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iTranslate Updated To Version 7.1, Brings Updated Design To The iPad

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple Retreats To The Suburbs

Edward Tenner, Bloomberg

Apple Inc.’s stunning new Campus 2 in Cupertino, California, will be one of Steve Jobs’ lasting legacies when completed in 2015. For better or worse, he was thinking differently to the end, striving for geographic self-sufficiency even as many other high-technology enterprises across the country were starting to return to city life. Will this approach, and the complex that embodies it, renew Apple’s culture of excellence or retard it?

How To Estimate Your Travel Time In The OS X Mavericks Calendar App

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

OS X’s Mail 7: Can’t Replace Saved Attachment In Its ‘Downloads’ Folder

Pierre Igot, Betalogue

In other words, it completely ignores your request to replace the existing file.
If you don’t pay attention and don’t notice this behaviour, you might end up having and using the wrong version of a file. You might think that your existing file with the name has been replaced, but it has not and is still the “old” file.

MacBook Pro With Retina Display 13-Inch Vs. 15-Inch: Which Powerful Mac Laptop Should You Get?

Peter Cohen, iMore

Review: ZAGGfolio For iPad Air

James Rogers, ISource

I much prefer the traditional keyboard layout of the ZAGGfolio to the competition, and that is a big deal with me. I also love having the freedom of movement and viewing angles that the rear hinge offers. And the backlight is great bonus that can be a lifesaver when you need it.

Review: Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Folio For The iPad Air

James Rogers, ISource

Logitech’s Ultrathin Keyboard Folio delivers by far the best keyboard case typing experience you can get for the iPad Air. The keyboard is wide, and the keys are well spaced, and they also have a nice action and solid feel.

Brazil Wants To Know Why Apple Bills Its Citizens In US Dollars

Sharif Sakr, Engadget

Apple prices everything there in US dollars, which has led Brazil's Consumer Protection Secretariat to write a formal letter to the company requesting an explanation.

Also:

• Why Apple In Brazil Is Charging Its Customers In Dollars Not Reals (Tim Worstall, Forbes): So the Brazilian system asks that Apple, instead of remitting that 70%, must hold on to 15-25% of that sum which the writers of the software/tunes/whatever must then try to claim back from the Brazilian tax authorities after Apple has paid it over.

The New Mac Pro: Not For The Faint Of Wallet

Ted Landau, Macworld

The new Mac Pro is a machine whose design shows no evidence of having been constrained by concerns over who could afford it. If this means that the Mac Pro’s escalating costs put the machine out of reach of many potential buyers, well, the iMac and MacBook Pro are always there to fill the void.

Apple Objects To Monitor’s Fees In E-Books Antitrust Case

Andrew Zajac, Bloomberg

Bromwich’s invoice for his first two weeks of work was $138,432, the equivalent of 75 percent of a federal judge’s annual salary, Apple said in its filing, which described the administrative surcharge as “unprecedented in Apple’s experience.”

Tote Around Your iTunes Library And More On iBooks

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Review: Apricorn's Aegis 3.0 Portable Drive Offers An SSD Option For Better Performance

Jon L. Jacobi, Macworld

The SSD versions of the Aegis Portable 3.0 offer far better write performance than the hard-drive models, and are lighter and more rugged. But they cost nearly four times as much.

Olloclip Launches Limited Edition Space Gray, Gold Clips For Your New iPhone 5S

Joe White, AppAdvice

Olloclip, iPhone lens-maker, is celebrating Thanksgiving this year with two new “limited edition” color options for its four-in-one clip-on lens: space gray and gold.

Some Additional Tidbits On Apple’s Gift Card-based Black Friday Deal

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

According to the person, the standard discounts for Black Friday required several months of preparation (each year) from Apple across several teams within the company. Apple was required to manually update the pricing for every product within its entire backend system for both the online and retail stores. This process is said to have been anything but seamless, and it was, as the source put it, a waste of time and resources. Gift cards, instead, take little effort from Apple to ship alongside products, and in some cases, the money savings (overall) will be even greater for the customer.

Concepts' New Strokes Feature Is A Stroke Of Smart Sketching Genius

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Dialogue 1.2 Review: Make Phone Calls On Your iPhone Through Your Mac

Chris Barylick, Macworld

This is the core idea of Emiel Janson’s Dialogue, which establishes a Bluetooth connection between your iPhone and your Mac, which acts a Bluetooth headset. Once a Bluetooth connection has been established and a call has been made or received, you can talk through your Mac’s internal microphone or through a pair of headphones with a built-in microphone.

How To Set Up An External Hard Drive For Use With OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

SkySafari 3 (For iPad)

Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine

SkySafari 3 stands out among consumer-level iPad planetarium apps for the variety of objects it shows and the thoroughness of the information it provides for each object. Its sky depictions are both pleasing and accurate. Whether you want to learn the constellations, spot satellites, or view star clusters, galaxies, comets, and asteroids with binoculars or a small telescope, the well-rounded SkySafari 3 and an iPad is all you need to get started.

Just Who Is Apple's Most Frustrated Fanboi? Surprise – It's GOOGLE

Jack Clark, The Register

One reason why Google chooses to avoid Apple's two main management tools of Apple OS 10 Server and Apple Remote Desktop is that they "break down when you get over 50, 100, 200 machines you're managing," he said. "We've lost [Apple's] attention as far as enterprise management tools."

Authors Rejoice! Pages For iOS Now Does A Better Job Round-tripping To MS Word

Steven Sande, TUAW

Through a happy experiment this morning, I found that Pages (for both Mac and iOS) now does a much better job of round-tripping with Word. That's the term for shifting a document back and forth between different applications on different platforms, hopefully without too many formatting changes happening in the process.

Reeder 2 Update Brings Feed Grouping, Themes And More

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Tweetbot 3.2 Brings Night Theme, Account Reordering And Quick Switching

Federico Viticci, MacStories

MindNode 3

Federico Viticci, MacStories

When my brain has to jump from point to point several times and a text outline isn’t enough, I like the visual approach of mind maps. And in the modern age, unless I need specific advanced features of iThoughts, I usually open MindNode – IdeasOnCanvas’ app for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. MindNode for iOS gets the 3.0 treatment today with a major update that redesigns the app, makes it iOS 7-only, adds new features, and cleans up some old ones while staying free for existing customers.

The Birth Of The iPhone

Leander Kahney, Medium

Excerpt from “Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products”.

iPhone 5s Wait Time Drops As Foxconn Boosts Production

Lorraine Luk, Wall Street Journal

Hon Hai, also known by its trade name Foxconn, has boosted production capacity for the iPhone 5S at the expense of the cheaper iPhone 5C as requested by Apple, people familiar with the situation told The Wall Street Journal last month.

How To Add Your PDFs To iBooks And Organize Them

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

After A Month Of Use, We Dish Out Our Biggest Gripes With OS X Mavericks

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

While Mavericks ushers in a number of desirable features and improvements to the operating system, those features don't always work exactly as advertised. Now that the software has been out for about a month, we thought we'd round up our most pressing gripes, in part to bring them to your attention, and also because complaining can be pretty cathartic.

Review: New iPad Mini Comes Up Big

Edward C. Baig, USA Today

In a smaller format, the iPad mini matches the iPad Air spec for spec and feature for feature.

Virtual Body Human Anatomy Is An Impressive 2D Anatomy App

Tom Lewis, iMedicalApps

Apple Promises 'The Friday You've Waited All Year For' In Black Friday Teaser

Philip Michaels, Macworld

If past Apple Black Friday offerings are any indication, however, don’t expect to walk away from Apple’s sale with any kind of prices-so-low-you’ll-fear-for-Tim-Cook’s-sanity-type deals. Previous Apple sales have offered modest discounts on its own products and accessories, along with some savings on third-party offerings.

Unbound: A Photo Viewer For Dropbox

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Unbound by Pixite is a photo viewer for people who keep their photos in Dropbox. Unlike recent App Store trends, it comes as separate purchases for the iPhone and iPad priced at $2.99. The app is built for iOS 7, and it comes with viewing and sharing features that, right now, make it my best option to browse photos I’m storing on Dropbox.

How To Stop Receiving Notifications From A Website In OS X Mavericks

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Procraster For iPhone Helps You Fight Procrastination And Break Down Large Projects

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Procraster for iPhone is a productivity app that can help you break down large projects into smaller steps.

Apple’s New Retail Boss Angela Ahrendts Lays Out Transition Philosophy, Follows Her Instincts

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Turbo Boost And The New Mac Pro’s CPUs

Marco Arment

There’s little reason to get the higher-end Mac Pro CPUs unless you know you’ll use all of the cores. And if you won’t be sustaining heavy parallel loads and you won’t take advantage of heavy GPU power, there’s a lot less reason to get the Mac Pro at all.

Personal Database Roundup: Bento Is Dead, Long Live Bento

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

Popular iOS App QuizUp Is Full Of Security Holes, Fix On The Way

Aaron Souppouris, The Verge

The problem, explains Richter, lies with QuizUp's matching system. Richter is (intentionally) a little vague about how and when information is transmitted, but it appears the app sends "full names, Facebook IDs, email addresses, pictures, genders, birthdays, and even location data" in plaintext over SSL. "I have been able to access the personal information of hundreds of people who I have never met," says Richter.

The Real Reason Music's Gotten So Loud

Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones, The Atlantic

iTunes' SoundCheck won't end the so-called "loudness wars." It'll just give listeners a way to counter some musicians' undying instinct to "turn it up to 11."

MediaFire Unveils Desktop App For Windows And OS X

Mark Greentree, PC Tablet

Review: iPad Air And Retina iPad Mini Won't Knock Your Socks Off

Galen Gruman, InfoWorld

My big complaint about the iPad Air boils down to this: By the time apps and peripherals take advantage of its better processors, Apple will have a new model with more capabilities. So why not wait until then to get a new iPad?

Castle Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse

Damien McFerran, Pocket Gamer

Procreate 2.0 Features iOS 7 Redesign, 64-Bit Support And Other Enhancements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Calca Review: A Text Editor That's Also A Math Wiz

Brian Beam, Macworld

In essence, Calca is a Markdown-powered text editor that also understands math and performs calculations. This allows you to mix calculated results with regular text within the same document.

3D Remake Of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Hits iOS

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Dayli

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Dayli lets you take a picture every day and create a timelapse video to see how things have changed over time. The app produces best results with selfies and it’s reminiscent of Everyday, although Daily is fully ready for iOS 7 (which is also required).

FlightTrack 5 For iPhone Review: The Most Beautiful And Intuitive Flight Status App Available

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

The app has been rewritten completely from the ground up with iOS 7 in mind. The result is a gorgeous interface and an intuitive experience that makes checking flight statuses not only painless, but enjoyable.

Apple Confirms Acquisition Of 3-D Sensor Startup PrimeSense

Mike Isaac and John Paczkowski, All Things D

Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet confirmed the PrimeSense deal with the boilerplate comment the company typically provides when news of one of its acquisitions leaks: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans.”
PrimeSense became widely known in the sensor technology space for its early work with Microsoft’s Kinect gaming product, which uses cameras and depth sensors to capture players’ motions and incorporate them into Xbox gameplay. (Microsoft now deploys its own homegrown sensor technology for the current generation of Kinect devices, which ship with the recently launched Xbox One.)

If You Take Photos And Videos With Your iPad, The MirrorCase Is Handy

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

It uses a mirror (made of Gorilla Glass with an anti-reflective coating) to reflect back any image in front of the Apple tablet so you can capture images and video from a more natural angle.

Ness Dining Guide Now Recommends Restaurants For You And Your Friends

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

To get restaurant recommendations for you and your friends, tap the new “Add a Person” icon at the top of the app’s home screen. You’re then prompted to include anyone you’re following on Ness, whereupon the app generates recommendations based on your preferences plus those of your friends.

Mavericks Dictation Vs. Dragon Dictate: How Good Is OS X's Built-in Tool?

David Sparks, Macworld

Dragon Dictate is a fully developed, feature-rich product; Mavericks’s Dictation, not so much. Then again, Dragon Dictate costs $200, while the Mavericks tool is free.

Are Comics Too Hot For Apple?

Brigid Alverson, Publishers Weekly

The problem, publishers say, is that it is unclear what criteria Apple uses to judge whether a title should be banned.

Touch ID Patent Applications Show Details Behind 'Secure Enclave' And iPhone 5S Implementation

Jordan Golson, MacRumors

Review: The Productivity Suite Formerly Known As iWork

Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica

Even though for existing iWork users the new versions are free, you're probably better off waiting for Apple to make those promised improvements before installing unless you really need the Web collaboration feature. If you want to dip in a toe, try Keynote first.

Apple Retail Stores In The United States And Canada To Open Early For Black Friday

Joe White, AppAdvice

Here’s a full list of Apple’s 2013 Black Friday deals, which should give prospective customers an idea of what they can expect this coming Friday.

Apple Tells Textexpander To Stop Using Reminders To Share Snippets

Richard Devine, iMore

Resize Windows Like A Pro In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

Both built-in and third-party options are available for OS X to help manage window sizes.

Mac App Of The Week: 2Do, A Task Manager With The Right Mix Of Power Features, Simplicity

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

2Do is a mid-tier task manager -- it's a step up from the Reminders app, but isn't as complex as Omnifocus. Very similar to Things, 2Do offers a nice balance between usefulness and simplicity.

MacBeacon And Locate For iBeacon: An Inexpensive Way For Developers To Design And Test iBeacons

Steven Sande, TUAW

MacBeacon allows developers to create beacon profiles that provide full iBeacon functionality. For developers who want to test iBeacon-enabled apps, it's a great way to see how the apps react to proximity to iBeacons.

Gist For iPhone Lets You Catch Up On News Quick By Summarizing Articles For You

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Gist for iPhone is a news reader app that filters recent stories from Google News in a variety of different categories. That's not what makes it unique though. Gist can summarize articles for you automatically so you can catch up on news fast and get on with your day.

MacBook Air 11-Inch Vs. 13-Inch: Which Ultralight Laptop Should You Get?

Peter Cohen, iMore

The MacBook Air is a fantastic, flexible computer that's easy to carry thanks to Apple's ingenious engineering - feather-light and slim. For road warriors and other who don't want to be encumbered with a heavy computer, the MacBook Air makes a fantastic traveling companion.

Google+ With Full-resolution Photo Uploads For iOS 7 Now Available

Richard Devine, iMore

It’s A Trap!

J.K. Appleseed, McSweeney's

Look, Rampell, you already won. You got paid twice. Once to promote an idea, and then again to retract it. That’s good economics we can learn from.

Some Of iWork's Missing Features Return With The Latest Update

Timothy J. Seppala, Engadget

Some of the features culled during iWork's 64-bit transition have reappeared with the productivity suite's latest update. To start, Pages, Numbers and Keynote for OS X are regaining their sorely missed custom toolbars. Additionally, Apple's Keynote presentation app for both desktop and iOS picks up a handful of new builds and slide transitions.

Apple Stores Start Selling Retina iPad Mini To Walk-in Customers As Regional Carriers Launch Cellular Models

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Starts Selling Unlocked, SIM-free iPhone 5S In The U.S.

Mark Gruman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Updates iWork Apps For Mac & iOS W/ Customizable Toolbar, New Transitions, And More

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Issues AirPort Extreme And Time Capsule Firmware Update With Fixes For WAN Connectivity And USB Hard Drives

Michael Steeber, 9 To 5 Mac

Version 4.0 Of Microsoft’s SkyDrive App Is Right At Home On iOS 7

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

The app automatically uploads your Camera Roll to SkyDrive, so you don’t have to worry about doing the process manually. And on the SkyDrive.com site, users can also take advantage of a new Facebook sharing experience to have more control over what photos are shared on the social network.

Jury: Samsung Owes Apple Another $290 Million

Ina Fried, All Things D

Importing Media Into iMovie 10

Christopher Breen, Macworld

iMovie For iOS 2 Review: Updated Video App Slow-mos Its Way To Greatness

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

iMovie for iOS remains as easy as ever for cutting together quick films, and now Apple has also simplified both the organization and the sharing of stand-alone clips.

Two iOS Twitter Apps Compared: Twitterrific Vs. Tweetbot

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Mactracker 7.2.1

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Ian Page has released Mactracker 7.2, which adds the full slate of recent Mac and iOS releases to the popular encyclopedia of Apple products.

Mailplane 3.1

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Uncomplex has released Mailplane 3.1 with a number of improvements to the Gmail-specific email client. The update now enables you to switch between an unlimited number of Gmail accounts.

Chasing Mavericks: 8 Great OS X Tips

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Apple MacBook Pro 13In Review (Late-2013)

Khidr Suleman, IT Pro

A fantastic all-roundmachine with a brilliant battery life, the 13in MacBook Pro is definitely worth the investment if you're constantly on the move and need HDMI and Thunderbolt ports.

How To Change The Keyboard Language In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

Hatch For iPhone Delivers Playful Tamagotchi-like Experience To iOS

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

But for whom is Hatch intended? Potentially anyone with a heart and an iPhone, but for me it’s appeal is in picking up a light-hearted memory from my preteen years.

Apple & The Art Of Blowing Things Up

Ken Segall's Observatory

With the new iWork apps, Tim Cook has pulled a classic Steve move. He’s betting that a brand-new suite of streamlined 64-bit apps, unified across iPhone, iPad and Mac, will create a far happier user experience in the future — no matter what kind of criticism he hears today.

iMovie For Mac Update Enables Installation On Some Older Systems, Fixes Reliability Issues

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

iBank 5 For The Mac Available From IGG Software

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

The updated version of the Quicken alternative brings new features such as BillPay and support for IGG's exclusive Direct Access banking service.

Parallels 9 Bundle: 8 Great Apps For The $79.99 Price Of Parallels 9 Alone (82% Off)

Seth Weintraub, 9 To 5 Mac

Tweetbot For Mac Updated With Smoother Scrolling, Quick-reply Via Notifications

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Tumblr iOS App Completely Redesigned For iOS 7

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

iPad Mini With Retina Display Review

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Muse Review: Mac App Makes Pandora Even Easier

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Do you love Pandora? No, not just enjoy it, but really love it? If so, $5 and a Mac buys you Industrious One’s Muse, a desktop Pandora player that gives you all the Pandora goodness you’d find in a web browser, and a worthwhile bit more.

Apple Releases Apple Store App For iPad, With Image-centric Design And New Trends Section

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

NSNotificationCenter With Blocks Considered Harmful

Sealed Abstract

First iPhone Game Controllers Take iOS Back To The Future

Vlad Savov, The Verge

This week, a pair of the first Made for iPhone controllers are making their debuts, one from Logitech, dubbed the PowerShell, and the other from PowerA, called the Moga Ace Power.

Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus Earns Final Approval From Its Home City

Rich McCormick, The Verge

Apple has received final approval for its planned "spaceship" campus from the city of Cupertino. The city council gave its formal approval in a vote on Tuesday, after it had unanimously agreed to the construction of the 176-acre California campus in October. Construction will begin with the demolition of the Hewlett-Packard office buildings currently on site later this year.

OS X Mavericks Tips: Top 5 'Unknown' Built-in Mac Apps

Keir Thomas, Macworld UK

Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 For OS X Review

Kaled Ali, TechnologyTell

I do wish that Photoshop Elements provided a bit more guidance on the Expert section so you can learn to navigate it more easily, but either way, Adobe has made it as simple as you can get without sacrificing the powerful features of the software.

iWork For OS X Review (2013) Review

Anthony Domanico, Laptop Magazine

Apple's new iWork suite is no small upgrade; it's a full reimagining of what work looks like in the new era of tablets and smartphones. iWork is powerful enough for most uses; the new design is elegant and simple to use, and the new formatting sidebar puts all the tools you need on the screen when you need them. Plus, the fact that documents now look the same whether you're viewing them on Mac, iOS or the Web eliminates the frustrations typically found when working across platforms, and allows for easy collaboration via iWork for iCloud.

An iPad That's Mini In Screen Size Only

Katherine Boehret, Wall Street Journal

This means you basically just choose what size screen you prefer, the 9.7-inch iPad Air or the 7.9-inch iPad Mini with Retina display, without compromising.

GT Racing 2 Review

Joseph Leray, Mac Life

OtterBox iPhone 5S Commuter Wallet Review

Josh Smith, Gotta Be Mobile

Google Maps SDK For iOS Adds 64 Bit Support And More

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Dash Turns Dining Out Into A Seamless Experience

Caitlin McGarry, TechHive

Dash is a new iOS app that wants to give you the ease of Seamless delivery without taking the fun out of a night on the town. It works almost exactly the way Seamless does: Store your credit card information in the app, and when you eat or drink at a venue that uses Dash, you can settle your bill straight from the app—tip calculations and all.

If You Care About Privacy, Don't Use OS X Mail

Evert Pot

Since the amount of spam I'm receiving appears to increase every day, I wanted to look a bit into how sensitive Mail.app is to letting spammers known I (accidentally) read their email.
Turns out it is absolutely horrendous. I'm talking Outlook Express in 1995-bad.

Microsoft Releases Xbox One SmartGlass iOS Companion App For Its Next-Gen Console

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Daily iPhone App: Survival GPS App Is The Swiss Army Knife Of Compass App

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

The Survival GPS app gives you a bunch of tidbits of data that'll help you get your bearing whether you are in the woods or on a city street.

The iPad Gave My Desktop A New Lease Of Life

Robert Sharl, Futurilla

We're at a place now where it's possible to move relatively seamlessly between a large screen Mac desktop and a portable iOS experience; where I can start an email on the iPhone during a commute and pick it up at my desk, and where I can finish a Keynote presentation on my iMac and present it moments later through a web browser on a classroom PC.

MacBook Air Vs MacBook Pro: Which MacBook Model Should You Get?

Peter Cohen, iMore

Any way you slice it, the MacBook line is better than ever in 2013, and whatever your choice, you'll end up with the best laptop on the market.

Apple TV Adds PBS And Yahoo

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Apple Releases Find My Friends 3.0 With iOS 7 Face-lift

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The updated app doesn't look like it offers any new features, but it's gotten the iOS 7 treatment: brand-new icon, textual menus, flattened design. Bye-bye stitched leather.

Twitter For Android And iOS Get Search Filters, Toggle Between Top And All Tweets, Trends And Events Timeline

Emil Protalinski, The Next Web

Apportable Brings Objective-C To Android

Ralph Winzinger, InfoQ

Appidemic: Analog For OS X

Krisette Capati, TechnologyTell

Analog is straightforward photo editing software with filters and borders that you can apply in a few minutes.

Livescribe 3 Smartpen Review

Kat Orphanides, IT Pro

The ability to take notes from sales negotiations, job interviews or board meetings, sync and then share them from an iPad can be invaluable. Whilst Livescribe's app needs polish, this an excellent business companion for iOS users.

Frozen: Storybook Deluxe App Review

Nick Maglio, Disney Musings

Review: ProCamera For iPhone

Mike Norris, Gadgetseteria

Review: Studio Credence Leather & Felt Book-style iPad Case (And iPhone Sleeve)

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

On your lap, the leather has enough friction that it sits securely, with no tendency to slip off. On a desk, it’s perfect. You also wouldn’t hesitate to pull it out in the most important of meetings: it looks the part.

Tim Cook Decides Not To Ruin Most Apple Workers' Thanksgivings

Alexis Kleinman, The Huffington Post

A person familiar with Apple's plans confirmed to The Huffington Post that only three U.S. Apple stores -- one in New York, one in Hawaii and one in Las Vegas -- will be open on Thanksgiving Day, and all other U.S. stores will be closed.

Can't Trust This: Inconsistencies Shake Faith In Apple

Lex Friedman, Macworld

I want to trust that Siri will perform my mundane task for me on the first try, and not attempt to placate me with hollow apologies. I want to trust that the features I depend on won’t vanish from my apps. And boy, I wish that the confident “it just works” mentality I feel when I drag a file into Dropbox applied when I save a document to iCloud. But I don’t trust Apple as much as I’d like.

I never use Siri, I still use Excel, and I seldom rely on apps to sync across iCloud. (The only iCloud-sync app that I use is 1Password.)

Google To Pay $17 Million To States In Apple Cookies Case

Grant Gross, IDG News Service

Apple Now Accepting Water-Damaged iPhones For Its Trade-In Program

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

There’s a considerable difference (as much as $120) between the trade-in values of water-damaged and non-water-damaged units of the same iPhone model.

To Mini Or To Air, That Is The iPad Question

MG Siegler, TechCrunch

It’s always going to be easier to perceive a difference in physical size and weight than it is in speed and resolution. The former two can take advantage of muscle memory (size, in particular) while the latter two often need points of comparison to be truly appreciated.
That’s why I’d vote for the iPad Air if someone were to ask me what iPad I’d recommend getting if I had to pick only one. To me, it feels like the more impressive upgrade this year and perhaps even more so next year, if a larger screen iPhone were to be unveiled.

The Coolest Remote Controlled Toys For Your iPhone And iPad

Peter Cohen, iMore

Slingbox Gets AirPlay, Roku Support And Second-screen Features

Jason Snell, Macworld

Version 3.0 of the SlingPlayer iOS app is a major upgrade that runs only on iOS 7. It’s got AirPlay support, so iPhone and iPad users can send video streamed from a Slingbox attached to a remote device to an Apple TV. The only limitation is that, unlike video streaming from many other iOS apps, the Slingbox app will only stream via AirPlay as long as it’s the currently active app. If you want to check your email or Twitter while you’re iPad’s streaming to your TV, the connection will drop.

Two Weeks With The iPad Air

Robert Sharl, Futurilla

Disney Struggles To Make Its Free Gaming Apps Pay

Brooks Barnes, New York Times

Disney must step carefully because of its focus on young players. Consumer protection groups are concerned that children are being asked to buy things during the heat of game play; Apple recently settled a class-action lawsuit over in-app spending by children. A few child advocates question whether freemium games are appropriate at all for family entertainment companies, calling it a casino-style business in which most revenue comes from a relatively small number of big spenders.

Review: Withings' Pulse Offers iDevice Users A Different Kind Of Activity Monitor

Joe White, AppAdvice

How To Work With iWork's New File Formats

Ted Landau, Macworld

Intensify 1.0 Review: New Image-editing App Highlights The Details

Jackie Dove, Macworld

Photography software for Mac OS X just got a new variation on the theme. Macphun—developers of the popular Snapheal and FX Photo Studio—recently debuted Intensify, a photo editor that specializes in enhancing image details. It works with a variety of image formats, including Raw and PSD (pro version only). While targeted to a mainstream audience of photo enthusiasts, the software will also prove useful to pros looking for a different take on an image fix.

Retina iPad Mini Display: How Icons, Text, And Comics Compare

Rene Ritchie, iMore

The Retina iPad mini has an LED-backlit LCD screen with in-plane switching (IPS) for a wide viewing angle. It also has a 2048x1536 display crammed down to 326ppi to fit into a 7.9-inch screen. That's the same pixel count as the iPad Air, the same density as the iPhone 5s, and the same screen size as the original iPad mini. (And yes, the same narrow color gamut as the original iPad mini as well.) So what does all this mean for the stuff we look at all day, the icons, the comics and graphics, and the text?

Managing Tabbed Finder Browsing In OS X Mavericks

Topher Kessler, CNET

There are a number of ways to navigate, move files between, and otherwise manage the new Finder tabs in the latest version of OS X.

Nike+ FuelBand SE Review

Stuart Miles, Pocket-lint

Wearing the Nike+ FuelBand SE really makes you not only sit up and pay attention to how active you are, but encourages you to get up and get moving. Great if you want a springboard to get you active, but also great to help push you on a daily basis.

Getting Your Home Movies Into iCloud’s iMovie Theater On Your Apple TV

Geoffrey Goetz, GigaOM

Using your Apple devices along with the updated iMovie app for iOS and OS X, this walkthrough will outline the steps to take, edit, and share home movies on your AppleTV.

Apple’s iBooks Is A Mess

Warner Crocker, Gotta Be Mobile

Why This Gay Man Thinks Apple Shouldn't Erase Its Offensive "Gay" Definition

Andrew Godinich, PolicyMic

While I can definitely sympathize with this young woman, who doubtless had the best intentions at heart, I emphatically agree with Apple's decision. Erasing a definition is not going to end gay bashing. Words have power. They have history. Whitewashing that history will not contribute to solving the problem of homophobia. In fact, it perpetuates it.

Apple 'Amending Offensive Definition Of Gay In Its Dictionaries'

David Price, Macworld UK

The second is that, as a general principle, dictionaries are supposed to describe rather than prescribe - it's society's fault that the word gay is used in this undoubtedly hurtful and damaging way, not the dictionary makers'. The dictionary does at least include the label offensive.

Apple iPad Mini With Retina Display: Reviewed

Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech

Review: Apple’s Retina iPad Mini Is The Small Tablet We Wanted A Year Ago

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Unibox 1.0 Review: A Welcome, Fresh New Approach To Email On The Mac

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

The program sorts your mail by the person who sent it to you, displaying those contacts in a single list on the left. That leaves the rest of your screen free to display every message from those contacts.

Evernote’s New Web Clipper For Safari

Cody Fink, MacStories

Saving web pages into Evernote is a great way to remember a cool design, highlight an important note, or refer back to a piece of content for later reading, homework, and marketing research in an instantly searchable database.

Google Play Music Finally Hits iPhone, Offers One Month All Access Trial

Toby Wellington, Macgasm

Stop Procrastinating And Focus On The Task At Hand With Procraster

Christine Chan, AppAdvice

Procraster is a very unique approach to managing your necessary tasks that you keep putting off, and I like the way that it approaches them, by trying to put you at ease over it. It also helps get rid of some stress over big projects by breaking them down into smaller, much more manageable chunks.

iTunes Connect Closing December 21 To December 27, No New Apps Or Price Changes That Week

Richard Devine, iMore

Making The Most Of Contacts In Mavericks

Alicia Katz Poolock, TidBITS

Mac OS X’s Contacts application, formerly known as Address Book, receives a fair amount of criticism for being too simplistic. At first glance, this criticism seems true, but as you delve into the program, you discover it has a surprising level of depth, as well as tight integration into the Apple ecosystem.
Let’s take a look at how to modify the Contacts interface to your liking, manage your contacts, work with contact information, and examine utilities that make up for its shortcomings.

The Retina iPad Mini

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

The iPad Mini has gone retina and provides just a hair less than the full performance of the Air, with no appreciable increase in weight or thickness over last year’s Mini.

All About Tagging In The Mavericks Finder

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Tags have been popular since the dawn of “Web 2.0,” but I never quite wrapped my head around them. So when file tagging was announced as a feature of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I wasn’t terribly excited. But after playing with the feature for a few weeks, my eyes have been opened to just how powerful Finder tagging is.

Gmail Update Brings iOS 7 Inspired Design And New iPad Features

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Apple Releases iOS 7.0.4 To Fix FaceTime Problem

Dan Moren, Macworld

While most of the update seems to concern unenumerated bug fixes and performance improvements, the one change Apple does call out is a fix for FaceTime calls that would fail for some users. And, of course, there’s the usual assortment of security patches that you’ll want.

At Last, iBooks And iTunes U Apps Gets iOS 7 Look

Peter Cohen, iMore

What's left is a clean, minimalistic look that better reflects the iOS 7 aesthetic.

iWork For iCloud Update Brings Those Collaborative Tools We've Been Waiting For

Brian Heater, Engadget

How To E-mail Web Pages In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

Should I Ditch The PC For An iPad?

John Higgins, Accounting Technology

The iPad was never intended to replace the PC for business users; it is a significantly different device. It enhances our ability to get things done that the PC doesn’t accomplish as well. It’s simply a matter of form.

Ariel's Musical Surprise iPhone App Review: A Fun Disney App!

Tucker Cummings, Tapscape

Ariel’s Musical Surprise is a great way to encourage kids to get excited about music.

Getting Started With iMovie 10

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Day One Updated For iOS 7 With New Design, Music Integration, Motion Activity

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Day One, my favorite journaling app for iOS and OS X, has received an update today that brings a visual refresh for iOS 7, support for background fetch via Dropbox, and new data tracking sources.

More Apple Stores Will Be Open On Thanksgiving Day And Open Earlier On Black Friday

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

These include West 14th Street in New York City, Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, San Francisco, Pioneer Place in Portland Oregon, The Grove in Los Angeles, Third Street Promendade in Santa Monica, Fashion Valley in San Diego and Ala Moana in Honolulu.
On Black Friday, some Apple Stores will be opening at 3am. Most Apple Stores, however, will open at 6am, even when other stores in the same mall or same shopping plaza are opening early. We are told that Apple Stores in some malls have to pay a penalty to the mall owners for opening ‘late.’

Keyboard Maestro 6.3

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Apple’s $10.5B On Robots To Lasers Shores Up Supply Chain

Adam Satariano, Bloomberg

The spending, which Apple outlined in its fiscal 2014 capital-expenditure forecast, underscores how the world’s most valuable company is diving deeper into designing and inventing technology for its manufacturing process.

iPhones Can Be Hacked While Charging

USA Today

The solution - don't unlock your phone while charging at a public charging station. Apple has also updated its software to warn you about plugging into unknown USB public charging stations, asking first, if you trust it.

iMovie For iOS Review

Cherlynn Low, Laptop Magazine

iMovie for iOS provides a full-featured suite of tools for beginners who want to further their video-editing skills. The updated app provides a simple and clean interface that's great for newbies, but also offers ample tools for Spielberg wannabes. This is a video-editing app that can grow with you.

QuizUp (For iPhone)

Jill Duffy, PC Magazine

QuizUp is a social iPhone trivia game with an impress array of more than 250 quiz topics that amount to 150,000 questions. You can play against strangers or challenge a friend, and games are fast, wrapping up in about a minute or so.

An iPhone Case Hemingway Would Love

Gregory Schmidt, New York Times

Also:

• Pad & Quill's beautiful, functional iPhone 5/5s wallet cases (Monster Tech)

• The Twelve South BookBook Travel Journal Review (Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice)

Apple Dictionary Definition Of 'Gay' Includes 'Stupid,' Student Alerts CEO Tim Cook

Jon M. Chang, ABC News

When looking up the definition of the word "gay" on her laptop, she saw that Apple's dictionary also included its informal definition, meaning foolish or stupid.

Shouldn't dictionaries be describing how people are using the words? If many people are using the word 'gay' to mean foolish or stupid, the dictionaries should reflect that.

P.S. Google also includes this definition of 'gay'.

Viber 4.0 Released For iOS With Tons Of New Features

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

First Look: iPad Mini With Retina Display

Jason Snell, Macworld

The iPad Air is slightly faster, has a bigger screen (but not a higher resolution), is larger and heavier, and costs $100 more for the same capacity. Which one’s right for you? It seems to me that the most important parts of the comparison will be screen size (do you want everything just a little bit larger?), physical size (do you want the smallest iPad possible?), and price. I’m not sure where I’m going to come down on those issues, but they seem to be the most important ones.

Also:

• Retina iPad mini: First Impressions (Federico Viticci, MacStories): After spending five hours with the device, I think that the increased weight is noticeable if you pay attention but I believe it’ll disappear after a few days. The best way I can describe it is that, if you really want to feel a weight difference, the new mini feels “dense” in the back – which is probably due to a new weight distribution of components.

• Hands on With the iPad mini with Retina Display (David Sparks): The new iPad Mini with retina display is a lot faster than its predecessor. Even doing silly little things like jumping between applications are noticeably quicker. It renders webpages faster, loads complicated applications faster, does Garage Band tracks faster, and generally kicks some serious ass.

• Review: iPad Mini is pricey, but brings top-notch experience with speed, display improvements (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press): The new device has caught up to the point that it deserves to be called a Mini version of the full-size iPad.

Sprite Kit, GLKit, And Scene Kit: How Apple Is Shaping Game Development

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Given the seemingly endless stream of games that land in the App Store, Sprite Kit may seem at first glance to be little more than a curiosity—one of many new features to debut in a new operating system release. In reality, though, it’s part of a long-running strategy that Apple has developed to make iOS a great place for gamers and developers.

Securing Your Private Messages With Cryptography Apps And Services For iOS And OS X

Geoffrey Goetz, GigaOM

When it comes to secure online communication you can choose to secure the message, protect the identity of the messenger or both. These techniques for iOS and OS X devices will help ensure that your message gets to its intended recipient, and only that recipient.

Apple By The Numbers: Mac Not Dead Yet

Ian Paul, Macworld

With Pixelmator 3.0, Who Needs Photoshop?

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

The Craziest Things You Can Plug Into Your iPhone's Audio Jack

Mike Wehner, TUAW

The 3.5mm jack on your iPhone is lovingly referred to as the "headphone jack," because that's what the overwhelming majority of us use it for. But the diminutive port has other uses as well, and there are some pretty crazy things you can do with it. Here are some of the strangest accessories that can be plugged into that otherwise unremarkable hole on your iPhone.

Apple Stealthily Begins Taking Orders For iPad Mini With Retina Display

Jonathan Seff and Philip Michaels, Macworld

As of early Tuesday morning, Apple’s U.S. online store listed ship times of one to three days for the 16GB and 32GB Wi-Fi models. The 64GB and 128GB Wi-Fi iPad minis, and all configurations of the cellular-equipped tablets, will ship in five to ten business days, according to Apple’s online store. Those ship times are likely to slip as Apple's initial supply dwindles.

GarageBand 2.0 For iOS Review: More Tracks, A Few Tweaks

Christopher Breen, Macworld

GarageBand for iOS is much greater for the addition of more tracks, inter-app compatibility, iCloud sync and AirDrop sharing, and a more flexible Sampler instrument. With version 2.0, it remains one of the musical stars of the iOS firmament.

7 Apps For Ordering Photo Prints From Your Phone

Susie Ochs, Macworld

These seven apps tap into your phone’s photo library to let you order prints and other photo products, either to arrive in the mail, or to be picked up at a local store.

Apple Releases Xcode 5.0.2, Fixes iOS Simulator Hang

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

If you're an iOS developer, you'll be happy to hear Apple has apparently fixed that nasty iOS Simulator hang bug that quite a few people were complaining about.

“It’s Just A Big iPod Touch”

MG Siegler, TechCrunch

My mother is a common user. All she wants to do is pin things on Pinterest, post things on Facebook, and send some emails. She wants convenience, portability, and simplicity. And she’s iPad-only.

Promised Pebble Update Arrives Bringing All Notifications To iOS 7 Users

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Five Years In The App Store

David Smith

So here I am. Five years from when I first launched in the App Store. I consider myself incredibly blessed to be able to do what I do. To call writing apps full time my “job” is a dream.

Tweetbot 3.1 Brings Text Size Controls, Timeline Switcher, Quick Actions

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Mail In Mavericks: Is It Safe Yet?

Joe Kissell, TidBITS

If you were holding off on upgrading to Mavericks because of the Mail problems, all I can say is that it’s safer now than it was at first. I can’t guarantee you a trouble-free experience, and without a doubt, some people upgrading from Mountain Lion will feel the new version of Mail is a distinct downgrade. It all depends on how you use Mail, and as we’ve seen, each person approaches it a bit differently from the next.

Sit, Ubu, Sit: 7 Free Apps For Training Your New Puppy

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, TechHive

Numbers 2.0 For iOS Review: Screen Size Does Matter With Apple's Spreadsheet App

Rob Griffiths, Macworld

While you can certainly do nearly everything you can with the desktop version, I quickly found that the lack of a real keyboard and minimal screen real estate led to a lot of tapping and jumping about to get things laid out properly.

Numbers 3.0 Review: Interface Update Promotes Desktop-device Integration

Rob Griffiths, Macworld

While the overall interface looks much cleaner than the old version’s, functionality and ease of use have both taken a big hit. Would new users feel this way? Perhaps not, but they would probably still puzzle over some of these design decisions.

Update To Twitterific 5 Adds New Layouts For User Profiles And More!

Richard Devine, iMore

Review: iDevice-Powered Writing Has Never Been Easier Thanks To Livescribe 3

Joe White, AppAdvice

How To Choose: 13-Inch MacBook Air Vs. 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro

Casey Johnston, Ars Technica

When the configurations match up in price, the MacBook Air is difficult to justify when the Pro is in the picture. That is, unless you happen to be the type of user for whom extreme portability and a few extra hours on top of an already-long battery life trump performance. For my uses, the value proposition of the Pro makes it the better buy.

Apple Finds Surprising Growth Market In Japan

Daisuke Wakabayashi and Mayumi Negishi, Wall Street Journal

In the past two years, Japan has emerged as Apple's fastest-growing region, far outpacing its home market and the booming economies of Greater China and the rest of Asia. Japan is also home to Apple's biggest profit margins, and the only one of Apple's five regions where operating profit grew in the past fiscal year.

Switching From Windows To Mac: What I Learned

Owen Williams, The Next Web

For a long time I thought it was the best choice of platform simply because purchasing a Mac seemed to be extortionately expensive compared with buying a PC desktop or laptop. I was wrong.

iMovie 2.0 For iPhone And iPad Review

Richard Devine, iMore

New iWork: Another Missed Opportunity To Set Expectations

Jean-Louis Gassée, Monday Note

Bad News First, Calibrate Expectations. One would think that (finally!) the Maps snafu would have seared this simple logic into the minds of the Apple execs.
But, no.

Apple Working With WD On OS X Mavericks Data Loss Disaster

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Western Digital (WD) has confirmed it is working with Apple [AAPL] to address a OS X Mavericks-related bug that's wiping out data stored on some external drives, telling me that: "the occurrence rate of this event has been very low".

ProCamera 7 For iPhone Offers Some Compelling New Features

Mel Martin, TUAW

"Desktop-class"

Fraser Speirs

I have found that, as a result of this, I have become more willing to use the iPad for a complex multi-app workflow than I would have been with my 3rd generation iPad. Switching between apps no longer feels like quitting and relaunching apps; it feels like switching between multiple running apps - regardless of the actual implementation details behind the scenes.

Kevo Kwikset Review: Can A Touch Lock Replace Your Keys?

Stewart Wolpin, DVICE

There is no denying the UniKey Kevo Kwikset touch lock is cool, perhaps a presage of how we'll all lock and unlock our doors in the future. To unlock it, just tap it. To lock it, just tap it. That's cool.
Kevo is (relatively) easy to install and stupid-simple to operate. And yet, there's...something...nagging at me about the whole touch-to-open idea.

Adobe Has A New Edge In Its HTML5 Tools

Megan Lavey-Heaton, TUAW

Edge is a collection of HTML5-based tools that help designers and developers work with the web.

OmniGraffle 6 Lands Today In The Mac App Store

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

TuneIn Radio Gets An iOS 7-Inspired Look With A New Update

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Thoughts On Nike+ Move For The iPhone

Cody Fink, MacStories

Nike’s polish on Nike+ Move is remarkable, especially for the price of free. Lots of graphs and activity info is in motion, and Nike’s color palette is bright and captivating. Complaints about the app boil down to login issues, and I have to admit I’ve been logged out of the app at least once (but with no loss in recorded data).
The bigger story here is that the iPhone 5s is now officially a serious fitness device to be contended with. I’ve said before that the M7 in the iPhone 5s is Apple’s testbed for a potential wearable, but now I’m asking if they even need one.

PCalc 3.1 Adds 64-Bit Support, Night Theme, And More!

Joseph Keller, iMore

Why Apple Bought $578M Worth Of Sapphire In Advance

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

Sapphire, specifically synthetic, manufactured sapphire, has several properties that make it of interest to Apple. First of all, sapphire is superior to glass, even Corning’s Gorilla Glass material, in several ways. Synthetic sapphire has no color, as it’s a single crystal grown to be optically transparent — making it look very similar to glass. But it’s also extremely hard — 9 on the Mohs scale — which means better scratch resistance.

Drafts 3.5 For iOS Review: Note-taking App Lets You Focus On Writing First

Brian Beam, Macworld

Drafts is a very powerful and flexible tool that mainly provides the means to an end, not the end product itself. It's one of a growing number of apps that are helping to break through the rigid confines of the iOS application sandbox and getting apps to work together in ways that were once thought impossible.

An iPhone Tester Caught In Apple's Supply Chain

Cam Simpson, Bloomberg

Apple discovered this during an audit of a Taiwan component maker in 2008. An Apple auditor saw the passports of foreign workers stacked in a safe, according to a person familiar with Apple’s audits. The manager said his workers owed money to recruiters, so he kept their passports to guarantee they paid up. Apple realized many migrants could be trapped abroad for months or even years because of seized passports, debts, and interest, says Dionne Harrison, a London-based executive for the consulting firm Impactt, which works with Apple. Apple, along with others, calls that bonded labor, a form of modern-day indentured servitude, one step removed from slavery. Apple blames the worst abuses on companies that rely on a daisy chain of payment-demanding brokers and recruiters that reaches “all the way back [to] the worker’s home village,” as Apple put it in its 2010 supplier report.
Because these problems are widespread in the industry, Apple in 2009 tried barring suppliers from using workers who had been charged more than one month’s net factory wages. But by Apple’s own accounting, the problem got worse. Last year the company’s audits turned up $6.4 million in fees paid by workers beyond the company’s prescribed limit—compared with $6.7 million in the previous four years combined. And Apple audited fewer plants last year than it did in 2011. The company orders its suppliers to refund workers charged beyond its limit.

Preference Setting Can Balk OS X Mavericks Installation

David Morgenstern, ZDNet

An Apple Support Note released this week warns upgraders that an OS X Mavericks installation can be stopped cold by an "incorrect" Date & Time setting.

Everpix, Snapchat, And The Startup Lie

The Sublog

Make money? No, don’t do that!

Vodafone Store Evacuated After iPad Explodes

News.com.au

"A burst of flames" appeared from the charging port of an iPad demo model, a Vodafone spokesperson confirmed to news.com.au.
News.com.au understands an Apple representative visited the store on Wednesday to collect the device for testing to find out what caused the incident however Apple has refused to respond to News.com.au's requests for comments.

OS X 10.9 Mavericks: Restore Missing Ebooks To iBooks App

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Facebook iOS App Now Lets iPad Users Edit Posts

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Posts Two EFI Updates For Late 2013 MacBook Pros With Retina Displays

Peter Cohen, iMore

Instacast Podcast App For Mac Now Available From The Mac App Store

Richard Devine, iMore

OS X 10.9 Mavericks: Enhanced Dictation Is A Memory Hog, And Doesn’t Work Very Well

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Apple Issues Mail Update For OS X Mavericks To Address Gmail Compatibility Issues

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

Apple Fixes 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Trackpad/keyboard Issues, Graphics Bug On 15-Inch

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

RunKeeper Gets M7 And AirDrop Support

Steven Sande, TUAW

iPhone 5s owners will love the fact that they can now turn on a new feature called Pocket Track. Have you ever "accidentally" gone on a walk of more than 15 minutes and then realized after the fact that you forgot to start tracking? Well, now Pocket Track -- when enabled -- works hand-in-hand with the M7 motion coprocessor to automatically realize that you've been active for more than 15 minutes and retroactively tracks the walk.

Google Drive For iOS Update Adds Multiple Account Support, Single Sign-in

Joseph Keller, iMore

Apple Issues GarageBand 10 Update

Steven Sande, TUAW

Apple released GarageBand 10.0.1 for the Mac late last night, citing fixes for "a number of minor issues" and improved overall app stability.

Some Apple Stores Closing Early In Coming Weeks For Quarterly Meetings, Not ‘Mysterious’ Product Launch

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

A List Of New iOS 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Right now, new keyboard shortcuts have only been added to Safari, Mail, and Pages in a very limited fashion. While they are consistent with their OS X counterparts, Apple has only brought a few of the Mac’s shortcuts to its iOS 7 apps, leaving other apps like Messages or Reminders without shortcut support. It’s likely that, with time, Apple will bring more shortcuts to Safari, Mail, and other stock apps.

Which 13-Inch Apple Laptop? MacBook Air Vs MacBook Pro Comparative Review

Karen Haslam, Macworld UK

iPhoto 2.0 For iOS Review: Better Speed, Search, And Sharing

Jackie Dove, Macworld

iPhoto 2.0 for iOS also works faster and smarter because of an engineering advancement that shifts the burden of image editing from the device's CPU to the GPU for smoother, more organic performance.

Blackbar Review: An iPhone Game About Censorship That... No Wait, Come Back! It's Really Good!

David Price, Macworld UK

Simple, witty and politically engaged word-based puzzle game for iPhone.

Apple Stores Around The World To Close Hours Early Next Weekend

Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider

A large number of Apple Stores from Canada to the Far East will be operating under "special hours" on Nov. 17 and Nov. 18, with most locations closing two to three hours early on Sunday for unspecified reasons.

Instapaper Gets A Nice Facelift For The iPad

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

The update brings new sorting and filter functions that allow you to order your article collections by date, length and popularity. When you've been off the grid for a few days -- just assume you might go off the grid for a few days -- it's nice to be able to sort your articles by when you left.

Organize Your iTunes Radio Stations

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Comic Life 3 Review: New Tools Help Make You A Better Storyteller

Roman Loyola, Macworld

Now at version 3, Comic Life offers more features geared toward people who have a serious interest in storytelling using the comic book medium.

Five Apps (And More) To Help You Write Your NaNoWriMo Novel

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

IFTTT Update Adds Actions For iOS Photos And Reminders

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Updates To New iWork Will Restore Some Old Features, Final Cut-style

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Apple has created a support page detailing new (and old) features that it plans to restore to the software in upcoming updates.

Is The iPad Air Right For You?

Josh Centers, TidBITS

As with the MacBook, it comes down to your screen-size preference. It’s not hard to see why Tim Cook thinks it’ll be an iPad Christmas — Apple has outdone itself this time.

Managing An iBooks Metadata Mess

Michael E. Cohen, TidBITS

Here’s what you can do to make iBooks on your Mac display the EPUB in the proper category.

Apple Implements 'Managed Distribution', Volume Purchase Program For Mac Apps

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Daily Mac App: PDF Reader X Is A Lightweight, Tabbed PDF Reader With Some Annotation Features

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

iTunes iOS Syncing Gone? Solve It With Server!

Christopher Breen, Macworld

My $20 suggestion is that you set up local CardDAV and CalDAV servers for syncing contacts and events respectively. With such servers you can easily sync your contacts and calendar events between your Mac and iOS devices over your wireless network without a lot of bother. In fact, the bother is all in configuring Mac OS X Mavericks Server, which you can purchase from the Mac App Store. Here’s how to perform each configuration.

Safari 7.0 For Mavericks Review: Apple Web Browser Offers New Features And Saves Battery

Mark Hattersley, Macworld UK

PlainText Note-Taking App Goes 2.0 For iOS 7, Finally Gains iCloud Support

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

The State Of AppleScript: Let's Not Panic ... Yet

Ben Waldie, Macworld

In fact, AppleScript even received some healthy updates of its own in Mavericks, including Notification Center support, iCloud support, code signing of script apps, the ability to create script libraries, and more. Translation: Apple is still investing time and resources in AppleScript’s advancement. Sure, more could be done, like providing full scripting support in iWork, but the fact that AppleScript is still advancing does bode well for the technology itself.

iWork '13: Dumbed Down Or Smart Move?

Marco Tabini, Macworld

iTunes 11.1.3

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Apple’s release notes promise that the update will improve performance when switching views within large iTunes libraries, as well as fix an issue with the equalizer.

Popular Photo-Editing App Afterlight Turns 1 With iOS 7 Redesign And New Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple Takes Apple Store App Passbook Gift Card Integration International

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Researcher Skepticism Grows Over badBIOS Malware Claims

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Five days after Ars chronicled a security researcher's three-year odyssey investigating a mysterious piece of malware he dubbed badBIOS, some of his peers say they are still unable to reproduce his findings.
"I am getting increasingly skeptical due to the lack of evidence," fellow researcher Arrigo Triulzi told Ars after examining forensic data that Ruiu has turned over. "So either I am not as good as people say or there is really nothing."

Apple Takes Strong Privacy Stance In New Report, Publishes Rare “Warrant Canary”

Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica

Warrant canaries work like this: a company publishes a notice saying that a warrant has not been served as of a particular date. Should that notice be taken down, users are to surmise that the company has indeed been served with one. The theory is that while a court can compel someone to not speak (a gag order), it cannot compel someone to lie. The only problem is that warrant canaries have yet to be fully tested in court.

Google Search iOS App Gets Massive Update W/ ‘OK Google’ Handsfree Voice Search, Notifications, Reminders, Much More

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Report On Government Information Requests

Apple

We believe that our customers have a right to understand how their personal information is handled, and we consider it our responsibility to provide them with the best privacy protections available. Apple has prepared this report on the requests we receive from governments seeking information about individual users or devices in the interest of transparency for our customers around
the world.
This report provides statistics on requests related to customer accounts as well as those related to specific devices. We have reported all the information we are legally allowed to share, and Apple will continue to advocate for greater transparency about the requests we receive.

(Note: Link goes to a PDF document.)

Out Of The Picture: Why The World's Best Photo Startup Is Going Out Of Business

Casey Newton, The Verge

Everpix was great. This is how it died.

Target Offering $200 Gift Card For iPad Trade-in, Including First Generation

Juli Clover, MacRumors

How Mac Experts Set Up Their Desktops

Lex Friedman, Macworld

Everyone uses a different desktop setup. And it’s interesting to learn how other folks use their Macs, because it might influence how you do things.

I am trying a new experiment with Mavericks. Because the dock's indicator light is so hard to see with my old eyes, I've hidden the dock and rely mainly on Alfred to launch and switch apps. The only two "apps" that I keep permanently on the Dock are Mission Control and an applescript to launch the screensaver. (I never liked Hot Corners.)

(Oh, and I do keep the Dock on the right hand side of the screen.)

The new app doesn't come with groundbreaking new features but it's got some iOS 7 design decisions worth pointing out.

Keynote 6.0 For OS X Review: Apple's Presentation Tool Wins Some, Loses Some

Joe Kissell, Macworld

On the one hand, Keynote offers useful new features, a reimagined user interface, and vastly improved compatibility and consistency across platforms. On the other hand, numerous features from the previous version of Keynote are gone, which can wreak havoc with older presentations that relied on them.

Woof For iPhone Is Like Facebook, For Your Dog!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

If you like to spam your friends with photos of your canine companion on your own Facebook or Twitter page, Woof for iPhone may be the perfect app for you.

Apple Adds Internet-free Dictation To Mavericks

Mel Martin, TUAW

Mavericks users will now find what Apple calls 'enhanced dictation', and if you turn it on you'll need to download about an 800 MB file that makes your speech recognition local rather than server based. No training is needed, once you have the files it works right away, and I found the recognition quick and accurate.

LastPass Password Manager iOS App Gets Simplified UI & Family Logins

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Paid users also get access to a new Shared Family Folder, allowing up to five users to get shared access to joint logins.

Apple To Buy Vacant Mesa Building, Bring 2,000 Jobs To Valley

Azcentral.com

The factory will be run by GT Advanced Technologies Inc., a company that supplies components for some of Apple’s tech products. The plant will employ about 700 people and require about 1,300 workers to build, officials said.

Updated Skype For iOS Improves Startup Time, iOS 7 Tweak

Peter Cohen, iMore

Mr. Ludo Combines A Classic Board Game And Office Work Into One Charming iOS Game

Paul Acevedo, iMore

This particular take still offers the time-honored and simple gameplay that many of us experienced as children, but dresses it up with a clever office-based theme and both local and online multiplayer for up to four players.

New ProductiveMacs Bundle Offers Mac Gems On The Cheap

Dan Frakes, Macworld

Hands-on: Apple's Remote App Gets An iOS 7 Makeover

Dan Moren, Macworld

Slowly but steadily, Apple has been updating its miscellaneous iOS apps to reflect the new design aesthetic of iOS 7. The latest to go under the digital knife is Remote, the app that turns your iOS device into a remote control for iTunes libraries on your Macs and PCs as well as for your Apple TVs.

iPad Air Review

Nilay Patel, The Verge

Review: Apple’s iPad Air Is A Big Tablet Without All The Baggage

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Apple's new tablet is an embiggened version of the perfectly cromulent iPad mini.

Clear+ For iPad, iPhone Review - iOS 7 Only Note-taking App Impresses

Nick Spence, Macworld UK

Clear+ allows users to create any sort of list that you might find useful, from the aspirational - planning dreams - to the more routine and frankly boring - shopping, paying bills and such like. Each item is colour coded, the most important highlighted at the top of your stack of lists, in a manner that some have likened to the colour blocks seen on Windows smartphones. Whatever, it's a good look, one that is easy to read and act upon, helped by a simple onscreen guide available at first launch.

Shelf Control: McDonald's Introduces Interactive Happy Meal Books To McPlay App

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

How To Negotiate Better Apple Pricing For Your Business

Angus Kidman, Lifehacker

Your best path for feedback to Apple may be signing up with a large reseller. “Apple’s channel partners are very influential with Apple,” Sullivan said. However, even then there’s a catch.” Apple are merciless when it comes to firing them — it’s a ‘one strike, you’re out’ deal.”

Workplace Equality Is Good For Business

Tim Cook, Wall Street Journal

Those who have suffered discrimination have paid the greatest price for this lack of legal protection. But ultimately we all pay a price. If our coworkers cannot be themselves in the workplace, they certainly cannot be their best selves. When that happens, we undermine people's potential and deny ourselves and our society the full benefits of those individuals' talents.
So long as the law remains silent on the workplace rights of gay and lesbian Americans, we as a nation are effectively consenting to discrimination against them.
Congress should seize the opportunity to strike a blow against such intolerance by approving the Employment Nondiscrimination Act.

The short version is that iCloud Keychain does a good job of automatically entering passwords in websites on Apple's Safari browser, both with iOS devices and Macs. It does not work with any third-party browsers on OS X or iOS. It cannot fill in passwords on an iOS app unless the developer of that app has done some legwork to integrate with iCloud Keychain. Worse, it stores the passwords in an inconvenient location on iOS, making it hard to copy and paste passwords for those cases when iCloud Keychain can't automatically fill them in.

iOS 7 Calendar Display Bug For End Of DST Hits USA

Michael Rose, TUAW

Although alarms and reminders trigger as they should (on the new schedule), the "red line" current time indicator in the Calendar app is showing one hour later than it should (old time).

I have mixed feelings about the bottom-ported stereo speakers. If you're listening to music with the iPad flat on a table, it's much louder than competing tablets with back-ported speakers. But if you're playing a game or video while holding the tablet in landscape mode, all of the sound pumps out of one side.

Review: Apple's Late-2013 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

The real difference with Apple's latest MacBook Pro models is what's on the inside. Namely, Intel's latest-generation Haswell processors, which boost performance and battery life.

iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours Of Battery Life As LTE Hotspot

Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech

A total of 24.08 hours and over 8GB of transfers later, the iPad Air finally died. Just like last time, you'll likely burn through your monthly data allotment before you run out of power.

On The Pathological Way Apple Deals With Its Customers

Lawrence Lessig

For example, if the problem I have confronted with Mail.app using Gmail (which I describe more below) is something Apple considers a bug, then I’m willing to live with it for a while till Apple fixes it. If it isn’t a bug, but is a feature (insanely but whatever), then I will spend the time (and incredible bandwidth waste) to deal with the problem in the way the Apple volunteers suggest — either by changing the way Gmail works, or getting a new mail application.
So in a line, it is indecent for Apple to sit by silently while its customers waste thousands of hours (in the aggregate) trying to deal with the problems its “upgrades” create, when the simple act of describing what it intends to fix could save its customers those thousands of hours.

Dan Goodin at Ars Technica has reported on Dragos Ruiu's "badBIOS" analysis. I thought I'd explain how some of this stuff works.

Also:

• The badBIOS Analysis Is Wrong. (RootWyrm's Corner)

Lucida Grande “Retina-optimized” In OS X Mavericks

Tim Ahrens, Just Another Blog

I’m glad to see this update as it shows Apple still takes typography seriously. Although like most designers, I don’t like the use of Helvetica as a UI font in iOS, there are also promising font-related developments. While small tweaks like the ones we looked at here may seem nearly insignificant, it shows there are efforts to improve type in Apples OSes.

Marked 2: A Must-Have For Markdown Writers

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Marked’s powerful formatting and export options take us closer to the day when human-readable, plain text markup languages may largely supplant machine-readable, proprietary file formats for everyday uses.

Rockstar, Patent-Holding Firm Partially Owned By Apple And Microsoft, Sues Google And Android Handset Makers

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

Google started filing lawsuits based on Motorola patents long before Rockstar filed this suit.

iPad Air Teardown

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Confirmed: Apple & Best Buy Will Price Match Walmart’s $479 iPad Air Deal In Stores (Staples Too)

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple and Best Buy are still charging the suggested $499 price tag for the entry iPad Air through their online stores, so you’ll have to head to a physical retail location for the $20 discount.

New E-Book Services Borrow A Page From Netflix

Bonnie Cha, All Things D

If you’re a voracious reader, you know that keeping up with your habit can get expensive, whether you’re buying physical books or e-books. The public library makes for a good alternative, but sometimes there’s a waiting list for a title. And if you’re looking for a digital version to borrow, your options are limited. But what if you could instantly access an unlimited number of books right on your smartphone or tablet every month, for about the price of a paperback?

Patent War Goes Nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” Sues Google

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

Patent insiders knew that the Nortel portfolio was the patent equivalent of a nuclear stockpile: dangerous in the wrong hands, and a bit scary even if held by a "responsible" party.
This afternoon, that stockpile was finally used for what pretty much everyone suspected it would be used for—launching an all-out patent attack on Google and Android. The smartphone patent wars have been underway for a few years now, and the eight lawsuits filed in federal court today by Rockstar Consortium mean that the conflict just hit DEFCON 1.

Carcassonne (For iPhone)

Max Eddy, PC Magazine

Carassonne is one of those great games that's easy and fun to play, but also provides a lot of strategic challenge. Players of all skill levels can find something they like in it.

If you would prefer to see the system menu bar only on your main display, you can make that happen by disabling Apple's new Spaces features in Mavericks.

OS X 10.9 Mavericks Server: A Review

Wayne Dixon, Macgasm

OS X 10.9 Mavericks Server is a solid upgrade and provides a definite improvement over previous versions.

Original 3G iPad Owners Get Eligibility Claim Forms For Proposed Settlement

Steven Sande, TUAW

15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Review: A Tale Of Two Laptops

James Galbraith, Macworld

The $1999 2.0GHz MacBook Pro’s lack of discrete graphics took a toll on its Cinebench and 3D game performance, but it’s a much faster system than the high-end 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The $2599 2.3GHz Retina MacBook Pro was faster in just about every way than the system it replaces and would be a great fit for owners of older Mac portables looking for a high-performance laptop.

Apple iMovie For Mac Version 10 Review - Powerful And Flexible Editing App

Steve Paris, Macworld UK

iMovie 10 draws its inspiration from both the iOS version and Final Cut Pro X, making it a more powerful and flexible editing app in the process.

Apple Asks Developers To Refrain From Using Gold iPhone 5S Images In Marketing Materials

Eric Slivka, MacRumors

How To Set Up And Start Using Finder Tags In OS X Mavericks

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

If you've upgraded your Mac to OS X Mavericks, it comes with a convenient way to sort and organize your documents and files with what Apple is calling a Finder Tags. In reality, Finder Tags is an expanded version of the Labels feature OS X has featured for years. It's become more robust, convenient, and easy to use.

Customize “Today View” In Notification Center For iPhone

OS X Daily

If you want to customize the appearance of Today view, either where things appear in the list as you scroll, or to hide specific items, you can do that directly through iOS settings.

How To Restore Your Old iWork Documents

Christpher Breen, Macworld

Using Tabs In The Mavericks Finder

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

If you often have multiple Finder windows littering up your Desktop, tabbed Finder windows may be just what you need.

Touch ID Takes Hardware Security To New Levels - Here's How, Why, And What It Means!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple doesn't make specific mention of any other additional safeguards. However, as we discovered through some research and testing of our own, it seems as though Apple went through the trouble of pairing every individual Touch ID sensor cable to each individual phone as well.

FAA To Expand In-flight Electronic Device Use

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

The actual implementation will vary by airline due to differences in the specific airplanes involved, but the FAA expects that many carriers will verify that their planes can tolerate radio interface from personal electronic devices and allow their use — in airplane mode! — from gate to gate by the end of 2013.

Meet “badBIOS,” The Mysterious Mac And PC Malware That Jumps Airgaps

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Like a super strain of bacteria, the rootkit plaguing Dragos Ruiu is omnipotent.

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