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Adding Subscribed Calendars To Your iOS Device

Christopher Breen, Macworld

New Update Adds Another Pocketful Of Improvements To Pocket Casts Podcast App

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

In-store Pickup For iPhone 5S Returns To Apple’s Online Store, Availability Limited

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Worth Less Than A Cup Of Coffee

Florian Kugler

We pour all our creativity, time, and passion into creating basically worthless products.

Judge Tosses Apple Motion, Allows Patent Troll Lodsys To Continue Rampage

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

The East Texas judge overseeing Lodsys' systematic patent attack on app developers has refused to even consider Apple's motion. Instead, he allowed the patent-holding company to settle all its cases—and then dismissed Apple's motion as moot. By doing so, US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap—who has inherited the patent-happy East Texas court that once belonged to patent-troll favorite T. John Ward—has enabled Lodsys to threaten developers for months, and perhaps even years, to come.

Trine 2 Review: Mac Game Offers Gorgeous Adventure, Brain-twisting Puzzles

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

Keeping Your Laptop Plugged In All The Time Will Kill Its Battery Faster

Roberto Baldwin, Wired

How To Launch App Specific Settings With Siri In iOS 7

Dom Esposito, AppAdvice

New CPUs, Faster Wi-Fi, Same Flaws: Apple’s 2013 iMac Reviewed

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Particularly perplexing is the lack of a standard SSD option in an age where most of Apple's laptops include them by default. You can get cheaper and larger SSDs than you could last year and Fusion Drive has proven itself to be a good, reliable way to mix SSD performance with HDD capacity, but even if you're buying the top-end iMac you still have to pay an extra $200 to eliminate the performance bottleneck that the mechanical hard drive has become. Solid-state storage is cheaper than it's ever been, and if there's one upgrade we're hoping for in the 2014 iMacs, that's the one.

Is Cupertino Sacrificing Its Core To Apple?

Chris O'brien And Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times

Two years after the project was announced, as the details have come into sharper focus, it's almost impossible to overestimate the effect Apple Campus 2 will have on Cupertino. Apple envisions the 176-acre campus as its own Fortress of Solitude that will cut off northeast Cupertino from the public.

This week, the city begins a series of hearings to grant final approval for the project. The hearings, and a development agreement under negotiation, represent the city's best chance to set the terms of its relationship with the company for decades to come. Although Apple is eager to move forward on a project already behind schedule, the city must consider what concessions it wants before tying its economic fate so closely to a single company.

Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before

Richard Stallman, Wired

Much has changed since the beginning of the free software movement: Most people in advanced countries now own computers — sometimes called “phones” — and use the internet with them. Non-free software still makes the users surrender control over their computing to someone else, but now there is another way to lose it: Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, which means letting someone else’s server do your own computing activities.

Why does this control matter? Because freedom means having control over your own life.

Underscore Price Dynamics

Marco Arment

The market for paid-up-front apps appealing to mass consumers is gone. If you have paid apps in the store, you’ve probably seen the writing on the wall for a while.

Transmit 4 Review: One Of The Best FTP Clients For The Mac

David Chartier, Macworld

Transmit is jam-packed with file transfer features for the 21st century, but presents them in a surprisingly easy and accessible package.

The Whoa Factor: Slow Motion On The iPhone 5S Put To The Test

Taylor Hatmaker, ReadWrite

ReadQuick And Velocity Review: Increase Your Reading Speed Using Your iOS Device

Brian Beam, Macworld

Both Velocity and ReadQuick take a similar approach to solving this problem by presenting written text one word at a time on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you’re like me, you’re probably thinking that this sounds a little odd. However, it only took me a few minutes to get accustomed to words flying across the screen before I was sold on the concept.

Third-gen Apple TV Netflix Users Get 'Super HD' Option For Movies

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Prey Provide Find Me For All Major OSes

Mark Gibbs, Network World

Prey is an open source device tracking app that supports not only iOS and OS X but also Android, Linux, and Windows.

OmniGraffle 6: A Huge Leap For The Mac Diagraming App

Matthew Guay, Mac AppStorm

OmniGraffle 6 is just the beginning of their wave of upgrades for their Mac apps, and they’ve done a fantastic job updating it and making it more powerful while revamping the UI to look more modern — at least within the constraints of today’s standard UI design on the Mac.

Design Lessons From iOS 7

Sean madden, Harvard Business Review

After six years of iteration on the original iPhone OS, iOS 7 is a refreshing reset. Without a doubt, Apple’s new operating system will look and feel dramatically different a year from now. It will take advantage of the hardware in new and innovative ways and has the potential to once again reshape our expectations of what our mobile devices are capable of. The big question for Apple will be whether or not consumers are willing to travel along this road of iteration once more.

How To Quickly Check A File's Checksum In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

When you download application installers and other files from the Internet, you may see a verification checksum associated with it. Here is how to use that number.

VMware Fusion 6

Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine

The reason I prefer VMware Fusion, and the reason it's our Editors' Choice, is that it's less intrusive, less in-your-face, than Parallels, even though Parallels is more beginner-friendly. Also, VMware has a long track record of reliability, which Parallels can't match, even though recent versions seem to be far more trouble-free than earlier ones.

Apple To Pay $40 To iPad 3G Owners Shut Out Of All-you-can-eat Data Plans

Jeff John Roberts, GigaOM

Apple and AT&T are set to resolve a long-running class action suit over the companies’ decision in June, 2010 to end unlimited data plans for the iPad 3G tablet.

Static Analysis

Daniel Jalkut, Indie Stack

It turns out, simulating the static television snow of my analog youth is extremely challenging to do, even on a fancy iPhone.

iOS 7 Apps Are Prettier, But Are They Better?

Ellis Hamburger, The Verge

Rename iTunes Radio Stations And Find Missing Podcasts

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

With a new iOS version and new iPhone hardware comes an updated version of iTunes. This week’s column covers a problem with missing podcasts in iTunes 11.1 and explains how to change the names of iTunes Radio stations. And because the best way to keep your iTunes library organized is to make sure your tags are correct—if they’re not consistent, you’ll have trouble finding music and other content when you want to play something—I also address a number of questions about tags.

Which iPhone Accessories Will Work With The 5S And 5C?

Dan Frakes, Macworld

How well will your current iOS accessories work with these new models? We’ve been testing various gadgets and gear, and here’s what we’ve found.

MemoZy iPhone App Review: Powerful Notetaking And To Do Lists

Tucker Cummings, Tapscape

What's Behind Apple's Epic Memory Markup

Adam Satariano And Ian King, Bloomberg

ResolutionTab Review: Resolve Your Resolution-switching Problems

Roman Loyola, Macworld

Click on its icon, and you can select the resolution you want for your screen. ResolutionTab support multiple monitors, and it senses where your menu bar resides and notes that display as the Main Display.

Apple Boosts Apple TV Content Offerings With Major League Soccer, Disney Junior

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Safari On iOS 7 And HTML5: Problems, Changes And New APIs

Breaking The Mobile Web

Apple has rolled out iOS 7 and in a few days the new devices iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C . As expected Apple has publish just 10% of the necessary information for web developers and I can say without fear of mistake that this is the buggiest Safari version since 1.0. In this post I’ll show you the new APIs and abilities and most of the problems that you will need to deal with right now if you have a website or a webapp.

Bono Says Apple Has Raised Over $65 Million For Product Red AIDS Fund

Chris Welch, The Verge

Since joining the charity campaign in 2006, Apple has steadily released Product Red iPods, cases, and other accessories, with portions of each sale going towards the fight against AIDS.

Skitch 3: Reimagined For iOS 7

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Skitch 3 has been redesigned and rebuilt for iOS 7, stripped away of the direct integration with an Evernote notebook, rebranded, and relaunched as a visual note-taking app focused on quick and fast markup. I have been testing Skitch 3 for the past few weeks, and, after an initial shock, I think it’s an excellent change.

iOS 7.0.2 Fixes Lock Screen Glitch

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Apple has released iOS 7.0.2. It’s a maintenance upgrade that fixes a glitch that would let someone bypass the Lock screen on iOS devices and access your device.

Pixelmator 2.2.1

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

In addition to greatly speeding up the opening and saving of image files, the new Pixelmator file format saves edits in the background while you manipulate images, and it now saves individual edits to iCloud (rather than saving the whole image file each time).

Evernote Updates iOS App, Announces Partnership With Post-It And Creates Evernote Market At EC3 Conference

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Version 7.0.1 brings a new Post-It Note Camera to the app. You can assign notes to different tags, notebooks, and reminders based on the color of the Post-It, and then search through handwritten text in images. The update also allows you to browse the Evernote Market and fixes numerous bugs.

Marked 2 Review

Cody Fink, MacStories

iPhone 5S Review: Tomorrow's Technology Today

Jason Snell, Macworld

The iPhone 5s may look a lot like its predecessor. But with a faster new processor, a fingerprint sensor, and an improved camera flash, it's a serious upgrade.

iPhone 5C Review: The No-brainer Upgrade For iPhone 4 Or 4S

Philip Michaels, Macworld

The iPhone 5c’s compelling mixture of features, performance, and price is likely to persuade people with older models to upgrade. And it’s an appealing, lower-cost option that should attract disaffected Android and Windows Phone users to the iOS fold.

Apple's Jonathan Ive And Craig Federighi: The Complete Interview

Sam Grobart, Bloomberg

Mac App Of The Week: Mail Designer Pro

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Mail Designer Pro allows virtually anyone to quickly, easily and beautifully create rich HTML5 newsletters that look amazing in anyone's inbox.

Keeping Track Of Your Expenses Is Made Easy With Next 2.0

Christine Chan, AppAdvice

Adjust iTunes Radio Stations To Play Hits, A Variety, Or Discovery

OS X Daily

Patent Troll Lodsys Demands $5,000 From Martha Stewart. That Was A Bad Idea

Jeff John Roberts, GigaOM

In a complaint filed this week in federal court in Wisconsin, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia asked a judge to declare that four magazine iPad apps are not infringing Lodsys’ patents, and that the patents are invalid because the so-called inventions are not new.

In choosing to sue Lodsys and hopefully crush its patents, Martha Stewart is choosing a far more expensive option than simply paying Lodsys to go away. The good news is that the decorating maven has some unlikely allies in the campaign: tech rivals Google and Apple are also lining up against Lodsys in an effort to protect the app developers, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation this week filed an anti-Lodsys brief of its own.

Skype For Mac 6.9 Arrives, Bringing More Screen-sharing Options

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The biggest new feature of Skype 6.9 is that now users can easily share just a single window on their screen instead of sharing their entire screen with another Skype user.

San Francisco Apple Store Building Sale Breaks Real Estate Records At Nearly $50M

Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider

Apple's iOS 7 Tech Talks To Hit Six Cities This Fall

Dan Moren, Macworld

The company earlier this year announced its attention to once again hold the series of one-day programs this fall; on Wednesday it released the schedule, which will see the sessions hit six cities around the globe: San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin, and London.

3Rd Generation Apple TV Setup Now As Easy As Touching An iOS 7 Device To It

Steven Sande, TUAW

Both Apple And EA Deny Money Exchanged To Keep Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Off Android

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

Apple and EA are both categorically denying a report that surfaced late yesterday that money exchanged hands to keep Popcap hit Plants Vs. Zombies 2 an exclusive to iOS. Reached for comment on the matter, both EA and Apple told us that “it’s simply not true.”

A Game Of Docks: Apple Versus Twelve South

Josh Centers, TidBITS

iOS 7 Animations Cause Nausea For Some

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

In general, it seems that people with certain vestibular disorders have trouble with such animations, as well as certain video games, 3D movies, and more. The problems can even be related to the particular display technology.

The 10 Best New Photography Features In iOS 7

Jackie Dove, Macworld

One major reason—maybe the reason—to snap up iOS 7 is the new photographic capabilities built into the Camera and Photos apps. The new features expand the range of photos you can take, and most are accessible and easy to use.

Olloclip Camera App Updated With iOS 7 Redesign And Cropping Presets

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Photos Get Renewed Focus In iOS 7

Jeff Carlson, TidBITS

The camera controls look quite different, but it’s the Photos app that’s likely to cause the most disorientation initially.

A Tale Of Two (New) iMacs

IFixIt

GeniusCam For iOS 7

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Made for iOS 7 and Universal, GeniusCam is, essentially, Photo Booth ported to the iPhone with some extra flair.

When iOS 7 Isn't Really The Worst Thing In The World

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Whenever an operating system or application changes appearances in a radical way, people can get lost. Such is the case with iOS 7. In the past week I’ve read complaints that can be addressed simply by having a better understanding of what goes where. Let’s walk through a few.

TextExpander 4.1

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

iOS 7, You’re Making Me Sick.

Thoughtbrain Brainfood

No this is not a rant about the look of iOS 7, but the inability to turn off the animated zoom interaction as you go into your folders, open an app, multi-task through screens into another app. I have motion sickness and I guess no one else in the Apple team had this condition. Yes, you can turn off parallax in the accessibility. It’s not the parallax that is causing it, it’s the zooming. After seeing an article on App.net, I realized I wasn’t alone. I also found other people were complaining on the Apple’s Forums.

Apple's 64-Bit A7 Is No Gimmick

Serdar Yegulalp, InfoWorld

AppleCare+ Now Covers Travelers’ iPhones, iPads, iPods In Any Country Where It’s Offered

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

This change means that if you’re traveling with your device, you’re able to get service in another country if you purchased AppleCare+ back at home.

Lost To The Ages

Emily Yoshida, Grantland

Myst was supposed to change the face of gaming. What is its legacy 20 years later?

Apple Refreshes iMac With Haswell, Next-Gen Wi-Fi

Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine

The new 21.5- and 27-inch desktops get fourth-generation Intel quad-core processors, new graphics, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and faster PCIe flash storage options.

5 Command Key Tricks For OS X To Improve Your Mac Workflow

OS X Daily

The Mac command key, sitting alongside the spacebar and containing that funky looking icon logo, is commonly used for initiating keyboard shortcuts throughout OS X. But that command key also has some nice usability tricks up its sleeve that are lesser known and underutilized, many of which can help with your general workflow throughout OS X and the Finder. Here are five particularly handy tips that use the command key.

Mac Apps Are Harder Than iOS Apps

Matt Ronge

Mac apps are trickier to build, and we aren’t likely to see that change in the near future. The APIs have more cruft, there are more hardware configurations, more OS features to worry about, and more hacked on APIs. If you are an iOS developer taking on a Mac project, make sure to give yourself ample time as it’s harder than it seems.

On Apple’s Vertical Silicon Strategy

Stve Cheney

These points of collaboration started years ago and allow Apple to essentially treat silicon as a commodity they control, adjusting ‘make vs buy’ strategies years ahead of competitors, while wielding incredible power over suppliers. The results in a halo around platform evolution at the silicon level that is unmatchable.

Apple iPhone 5s (AT&T) Review

Mark Spponauer, Laptop Magazine

Assuming you prefer a more compact design, though, you'll be delighted with everything else the iPhone 5s has to offer. The improved iSight camera takes fantastic looking photos (especially in low light) and Apple still offers the best selection of high-quality apps, including the ones that are built in. Although we wish iOS 7 offered more customization and better parental controls, the experience is more polished and less cluttered than most Android phones. The bottom line is that the iPhone 5s is a superbly designed smartphone that deftly balances ease of use and swift performance with impactful features.

Strong iPhone Sales Lift Apple’s Asian Suppliers

Juro Osawa and Min-Jeong Lee, Wall Street Journal

Why Is Apple So Shifty About How It Makes The iPhone?

George Monbiot, The Guardian

This states, with baffling ambiguity, that "Bangka Island, Indonesia, is one of the world's principal tin-producing regions. Recent concerns about the illegal mining of tin from this region prompted Apple to lead a fact-finding visit to learn more." Why conduct a fact-finding visit if you're not using the island's tin? And if you are using it, why not say so? Answer comes there none.

Adobe's Elements 12 Apps Add Cloud Sync, But Fall Short For Everyday Editing

Jeff Blagdon, The Verge

Free iCloud Storage Space To Vaporize September 30

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Why The IPhone Fingerprint Hack Is Nothing To Worry About

Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Grid

Touch ID is better than no security. It’s also “better than ‘better than no security’.” It’s a mature system that allows a consumer to erect a reasonable level of protection around the data inside an easy-to-lose device, without making that device harder to use.

Following Criticism & Lawsuit, Apple Refunding Breaking Bad iTunes Season Passes

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

In the email, Apple makes it clear that the decision to split the season up was not in its hands.

WavTap Review: A Free Way To Capture Your Mac's Audio

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Popular Mac Campfire Client Flint Lands On iOS

Steven Sande, TUAW

GIF Finder For iOS 7

Federico Viticci, MacStories

You can still search for GIFs matching a specific keyword, but the great addition of this version is that imgur’s reactiongifsarchive is now supported within the app, allowing you to browse GIFs by standalone categories.

Use The Apple Store App To See If iPhones Are Available At Your Local Store

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Daily iPhone App: Space Out With Angry Birds Star Wars II

Mike Wehner, TUAW

With Angry Birds Star Wars II, Rovio tries to recapture that same magic, and while the core mechanics remain largely unchanged, your enjoyment of the game will depend on how well you stomach in-app purchases.

After Botched Debut, New Apple TV Update Is Back With Fixes

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

The Security Lesson Of Touch ID

Rafe Colburn

Security has costs, usually in terms of both price and convenience. I already think that tapping in my four digit passcode sucks, I can’t imagine having a longer one. I’m also too lazy to memorize a random passcode, or ever change it. That’s my security posture. Needless to say, I’m not worried about this Touch ID exploit. You probably shouldn’t be, either. If you are, be glad that it’s optional and that you can turn off Simple Passcodes and pick a really good password to unlock your iPhone.

Photoshop Elements 12 Review: Mobile Albums And Content-aware Tools Dominate New Release

Lesa Snider, Macworld

While changes in version 12's Organizer focus on syncing and sharing photos for access on mobile devices, the Elements 12 Editor includes slick Instagram-inspired effects, textures, frames, new guided edits, and a content-aware move tool. Even more exciting is an intuitive image correction method that remembers how you use it and a Red-Eye tool that works on animals—two features that even its flagship sibling Photoshop CC doesn’t have.

Restoring A "Bricked" Apple TV

Christopher Breen, Macworld

In order to perform the update you’ll need a USB-to-micro-USB cable. This is the very tiny USB connector found on Kindle e-readers versus the larger trapezoidal connector used by many digital cameras.

Why Is Apple Ignoring People With Vision And Balance Problems?

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

I wonder if Jony Ive is such a design fundamentalist that he refuses to understand that there are users – probably a large number – who are having difficulty with these interface elements. Things like parallax and translucency are cool, and look good in an Apple keynote, but in the real world, they can affect many users who have issues with their eyesight, or who have balance problems.

How Many Photos Will The iPhone 5S Handset's Burst Mode Take?

Joe White, AppAdvice

Why Can’t FileMaker Pro Recognize Numbers Files?

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

It’s sorta sad and confusing that FileMaker Pro can open/convert a large number of file formats, including Excel spreadsheets, but doesn’t recognize Numbers files.

Apple Airs New 'Greetings Too' iPhone 5C Ad

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Apple Announces Record 9 Million iPhone Sales Over First Three Days, 200 Million iOS 7 Updates

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple has just announced first-weekend sales figures for the iPhone 5s and 5c. Sales for both phones total 9 million. In comparison, the iPhone 5 shipments topped 5 million in the same period.

Gold.

Apple TV Software 6.0 Update Goes Missing, Possibly Pulled Due To Bricking Issues

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Write For iPhone 2.0 Features iOS 7 Redesign, New Themes, Rich Text Editing And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Chaos Computer Club Hackers Trick Apple’s TouchID Security Feature

Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica

Germany's Chaos Computing Club claim to have tricked Apple's new TouchID security feature this weekend. In a blog post on the breakthrough, the CCC writes they bypassed the fingerprint-reader by simply starting with "the fingerprint of the phone user photographed from a glass surface."

Do You Miss The .Com Button On The iOS 7 Keyboard? Use This Trick

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

When you’re in a web browser, and want to type .com, just tap and hold the . button to the right of the space bar, and you’ll see a popup menu which lets you choose from a number of top-level domains.

New Apple Store At Stanford Mall Highlights Retail Challenges

Chris O'Brien, Los Angeles Times

In the most recent earnings call with analysts, Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said the company had relocated four stores in the June quarter. The company expects to complete a total of 23 relocations in fiscal 2013 ending Sept. 30.

So far, Apple has spent spent $309 million on retail store construction, a figure expected to top $600 million by the end of the year.

Apple’s iOS 7 Includes A Surprise: A Ticket To The Next Generation Of The Internet

Christopher Mims, Quartz

For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure that promises to make the connections to our mobile devices faster and more reliable than ever, and if you’ve already downloaded Apple’s iOS 7 to your iPhone or iPad, you could be using it already.

Apple’s iPhone 5 Touchscreen Is 2.5 Times Faster Than Android devices

Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat

Apple’s iPhone 5 is 2.5 times faster at responding to touches than Google Android devices, according to a benchmark test by game and app streaming firm Agawi.

Tim Cook: The Complete Interview

Sam Grobart, Bloomberg

Review: Perfect Shot For iOS 7 Helps With Group Camera Shots

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

While holding either an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, to take a picture, Perfect Shot detects how many people are in the image. The app monitors and detects everyone’s sets of eyes and their smiles. Once everyone in the group is not blinking and smiling, the app automatically snaps the photo, without the need for the user to press the shutter button.

New iOS 7 Bug Lets You Make Non-emergency Calls From The Lock Screen

Megan Geuss, Ars Technica

To produce the bug, simply type any number into the Emergency Call screen, then rapidly tap the Call button until the phone brings up an empty screen with an Apple logo. At that point, the phone is making the call to the number requested.

Chomsky’s “Universal Language” Is Incomplete

Joshua K. Hartshorne, Salon

The famous theory doesn't adequately address why human languages have so much in common.

Words App Review: Get Your Internet Reading List Under Control

Ray Aguilera, Macworld

Barron’s Bilingual Dictionaries Now Available As Mac OS X Apps

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Hands-on: First Impressions Of The iPhone 5S

Jason Snell, Macworld

So is the iPhone 5s twice as fast as the iPhone 5? Not in every case, but in a whole lot of them, the answer is yes.

Hands-on: First Impressions Of The iPhone 5C

Jason Snell, Macworld

The plastic back doesn’t feel cheap or crummy, it feels solid. It’s shiny and attractive, if slightly larger than the iPhone 5. In fact, comparing it to an iPhone 5, it feels like an iPhone 5 wearing a very thin (and colorful) shell of a case.

First Impressions Of iOS 7 For Keyboard Power Users

Tao Of Mac

It’s not quite baked yet.

The Difference Between The Space Gray iPhone 5S And The Black iPhone 5

Richard Devine, iMore

See the difference in color for yourselves.

Unhappy With iOS 7? Downgrade While You Still Can

Christopher Breen, Macworld

It happens that Apple is still signing the most recent versions of iOS 6, but it may not do so for long. Therefore, if you feel that you’ve made a fatal mistake by upgrading to iOS 7, now’s the time to fire up your Mac to grab iOS 6 and perform the downgrade.

Apple’s Mysterious M7 Processor Uncovered

IFixIt

Further digging by Chipworks gave us the identity of Apple’s mysterious M7 processor, a chip that was conspicuously absent from last night’s iPhone 5s teardown. It’s an NXP LPC1800 device that was buried beneath a neoprene-looking cover.

Get Started With The iPhone 5C And 5S

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

iOS 7: See The Timestamp On Every Messages Bubble

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

To do so, simply swipe to the left while in a conversation view and timestamps appear on the right-hand side of the screen.

You Can Now Follow Apple CEO Tim Cook On Twitter

Toby Wellington, Macgasm

“Visited Retail Stores in Palo Alto today. Seeing so many happy customers reminds us of why we do what we do,” it read, as Tim Cook spent time stopping by some Apple Store locations to celebrate the today’s launch of the iPhone 5S and 5C.

“I‘m Not Leaving Without A Gold One!” Tales From The iPhone 5S Line

Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica

It's true for restaurants, and it's true for retail, as well—haranguing the staff on an assumption of entitlement is bad, and if you do it, you should feel bad. And you should not get a gold iPhone, either.

Apple TV 6.0 Update Released With iTunes Radio & iCloud Photo Stream Support

OS X Daily

Apple’s A7 Chip Again Made By Samsung, Camera By Sony And Non-descript ‘M7′ Chip By NXP

Seth Weintraub, 9 To 5 Mac

Seven Top Tips For iOS 7

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Here are seven top tips — culled from the massive set of tiny changes in iOS 7 — that you might have missed.

Apple Suppliers To Boost Gold iPhone Production

Juro Osawa And Lorraine Luk, Wall Street Journal

Apple Inc. has asked its suppliers to increase production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by an additional one-third after seeing strong demand, people familiar with the situation said. It isn’t clear whether there are currently supply constraints manufacturing the new iPhone.

iTunes 11: Apple Has Broken Podcasts (But Here’s How To Partly Fix Them)

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

If you’ve been downloading and saving podcasts – because you haven’t gotten around to listening to them, or just because there are some you want to save – you’ll find that most of your podcasts are simply gone.

This is bad.

Lifting The Lid On The iOS 7 UIPicker

Sean Woodhouse, Itty Bitty Labs

So when the new iOS 7 picker arrived on the scene there was a piece of me that thought, ‘cool, they’ve cleaned it up and done the 3D effect properly’. That was until I got to use the thing.

iPhone 5S Teardown

IFixIt

As we search for a much-anticipated M7 coprocessor, we begin to wonder if it actually is a separate IC, or if it is additional functionality built into the A7.

iPhone 5c Teardown

IFixIt

Though the 5c is essentially a repackaged iPhone 5 (in colored plastic, in case that hadn't been made apparent, yet), the battery has been beefed up a bit, clocking in at 3.8 V—5.73 Wh—1510 mAh, compared to the 3.8 V—5.45 Wh—1440 mAh battery of the iPhone 5.

Apple Brings iCloud Bookmark Syncing For Chrome And Firefox To Windows PCs

AppleInsider

Apple's iCloud Control Panel 3.0 for Windows continues to offer cross-device mail, contacts and calendar syncing between iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, Macs and Windows PCs, but adds support for bookmarks saved in Chrome and Firefox.

Yes, Apple Is Working On A Fix For The iOS 7 Lock Screen Hack

John Paczkowski, All Things D

“Apple takes user security very seriously,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told AllThingsD. “We are aware of this issue, and will deliver a fix in a future software update.”

Apple Updates Apple Configurator With Support For iOS 7 Features And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple Rickrolls The World With iOS 7 Knowledge Base Article

Steven Sande, TUAW

Rick Astley's "classic" tune "Never Gonna Give You Up" is playing on the iPhone belonging to the wag who wrote the KB piece. And that, my friends, is a classic rickroll.

Let’s Get Ready To Rumble.

J.K. Appleseed, McSweeney's

Barbara is deflating on the designer stool right in front of me when my teammate brings out her laptop and, thank God, it actually boots up intact.

“It’s working,” I beam.

“Do you know how to check my pictures?”

“Sure,” I reply. “Right here in iPhoto.”

A grid of images of Barbara and a silver-haired man spring up. I wish I could un-see some of the images in customers’ photo libraries, but these are extraordinarily vanilla. Awkward-seated portraits in a garden, by some boats, at the beach, basic slice of life banality.

“That’s my husband.”

She’s crying with joy.

“He died last year… before I could print any of these images out. Thank you!”

My stomach drops. This, my manager didn’t know to tell me. I try hard not think of what it would have meant had we not gotten her computer back online.

How To Use Multiple Apple IDs In iOS 7

TJ Luoma, TUAW

How “The Simpsons” Fixed Apple’s iPhone Keyboard

Austin Carr, Salon

“In the hallways [at Apple] and while we were talking about the keyboard, you would always hear the words ‘Eat Up Martha,’” Ganatra recalls. “If you heard people talking and they used the words ‘Eat Up Martha,’ it was basically a reference to the fact that we needed to nail the keyboard. We needed to make sure the text input works on this thing, otherwise, ‘Here comes the Eat Up Marthas.’”

It’s The Little Things

John Moltz's Very Nice Web Site

For example, I use the timer feature every day for various reasons but mostly cooking. Now the lock screen displays the amount of time left on a timer. It’s a little thing, but it’s of huge value to me because I use it every day.

Long Lines Forming At Apple Stores Around The Globe For iPhone 5S/5c Retail Launch

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

As online sales for the iPhone 5s begin to go live in Australia, Asia, and now the UK, lines outside of Apple stores around the world are starting to grow in anticipation the September 20th, 8AM retail launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c.

iPhone Shortages Frustrate Networks On Launch Day

Dave Lee, BBC

Several networks said that stock of the latest premium model - the 5S - was severely limited, and would likely cause disappointment.

None of the networks contacted wanted to be identified over worries they could be further disadvantaged when supplies were replenished.

Jony Ive: The Man Behind Apple's Magic Curtain

Marco della Cava, USA Today

In a rare interview, Ive, joined by Federighi, settles into a spartan meeting room with a simple black-and-white photo of a MacBook on one wall and the new lineup of iPhones on a counter. Over the course of an hour, the pair discusses their teamwork, personal philosophies and commitment to Apple's unwavering mission.

Government Officials Praises iOS 7′S Activation Lock Feature

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Google Makes Quickoffice For Android And iOS Free For All, Bringing Microsoft Office Editing To The Mobile Masses

Emil Protalinski, The Next Web

Google today announced it is making Quickoffice free for everyone. That means Android and iOS users can edit Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go without paying a dime.

iOS 7 Lock Screen Vulnerability Discovered, Gives Access To Photos And Social Sharing

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

Peering At iOS 7 For The Vision Impaired

TidBITS

Over the years, Apple has shown a strong commitment to accessibility in iOS, improving on it with each major version of the operating system. This year is no different, as iOS 7 adds accessibility options — such as Dynamic Text and Increase Contrast — that are sure to be appreciated by users who rely on such capabilities to interact with their iOS devices. Being legally blind, I appreciate them, so follow along as I share the most noteworthy of iOS 7’s vision-related features.

The Top 5 iOS7 Ringtones

Alan Hanson, The Awl

Apple Launches “Kids” App Store Category

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Create Your Own Magical Worlds In Disney Infinity: Toy Box

Joe White, AppAdvice

Byword Now Optimized For iOS 7 With New Design And New Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

App Store Developers Now Allowed To Manage Legacy App Availability

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share—and The New iPhones

Sam Grobart, Bloomberg

To Cook, the mobile industry doesn’t race to the bottom, it splits. One part does indeed go cheap, with commoditized products that compete on little more than price. “There’s always a large junk part of the market,” he says. “We’re not in the junk business.” The upper end of the industry justifies its higher prices with greater value. “There’s a segment of the market that really wants a product that does a lot for them, and I want to compete like crazy for those customers,” he says. “I’m not going to lose sleep over that other market, because it’s just not who we are. Fortunately, both of these markets are so big, and there’s so many people that care and want a great experience from their phone or their tablet, that Apple can have a really good business.”

iOS 7'S Biggest Annoyances (And How To Fix Them)

Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker

Watch A Cat Unlock The iPhone 5S Using Touch ID And The Fingerprint Sensor

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

The cat’s paw worked, and while it encountered more frequent failures than did a fingerprint, it was able to unlock the phone again repeatedly when positioned correctly on the sensor.

Angry Birds Star Wars II Hits The App Store

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Begin.app

Patrick Rhone, Minimal Mac

Begin is cleanly designed. There is no muss or fuss in this app. It really is about getting in, creating, and marking off tasks as quickly as possible.

Web Filtering In iOS 7

Fraser Speirs

Instacast 4: Revamped For iOS 7

Cody Fink, MacStories

Not only has the app been updated to adopt the look and feel of Apple’s translucency and flat iconography, it’s been significantly improved with the introduction of a sidebar and simpler now playing controls.

OmniOutliner 2: Refined For iOS 7, Now With External Keyboard Support

Cody Fink, MacStories

In OmniOutliner 2, the leather clad app is composed of clean shades of white, adopting iOS 7′s modern styling. It’s very much the same app as before with a cleaner look, flatter highlights, and square app previews.

iTunes 11.1 Brings iTunes Radio, Genius Shuffle, Podcast Stations, More

Dan Moren, Macworld

OmniFocus 2 For iPhone: Background Sync And A Bold Redesign

Don Southard, MacStories

OmniFocus 2 is a bold redesign. The Omni Group could have played it safe but instead they dove head first into creating an app from the ground-up that is fully assimilated to the new iOS 7 way of life.

Screens 3 Review

Cody Fink, MacStories

Screens lets you access your Mac or PC from your touchscreen iOS device. You can remotely connect to any of your computers, launch apps, and remotely control your personal computers at home or across the Internet.

Drafts 3.5 Brings Refined Interface For iOS 7, Action Improvements

Federico Viticci, MacStories

With the release of iOS 7, developer Greg Pierce has decided to make Drafts 3.5 an iOS 7-only app that includes an updated design and some new features for power users.

iTunes 11 Now Uses Notification Center In OS X

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Now, on OS X, you can get notifications for song changes. These notifications can be banners or alerts, and song changes can also be recorded in Notification Center.

Pocket Adds Instant Sync, Improved Reading Experience With iOS 7 Update

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Today, Pocket is updating its iOS app to take advantage of iOS 7 and ensuring that content is always available on an iPhone or iPad, even if the app isn’t running. The new Pocket is a good example of developers using the new iOS 7 APIs to enhance existing apps.

iOS 7.0.1 Will Be Ready For iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C On Friday

Mel Martin, TUAW

Clear Is Now A New Universal App, With New Features On iPad

Christine Chan, AppAdvice

Apple Posts New “Designed Together” Commercial For iPhone 5C And iOS 7

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Instapaper 5.0: Sorting And Filtering Options, Tweaked Interface For iOS 7

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Instapaper 5.0 doesn’t add any new major functionality to the app, which is still largely similar to the version 4.0 that was first released two years ago. Betaworks made the app ready for iOS 7, polished the interface, and added some new minor functionalities that, however, nicely complement the reading experience.

You Can’t Play Podcasts From The iOS Music App Any More

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Apple Raises Over-the-air Download Cap In iOS To 100MB

Bryan Bishop, The Verge

iOS 7 Review

Rene Ritchie, iMore

It's messy, and iOS 7 is still messy around the edges. I've been using iOS 7 since June, through all the betas, on all my main devices. I know from its messy. But it's also damn good.

Tune Into iTunes Radio

Josh Centers, TidBITS

iTunes 11.1 Adds iOS 7 Compatibility And iTunes Radio

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Good news for podcast fans: iTunes 11.1 finally syncs podcasts wirelessly over iCloud with Apple’s Podcasts app for iOS.

The iPhone 5s And 5c

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

This is what innovation, real innovation, looks like. It’s like the Thomas Edison quote, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Innovation is missed by most people because it is so often incremental.

Reeder 2 Review: Popular RSS Reader Gets A Fresh Coat Of iOS 7-Friendly Paint

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Pandora Introduces Version 5 Of iOS Apps W/ New Look For iOS 7 On iTunes Radio Launch Day

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

iOS 7, Thoroughly Reviewed

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

No matter what you think of the design, if you’re an iOS user and you want to keep up with the newest features, you’ll have to come to terms with it. And even things that still bother me (the animations, first and foremost) can be tolerated because of the genuinely useful new features and additions that arrive with the update.

How To Upgrade To iOS 7

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

If you’re concerned about the upgrade process, or you simply want to know all your setup options before making the big switch, let us help you upgrade your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to iOS 7 with this step-by-step guide.

Popular Service IFTTT Updates Its iOS App With Refreshed Design

Joe White, AppAdvice

Flipboard For iPad, iPhone Review - Magazine Style News, Features In One Beautiful, Responsive App

Nick Spence, Macworld UK

Flipboard is a must have app, more so with the introduction of iOS 7, one that showcases Apple's invention to great effect, while maintaining a lead over similar social-news aggregators. Beautifully tactile and responsive, it makes reading anything on your iDevice a absolute pleasure, one ideal for exploring both favourite news sources and discovering new and inspirational content, including wonderful user curated personalised magazines.

'Infinity Blade III' Review: Once More Unto The Breach

Sean Hollister, The Verge

The iPhone 5s Review

Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech

In many ways it's an evolutionary improvement over the iPhone 5, but in others it is a significant step forward. What Apple's silicon teams have been doing for these past couple of years has really started to pay off. From a CPU and GPU standpoint, the 5s is probably the most futureproof of any iPhone ever launched. As much as it pains me to use the word futureproof, if you are one of those people who likes to hold onto their device for a while - the 5s is as good a starting point as any.

A New Touch For iPhone

Walt Mossberg, All Things D

The new iPhone 5s is a delight. Its hardware and software make it the best smartphone on the market.

Review: iPhone 5c And iPhone 5s

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

The fingerprint sensor solved a problem and makes my handling of the iPhone more efficient. That’s what a feature should do.

The iPhone 5c Review

Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech

Apple’s return to a polycarbonate iPhone design seems to have gone quite well. The iPhone 5c is solid, doesn’t have any noticeable amount of flex and has a great in hand feel thanks to its nicely curved edges.

iOS 7: The Pixel Envy Review

Nick Heer, Pixel Envy

Should you upgrade? In a word, yes, but not without reservations. Even though it’s iOS 7.0, you can almost think of it as a 1.0 release — it’s that big of a rewrite. As such, it comes with the familiar caveats of a 1.0 release.

Byword 2 Review

Ray Augilera, Mac Life

Thanks to the clean interface and onboard publishing features, Byword has become my new go-to app for everything from grocery lists to meeting notes, and yes, writing this article. It's got everything I need, without any of the bloat of a word processor.

Apple Rolls Out iOS 7-Inspired iCloud.com Redesign

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Amazon Mobile For iOS Adds Push Notifications For Shipments, Deals And Subscription Activity

Scott Buscemi, 9 To 5 Mac

Photo Transfer WiFi Is An Easy Way To Move Photos And Videos Between iOS And Your Computer

Mel Martin, TUAW

The universal app can move photos or videos over a WiFi network with a simple drag and drop, and you can add any PC or Mac with a web browser to accept the files.

Perfect Weather For iPhone Puts Animated Radar At Your Fingertips

Dan Seifert, The Verge

Getting Ready For iOS 7: How To Backup Your Device And Set Up iOS 7

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

Before installing the update, it is recommended that you have a backup of your data. This how-to is going to walk you through backing up your iOS 6 device and transitioning it over to iOS 7.

News For iPhone, iPad Review - RSS Feed Reader Delivers News, Entertainment, And More

Nick Spence, Macworld UK

RSS feed reader isn't the most attractive but offers plenty of content for reading and sharing.

Reeder 2 For iPhone, iPad Review - Popular RSS Reader Gets iOS 7 Like Makeover

Nick Spence, Macworld UK

QuarkXPress 10 Sports New Graphics Engine, Retina Display Support, More

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

10 Tips For Managing Minimized Windows

Sharon Zardetto, Macworld

Do you minimize your windows with abandon, crowding your Dock with miniature documents? Do you rarely minimize anything, crowding your screen with multiple windows? Knowing the big and small options for this basic window-wrangling feature can save you both time and space.

Reservations For Unlocked iPhone 5S Quickly Depleted In China, Other Models Remain Available

Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider

According to Chinese language publication Sina Tech, the gold iPhone 5s appears to be one the most popular models in the country's capital city, with first day stock running out at the Sanlitun, Xidan Joy City, and Wangfujing Apple Stores just two hours after reservations went live on Tuesday, local Beijing time.

Worms 3 Updated With New Campaign Missions, Private Messaging And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Amazon Instant Video For iOS Now Supports AirPlay

Aaron Souppouris, The Verge

Apple Handing Out ‘Last Compatible Version’ Of iOS Apps To People With Old Phones

Joshua Schnell, Macgasm

According to reports around the social networks, Apple has begun offering people with older iOS devices the ability to download the “last compatible” version of applications to download.

A Month Inside Apple's Walled Garden: It's Not As Bad As You'd Think

Adam Dachis, Lifehacker

While third-party apps may work better, you didn’t buy an iPhone because you wanted choice. People buy iPhones because they work well and they look nice. You know what to expect from Apple’s mobile darling, and that’s pretty comforting if you rely on your smartphone for many daily tasks. You don’t have to maintain it like a computer. You know it’ll be there for you when you need it. You can get fed up with restrictions and a lack of options, but do you really need your phone to do everything you ever wanted? Do you really need that much choice?

Dear Apple: Good Luck Against The Smartphone Black Market

Ilya Marritz, NPR

Last week, Apple introduced two new iPhones with new features, including fingerprint recognition on one model, and extra password protections. But the new technology is up against a sophisticated black market that has had years to grow and adapt to meet the world's desire for smartphones.

Mini Review: Giant Boulder Of Death! (iOS)

T.J. Colello, Cape Breton Post

You Can Download Firefox 24 For Windows, Mac, And Linux Right Now; Official Launch Tomorrow

Emil Protalinski, The Next Web

Type Faster With OS X's Autocomplete

Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker

Apple Releases First iPhone 5C Commercial, "Plastic Perfected"

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

Titled "Plastic Perfected", the commercial features colorful liquids transforming into iPhone 5c devices and ends with the tagline, "For the colorful."

How To Look Up Words While Typing In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

If you are word processing and need to look up a definition or two, or if you cannot think of a specific word but know the first few letters of it, there are several services built into OS X that can help you with this.

iPhone 2013: Apple Lays Foundations For Future Innovation

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Innovation takes time. It is quite telling that after a fairly fallow 2013, the company is still putting its framework together. Just how extensive are its plans?

Think on Cook's statement to Goldman Sach's earlier this year: "The real magic is at the intersection of hardware, software and services. This isn't something you can sign a check for. You spend decades building up the experience."

Facebook Speeds Up Messenger For iPhone, Adds New Languages

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Why A Disembodied Finger Can't Be Used To Unlock The Touch ID Sensor On The iPhone 5S

Mike Wehner, TUAW

RF waves do not respond to the dead layer of skin on the outside of your finger -- the part that might be chapped or too dry to be read with much accuracy -- and instead reads only the living tissue underneath. This produces an extremely precise image of your print, and ensures that a severed finger is completely useless.

Pocket Casts For iOS 7 Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Pocket Casts 4 is a great podcast client for iOS 7. The push notification and sync systems are reliable, and automatic downloads finally make for an invisible download experience that happens behind the scenes and you don’t have to think about.

Six Great TextEdit Tricks

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

This text app comes as part of OS X, and can meet many of your writing needs. It doesn’t offer advanced page layout features such as columns and image wrap, but it does provide most of the fundamentals. Simplicity comes with benefits, too. TextEdit is sleek and fast.

In Japan, Typhoon Disrupts iPhone Queue As Customers Take Refuge In Apple Store

Joe White, AppAdvice

In Japan, customers have been queuing on Tokyo’s Ginza for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c since last week. Today, however, a powerful typhoon meant that these Apple die-hards were forced to take refuge in the nearby Apple Retail Store, as adverse weather conditions posed a serious danger.

Designing An iPhone 5C/5s Case? Here Are Your Official Apple Schematics

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

PDF Expert For iPhone And iPod Touch Gains iCloud Support And Other Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple Seen Seeding Future Wearable Products In IPhone

Adam Satariano, Bloomberg

A new motion-sensor chip inside the iPhone 5s lays the groundwork for wearable-computing products, while a fingerprint sensor opens more opportunities to make the smartphone a tool for making purchases at stores, according to technology analysts who study Apple. Another new processor chip in the device may give the company the chance to switch its Mac computers away from Intel Corp. (INTC) chips.

Can't wait.

Change The Default Email Address On The iPhone And iPad

OS X Daily

Unless it has been changed before, the default email address is always the first email account that has been setup on the iOS device. But for those who use multiple mail accounts on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, changing the default sending address is often important, since whatever is set as the default is what gets used by all other aspects of iOS when sharing through email, including photos or links, and this applies to Mail app as well as third party apps.

Apple Market Share: Facts And Psychology

Jean-Louis Gassée, Monday Note

After much complaining to the media about “excessive” iPhone subsidies, carriers now appear to agree with Horace Dediu who sees the iPhone as a great “salesman” for carriers, because it generates higher revenue per user (ARPU). As a result, the cell philanthropists offer lower prices to attract and keep users — and pay Apple more for the iPhone sales engine.

Explaining Apple's Incremental Approach

Glenn Fleishman

I understand this sentiment. Apple is a company that makes boatloads of money. It's hard to wait through the boring periods in which they're swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck, to see how they will challenge the industry again.

Why Apple's 'Indoor GPS' Plan Is Brilliant

Mike Elgan, Computerworld

There will be no long buildup and chicken-and-egg hold-up around Apple's plan to kill cash registers, as well as implement location-based advertising and promotions.

Most iPhones in use already support it.

Rock It Out On The Dr. Teeth And The Electric Mayhem Stage In My Muppets Show

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Horus News Reader Review: RSS Reader With Graphical Pizazz

Jeff Sandstoe, Macworld

Horus News Reader 1.1 is an RSS reader that separates itself from the rest of the herd by placing an immense importance on design and the graphic presentation of stories. If you’ve every used—and loved—mobile news apps like the Pulse, then you’ll feel right at home using Horus.

Venerable PCalc App Gets An Upgrade To Version 3.0 For iOS 7

Steven Sande, TUAW

On the iPhone, there's now a "smarter display" that uses a larger font size for entries and results if there are fewer lines of data to display. That should make it much easier to read numbers on the small screen as you're using a Lorentz Transformation to calculate tips at your favorite restaurant.

How Did Wal-Mart's IPhone Discount Defeat Apple's Price Controls?

Kyle Stock, Bloomberg

As the No. 1 cellphone seller in the U.S., Wal-Mart probably doesn’t have much reason to worry about Apple cutting off its supply.

Apple's Free iWork Suite Provides Alternative To Office For iOS

Diana Hwang, TechTarget

Mobile employees are beginning to use Apple iPhones and iPads not only as content consumption devices, but also to create content.

Online iPhone 5S Orders Open At 12:01 A.m. Pacific Sept. 20, In-store Sales Begin Locally At 8 A.m.

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

Some Thoughts About The iPhone 5S Camera Improvements

Brian Klug, AnandTech

Apple’s iPhone 5S, The A7 Chip, And That 64-Bit Question

John Paczkowski, All Things D

But chip experts say that there are some gains to be had even from a 64-bit chip without 4GB of addressable memory.

For one thing, 64-bit integer math will allow the A7 to execute operations much faster than the 32-bit A6. “The fact that the A7 has twice as many processor registers means that more operations can occur without the processor using main memory, which is slower to access,” Carl Howe, VP of research and data sciences at the Yankee Group told AllThingsD.

Review: Mynd Calendar App For iPhone

Matt Tinsley, TUAW

What I love most about the home screen, though, is the display of profile pictures (drawn from your iOS contacts, which you've hopefully got setup and syncing with Facebook or Twitter) of people you're going to meet on a given day. To me, seeing a picture of a friend or colleague in my calender means a great deal more emotionally than simply seeing a name in text.

SimCity Review: Gather Your Friends, Because You're Going To Need Them

Chris Holt, Macworld

By playing alone, you aren’t missing out on minor resources, either: having one player specialize in tourism can affect the entire region, or having one player with great oil resources can save you the trouble of buying your own power plant. It’s a huge deal, and cannot be overstated: SimCity is now a multiplayer game and playing without other people is going be much more difficult and limiting.

Photoshop Express For iOS Gets Updated With New Filters

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Fixing iTunes Albums

Andy Ihnatko

International Verify Your Backups Day

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

The act of backing up is only the first small step in the full equation — it’s being able to restore that really matters.

Breaking Down The iPhone 5S Upgrade Math

Tony Bradley, Macworld

FontAgent Pro 6 Offers New Workflow Center, Creative Cloud Support

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Version 6 adds a new Workflow Center, support for Adobe Creative Cloud, more than 1,350 free fonts, faster font search, more powerful ESP keyword font search, expanded font verification, and Smasher 3 automatic maintenance software.

How Apple Stretched Its Wings With The iPhone 5S Hardware Design

Marco Tabini, Macworld

A Developer's Guide To Apple's 64-Bit A7 Chip

Christina Warren, Mashable

"The two types of apps that benefit most [from 64-bit] are games and scientific/number-crunching apps," says Jonathan Wight, a veteran iOS developer.

Calendars 5: A Full-featured Planner Inspired By iOS 7

Ellis Hamburger, The Verge

Fantastical and Sunrise still have it beat on key features like natural language processing and list views, but for users simply looking for a multi-faceted, well-rounded planner to replace the iOS Calendar, Calendars 5 is an excellent choice.

Apple’s AirPort Extreme Remains The Gold Standard For ‘No-hassle’ Routers

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Plug in your Apple router, connect it to your DSL or cable modem, follow the simple instructions on your Mac or iOS device for setting up a network, and you’re ready to go.

The iPhone 5S, The Moto X, And The Rise Of The Co-processor

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Computing devices, and the chips that power them, are going to continue to become more integrated—there's no question about that. However, there are certain kinds of features where breaking something out from a monolithic SoC still makes sense, and as more and more manufacturers jump on the always-on-feature train, we're only going to see more of them.

Apple Increases iPhone 5C And 5S Battery Sizes Relative To iPhone 5

Brian Klug, AnandTech

The iPhone 5S ends up getting an almost 10 percent increase in size versus the iPhone 5, the iPhone 5C goes up around 5 percent versus the iPhone 5.

OS X 10.8.5 Update More Than Doubles 802.11Ac File Transfer Speeds

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

When transferring files over the AFP protocol, it looks like OS X now performs more-or-less identically to Windows 8. Performance is well over double where it was in 10.8.4, which bodes well not just for the 2013 MacBook Air but for any other 802.11ac Macs that come out in the future.

OS X 10.8.5 Fixes Nasty Text Rendering Bug

Josh Centers, TidBITS

On Touch ID And Accessibility

Steven Aquino

Not only is the fingerprint scanner quicker and more secure, but it also is just plain easier and better to use for those with disabilities.

Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Where’s My Water? 2 Launches With New Puzzles, More Ducks, And Hard Challenges

Leah Yamshon, Macworld

Apple ID Now Required To Set Genius Bar Appointment Online

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

Dropzone Review: Go Drag-and-drop Crazy With OS X

Ray Aguilera, Macworld

At it’s simplest, Dropzone lives in your menubar, and expands to a palate of actions, whether that’s compressing a file and emailing it, or uploading a picture to your Flickr account.

iPhone 5C Preorders Begin Friday At 12:01 A.m. PST, 3 A.m. EST

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Calendars 5 Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Calendars gets close to being my ideal app for the current state of calendar and Reminders clients. It looks good and it’s powerful, but it lacks some of the more niche features of Agenda and Fantastical and it needs improvements for Reminders. Overall, it’s solid calendar and reminder client and my favorite option on the iPad right now.

Reeder 2 Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Reeder 2 is a Universal app for the iPhone and iPad. Like the old Reeder, it supports Readability, Fever, Feedbin, Feed Wrangler, and Feedly as reading and sync services, plus local RSS subscriptions with no syncing.

The New Reeder For iOS

Shawn Blanc

Reeder continues to works with many of the numerous RSS syncing services, including my personal favorite, Feed Wrangler. And what’s great is that this new version of Reeder has added support for Feed Wrangler’s Smart Streams.

Organizing And Creating iPhoto Projects

Christopher Breen, Macworld

iCloud Keychain Removed In iOS 7 GM

Juli Clover, MacRumors

iCloud Keychain is also newly tagged as "Coming soon" on Apple's iOS 7 feature page and while it is unclear why it has been removed from the GM, it is likely that Apple has chosen to provide the feature alongside OS X Mavericks, which is slated to be released later this year.

Why Apple's iPhone 5C Case Is Pure Trash

John Brownlee, Co.Design

What is mystifying to me is the way the polkadot grid of the iPhone 5C case half-obscures, half-exposes all of this text. It looks terrible, like a Playskool fishnet stocking that has been sloppily pulled over a sign.

Johnny Ive needs to be the senior vice president of design for hardware, software, and cases.

The IPhone's Secret Flights From China To Your Local Apple Store

Adam Satariano, Bloomberg

The multi-pronged operation has been built up under Cook, who oversaw Apple's supply chain before being tapped as Steve Jobs's successor in 2011. Getting iPhones seamlessly moved from factories to customers is critical for the Cupertino, California-based company, which derives more than half of its annual revenue from the flagship product. Apple also relies on a sales spike after a product's release. It sold more than 5 million units in the debut weekend for the iPhone 5 last year.

Is It Time For Apple To Update App Store Pricing Rules?

Michael Grothaus, Fast Company

While Case does admit that many customers are happy to get apps like Final Cut Pro X for only $199, he thinks Apple’s current software pricing strategy on the Mac App Store is keeping developers and users from investing in high-end software.

Ruminating About Apple’s Lowercase Letters

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

From the perspective of someone who lives and breathes text, this is a wrong-headed move, because it is both inconsistent and introduces confusion-causing ambiguity, not just into everything that’s written from now on, but also into the historical record. From now on, whenever you see the word “iPhone 5s” in a sentence, you’ll have to read carefully to determine if it’s talking about the iPhone 5s, or several iPhone 5s.

Personally, "iPhone 5S" looks horrible.

Apple: New iPhone Not Storing Fingerprints, Doesn’t Like Sweat

Danny Yadron and Ian Sherr, Wall Street Journal

This means that even if someone cracked an iPhone’s encrypted chip, they likely wouldn’t be able to reverse engineer someone’s fingerprint.

In an interview Wednesday, an Apple spokesman pointed to other security features the company has added to the phone. Apple customers who wish the use Touch ID also have to create a passcode as a backup. Only that passcode (not a finger) can unlock the phone if the phone is rebooted or hasn’t been unlocked for 48 hours.

Microsoft Releases Fixes, Critical Security Update For Office 2011

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Microsoft has pushed out an update to Microsoft Office 2011 that fixes numerous issues with the suite as well as addresses a critical security flaw.

More Fun With iTunes Smart Playlists

David Sparks, MacSparky

Cure For A Corrupt Calendar Application

Christopher Breen, Macworld

China Licenses Apple's iPhone With China Mobile's Wireless Standard

Paul Mozur, Wall Street Journal

A Chinese regulator has given the final license necessary for Apple Inc.'s iPhone to run on China Mobile Ltd.'s mobile network, another indication China's largest carrier will soon be releasing an iPhone for the first time.

With iTunes Radio, Apple Takes Aim At Pandora

Ben Sisario, New York Times

Prevent OS X FileVault Keys From Being Stored In Standby Mode

Topher Kessler, CNET

As an added measure of security, you can prevent your Mac from storing FileVault encryption keys for the purpose of speeding wake times from standby mode.

Chaotic Scenes At Apple’s First China Event – But Press Are Shown Replay Of US Launch

South China Morning Post

A media scrum at Apple’s first ever event in China caused chaos on Wednesday – but high expectations were dashed as reporters were shown taped video footage of the US iPhone launch that had taken place hours before.

Is this why Apple didn't stream the California event live?

Apple Silently Sends Off Cards For iPhone

Dan Moren, Macworld

Apple on Tuesday quietly discontinued its iOS-based service for sending photo postcards via good ol’ fashioned snail mail, removing the related iOS app from the App Store.

The “S” In iPhone 5S Stands For “Sensors”

Ian Betteridge, Macgasm

But the really interesting – and in the long-term important – sensor in the iPhone 5S is the M7, a “motion co-processor” which allows it to measure data from the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass without draining the battery as heavily as would be required if the A7 processor were used. Effectively, using the CoreMotion API, apps can access data about movement all day, without destroying the battery life.

With iBeacon, Apple Is Going To Dump On NFC And Embrace The Internet Of Things

Hari Gottipati, GigaOM

Apple has found a smart way to wirelessly transmit data over short distances using BLE. So why do you need to bump your phone with another? Why do you need NFC if you could share the data with anyone in the region with the existing bluetooth technology?

BLE can solve these microlocation data challenges in ways that NFC can’t duplicate.

NSA: Apple Controls The Public

Natasha Lennard, Salon

Aside from the pot-calling-the-kettle black aspect of a spy agency that hoards data on almost every electronic communication within and going out of the U.S., the internal government admission that a tech company can play a major role in techniques of governmentality is perturbingly accurate. It is, after all, the content of millions of Apple product users that is swept into the NSA’s vast surveillance dragnets daily.

Apple Bumps Up Camera Specs On New iPhone 5S And 5C

Mel Martin, TUAW

Apple says it wanted the camera to be "better and smarter." The camera in the iPhone 5s has a new Apple-designed, five-element lens with f/2.2 aperture. The sensor has a 15 percent larger area, and Apple claims the bigger pixels will make for a better picture.

Hands-on With The iPhone 5S

Lex Friedman, Jason Snell, Dan Moren, Macworld

To use touch ID you must also have a passcode on your phone. If the fingerprint scanner somehow gets borked, or if you hand your iPhone to someone else while driving, or if you lose your hand in a freak accident, you can still get into the device by using the passcode.

Hands-on With The iPhone 5C

Dan Moren and Lex Friedman, Macworld

Here’s a free piece of trivia: Only one iPhone 5c doesn’t show you an orange line when you flip the Ring/Silent switch to mute—the pink version, which instead displays a white line. The orange line likely lacked the contrast necessary to be useful on the salmon-hued model.

Q&A About Fingerprint Scanning

Rich Mogull, TidBITS

But despite the believed uniqueness of fingerprints, using a fingerprint scan as an authentication credential isn’t a panacea for security problems. It’s worth taking a little time to understand the technology, what it can do, and how it will integrate with your digital life.

iPhone 5S Announced, Knows You By Touch

Josh Centers and Michael E. Cohen, TidBITS

Perhaps the most drastic outward change to the iPhone 5s is its new Touch ID fingerprint scanner, built into the home button. The capacitive sensor, which is 170 microns thick and has a resolution of 500 pixels-per-inch, can unlock the iPhone or authorize iTunes purchases with just the touch of a finger.

Apple Announces Low-Cost Plastic iPhone 5C, In Five Colors

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

With Apple’s Jony Ive saying “iPhone 5c is beautifully, unapologetically plastic,” the iPhone 5c comes in a single-piece polycarbonate case, with every button and part (other than the screen) in color. As its name implies, it’s available in five colors, all reminiscent of Easter eggs: blue, white, pink, yellow, and green.

Apple Sneaks In Changes To AppleCare+

Jonathan Seff, Macworld

A Tale Of Two iPhones: Hands-on With The iPhone 5S And iPhone 5C

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Apple took to the stage of its town hall in Cupertino today to unveil not one but two new iPhones for the fall, the multi-colored iPhone 5C and the new flagship iPhone 5S. We'll be giving both phones the review treatment when they're out, but in the meantime Apple let us spend a little hands-on time with them (and some of their new features) ahead of their launch.

Apple Continuing To Sell The iPhone 4 In China

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple's New iPhone Event Video Posted In Full To Watch Online

Richard Devine, iMore

iPod Touch (32/64GB Versions), iPod Nano, And iPod Shuffle Now Available In “Space Gray”

Scott Buscemi, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Unveils Lightning-Compatible iPhone Docks For The iPhone 5S And iPhone 5C

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

From the small number of photos, it looks like the docks can only hold a handset without a case. The iPhone 5S dock is also compatible with the iPhone 5.

Apple Is Now Accepting iOS 7 App Submissions, Releases 64-Bit Transition Guide

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

iPhone Developers Won’t Get Fingerprint-Reader Authentication Option — For Now, Anyway

Ina Fried, All Things D

Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller confirmed to AllThingsD that developers won’t get access to use a fingerprint as a means of authentication. He declined to comment on whether that might come in the future.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based company also said that it won’t be storing fingerprints on its servers.

iWork, iPhoto, And iMovie For iOS Going Free With All New iOS Devices

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Fingerprint Analysis: Will The iPhone’s Newest Sensor Change The World Again?

Casey Newton, The Verge

By tying the phone’s owner to a physical identity, Apple opens up a world of possibilities around payments and authentication into third-party applications.

Hewlett Packard Updates Snapfish With New Design, Timeline View And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Snapfish is the official iOS app of Hewlett Packard’s photo-sharing and photo-printing service of the same name. As such, the app offers a mobile alternative to viewing Snapfish photos on the Web. As well, it allows unlimited uploads to the service.

Radium For iOS Is A Delight For Radio Fans

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Radium is simple app with plenty of extra features for those who want to dig a little deeper.

Eisenpower Is New Task Organizer For Pro Mac Users

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Free: A Simple File And Folder Sync App For Macs

Ron McElfresh, Noodlemac

Formlabs Form 1

Michael Calore, Wired

SwitchUp Review: Easily Set Up Separate Usage Profiles For Your Apps

David Chartier, Macworld

If you ever wished you could have separate profiles, or libraries of data, for apps that don’t support it, SwitchUp 1.6 is your answer.

Jony Ive Makes Solid Gold EarPods For Project (RED)

Peter Cohen, iMore

NoteCube: A Fast Note-Taking App For Evernote

Federico Viticci, MacStories

What impressed me about NoteCube, besides its simplicity, is how quickly it syncs to Evernote.

Home Is Where The Heart Is: 8 Apps For House Hunters

Damon Brown, TechHive

Is AppleCare Worth It?

Jonathan Seff, Macworld

AppleCare (or AppleCare+ for iPhones and iPads) is an insurance policy for your devices. You pay an up-front cost to cover any potential problems. But more precisely, AppleCare plans extend the length of your hardware coverage for both repairs and support. Apple offers four separate plans—for Macs and Apple displays, iPhones, iPads, and iPods and Apple TVs.

Fan Files Class-action Lawsuit Against Apple Over Breaking Bad’s Short Season Pass

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Xbox Music Now Available For iPhone And iPod Touch

Richard Devine, iMore

Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy On Smart Phone Data

Spiegel

The United States' National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google's Android mobile operating system.

The documents state that it is possible for the NSA to tap most sensitive data held on these smart phones, including contact lists, SMS traffic, notes and location information about where a user has been.

How-to: Use iOS’s Guided Access Feature

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

Guided Access is an accessibility feature that came out with iOS 6. Guided Access enables you to set up the iOS device so that you cannot leave apps, and you are able to control which features of the app you are allowed to use or not use.

Composure For Mac Makes Creating Collages Fun And Easy

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Yelp Gets New Photo Viewer, New Search Filter UI And A Couple Of Other Improvements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Microsoft OneNote For iPad Gains Notebook Creation, iPhone App Reduces Size

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

1Password And The Crypto Wars

Agile Blog

Our role in this as a company is to be transparent about our approach to security while keeping your 1Password data protected.

VLC For iOS Updated With Improved International Support, FTP Server Discovery

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple To Unveil New Store At Stanford Shopping Center

Jason Green, San Jose Mercury News

Spanish Pretati iPhone App Review: Useful Video Dictionary

Tucker Cummings, Tapscape

Being able to watch someone’s mouth can really help you with your own pronunciation.

MacBook Air Revisited: 12 Weeks In

James Kendrick, ZDNet

The hardware is fantastic, performance is great, and battery life is wonderful. It's one of the best laptops I've ever purchased, if not the best, and I'd happily buy it again.

How To Detect Displays In OS X 10.8

Topher Kessler, CNET

Judge Lays Down Apple’s Punishment In Ebooks Case. It’s Largely In Line With What The Feds Wanted

Laura Hazard Owen, GigaOM

Judge Cote’s injunction forbids Apple from enforcing most-favored-nation clauses in any ebook publishing contracts for five years, and also forbids the company from entering into any book publishing contracts that contain them for five years.

The DOJ had wanted to change Apple’s in-app purchase policies, and had wanted to force Apple to allow competing ebook retailers — like Amazon — to sell ebooks through their apps without taking its customary 30 percent commission. Luckily for Apple, none of that is included in the final injunction.

Intermission Transforms Audio Streaming With TiVo-like Replay

Erica Sadun, TUAW

Intermission enables you to pause, rewind and skip through live audio streams. This lets you take control of any audio you listen to, regardless of application. It just works, always passively listening and ready for you to take charge.

The Clear Day Screensaver For Mac Is Pretty And Useful

Mel Martin, TUAW

This US$1.99 app lets you view the weather in more than 2.5 million cities via a beautifully rendered globe.

In Praise Of Bioshock Infinite For Mac

Josh Centers, TidBITS

So what makes a great video game? Artistry. When the development team moves beyond basic game mechanics to adding flair just to enrich the overall experience. That’s what enables a game to transcend mere competence and aspire to immortality.

How The NSA Snoop-proofs Its Macs

Rich Mogull, Macworld

More On Playlists And Syncing Music To An iPod Shuffle

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

In this week’s column, I look at several questions related to playlists, and I also tackle a bonus question about syncing music to an iPod shuffle.

'Junk Jack X' Review - Beauty In Simplicity

Eric Ford, Touch Arcade

Ping For iPhone: Does Merging Email And Instant Messaging Make Sense?

Ellis Hamburger, The Verge

Ping fuses email and IM in a fascinating and useful new way.

N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

Nicole Perlroth, Jeff Larsona nd Scott Shane, New York Times

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.

The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.

Also:

• How to remain secure against NSA surveillance (Bruce Schneier, The Guardian): The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe.

Healthier Review: Mac App Reminds You To Get Up Off Of That Thing

Dan Moren, Macworld

Healthier allows you to set how often you’d like to be interrupted to take a break—between 10 and 90 minutes, at one minute intervals—and how long that break should be—between one and 20 minutes.

Unleash Your Inner Picasso With Pogo Connect's New Pressure-sensitive Brush Nibs

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Adobe Announces Photoshop CC And Lightroom Plan For $9.99/Month

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The new subscription plan is for current owners of Photoshop CS3 or higher and offers the latest versions of Photoshop CC and Lightroom, 20 GB of online storage, and a membership to Adobe's Behance portfolio website all for just US$9.99 a month.

How To Manage Notification Settings For New Messages In The Gmail For iOS App

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Racing Simulator iRacing.com Comes To Mac

Joseph Keller, iMore

iRacing features subscription-based, massively-multiplayer online racing in multiple leagues, including NASCAR, IndyCar, and Williams F1.

Path Update Ushers In Premium Subscription Tier

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Apple Offers Rare iTunes Sale On Top Singles

Joe White, AppAdvice

iThoughtsX For The Mac

David Sparks, MacSparky

What Every iPhoto User Should Know About Image Editing

Christopher Breen, Macworld

There are far more powerful applications you can use to edit your images and more interesting (and, in some cases, convoluted) ways to adjust them. Consider the following the first steps in image editing. I’ll leave it to the pros to offer more-advanced techniques and tools.

5 Ways To Stay Below Your Data Cap On Android And iOS

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, TechHive

How Your iPhone Can Help You Find The Perfect Cup Of Coffee

Geoffrey Goetz, GigaOM

The path to perfection often requires the help and guidance of others, even when that path leads to a cup of coffee. These ten apps will help you find your path to the perfect cup.

Snapverse iPhone App Review: Say It Better

Tucker Cummings, Tapscape

Snapverse is an app that blends music, video and photos into a potent new form of communication.

Status Magic Review: Perform Nifty Hocus-pocus On iOS Screenshots

Lex Friedman, Macworld

You can either have the app superimpose a status bar of your choosing, or have it remove the status bar entirely. And when I say you can customize the status bar, boy can you.

Patched Safari Bug Being Exploited By Hackers

Topher Kessler, CNET

A known vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser is the new target for a proof-of-concept exploit that allows a hacker to arbitrarily run code on unpatched Mac systems.

If The Speaker On Your Mac Isn’t Loud Enough, And You Need More Sound Volume, Get Boom!

Ron McElfresh, Noodlemac

What it does is simple. It makes the sound emanating from your Mac’s small speakers sound louder, bigger, better.

How To Effectively Fill Your Mac's Display When Screen Sharing

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Jawbone Announces MINI JAMBOX, Companion App, Tons Of Boom

Joseph Keller, iMore

On OmniKeyMaster’s Shutdown

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Apple Will Hold Satellite iPhone Events In Beijing, Berlin And Tokyo

John Paczkowski, All Things D

These satellite launches will be held in Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing, and will feature a video stream or more time-zone-friendly replay of the Cupertino event, along with some other content.

Best RSS Apps For Mac: ReadKit, Leaf RSS Reader, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Update — We’re Unable To Offer Upgrade Pricing For Mac App Store Purchases

Ken Case, The Omni Group

So long as we continue to sell our apps through the Mac App Store, we are not allowed to distribute updates through other channels to apps which were purchased from the App Store.

Apple’s DRM On iTunes Was Not An Illegal Monopoly, Court Confirms

Jeff John Roberts, GigaOM

Despite the commanding market share, a three-judge panel affirmed that Apple did not break antitrust laws, in part because it maintained prices at 99 cents even after its DRM system gave it dominant market power in 2004. The court also noted that Apple maintained its 99 cent price point even after Amazon entered the market with DRM-free music, and after Apple itself dropped the FairPlay encryption system in 2009.

No Time To Waste: 9 Apps To Avoid Long Waits

Jasmine France, TechHive

Whether you just want to speak to a human or you’re anxious to get to your next destination, a variety of apps can help. Of course, you can’t hope to avoid waiting entirely, but the selection below can help you shave valuable minutes off day-to-day tasks.

Run Scripts On Your Mac At Home From Your iPhone With Otto

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Want Amazing New Performance Out Of Your Old Mac Pro? Here's How

Peter Cohen, iMore

Apple Updates iLife For iOS Apps

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The company says the updates to iPhoto and iMovie address compatibility issues, while the update to GarageBand addresses minor issues related to general performance and stability. The "compatibility issues" may or may not relate to iOS 7, which is expected to be released to the public in the next several weeks.

VMware Releases Fusion 6 To Support OS X Mavericks, Windows 8.1

Dan Miller, Macworld

Fusion 6 is designed specifically to take advantage of new features in OS X Mavericks, including its refined handling of full-screen apps. (Running a Windows virtual machine full-screen on one display, while still running your OS X apps independently on another, is an attractive prospect.) Fusion 6 can also bring Mavericks’s enhanced dictation support to Windows apps.

Apple Sends Out Invites For Chinese Media Event On Septemer 11Th

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The Apple media event in China begins at 9:00AM Beijing time on September 11th.

9am on Sept 11 in Beijing is 6pm on Sept 10 in California, which is 8 hours after the start of the Apple event at the company's headquarters.

Apple Announces Special Event For September 10

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

Apple on Tuesday sent out invites for a special event to be held on September 10, 2013 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif. headquarters.

Moleskine Journal For iOS Gains New Text Engine, Presentation Mode And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

iTunes Tagging Basics And Tips

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Font Pestle Is New Mac App For Converting Symbol Fonts To Graphics, Style Sheets

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

The app converts symbol fonts into collections of individual graphics and style sheets. It’s designed for web designers and those needing icons embedded with a font.

Watermark Sense Offers Batch Image Watermarking For Mac OS X

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

A Beginner’s Guide To OS X File Sharing

Jordan Merrick, Mactuts+

TuneUp 3.0 For Mac OS X Adds A Little Automagic

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Backing Up And Restoring Musical Instruments

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Shazam iOS App Updated With Twitter Previews And Faster Recognition On Older iPhones

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Dice+ Brings The Traditional Board Game Dice To Board Games On Your iPad

Richard Devine, iMore

It's a regular looking 6-sided dice, but inside it houses Bluetooth that connects to the game you're playing on your iPad – or iPhone, presumably, though less suited to playing these sort of games perhaps – so you can roll the dice yourself and have the results in the game.

Take Control Of Startup And Login Items

Joe Kissell, Macworld

Here’s a quick primer on the various kinds of startup and login items and how to manage them.

'Blackbar' Review - Words Are A Powerful Thing

Jeffrey deMelo, Touch Arcade

How To Master Safari For iOS: Top 5 Tips For Better, Faster Browsing

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone

Nick Bilton, New York Times

Ms. deGuzman’s video may have landed at one of those cultural moments when people start questioning if something has gone too far and start doing something about it.

Hangouts (For iPhone)

Max Eddy, PC Magazine

The iOS Messages app has free iOS to iOS messages and FaceTime built right in, giving me immediate access to all of my contacts. By comparison, it makes Hangouts feel like little more than an appendage.

Review: Google Docs Vs. Apple iWork Vs. Office

Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press