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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Apple's iLife Takes Home Photo Albums To A New Level

by John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News

It's the amateur photographer's management tool for digital pictures. But Apple's iLife multimedia software suite has some A-list users as well. Tweet

Employee Shot, Wounded At Virginia Apple Store

by Leslie Katz, CNET News.com

An employee at an Apple store near Washington D.C. was shot and wounded Friday morning, police have confirmed. The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is currently at an area hospital recovering from a wound to the right shoulder. She is said to be in serious but stable condition. Tweet

Review: Xserve (2009)

by Andrew T. Laurence, Macworld

New architecture yields better performance with less power and heat. Tweet

Friday, July 3, 2009

Gotta Go? iPhone App Tells Moviegoers When To Pee

by Ned Potter and Ki Mae Heussner, ABC News

Soda. Coffee. Water. Next time to you go to the movies, chug 'em all down.

As long as you have a new iPhone app by your side, you'll know when you can escape to the bathroom without missing the best parts. Tweet

Apple May Be Exempt From China's Web Filter Mandate

by Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service

Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country. Tweet

Review: Final Draft AV 2.5

by Tim Haddock, Macworld

Final Draft AV 2.5.2 eliminates many of the headaches of formatting two-column audio-visual scripts with a conventional word processor. Unfortunately, for some users the program’s inability to import graphics and images into scripts could prove a deal-breaker. Tweet

Greenpeace Demands Apple Come Clean

by Charles Jade, GigaOM Tweet

Just How Successful Is The iPhone App Store?

by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal

The store’s success is indisputable. The broad selection of apps is a major reason why consumers want the iPhone. In April, Apple announced that the number of downloads exceeded a billion, less than a year after the App Store opened. But a bigger moneymaker than the iPhone itself? It’s not even close. Tweet

iPhone 3GS Owners Bemoan Its Battery Life

by David Sarno, Los Angeles Times

Buyers are finding that the device, introduced two weeks ago, has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet. It's proving to be something of an Achilles' heel on Apple Inc.'s flagship device. Tweet

PasswordWallet 4.4.7 Improves Voice-over, Auto-typing

by MacNN Tweet

Apple Stores Now Fixing Cracked iPhone Screens In-house

by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

Surely you know someone who has dropped an iPhone, only to watch in horror as the screen cracked. Now, Apple retail stores can fix the problem in-house—as long as you're still under warranty. Tweet

The iPhone App Store Takes A Bad Turn

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

The problem with the application is how you pay for it. Downloading the Navigator is free. Owning it is expensive: $10 added to your monthly bill — even if you delete the app — until you contact AT&T and shut off the service. Tweet

The Correct Way To Use Your MacBook's Battery

by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet

One of the telling things about this particular visit to the Apple Store was something the tech told me. He said that he would replace the battery with a new one because it has be “used correctly.” When I asked him to elaborate on what that meant, he told me that Apple’s notebook batteries last longest when they’re routinely charged and discharged. Tweet

iPhone Heat Issue Much Ado About Nothing

by Jim Dalrymple, CNET

It is true that Apple has been quiet about this so far. If I had to guess, I'd say it's because they have not been able to replicate the heat issues some users are reporting. Tweet

Apple Pulls iPhone App That Allowed For Child Pornography Uploads

by Gizmodo Tweet

Revamped MacBook Pro Line Delivers Top-Notch Display Quality

by Rob Galbraith

Taken together, the current MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers we've ever seen from Apple, with a potential solution for the remaining bugaboo - display glossiness - coming a bit later this year. Tweet

AT&T Breaks Sales Records With iPhone 3GS Launch

by Marguerite Reardon, CNET

The first day the Apple iPhone 3GS went on sale was the biggest sales day ever for AT&T, according to an internal memo sent to company employees that has since been published in various blogs. Tweet

Apple Patching Serious SMS Vulnerability On iPhone

by Sumner Lemon, Macworld

Apple is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.

The attack in question exploits a weakness in the way iPhones handle text messages received via SMS (Short Message Service), said security researcher Charlie Miller, during a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore on Thursday. He didn’t provide a detailed description of the SMS vulnerability, citing an agreement with Apple. Tweet

Can An SD Card Startup Disk Be Used On Any Mac?

by Roman Loyola, Macworld Tweet

Psystar Exits Bankruptcy, Launches New Xeon-Based Systems Running OS X

by MacRumors Tweet

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Some iPhone 3G S Overheating, Apple Offers ‘Temperature` Warning

by eWeek Tweet

Modes, Quasimodes And The iPhone

by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code Tweet

Review: Final Draft 8

by Tim Haddock, Macworld Tweet

Forbidden Apple's Not So Sweet

by Danny Katz, The Age

We shall not buy this new iPhone: let the commoners have it, I say. Instead, let us maintain our exclusive hip-hop hipness and buy their phone — a Telstra EasyTouch on a $20 plan. And no more iPods either. We shall only buy a Microsoft Zune! Tweet

Electric Rain Releases Swift 3D 6.0 Update

by MacNN Tweet

Mac News Briefs: Omni Group Releases OmniGraphSketcher

by Macworld

Also announced: iPod Access, Cocktail, and Mystical Tint Tone and Color Photoshop plug-in updates. Tweet

Listening To Mr iPhone

by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC

By any measure, he is among the most important figures in technology of the last decade, a major influence on the way we use and interact with computers and mobile phones, a British designer who ranks with the Conrans and the Dysons. But have you ever heard Jonathan Ive, the Apple designer behind the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone, talk about his work? Tweet

Apple Updates MobileMe With iPhone Features, More

by MacNN

Apple has detailed a series of recent changes to MobileMe, its online hosting and sync service. Many of these are iPhone related, for instance allowing iPhone 3GS owners to upload a video to a Gallery album, or if no album exists, create a new one automatically. Tweet

Why The iPhone Can't Be 'killed'

by Brad Reed, NetworkWorld.com

When the iPhone took the cell phone world by storm two years ago, it was viewed as a revolutionary, game-changing new device that would alter how mobile phone users consumed data on their devices. In reality, the iPhone was merely the next logical step in Apple's quest to rule the world of wireless devices. Tweet

A Fireside Chat With Apple's Jonathan Ive

by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune Tweet

Does Apple Really Have The Greenest Notebooks?

by Ted Samson, InfoWorld

Apple and other PC makers are overdoing it when they flash their EPEAT Gold to prove they're green. Tweet

Child Porn Is Apple's Latest iPhone Headache

by Brian X. Chen, Wired Top Stories

A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple’s inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content. Tweet

LightWorks 8.1 Extends Real-time Rendering

by MacNN Tweet

Cataloging Mail By Date

by Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet

First Look: Firefox 3.5

by Rob Griffiths, Macworld

Speed bosts, private browsing highilight changes to Mozilla’s browser. Tweet

New iPhone 3GS TV Spots Highlight Voice Control, Copy/paste

by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica - Infinite Loop

In two new ad spots, Apple manages to spin iPhone features that everyone else already has as remarkable and revolutionary. The RDF may be a little strong in these videos, but we do have to applaud Apple for its confidence. Tweet

Ambrosia Releases Soundboard

by Peter Cohen, Macworld

The concept of Soundboard is similar to the “cart machines” that once populated radio stations — devices that played back endless-loop tape cartridges used to play commercials, sound effects and other audio content. Tweet

China iPhone Deal Faces Trademark Conflict

by Owen Fletcher, Macworld

A Chinese company that owns the trademark “i-phone” has said it is not in talks with Apple, even though Apple may need the company's blessing to sell its similarly named iPhone in China. Tweet

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