LightSpeed is a complete point-of-sale system that can turn your business's Mac into the most attractive cash register your customers have ever seen. Now the company is bringing point-of-sale capabilities to the mobile sphere.
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Xeric Design announced the immediate availability of EarthDesk 5.5 on Wednesday. The update for the real-time Earth view as a Mac OS X desktop added the ability to render images using the dual GPU features in Macs with i5 and i7 processors.
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An iOS developer has managed to extract the second-generation Apple TV’s main interface and run it on an iPod touch. Named Lowtide.app, the interface was built with support for multiple devices, including the iPad, in its list of supported hardware, TUAW reports. Developer Dustin Howett took the application…
| Read more »Already available for the iPhone and iPod touch, Catan HD brings the classic Settlers of Catan strategy board game to the iPad.
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I’ve been using Pixelmator since it was first released and it just keeps getting better with every update. The newest incremental update improves the Photo Browser by making it faster for users. It also adds support for Aperture, Apple’s professional workflow photography application. According to notes provided with the update, stroke results are better, a [...]
| Read more »Apple has been newly granted some 17 different patents, two of which would allow for a 3G-enabled MacBook, according to Patently Apple. Antennas for wireless electronic devices documents taking advantage of conductive housing in a notebook to produce antennas using dielectric members. In one part of the filing, Apple remarks that "cellular telephone communications could be handled using a multiband cellular telephone antenna and local area network data communications could be handled using a multiband wireless local area network antenna."...
The iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch all use a menu system called "Springboard" that doesn't exist on the new Apple TV. But what the Apple TV uses instead might be coming to iPad.
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While the new Apple TV uses the iOS operating system, its interface is even more closed than an iPad or iPhone. You won't be able to load apps from iTunes or browse the web using Safari. (At least not yet.)
Instead, the whole interface is an application called "Lowtide", essentially an updated version of the "Front Row" system that has been on Macs and older Apple TVs for years. Lowtide will handle all the user interaction, as well as the video playback and streaming, connecting to Macs or other iOS devices through AirPlay—it's an one-stop...
| Read more »After four days of availability, China Unicom (CU) has sold 100,000 iPhone 4s in China (here are some photos from launch day). Pre-orders began on September 16th, and CU reported earlier this week that 200,000 orders were taken. Today, all online reservations have come to a halt. Customers must be physically present at a retail store to buy one. For now, the iPhone 4 is outselling the iPhone 3GS many times over.
Phones bought through China Unicom require a two year service contract. However, the phone is also available contract-free at Apple stores.
Liu Liang, an analyst with consulting group iResearch, commented on the iPhone's popularity."The level of smartphone usage is...
| Read more »Apple on Wednesday made good on its promise to deliver the first shipments of its new HD-streaming Apple TV media box to early adopters who plunked down the $99 for the device in the hours following its announcement earlier this month. AppleInsider offers an in-depth first look at the product in this extensive series of unboxing photos.
The HDCP exploit Intel tried to downplay a couple of weeks ago is now being offered to the public. Created by Rob Johnson and Mikhail Rubnich, the open-source software is said to be capable of decrypting 1080p HDCP video in real-time. This does requires a moderately powerful system, however, with the creators saying a high-end, multi-core 64-bit CPU can decrypt 30FPS, 1080p content using two cores and about 1.6GB of RAM....
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| Read more »Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner CEO, isn‚Äôt interested in Apple‚Äôs US$0.99 iTunes Store TV show rental program because he sees it as a platform that will hurt broadcast partners.
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Apple's newly formed "creative technology team" will be responsible for creating new, interactive HTML5-based content on the company's website to support owners of iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.
The Golden Ratio was apparently the basis of the design for the new Twitter.
| Read more »In a blog post talking about the future of Firefox Home (their iPhone app that syncs Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs from desktop to iPhone), Mozilla dashed any dreams we possessed of a true Firefox browser for iPhone.
While Apple authorized Opera's browser app, Mozilla isn't too keen to try with their browser. They admit that "there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone," and instead are much more focused on Firefox Home, which they intend...
| Read more »If it's a day ending in "y," some company has probably announced that it‚Äôs producing a tablet computer. The latest tablet computing entry was the PlayBook from Research in Motion. The device is aimed squarely at business users, which makes sense since so many businesses insist on tethering their employees to BlackBerrys. What doesn't make sense is thinking someone would be excited about an even bigger BlackBerry.
| Read more »Booq has introduced its new Boa Folio case for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The Boa Folio is a carrying case for iPad made from Nappa leather or Booq‚Äôs Twylon ballistic fabric, and features a dedicated iPhone/iPod touch pocket on the front flap, a closing strap to hold‚Ķ
| Read more »Vimov has released an update adding iPhone and iPod touch support to Weather HD. Originally designed and released for the iPad, Weather HD displays real-time weather conditions in an artistic high-definition visual display of actual weather patterns. Users can configure the application to provide weather for multiple cities and optionally‚Ķ
| Read more »TUAW has a nice roundup of iOS text editors that have Dropbox support so you can pick them up later from another device.
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| Read more »Apple will be hosting its fourth fiscal quarter earnings conference call on October 18, and today TMO readers are speculating on whether or not financial analysts are accurately predicting the numbers the company will report.
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SwitchEasy has debuted its new Trim case for the iPhone 4. The Trim is a one-piece hybrid case featuring sides made of a scratch resistant hydro polymer material and a polycarbonate back, push-though coverage for the volume and sleep/wake buttons, and open access to the ring/silent switch, screen, and…
| Read more »Dell's mainland China President Amit Midha today said the company's seven-inch Android tablet would ship much sooner than expected. The slate should arrive sometime in the "next few weeks" for an unknown price. A well-known 10-inch model should arrive within six to 12 months, he also told Dow Jones....
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| Read more »Toshiba jumped head first into the mobile phone marketplace when it launched its Windows Mobile-powered TG01 smartphone, one of the first handsets to feature Qualcomm‚Äôs Snapdragon processor.
| Read more »This morning we received word from Jesse Grosjean at Hog Bay Software that his new app, PlainText (free, in-app purchase to remove ads), is now available on the App Store. It's one of several iOS text editors that feature support for Dropbox, so we thought a quick roundup of these apps was in order. If you're thinking about joining me for NaNoWriMo 2010 starting on November 1st, it's a good idea to think about what device(s) you'll be writing on and getting your writing software ready to roll as soon as you can. Text editors make excellent writing tools, since they're bare bones and don't get in the way of putting words onto "paper."
First, let's take a look at PlainText (see screenshot above). Hog Bay Software is the same company that...
Flying Meat's VoodooPad 4.3 adds a few new features, including the ability to export your files as a mobile Web app.
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Apple has released its second beta version of iOS 4.2 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, along with its accompanying SDK and a new beta version of iTunes 10.1. It is unclear what new features are present in the update, although it does appear to offer a slightly altered…
| Read more »Twitter has surpassed MySpace in traffic, and taken a place in the top three busiest social networking sites. Twitter's 96 million unique visitors last month (up 75% from last year!) topped MySpace's 95 million (down 17%).
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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has joined others in the TV industry in criticizing 99-cent TV show rentals and purchases from Apple and Amazon. The executive recently spoke at the Royal Television Conference in London. "How can you justify renting your first-run TV shows individually for 99 cents an episode," he said, "and thereby jeopardize the sale of the same shows as a series to branded networks that pay hundreds of millions of dollars and make those shows available to loyal viewers for free?"...
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| Read more »Check out PCMag's exclusive full review and hands-on footage of the new Apple TV¬óincluding the new Remote app.
| Read more »Apple extended the playing field in its patent battle with Nokia to include the U.K. The two companies files lawsuits against each other over mobile phone-related patent infringement claims in the U.S., and now Apple has filed a new patent infringement suit against Nokia in the U.K.
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When it comes to iOS downgrading, most people talk about reverting to an older version of the operating system, like going from iOS 4 back to 3.2. The guy who...
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While the iPhone is a very popular smartphone, Apple's overall share in the mobile phone market is still very low compared to giants such as Nokia and Samsung.
| Read more »Sonos today released its long in coming Sonos Controller for iPad (free, App Store). The app gives a significantly expanded view for steering a Sonos device such as the ZonePlayer S5 and can show the destination zones, the current music, queue and the source list all at once. It works both in landscape and portrait mode....
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| Read more »He's been called the Mayor of Twitter. Newark Mayor Cory Booker has amassed more than 1 million followers on the social networking site and used Twitter for everything ...
| Read more »This week‚Äôs featured photo is from our iPads Around the World gallery, and shows an iPad in front of a herd of pachyderm in Chobe National Park in Botswana. Interestingly, the shot shows not only the iPad, but also a reflection of‚Ķ
| Read more »The Pixelmator Team announced the immediate availability of Pixelmator 1.6.1 on Wednesday. The update for the Mac OS X image editing application added support for Apple‚Äôs Aperture pro image management application.
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Movie Night Out is a fun and free little app that can help with that seemingly ever-present question: "So what do you want to do tonight?" It's a piece of cake to use. Just punch in what you want to do for your movie night (maybe hit up some shopping, see the movie, and then grab dessert, or do dinner, check out an action hit, and then get coffee). The app will automatically find some options for each of your choices and put together a schedule that will let you do all three. You can check out information and reviews for all of the options, and even map out, share on Facebook or Twitter, or save your "night" for another time. There's not really anything here that you can't find in other apps, but the smooth interface and fun randomization of your choices make the free app worth a download.
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| Read more »Data visualization techniques have been often used in modern maps to incorporate variety of information, for instance for network designs, destination points, and local landmarks. Let‚Äôs take a look at some creative examples of beautiful infographics.
| Read more »While it could just be a screengrabbed imaged displayed in the Photos app, we're inclined to believe it's the real deal as Hexxeh already has a proven track record in Chromium OS builds.
The UK-based hacker tweeted from his compromised iPad, but did say that "I'll dash your hopes later, there are a few catches." In a reply to another tweeter, he said later that "You can't use it as a normal iPad without a restore sadly though."
Only the one grainy picture has been published showing his iPad running the open source Chromium OS, but presumably he'll be letting us in on some of his secrets later. [Hexxeh via...
| Read more »U.S. computer maker Dell reportedly plans to take on Apple's iPad with a smaller, 7-inch device set to launch in a matter of weeks, as well as a 10-inch touchscreen device planned to debut in the next year.
These new sets of custom videos, objects, and clipart from Keynote Theme Park can add a coat of polish to any Keynote presentation.
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Streaming capabilities have been added to BitTorrent via the Tribler client, and more recently uTorrent. Thus far the implementation of these technologies into major websites has been lacking. That position changed this week as the Wikimedia Foundation partnered with P2P Next to use BitTorrent-powered streaming for their video content.Enter a description
| Read more »Shoppers in Finland will be able to buy iPhones that aren‚Äôt locked to a single carrier starting on Thursday. Cell service operator Elisa will sell the iPhone 4 without a service contract to customers so they can use the combination iPod and smartphone on any carrier‚Äôs wireless network.
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Nintendo today set its promised launch date and price for the 3DS with a warning that it would hurt the company's results. The 3D-capable handheld will reach Japan well after the holidays, on February 26, and will cost the equivalent of $299. North America should get the 3DS in March....
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| Read more »IMVU, which describes itself as social entertainment company whose members use 3-D avatars to meet new people, chat, and play online games, announced a Mac client on Wednesday. The release follows the debut of an IMVU iPhone app earlier this month.
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Confusion reigned in the market Tuesday, as the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq each slipped into early-morning freefalls, then rebounded to gains by the end of the day of 46.10, 5.54 and 9.82, respectively. That was caused by weak economic data, with consumer confidence slipping and the price of gold, which bears an inverse relation to the stock market hitting a new record of $1,309.20 an ounce. The confusion saw shares of Apple tumbling to $286.97 at one point, then shooting up to $289.32 in highly volatile trading.
Late Tuesday, Apple released new betas of two major upcoming software releases, the upcoming versions of iOS 4.2 and iTunes 10.1.
Per AppleInsider, Tuesday’s release of iOS 4.2 marks the second beta of the software update, due for a public release in November. It is available for the iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and second-, third- and fourth-generation iPod touch.
People familiar with the latest iOS beta said it is known as 8C5101C.
The first beta of iOS 4.2 was released earlier this month, and marked the debut of AirPrint, Apple’s new wireless printing standard for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. AirPrint will allow iOS device users to print to a shared printer connected to a PC or Mac, or directly to some printers that are compatible with the format.
The previous beta also packed a number of small fixes, including...
| Read more »In a blog post published yesterday, software developer Mozilla effectively announced that it has no plans to bring a full-fledged standalone browser to the iPhone, preferring instead to focus on its Firefox Home application designed to integrate the browsing experience among desktop and mobile environments.
“We are working to bring as much of your Firefox experience as possible to Firefox Home. People have asked about adding more browser-like features to Firefox Home, but there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone. We are focused on building Firefox Home as a rich, cloud-based application and making it a valuable product that people will continue to love and use.”
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| Read more »After debuting in China this weekend, iPhone 4 sales have hit the 100,000 mark.
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angry tapir writes "The Apple Peel 520, a Chinese-developed product that drew the media's attention for being able to turn an iPod Touch into an iPhone-like device, is coming to America. The add-on device, which just went on sale in China, has been billed as a more affordable option for users wanting to get their hands on an iPhone, but lacking the budget."
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| Read more »The Commonwealth Games 2010 or the CWG 2010 as they are more popularly known now are always in the headlines . Sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for not so good reasons . India has got this opportunity to host a major sporting event . Many would consider this as an honor for the nation to play hosts to an event of such a large magnitude and involving so many nations .But the execution and the run up to this major event has been ridden with a lot of major horrors . So as Indian public , should we consider this an honor or a horror ? That is a very intriguing and complicated question to answer , let us try and look at this whole thing in depth and analyze this .
So how did the games come to Delhi ? The two principal bids for the 2010 Commonwealth Games were from Delhi, India and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A ballot of members was held in November 2003 at the Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Delhi bid won by a margin of 46 votes to 22...
A leaked legislative proposal would create a net neutrality law while limiting the FCC's ability to create its own rules.
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OCZ's IBIS SSD is the first solid state drive to make use of this new HSDL interface. The IBIS is capable of delivering 750MB/s read/write speeds and up to 125,000 random write IOPS. IBIS SSDs will be available in a complete spectrum of capacities ranging from 100GB to 1TB. HotHardware Review
| Read more »Sonos releases its free, multi-pane iPad controller app.
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We loved the idea of turning our iPads into giant music remotes and we're glad to see that we can finally do it. The Sonos Controller app is now available, free, and should be great for those who own both a Sonos system and an iPad.
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| Read more »The just-posted iOS 4.2 beta 2 (build 8C5101c) reveals a previously unknown feature being considered for final release: allowing users to mark uploaded YouTube videos for public or private viewing. Alongside other additions already announced (such as Airplay and AirPrint), observers are beginning to wonder if the stage is being quietly set for iOS to leap to additional products....
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| Read more »PDF Studio, a full-featured PDF editor positioned as an alternative to the more expensive Adobe Acrobat, has upgraded to v6.5 -- a significant update that adds several new features and offers improvements in every area. The most significant changes include a new batch dialog to manage, open and view several documents at once on startup, a new callout annotation tool, a calibration tool to supplement the existing measuring tool which will allow users to set scale directly from a drawing, and dragging and dropping pages across documents, among others....
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| Read more »I'm not much of a collector, but I do have an inordinate number of websites and domains to my name. How did that happen? You get an idea, buy a domain, and set up a site. Repeat that process a few times, and you find yourself in my situation.
What's worse is that I've been storing the login creds, database details, registrar information, and so much more in text files. Trying to find any bit of data is a real hassle, not to mention a security risk. Thank goodness for DomainBrain. This super piece of software from Anthony Piraino of One Button Mouse has relieved me of my stacks of text files, organized all of that information, and made anything I'm after instantly retrievable. Here's our review of DomainBrain.
Click for more on the next page, and check out the gallery of images below.
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| Read more »iPhone travel app What Country describes Italy as "Pizza, Mafia, Pasta and Scooters." That isn't sitting too well with Italian Tourism Minister Michela Vittoria Brambilla, who says that the app's description of her country is offensive. She is threatening legal action against the developers, Apalon of Belarus.
The US$0.99 app is rated pretty highly by users on the App Store, and it's described as having "a light-hearted and funny view of the world."
The Minister, for her part, says that "Italy is a beacon in the world for its history, culture and style, and as a citizen and minister, I cannot allow that our country is discredited by the use of a criminal organization as its...
| Read more »The first reviews of the new Apple TV are starting to appear and we're rounding them up for you. Here's a look at the early impressions:
Fox News' Clayton Morris had plenty of good things to say about the Apple TV's features, but he also had a big concern:
The new Apple TV is small — hockey-puck small. That's impressive, but we all know size doesn't matter, whereas speed does. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly it connected to the iTunes library on my desktop computer. The Apple TV does this noticeably faster than its ancestor using a 'home sharing' option, which connects with any iTunes account in...
| Read more »Apple has posted several new betas for members of the paid iOS developer program. Point your browser to the developer site, and use your credentials to log in. You'll find new betas for iOS 4.2 as well as several other items that we're not sure we can specifically mention without breaking NDAs.
Download. Enjoy. Have fun.
Thank you everyone who pinged us!
TUAWNew iOS developer betas posted originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Some folks at the Hacker publication 2600 decided to compile a list of words that are restricted by Google Instant.Except in extreme and special cases, Google is known for anything but censorship, but as weve said before, there are some terms the web giants new instant search feature wont work with.We understand Googles intentions; the team over there is trying to make sure that no one sees pornographic or violent results they might fight disturbing unless they really mean to search for them. When asked about this feature a few weeks ago, Googles Johanna Wright said the restrictions are in place to protect children.But Google has opened itself up to a potential PR problem, because some of these omissions will be at best bewildering and at worst offensive to particularly sensitive (or progressive) users who dont understand how Google Instant actually works.For example, bisexual and lesbian are among the restricted words. Type them in to Google and the instant search will immediately...
| Read more »Just the other day, I was talking about larger gaming companies using iPhone games to promote their major titles, and here you go: Microsoft and Lionhead Studios' Peter Molyneaux are set to introduce a "smartphone" game next week (presumably that means iPhone, although given that it's Microsoft, it might not be) that will tie-in to the upcoming Fable 3 release on the Xbox 360. The game will be called "Kingmaker," and it sounds like it'll be an augmented reality title, with UK players able to explore their real-world town and "plant virtual flags for the Royals or the Rebels." Every flag planted will earn in-game gold, and that gold will transfer over to the full console title when it is...
| Read more »Singluar Software's PluralEyes, a software companion to Final Cut Pro that allows for synchronizing multiple sources of audio to FCP video sequences without timecodes or clappers, has been updated to v1.2 which the company describes as "a major update," and brings new merged clips management and support for locked tracks, along with support for audio from DSLR video-shooting cameras....
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| Read more »Apple Tuesday evening supplied developers with the latest betas of two major upcoming software releases, with iOS 4.2 and iTunes 10.1 available for testing.
Mozilla has outlined its future plans for Firefox Home, the App Store utility that serves as a bridge between the desktop Firefox experience and iOS browsers. Although the app has been periodically updated with additional features from the desktop software, the company claims it is not working to make mobile Firefox browser for the iPhone....
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| Read more »CNET reports that for the fourth consecutive year, J.D. Power and Associates has ranked Apple highest in customer satisfaction among smartphone manufacturers. The study showed that iPhone scored particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features, and physical design.
| Read more »The Apple Peel 520, an iPod touch case that effectively turns it into a phone, will be coming to the US and UK soon.
Developed and built in China, the Apple Peel 520 fits onto the iPod touch. It's got a dock connector, battery, and slot for a SIM card. Once users have got the thing set up, they can use the iPod touch to make phone calls and send text messages. Go Solar USA will be the American distributor for Chinese developer Yoison Technology.
Go Solar USA claims that customers can expect the Apple Peel's 800mAh battery to deliver nearly five hours of talk time and 120 hours of standby use. Note that this does require a jailbroken iPod.
The Apple Peel has been available in China for a while now, first as a black market item. With...
| Read more »DVDthemePAK.com has announced that all of its ThemePAK collections and button products are now available with widescreen formatting and theme family features. Every theme also now includes two templates, one for the main screen and one for the chapters screen. Additionally, the company has made each theme available as a digital download, and is now selling individual themes in addition to the standard ThemePAK collections. iDVD ThemePAK collections are priced between $30 and $40, while individual themes sell for $10....
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| Read more »MacNN has reviewed PCsync for Mac, describing how the recently PC-only software works with its new Mac-host that allows for PC-to-Mac syncing. The syncs are good but Mac-PC file-naming differences are an issue and the Mac software feels like PC software, in that it is slightly counter-intuitive....
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| Read more »Come on. You know you want it. I dare you. It's only a fraction of the price of your spankylala Macbook Pro. And unlike your iPhone 4, you can hold it and caress it in any way you want.
Not only is it Jobs' bella figura, but it will be digitally created for you, on demand, using Shapeways' 3D manufacturing machines. I tell you, $128 for spending the rest of your life watched by his Steveness? That's nothing. [Shapeways via Unplggd]
| Read more »Apple tonight posted both iOS 4.2 beta 2 and a new, first beta of iTunes 10.1 to the Developer Center. It's unclear what the two provide besides bug fixes, although iTunes 10.1 is said to support some level of printing and is likely needed to make a computer an AirPlay target. More details are expected soon....
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| Read more »An anonymous reader writes "A couple of guys (us) in Cambridge have written a cycle routing system, CycleStreets.net, based on open data, and have now released it as a free iPhone app. It's been done on a shoestring, in spare time. There's an API and some disruptive tech in the form of a photo submission screen where street problems can be submitted directly. Because it's open data, you don't have to wait 6 months for the routing to be fixed if there's a bug. Android and .mobi versions are in the works, with the apps being done on GitHub."
| Read more »Apple gets ready to talk numbers, COO Tim Cook puts a stop to an ugly rumor, and Gizmodo totally scores another Apple scoop.
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Looks like iOS 4.2 Beta 2 is now available for download in the iOS Developer Center. We'll be taking a look and letting you know what's new since the last beta shortly. [Apple]
| Read more »Despite a late start, Newer Technology has joined the fray of companies offering custom iPhone 4 cases, today unveiling four different types of soft and hard cases along with a new anti-glare and backing film to reduce scratching....
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| Read more »In the midst of shipping the Apple TV, Apple has released Remote 2.0, the newest version of its iOS app for controlling iTunes and Apple TV.
Per Macworld, Remote 2.0 introduces several new features, not the least of which is a long-awaited interface designed for the iPad. The new software also features a gestures tab for controlling an Apple TV with iOS-like flick and drag motions.
The new app also supports Home Sharing, an easier method for sharing and streaming your media that Apple introduced in iTunes 9. If you enable Home Sharing in Remote 2.0 on your iPhone or iPad, it will automatically discover and let you control shared libraries on your network from a Mac or PC running iTunes, or a new Apple TV.
Remote 2.0 also boasts high-res graphics for the iPhone 4’s Retina display...
| Read more »It's been Apple TV-palooza here at TUAW today. Shortly after discovering that the Apple TV iOS firmware could be downloaded and unpacked, we took our first peek under the hood and saw just how similar the new Apple TV, with its Lowtide software, was to previous Apple TV releases. Soon after, we discovered that the Lowtide application was built with multi-device support, including the iPad, in its list of supported hardware.
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Now, developer Dustin Howett has managed to port Lowtide to an iPod touch...
A few years back, a certain late night host popularized a word that may or may not be in your dictionary: truthiness. Stephen Colbert was referring to what has become a very effective political tool, namely, statements that many people will accept as true because they feel right, even if they have no basis in reality. A small cottage industry has since sprung up to evaluate the amount of truth that exists in a potentially truthy statement (Politifact is probably the best example). Now, a bunch of academics at Indiana are attempting to use a combination of crowd-sourcing, Twitter, and automated text and network analysis to bring instances of political truthiness out into the open.
The team has set up a site, Truthy....
| Read more »Several broadcasters have filed a lawsuit against Ivi TV after the startup defied cease-and-desist demands to stop retransmitting broadcast TV signals via the Internet without permission. Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS have accused the small company of copyright infringement for its web-based streaming service, which provides access to over 20 channels for $5/month....
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| Read more »Remember a couple of weeks ago when Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn said that the iPad had cut into netbook sales by as much as 50 percent? Then the next day he said the statements weren‚Äôt accurate? Today he tried to clarify his statement even more. ‚ÄúI was brutally misquoted,‚Äù Dunn told reporters, including Fast [...]
| Read more »The Guardian puts to words something I've been thinking for a long time: that iTunes is actually Apple's weakest link. You'd be forgiven for believing the opposite -- iTunes is arguably Apple's strongest brand, given that it encompasses all of the "mobile device company's" products, and remains the springboard for all iPhones, iPods, and iPads, even across into Windows-land. I'm sure there are even non-Apple customers that use iTunes to organize and share their music. So, there's no question that iTunes is a powerful component of Apple's success so far.
But at the same time, it's become a crutch. As John Naughton says, this is "feature creep on an heroic scale." The application was started as SoundJam, meant specifically for music playback, but at this point, iTunes serves as a movie and TV rental service, a music recommendation service, a phone activation service...
| Read more »The upcoming MacTech 2010 conference will feature a panel on virtualization moderated by Macworld Editorial Jason Snell, and readers can take advantage of discounted registration.
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When asked to explain how his company was open, Google CEO (and former Apple boardmember) Eric Schmidt chose to answer the question by saying that Apple is closed, and that his company did the inverse of what Apple did, and therefore is open.
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I've been a big fan of Xmarks for a while now -- I work on a few Macs and PCs regularly, and while MobileMe is nice, I've always appreciated Xmarks' ease of use (after a one-time setup, it basically worked automatically) and compatibility across whatever browsers I happened to use. That's why I was disappointed to hear yesterday that they're calling it quits. Around 90 days from now, the servers will shut down, and Xmarks will be no more.
Co-founder Todd Agulnick goes through the story of the service on that blog post. It was originally developed as Foxmarks, and it was designed to work directly with the Firefox browser to sync bookmarks there. Eventually, they brought in large numbers of users with tons of bookmarks in their browsers, but...
| Read more »AutoDesSys, the 3D imaging company best known for its modelling software Form√ØZ, have updated their 3D design program Bonzai3D to v.2.2, adding support for Abvent's Artlantis and two new languages (French and Czech) along with 75 minor fixes and improvements -- but the software has also had to modify support for Google Sketchup's 3D Warehouse and Google Earth due to changes on Google's part, meaning users will have to adapt to new ways of using these components....
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| Read more »You hear about interesting uses for the iPad all the time, and many times, those uses are merely theoretical. Sure, using an iPad at an archeological dig sounds cool and practical and all, but does anybody really do it? As it turns out, the answer to that question is "yes."
In some of Apple's online promotional galleries, the company highlights a team of archeologists making use of the iPad for tasks such as text and graphical data entry. One of those in charge of the dig says that using the iPad for this work has saved countless hours of data entry that would have otherwise been done back at the field office.
Sure, the iPad needs to be sufficiently protected from the elements (such as, y'know, flying hunks of rock), but that's likely a small price to pay vs. paper notebooks with one's chicken scratch that someone needs to translate...
| Read more »Outlook will replace Entourage in the next version of Microsoft's Outlook for Mac. Here's our first look at the new app.
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RIM during a breakfast at the BlackBerry DevCon session today said the QNX foundations at the heart of the BlackBerry PlayBook would eventually replace BlackBerry OS itself. Confirming a rumor, a vice president said the roots to the currently isolated BlackBerry Tablet OS would eventually spread to the smartphones. BlackBerry 7, which doesn't have a timeframe, would likely be a gateway ahead of the full switch....
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| Read more »HP chose Palm‚Äôs webOS over Android when looking for an OS for future devices, according to former Palm CEO and current HP gadget wrangler Jon Rubinstein. Mr. Rubinstein told The Financial Times of London that his new company is on track for delivering a webOS tablet in early 2011, and that the company abandoned plans to release an Android-based smartphone.
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Google pulled out its wallet and went on an acquisition spree this year, according to research firm CB Insights.
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It takes time to update powerful programs, but Microsoft says that Office 2011 for the Mac will be available on 26 October 2010 (it's available for pre-order now). The updated productivity suite promises performance boosts along with brand new extras such as Full Screen Mode - which lets you block out distractions while writing in Word - and Dynamic Reorder - which lets you reorder layers in documents and presentations. Office 2011 will be available in several editions: Home and Student 2011 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Messenger for $119. Home and Business Edition adds Outlook - which replaces Entourage - for $199. And the Academic Edition offers the entire suite, including Outlook, for just $99... if you're a higher education student, staffer, or faculty member.
 
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| Read more »Scosche has added to a line of iPhone and iPad accessories with the motorMOUTH II Handsfree & Streaming Audio Car Kit. The Bluetooth device is designed to plug into a vehicle's MP3/AUX input. A multi-function button can be used to automatically pair the device, and one-touch voice dialing is supported for most Bluetooth-capable phones....
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| Read more »That's right -- Office for Mac 2011 now has an on-sale date; it's October 26th, which is just about a month away. The suite will be the first Mac OS X version that offers Outlook rather than Entourage, and it will come in a few different flavors. Home and Student 2011 will be available for US$119 (or $149 for a three-copy family pack), and it will come with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Messenger. Home and Business 2011 will have the whole enchilada and will sell for $199 (or $279 for a two-install pack).
The announcement came with the cheery video above, which runs through a few new features of the software and shows you a few of the kind folks running the Mac Business Unit. A couple of us have been using Office for Mac 2011, and we'll have some impressions for you later on. Stay tuned -- if you've been waiting for a brand new Office for Mac, the wait is almost over.
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| Read more »California has passed a law outlawing malicious online impersonation.
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Apple has sued Nokia in Britain, accusing the Finnish smartphone maker of violating nine patents it owns and extending the legal battle between the two companies.
Roku and TiVo have announced partnerships with Hulu to bring Plus content to their respective set-top media devices.
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Aimersoft has launched a new video editing and conversion tool, Video Studio Express for Mac. The program cuts, splits and joins video files, and supports a range of formats such as AVI, MPEG, MP4, QuickTime, and Flash. It also works with imported DV and camcorder video. Tools adjust settings like brightness, contrast and saturation....
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