Windows XP, see iTunes for Windows XP: Troubleshooting unexpected quits, freezes, or launch issues.
If you are having trouble installing iTunes, see Trouble installing iTunes or QuickTime for Windows.
Back in July, security researcher Jeremiah Grossman revealed a security issue that could allow malicious parties to take advantage of Safari's AutoFill feature to extract personal information from users' Address Book entries. At the time, Grossman r...
| Read more »Libratone has introduced its new Beat wireless speaker for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod. The Beat features a five-inch subwoofer, two three-inch midrange, and two one-inch ribbon-based tweeters, built-in digital signal processing, 50 watts of power for the subwoofers and 2x25W for the…
| Read more »The rumor is true: Target will begin selling the iPad in October. Reuters is reporting today that the official release date will be October 2nd, and Target will have all six models.
The launch will make Target the fourth vendor to sell iPads in the US, along with Best Buy, Micro Center, and Apple. Target is a discount chain here in the US with locations from coast to coast. There are many areas that have a Target but not an Apple Store, so this move will get the device physically in front of more users than Apple could.
Good luck to Apple and Target on their partnership.
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| Read more »Not content to restrict itself to photos, PhotoToMac 2.0 for the iPhone now lets you transfer videos to your computer as well.
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Toon Boom Studio (http://www.toonboom.com) has released Toon Boom Studio 6, a new version of its 2D animation software that adds bone rigging features. As a bonus, Toon Boom Studio 6 comes with several bone-ready templates that users will be able to incorporate into their own projects.
| Read more »Target will begin carrying four models of the iPad next month, starting at $499.
The nation's second-largest discount chain says it will start selling touchscreen tablet computer starting Oct. 3, according to "Forbes" (http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/09/24/business-technology-hardware-a...). The announcement was made at a Target media conference in Minneapolis, where the company is based.
| Read more »Ringtone creation apps are trickling into the App Store in the wake of Apple publicizing its review guidelines, reports say. Until recently, Apple is said to have either blocked ringtone apps or let them languish in the review system. But several titles are now available for download, and two of them -- Ringtone Designer Pro and RingtoneMaker Free -- have reached high positions in the paid and free App Store charts, respectively....
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| Read more »If you’re looking for a deal on some speakers, The Deal Brothers found the Altec Lansing Expressionist Plus Speaker System for $49.99, which includes shipping.
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Netflix may launch a streaming-only plan in the United States, CEO Reed Hastings announced in a blog post Thursday.
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KavaSoft has released HyperImage 3.5 (http://www.kavasoft.com/HyperImage/), an update of the US$25 Mac OS X app that lets you download images from web sites. It's now a full featured Tumblr client.
Tumblr is a community for blogging and reblogging photos. HyperImage helps you do everything you can do on the Tumblr web site. Just enter the address of a Tumblr blog, and HyperImage will download all of the photos
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How time flies! In the year 2000, I was just finishing high school, listening to Bush, and becoming acquainted with Windows 2000. Back then, I knew very little about Apple, and I'd certainly not heard of the Bondi Bubble iMac (the first iMac was released in 1998). In 2010, well...how things have changed for me!
And, as illustrated by Brett Jordan in the graphic above, things have also changed at Apple.
It's incredible to think that the iPhone has taken center stage at Apple over the last three years. As noted by some of our commentators, there has been a real lack of Mac-centric news recently. Sure, there was the update to the iMac a few months ago, but it's glaringly obvious that the Mac has taken...
| Read more »Struggles between Verizon and Apple are a sign that a deal to bring the iPhone to Verizon's network may never happen, even once the carrier's high-speed 4G network is established, one Wall Street analyst has said.
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync 14.1, included with Exchange Server 2010 SP1, introduces a default limit of ten devices per Exchange account. If you configure an iOS device that exceeds this per-account limit, you may see unexpected behavior:
Mail and Calendar accounts become unresponsive after creating a new Exchange account, or after the server for an existing Exchange account is updated to SP1.
When installing a profile that configures an Exchange account, the message "An unrecoverable error occurred while validating the account information" appears, and the profile fails to install.
When you check email on another device, you see the message "Error with your new mobile phone partnership," which says "You have 11 phone partnerships out of the maximum allowed 10 partnerships."
The first Windows 7-approved mobile 3G/WiFi router is available and it's the size of a credit card. But other tiny mobile routers are also worth checking out.
| Read more »The refurbished 30GB fifth-generation iPod video is available today from Ecost.com for only $101.99, which makes it $48 less than the list price of $149.99. This iPod can hold up to 7500 songs, 25,000 photos, or 40 hours of video. It offers a 2.5-inch LCD color display, support for both Podcasts and Audiobooks, and the ability to stream TV shows....
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| Read more »Ngmoco has released We City, the latest entry in its building game series. Designed in the same style as its prior games We Rule and We Farm, We City challenges players to build the city of their dreams by laying down roads, buildings and decorations such as cafes, salons, apartments,…
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AppleInsider reports that Apple has sent emails to some customers who ordered the new Apple TV with expedited shipping, informing them that it is refunding the extra shipping charges due to a "delay" in meeting their delivery commitments.
Nintendo has a new, more accurate Wii Remote on the way, and it's bundled with a game you may not have heard of.
| Read more »As we've seen before, Apple is laying claim to the word "pod." This time, the target is Sector Labs (SL), who are nearly 10 years into development of their Video Pod.
More accurately, Apple believes that customers will confuse SL's Video Pod for an Apple product because of the name. The company first gained the attention of Apple legal back in 2009.
Still, SL's Daniel Kokin doesn't see the problem. "My team started working on the Video Pod in 2000, and it took us years to go from prototype to funded," he said. "At that time, Apple didn't even enter our minds as a competitor." He goes on to note that his company's product focuses on projection, something that Apple is not doing.
This is hardly the first time...
| Read more »The biggest Android ROM update of the week was obviously the Motorola Droid X with its Froyo update, but there have been a significant number of smaller ROM releases this week. The devices included were: AT&T's Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S Variant) The update takes the phone to version I897UCJH7 (from I897UCJF6). Details, via AT&T,...
| Read more »Adobe showed new plenoptic photography that let's users re-render images and to re-focus any part of a photo
| Read more »The latest edition of iLounge Weekly, our weekly newsletter covering all things iLounge, is coming later today. iLounge Weekly is a summary of the week’s best news, reviews, and feature articles we’ve published, and it also features giveaways and iPod accessory discount offers from various companies. There’s still plenty of…
| Read more »Finally, an Apple rumor I can really get my teeth into. AppleInsider reveals that Apple may be planning to release a smaller, lighter version of their ailing Macbook Air laptop.
| Read more »Clickgamer has released Pipe Rush, a new connect-the-pipes game for the iPhone and iPod touch. In Pipe Rush, players take on the role of Pippa and must help her connect the water supply to the thirsty townfolk using her pipe-generating system to connect all of the houses before the timer…
| Read more »Apple is experiencing sell-outs of unlocked iPhone 4 units at its company-owned retail stores in the U.K. due to the device’s popularity in markets where Apple has yet to launch the device. The Daily Mail reports that the phone brokers who are purchasing the handsets often form long lines…
| Read more »With reports of credit cards being charged for Apple TV pre-orders, it's only a short time before Apple's hobby takes a rather serious step forward. But with only ABC and Fox having signed up to Apple's new $0.99 price point to rent television shows, it seems there's a lot hanging in the balance. Most notably, for Apple - and for those that purchase the Apple TV - whether other large television studios will follow suit and get on board with Apple's new strategy.
Recently, we reported that Warner Bros. was not best pleased with Apple's new TV episode price point. And now NBC has chimed in, too. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Investor conference, Chief Executive of NBC Universal Jeff Zucker said, "We do not think 99 cents is the right price point for our content," and continued by saying, "We thought it...
| Read more »The 7-inch iPad rumors just won't stop. After last August's rumor barrage, a Chinese rumor site with no track record claims that the fabled iPad 7-inches is now a "finished product", which looks more iPhone 4 than iPad:
Yes there will be a 7" tablet, yes it's well underway in terms of product development and in fact it's a finished product. Yes 5 plus different designs have been floating around to help Apple protect itself from people discovering its next product look and feel but... the final design will in fact bear more resemblance to the iPhone 4 stylings than the original iPad design.
Would you like an iPad that is not large enough to be actually useful yet too large to fit in your pocket? I will quote myself: Can "magic" fit in 7 inches? [...
| Read more »Verizon may have good reason to be hesitant in getting involved with Apple, and vice versa, says RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky. Reflecting on recent statements by Verizon's CEO, Abramsky suggests that two main factors may be preventing the companies from forging an iPhone deal. Verizon may be worried about Apple contract terms affecting the sale of Android phones, particularly in light of "pent up iPhone demand" from subscribers....
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| Read more »Seoul is one city that is conscious of the fact that we need to ride more bicycles and loosen up the traffic congestion. To advocate their intent Seoul Design Fair hosted the Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010, where entries from around the world we welcomed. The mission was to provide a cycle for the city dweller, so that he can adopt cycling into his daily routine and lead a healthy lifestyle. The city on its part, promises to provide all the infrastructure needed to promote it.
| Read more »Today at Apple's online store, save big on refurbished Mac models like the current-generation Mac mini with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive along with a HDMI port with support for up to 1920x1200 resolution, a SuperDrive, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics card, built-in AirPort Extreme WiFi, Bluetooth and more. This Mac mini was $699, but has been cut by $100 to $599....
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| Read more »Screenlife has released a special 30 Rock edition of its popular Scene It trivia game for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Scene It 30 Rock includes content based on the popular hit TV comedy series including themed puzzles such as What the What? Mind Grapes, That’s a Dealbreaker and…
| Read more »The MacTech Conference announced on Friday that it will be offering on-site Apple Certification exams as part of its November event, and that the exams are included in the cost of registration. Attendees can take any Apple Certification Exam, and a study session ahead of the tests will be open to attendees planning on taking exams.
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An update to this system monitoring utility brings an optional compact view and support for hundreds of internal sensors across new Intel Macs, as well as PowerMac G5s and PowerBook G4s.
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