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  The Mac Observer

• Quick Look Review: Texas Tea for the iPhone and iPod touch

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:38 am

  Texas Tea is an iPhone app that combines the challenge of matching skills with elements of poker and a timed game. Nancy Gravley put Texas Tea to the test to see if it's a game worth coming back to, or just a quick diversion.

• News: Apple Rolls Out Aperture 3 Video Tutorials

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:25 am

  Along with the launch of Aperture 3, Apple released a series of tutorial videos showing how to use several of the new features in the professional image management and editing application.

• Hot Forum Topic: Backing Up Your iPhoto Library

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am

  Today TMO readers are talking about the best ways to backup the images stored in your iPhoto library.

• Product News: Notebook, iThoughts Add TextExpander touch Support

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:35 am

  SmileOnMyMac announced on Tuesday that Notebook, iThoughts and iType2Go now support TextExpander touch for the iPhone and iPod touch. The announcement brings the number of apps that directly support TextExpander touch up to 16.

• Hidden Dimensions: The Killer Surprises Waiting for Steve Ballmer

  webmaster@macobserver.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am

  Computing, as we know it is going to change dramatically over the next decade. A slew of new technologies, appliance computing, better security models, Android, and mobile computing will fundamentally change the nature of our computer experiences.  All of this new technology is being formulated by Apple and Google, and Microsoft, with questionable leadership, is in a very poor position to react.

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  Macworld

• Neo Nectaris strategy game arrives on the iPhone

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:51 pm

  Hudson's nifty turn-based strategy game, Military Madness, enjoyed a revival on Xbox Live last year with Nectaris. Now it's spreading the love to iPhones with Military Madness: Neo Nectaris.

• iHound aims to help you find your missing iPhone

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:31 pm

  At this week's Macworld Expo, iHound Software will hand out stickers aimed at aiding people who find lost iPhones to reunite them with their owners. And for the month of February, iHound has dropped the price on its iPhone app.

• Report: Google to make Gmail more social

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:22 pm

  Google will add social features to Gmail, according to the Wall Street Journal.

• Review: McSweeney's for iPhone

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:07 pm

  A $6 app that provides pieces of random fiction may not be for everyone. But McSweeney's delivers great content in a simple, classy interface.

• Adobe apologizes for 16-month-old Flash bug

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:44 pm

  Adobe apologized over the weekend for letting a 16-month-old bug in Flash Player languish without a patch, even though it updated the popular plug-in four times since the flaw was reported.

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  MacFixIt

• Apple releases Aperture 3.0

  Topher Kessler

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:28 am

  Apple has released version 3.0 of their Aperture post-production tool for photographers. This latest release offers over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes.

• Manage iCal's automatic e-mail generation for invitations

  Topher Kessler

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:13 am

  While iCal is an exceptionally convenient and robust calendaring program, there are some quirks to how it handles certain functions which can be rather frustrating at times.

• CNET TV Apple Byte: Apple faces critics

  Joe Aimonetti

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:08 am

  Publishing companies are hiking prices thanks to Apple's iBookstore deals, Mac Pros are having issues with heat, and even more problems with the 27-inch iMac.

• Weekly Utilities Update: Net Monitor, MiniUsage, TimeMachineEditor, more...

  Topher Kessler

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:28 am

  Our Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week.

• Odds and Ends: Essential video codec packs for OS X

  Topher Kessler

  5 Feb 2010 | 4:01 pm

  While most videos use common and open standards such as H.264 that are readily viewable, others may be more obscure and will require you to install a special codec to view them.

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  MacInTouch

• Amazon Update

  Get TurboTax on sale now at Amazon (or the new version of TaxCut). Save a bunch on MobileMe renewals, too. Amazon has discounts on the brand-new Mac Mini models plus the new iMacs and new MacBook, not to mention the iPod Touch. Amazon also saves you money on the MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and MacBook Air and offers deep discounts on Snow Leopard. Check the great selection of DRM-free MP3 music at very competitive prices (including free downloads!). Digital cameras and HDTV's get outstanding discounts, as well. *And*, while you're saving yourself money, you're also providing critical MacInTouch…

• Report: iPad/Microsoft

  iPad (DVD support, Flash, aviation, standalone use), plus Microsoft discussion

• Report: Applications

  Flash problems; Quicken data export; phone call tracking

• Report: Backup

  ProSoft Data Backup

• Report: Firefox

  Flash/memory leakage

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  Ars Technica - Infinite Loop

• Aperture 3 adds Faces, Places, and improved local adjustment

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:23 am

  After a long wait, Apple has released the next major update to its pro-class photo workflow application, Aperture 3. The new version boasts over 200 new features, including the addition of the successful facial recognition and geotagging features, Faces and Places, that were introduced with iPhoto '09. Version 3 also adds edge-detecting adjustment brushes for non-destructive localized editing and touch-ups. Along with numerous UI and performance improvements, Aperture 3 adds full 64-bit support on supported systems running Snow Leopard. Aperture has always had a focus on the workflow of…

• etc: Further evidence has surfaced that new MacBook Pros are on the horizon, as BestBuy has dropped the current SKUs from its system. This usually happens ahead of a refresh.

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:49 am

  Further evidence has surfaced that new MacBook Pros are on the horizon, as BestBuy has dropped the current SKUs from its system. This usually happens ahead of a refresh. Read More: TUAW, MacRumors forums

• Apple investigating Mac Pro performance and heat issues

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:13 am

  Last week, we told you about some unusual issues affecting Nehalem-based Mac Pro models, characterized by abnormal performance degradation and CPU power draw when using on-board audio circuitry. Several sources have told Ars that Apple support technicians are now saying the problem is known, and that the issue is being actively investigated by Apple engineers. The problem is most glaringly illustrated by merely playing music using iTunes. Though Activity Monitor will report just 1 to 3 percent CPU load, CPU power draw will increase tenfold and CPU temperatures will hover near the safe limits…

• Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:40 pm

  "iPad hoopla" has passed, according to a survey by electronics shopping site Retrevo, and consumers have lost interest after the product's unveiling less than two weeks ago. More than twice as many respondents said they were uninterested after the iPad was announced compared to a week prior. Of course, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics—three times as many said they were confident they would buy one after finding out the product's details. Retrevo did similar surveys to gauge interest in Apple's new portable touchscreen device both before it was announced and after.

• Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:11 pm

  The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser's Gecko rendering engine makes the jump from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3. The Mozilla Foundation estimates that there are currently about 1.4 million Tiger users using Firefox 3.5 every day and approximately 36,000 using version 3.6. Those numbers total a little under 24 percent of daily Mac…

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  RoughlyDrafted Magazine

• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 7. It needs cameras

  danieleran

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:17 pm

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment seven in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad doesn’t need a camera for video conferencing. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It [...]

• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 6. It needs HDMI for HD video output

  danieleran

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment six in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad doesn’t need an HDMI 720p HDTV output. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It [...]

• Eccentric but effective Steve Jobs pitches iPad to NYT execs

  danieleran

  4 Feb 2010 | 1:26 pm

  Prince McLean, AppleInsider Apple booked a quiet dinner reception for fifty executives at the New York Times, but the VIP guest ended up being Steve Jobs. Eccentric but effective Steve Jobs pitches iPad to NYT execs . The gathering, as reported by New York magazine, was booked at Pranna, a cellar basement restaurant featuring a southeast Asian menu. The [...]

• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 5. It’s just a Tablet PC or Kindle

  danieleran

  4 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment five in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad isn’t just a Microsoft Tablet PC or Amazon Kindle copycat. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s [...]

• Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It was over-hyped and under-delivered

  danieleran

  3 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm

  Daniel Eran Dilger Here’s segment four in my series taking on iPad myths: no the iPad wasn’t over-hyped and then under-delivered. Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 1. It’s just a big iPod touch Ten Myth of Apple’s iPad: 2. iPad needs Adobe Flash Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 3. It’s ad-evil Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 4. It was over-hyped [...]

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  TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us

• Does the iPhone OS Need Multitasking?

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pm

  A continuing complaint about the iPhone OS has been that Apple doesn't allow multitasking, a staple of the Mac OS since System 5 first added MultiFinder in 1988. Apple's stance is that allowing apps to run in the background would significantly hurt performance and battery life, but in iPhone OS 3.0, Apple added push notification, which addressed some - but by no means all - of the desires of those who were asking for multitasking. For the most part, requests for multitasking capabilities had died down to a dull roar since the release of iPhone OS 3.0 and its push notifications. It wasn't that…

• TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 8 February 2010

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:48 am

  FontExplorer X Pro 2.5 -- Linotype has released a major update to its professional font management tool FontExplorer Pro. The user interface has been updated and streamlined, a new widescreen mode enables the user to set the Preview area off to the right, a new transparency mode can be used to overlay and preview fonts in a working document, and printing is now enabled. Also, users can now tag their fonts for easier organization. Finally, several bugs related to the Apple font panel have been resolved, support for Adobe InDesign CS3 and CS4 has been improved, and various unspecified crashing…

• ExtraBITS for 8 February 2010

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:40 am

  Not surprisingly, our focus this week was on the iPad, with links to a podcast with Adam, Tonya, and Andy Ihnatko; an interesting article from Macworld's Chris Breen suggesting how the iPad will be used in everyday scenarios; and the news that Amazon is looking to add touch capabilities to the Kindle. Plus, AT&T is relaxing its limitations on what can be transferred over 3G, and will be allowing both streaming video and voice-over-IP calls. Finally, Apple has added iPhone apps to the iTunes Preview Web site, a security firm has identified a theoretical vulnerability in the iPhone OS, and it…

• External Link: Adam, Tonya, and Andy Ihnatko Discuss the iPad, Amazon, and Ebooks

  5 Feb 2010 | 1:56 pm

  In this two-part MacNotables podcast, Adam, Tonya, and the inimitable Andy Ihnatko joined host Chuck Joiner to discuss the dust-up between Amazon and Macmillan. They segued from there into a discussion of the Kindle, the ebook market, and the iPad in general. Well worth putting on your iPod for the evening commute. Read and post comments about this article | Tweet this article Macworld 2010: February 9th-13th, 2010 in San FranciscoA five-day celebration that will educate, entertain, andimmerse you in the Mac community.Register today! <http://tinyurl.com/ycegpfb>   Copyright…

• New Ebooks Aid Remote Support, Collaboration, and Administration

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:42 am

  Do you use screen sharing? We do, all the time. As an editor, I use screen sharing to collaborate with my authors, since it's convenient to discuss the same document in real time, even if the people having the discussion are on different continents. It's also a great teaching and tech support tool that lets me control an author's Mac and show what I'm doing while I explain some odd behavior in Microsoft Word. But the king of remote control is Glenn Fleishman, who uses screen sharing for these and many other tasks, including remote server administration. Glenn's enthusiasm for the topic has…

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  Daring Fireball

• What’s New in Aperture 3

  John Gruber

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  Faces, places, and brushes.  ★ 

• ComScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

  John Gruber

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:52 am

  Palm, RIM, Microsoft losing market share; Apple and Google gaining. (RIM has the most to lose, of course.)  ★ 

• BashFlash

  John Gruber

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:52 am

  Nice complement to ClickToFlash — BashFlash monitors Snow Leopard’s Flash Player process and lets you kill it when it starts using excessive CPU time.  ★ 

• LESS CSS App for Mac OS X

  John Gruber

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:51 pm

  CSS nerds: have you checked out LESS? If so and you dig it, you might be interested in this.  ★ 

• Panelfly

  John Gruber

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:49 pm

  Gee, I wonder if e-comic-book distributors are excited about the iPad?  ★ 

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  Cult of Mac

• Daily Deals: iPhone 3GS 32GB $249, 1TB Time Capsule $430, Moto Chaser

  Ed Sutherland

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:28 am

  We start off with a deal on a 32GB iPhone 3GS from AT&T for $249. Next up: a 1TB Time Capsule back-up drive for $430. Finally, once while you are on hold and backing-up your life, take some time to wind down the road with Moto Chaser, a racing game for your iPhone or iPod [...]

• Microsoft’s My Documents Folder Makes Triumphant Return – On iPad

  Giles Turnbull

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:15 am

  Earlier today, I was reading Infoworld’s article, The iPad questions Apple won’t answer. The first question they listed was “Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad?”, and their assumed answer was “No”; they suggested that the only way to do this would be to open a document from an email message. I read that [...]

• Pop Cap’s “Plants vs. Zombies” coming to the App Store on February 15th

  John Brownlee

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:29 am

  Courtesy of PopCap Games’ Twitter account, I can now tell you the exact date that my girlfriend will plant herself in her apartment with her iPod Touch and gradually undergo a zombie-like desiccation process herself: February 15th. Because that’s the day that Plants vs. Zombies is finally coming to the App Store. Plants vs. Zombies is [...]

• Update: Apple Logo Dispute Down Under

  Nicole Martinelli

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:13 am

  Australian retailer Woolworths is buying time in the latest Apple logo dispute. At the core of the corporate tussle is a “W” logo of a peeled apple with leaf filed back in August 2008 for the 80-year-old supermarket chain. The new logo was supposed to symbolize fresh produce, but speculation was that Apple opposed it because the [...]

• DevTeam releases Pwnage Tool for iPhone OS 3.1.3

  John Brownlee

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

  It never takes long for the Dev Team to pry open the seams of the latest iPhone OS firmware, tickle its insides and come up with a fresh Jailbreak. Less than a week after Apple released their iPhone OS 3.1.3 update, the Dev Team followed it up with an update of their own: Pwnage Tool [...]

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  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

• Navigon adds some unique features to GPS app

  Mel Martin

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am

  Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touchNavigon has been very aggressive about keeping its highly rated MobileNavigator app [iTunes link] up to date. Now, new features are putting it even further ahead of a lot of the competition. The update adds three innovative features: in-app connection to Facebook and Twitter, Panorama View 3D with 3D terrain views powered from NASA data, and personalized route delivery via NAVIGON MyRoutes, an intelligent direction provider. For Facebook and Twitter connectivity, a simple icon tap posts the user's current position, destination, and ETA…

• Game developers on iPhone outnumber DS and PSP two-to-one

  Mike Schramm

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

  Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, Apple, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touchGame Developer Research has published its 2009/10 survey of video game developers, and the results are pretty impressive for the still relatively fledgling iPhone platform: The number of developers who are working on mobile games increased by 12 percent, and there are actually twice as many developers working on iPhone games as are working on the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP handheld consoles. That's a pretty amazing number, though it's not quite a surprise when you consider it. First of all, Nintendo DS and PSP…

• Plants vs. Zombies coming to iPhone on February 15th

  Mike Schramm

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm

  Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store Yes, PopCap is at it again -- this time, their crazy addictive (just like all of their games) take on the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies, is headed off to the iPhone. They just tweeted confirmation a little while ago, and released this trailer showing all of the flower vs. undead action that we enjoyed so much in the other versions of the game, squeezed into the smaller screen of the iPhone. They don't mention a price point, but I'm guessing it'll come out at $4.99, since that's what most of their releases have debuted at…

• Loopt teams with Mobile Spinach for check-in discounts, Booyah talks about MyTown

  Mike Schramm

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

  Filed under: Software, iPhone, App StoreIf the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I'd say the current surge of "check-in" apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they're still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a location-aware device like the iPhone, "check-in" apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and so on, are making their mark right now. Here's news on two such apps continuing to grow on the App Store skyline. First up, Loopt [iTunes link] has announced a partnership with a…

• Purported pics of next-gen iPhone front face surface

  Chris Rawson

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm

  Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, iPhoneiResQ, the iPhone/iPod repair site, has posted pics of what they claim is the front faceplate of the next-gen iPhone. Two things about this piece of hardware are particularly interesting. First, the part is approximately 1/4 of an inch taller than the iPhone 3GS, indicative of a slightly taller form factor for the next-gen iPhone. Second, there's a small, reflective strip directly above the hole for the phone speaker. iResQ believes this is likely to be the new location for the iPhone's proximity sensor rather than an indication of any new hardware;…

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  MacOSXHints.com

• 10.6: Open generic files in a preferred app via Services

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  Often I need to edit text files that don't have any associated application. This usually occurs when I'm changing system configuration files. My original process was to Control-click on a file and then select Open with and then Other, and then search through the application folder for my text editor program. From another site, I learned that it is very easy to create Services with Automator in 10.6. So now I have a one-click process to open any file in my text favorite text editor. Run Automator and choose the Service template. At the top right, change the drop-downs to read Service receives…

• Edit Google Chrome's 'Other' bookmarks

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  Google Chrome for Mac (in beta) doesn't yet give you a way to mass edit bookmarks in your Other Bookmarks folder. (You can click the yellow star next to a bookmarked page once it's loaded to edit each bookmark one at a time, but that's tedious.) As a workaround, you can do mass edits in TextEdit (or most any other text editor). Turn off Bookmark Syncing If you have the developer build of Chrome (which allows you to sync your bookmarks to Google Docs), turn off Bookmark Sync by going to Chrome » Preferences » Personal Stuff, and click Stop Syncing This Account. You can turn sync…

• 10.6: Use a Service to toggle trash can off and on

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  This hint enables you to turn off (and back on) moving files to Trash when deleting files, thus deleting them immediately when the trash is off. This hint takes advantage of the fact that if the .Trashes folder in a user's home folder is not accessible, Mac OS X ignores it and displays an immediate file deletion warning like the one seen at right. Create a service in Automator that (via the top two drop-down menus) takes no input and is available in any application. Add a single Run AppleScript action that has following contents: on run {input, parameters} do shell script "chown root…

• Use some Mail rules on an as-needed basis via the keyboard

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  If you've ever explored the possible actions offered by Mail's rules, you've probably wished that you could apply some of them to any message on command. For example, you might want to move the selected messages to one mailbox or another at the press of a hotkey, or to replicate Eudora's labels by changing the text color of messages in their mailboxes (Mail's GUI only allows changing their background color, which I dislike as much as OS X's Finder labels). The problem is that Mail's rules are intended to run automatically on incoming or outgoing emails, so such "manual" rules cannot easily…

• Use normal and private browsing at the same time in Firefox

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  I had always thought that Chrome's method of private browsing, which allows you to intermingle private and normal browsing in separate windows/tabs, was better than Safari or Firefox, which are an all-or-nothing proposition. Now Firefox, at least, can emulate Chrome's behavior. With the Firefox add-on Private Browsing Window, the user can have private and normal browsing windows simultaneously. This can be used for things other than simply secure browsing, too. You could, for instance, log into two Gmail accounts simultaneously, or test a web app using two different accounts in one browser.

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  MacUpdate - Mac OS X

• Vienna 2.5.0.2500 - RSS/Atom newsreader. (Free)

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:14 am

  Vienna 2.5.0.2500Vienna is a freeware and open source RSS/Atom newsreader with article storage and management via an SQLite database, written in Objective-C and Cocoa for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are free and available for download. A summary of some of its features: Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts. Simple and intuitive user interface with customisable toolbar. Built-in tabbed browser. Global search of all retrieved articles. Automatic detection of newsfeeds on web pages. Smart…

• AnyToISO 2.6 - Create ISO images from many file types. (Free)

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:13 am

  AnyToISO 2.6AnyToISO Convert BIN, MDF, PDI, CDI, NRG, B5I, IMG, ISZ, ISO, DAA, UIF CD/DVD-ROM images to ISO Universal, fast engine Works on Windows and Mac OS free to convert CD images, Professional license allows to convert DVD images. WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.6: support of ISZ format Extract ISO images some bug fixes REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4.11 or later.PRICEFreeDEVELOPERCrystalIDEA SoftwareDOWNLOADS9125DOWNLOAD NOW (4.8 MB)More information

• Timeline 3D 2.10.0 - Create eye-catching timelines. (Shareware)

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:06 am

  Timeline 3D 2.10.0Bee Docs Timeline 3D... Create timeline charts that inspire. Bee Docs Timeline 3D Edition presents full screen, interactive, three dimensional timeline charts. Full motion 3D Timelines can be sent to Apple;s iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or Keynote presentation software with a single click or exported to High Definition video formats. Stunningly Beautiful Timelines - Film makers, museum curators, professors, novelists, grad students, and business leaders use our software to create elegant timelines. Join them and create your masterpiece today! Create a Timeline in 1, 2, 3 - Your…

• PhotoPresenter 4.0 - Slideshow viewer for your iPhoto library. (Shareware)

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am

  PhotoPresenter 4.0PhotoPresenter is an award-winning, easy-to-use and powerful slideshow viewer. It allows you to quickly present all your pictures and movies, and to create amazing presentations in just a snap. Have you ever been upset by the fact that movies you capture with your digital camera just can't be viewed as easily as still pictures? Or just looking for a simple slideshow viewer to quickly and elegantly present the pictures of your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, or from anywhere else? PhotoPresenter is just what you need! It combines a real ease of use with gorgeous looking…

• iNMR Reader 3.4 - Visualize Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectra. (Demo)

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:26 am

  iNMR Reader 3.4iNMR Reader has all the functionalities of the iNMR application with the same version number, but the user can't save the modified documents. This reader will be used to print, to create pictures and PDF documents. Processing of raw data, deconvolutions and quantum-chemistry computations are also allowed.WHAT'S NEWVersion 3.4: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.REQUIREMENTSMac OS X 10.4 or later.PRICE$50.00DEVELOPERGiuseppe BalaccoDOWNLOADS5844DOWNLOAD NOW (1.4 MB)More information

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  Apple Hot News

• Introducing Aperture 3

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Apple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 offers more than 200 new features including Faces, Places, and Brushes. A 30-day trial is now available for download.

• Architecture in Motion: RTKL and iPhone

  1 Feb 2010 | 3:06 pm

  In its offices from Baltimore to Shanghai, international architecture firm RTKL uses iPhone to stay in touch, access apps that enable creative collaboration, and travel with ease.

• Apple Launches iPad

  27 Jan 2010 | 11:33 am

  Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store. At just 0.5 inches thick and 1.5 pounds, iPad is thinner and lighter than any laptop or notebook. iPad will be available in March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.

• Apple Reports All-Time Highest Revenue and Profit

  25 Jan 2010 | 5:33 pm

  Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter. The company reported its highest quarterly revenue and profit to date and outlined new accounting standards.

• Logic Pro 64-bit the talk of the NAMM music show

  20 Jan 2010 | 11:10 am

  Last week’s update of Logic Pro to include 64-bit support is getting rave reviews at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) trade show, according to The Loop. Music industry professionals like audio engineer CJ Vanston tout Logic Pro 9.1 as “a game changer,” noting that “the 64-bit gauntlet has been thrown down by Apple with Logic.”

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  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

• SDK devsugar: Re-signing applications

  Erica Sadun

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 am

  Filed under: AppleTUAW's devsugar series helps introduce developers to tools and tricks that they might not yet be familiar with. Today's tip centers on signing already-compiled and already-signed applications with a new custom signature. A while back, I posted about a way to sign already-compiled applications with your personal credentials in order to better allow developer-to-developer distribution. By re-signing an application, it allows you to install it on any of the devices you have registered to your account at Apple without having to go through the fuss and bother of normal ad-hoc…

• Apple ships latest version of Aperture for photo professionals

  Mel Martin

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Software UpdateIt certainly caused a lot of excitement when the Apple web store went down this morning. No, it wasn't an updated MacBook Pro line but Aperture 3, Apple's high-end photo editing and image management software. The latest version is U.S. $199.00, and upgrades are available for any existing Aperture users for $99.00. Apple says Aperture 3 has "more than 200 new features", including Faces and Places, brought over from iPhoto '09. There is an enhanced tool called Brushes, which allows photographers to paint adjustments and filters directly onto…

• The Apple Store is back online

  Mike Schramm

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:24 am

  Filed under: Apple Yes, as expected, the Apple Store is down for the morning, presumably to update us with brand new MacBook Pros and whatever else Apple has cooked up for a release. We'll keep an eye on the website along with you readers, and when we see what's been updated, we'll let you know. Do be patient -- as many of us are traveling to Macworld today, we might actually be on the roads and/or in the air when it happens, but we'll update as soon as we can. Stay tuned. Update: It's back up, and it appears the new hotness is... Aperture 3. Thanks to all who sent this in!TUAWThe Apple Store…

• TUAW Giveaway: Win a BearExtender n3

  David Winograd

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  Filed under: Accessories, Hardware Last month, we highly recommended the BearExtender n3 [US $44.97] as a great way to extend a Wi-Fi network to reach those pesky dead spots. In my testing, I found that it's possible to get around three times as much range as from an Airport device. Now the nice people at Rokland Technologies have given us five units to give to you. If you're having weak signal problems, you want one of these. I bought the unit they sent me to review and have been overjoyed and amazed at it performing exactly as advertised. The details of the giveaway are as follows: Open to…

• Navigon adds some unique features to GPS app

  Mel Martin

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am

  Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touchNavigon has been very aggressive about keeping its highly rated MobileNavigator app [iTunes link] up to date. Now, new features are putting it even further ahead of a lot of the competition. The update adds three innovative features: in-app connection to Facebook and Twitter, Panorama View 3D with 3D terrain views powered from NASA data, and personalized route delivery via NAVIGON MyRoutes, an intelligent direction provider. For Facebook and Twitter connectivity, a simple icon tap posts the user's current position, destination, and ETA…

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  O'Grady's PowerPage

• MWSF: Wisair Introduces Wireless USB Display Dock for Apple Notebooks

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:29 am

  Getting a bit of a jump on the Macworld releases, peripheral company Wisair on Monday introduced a Wireless USB DisplayDock Set, allowing users to wirelessly connect their MacBooks to a desktop-like setup that include a monitor, speakers, a keyboard and mouse. Per Electronista, the device connects to a USB port on any MacBook and Wisair claims there are no delays in sending the keyboard or mouse commands due to the nature of the ultra wideband radio. The pre-paired adapters have a 128-bit encrypted link for security, while maximum range is said to be 30 feet. Video tops out at a resolution of…

• Rumor: New MacBook Pro Model Refresh Seems Imminent, Best Buy SKU System Drops Current Models

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:12 am

  The folks at Best Buy may be letting on more than they intended. Per MacRumors, the SKUs (stock keeping unit numbers) for Apple’s current MacBook Pro notebooks appear to have been deleted from the store’s database system. When that happens, no additional orders can be placed for the deleted item(s), and it’s a pretty safe bet that something new is right around the corner. With this in mind, it may be likely that Apple is getting set to release a new line of MacBook Pro notebooks, the current rumor mill pointing towards something equipped with Intel’s Core i5 line of…

• Microsoft Releases Findings on Windows 7 Battery Issue

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:59 am

  Because a combination of Windows 7 and virtualization makes life interesting. Per Engadget, a Microsoft statement from last week claiming that the company would look into reports of Windows 7 causing premature battery degradation on notebook computers has led to Microsoft stating that Windows 7 isn’t to blame. According to the company’s testing, the new tool, which reports when a battery is down to 40% of its designed capacity and suggests replacement, hasn’t reported a single false positive. Additionally, the tool uses read-only data from the battery, and is in fact…

• Rumor: Fourth-Generation iPhone to be Slightly Taller Than Current Models

  Chris Barylick

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:46 am

  Recently, the cool cats at iResQ leaked photos of what they claim are parts from Apple’s upcoming iPhone 4G, which is anticipated to be released this summer. Per MacRumors, the iResQ pictures focus on a screen that is apparently 1/4″ taller than current models. The site also notes that the screen is glued to the digitizer, which would make screen repair of the next-generation device more costly than 3G and 3GS models. The images also point out that the part has a reflective, mirror-like surface right above the earpiece. It’s generally thought that this is where a proximity…

• Initial Benchmarks Appear for Unreleased Core i7-Powered MacBook Pro

  Chris Barylick

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:13 am

  There’s a new wave of MacBook notebooks en route. And it may arrive sooner rather than later. Per Canadian web site, Geekbench, a recent set of test appears to have show an unreleased Arrandale MacBook Pro notebook running at 2.66 GHz according to MacRumors. The processor shown is listed as an Intel Core i7 M 620 running at 2.66GHz with a Turbo frequency up to 3.33 GHz. The Intel Core i7 M 620 functions as a high end dual core processor with Turbo Boost and Hyperthreading features. The MacBook Pro model designation is listed as “6,1″ and has a non-shipping build of Mac OS X…

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• 236 - [Tr] Boxee Beta [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  3 Feb 2010 | 7:24 am

  [Trailer for Extra! Members Show] Boxee is yet another media centre for the Mac! But at it's latest release, Boxee Beta, it has matured into a feature packed application with a killer user interface. Boxee allows you to access your local media files in a very smart, easy to use, big screen interface. Integration with IMDB and other internet based databases allow your media files to be tagged with artwork and meta data automatically, no configuration required. Boxee is highly integrated with Internet TV shows, with automatic access to internet based TV networks based on geographic location. In…

• 235 - [FS] Path Finder 5 [Free Show]

  Mac Video Tutorials

  28 Jan 2010 | 10:57 am

  [Full Free Show] Another highly requested application this week, and that's the award winning file browser & file management application for OSX, Path Finder 5 Packed with features, Path Finder 5 allows you to customise your view of the Mac's file system with ease, exposing tons of information is easily configurable modules. With Tabs and Bookmarks, it's possible to create shortcuts and groups of locations allowing you to quickly jump from folder to folder. Add in a fantastic dual pane option to see two completely independent locations at a time, and the time saving DropStack, Path Finder 5…

• 234 - [Tr] Mac Maintenance [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  21 Jan 2010 | 1:39 pm

  [Trailer for Members Show] Luckily, most modern Macs need little or no regular maintenance. OSX is pretty much self maintaining, with automated scripts and an advanced file system, most people don't need to do anything to keep their Mac in tip top order. Too good to be true? Well not really, but human nature being what it is, it would be nice to understand what OSX is doing under the hood and perhaps keep an eye on how things are going. If the worst does happen and your Mac starts to slow down, or your favourite application starts to misbehave, what are the simple checks or processes you can…

• 233 - [Tr] Drobo, DroboShare & DroboPro [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  15 Jan 2010 | 6:51 am

  [Trailer for Members Show] As we continue to collect and create more and more digital content, storage and storage management becomes more of an issue. Whilst it's easy enough to add additional external USB and FireWire drives to our Macs, the management of multiple volumes becomes more of a headache. And what about backup? All those precious digital photos and home movies on a single external drive? One answer to developing a robust and extremely flexible storage solution is provided by Drobo. Drobo is now a range of storage solutions which allow you to both protect your data and start to…

• 232 - [Tr] Rapidweaver 4 and Stacks [Trailer]

  ScreenCastsOnline

  8 Jan 2010 | 10:15 am

  [Trailer for Members Show] It's been a while since I featured Rapidweaver, but it's still one of the most requested topics to cover. This week, I take a brief overview of Rapidweaver, followed by a section on a relatively new plugin for Rapidweaver - Stacks, finishing off with some very cool Stacks plugins from Joe Workman. Rapidweaver is an extremely powerful web creation tool that allows you to create a full website without any HTML knowledge. Simply create blank pages within the application and enter your content. Rapidweaver comes with 10 pre-defined page types for different sorts of…

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  MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

• ARES, ARES Commander promise cross-platform CAD

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am

  Germany's Graebert has formally announced ARES, a new CAD tool. The software is touted mainly as cross-platform, able to run natively on Windows, Mac and Linux systems. Mobile versions are planned for Android, Windows Mobile and the iPad....

• Norwegian shops overwhelmed by iPad pre-orders

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:50 am

  Apple is facing the rare incident of an advance sellout this week as a number of Norwegian resellers have had to stop their pre-order programs for the iPad. Eplehuset (Apple House) has told its customers that "crazy interest" has led it to stop sales in advance. Fellow Apple reseller Humac has also quietly pulled the iPad, as it still has a category but no longer has active product pages....

• Apple acknowledging, investigating Mac Pro problems?

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am

  Apple has recognized and is now probing a critical problem affecting the Mac Pro, sources claim. Some Nehalem-based systems have experienced massive increases in CPU power consumption while playing audio, which are worsened by leaps in heat levels, and performance drops as high as 20 percent. In spite of these changes, the CPU usage does not register in Activity Monitor, and fans fail to kick in at proper levels....

• TI makes single chip with Bluetooth, FM, GPS and Wi-Fi

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  Texas Instruments this morning brought out the WiLink 7, a design it says is the first to include four types of wireless on a single chip. It combines Bluetooth, an FM transceiver, GPS and 802.11n Wi-Fi into a single design and lets phone designers cut down on the size and energy needed. The creator estimates that it takes up half as much space as a normal multi-chip approach but also 30 percent less power....

• MobileNavigator 1.5.0 adds MyRoutes, 3D terrain

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:35 am

  NAVIGON has released MobileNavigator 1.5.0, described as a "significant" update to the company's turn-by-turn app for the iPhone. The principal upgrade is the addition of MyRoutes, which creates custom path choices for a destination. Up to three options are presented, with accompanying distance and ETA information. The routes are calculated based on driving habits, as well as day and time....

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  MACRUMORS

• Music Labels See Slower iTunes Sales Growth in Wake of Price Increases

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am

  MediaMemo notes that Warner Music Group has reported seeing slower sales growth via Apple's iTunes Store since the introduction of variable pricing last year.Warner Music Group (WMG) said this morning that it has seen unit sales grow...

• Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Faces and Places Tagging Features

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:49 am

  Apple today announced the release of Aperture 3, adding over 200 new features to the company's professional photo editing and management application. The updated version includes the Faces and Places tagging features introduced in iPhoto las...

• Apple Job Posting Suggests Video Recording Coming to Future iPad Models

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:41 pm

  A new job posting on Apple's site suggests that the company is preparing to add still and video camera capabilities to its iPad tablet device in the future. The position is for a quality assurance engineer in the Media Systems division of Apple's br...

• Current MacBook Pro Models Deleted From Best Buy's Inventory System? Updates Imminent?

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:08 pm

  Yesterday, a poster in our forums claiming to be a Best Buy employee reported that the company's internal inventory system had been updated to show that all MacBook Pro models had been "deleted", preventing Best Buy stores from ordering any new units...

• Claimed Fourth-Generation iPhone Parts Surface Revealing Taller Form Factor

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:31 am

  iPhone 3GS on left, claimed fourth-generation iPhone on right iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it claims are parts for the fourth-generation iPhone presumably due for launch later this year. Among the most notable fe...

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  iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond

• News: Tapulous releases Riddim Ribbon

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:18 am

  Tapulous, the developer of the popular Tap Tap Revenge series of games, has released a new beat-based game in which players use their device’s accelerometer rather than the touchscreen. In Riddim Ribbon, users tilt their device to the beat of the music as they race down a curving ribbon, picking up pebbles along the way to pass checkpoints. Players can make choices at forks in the road and jump up ramps to effects tiers to create their own unique…

• Review: Gameloft GT Racing: Motor Academy

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:13 am

• News: American Museum of Natural History releases Dinosaurs app

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:08 am

  The American Museum of Natural History has released its first official application, Dinosaurs: The American Museum of Natural History Collections. Dinosaurs is an educational application that allows users to explore the Museum’s famous fossil halls in depth from their iPhone or iPod touch. The application includes hundreds of photos and renderings from the Museum’s massive collection of dinosaur fossils complete with descriptions and background…

• News: ComScore: iPhone holds quarter of U.S. smartphone market

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am

  According to new data released by comScore, the iPhone accounts for more than a quarter of U.S. smartphone market. As of December 2009, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion led U.S. smartphone platforms, with a 41.6% share—down from 42.6% in September 2009—while Apple ranked second with 25.3% of the market, up 1.2% percent from September. Microsoft came in third, with 18% of the market, down 1% from September, followed by Palm, which accounted…

• News: id Software releases Doom II RPG

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:32 am

  id Software has released Doom II RPG, the sequel to its popular 2005 Doom RPG mobile game. Doom II RPG allows the player to choose from three different characters and battle through 9 different maps spanning the Moon, Earth and Hell, providing over 8 hours of gameplay. Players upgrade and customize their skill attributes and can find and use over a dozen unique weapons throughout the game. In addition to traditional combat, players must also hack…

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  AppleInsider | iPhone

• Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am

  A strong holiday quarter helped to grow Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market by 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving the iPhone a 25.3 percent share of users, according to a new re...

• iPhone OS 3.1.3 sees 14% adoption in 6 days, new hack released

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm

  A new study has found that 14 percent of iPhone users upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.3 in less than a week of availability, while a new hack to exploit Apple's latest update has been released. Released ...

• Amazon rethinking Kindle in the wake of Apple iPad

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am

  Amazon is being forced to rethink many of the design decisions of its Kindle e-book reader after the introduction of Apple's iPad. The New York Times reported that Amazon assimilated multitouch sc...

• Purported 4th gen Apple iPhone parts show largely unchanged design

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:40 am

  New pictures claimed to be parts for a prototype fourth-generation iPhone show a front panel slightly taller than the current model, along with some other minor internal design tweaks. iPhone repai...

• Inside Apple's iPad: VGA video output

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  Apple's new iPad debuts a new VGA-style video output option, a first for the company's mobile device lineup. Like the existing iPhone and iPod touch, the iPad can output video via the same composi...

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  Gizmodo: iPhone

• Navigon Updates MobileNavigator iPhone App With Facebook and Twitter Connectivity, Panorama View 3D Mapping

  Kat Hannaford

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am

  Not only has Navigon added a bunch of new features to its iPhone app, the price is $20 cheaper—although if you want Traffic Live and 3D maps, it still adds up to $100. Nonetheless, it sounds worth it. The update has a few nifty angles—there's the connection to your Facebook or Twitter accounts for updating friends on your current position, destination and time you're due to arrive; the aforementioned Panorama View 3D views (which use NASA height and terrain data) and personalized route delivery, called MyRoutes. The addition of NASA's data is a nice touch, meaning you'll be able…

• Some Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1

  matt buchanan

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

  The good news first: Adobe's promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones—Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile—and desktops in the "first half" of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it'll come over the air. The bad part? Well it's bad for Android, anyway: You're gonna need Android 2.1. At least. Because it provides some access Adobe needs to make the Flash magic happen. So, sorry everything but the Droid and Nexus One, at least for the moment. The "over the air" thing is also kind of "up in the air" as to what that means: It could come from your carrier, it could come from…

• BirdBox Wakes You Up With the Sound of Hungry Birds In Your iPhone

  Jesus Diaz

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:46 pm

  I love little birds. They are so cute. And they taste delicious and crunchy fried in beer batter. If you want them to wake you up, however, try BirdBox. BirdBox is a $12.75 bedside bird home with a matching free application that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a cuckoo alarm clock. You know, because nothing says good morning like "the sound and sight of nesting birds" eating regurgitated bugs and worms. [Luckybite via Boing Boing]

• Rumored Spyshot: Will the Next iPhone Be Taller Than Its Predecessors?

  Mark Wilson

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:54 am

  An alleged leak of fourth-gen iPhone components claims to tell us two things about Apple's next creation. One, it's taller. Two, part of its surface is "reflective."What iResQ claims to be the next iPhone case sits on the right in our lead shot, alongside the iPhone 3GS' front assembly. It's 1/4 of an inch taller. Boom? (iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, potential iPhone 4G) Plus, the top lip of the case has a "reflective, mirror-like surface," which iResQ assumes is a rearrangement of the iPhone's proximity sensor (the component that notices when your face is near the phone). No component leak is all…

• Read SD Cards on Your iPhone With ZoomIt

  Mark Wilson

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:40 am

  Remember all those clever iPhone peripherals that we were supposed to see with firmware 3.0? Well ZoomIt is among the first. It's an SD card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch.Used in conjunction with the ZoomIt app, the dongle connects through the iPhone's dock connector to load photos, music and miscellaneous files (like PowerPoint, PDF and anything else supported by iPhone OS) from an SD card. If nothing else, it's a handy way to extend your iPhone's storage in a pinch, or simply backup your photos on vacation without lugging around a laptop (which is my particular reason for excitement…

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  Slashdot: Apple

• The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer

  kdawson

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:24 am

  snydeq writes "Apple's reticence to reveal details prior to a product's launch is legendary. But when Apple extends this silence beyond a product's unveiling, historically this has meant that the product cannot deliver the functionality that analysts and journalists are asking about. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman lists eight key questions for the iPad, about all of which Apple has kept silent. Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad? Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email? Does the iPad support VPN? Configuration management? 'I have no doubt the iPad will be compelling to some…

• Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture

  CmdrTaco

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:11 am

  Barence writes "Mozilla is ready to exorcise support for Mac OS X 10.4 from Firefox's development code, closing the door on Apple's aging OS. The foundation stopped supporting 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in September 2009, but, according to Josh Aas, a Mozilla platform engineer, 'we left much of the code required to support that platform in the tree in case we wanted to reverse that decision." We had come to a point where we need to make a final decision and either restore 10.4 support or remove this (large) amount of 10.4 specific code,' he notes on the Mozilla developer planning forum."Read more…

• Apple's Change of Heart On Flash

  kdawson

  6 Feb 2010 | 2:05 pm

  Dotnaught writes "In a blog post, Walter Luh, co-founder of Ansca Mobile and a former employee of both Apple and Adobe, recounts how Apple once promoted Flash on the iPhone then changed its mind because Flash didn't provide the optimal mobile user experience. 'I think that Apple came to the same conclusion I've come to — namely that Flash has its strengths, but not when it comes to creating insanely great mobile experiences,' he writes. Luh's piece ends with a pitch for mobile development using the Corona SDK, a Lua-based programming environment that strives to recapture the simplicity…

• Mentioning Android Is a No-No In iPhone App Store

  kdawson

  5 Feb 2010 | 8:42 am

  donberryman writes "Apple has told a software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. The developer just wanted to mention that the app was a finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge." The developer complied with apparent good humor. Here is their blog post, which includes the text of the iPhone store's not-quite-rejection.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

• New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic

  kdawson

  2 Feb 2010 | 1:11 pm

  Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. "[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto their iPhones. The result of the attack is that a remote hacker is able to change some settings on the iPhone and force all of the user's Web traffic to run through any server he chooses, and also to change the root certificate on the phone, enabling him to man-in-the-middle SSL traffic from that phone. ... Charlie Miller, an Apple…

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  MacUser news

• Aperture 3 gets Faces, Places and Brushes

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:45 am

  Apple has unveiled Aperture 3, a new version of its pro photo editing and management software.

• Government rejects call for right to link

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:45 am

  The UK Government has rejected a call for search engines such as Google to be protected from efforts to prevent them linking to websites.

• Adobe admits to Flash crash bug

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:54 am

  Adobe has admitted to failing to address a bug that causes Flash to crash since it was first reported in 2008.

• Google to add social features to Gmail — report

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:13 am

  Google is preparing to add Facebook- and Twitter-style streams to Gmail, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

• File sharing axe threatens human rights says UK Parliament

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:15 am

  The government’s threat to disconnect file sharers could breach internet users’s human rights, according to a parliamentary committee.

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  Holy Kaw!

• 7 things you didn’t know about condoms

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:14 am

  Rubbers. Raincoats. Inconvenient. Whatever you call 'em, condoms remain a must-have in the safe sex tool box. Long before the days of Durex and Trojans, men used animal intestines to protect their willies (that sounds lovely, eh ladies?) and still to this day use lambskin condoms for latex allergies and supposed extra sensitivity. Want to learn even more fun facts about condoms that will surely impress your friends and potential lovers? Check out Asylum's seven things you probably didn't know about condoms that includes tantalizing tidbits like: Vaseline + condoms = Disintegrated rubber and…

• Horror flick mirror scare mash-up [video]

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:25 am

  Horror movies love to rely on cliches to scare the bejeezus out of us, but does it really surprise anyone that the axe murderer is going to pop in the reflection of a mirror? Ok, yes, it still totally sparks a few pee-in-pants moments. Check out this mash-up of mirror scare moments (fair warning: don’t watch alone in a big, dark, scary house): Full story at Four Four. Boo! Tons of scary and not so scary movie news. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• 7 things you shouldn't do on Valentine's Day

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:13 am

  Ah, Valentine’s day. February fourteenth marks that special moment in the year when Hallmark cashes in on our emotions and cupid gets busy shooting arrows. Whether you’re indifferent, excited, upset, or madly in love—there are seven things you just shouldn’t do on this lovey-dovey holiday. See a few do-not-do’s below: Go on a first date. First dates are hard enough, why add the extra pressure? Call your ex. Abort mission! On a day like this, it’s normal for your thoughts to drift to the one you used to be with, but you broke up for a reason. So, spare…

• How to succeed as a consultant

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:43 am

  Thinking of going solo as a consultant? Richard Greenwald, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University in Madison, provides a list of ingredients for you to succeed in this endeavor: Think Long Term Join a Network Have Your Own Space Think Like an Entrepreneur Full story at Wall Street Journal. More small business tips and tricks. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Big trouble in McItaly

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:06 am

  McDonald’s new sandwich, endorsed by the Italian government, is leaving a bad taste in food critics’ mouths. Proud Italians rejected the McItaly as being unrepresentative of Italian culture. The government responded by calling the critics “ignorant Stalinists” and claimed that these same critics rejected the Italian-ness of pizza. Do you think the McItaly will take root? Read the full article at the BBC. More on Italy. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a comment  »