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How To Back Up iTunes Podcasts

J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times

Clear, The Popular To-Do App For iOS And Mac, Finally Adds Reminders

Melanie Pinola, Lifehacker

LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2

Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine

Review: Focus 2 Pro Image Enhancement Software For OS X

Aaron Kraus, TechnologyTell

Yahoo Revamps iPhone Mail App

Angela Moscaritolo, PC Magazine

When you open the revamped app, you'll see your inbox along with a new panel of icons at the bottom of the screen. Tap the News icon for a "personalized, visually rich news stream," featuring everything from the latest celebrity gossip to political happenings.

Yelp For iOS Gets Updated Profile Pages, Swipe-To-Go-Back And More

Joe White, AppAdvice

Divide For iOS Is The Closest Thing To Having A Work Profile On Your iPhone

Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet

Divide does things a little differently than other Exchange clients for iOS. Divide provides comprehensive remote management tools and an instinctive, iOS-like user experience.

3 Ways Apple Improved The MacBook Air

Dave Smith, ReadWrite

The Right Way To Tag Everything In iTunes

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Even if your iTunes library’s tags are mostly correct, any erroneous tags may prevent you from finding your music. If an artist’s name is spelled wrong, for instance, or if there’s a typo in a song name you won’t find your favorite tunes when you search in iTunes. And if you’ve left some tags blank, some of your music won’t display in certain views.

iOS 7 And UI Debt

Manton Reece

Even Aqua, the most dramatic change ever to the Mac’s UI, was fairly straightforward for developers to adopt; if you stuck with consistent Mac controls, you got a lot for free. There was very little of that kind of consistency on iOS because developers frequently built their own custom UIs which had to be thrown out when iOS 7 happened.

“Superficial Changes”

Marco Arment

Most developers took a few months over the summer and fall to adapt, and then got back to “normal” development shortly after iOS 7 shipped.

Adobe Updates Photoshop Express For iOS With New Design And Features

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

How To Protect Your Mac Using FileVault 2 Encryption

Peter Cohen, iMore

Unless you absolutely need to protect the contents of your hard drive outside of anything but the most intensive forensic recovery, FileVault may be overkill. But if the need is there, it's reassuring to know that it's there, and it's fairly easy to activate and deactivate as long as you follow the instructions.

iOS 7 Squandered A Year Of Third-Party Development On Superficial Changes

Jared Sinclair

It’s been almost a year since version 7.0 was announced, yet as a developer I feel like a year’s worth of work has brought about only superficial changes to the apps I work on and the apps I use.

You're Emailing Wrong: The Best Mobile Apps For Managing Your Inbox

Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal

Jack For iTunes Connect

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Jack makes it easy to add and edit metadata for localization purposes, select pricing tiers, and manage screenshots with drag & drop from the Finder.

Microsoft Adds Printing Support To Office For iPad Apps, Other Features

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Firefox 29 Launches With Major Redesign, Firefox Account Integration

Frederic Lordinois, TechCrunch

Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide To Launch Center Pro

Alex Guyot, MacStories

Once a simple app launcher held back by the lack of support for more advanced actions by third party developers, interest in URL schemes has let Contrast focus on beefing up LCP’s internal functionalities. While on the surface it looks deceptively simple and just a reskin of its original design from June 2012, 2014’s Launch Center Pro is brimming with hidden power and advanced capabilities.

European Union Moves To End Smartphone Patent Wars

John O'Donnell, Reuters

The European Commission moved on Tuesday to stem aggressive patent lawsuits by smartphone and tablet makers against rivals, ruling that Motorola Mobility had broken EU law by taking such action against Apple.

Mail Pilot 1.1 Review: Impressive Mac Email Client Gets Even Better

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

If your email needs a productivity power boost, and you’re on board with Mail Pilot’s approach to handling your messages, you’ll find a lot to like about this program.

Apple’s MacBook Air Lineup Updated With Faster Haswell Processors, Now Starts At $899

Dom Esposito, 9 To 5 Mac

The refresh features the slightly updated Intel’s Haswell processor and all models are now priced $100 less than the previous models.

Keycard Keeps Your Mac Secured When You’re Away

Andrew Kunesh, Macgasm

Best iPad Apps For Writers: Editorial, Dropbox, Mindly, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Looking for the best iPad apps for writing your next big blog posts, essays, or novels? Because the iPad is so portable, and because it can be used by itself with the multitouch screen or with a connected physical keyboard, it's easy to take with you and use in a wide variety of places. There are also a ton of apps on the iPad App Store to help you organize your workflow, plan your content, write your work, and share it with the world. But which iPad writing apps are the absolute best?

New York City Bars To Use Apple's iBeacons For App-driven 'Pub Crawl' Promotion

AppleInsider

Apple's Indie Game Showcase: A No-case To Simogo, Others

Natasha Starkell, The Huffington Post

With everyone involved reporting that after the initial small spikes of interest, sales returned back to the normal numbers associated with bottom-of-the-App-Store-hell as the showcase ended, we ask what can be done to help?

Grand Tour Of The Apple Retail Palaces Of Europe: Barcelona

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

A sleek, ultra-modern Apple Store where the Spanish Communist Party once had its HQ.

The Care And Feeding Of External Hard Drives

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Historically, external drives have been used more for backup than anything else, but when you’re relying on external storage as the primary location of important data, it’s essential that you take steps to protect that data.

How To Block Popup Windows In Mac Web Browsers

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Popup windows in Web browsers can be one of the more irritating aspects of browsing the Web. While most Web sites to not make use of popups, at times you might be directed to some that do.

London Tube Strike: Use These Best Travel Apps For iPhone, iPad To Get Home

Nick Spence, Macworld UK

We highlight some of the best travel companions, that are ideal for finding alternative routes home in a Tube Strike, including apps for bagging a bargain flight and hopefully never missing a train or bus again.

How To Disable Push Notification Requests In Safari For Mac OS X

OS X Daily

Facebook Messenger 5.0 Adds Video Sharing, Faster Photo And Sticker Access, More

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Patches Another Major Security Hole In Its Website That Allowed Access To All Developer Personal Information

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Last night Apple pulled the Developer Center offline for maintenance, but as is usually the case, no noticeable changes were visible when it came back up. As it turns out, the company was patching a very serious security breach that was discovered over the weekend, allowing anyone to access the personal contact information for every registered iOS, Mac, or Safari developer; every Apple Retail and corporate employee; and some key partners.

Annual Profit Falls 52 Percent For Angry Birds Maker Rovio

Mark Scott, New York Times

The fall comes as Rovio tries to respond to changes in the gaming world, where the likes of King Digital Entertainment, maker of Candy Crush, and Supercell, the Finnish company behind the Clash of Clans franchise, have found success with so-called freemium games. Those companies allow consumers to play their games for free, but charge for in-game purchases, unlike Rovio, which has traditionally charged users to download its games.

Skype Group Video Calling Goes Free On Mac, Windows And Xbox One

Rich Edmonds, iMore

Four Reasons You Should Use OS X's System Information Utility

Topher Kessler, Macworld

While the information in the system profiler may be a bit daunting at first glimpse, there are four key areas that I’d recommend you check out for future troubleshooting.

Dining Out? Let Your Phone Pick Up The Check

Caitlin McGarry, TechHive

Apple Prepares For $17Bn Jumbo Bond Sale

Michael Mackenzie, Viviane Rodrigues and Tim Bradshaw, Financial Times

Apple is preparing the groundwork for another blockbuster debt sale in the region of $17bn that could rank as the second-largest corporate bond sale of all time.

Apple plans to use proceeds from the debt sale to fund the buyback rather than tap its $150bn cash pile. About $130bn of that cash is held overseas, 88 per cent of the total, and returning it to the US would lead to a tax charge of up to 35 per cent.

Can't Delete Songs In The Music App On Your iPhone And iPad? Here's The Fix!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

iPads And Tablet Growth

Benedict Evans

So, looking at tablets and smartphones as mobile devices in a new category that competes with PCs may be the wrong comparison - in fact, it may be better to think of tablets, laptops and desktops as one 'big screen' segment, all of which compete with smartphones, and for which the opportunity is just smaller than that for smartphones. And so tablets will over time eat away at laptop and desktop sales just as laptops ate away at desktop sales, but the truly transformative new category is the smartphone. Maybe.

How to recover lost contacts on iOS and prevent it from happening again

Geoffrey Goetz, GigoOM

The trouble with being connected all of the time is that when something bad happens to the data stored on one device, like losing your contact list, it can quickly spread like wildfire across all of your devices. If you do end up losing your contacts, there are some steps you can take to hopefully get most if not all of your contacts restored.

Battery Diag Is A Pretty, Informative Battery Monitor For Your MacBook

Ed Rhee, Lifehacker

Review: Logitech Powershell Makes A Button Masher Out Of An iPhone

Seamus Bellamy, The Globe And Mail

While iOS gamers might be tempted by the lure of physical controls, the Powershell’s lack of a second analog controller, inconsistent responsiveness from game to game, disappointing lack of iPhone 5c support and steep $99 price tag make it a difficult piece of hardware to recommend – yet.

Comixology Updates iOS App, Removes In-app Comic Purchasing

Nick Mediati, Macworld

In a message published to its Tumblr, the company announced Saturday that it has discontinued its existing iOS app and has replaced it with a new reader-only version that lacks the older app’s in-app comic-purchasing superpowers. If you want to purchase comics, you now need to go through comixology.com and then download them to the iOS app via the app’s “In Cloud” tab.

Apps We Actually Use: Markdown Pro For Editing Text And Markdown Documents

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

Software Is 'Bigger And Bigger' Deal For Nike: CEO

Jessica Golden, CNBC

Parker said Nike's goal is to increase NikeFuel users to 100 million from 30 million.

To do that, Nike will be expanding its partnerships with companies such as its most visible partner, Apple.

Apple's New iPhone Ad Features A Song About A Giant Penis

Jordan Weissmann, Slate

And Apple’s ad only features lyrics from the chorus, which just repeats the words: “Gigantic! Gigantic! Gigantic! / A big big love.” Out of context, that sounds almost innocuous. Almost.

Apple Wins Temporary Reprieve In E-books Damages Trial As U.S. Appeals Court To Consider Stay

Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider

Grand Tour Of The Apple Retail Palaces Of Europe: London

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

I can just see Steve Jobs getting excited about planting Apple's (AAPL) flagship U.K. store in the Piazza of Covent Garden, near the Drury Lane Theater, St. Paul's ("the Actor's") Church and, according to Fancyapint?, 272 pubs and bars.

Apple already had a store on Regent Street just a mile away in a busier district with serious shoppers and serious brand names: Hugo Boss, Anthropologie, Burberry's.

But Covent Garden had a history.

The Best iPhone Apps For Free Phone Calls: Make Free Phone Calls From Your iPhone

Lou Hattersley, Macworld UK

Paying for phone calls on your iPhone is a waste of your money. It’s easy to make free phone calls on the iPhone. This guide to making free iPhone phone calls has five of the best services to use.

Distiller (For iPhone)

Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine

The Distiller app is an easy-to-use expert in your pocket when you find yourself in a bar or liquor store facing a wall of whiskey bottles.

How To Add Liner Notes To iTunes

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

‘Mobile Safari Creator’

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

Said one long-time trusted source: “He definitely was not the lead on the project and several other engineers made far more significant contributions. How dare he take primary credit for MobileSafari. Shameful.”

Apple Launches iPhone 5 Sleep/Wake Button Replacement Program

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

“Apple today launched a program to replace the sleep/wake button on a small percentage of iPhone 5 models where the button may stop working or work intermittently,” Apple said in a statement provided to The Loop. “Apple will offer the service free of charge to iPhone 5 customers with models that exhibit this issue and have a qualifying serial number.”

Bugs & Fixes: Slow Wi-Fi Reconnect After MacBook Wakes Up

Ted Landau, Macworld

Review: The Weather Channel’s New iPhone App Is Gorgeously Vertical

Matt Peckham, TIME

One of the best weather apps for iOS is now the best and most socially-engaged, bar none.

Delete Any Documents Stored On iCloud From An iOS Device Or OS X

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story

Brian X. Chen, New York Times

When Francisco Tolmasky was just 20 years old and started working for Apple, he took on a challenging task: to create a rich mobile web browser for the original iPhone, back when the device was still a pile of circuits.

Lesson On Clarity

Brent Simmons, Inesential.com

In fact, things that are truly different should be treated as different, and the differences themselves should be made clear.

Apple, Google To Pay $324 Million To Settle Conspiracy Lawsuit

Dan Levine, Reuters

Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to hold down salaries in Silicon Valley, sources familiar with the deal said, just weeks before a high profile trial had been scheduled to begin.

How To Easily Clone Your Mac Using SuperDuper! Or Carbon Copy Cloner

Peter Cohen, iMore

Best Translation Apps For iPhone: iTranslate Voice, iVoice, Google Translate, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

California Shoots Down 'Kill Switch' Legislation For Smartphones

Richard Nieva, CNET

Legislators rejected a bill requiring device makers like Apple to include antitheft software on smartphones sold in the state. Their reason: It would be bad for business.

Apple, Google Agree To Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Over Hiring Deals-filing

Dan Levine, Reuters

Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to settle a large antitrust lawsuit over no-hire agreements in Silicon Valley, according to a court filing on Thursday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

iOS 6 Users On Devices Able To Run iOS 7 Must Upgrade To Fix FaceTime

Juli Clover, MacRumors

According to Apple, a bug resulting from an expired device certificate has rendered FaceTime unusable on older versions of iOS and the only solution to the problem is to update to the latest version of the operating system.

How To Protect Your Social Media Privacy On The iPad And iPhone

Doug Drinkwater, Macworld UK

4 Office For iPad Alternatives

Michael Ansaldo, Macworld

While no third-party suite can fully replicate the real deal, these four came closest. We tested them with an eye toward usability, cloud support, and faithfulness to Office file formats (the last of which disqualified Apple’s iWorks right out of the gate). Each has stronger points, such as a more elegant interface, or better file or cloud support, but any will get the job done admirably until you can get back to your desk.

Apple’s Cook On New Products: ‘Take The Time To Get It Right’

Daisuke Wakabayashi, Wall Street Journal

How close is that? Cook lets out a laugh and said he didn’t accidentally tip his hand. The company, he said, is closer to announcing a new product than it was at the end of January, yesterday or ten minutes ago. Not much help.

Jimi: A Brilliant Little Innovation For iMac Owners

Steven Sande, TUAW

Jimi is cleverly designed to transition the vertical USB port on the back of the iMac to a horizontal USB port that pokes out from the bottom of your computer.

This looks great. Personally, I don't understand why Apple moved the ports on a laptop from the back to the sides, making it easier to access the ports, but failed to do so for the desktops.

How To Detect And Remove Genieo For Mac

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Lab Tested: The Mac Pro Daisy Chain Challenge

Jame Galbraith, Macworld

Macworld Lab came up with the Mac Pro Daisy Chain Challenge: How many devices can we round up, connect, and use on a single Mac Pro.

The Best Focused-writing Apps For OS X

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

There’s no shortage of writing apps for OS X, for any type of work, and for any budget. You may want to stick with the free TextEdit, or, if you use Markdown, look for a tool that displays formatted texts better. My ideal text editor would have the simplicity of iA Writer, some of the features of ByWord and WriteRoom, and the preview and export features of Marked 2. Sadly, such a dream app doesn’t exist. In its absence, I’ve found iA Writer to be the most useful tool, because it stays out of my way.

The Weather Channel Unveils A Brand New iOS 7 Redesign

Joe White, AppAdvice

U.S. Judge Denies Apple's Move To Hold Off E-book Antitrust Trial

Reuters

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in a brief order said the July 14 trial had already been postponed once and should go forward, paving the way for more than two dozen states to pursue hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

Conjuring Images Of A Bionic Future

Farhad Manjoo, New York Times

It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the latest crop of advanced hearing aids are better than the ears most of us were born with. The devices can stream phone calls and music directly to your ears from your phone. They can tailor their acoustic systems to your location; when the phone detects that you have entered your favorite sports bar, it adjusts the hearing aids to that environment.

The hearing aids even let you transform your phone into an extra set of ears. If you’re chatting with your co-worker across a long table, set the phone in front of her, and her words will stream directly to your ears.

Like Mr Manjoo, I'm so tempted to get myself some Made-for-iPhone hearing aids even though I probably don't have really bad hearing problems to require a hearing aid for now.

Apple’s Stock Split: Attracting The Wrong Crowd?

Neil Irwin, New York Times

With its split decision, then, Apple is effectively choosing its own shareholders — and not the ones who are most likely to stick with the company when it encounters bad times.

Cook Confronts Analysts On iPad Sales

Peter Cohen, iMore

"iPad sales came in at the high end of our estimates," Cook emphasized, uncharacteristically taking issue with analysts' projections.

Angela Ahrendts Joining Apple Next Week

Sam Sabri, iMore

Apple Announces 7 For 1 Stock Split, Boosts Its Dividend 8%, Adds $30B To Its Buyback Program

Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch

As part of its earnings cycle today, Apple announced that it will increase its dividend 8 percent, add $30 billion to its share buyback program current to a total of $90 billion, and split its stock 7 for 1 in June.

The company’s dividend will also now rise yearly.

Apple Beats In Q2 2014 With $45.6B Revenue, $10.2B Profit And $11.62 EPS

Romain Dillet, TechCrunch

Apple has just released its fiscal Q2 2014 earnings, reporting $45.6 billion in revenue, $10.2 billion in net profit representing $11.62 per share. Compared to the year-ago quarter, it corresponds to a growth of 4.6 percent in revenue, and 15.2 percent in EPS.

Apple + Patching = You’re Doing It Wrong :(

Kristin Paget's Blog

Drop a patch for one product that quite literally lists out, in order, the security vulnerabilities in your platform, and then fail to patch those weaknesses on your other range of products for weeks afterwards? You really don’t see anything wrong with this?

Daylite 5 Adds Refinements To The Business Management App

Steven Sande, TUAW

The new Insight View is described as a "visual summary of your data" that "helps you discover patterns and answer questions about your business." By displaying a number of graphs on one screen, it's easy to see patterns appear and then make comparisons. Clicking on a bar chart drills into summaries, and dragging across a timeline allows even further focus on project details.

Steve Jobs In My Small World

Matt Haughey, Medium

Cloud Photo Storage: The Best Ways To Bank Family Pictures

Wilson Rothman, Wall Street Journal

In my hunt for the best cloud photo option, five services stood out: Dropbox, Flickr, Shutterfly, SmugMug and the powerful yet clumsy combination of Google Drive and Google+. In the end, only Flickr managed to satisfy all my requirements, though SmugMug was a close second.

What The Apple Wage Collusion Case Says About Silicon Valley’s Labor Economy

Brian Fung, Washington Post

So as Steve Jobs and other executives allegedly colluded to prevent the poaching of engineers from each other, they may have simultaneously contributed to Silicon Valley's preoccupation with precociousness. Finding new, less expensive talent among the young, after all, was the most viable alternative.

Grand Tour Of The Apple Retail Palaces Of Europe: Amsterdam

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

It's a huge store -- Apple's biggest in Europe, according to the company. It occupies two high-ceilinged floors, separated by a Steve Jobs-patented glass spiral staircase and softly lit by a two-story atrium.

Apple Fixes FaceTime On Older Versions Of OS X, iOS 6 Still Not Working

Richard Padilla, MacRumors

Apple tonight released an update for FaceTime on OS X, which resolves connections issues and is recommended for all FaceTime users currently running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The connection issues are presumably related to the problems reported last week which affected both older versions of OS X and iOS 6 versions of FaceTime.

Blue Sky For iOS Lets You Visualize Clearer Air

Mel Martin, TUAW

The app simply serves as an environmental reminder to let you visualize cleaner and clearer skies. The app also lets you add your signature to a petition to state your preference about 'bringing back the blue'.

Apple Launches 'Powerful' New iPhone 5S Ad

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Apple has released a new iPhone 5s ad called "Powerful". It's set to the song Gigantic by the Pixies, the ad highlights the iPhone 5s' utility with several kinds of musical instruments and vocals, as a connected controller for lighting, gaming, and rocket launching, for slow motion video, videography, live translation, blood pressure measurement, and finishes with the line — "You're more powerful than you think".

Amazon Updates Its Kindle iOS App To Add Table Of Contents, X-Ray Smart Look-Up

Joe White, AppAdvice

Programming In Time For Dinner

Tyler Hayes, Fast Company

Programmers often get stereotyped as night owls--a habit endemic to young programmers. But what happens when those night owls have kids and develop more demanding personal lives? Here are a few ways to think about your time that should take some of the conflict out of your time management conundrum.

Apple Releases Heartbleed Fix For AirPort Base Stations

Jason Snell, Macworld

The update, AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.7.3, is only for the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule base stations with 802.11ac, introduced in June 2013, and fixes a vulnerability that existed only when the Back to My Mac feature was turned on.

iOS 7.1.1 Now Labels Apps With 'In-App Purchases' In Top Charts And Featured Sections

Juli Clover, MacRumors

As part of iOS 7.1.1, released earlier today, Apple has implemented some minor changes to the iOS App Store to make it more clear which apps offer in-app purchases.

Apple's Letting Anyone Help Test Its Next OS X Update

Chris Welch, The Verge

Apple is suddenly taking a much more open approach to testing its desktop operating system. For the first time in years, the company is inviting regular consumers to help test upcoming OS X software updates before they're distributed publicly. Apple says the OS X Beta Seed Program will allow anyone to "test-drive beta software and provide quality and usability feedback that will help make OS X even better."

How Steve Jobs Undercut Silicon Valley's Greatest Asset: Engineers

Jeremy Quittner, Inc.com

Apple Allowing Non-Developers To Apply For OS X Beta Program

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Alongside iOS 7.1.1, Apple has introduced a new OS X beta program that will see non-developers given an opportunity to download OS X betas before they are released to the public.

Apple Releases iOS 7.1.1 With TouchID Improvements And Bug Fixes

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

Apple Pushes OS X Security Update, Safari 7.0.3

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Add A "Move To iTunes" Option To OS X With A Finder Service

Thorin Klososki, Lifehacker

Agilebits' 1Password For iOS Is Completely Redesigned With New Update

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

Agilebits has announced a significant update to 1Password for iOS. Version 4.5 is being touted as “the reimagined edition” and features a flatter design, an improved in-app Web browser, and much more.

Fix iMessages Only Showing Up On One Device

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

The Best iTunes Keyboard Shortcut™ Ever

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

If you get lost in your iTunes library, a quick Command-L takes you back where you want to go.

Apple Taunts Samsung To 'Copy' Its Environmental Record

Tom Warren, The Verge

In newspaper adverts that accompany a revamped environmental site, Apple takes clear aim at Samsung while highlighting its green-themed energy campaign. "There are some ideas we want every company to copy," reads the headline of the ad, a clear reference to Apple's aggressive shift to renewable energy. The body of the ad also mentions that "there's one area where we actually encourage others to imitate us."

Apple Offering Free Recycling Of All Used Products

Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centers with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services.

Buffet Of All Things

Lo Min Ming

With the influx of unlimited subscription models for our digital lifestyle consumption, I decided to figure out how much it would cost for me to subscribe to get access to unlimited eBooks, Movies, Music, and Magazines.

The most interesting thing from this article: is Amazon getting close to offer an one-price unlimited subscription to all forms of entertainment in all forms of medium?

Mailbox Goes 2.0 On iOS, Gains Auto-swipe And Cross-device Dropbox Sync

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Active Malware Campaign Steals Apple Passwords From Jailbroken iPhones

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Security researchers have uncovered an active malware campaign in the wild that steals the Apple ID credentials from jailbroken iPhones and iPads.

Can A Normal User Justify A Mac Pro?

Julio Ojeda-Zapata, TidBITS

What follows might seem to be tortured logic and wishful thinking, and maybe it is. Still, here are my thoughts on why a Mac Pro might — or might not — be appropriate for an average Mac Joe like yours truly.

Apple CEO Cook Explains His Company's Commitment To The Environment In A New Video

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

“Better” is narrated by Apple CEO Tim Cook and explains how Cupertino is striving to reduce its impact on climate change, find ways to use greener materials, and conserve resources for future generations.

Mac 101: A Handy List Of Startup Options For Macs Running OS X

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

Need to reboot you Mac to access a new startup disc or launch with safe mode enabled so you can troubleshoot problems with OS X? Then read on for this handy list of startup options for Mac OS X machines.

Apple Aims To Shrink Its Carbon Footprint With New Data Centers

Steven Levy, Wired

It’s an unusual trip in that its point is to give a reporter exposure to the way Apple works, a departure from the company’s usual maniacal secrecy. But when it comes to the environment, Apple consciously carves out an exception to its standard opacity. Part of the motive, of course, is generating a halo effect from good works. But Apple also hopes to inspire other companies and organizations to embark on similar ecologically helpful enterprises. Though it may not have always been the case, Apple has a good Earth Day story to tell.

Apple Adds A&E, History Channel, And Lifetime Channels To Apple TV

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Each channel does require a cable subscription to unlock full content, but it appears the most recent episodes of shows are available without unlocking the channels.

How To Sync Bookmarks With Two iCloud Accounts

Christopher Breen, Macworld

PhotoSweeper For Mac Whisks Away Duplicate Images

Jackie Dove, The Next Web

When your computer slows down to a crawl and you figure out that it’s because your hard drive is stuffed to the gills, you need to do some house cleaning. Your photo collection is likely a good place to start, and Overmacs’ newly updated PhotoSweeper can swiftly scrub out space-wasting photo duplicates.

Coal Ridge Teachers Find iPad Minis Increase Classroom Interaction

Victoria A.F. Camron, Longmont Times-Call

In his seventh-grade social studies classroom at Coal Ridge, Adam Wellington asks students to explain what they think private goods are. Instead of calling on different students, though, all the students write their answers on their iPad minis. Wellington can then see the answers and share some without revealing the students' names.

A Better Breed Of News App

Jason Pontin, Technology Review

Mobile news curation uses human editors and good design to improve the experience of reading the news on smartphones.

End Of The Line Coming For Apple iChat Log-ins To AIM On Older Macs

David Morgenstern, ZDNet

Apple warned in a recent Support Note that after June 30, Macs running a number of older versions of OS X won't be able to use their mac.com and me.com addresses as AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) IDs to log into the AIM service with iChat. The company said users must upgrade to at least OS X Lion 10.7.2.

The Best Timekeeping iOS Apps

Brian Beam, Macworld

As someone who runs a freelance consulting business, it's important to track my time accurately so that I can bill my clients properly, and there just so happens to be a plethora of standalone timekeeping apps available for iOS.

How do you wade through this crowded category in order to find an app that's right for you? Fortunately, I've done some leg work for you, but time tracking can be rather detailed and everyone has different needs and preferences. My criteria may not exactly match yours. Luckily, many of these apps provide limited free versions so that you can try them out before making a commitment of time and money.

Apple, Google Vie To Offer Exclusive Game Apps

Ian Sherr and Daisuke Wakabayashi, Wall Street Journal

The two Silicon Valley giants have been wooing game developers to ensure that top-tier game titles arrive first on devices powered by their respective operating systems, people familiar with the situation said.

In exchange, Apple and Google are offering to provide a promotional boost for these games by giving them premium placement on their app stores' home pages and features lists, these people said.

Users Finding First-generation Apple TVs Unable To Connect To iTunes Store

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Dallas Developer's A Dark Room App Hits No. 1 Spot On Apple App Store

Danielle Abril, Dallas Business Journal

A Dallas developer who quit his job to pursue developing his own software now knows what it’s like create the No. 1 iOS mobile application in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Apple Hires Rising Medical Star Divya Nag With FDA Approval, Product Development Experience

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Expands Its Maps Flyover Coverage To Include Berkeley, East Bay Area

Joe White, AppAdvice

How Greed Almost Sabotaged The Smartphone Kill Switch

Issie Lapowsky, Wired

So why has the industry at large remained so stubbornly resistant to what seems a relatively simple way to protect consumers and combat crime? The answer, as always, is money.

Apple iCloud Sparks Divorce Cases

Sophie Curtis, The Telegraph

Sam Hall, family law partner at JMW Solicitors, said he had received several enquiries in recent months after people found incriminating messages or photos on shared cloud-based software which sync with their mobile phones, tablets or computers.

How To Turn A Dead iPod Into An Upgraded Budget Music Player

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

For just about $40 to $50 in parts you can resurrect your old machine into a brand new budget music/gaming device.

Nike Fires Majority Of FuelBand Team, Will Stop Making Wearable Hardware

Nick Statt, CNET

Nike is gearing up to shutter its wearable-hardware efforts, and the sportswear company this week fired the majority of the team responsible for the development of its FuelBand fitness tracker, a person familiar with the matter told CNET.

"As a fast-paced, global business we continually align resources with business priorities," Nike spokesman Brian Strong said in an email. "As our Digital Sport priorities evolve, we expect to make changes within the team, and there will be a small number of layoffs. We do not comment on individual employment matters."

Also:

• John Gruber: Interesting, particularly when you consider that Tim Cook sits on the Nike board.

Next-Generation Hearing Aids Tune In To The iPhone

Dawn Chmielewski, Re/code

The “Made for iPhone” hearing aids are the culmination of an initiative Apple announced at its 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference. The Cupertino giant has positioned these devices as fitting with its emphasis on accessibility. (There are numerous settings to make its phones easier to use for those with visual, hearing and motor control issues.)

Lost Mode For iOS: How To Use It To Find Your iPad Or iPhone

Atb Levy, Apple Toolbox

iOS 6 and later iOS versions offer a new iCloud feature called Lost Mode. If your iOS device (iPhone, iPad or iPod touch) gets lost or stolen, you may use Lost Mode to remotely lock it with a passcode, display a custom on-screen message, and keep track of its physical location. If your phone ends up in someone else’s possession, this feature will let whoever is keeping your iPhone (or iPad) know they should call a specified number that you have chosen. In fact, calling this number from the iPhone becomes the only option available on the phone in Lost Mode, other than unlocking by entering the passcode.

Apple Reaching Out To Developers Who Didn’t Win WWDC Lottery, Offering Chance To Buy Unclaimed Tickets

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Facebook’s Paper For iOS Updated With Birthdays, Events, Photo Comments, Group Updates, And More

Emil Protalinski, The Next Web

Sketch 3 Makes A Great Design Tool Even Better

Brett Terpstra, TUAW

Google Wins A Game Of “Escape From East Texas,” Linking Rockstar To Apple

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

A federal judge issued an order today decreeing that Google's court battle against a "patent troll" owned by its competitors must be fought out in California, not in Texas.

The ruling is a substantial victory for Google because venue matters in patent litigation. The search giant was facing the possibility of fighting a powerful trolling entity in the Eastern District of Texas, long considered a district friendly to patent holders. The patent owner in this case is the Rockstar Consortium, formed when Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson, and Blackberry teamed up to spend $4.5 billion to buy patents belonging to Nortel, a bankrupt Canadian telecom company.

An Experiment In iAd

Metarain Blog

iAd is now something feasible. We think that they are heading in the right direction and may also be a good platform to integrate with.

Ask The iTunes Guy: Glitchy Tracks, Numbers Game, And Too-large Libraries

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

You know the one where you get a track from iTunes Match and it’s not perfect? How about the one where you’ve just got too much stuff in your iTunes library and it slows iTunes down to a crawl? Or that thing where there are numbers at the beginnings of track names and you’d really like to get rid of them? Well, read on to find out how to fix these problems.

OmniOutliner 4 Pro Review: Top-notch Mac Outliner Gets A New Interface

Tom Negrino, Macworld

The current version makes creating and styling outlines easier, and improves the process of getting thoughts out of your head and into a document. There isn’t a better outline program for your Mac.

Hands-on With Flickr 3.0, With New Features That Make Flickr Cool Again

Leah Yamshon, TechHive

This is clearly an app for the art of photography.

FaceTime Not Working For Many iOS 6 Users

Juli Clover, MacRumors

It appears that users who are running iOS 6 are unable to place or receive FaceTime calls, with reports of problems dating back to yesterday. Devices running iOS 7 appear to be functioning as normal, and Apple's System Status page is not reporting any outages.

Sketch 3 For Mac Adds Reusable Symbols And Presentation Mode, Improves Export Tool

Nick Peers, Beta News

Review: Dropbox’s Carousel Photo-Sharing App

Rachel Metz, Technology Review

Dropbox’s new photo app, Carousel, is smartly designed, but that won’t ensure success.

The Vaccines On The Go App Is Critical For Accurate Education Of Vaccinations

Jay Agarwal, iMedicalApps

The app includes information about the actual vaccine, the diseases caused by not getting vaccinated, side effects of the vaccinations and any other information that parents may find useful.

Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPad Mini With Retina Display Starting At $419

AppleInsider

Wake Up Your Mac With Your iPhone

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation

Horace Dediu, Asymco

I define innoveracy as the inability to understand creativity and the role it plays in society. Hopefully identifying individual innoveracy will draw attention to the problem enough to help solve it.

Tint Color Misuse

Manton Reece

These kind of usability mistakes turn the great potential of tint color into a disadvantage. It’s like underlined text on the web that can’t be clicked. Apps should use tint color to improve usability, not to become even more difficult to use than if everyone rolled their own button styles.

Play & Manage iTunes Radio Stations With Siri

OS X Daily

Flickr App For iOS Updated With New Interface And Fresh Editing Tools

Andrew Martonik, iMore

How To Move Documents From Dropbox To iWork And iCloud

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Want to take your spreadsheets, documents, and presentations from Dropbox and start using them with Apple's iWork suite of Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, and store them in iCloud? Luckily, both Dropbox and Apple make it easy to do. Here's how!

Evernote Business Notebook Lets You Share While Keeping Your Personal Notes Private

Simon Sage, iMore

Apple Is Going Green For Earth Day 2014

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

On April 22, Apple will cover its Apple Store logos with green. Additionally, employees at some stores will be given new Earth Day shirts to wear. At the company’s main campus, a “large-scale internal event” is being held in the afternoon.

MacBook In The Cloud: Work With The Same Files On Multiple Macs

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

It turns out, however, that you can make your laptop into the perfect satellite computer with just a few tweaks—and save its precious hard drive space, to boot. Here are a few tips for syncing your computers with the cloud.

InDesign Alternatives For Mac: Can Anything Unseat Adobe For Page Layout?

Peter Cohen, iMore

Dropbox Acquires Loom

Federico Viticci, MacStories

With a notice posted on their website today, Loom, a photo storage and management service originally launched in July 2013, announced that they’ve been acquired by Dropbox and will be joining the company.

Twitterrific For iOS Adds “Edit Tweet” Button

Federico Viticci, MacStories

BBC And Sky Catch-up Apps Experience iOS Fault

Leo Kelion, BBC

The fault appears to be limited to iPlayer, Sky Go and Now TV on Apple's iOS platform and began last night.

Neither organisation was able to provide a full explanation at this time.

Name Mangler Review: The File Renamer For Mac Power Users

Dan Miller, Macworld

Name Mangler remains the more powerful tool, thanks in large part to its Advanced mode. If you’re a power user, and you’re willing to put in the time to learn that mode, Name Mangler will be your renamer of choice. Even if you aren’t, you may prefer it for the relative compactness of its interface and its fast, efficient performance.

33 Great Tips And Tricks For iOS 7

Serenity Caldwell and Dan Moren, Macworld

Hands-on: Eyefi Cloud Offers Unlimited Photo Storage Through A Wi-Fi SD Card

Mark Hachman, Macworld

Wireless storage card maker Eyefi (formerly Eye-Fi) unveiled Eyefi Cloud, an unlimited photo storage service, on Thursday morning. The service, which will cost $49 per year, receives photos captured by a camera to Eyefi's own Wi-Fi enabled SD card. The card uploads them to the cloud using a paired, Internet-connected smartphone or tablet as the conduit.

Why Apple’s A7 Chip Is Better Than The Competition: Apple A7 Chip Specs, Processor Speed And Microarchitecture Examined

Lou Hattersley, Macworld UK

3 Super Simple Finder Keystroke Tips Every Mac User Must Know

OS X Daily

Apple Website Confirms Aftermarket CarPlay Installations Coming Soon From Alpine, Pioneer

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple has quietly added a line on its CarPlay microsite acknowledging that it will indeed support the feature in existing cars through aftermarket systems. Specifically, Alpine and Pioneer are listed under the line “And you’ll soon be able to add CarPlay to your current car with an aftermarket system."

Auto-Save Microsoft Word With Keyboard Maestro

TJ Luoma, TUAW

Microsoft Word does have an auto-recovery setting, but nothing beats the security of manually saving. Unlike modern apps, Microsoft Word does not support the versioning and auto-save features in OS X. Keyboard Maestro can run that save command every X seconds or minutes.

PDFpen And PDFpenPro 6.2

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Mac Remote Desktop Software Roundup

David Koff, TidBITS

What Fruit Is Left Hanging For iOS In Education?

Chambers Daily

Let me just preface this article with the fact that Apple is doing some extremely innovative things when it comes to education right now. The Device Enrollment Program and Managed Distribution are incredible advancements when you look at what it takes to scale iOS for very large deployments. Fraser and I have been discussing the planning behind deploying iOS on our podcast and these tools are certainly important. The purpose of this article is to look at what's left for Apple to do given the current state of iOS software and hardware.

Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft Is Now Available Worldwide For The iPad

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Anki Drive Getting New Cars And Tracks, Plus A New Race Mode

Simon Sage, iMore

Corax is one of the new cars, which is able to mount multiple weapons, while Hadion has a turbo boost function available right away. As for tracks, Crossroads adds the first intersection to the mix, while Bottleneck has a particularly narrow section which should be a welcome challenge.

How To Cancel App Store Magazine Subscriptions

Steven Sande, TUAW

Marissa Mayer’s Secret Plan To Get Apple To Dump Google And Default To Yahoo Mobile Search

Kara Swisher, Re/code

According to sources, the lodestone of two internal projects aimed at building a viable mobile search engine and monetization platform is to convince Apple to make Yahoo the default search engine on its Safari browser on the iPhone and iPad.

Also:

• Why Yahoo’s Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google (Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land)

Adobe Lightroom Mobile Review: A Strong Start, But Still A Work-in-progress

Melissa J. Perenson, Macworld

It’s hard to find an app these days that shakes up the status quo, but Lightroom mobile achieves just that for digital imaging on the iPad. It’s the first app that makes me feel the iPad can be a serious, useful companion in the image editing and selection process. That said, the syncing issues I experienced were very frustrating, some interface choices confound, and many features just don’t go far enough to satisfy. Still, in spite of its limitations and flaws, Lightroom mobile is the new must-have app for photographers and photo enthusiasts alike.

Review Of Insight Notes: Secure Simple Notes For iOS

Dan Buckland, MedGadget

Sometimes a clinician just wants a way to keep secure, HIPAA compliant, notes on their iPad without having to purchase an entire EMR system to install. Hoping to fill that niche is Insight Notes, an app to keep simple secure notes on the iPad, with an optional backup and export service.

How To Put Films On An iPad: With Or Without iTunes

Jim Martin, PC Advisor

There are several ways you can transfer videos to your iPad, one of which is to use iTunes to sync films (and TV shows) to the tablet.

Although we’ll show you step by step how to do that, there are easier ways, especially if you need to use a computer other than the one with which you sync your iPad.

App Review: Nike+ Running For iPhone Goes Far Beyond Basic GPS Tracking

Arnie Sheridan, SportsBusiness Daily Global

Union To Protest Apple Overseas Cash Pile At SF Apple Store On Tax Day

Silicon Valley Business Journal

Bay Area security officers with SEIU United Service Workers West will hold a protest outside the Union Square Apple store in San Francisco today to bring attention to the billions in cash the company holds overseas to avoid U.S. taxes.

Apple Upgrade Tracks Customers Even When Marketing Apps Are Off

Martin Kaste, NPR

When Apple updated the iPhone's operating system two months ago, it changed it to allow marketing apps to keep tabs on your location even when they're off. When you close an app, it "deputizes" the phone's operating system to keep listening for iBeacon signals on its behalf.

How To Quickly Look Up Words In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Speed Through Rome In The Latest Subway Surfers Update

Simon Sage, iMore

Lego Robot Plays Freemium iPad Games While Creator Sleeps

Nate Lanxon, Wired UK

The small setup uses an old iPad mounted on top of Technics wheels. The machine is powered by an Arduino board and connects to a Windows laptop. The result is that throughout the night the machine moves the iPad back and forth underneath a nodding donkey-style tapping mechanism, which, when wrapped in tin foil and wired to the ground pin of an Arduino, tricks the iPad's capacitive touchscreen into thinking it's a human finger.

Scribe Review: Cut And Paste Between Your Mac And iOS Device

Roman Loyola, Macworld

All I have to do is press Command-Shift-X while Scribe is running on my Mac, and the selected snippet gets transferred over to the Scribe app on my iOS device. (Scribe works only in one direction, from your Mac to your iOS device.)

Office 365 Personal Subscription Plan Launched, Includes iPad Editing

Rich Edmonds, iMore

Fine Tune Mavericks' iCloud Settings To Meet Individual Business Needs

Erik Eckel, TechRepublic

Apple Antitrust Compliance Off To A Promising Start: Monitor

Nate Raymond, Reuters

Apple Inc has made a "promising start" to enhancing its antitrust compliance program after being found liable last year for conspiring to raise e-book prices, but more work is required, a court-appointed monitor said Monday.

Tackle A Hidden Menu Bar In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

The OS X Menu bar is the gray strip across the top of your monitor, that holds the apple menu and system and application menus on the left, and the status menus (menu extras) on the right. This bar should be present and active to allow you to control your system and applications; however, there may be instances where it is not showing all the time.

Screens 3 For Mac Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Two of my favorite changes in Screens 3 are features that mostly work outside of the main app, and they’re both meant to speed up access to your remote computers through Screens.

Also:

• Screens 3.0 makes the best Mac VNC app even better (Rene Ritchie, iMore)

Tackle Apple KEXTs Not Loading

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Most kernel extensions in OS X are provided by Apple, but every now and then programs such as security software, or drivers for third-party devices, may include a kernel extension to provide system-wide services.

MacBook Pro Vs. MacBook Air: How I Made The Choice

Rob Griffiths, Macworld

I’ve had my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro for a couple months now, and it’s turned out to be an ideal replacement for my previous two laptops. For a slight increase in size and weight over the 2012 11-inch MacBook Air, I’ve gained a much faster machine with not only a physically larger screen, but more pixels on that screen (even in Retina mode).

Amazon Cloud Drive Photos 3.0 Adds iOS 7-Friendly Redesign, Upload Enhances, Timeline, And More

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Five Tips To Get Even Better Battery Life From Your MacBook Air Or MacBook Pro

Peter Cohen, iMore

OS X Mavericks software and Haswell chipsets meant Apple could put a lot of emphasis in 2013 to improving battery life and power efficiency in its laptops. But that doesn't mean we can't do better. We can always do better. So here's five suggestions for how to improve the battery life of your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro even more.

Xcode Plugins

Mattt Thompson, NSHipster

Xcode has had a plugin architecture going back to when Interface Builder was its own separate app. However, this system was relatively obscure, undocumented, and not widely used by third parties. Despite this, developers like Delisa Mason and Marin Usalj have done incredible work creating a stable and vibrant ecosystem of third-party Xcode extensions.

Microsoft OneNote For Mac Review: Compelling But Not Yet Ready To Compete With Evernote

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

OneNote for Mac may not yet be all it needs to be, but it is a compelling note creation tool that makes the creation of notes simple and intuitive. If you’re using Evernote for all that it’s worth, OneNote won’t offer you enough to want to make the change. But, if collaboration, freeform text entry, simultaneous note editing, and the promise of far more features in the very near future seems intriguing, OneNote for Mac is exactly what you need.

Hands On With MakerBot's iOS-connected 5Th Generation Of 3D Printers & Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

Can't Be Opened Because It's Too Old

Thomas Brand, Egg Freckles

If something is worth saving, save it in a open file format.

How To Search Smarter In Mail

Joe Kissell, Macworld

With a flexible system of search tokens, Boolean searches, and other options, you can find almost any message you can describe. You can even save a search by converting it into a smart mailbox.

Understanding VPP Managed Distribution In Casper

Fraser Speirs

Under VPP-MD, I can just sit at my Casper dashboard and push apps out all over the school. It won't matter if the iPads are in schoolbags or in use. It won't even matter if a pupil is absent that day (a big issue in return-to-base maintenance) - the push will find them at home as long as they're online.

Understanding And Adjusting Default Permissions In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Every file and folder in OS X has permissions associated with it, which allow the system to grant or deny access to specific users and groups. You can see these permissions by getting information on a selected file or folder in the Finder, and then expanding the “Sharing & Permissions” section at the bottom of the window.

Why Apple's Censorship Was Just A Storm In A D-cup

Anna Baddeley, The Guardian

A skirmish between Apple and a French publisher over a risque book cover hardly recalls the censorship battles of the past.

Best iPhone Apps: Focus Keeper

Vince Font, Brighthand

Billed as "a timer that will track and increase your productivity without burnout," Focus Keeper is more than a simple stopwatch app.

Apple Acquires Hydroelectric Project Near Its Prineville Data Center

Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com

Apple has taken over a small hydroelectric project at a Central Oregon site near the company’s new data center in Prineville.

How To Move Existing iWork Files From Your Mac To iCloud

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple Developers Must Now Agree To Ad Identifier Rules Or Risk App Store Rejection

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch

Though Apple began rejecting some applications in February which were using the unique identifier but not showing ads, this change now formalizes the process – meaning that Apple could now reject any non-compliant apps going forward.

Fix A Stalled Time Machine Backup In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

There are several reasons why this may happen, including if you have not backed up in a while, your backup drive is full, problems with the current backup instance, and faults with the backup drive as a whole.

FTL: Faster Than Light iPad Game Review: A Cruelly Tense Strategy RPG In Space

David Price, Macworld UK

It’s not cheap for an iPad game. We should probably acknowledge that. But FTL: Faster Than Light is well worth the money, thanks to its gripping, merciless gameplay and rich depth of content.

How To Remove Application Preferences On Your Mac

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Since these files contain settings that are loaded and interacted with as the program is run, if a fault exists either in a specific setting or in the structure of the file itself, then a program may experience hangs, crashes, the inability to save and retrieve settings, or other odd behaviors.

Tim Cook Calls On Congress To Pass Employment Non-Discrimination Act

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

The law to which Tim referred, known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, would prohibit companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender.

Amazon Embraces Its Inner Geek By Buying Comixology

Jason Snell, TechHive

Comic fans may groan about the sale—it’s always sad when a plucky, groundbreaking start-up is bought out by a corporate giant—but Amazon’s track record with purchases is actually pretty good.

Apple Updates Standalone FaceTime App For Snow Leopard Users With Connection Bug Fix

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

App Camp For Girls Rocks Macworld/iWorld

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Most of the press coverage surrounding App Camp for Girls has revolved around bringing more women into tech, and while I think that’s an important cause, it misses the bigger picture of what the App Camp approach could do for general education. The girls at the App Camp panel learned a lot that they will likely never learn in school, things essential to success in almost any field — like generating winning ideas, how to implement the ideas in a compelling fashion, and then selling gatekeepers on the results. I’d encourage anyone with an interest in education to take a close look at, and borrow from, what the App Camp team is doing: teaching practical skills in a fun way.

Apple Releases Xcode 5.1.1 Update With Bug Fixes, Stability Improvements

AppleInsider

What3words iPhone App Review: A Clever, Fun Idea That Could Transform Social Mapping - Maybe

David Price, Macworld UK

Use The Power Of IFTTT To Customize Your Apple TV Screen Saver

Graham Spencer, MacStories

For example, for the last few months I’ve been using a combination of Flickr, IFTTT and Instagram to create an Apple TV screen saver that cycles through images that I have liked on Instagram and it is far better than seeing the same old National Geographic photos (as great as they are) over and over again.

Connecting Two Macs Using Thunderbolt

James Galbraith, Macworld

Memories Of Steve

Don Melton

After I called my staff and made sure they were aware and they were OK, I told them to let any of their team members leave for the day if they thought that was best. Most of them stayed anyway because they didn’t want to be alone.

Then I laid back down, alone, and selfishly realized how fortunate I had been to have known this man, if just for a little while.

Apple Says iOS, OSX And “Key Web Services” Not Affected By Heartbleed Security Flaw

Mike Isaac, Re/code

Apple said Thursday that its mobile, desktop and Web services weren’t affected by a major flaw in a set of security software used by hundreds of thousands of websites.

You Should Play: Sometimes You Die

Chris Holt, TechHive

Sometimes You Die is a darkly humorous meditation on the relationship between the player and the game—and it’s also a pretty fun game in its own right. Combining elements of platforming and puzzle solving, Sometimes You Die both acknowledges and then sticks its tongue out at conventions of genre, gameplay, and escapism.

Verizon Giving 1GB Of Free Data Along With New LTE iPad Activations

Andrew Martonik, iMore

Apple Releases iMovie For Mac 10.0.3 With New Sorting Options, Improved Titles, And More

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Amazon Acquires Digital Comic Book Store Comixology

Greg Kumparak, TechCrunch

The news is confirmed by a post from comiXology CEO David Steinberger, who says that the company will retain its brand, living on as a subsidiary of Amazon.

OS X Mavericks: How To Control Your Mac With Your Voice

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Microsoft Word For iPad

Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine

From its very first edition, Word simply outclasses the competition on the iPad, handily winning our Editors' Choice for tablet-based word processing.

A Collection Of Wonderful And Weird Amusements

Kit Eaton, New York Times

Mobile apps can seem a bit like the tools on a Swiss Army knife. Many of them are useful, but some are just fun.

And so it is in the app stores, where many wonderfully weird and surprising apps reside alongside their utilitarian brethren.

'Monstrous' Apple Kicked Us Off iAd, Claimed We Are Its RIVAL – Brit Music Upstart

Jasper Hamill, The Register

Bloom FM, a Spotify-style music streaming service, claimed Apple issued the iAd ban because it now regards the London-based company as a rival.

Apple definitely have the right to not take your advertisement money.

Apple Transportation Program Stuck In The Past

Tom Fairchild, Streetsblog USA

Apple’s decision to build a mammoth new headquarters in Cupertino, California — miles from public transportation and adequate housing — amounts to a corporate denunciation of sustainability and a giant corporate shrug to Mother Earth.

Green Apple: Why Apple Was Bad For The Environment (And Why That's Changing)

David Price, Macworld UK

Privacy-Sensitive Germans Not Biting Into Apple’s iBeacon, Yet

Stephan Doerner, Wall Street Journal

Since revelations that the U.S. spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone, Germans are increasingly looking more to European vendors than Americans for their server needs.

The Best Mac Accounting Apps

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

While AccountEdge remains an excellent application for managing your business finances, and remains one of my personal favorites, MoneyWorks Gold offers all the accounting features you’ll need in a package that’s considerably less expensive than AccountEdge.

Share A Reminders List With Friends And Colleagues

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Even though by supporting alarms and due dates Reminders are a tad redundant with calendar events, their being maintained in lists and not being placed on a timeline changes their uses slightly and gives them relevance not only for individuals, but also for workgroups.

Heartbleed, The New OpenSSL Hack: How Does It Affect OS X And iOS?

Peter Cohen, iMore

Cocoa For Web Services

Brent Simmons, Inesential.com

Here’s the lesson to learn: we’re no longer in the apps business. We’re in the apps-and-services business.

Thoughts On Dropbox Carousel

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Veteran Apple Designer Greg Christie Departs As Jony Ive’s Role Grows

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

According to multiple sources inside and outside the company, Christie’s exit has been known for weeks — and planned for even longer. His stepping aside has been designed to allow for a transition of leadership inside the Human Interface group. Christie worked under Forstall for many years, and there may have been plenty of times he didn’t agree with Ive, but there has reportedly been a distinct lack of drama in this transition.

Also:

Jony Ive Expands Role in Software Design; Apple Confirms Greg Christie’s Retirement (John Gruber, Daring Fireball): From what I’ve gathered, it is wrong to think that Ive in any way forced Christie out.

Stop The Power Button From Turning Off The Mac Display In OS X Mavericks

OS X Daily

Jony Ive Shakes Up Apple’s Software Design Group, iPhone Interface Creator Greg Christie Departing

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Christie’s upcoming leave from Apple will mark one of the most significant design exits in several years and represents a complete changing of the guard for Apple’s software design style. Over the past two years, Scott Forstall and Christie will have both exited Apple, and Ive will have secured his position at Apple as the central product design decision maker for the foreseeable future in the post-Steve Jobs era.

Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps

Josh Constine, TechCrunch

Dropbox Unveils Carousel For Organizing Your Photos And Videos

Casey Newton, The Verge

How To Make Any Printer Work With AirPrint On The Mac

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

My Nine Must-have Plug-ins For Apple Mail

Joe Kissell, Macworld

Apple Testing Maps Notifications To Inform Users Of Fixed Problems

Richard Padilla, MacRumors

The user reported an error to Apple in the Maps app on April 6 and was given an option to receive a notification when the issue was resolved, with Apple sending a push notification on April 8 indicating the problem had been fixed.

Drafts 3.6 Brings New Google Drive And Clipboard Actions, Auto-Backup

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Daily App: WeathrClip Brings The Current Weather Conditions To Your Mac's Menu Bar

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

What better place for a weather app than your menu bar, allowing you to see the current outside temperature with additional details available at a click. One simple, but effective weather app for your menu bar is WeathrClip by Gavin Wiggins.

AirPlay Recorder Review: A Solid Tool For Capturing iTunes Streams, Ethics Aside

Christopher Breen, Macworld

How To Make Exported iPhoto Image Titles "Sticky"

Christopher Breen, Macworld

How To Protect Yourself From The 'Heartbleed' Bug

Richard Nieva, CNET

A major new security vulnerability dubbed Heartbleed was disclosed Monday night with severe implications for the entire Web. The bug can scrape a server's memory, where sensitive user data is stored, including private data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers.

It's an extremely serious issue, affecting some 500,000 servers, according to Netcraft, an Internet research firm. Here's what you can do to make sure your information is protected, according to security experts contacted by CNET.

Microsoft Does Reddit: Five Cool Things We Learned About Office For iPad

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Not a big surprise, but the folks who built the Office for iPad apps are the same ones who are working on Office for Mac. And it’s a pretty Mac-centric group, too; According to the team, “everyone has an iPad, and the Mac:PC ratio is 16:1.” Don’t expect them to reveal when the next version of Office might make its way to the Mac, however; when asked, the group would only say “we are working on the next version.”

Sesame Street’s New Sesame GO Video Streaming Service Is Perfect For iOS Devices

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Just for fans in the United States, a subscription will set you back $3.99 per month or $29.99 per year.

But instead of a dedicated app, the advertising-free service can be reached through a Web browser on Mac, PC, or iOS device.

AppleCare Covers Much More Than You May Have Thought

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Microsoft PowerPoint For iPad Vs Apple Keynote Review: Which Is The Best App For Creating Presentations?

Lou Hattersley, Macworld UK

We’d take Keynote over PowerPoint hands down. Both apps perform largely the same function, but Keynote makes better looking presentations to our eyes. We have created, and sat in front of, countless presentations and Keynote is the one to go for. Your audience will thank you.

Adobe Lightroom Mobile Review: Edit RAW Photos On Your iPad, Sort Of

Michael Hession, Gizmodo

Besides the paired down feature-set, there isn't a whole lot to complain about with Adobe's first shot at Lightroom Mobile. It all just works! But really making photographers swoon will depend on the speed at which they can update the app with features that Lightroom users will be demanding on day one. It's not that Lightroom Mobile feels like a first draft of a script, it feels more like a very polished treatment for a longer movie.

Review: Top 5 Real Time Strategy Games On iOS

Nicole Weddington, Digital Journal

Monument Valley Review (iPad/iPhone)

Stuart Miles, Pocket-lint

It's about working out the puzzle rather than making the jump at the right time, or having to defeat an end of level baddie. It really is serene.

Making Ebooks In Pages 5.2: Here's What Works Now (And What Still Doesn't)

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

That’s right: Not only did someone take the time to improve ePub export for Pages 5.0, but they seem to actively be working on making it better with future releases.

Watchup 3.0 Introduces New Design With New Features For Your Personalized Newscast

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Watchup is an app that offers a personalized newscast stream from a number of local, national and international news channels.

Apple Says iOS 7 Is Now Installed On 87% Of Devices

Simon Sage, iMore

How To Get An App Store Refund For Kids' Accidental In-app Purchases

Dan Moren, Macworld

Chances are you’ve probably received an email from Apple explaining the steps you need to take, but just in case you’ve misplaced that email or want a little more detailed explanation, here’s a rundown of what you need to do.

Apple Sending Out Emails To Lucky WWDC Lotto Winners

Jerry Hildenbrand, iMore

First Look: Adobe Lightroom Mobile For iPad

Jeff Carlson, Macworld

Adobe Debuts Lightroom Mobile For iPad With Powerful, On-the-go Photo Editing

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

The iPad application borrows many of the essential features from the powerful desktop software and is optimized for the touch input user experience key to the tablet. We’ve taken a sneak peek at Lightroom Mobile for iPad, and we have all the details on Adobe’s latest Lightroom update.

Choreographing A Vision In Bollywood

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How To Share Presentations In Messages

Christopher Breen, Macworld

The Ultimate Guide To Solving iOS Battery Drain

Scotty Loveless, Overthought

This is not one of those "Turn off every useful feature of iOS" posts that grinds my gears. My goal is to deliver practical steps to truly solve your iOS battery woes.

The New York Times’s New App Tries To One-Up Facebook

Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic

“We want [users] to go into NYT Now when they have an extra five minutes”—just like they would their Facebook.

Access Old Internet Radio In iTunes 11

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Apple’s Deep Pockets: What $159 Billion Could Do

Nick Bilton, New York Times

Rick Lane, an analyst with Moody’s who wrote the report on the company’s cash holdings, said Apple could be holding onto some of its cash for a rainy day. Apple once fell on “very difficult times,” he said, “and had to rely on, in part, the kindness of others.”

iWork Regains Its AppleScript Mojo But There's Still Work For Apple To Do

Peter Cohen, iMore

Time For iOS Device Spring Cleaning: How To Replace Your Old Apps With New Ones

Geoffrey Geotz, GigaOM

Nothing can compare to the fresh start that comes with erasing and restoring your iOS device back to its original configuration. But before you start reinstalling all of your old apps again, consider some alternatives first.

How To Prepare A Drive For Use In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

In most cases, manufacturers ship drives formatted to the FAT32 filesystem, since this format is universally supported in Windows, OS X, Linux, among other popular operating systems and devices. Even though FAT32 is a convenient format, it is limited in features, including no permissions support, file sizes limited to 4GiB, and the inability to use Apple’s CoreStorage technology for features like encryption.

The Guilt Of The Video-game Millionaires

Simon Parkin, New Yorker

One night in March, 2013, Rami Ismail and his business partner Jan Willem released a game for mobile phones called Ridiculous Fishing. Ismail, who was twenty-four at the time and who lives in the Netherlands, woke the following morning to find that the game had made him tens of thousands of dollars overnight. His first reaction was not elation but guilt. His mother, who has a job in local government, had already left for work. “Ever since I was a kid I’ve watched my mom wake up at six in the morning, work all day, come home, make my brother and me dinner—maybe shout at me for too much ‘computering,’ ” he said. “My first thought that day was that while I was asleep I’d made more money than she had all year. And I’d done it with a mobile-phone game about shooting fish with a machine gun.”

Microsoft PowerPoint For iPad

Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine

If you bought Office 365 for Word or Excel, you won't be disappointed in PowerPoint for iPad. But if you're only in the market for a presentation app, nothing tops Keynote, which remains our Editors' Choice for iPad presentation apps.

How To Wake Your Mac Over The Network

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

This may be useful in instances where you are unable to get to the Mac, such as if you have a Mac Mini set up as a media or network server and have it tucked away in a closet.

You Should Play: Lost Light

Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, TechHive

Lost Light’s uniquely addictive gameplay isn’t the only thing that will ensnare you—its beautiful design will get you as well.

One Word That Should Never Follow ‘I Love You’

Cara Paiuk, New York Times

Above all else, I want my family to know that I love them regardless of circumstances, even if they are driving me crazy.

Improve Your iPhone Photos With The Snapgrip

Andrew Kunesh, Macgasm

The Right Way To Ask Users For iOS Permissions

Brenden Mulligan, TechCrunch

Our biggest takeaway: don’t ask a user for access until you really need it, and make sure it’s crystal clear what they will get in return.

Apple's (Product) RED Charity Contributions Reach $70 Million

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Apple And Samsung Fight Over Who Was The Follower

Brian X. Chen, New York Times

Set-Top Showdown: Amazon Fire TV Vs Apple TV Vs Roku

Matt Peckham, TIME

Address Incorrect Mail Counts In Apple's Mail

Topher Kessler, CNET

If your mailbox indexes are damaged, then you might experience Mail showing you available messages even though all messages are marked as read, or similar instance of mismatch between unread mail and the count in the index.

To fix this issue, you simply need to have Mail rebuild its index, which it can do from the available messages in your various inboxes.

Excel For iPad Review: The Best Spreadsheet App For The iPad

Rob Griffiths, Macworld

While you can argue that Excel is many years late to the iPad party (and I wouldn’t disagree), the iPad version of Excel is a solid entrant, and instantly changes the landscape for competitive apps.

How (And Why) To Use An iPhone As An Apple TV Remote

Matt Elliott, CNET

With the Remote app, you can use your iOS device to control Apple TV and hunt for content simply by speaking.

What's A 'Carrier Update' For iPhone Or iPad And Why Do We Get Them?

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Carrier updates are used to help your iPhone and iPad communicate with the carrier network. These files typically contain information concerning voice networks, cellular data, voicemail settings, personal hotspot, and any other service your carrier provides.

Ask The iTunes Guy: Organizing Media Files, Mixed Genre Smart Playlists, And Too-long Syncs

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

You can do a lot with smart playlists in iTunes, and sometimes the questions I get from readers make me discover ideas that I had never thought of. In this week's column, I show you how to create a smart playlist with a certain percentage of songs from different genres. I also talk about organizing iTunes media files, slow syncing of iOS devices, and how to find a lost password for an Apple ID.

Office 365: To Subscribe Or Not To Subscribe

Rob Griffiths, Macworld

The Woman Behind Apple's First Icons

Zachary Crockett, Priceonomics

Thirty years ago, as tech titans battled for real estate in the personal computer market, an inconspicuous young artist gave the Macintosh a smile.

Facebook Messenger Reaches V4.1 And Enables Wi-Fi Calling For All

Chris Parsons, iMore

Word For iPad Review: The New Standard For Microsoft's Word Processor

Jeffery Batersby, Macworld

While you won’t find all the tools you’re used to having in Word for Mac, that’s not a bad thing. Word for iPad is streamlined, fast, and beautiful—exactly what I’d like to see on my Mac. If your business doesn’t require access to Office apps, but you’re still looking for a great Word processor for your iPad, there’s no question that Word for iPad can punch that ticket, too.

IFTTT Now Works With iOS Push Notifications And Looks Great On The iPad

Martin Bryant, The Next Web

Push notifications work exactly the same as any other output from the service. Set up an input (for example, ‘If the Weather Channel says it will rain tomorrow’) and select iOS push notifications as the result. Voila! You’ll get a message on your phone every time the rain’s predicted for the next day.

iOS 7 Bug Allows Anyone To Disable Find My iPhone And Bypass Activation Lock Without A Password

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

The Two Best SSH Clients For iOS Go Head-to-head: Prompt Vs. Cathode

Cory Bohon, TechRepublic

OS X Mavericks: 7 Tips For The Travelling Mac

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

If you're travelling with your Mac please follow these selected tips to help you stay safe while on the road.

Hider 2 Review: Create A Secure Digital Hidey-hole On Your Mac

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

It’s a great little tool for anyone looking for a digital hidey-hole, and the encryption is a nice bonus.

Does Microsoft Office Turn An iPad Into A Workhorse? Just Barely

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Wall Street Journal

Office for the iPad can play the same role in your work life as your microwave does in your kitchen. It may be constantly in use, making leftovers and frozen meals palatable. But to cook a real dinner, you're going to need the conventional oven and range.

PowerPoint For iPad Review: Close But Not Quite There

Joe Kissell, Macworld

Keynote for iOS is, on the whole, considerably more powerful (and works even on an iPhone, which PowerPoint does not). If you’re accustomed to PowerPoint 2011 on OS X, you’ll almost certainly be frustrated by missing features, especially when playing a slideshow on an external display. But for all that, PowerPoint 1.0 is a good starting point, and shows considerable promise for the future.

Apps That Train You To Read Faster, One Word At A Time

Bonnie Cha, Re/code

The two apps I tested this week — Speed Reading Trainer by Ivy Standard, and Velocity by Lickability — use a method called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) that displays one word at time on a central point of your screen. The idea behind RSVP is that without having to move your eyes across lines of text, you can read more at a faster pace. It also makes reading text on a smaller screen easier.

Mophie Space Pack Review - 16GB, 32GB Battery And Storage Case For iPhone 5/5s

Simon Jary, PC Advisor

Create A Reminder On Your Mac In An Instant

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Tech Giants Team Up With Pharma To Protect Software Patents

Amy Schatz, Re/code

Concerned that the value of their patents could be in some danger, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. have teamed up with major pharmaceutical and manufacturers to launch a new lobbying group to talk up the value of the current patent system and defend some types of patents.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference Starts On June 2Nd

Vlad Savov, The Verge

Unlike previous years, tickets to the event will be distributed through a random lottery — chosen from the developers who've registered their interest between now and April 7th. The WWDC website will host live streams of the Monday State of the Union keynote and the Apple Design Awards, while videos from all the technical talks will be posted online throughout the week.

Thoughts On Increasing App Revenue

Dan Counsell

If you’ve been developing apps for a while you’re going to be familiar with the following pattern: You launch a new app, the first week or two of sales are great, but then in the following months, sales start to slow down. Your app revenue is in gradual decline and you wonder when it will stop, and where your daily revenue is going to settle at. It finally settles, and of course it’s lower than you’d like, so what do you do now?

The New York Times Releases NYTNow, A Curated News App For iPhone

Mel Martin, TUAW

Content is expected to come from the Times and other partners. with human editors deciding what news is included.

Preserve File Permissions When Copying In The Finder

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

The Finder in OS X is just another program that runs under the umbrulla of your account, and as such, is restricted to these same system permissions and file ownership restrictions.

Amazon Fire TV Turns Up The Heat On Apple TV

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Amazon has launched what may be the most significant competition for the Apple TV yet: Amazon Fire TV, a $99 streaming video box that boasts impressive capabilities that seek to torch Apple’s living room hobby.

Deceptively Simple iPhone Stand Is Both Sturdy And Super-portable

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

This business card-sized plastic stand is far sturdier and more useful than it might appear at first glance.

Tuning Into The Curious Design Decisions Of iTunes Radio

Graham Spencer, MacStories

Unfortunately, a lot of them seem like compromises in order to keep their iTunes Music Store from being undermined, or maybe it was because this was the only way they were going to succeed in their negotiations with the record labels to launch the service.

Apple Releases Safari 7.0.3 And 6.1.3

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Along with security and bug fixes, the update now includes options to customize push notifications, and support for more custom top-level domains.

Microsoft Word Vs Apple Pages Review: Which Is The Best Word Processor For The iPad

Lou Hattersley, Macworld UK

Microsoft has done a superb job though, and Word for iPad is a very good recreation of the desktop app. Whether it's £7.99 per month good is, of course, another matter. Whether you really need Word on your iPad is yet another thing entirely. Much depends on your day-to-day working life. One thing is for sure: if you spend a lot of time working with Word documents with other people then this app will prove to be invaluable.

Day One For iOS Gets An Update Bringing 'Publish' To The iPad

Joe White, AppAdvice

Day One, the popular journaling platform, has just updated its iOS app to bring support for “Publish” to Apple’s iPad. In addition, images can now be added into Day One from the iOS clipboard, and a large number of important fixes have been applied to the universal application.

Fantastical For iPad Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Based on the solid foundation of Fantastical 2 for iPhone, Fantastical for iPad expands the app’s functionality to take advantage of the larger screen while retaining intuitive features and powerful advanced options. I put Fantastical in my dock when I received the first beta in November, and I wouldn’t be able to go back to using Apple’s Calendar and Reminders apps on my iPad.

Also:

• Review: Fantastical for iPad completes the improved calendar suite… and it’s pretty sweet (Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac)

TextExpander Touch Updated For iOS 7 With Redesign, Group And Snippet Management Improvements

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Aside from an expected visual update, TextExpander touch 2.5 makes several improvements to group and snippet management: groups can be reordered, and a new detail view combines group renaming with the ability to disable snippet expansion for an entire group of snippets.

iWork Updated For Mac, iOS And iCloud

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

Big day for iWork. The updates can all be downloaded from their respective App Stores.

Build Your Own iAd: Apple Throws Open Door To Platform

Mark Bergen, Advertising Age

Starting today, anyone with an Apple ID will be able to open an account with iAd Workbench, the company's mobile-ad management tool, and kick off a campaign within two days. Previously, Workbench was only available to registered mobile-app developers.

At the onset of its mobile-ad business, Apple extended olive branches to a select group of brands, promising premier reach. But advertisers pushed back against its pricey offerings. Now, it appears Apple has concluded money in mobile ads comes from a wide net; in short, it'll look more like Google.

Mark All As Read

Brent Simmons, Inesential.com

If you use an RSS reader, don’t feel like you have to read everything.

When I wrote my own RSS reader, SushiReader, not only did I not put any unread count anywhere, I also make old articles that haven't been read automatically disappear without any need to press a "mark all as read" button.

Add Calendar Events In A Flash

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Jelly For iOS Now Lets You Ask And Answer Questions With A Location

Nick Summers, The Next Web

Questions with location-based information will also be routed to nearby users, ensuring a higher quality of responses from those with local knowledge.