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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11601" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11601">Marketing firm Dentsu London uses stop-motion photography and custom 3D software to create a movie that features animations in light, projected using iPads (you know, that limited entertainment device that can't be used for anything creative).</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11562"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11562', 'show')">Second-Generation Apple TV Shrinks and Streams</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11562" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11562">The new Apple TV is a black box a quarter the size of its predecessor, offering streaming content, no requirement to sync to a computer, and 99-cent TV show rentals to the living room.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> and <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 01 Sep 2010 | <a href="/article/11562#comments">4 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11474"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11474', 'show')">A Rational Response to a Magic Trackpad Glitch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11474" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11474">Jeff Carlson receives a Magic Trackpad that contains - horrors! - a defective battery. Is it time for a recall? Class action lawsuit? Or how about some common sense?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 29 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11474#comments">10 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11466"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11466', 'show')">Apple Spreads Magic to New Trackpad, Battery Charger</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11466" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11466">Apple's new Magic Trackpad brings Multi-Touch gestures to all Bluetooth-capable Macs, not just the MacBook and MacBook Pro. The efficient Apple Battery Charger keeps the trackpad (and other devices) powered using Apple's long-lasting rechargeable AA batteries.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 27 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11466#comments">12 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11467"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11467', 'show')">Apple Updates iMac, Mac Pro, and Cinema Display</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11467" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11467">Apple has announced substantial speed and graphics updates to the iMac and Mac Pro lineups, and debuted a new 27-inch Cinema Display.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Doug%20McLean">Doug McLean</a> and <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 27 Jul 2010 | <a href="/article/11467#comments">9 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11445"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11445', 'show')">Apple Reports $3.25 Billion Profit for Q3 2010</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11445" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11445">Are you current with Apple's quarterly finances? Take our friendly, informative quiz to learn all the details of the company's best-ever financial quarter.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11434"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11434', 'show')">Apple Responds to iPhone 4 Antenna Issue</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11434" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11434">In a press conference, Apple laid out facts about how widespread the problems with the iPhone 4 antenna are, promised free cases for all iPhone 4 purchasers, and made its case that the issue was blown out of proportion.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11431" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11431">iOS 4.0.1 for iPhone changes how the cellular signal strength indicator appears, while iOS 3.2.1 for iPad fixes a handful of glitches.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11355"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11355', 'show')">New Mac mini Offers Improved Specs and Aluminum Redesign</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11355" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11355">Apple has released a redesigned Mac mini, trimming the unit's physical size, encasing it in aluminum, adding HDMI output and an SD card slot, upping the maximum amount of RAM to 8 GB, and increasing the CPU and graphics processing power - along with the base price.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 15 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11355#comments">8 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11354" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11354">Dropbox is a great way to share files to the iPad, but until recently it was difficult to get a document into your shared Dropbox folder from an iPad app that doesn't explicitly support Dropbox. Habilis introduces a feature for sending files to your Dropbox via email.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 14 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11354#comments">7 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11343"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11343', 'show')">iMovie for iPhone Details Surface</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11343" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11343">TidBITS uncovers some key details about the upcoming iMovie for iPhone app, including whether it will be available for models other than the iPhone 4, if projects can be transferred to the Mac, whether it will run on the iPad, and the expected ship date.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 11 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11343#comments">17 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11329" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11329">Improves noise reduction, adds support for cataloging video files, corrects lens distortion based on specific camera and lens models, among many other improvements. ($299 new, $99 upgrade, 74.9 MB)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=22" class="category">Watchlist</a> | by <a href="/author/Jeff%20Carlson">Jeff Carlson</a> | 08 Jun 2010</div></div>
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11319" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11319">People who purchase an iPad Wi-Fi + 3G model before AT&T removes its unlimited data plan get to keep the option of paying for unlimited data. However, the iPad is back-ordered nearly everywhere, making it impossible to receive a new iPad before the June 7 switchover. In response, AT&T has stated that people who order the iPad by 11:59 PM on June 6 will be grandfathered in, even if they don't have the iPad in hand to activate the account.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11263" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11263">On a recent MacJury podcast with Chuck Joiner, Jeff Carlson joined a conversation about the first weekend with the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G model. Among other topics, we looked at how 3G access makes the iPad more useful when walking around an unfamiliar city, whether the 250 MB data plan is realistic, and effect on battery life from the 3G radio.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11222"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11222', 'show')">Increase Your iPad Media Storage for Just $49</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11222" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11222">The 16 GB iPad doesn't offer enough storage for avid movie watchers, especially if you want to take the iPad on vacation without a laptop. Here's a way to bring more media than will fit on the device, without paying for a larger-capacity iPad, using Apple's iPad Camera Connection Kit.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11226"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11226', 'show')">Four TidBITS Staffers Honored in 2010 MacTech 25</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11226" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11226">Congratulations to Adam Engst, Tonya Engst, Glenn Fleishman, and Joe Kissell, all of whom were included in the most recent MacTech 25 list of most influential people in the Macintosh technical community.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<a href="/article/11212"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11212', 'show')">Apple Posts $3.07 Billion Profit for Q2 2010</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11212" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11212">Apple continues to set records with its earnings report for the second quarter of its fiscal year. iPhone sales were up 124 percent over the year-ago quarter, and iPod sales stayed remarkably strong. Mac sales fared well, too. Growth outside the United States contributed to the overall strong results. And this quarter ended before a single iPad was delivered.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11172" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11172">On a recent MacVoices podcast, Jeff Carlson joined Chuck Joiner to talk about the making of Jeff's (almost ridiculously long-titled) book "Canon PowerShot G10/G11: From Snapshots to Great Shots." What's great about this episode is that they were joined by photographers Jeff Lynch and Justin Van Leeuwen, who contributed photos for the book through an experimental crowd-sourcing process using Flickr.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11167" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11167">As we spend more time with the iPad, we're discovering hidden functions and shortcuts to improve how we use it on a regular basis. Read on for a whole host of tips.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11156" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11156">Did you receive one of the 300,000 new iPads purchased on the first day? Jeff Carlson and Peachpit Press have posted a 21-page excerpt from Jeff's book "The iPad Pocket Guide" as a free PDF download. It covers setting up the iPad and essential features, and offers a taste of what the rest of the book is like when it ships. (Peachpit is offering it for $8.99 with free shipping. To access the PDF file, click the Sample Content tab on the book's product page.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->