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by Charlie Fletcher, Inside Mac Games
I thought Luxor 3 was a tremendously good follow-on to the previous Luxor 2. It was great fun, and I found myself playing it for hours on end. Tweet
by AppleInsider
Reports of regulatory approval of a new model of the iPhone in China seem to confirm that Apple's hardware will appear on the China Unicom network, and also suggest that a new model was created for the country of over 1 billion. Tweet
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet
Is the success of the iPhone some kind of a sign that Apple should toss aside its computer hardware and software businesses and become a one-platform company again? A move that would make it totally dependent on the cycles of a single technology, again? Tweet
by Steven Frank
But forget developers. You, the consumer, are getting screwed too. You are missing out on some great software that’s available on other phones on the same network, without issue, for no apparent logical reason. Tweet
by Ben Parr, Mashable
The technical detail involved in the hack can be overwhelming, so we’re synthesizing it down to the key points – as well what you can expect. Don’t be alarmed, but be vigilant. Here’s the security breakdown. Tweet
by John Walters, Zathink City Blog Tweet
by Jason Snell, Macworld Tweet
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took exception today to Apple's claims that "jailbroken" iPhones could cripple a mobile carrier network, calling the argument nothing but "a hill of beans." Tweet
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Despite heavy advertising and early black market interest, Apple’s iPhone is an expensive flop in Russia, according to a report posted Thursday by Svetlana Gladkova. Tweet
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by Paul Boutin, Venture Beat
Developing apps for the iPhone can be a profitable business, but Apple’s review and approval process is still a black box. Apple’s intractable system can foil an app’s launch, as happened today for Israeli company my6sense. Tweet
by Tom Kaneshige, CIO
One in four enterprises now supports the Apple iPhone, says a new Forrester survey on mobile support policies. Most enterprises support more than one mobile platform, including the reigning king, RIM's BlackBerry. Tweet
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Power Manager’s System Preferences pane lets you create multiple, customized schedules that determine when your Mac should be awake, asleep, or shut down, along with actions that can occur at specific times. Each schedule includes an action and a trigger—what causes the action to occur. Tweet
by Jim Dalrymple, CNET News Tweet
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
Speculation has arisen that Apple has discontinued Shake, its film digital effects and digital compositing software, after the application vanished from the company's online store. Tweet
by Andrew W. Donoho, IP
If app diversity is important to you, then Apple is actually doing the things necessary to promote that diversity. Tweet
by Michael Scalisi, PC World
I might miss a couple of my iPhone games, and perhaps my digital koi pond, but at least I wouldn’t have Apple dictating which business tools I can use. Tweet
by Garry Barker, The Age
The real difference at Coburg Senior High is in the environment created for the style of teaching and the way the Macs have been integrated into the learning process. Tweet
by Tom Hoggins, Telegraph
The success of the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch as gaming platforms has taken everyone by surprise. Tweet
by Eric Slivka, MacRumors Tweet
by IP Tweet
by Om Malik , GigaOM
I know it is hard for many of us (starting with me) in Silicon Valley to think logically about Ma Bell, given their history, but unlike others, I am happy to give them benefit of doubt. Are you? Tweet
by Ryan Block, Engadget
At no point did Gary Shapiro even remotely imply that Apple would be present at a future CES -- let alone state flatly that Apple "will be there" in 2010. Tweet
by Peter Wayner, InfoWorld
You don't need to master Cocoa and Objective C to create killer iPhone apps. Rhomobile, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, and Ansca tools leverage standard web technologies and still tap native features. Tweet
by Jared Newman, PC World
Even the iPhone isn’t perfect. Here are the top ten iPhone annoyances and what you can do about them. Tweet
by Christine Chan, Mac Life Tweet
by Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch
Now it looks like AT&T believes it’s been wrongly accused, and it’s beginning to take a stand for itself. Tweet
by Dan Frommer, Business Insider
So you'd expect the company to at least offer some of the apps' makers -- its business partners -- an explanation, right? Keep dreaming. Tweet
by Justin Williams, Carpeaqua
More important than the money is my enjoyment as a developer. I no longer enjoy building software for the iPhone because of the bureaucracy and infrastructure that surrounds it. Tweet
by Layton Duncan, Polar Bear Farm
I’ve lost all hope that the App Store will actually see the real changes is needs. As it stands it’s poorly planned, poorly managed, poorly executed, and it’s an embarrassment to Apple. They should be ashamed to be associated with it. Tweet
by MG Siegler, TechCrunch
I think that truth is that they can’t handle the iPhone, anymore. Tweet
by Seeking Alpha Tweet
by Riva Richmond, Wall Street Journal
A growing number of tools – both paid and free-- in Apple's App Store are useful to small companies whose owners or employees are pounding the pavement, hoping to ink deals or take care of customers. Tweet
by Stuart Jeffries, Guardian
iPhone apps could soon be bigger than YouTube. But who is making all the money here? Apple, the developers,or no one at all? Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Developers can now add search keywords to the description of their applications, allowing them to expand the terms which will bring up their app on a search without having to overload the limited description field. Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
MobileMe iDisk enables iPhone and iPod touch users with MobileMe accounts to access the contents of their iDisk — the online storage component of Apple’s subscription-based online service. Tweet
by John Martellaro, The Mac Observer
Because of that intangible feeling of using a thoughtful, finely crafted tool, the scope of the features, and the (available) printed manual, I'm rating Storyist one notch above all the rest. If I were to write a novel, Storyist has supplanted Scrivener as my tool of choice. Tweet
by Richard Hallas, Inside Mac Games
Minor niggles and a particularly frustrating boss-level aside, I have to say that Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an absolutely fantastic game. Tweet
by Patrick Smith, MocoNews.net
Apple has won the right to say that its apps are available "only on the iPhone" in the UK despite complaints that other handsets such as Google's G1 phone also offer similar ranges of software. Tweet
by Flip Phillips, Macworld
Suite of color management tools targets designers and photographers. Tweet
by David Colker, Los Angeles Times Tweet
by Dave Cronin, Cooper Tweet
by Bram In Canada Tweet
by Jenna Wortham, New York Times
Google might power the world’s most popular search engine, but its clout goes only so far. When it comes to getting one of its applications onto the iPhone, it seems Google has to wait in line for Apple’s approval like everyone else — and face the risk of rejection. Tweet
by Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle
And while this doesn't sit well with Apple critics and even some of its fans, it's still a far cry from proving an antitrust case, said Robert Lande co-founder of the American Antitrust Institute and a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Tweet
by David Kravets, Wired
The nation’s cellphone networks could suffer “potentially catastrophic” cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wireless devices — that’s what Apple claims. Tweet
by Adam Pash, Lifehacker
At the end of the day, this isn't simply a Google Voice/iPhone problem—it's a concern for everyone, iPhone owner or not, with an interest in the latest and greatest crop of smartphones. Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld
With all the social networking and electronic gadgetry that abounds today, our contact lists proliferate faster than bunnies released in the Australian outback. Mac-Chi’s WhoPaste aims to help make it a snap to add new contact information. The latest version, WhoPaste 3.0, even brings with it some features that can help certain users save money. Tweet
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet
Given the premium status of the device, it just doesn’t make sense that users are happy with the current situation. Tweet
by Ted Landau, The Mac Observer
I was intrigued at the possibility of getting an insider's look at the iPhone App approval process, especially for an app as "on-the-edge" as Bikini Babes. So I asked if I could interview him for this column. He agreed. Tweet
by Edible Apple Tweet
by Liam Cassidy, The Apple Blog
Tech specialist publisher O’Reilly is reporting encouraging growth in iPhone and Mac programming book sales, despite an overall drop in computer book sales. Tweet
by Mark Milian, Los Angeles Times
While an army of tech and music reporters hurl rumors about what the rumored Apple Inc. touch-screen computer will look like and do, we can't help but wonder why the entertainment industry is reportedly betting on it to spur a revolution. Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
I was thrilled with how easy Apple made this process—granted, it’d be much tougher without a nearby Apple store. Tweet
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
While for some these play counts are just notches in the belt of their digital music collection, for others play counts can be an integral part of a listening strategy. Since iTunes can fill smart playlists using play counts as a variable, using this information can help you make all kinds of playlists. Tweet
by Reuters
China Unicom, one of China's top three mobile carriers, has reached a preliminary agreement with Apple for the exclusive sale of its iPhone handset in China for three years, the official Shanghai Securities News reported on Tuesday, however a China Unicom official said a formal deal had not been reached. Tweet
by Pete Mortensen, Cult of Mac
Now, if this were AT&T’s app store, I wouldn’t have a problem with the carrier dictating which apps were approved and which weren’t. But this is supposed to be Apple’s show. Tweet
by Marshall Clow and Ilene Hoffman, MacNN Tweet
by Teebes.com Tweet
by Bob Levitus, Houston Chronicle Tweet
by Philip Michaels, Macworld Tweet
by MacNN Tweet
by Josh Lowensohn, CNET News.com Tweet
by Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb
If Apple is truly concerned about children's access to mature content, they'll need to come up with a better system than what they currently offer. They can either play the role of content police (much as they do now) or they can create a new system where ratings are consistent, parental controls are within easy reach, and perhaps iTunes accounts themselves are even categorized as belonging to an adult or a minor. Tweet
by Christopher Dawson, ZDNet
This has the potential to be a real game-changer in the classroom, whether K-12 or post-secondary. No more laptop walls, but rather interactive versions of texts, supplemental materials, notes, and web access in a portable, durable package; this is the promise of an Apple tablet in education. This is also what is known as an empty promise. Tweet
by The eBook Test Tweet
by Douglas Welton, Fortune
So, what is succession planning and why is it important to Apple? Tweet
by Leo Titus LeBron V, Low End Mac
For someone looking for an older PowerBook that can still hold it's own, looks modern, and is durable, the PowerBook G3 Pismo is the way to go. Tweet
by Dan Frommer, Business Insider Tweet
by Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch
It’s entirely possible that Apple’s decision to ban the app is being driven not by user confusion, but by AT&T’s request. Tweet
by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
Deleted voice mail, e-mail, and other data on the iPhone 3GS is vulnerable to hackers, a security expert claims in two video tutorials. Tweet
by Ted Landau, Macworld
When your printer won't print, sometimes you'll try the basics of printer troubleshooting with no results. Whether your printer's Dock icon bounces endlessly or a message says you're stuck at "connecting," here's how to handle problems with your printer queue. Tweet
by Chris Holt, Macworld
Not since Zombies Ate My Neighbors have I seen a deeper, longer, more challenging and memorable zombie game. It’s truly fun for all ages, and one of the most bizarrely comical games I’ve played in the last few years. Don’t let the cartoonish art or light-hearted atmosphere throw you off; this is one of the most clever and original strategy games out there. Tweet
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
Traditional versions of the iconic device are a thing of the past, but future iterations will have a long and vibrant future. Tweet
by Matthew Garrahan, Kenneth Li and Joseph Menn, Financial Times
Apple is working with the four largest record labels to stimulate digital sales of albums by bundling a new interactive booklet, sleeve notes and other interactive features with music downloads, in a move it hopes will change buying trends on its online iTunes store. Tweet
by Michael Jones, TUAW
Over the past few days, we have received word from a number of developers stating that they are now able to request promo codes for their 17+ apps. Tweet
by New York Times
Reports of the apparent suicide have set off a firestorm of criticism of Foxconn’s treatment of Mr. Sun, labor conditions at its factories and the pressures Apple places on suppliers to abide by the culture of secrecy that surrounds its development of new products.
The case also underscores the challenges that global companies face in trying to safeguard their designs and intellectual property in the hotly contested smartphone market, particularly here in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, an electronics manufacturing center known for piracy and counterfeiting. Tweet
by The Sacramento Bee
For eons, people have reached out to the Almighty with prayers and supplications. Soon they might be able to use their iPhones. Tweet
by Samanth Subramanian, Wall Street Journal
The iPhone’s applications or “apps” have held out a slim lifeline for small and mid-range software firms in India, at a time when other outsourced projects have succumbed to the slowdown. Tweet
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNNMoney.com
The Apple Store is the company’s steel-and-glass public face — a high-tech oasis as close as the local mall where one can experience first-hand the attention to design, the hand-holding support and the unrelenting focus on the user’s experience that make Apple different from every other computer maker (and are used by company and customers alike to justify Apple’s extraordinary profit margins). Tweet
by Maura Lerner, Minneapolis Star Tribune
It may have started out as a form of entertainment, but Pederson says this kind of technology is turning into an unexpected boon for children and teenagers with special needs. The devices, it turns out, can be crammed with the kind of information they need to get through the day. While it's still experimental, she said, "I think it's going to spread like wildfire." Tweet
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code
The Windows installation method works because the user never has to show any kind of initiative after initially clicking on the download link; Windows always prompts you when you need to do something. Tweet
by Mark Milian, Los Angeles Times
Everyone wants a piece of the Apple pie. Tweet
by Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing
Bottom line: normally I wouldn't be so jazzed about an application update, but as someone who's spent the better part of the last two years working on web video production, this struck me and other web video grunts in the room as "workflow-changing" (some said "life-changing!") and a nice big leap forward. Tweet
by Ross Miller, Engadget
While we thought the next round of the Pre / iTunes syncing fiasco would probably be something simple like Apple releasing another quick patch, Palm has stepped it up a notch by complaining to the USB Implementers Forum over what it sees is "improper use of the Vendor ID number" by the gang at Cupertino. Tweet
by 周殊钦, 联合早报
科技发展是永无止境的，抢在最前端购买新手机固然可令人一时“拉风”，但是能忍一时之痒者，往往才能占到最大的便宜。何况花了一大笔钱去买一只拥有超级功能的手机，本身却因操作知识所限，大多数时候只用来通话，是不是有点傻？ Tweet
by Erica Ogg, CNET News.com
Google on Thursday released a version of its Latitude mobile application for the iPhone. But Apple, curiously, has decreed that it be a Web-based app and not a native iPhone app, which has raised some eyebrows. Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Apple on Friday released ProKit 5.0, an update to the software frameworks that underlies its professional software applications. The new release is available for download on Apple’s Web site or through Software Update. Tweet
by Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac
There are reports out of Singapore that high humidity is killing iPhones, but positive LSI indicators are allowing the local carrier to reject warranty claims. Tweet
by Derrick Story, Macworld
We’ve all seen the wedding reception slide show featuring the happy couple growing up through childhood, dating, and then finally becoming permanently intertwined in each other’s lives. You can imagine how long it took an intrepid soul to build that production. But if you've used the Faces feature in iPhoto ’09 to identify the people in your photos, you can produce the same heartwarming tribute in just a few minutes. Tweet
by MacNN
Apple is maintaining a double-standard when it comes to gay-themed iPhone apps, a developer claims. Tweet
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code
The concept of a disk image is hard enough to understand; there’s really no reason why we should confuse people by using them for things other than creating images of actual disks. Tweet
by Daily Texan Online Tweet
by Chris Ziegler, Engadget Tweet
by Leo Hickman, Guardian Tweet
by Warren Buckleitner, New York Times
You may own a new MacBook from Apple, but are you still using old techniques when it comes to its trackpad? There’s a lot more you can do besides dragging a single finger across the surface to move the cursor. Below, a crash course in modern Mac trackpad control. Tweet
by Rupal Parekh, Advertising Age
Following a complaint from Apple, Microsoft has quietly tweaked at least one of the ads in its "Laptop Hunters" campaign to reflect its rival's lower pricing on its Mac notebooks. Tweet
by Marin Perez, InformationWeek
Apple shipped 5.2 million handsets last quarter, but the next quarter will see high-profile alternatives and no new iPhone model to goose sales. Tweet
by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
It's not realistic to believe AT&T will have an exclusive on the iPhone forever, CEO Randall Stephenson said Thursday. Tweet
by Sam Oliver, AppleInsider
Macs made up a whopping 91 percent of the $1,000 and up computer market in June, up significantly from early 2008 when Apple's premium market share was 66 percent, according to new data released this week. Tweet
by Gene Steinberg, The Mac Night Owl
Far too many companies don’t seem to understand how to exploit the talent their employees possess, and that may be the biggest disadvantage of all. Tweet
by Dan Knight, Low End Mac Tweet
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNNMoney.com Tweet
by Mike Curtis, Macworld
More video encoding with less work. Tweet
by Michael Scarpelli, Inside Mac Games
Plants vs. Zombies is a heck of a game. There’s enough content to keep you playing for days, and then when that’s done there’s content enough to entice you to play even longer. The game looks great, sounds great and has a pitch-perfect sense of humor about itself. This is a game that I feel very confident saying that you will not regret purchasing. Tweet
by Mike Curtis, Macworld
Audio for video app is faster, sleeker, better. Tweet
by Mike Curtis, Macworld
Workflow improvements boost value of video color corrector. Tweet
by Mike Curtis, Macworld
It has been more than two long years since Apple released Final Cut Pro 6 (), its flagship pro-level nonlinear video editing app. While there are a few extremely sexy new features in Final Cut Pro 7— among them new ProRes flavors, iChat Theater, and Easy Export that will attract lots of attention—the main focus of this new version seems to be enhancing stability, speed, and productivity. Tweet
by Mike Curtis, Macworld
Final Cut Studio motion graphics module adds shadows, reflections, and depth of field. Tweet
by Jim Dalrymple, CNET News.com
Apple released on Thursday the next major version of Logic Studio, the company's suite of professional audio applications.
I was given early access to the new version and have been using it for some time now. I can say the new features will not only improve your workflow, but will also improve the sound of your music. Tweet
by Jim Dalrymple, CNET News.com
Apple introduced on Thursday a new version of Final Cut Studio, the company's high-end video production suite.
The suite comes with six applications in all, including Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5, and DVD Studio Pro 4. Most of the work in this release was spent on the flagship app of the suite, Final Cut Pro. Tweet
by Sascha Segan, PC Magazine
It's time for Apple to take up their hobby again, forge back into the living room, and start talking about Apple TV. Tweet
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNNMoney.com
Tuesday was not a good day for professional analysts as a class — and Merrill Lynch’s in particular. Tweet
by Jordan Golson, GigaOM Tweet
by Henry Blodget, Business Insider Tweet
by Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundations
Apple has retracted its legal threats against public wiki hosting site Bluwiki, and, in response, Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF) is dismissing its lawsuit against Apple over those threats. Tweet
by David Coursey, PC World
Global recession? Not for Apple, whose Wall St. financials are blissfully unaware of Main St. reality. Apple's sadness? They can't keep up with demand. Tweet
by Nicole Martinelli, Cult of Mac
The top five must-see Apple stores, as per travel site Jaunted, are London, Tokyo, Sydney, New York — and Scottsdale. Tweet
by Dave Rosenberg, CNET News.com
From a software and cloud perspective, the iPhone represents an ideal world of development functionality mixed with an ability to use mobile services. However, the App Store approval process and AT&T's wonky network will still prevent us from reaching nirvana. Tweet
by Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com
Apple said Tuesday that it has made a $500 million prepayment to Toshiba for flash memory chips and indicated the market is stabilizing. Tweet
by Derrick Story, Macworld
Using the Faces feature in iPhoto ’09 to assign names to the people in your photos can take a good bit of time. And one small glitch in the database that tracks all of that information could set you back to square one. Which is why I recommend protecting your work from database corruption by backing up your Faces database files. Tweet
by Sam Oliver, AppleInsider
While the consumer market continues to shine for Apple, bringing the company to another record quarter, sales in the education and professional markets have suffered for the Mac maker during the ongoing economic recession. Tweet
by Zack Stern, Mac Life
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 succeeds by inserting lots of value and variety into its repeating structure. Even with technical problems, we had fun conquering the world three ways. Tweet
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Expert opinion is welcome—but for the love of dogcow, can you please start with a foundation of facts? Tweet
by Doug Young, Joanne Chiu and Gabriel Madway, Reuters
Apple Inc said it was awaiting results from an investigation into the death of a worker in China, after media reports said the man killed himself on learning he was suspected of leaking company secrets. The case puts the spotlight on Apple, whose public face as maker of the wildly successful iPhone contrasts with its reputation for a highly secretive corporate culture. Tweet
by Ben Parr, Mashable
We’re glad Mr. Cook acknowledged that Apple can do better, which is hopefully an indication of improvements in the near future. Tweet
by MG Siegler, TechCrunch Tweet
by Daniel Griswold, Cato @ Liberty
The smiley curve is a way of thinking about global supply chains where Americans reap the most value at the beginning and the end of the production process while China and other low-wage countries perform the low-value assembly in the middle. Tweet
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Apple’s record-setting quarterly financial results, released Tuesday, point out that the economic and marketing powerhouse that was the iPod has been eclipsed. The traditional iPod isn’t dead, not by a long shot, but its days of explosive growth are over — replaced by the growth of the iPod touch and the iPhone. Tweet
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet
According to Oppenheimer, some 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies had placed orders of 10,000 units or more. And some governmental agencies had made orders up to 25,000 units. Tweet
by Roman Loyola, and Danny Allen, PC World
The iMac continues to be a desktop Mac that's powerful enough to please both general consumers and demanding users. Tweet
by Yahoo! Tech
After working with both non-Apple hardware and software for a week, the things that started as little annoyances began to become truly aggravating. Tweet
by Doug McLean, TidBITS
The days of great Apple tees are not gone, and there are still great Apple shirts out there today! Here's a top ten list of my favorite Apple t-shirts you can still add to your wardrobe. Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Apple’s chief operating officer Tim Cook stood by his previous assertion that Apple’s not in the market to make a netbook when pressed repeatedly by analysts during Tuesday’s conference call to discuss Apple’s third-quarter results. At the same time, he noted that Apple’s recent laptop price cuts have helped move inventory. Tweet
by Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Apple announced a year over year decline in its sales of 10.2 million iPods, but noted that the company continues to maintain a greater than 70% share of the MP3 player market. It also stated that 50% of its traditional MP3 player buyers are new to the iPod. Tweet
by Erica Ogg, CNET News.com
Revenue came in at $8.34 billion, resulting in earnings of $1.35 per share. That's a 12 percent increase from a year ago, when Apple reported earnings of $7.46 billion and earnings per share of $1.19. Tweet
by The Mac Observer
In balance, Apple doesn't appear to have a lot of offsetting behavior that can be used in its defense. Rather, Apple's extreme obsession with secrecy put so much pressure on Foxconn that a young man lost his life as a result of subsequent events. In a sober assessment of a chain of causality, Apple's business practices must take responsibility for that pressure. Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
As someone who regularly mounts and unmounts disk images and external hard drives, I’m regularly faced with the annoying “could not be ejected” message. WhatsOpen has become a frequently used tool. Tweet
by Jim Dalrymple, CNET News.com
Apple confirmed on Tuesday the death of a man who worked at an iPhone plant in China.
According to various Chinese media reports, the worker at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn committed suicide last week after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype for which he was responsible went missing. Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Possibly the most notable addition is the inclusion of screen-sharing which, like iChat, allows you to view your contact’s desktop. But Skype takes it a step further: because of the program’s cross-platform nature, you can easily share you screen with your friends on Windows, as long as they’re running Skype 4.1. Tweet
by Stuart Gripman, Macworld
Together 2.2 from Reinvented Software is an application for keeping disparate bits and pieces of digital data organized and manageable. Mac OS X’s built-in Spotlight, with its content indexing and plug-in architecture do a fine job of helping track down just the item you need, but Together’s abundant management and categorization tools handily justify the asking price. Tweet
by Andrew Nusca, ZDNet
Apple is reportedly having difficulty keeping units of its newly-anointed 13-in. MacBook Pro laptop computer in stock as it enters the middle of the back-to-school buying season. Tweet
by MacNN Tweet
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Sales of cars and homes are foundering but Apple is finding steady customers. Tweet
by Sang Tang, TUAW Tweet
by Amy Clancy, KIRO
An exclusive KIRO 7 Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property. It’s an investigation that Apple has apparently been trying to keep out of the public eye. Tweet
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS
While most of the software features I describe below work on any iPhone running the iPhone OS 3.0, the 3GS model has one significant advantage that enables all of its owners to experience enterprise-class security. The iPhone 3GS includes a hardware encryption chip that uses the industry-standard AES 256 protocol (that's the Advanced Encryption Standard, with a key length of 256 bits). Tweet
by Nicole Martinelli, Cult of Mac Tweet
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Apple appears to have banned Zombie School, an iPhone game that involved shooting zombie students on an infected campus. Tweet
by Thought Patterns Tweet
by Jim Goldman, CNBC
It seems like every earnings season I focus on Apple as the stock and company to watch, but this time around there's an added dramatic flare in the return of Steve Jobs. Tweet
by Andrew Hedges Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld
According to Home Media Magazine, beginning with the release of the two-disc special edition of Fast & Furious on Blu-ray, Universal Studios Home Video will release titles that allow users to enhance their home movie-watching experience with the help of their iPhone or iPod touch. Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld
If you want to combine the convenience of your Time Machine backup with the safety of an online backup, there’s Jumping Bean Software’s Time Warp. Tweet
by Derrick Story, Macworld
There are plenty of hidden features and speedy shortcuts for making the process easier and more useful. Here are a few of my favorites. Tweet
by James Dempsey, Macworld
From Twitter to Flickr, EventBox puts all your social networking sites in one window. Tweet
by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
The free update, which is expected to be available later on Monday from Microsoft's Web site, is designed to improve speed and stability as well as add new features for connecting to SharePoint servers and to Microsoft's Office Live Workspaces. Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Configuration and interface hold back effective spam fighter. Tweet
by Wall Street Journal Tweet
by Peter Wayner, InfoWorld
Apple's random rules for iPhone app approval are a recipe for trivial apps and alienated developers. Tweet
by J. Benjamin Stevens, The Legal Mac
In law firms where lawyers are measured by the hours they bill, they are effectively punished for nonbillable time spent helping clients. Which is why people love going to the Apple Store, and hate dealing with lawyers. Tweet
by Sara Silver, Wall Street Journal
No wonder they are called smart phones. Not only can these fancy phones send email, get directions and play music, they can generate huge profits for their makers.
At least for iPhone's manufacturer Apple and BlackBerry's Research In Motion. The two accounted for only 3% of all cellphones sold in the world last year but 35% of operating profits, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff. Tweet
by Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times
The Japanese have a name for their problem: Galapagos syndrome. Tweet
by Tiernan Ray, Barron's
I tried an early version of Apple's budget-priced upgrade, Snow Leopard. At first glance, it looks the same as the current Apple operating system, Leopard. But there are subtle improvements which could boost the appeal of Apple's iMacs and, even more, its notebook computers. Tweet
by Webomatic Tweet
by Techtree.com Tweet
by Shawn Blanc
The name and concept of For an iPhone, By an iPhone materialized one evening while walking home from the general store with my wife eating popsicles. After a few days of designing and coding, along with a few more popsicles, the site was launched. Tweet
by Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com
A few tweaks of the MacBook and Apple could render the Netbook a non-issue. Tweet
by Henry Blodget, Business Insider
The folks who say that the BlackBerry is designed for business and the iPhone is designed for personal are generally right. But I'm still not unhappy I got it. And I'm looking forward to continuing to learn how to use the darn thing. Tweet
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet
Apple, Microsoft and some 20 other companies are being sued for patent infringement by a Texas firm which claims to have invented the touchpad. Tweet
by Chris Matyszczyk, CNET News.com
Does having "this sort of cool image" really preclude Apple from suing or at least doing a little more than wearing black and looking superior? Tweet
by Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Media
MobileMe seems like such a great idea, and one with such promise. Having it fail so completely on the very first day seems like such a miserable outcome. Tweet
by Macworld
Also announced: updates to KeyBag and Workamajig. Tweet
by Michael Jones, TUAW
Developers whose apps meet the criteria for a 17+ rating in the App Store are now running into yet another roadblock, but this time it's not about getting their apps approved, it's about distributing them. Or, more specifically, distributing promo codes for them. Tweet
by Erik Vlietinck, IT.Enquirer Tweet
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
Besides the all-too-common "this update improves overall stability and fixes a number of other minor issues" note, Apple mentions three specific areas of improvement in the latest update. Tweet
by MacNN
Eltima has released SyncMate 2.0, used to synchronize data between Macs, Windows Mobile devices and other smartphones. Tweet
by Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
by Kent German, CNET News.com Tweet
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
It’s hard for me to imagine how you could get more for $2 than you will by buying Simplenote. Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Purify 2.1.8 worked well as a pass-through spam filter. By acting as a pass-through, timing issues are avoided, and all e-mail will be filtered.
Setup, however, is complicated, and getting the most out of the program requires knowledge (regular expressions) that not all users will have. Users will also have to set up their own spam processing rules in their e-mail client, which is something not everyone will want to do. Tweet
by Steven Musil, CNET News.com
It should come as no surprise that Apple isn't a big fan of Microsoft's "Laptop Hunter" ads, but some may be surprised to learn the Mac maker's lawyers reportedly called a senior Microsoft executive and demanded the ads be removed. Tweet
by W. David Gardner, InformationWeek
Developers are experimenting with template-based mobile applications that are sold at the same price, have the same look and feel, but whose content is swapped out in different locations. Tweet
by Charles Jade, The Apple Blog
Since the manila-envelope unveiling at Macworld Expo 2008, the MacBook Air has gotten less Apple Event love than the time it takes Yael Naïm to sing “New Soul.” Tweet
by Tom Reestman, The Apple Blog
Any time Mac users get to thinking that Apple’s great success the last dozen years has changed how developers view the Mac, it hasn’t. Tweet
by MacNN
Softpress has released Freeway 5.4, upgrading the website design software with an extended CSS menu creation tool and an AddThis action for social bookmarking. Tweet
by Joe Cellini, Apple
"I want as little as possible to get between the idea and capturing the idea, and Logic seemed perfect for that." Tweet
by Joe Cellini, Apple
"Online media is a part of our core curriculum; it's a required course. Even our so-called print students learn to shoot video and edit on Final Cut Pro." Tweet
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult of Mac
As flash memory and solid state drives steadily become the storage media of choice for portable electronic devices, Apple’s iPod Classic - the device widely credited with kickstarting the company’s rise from the ashes of the John Scully era - may not survive to celebrate its 10th birthday in 2011. Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld Tweet
by Bryan Fergus, The Mac Observer
WhoPaste allows users to copy contact information as found on Web pages, in emails or text documents, and spreadsheets. Tweet
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Launch iCal, choose Preferences from the iCal menu, click the Advanced tab, and enable the Turn On Time Zone Support option. Tweet
by AppleInsider
While many of the early successful iPhone and iPod touch games came from small-time developers, big-name content creators like Electronic Arts, id Software and Konami are flocking to the platform, using their brands and marketing muscle to compete. Tweet
by Mark Sigal, O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone
Perhaps the real story with respect to the forthcoming Apple Tablet Device is that Apple has already released a tablet computing device. It's called the iPod touch, and because it's often overshadowed by its noisier sibling, the iPhone, we sometimes forget that it has already sold 15M+ units. Tweet
by Dan Frakes, Macworld Tweet
by TJ Luoma, TUAW
Are you the type of person who just can't settle down? Do you find your needs just can't be met by any one of the multiple options available to you? Can you even remember how many different browsers you've been with? If that sounds like you, you should be glad to hear that Choosy has left beta. Tweet
by John Martellaro, The Mac Observer
Apple's senior executives like to believe that there is no value is reading the Mac and iPhone related Websites, and they tell their staff that. After all, Apple employees are too busy to dabble in rumors and speculation. So it's just a time waster. Or is it? Tweet
by Matt Hamblen, Computerworld
The iPhone subsidy AT&T pays for each device totals about $300 and is expected by some analysts to take a toll on the carrier's quarterly finances when they're reported next week.
While the short-term hit of subsidizing the price of the iPhone could be significant, two analysts today said the exclusive contract with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone in the U.S. is still a good deal for AT&T. The reason: AT&T can attract new customers who pay at least $70 a month in subscription fees over the life of a two-year contract. Tweet
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet
For starters, I’m pretty sure that Apple counts every download in that 1.5 billion number. Updates and re-installs included. How many times have you updated your apps or restored your iPhone? What about handset upgrades? Time to download a few more apps. Again. If I’m wrong, Apple needs disclose its “download” accounting methodology.
Actually, the biggest question is: can any other mobile phone maker even cook up such a large number? Tweet
by Jim Dalrymple, The Loop
What this means in the broader scope of things is that Apple took on an entrenched cell phone industry and completely changed it with its hardware and software. It also revolutionized the way apps are bought and sold. Tweet
by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc.'s App Store has spawned a cottage industry of software developers trying to profit from games and other applications that people can download onto their iPhones.
But with more than 65,000 free and paid applications in the online store, success has hinged on an app's ability to stand out. So developers are increasingly coming up with various strategies to make a splash, employing everything from temporary discounts to guerilla marketing tactics. Tweet
by Dan Frommer, Business Insider
The biggest difference between the iPhone and previous mobile devices I've owned is the sheer amount of time I spend using it: At least a few hours a day, Monday through Sunday. Tweet
by John Paczkowski, Wall Street Journal
Apple is doing to the wireless industry what it did to the recording industry beginning back in 2001: Stealing its customer relationships. Tweet
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
By now you’re surely aware that the Internet is a popular way to listen to radio—terrestrial and, of course, Internet-based. You may also be aware that in addition to being able to listen to these audio streams from a Web page and within iTunes’ Radio entry, there are applications designed for listening to and recording them. GagaFactory’s recently released Radio Gaga is just such an application. Tweet
by Megan Lavey, TUAW Tweet
by MacNN
Meant to echo the record single releases popular at the beginning of rock and roll, the format groups together two related songs together for less than their standard cost. Tweet
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Apple announced Tuesday that more than 1.5 billion applications have been downloaded from the App Store in its first year of operation. Tweet
by AppleInsider Tweet
by Jason D. O'Grady, The Apple Core
I couldn’t be happier with the battery life in my new MacBook Pro 15-inch and haven’t missed the removable battery - yet. Tweet
by William Bi, Bloomberg
Apple Inc., which relies on Chinese manufacturers for its iPhones and iPod music players, found 45 of the 83 factories it audited last year didn’t pay proper overtime and 23 provided less than minimum wage, according to its 2009 progress report on supplier responsibility. Tweet
by John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine
His was a smart move, since he was following the advice of pundits, technology writers, and everyone who ever gave advice about what to buy and why: "Buy solutions, not hardware." In his case, the solution was a stunning piece of software called DEVONthink, which he needs for a book he's writing. Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
There's Applesoft on the Apple II, and I think's there's MS BASIC on the Mac. Even the Mac OS X featured, at one time, Visual Basic for Application in MS Office. (Or you can go RealBASIC, if you really want some other experts to interpret your BASIC programs.)
So, where's BASIC for the iPhone? A younger Bill Gates would already be in Steve Jobs' office, trying to convince Apple why Microsoft should be the one to supply a BASIC interpreter for the iPhone platform. Why isn't Steve Ballmer picking up where Gates left off, putting a BASIC interpreter on every desktop, laptop and palmtop?
:-)
Actually, what I really want is a simple programming or scripting environment on the iPhone for the 'rest of us'. Think BASIC or Hypercard -- and not the Objective-C/Cocoa Touch/Xcode thing that requires a Mac and a $99 payment.
The iPhone is the first truly always-on computer in my pocket. Too bad it can't run my own cron jobs.
How about it, Apple? Tweet
by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
Speculation on an Apple tablet PC heated up on the Web Monday as Taiwanese news sources reported that the Mac maker has placed orders related to the device with manufacturers. Tweet
by Tyler Tschida, App Advice
According to PoweryBase, push-enabled iPhone apps contact Apple’s servers to request an ID to establish a connection, but if you are using an non-official wireless carrier, the connection can’t be made. Tweet
by Chris Holt, Macworld
Doom Resurrection captures the close-quarters combat, terrifying atmosphere, and gunplay of the Doom series pretty well. It’s a far cry from a true first person shooter but it’s by no means a quick cash-in. That said, you still feel like John Carmack and company could have done more with this title. Tweet
by The Mac Observer
My Web browser of choice is OmniWeb from The Omni Group. It may not share the same high profile as Safari and Firefox, but for me it's reliable, is plenty customizable, and fits my work style like a glove. Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Worms is the classic turn-based strategy game in which you control warring worm armies. It's turn-based and 2D, though it features richly illustrated cartoon graphics. Essentially an artillery game, you must use the right ammunition to destroy your opponents. Tweet
by Matt Peckham, PC World
What's about to make Apple's iPhone quick and tiny and cheap all over? Electronic Arts, that's what, with their maverick new micro-studio, cutely dubbed 8 lb Gorilla. The plan? 99-cent iPhone games to appear in pint-sized installments on a semi-monthly basis. Tweet
by Alan Zisman, Low End Mac Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Backing up data isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition—what works for you will depend on the types of data you want to protect and, more important, how worried you are about keeping that data safe. I’ve based these recommendations on what I think will bring most people peace of mind, but you know yourself—and your data—best. Use the guidelines to figure out your own plan, as you consider how much time and money you’re willing to spend, as well as how worried you are about losing files. Tweet
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet
Apple has taken any power that AT&T has. Sure, AT&T has an exclusive deal with Apple, but the iPhone maker owns the customer relationship and holds all the cards. Tweet
by Andrew Gracia, eWeek Tweet
by Blair Hanley Frank, Macworld
While I certainly wouldn’t recommend Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2009 Deluxe Edition to my six-year-old self, I would definitely suggest it to 10- or 11-year-olds, teenagers, and adults. Its beautiful interface, iTunes integration, spot-on lessons and engaging practice material are perfect for learning how to type. It isn’t perfect, but it certainly is an excellent choice. Tweet
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
Get the most from your iPhone or iPod Touch with 3.0 firmware update with these tips for better Web browsing, app access, keyboard tricks, and the lowdown on free AT&T Wi-Fi access. Tweet
by Martin Peers, Wall Street Journal
If you believe Apple's advertising, there is an "app" for almost everything on the iPhone, except figuring out the value of all those applications to Apple. Tweet
by Dan Frommer, Business Insider
The challenges for iPhone gaming companies: Standing out in a field where there are tens of thousands of compentitors, and maximizing profits in a store where 99-cent apps tend to reign supreme. Tweet
by Furbo.org
As developers, we have a tendency to look at things that are “wrong” and complain. It’s also important to look at what’s been improved in the past year: it gives me hope that we’ll eventually see some of the suggestions I make in this essay. Tweet
by Ryan McLaughlin, CNET Asia Tweet
by Tom Kaneshige, CIO
The big three gripes: the iPhone 3GS battery life is dismal, the 3GS overheats, and there's a serious SMS vulnerability. Tweet
by Thomas Fitzgerald Tweet
by Ryan Kim, San Francisco Chronicle
When you have more than 60,000 software programs in your iPhone App Store, there's bound to be a few that are inane, useless or offensive. Tweet
by Macworld
We asked our iPhone-using editors to name the most significant apps to appear on the scene since the App Store’s July 2008 launch and came up with a list of 12—one for each month that the App Store’s been open. Tweet
by Chad Berndtson, ChannelWeb
Apple's App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch is a year old this week, and even the most skeptical, jaded IT observers out there would be hard-pressed to deny Apple its due credit: the App Store has been not only a rousing success, but a bona fide commercial and cultural force, claiming almost as much limelight as the iPhone itself. Tweet
by Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
SD should be arriving on the MacBook Air and the regular MacBook in the next updates — and it might replace the DVD drive on the next MacBook. Tweet
by Don Reisinger, eWeek
According to ChangeWave Research, more companies plan to add new computers to their operations during the next quarter. Nine percent of those buying new computers plan to buy MacBook Pros for employees, while 7 percent of respondents said they plan to buy desktop Macs. If those figures hold up, Apple could capture its stated goal of 8 to 10 percent market share in the enterprise.
It's no small feat -- especially for a company that has never really cared about the business world. Tweet
by Chris Dannen, Fast Company
It's no surprise that in the nearly nine years that Mac OS X has been earning converts, -the Macintosh a decade after the first iMac has become a software honeypot luring Windows users from all walks of life. While some of the apps below have counterparts in the PC realm that aim to do a similar task, the apps on this list say as much about the Apple-inspired philosophy of interaction--elegant, efficient, easy, powerful--as they do about the ideas that drive Mac developers. Below, the apps that Windows users can only wish came in .exe. Tweet
by Macworld
Also announced: Geotagalog and MacFamily Tree updates. Tweet
by Matt Asay, CNET News.com Tweet
by Chris Holt, Macworld
Platformer earns high marks for its artistry. Tweet
by Jin Hyun-joo, Korea Herald
Apple Korea yesterday denied Seoul's earlier announcement that the company had agreed to recall some of its iPod Nano MP3 players following reports of battery overheating in Korea.
Apple's latest announcement has fueled confusion among consumers who are already concerned about the safety of the products following a series of alleged battery problems. Tweet
by Bill Snyder, InfoWorld
Spotty 3G coverage and poor battery life take the luster off Apple's new star. But the roots of the problem are much deeper. Tweet
by Yinka Adegoke, Reuters
Google Inc chief executive Eric Schmidt said he will discuss with Apple Inc how his role on its board might change after Google's move to launch a new operating system.
Because Google's new Chrome OS would compete with Apple's own computer software, Schmidt said on Thursday he would talk to the Mac computer maker about whether he should recuse himself from Apple's board. Tweet
by Sean Kalinich, TweakTown Tweet
by Drew Robb, Datamation Tweet
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple should be nervous about Google's move into the operating system market, some analysts said today. Others, however, argued that Apple executives won't lose a second of sleep. Tweet
by Nick Santilli, The Apple Blog
Apple already had me as a lifelong customer with its computers. But the iPhone has nestled its way into a niche in my life that for a very long time, was up for grabs. No longer — iPhone for life, baby! Tweet
by Macworld
Also announced: an update to TopXNotes and new Pro Sleds from Trans International. Tweet
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
If your main goal is finding out what’s dominating your Time Machine backups, Soma-Zone’s $2 BackupLoupe is likely all you need. Tweet
by Paul Govan, Wired
With all the excitement over the iPhone and iPod Touch games it’s easy to forget that the original iPod can also play an impressive array of games. Tweet
by Jung-Ah Lee, Dow Jones
A South Korean government agency said Thursday that it has requested Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) Korea unit to recall some of its iPod nano music players on concerns that batteries in the device may overheat. Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Cocktail 4.4, a "general purpose utility for Mac OS X", adds ability to reset home directory permissions and Access Control Lists (ACLs), and to set Time Machine's backup interval and to modify other Time Machine settings.
The Missing Sync for Palm Pre "works with Mac applications you already know and use — Address Book, iTunes, iCal, Entourage and iPhoto — to let you transfer and sync information and files between your Mac and Pre."
Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 word processor "adds a completely new document manager."
REALbasic and REAL Studio 2009 adds "OpenGL support for 3D images and animation."
XMenu "adds global menus on your menu bar to give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and snippets." Tweet
by Gus G. Sentementes, Baltimore Sun
Catering to Mac owners proves a viable business. Tweet
by Helen Walters, BusinessWeek
Jonathan Ive isn’t prone to making wild proclamations about design, his boss, Steve Jobs, or Apple, the company at which he’s led the design team since 1996. Indeed, he’s not really one for speaking in public much at all. So it was with a sense of keen anticipation that a group of 700 or so Londoners descended on the Royal Geographical Society in posh South Kensington to hear Ive in conversation with Sir Christopher Frayling, rector of the Royal College of Art. Tweet
by Garry Barker, The Age
Good presenting, whether for a big audience or a small school class, is not about screens full of bullet points, text and pie charts. It is about capturing the interest of an audience by telling a story, says Les Posen, president of iMUG, the Internet Macintosh User Group, a clinical psychologist and a Keynote guru whose skill with the application has been recognised by Apple. Tweet
by Emery P. Dalesio, BusinessWeek
The reason is that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company continues to negotiate contract and other details involving the offer by Catawba County and the town of Maiden, said Dale Carroll, deputy secretary of the state Commerce Department. Tweet
by Scott Foval, Huffington Post Tweet
by John Casasanta, Tap Tap Tap
So even though Apple isn’t touting it, the increased RAM size of the iPhone 3GS is definitely a major contributor to the “S” in its name. It’s an incredibly welcome improvement. Tweet
by Farhad Manjoo, New York Times
Here are some of the best apps to keep your life running smoothly. Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Is anyone raising the question whether Apple's apparent refusal to go into 'netbook' business is because Apple have insider knowledge about Google's plan with the Chrome OS? Tweet
by Brad Stone, New York Times
Google’s new operating system, which the Internet search giant said could ship in the low-cost computers called netbooks by next year, is likely to create more questions for regulators looking into Google’s relationship with Apple. Tweet
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
The 15-inch MacBook Pro is the best of the tier-one commercial notebooks, full stop. There are cheaper notebooks, but I'd challenge you to find one that's faster, quieter, and better built than MacBook Pro. Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
$144,326.06, according to Busted Loop. Which, I believe, is within Guy Kawasaki's budget, if he still works at Apple. Tweet
by Grey Sacle Gorilla
What really blew me away though is the fact that the touch point on your photo also regulates exposure and color temperature. Tweet
by Joseph Cadotte, Inside Mac Games
This is an excellent game with immense depth. I highly recommend it to people who are tired of fantasy or find EVE to be too daunting. There is great possibility for both casual and obsessive play. Tweet
by Magnus Nystedt , Shuffle Gazine
Why is it that we Apple fans get so excited when we see or meet other Apple users? Tweet
by Bambi Brannan, Mac360
Layers captures your Mac’s whole screen in a Photoshop layered image. Tweet
by DigMo
If you are anything like me you are spending a fair amount time uploading photos to flickr, documents to ftp spaces and even more regularly emailing documents and files to colleagues. The sharing process takes time but the good news is it is about to get considerably quicker with the release of Dropzone. Tweet
by Macworld
Also announced: SkypeCap, Flickery, XMenu, and EasyFind updates; Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone for iPhone. Tweet
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
According to Apple's notes, the update improves the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine and includes the latest compatibility and security fixes. Tweet
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Your position on Apple's board of directors now looks completely untenable given Google's intention to release a lightweight operating system for personal computers called Chrome OS. Tweet
by Nick Spence, Macworld UK
California-based Shared Memory Graphics claims the Apple iPod, Nintendo’s motion-controlled Wii, and Sony PSP and PS2 game consoles make use of two graphic accelerator systems patented by the company. Tweet
by Lex Friedman, Macworld
I spent some time composing and reading 140-character missives with five popular Twitter apps. Here’s how they stack up. Tweet
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
You'll always be able to access critical passwords if you take these steps. Tweet
by VentureBeat Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Baseline 1.5 answers the question "Where has all your disk space gone?"
MacProxy "provides system-wide network proxy support for the Mac, including for applications without proxy support."
Postbox "works behind the scenes to catalog everything in your email."
Typinator 3.5 "is an automatic text software that boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and auto-correcting typing errors." Tweet
by MacNN Tweet
by Jenna Wortham, New York Times
Now the smartphone is beginning to displace yet another stand-alone device — the GPS receiver — as a convenient way for drivers to get directions to unknown destinations. Tweet
by Connie Guglielmo, David Scheer and Karen Gullo, Bloomberg
Apple Inc.’s disclosures about Steve Jobs’s health remain under scrutiny by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators over how his condition went from “relatively simple” to “more complex” in nine days, said a person familiar with the matter. Tweet
by Infrageeks
From a logistics and supply chain management perspective this is a huge deal. Every other physical keyboard based system has to maintain specific models by locale. Tweet
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Last week, a panel of federal judges consolidated a dozen separate cases that consumers had filed against Apple, claiming that the company's iPhone 3G constantly dropped calls, had trouble connecting to AT&T's network and was significantly slower than advertised. Tweet
by MG Siegler, TechCrunch
A recent change to Amazon’s Product Advertising API means that apps like Delicious Library are being restricted from using it. Tweet
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Wired.com conducted a battery test comparing the iPhone 3GS with the iPhone 3G, and the former came out hours ahead. Tweet
by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
The new iPhone 3.0 software automatically launches the Safari browser in certain circumstances, a feature that makes the iPhone more usable and less secure. Tweet
by Ray Aguilera, MacLife
Airfoil one-ups iTunes by streaming any audio to any Airport Express, computer, iPhone, or iPod touch on your network, perfect for setting up multiroom audio using gear you already own. Tweet
by Ray Aguilera, MacLife
VoodooPad Pro is one of those apps that takes a while to grow on you. When you open up a new document for the first time, VoodooPad looks kind of like a TextEdit window—in other words, plain and devoid of excess features. But if you’re the kind of person who needs to capture information and ideas as they happen, before they disappear into the ether—writers, students, compulsive list-makers, listen up—VoodooPad quickly becomes a valuable tool for recording all the awesome band names, Wi-Fi passwords, haiku, class notes, important telephone numbers, and ideas for your novel that pass between your ears every day. Tweet
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
After enticement by state and local governments, Apple has chosen the town of Maiden in Catawba County, North Carolina, as the location for a new data center. Building and staffing the data center is expected to bring as many as 3,000 jobs to the area. Tweet
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Mac OS X can automatically open iPhoto, Aperture, or another program whenever you connect your digital camera or media card, but not everyone likes this behavior. If your beef with this automated device-handling is not that it exists at all, but rather that you’d prefer it if OS X could handle each device differently, Flexibits’s Cameras is for you. Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld Tweet
by Dan Moren, Macworld Tweet
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Are software touchscreen keyboards good for everyone? Certainly not. But this is another aspect of the Apple Way. Apple tries to make things that many people love, not things that all people like. The key is that they’re not afraid of the staunch criticism, and often outright derision, that comes with breaking conventions. Tweet
by Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch Tweet
by Dave Caolo, TUAW Tweet
by Nick Spence, Macworld UK
"Light a candle and cue the music," Apple says on a newly designed iTunes App Store page. Tweet
by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal
Like many teenagers, Ari Weinstein spends his summers riding his bike and swimming. This year, the 15-year-old had another item on his to-do list: Foil Apple Inc.'s brightest engineers and annoy chief executive Steve Jobs. Tweet
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
Rely on a password manager instead of your memory. Tweet
by Andrew Nusca, ZDNet Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Easy-to-use spam utility gets better over time. Tweet
by Joe Nocera, New York Times
Yes, it is true, as Mr. Carr argues, that we know enough about Mr. Jobs’s health to make an informed investing decision. But that is no thanks to Apple or its board, which after all has a legal obligation to the company’s shareholders. Tweet
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Steve Jobs has killed music stores and media players. The point-and-shoot camera could be next. Tweet
by Ken Elkins, Birmingham Business Journal Tweet
by Leslie Cauley, USA Today
Who really controls your Apple iPhone? If you think you do, think again. AT&T, the U.S. distributor, requires iPhone owners to use its wireless networks exclusively. Those who "jailbreak" their devices and use another carrier void the warranty. Tweet
by TechRadar.com
OS X is a superb operating system. But its simplicity belies its depth; there are plenty of excellent features under the surface. Tweet
by Don Reisinger, eWeek
The iPhone 3G has been jailbroken, but there are numerous ways to unlock it. Some techniques are more difficult than others, but are they worth considering in the business world? Tweet
by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com
Maybe, despite constantly being let down by it, I should have more faith in technology. It's not often that everything works the way it's supposed to, but when it does, it's actually pretty cool. Tweet
by MacNN
The public may have to wait for the release of v3.1 firmware to see a fix to current iPhone Wi-Fi issues, accounts suggest. Tweet
by Charles Moore, Low End Mac Tweet
by Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
by Jason D. O'Grady, The Apple Core Tweet
by CNN
Nude photos and other potentially objectionable or illegal materials have been showing up in the iPhone application store in recent weeks, raising questions about Apple's ability to control iPhone content. Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
If you're looking for the best Mac-based anti-spam solution, look no further than C-Command's SpamSieve 2.7.4. The program's filtering is highly accurate, it's relatively simple to install, and it's amazingly easy to use, particularly with Apple Mail. Tweet
by Brooke Crothers, CNET News
After extensive use of two versions (the January 2008 original and October 2008 refresh) of the MacBook Air, my conclusion is that a decent graphics chip can--over the long haul--not only deliver the expected boost in performance but, surprisingly, contribute to better battery life while, even more surprisingly, bringing down the heat to acceptable levels. Tweet
by Andrew Laughlin, Digital Spy Tweet
by Damon Brown, New York Post
In an increasingly vocal manner, the cash-strapped developers are taking to internet chat rooms and trading stories about extremely late payments and unresponsive Apple representatives. Tweet
by Don Reisinger, eWeek
Given Apple's long-established market strategy, it just might not be important for Apple to win new enterprise converts to its operating system platform. Tweet
by Ryan Paul, Ars Technica
Sun released VirtualBox 3 this week, the latest version of its open source x86 virtualization software. The new version introduces support for 3D graphics and SMP. Tweet
by John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News
It's the amateur photographer's management tool for digital pictures. But Apple's iLife multimedia software suite has some A-list users as well. Tweet
by Leslie Katz, CNET News.com
An employee at an Apple store near Washington D.C. was shot and wounded Friday morning, police have confirmed. The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is currently at an area hospital recovering from a wound to the right shoulder. She is said to be in serious but stable condition. Tweet
by Andrew T. Laurence, Macworld
New architecture yields better performance with less power and heat. Tweet
by Ned Potter and Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News
Soda. Coffee. Water. Next time to you go to the movies, chug 'em all down.
As long as you have a new iPhone app by your side, you'll know when you can escape to the bathroom without missing the best parts. Tweet
by Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service
Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country. Tweet
by Tim Haddock, Macworld
Final Draft AV 2.5.2 eliminates many of the headaches of formatting two-column audio-visual scripts with a conventional word processor. Unfortunately, for some users the program’s inability to import graphics and images into scripts could prove a deal-breaker. Tweet
by Charles Jade, GigaOM Tweet
by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal
The store’s success is indisputable. The broad selection of apps is a major reason why consumers want the iPhone. In April, Apple announced that the number of downloads exceeded a billion, less than a year after the App Store opened. But a bigger moneymaker than the iPhone itself? It’s not even close. Tweet
by David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
Buyers are finding that the device, introduced two weeks ago, has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. It's proving to be something of an Achilles' heel on Apple Inc.'s flagship device. Tweet
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by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Surely you know someone who has dropped an iPhone, only to watch in horror as the screen cracked. Now, Apple retail stores can fix the problem in-house—as long as you're still under warranty. Tweet
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
The problem with the application is how you pay for it. Downloading the Navigator is free. Owning it is expensive: $10 added to your monthly bill — even if you delete the app — until you contact AT&T and shut off the service. Tweet
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet
One of the telling things about this particular visit to the Apple Store was something the tech told me. He said that he would replace the battery with a new one because it has be “used correctly.” When I asked him to elaborate on what that meant, he told me that Apple’s notebook batteries last longest when they’re routinely charged and discharged. Tweet
by Jim Dalrymple, CNET
It is true that Apple has been quiet about this so far. If I had to guess, I'd say it's because they have not been able to replicate the heat issues some users are reporting. Tweet
by Gizmodo Tweet
by Rob Galbraith
Taken together, the current MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers we've ever seen from Apple, with a potential solution for the remaining bugaboo - display glossiness - coming a bit later this year. Tweet
by Marguerite Reardon, CNET
The first day the Apple iPhone 3GS went on sale was the biggest sales day ever for AT&T, according to an internal memo sent to company employees that has since been published in various blogs. Tweet
by Sumner Lemon, Macworld
Apple is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.
The attack in question exploits a weakness in the way iPhones handle text messages received via SMS (Short Message Service), said security researcher Charlie Miller, during a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore on Thursday. He didn’t provide a detailed description of the SMS vulnerability, citing an agreement with Apple. Tweet
by Roman Loyola, Macworld Tweet
by MacRumors Tweet
by eWeek Tweet
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code Tweet
by Tim Haddock, Macworld Tweet
by Danny Katz, The Age
We shall not buy this new iPhone: let the commoners have it, I say. Instead, let us maintain our exclusive hip-hop hipness and buy their phone — a Telstra EasyTouch on a $20 plan. And no more iPods either. We shall only buy a Microsoft Zune! Tweet
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by Macworld
Also announced: iPod Access, Cocktail, and Mystical Tint Tone and Color Photoshop plug-in updates. Tweet
by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC
By any measure, he is among the most important figures in technology of the last decade, a major influence on the way we use and interact with computers and mobile phones, a British designer who ranks with the Conrans and the Dysons. But have you ever heard Jonathan Ive, the Apple designer behind the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone, talk about his work? Tweet
by MacNN
Apple has detailed a series of recent changes to MobileMe, its online hosting and sync service. Many of these are iPhone related, for instance allowing iPhone 3GS owners to upload a video to a Gallery album, or if no album exists, create a new one automatically. Tweet
by Brad Reed, NetworkWorld.com
When the iPhone took the cell phone world by storm two years ago, it was viewed as a revolutionary, game-changing new device that would alter how mobile phone users consumed data on their devices. In reality, the iPhone was merely the next logical step in Apple's quest to rule the world of wireless devices. Tweet
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune Tweet
by Ted Samson, InfoWorld
Apple and other PC makers are overdoing it when they flash their EPEAT Gold to prove they're green. Tweet
by Brian X. Chen, Wired Top Stories
A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple’s inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content. Tweet
by MacNN Tweet
by Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Speed bosts, private browsing highilight changes to Mozilla’s browser. Tweet
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica - Infinite Loop
In two new ad spots, Apple manages to spin iPhone features that everyone else already has as remarkable and revolutionary. The RDF may be a little strong in these videos, but we do have to applaud Apple for its confidence. Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The concept of Soundboard is similar to the “cart machines” that once populated radio stations — devices that played back endless-loop tape cartridges used to play commercials, sound effects and other audio content. Tweet
by Owen Fletcher, Macworld
A Chinese company that owns the trademark “i-phone” has said it is not in talks with Apple, even though Apple may need the company's blessing to sell its similarly named iPhone in China. Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld Tweet
by Ted Bade, Inside Mac Games
The fun story line, moderately challenging puzzles, and the fact that it is a non-violent game, make this a great choice if you are looking for something mild to give your children or even yourself. Definitely take a look at this one. Tweet
by Liz Gannes, GigaOM
The upgrade to the iPhone operating system has the potential to significantly change consumers' experience of mobile video. Tweet
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
My wife's iPhone 3G now looks as good as new, and I didn't have to fall back on my alternate plan of paying Apple for a replacement. I hope I don't have to put my new screen-fixing skills to work again, but if gravity should assert itself, I'll be ready. Tweet
by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org
The iPhone offered a better experience than any other phone for making phone calls. Tweet
by Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac
The iPhone 3.1 beta has been released to developers, and includes some cool features, including Voice Control over Bluetooth. Tweet
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
One could argue that a netbook would be better than the iPhone 3GS for doing work. I’ll be honest: I didn’t get crap done on my netbook. Tweet
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) is a free, simple, and safe way to push data to iPhone apps. It fills iPhone's background process gap — imperfectly. Tweet
by Anton Wahlman, Seeking Alpha
For Apple, this represents an ugly inconvenience. Tweet
by Glenn S. Tenney, IP
Yes, potentially every iPhone in the entire USA might be experiencing (this is what the level 2 person told me) delays (of days) in having voicemail populate to your visual voicemail. Tweet
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
Apple on Tuesday released an update to its iPhoto 8 software, part of the iLife '09 suite of applications. iPhoto 8.0.4 fixes a rare bug in which updating to iPhoto 8.0.3 could cause the application to quit unexpectedly, as well as corrects references to some incorrectly labeled points of interest and location names. Tweet
by Preethi Dumpala, Business Insider Tweet
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
by MacRumors Tweet
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The Maine Department of Education on Tuesday announced that it has expanded its student laptop program to include high school students. It’s a huge win for Apple, because the state will be acquiring another 64,000 MacBook laptops, with up to 7,000 additional MacBooks possibly ordered in the coming weeks. Tweet
by thomasfitzgerald, thomas fitzgerald.net
One of the things that has struck me about using 3.0 is its stability and completeness. Normally with a major new release of any operating system there are rough edges until the first couple of point releases or “service packs”. iPhone 3.0 however is remarkably solid. Tweet
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