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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:00:51 -0700

Software Updates and New Releases for Week Ending 2008-10-04
My Apple TV woes managed to eat away at some of the time I would have dedicated to scouring for updates and new toys, but I...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:30:13 -0700

Review: AIM for Mac Beta
It’s been four long years since AIM 4.7 for Macintosh was released by AOL. The screenshots on their product page still...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:00:06 -0700

Replacement 3G iPhone Adapters Arriving
About three weeks ago, we reported that Apple had issued a recall on the small form-factor USB wall charger that was included...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:50 -0700

Logo Wars Continue Over Apple’s Forbidden Fruit
After targeting New York City’s GreenNYC campaign earlier this year, Apple is now threatening The Victoria School of...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:35:37 -0700

Apple Loosening Muzzles?
One of the inaugural stories on just-launched news site The Daily Beast is a column by the founder and former editor of Mac...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:21 -0700

Using Droplets With Transmit
For those of us who don’t have an iDisk up in the MobileMe cloud, it can be very useful to have a way of easily moving...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:30:29 -0700

IBM Extends iPhone Development to Windows/Linux Programmers
The now non-existent iPhone developer NDA seems to have been holding back a flood of useful and diverse information. IBM has...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:30:21 -0700

Google’s New Update-Engine Shifts Into High Gear
I sometimes wonder if the folks over in the Googleplex ever sleep. It seems like we have a new product or service update every...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:46:54 -0700

10M iPhones to Market
Estimates show that as September came to a close, Apple’s iPhone manufacturers should have rolled unit number 10,000,000...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:30:21 -0700

Quick Tip: Change iTunes Buffer Size for Smoother Streaming
When I moved in with my old roommate he already had a router…a router that did not play nice with my Macbook Air. ...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:30:38 -0700

Techspansion Shutting Down Development of VisualHub/iSquint
Techspansion developer Tyler Loch, maker of the incredibly useful multimedia manipulation tools VisualHub, iSquint and...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:54:11 -0700

App Store Dollar Deals: Moto Chaser and Solebon Solitaire
Freeverse’s App Store launch title Wingnuts Moto Chaser and Smallware’s Solebon Solitaire, two games which have...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:52 -0700

Update: More “Brick” Rumors, Nvidia MacBook GPUs
A few days ago we posted a story about the much-sensationalized upcoming Apple mystery product, “The Brick.” ...
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Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:00:08 -0700

Why Google’s G1 Entices Me More Than the iPhone
I have a confession to make. The new Google G1 smartphone appeals to me a lot more than the iPhone does. Not in terms of...
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Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:30:46 -0700

Steve Jobs’ Heart Attack
Nearly a month ago, at Apple’s unveiling of the new iPod lineup for this fall, Steve Jobs quoted Mark Twain’s...
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Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:54:33 -0700

iPhone Gets VoIP, Thanks to Fring
As of yesterday, the iPhone natively supports VoIP calls without jailbreaking thanks to fring, a multi-client instant messaging...
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Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:41:06 -0700

Apple TV Authorization Server Problem Causes Mass Factory Restores
I was in the process of attempting to install the Apple TV 2.2 update and then rent a movie for the family tonight when my...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:00:21 -0700

The “Brick”: Game Changer or Niche Product Without a Market?
The internets are currently abuzz with rumors of a new, genre-bending product due out of Cupertino, possibly at the speculated...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:00:35 -0700

Modernizing Mail.app: The Solution
Mail.app is an imperfect beast. Thankfully, with a little modification and some extensibility, you can make Mail.app a more...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:29:03 -0700

Apple TV 2.2 Wish Lists = Fail
Yesterday, Apple released both an iTunes (8.0.1) and Apple TV (2.2) update. The Apple TV update has some great new...
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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:00:10 -0700

iTunes Store Free to Continue Dominating Digital Music Sales
We reported earlier on the possibility of a 66% raise in royalty fees for digital music distributors. Have no fear readers,...
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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:51:48 -0700

Obama for iPhone
Billed as “your official, comprehensive connection to the heart of Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s campaign,”...
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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:43:44 -0700

Netflix “Watch Instantly” Coming to Mac
I don’t know about you but my favorite corporate blogger is now Brent from Netflix - or as I like to call him -...
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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:00:53 -0700

Modernizing Mail.app: The Problem
When will Apple move Mail.app into the modern world of email management? Even with version 3.5 (included with the latest OS...
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:29:26 -0700

Apple Officially Drops the iPhone NDA
iPhone Developers ’round the world can breathe a sigh of relief today. Seven months after the release of Apple’s...
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