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by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Some trawling through Apple's discussion forums yeilded actual information.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
This free tool, optimized for speech, makes a noble effort to crrect uneven volume levels.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
This post by John Gruber illustrates why it is not easy to do cut-and-paste on the iPhone: all the obvious gestures are already being taken and already have meaning in the iPhone touch interface.
Rumors indicate that the iPhone wil have cut-and-paste soon. I sure hope Apple didn't compromise too much.
by Jason Gordon, Hill Country Times
"I've always heard wonderful things about Macs, and I can't wait to use all of the available applications with my students."
by John Martellaro, Mac Observer
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
"iTunes 7.7.1 includes fixes to improve stability and performance."
by David Morgenstern, ZDNet.com
Posted in the Ci Sense company blog is widget that presents a tag cloud view of Apple's trademarks from the past 10 years.
by MacNN
Despite Apple's pronouncement that all is well with MobileMe, user complaints continue on the company's support forums.
by Bart Busschots, International Mac Podcast
Apple's pathetic patching record means that I'd go so far as to cal it professional negligence to deploy OS X Server in a corporate environment.
by James Dempsey, Macworld
What do you do with that old G4 or G5 Mac?
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
Thankfully there are a few simple workarounds, but as usual, they have a catch.
Bascially, no backups anymore.
by Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
Proceed at your own risk! This process worked for me, but it may not for you. You likely want to have a full backup in place.
by Kasper Jade, AppleInsider
Apple in recent days issued an advisement bulletin to some of its channel partners hinting at a manufacturing ramp down of iPods and certain Mac notebook models, which will result in limited supplies of those products int he coming weeks.
by MacNN
The damage appears to consist mostly of hairline fractures, typically around the volume and vibrate controls, but also in some cases around corners, speakers or the headphone jack.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
This simple utility adds a menu-bar item that lists all available Input, Ouput, and System audio options.
by Charles Arthur, The Guardian
Consider that there's an estimate 1,000+ aps on the iPhone App Store - of which about 100 are reckoned to be even worth the disk space. How is Apple going to improve the ratio? Not via an NDA.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple has completed the process of restoring mail service to MobileMe customers that found themselves without email over the past week or so.
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
Here I offer advice on how best to activate, configure and deploy the iPhone.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
Airports offer a nice opportunity to Apple to open a new front for its retail efforts.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
CampTune helps Mac users with Intel-based systems running Boot Camp to redistribute free space between their Mac and Windows partitions.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
Adding a few more apps would go a long way toward fulfilling th epromise of a fee-based Apple-run online service.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Random thought son recent iTunes Store happenings.
by Rick LePage, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Democracy 2 puts you in the role of the elected head of a country. You must implement policies and resolve your nation's problems, all to improve your nation's standing in the world without disenfranchising the voters that put you in a position of power.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Playing a combination of moody synthesized instruments and digitized nature sounds, the highly configurable SonicMood generates the kind of relaxing audio ambience that will soothe even the most restless insomniacs.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Among the changes made in the new version of Lightroom is the ability to visually organize images across multiple hard drives.
by Jim Goldman, CNBC
Calling New York Times columnist Joe Nocera with an "off the record" health update was a big mistake, completely unnecessary, and serves only to fan the flames.
by Drew Robb, Enterprise IT Planet.com
A few weeks ago, Apple decided that it was no longer cost effective to continue to manufacture its own storage hardware. Instead, it has opted for an OEM agreement with storage vendor Promise Technology.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
The Free Software Foundation is asking supporters to book a Genius Bar appointment at an Apple retail store on Friday or Saturday and ask the technicians questions about the company's broader corporate policy regarding iPhone 3G and its software under the belief that any copy-protected hardware or software is "defective."
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
Apple tolerates discussion among iPhone developers as long as they know it's wrong.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
According to Apple, the Aperture 2.1.1 "update supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues."
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
The NDA has become a source of frustration for the growing development community.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Scott McNulty, Macworld
ClamXav 1.1 is an able antivirus program that will keep your Mac protected, though it doesn't offer all the features that more-expensive programs do. Free is hard to beat, though, and while ClamXav might be slower than other programs, and might slow down your Mac a bit, it's just as accurate.
by Dan Miller, Macworld
Paste your text into it, assign the program's "characters" to their lines, and then hear your text come to life.
by Rich Parr, MIT Technology Review
MobileMe is facing problems endemic to cloud computing.
by Leslie Poston, Mac.Blorge.com
In the end there is no grat solution on the consumer side to the potential problems with DRM when the issuing company goes belly up.
by Geek Nirvana
by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC
Oh dear, have we been failing to give enough coverage to Apple? Those of you who are frequent visitors to this blog will be aware that every time we do write about Mr Jobs' company, war breaks out between the Macaholics and the rest. The Apple fans accuse us of being insufficiently respectful of the wondrous gifts emanating from the shrine at Cupertino, the non-believers stifle a yawn and complaint hat we give this minor business far more attention than it deserves.
See Also: Dork Talk, by Stephen Fry, The Guardian. The BBC's technology site is so afraid of looking as though it "favours" Apple in some way that it has been failing to file legitimate stories for fear of the anti-Apple community, because, believe it or not, there are people out there who think the launch of yet another Nokia or WinMob Apple-a-like should be given equal prominence.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
All of Apple's US retail outlets are now in a permanent launch mode and will open as much as two hours earlier each day to accomodate the unprecendented demand for the new iPhone. Also, at least some locations are now giving customers rainchecks for the day's iPhone 3G stock.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
Apple admits that while the majority of email messages will be fully restored, approximately 10% of messages received between 5.00 a.m. PDT on July 16th and 10.20 a.m. PDT on July 17th have been lost.
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
An official from Open Tech has said the company is confident it can sell its Mac clones and avoid a lawsuit from Apple. He wasn't so confident that he was willing to let us publish his full name, though.
by Joe Nocera, New York Times
On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I'd gotten my final "Steve's health is a private matter" — and much to my amazement — Mr. Jobs called me. "This is Steve Jobs," he began. "You think I'm an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he's above the law, and I think you're a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong."
by Roberto ROcha, Montreal Gazette
Everyone's MacHappy in Montreal as the Apple flagship opens on Ste. Catherine St.
by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times
Venture capitalists told mobile entrepreneurs to broaden their focus and build applications for all phones.
But make sure you have a presence in the iPhone.
by John Ridley, NPR
Better if they could get back to the days when their end-to-end experience really worked end-to-end.
Cannot handle demand? A good problem to have, but a problem nevertheless. What's more worrying to me is the inability of MobileMe to perform, given that there is no evidence really of major influx of demand over the last month.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
"There are two prerequisites to becoming a great audio engineer," said Greg Price. "First, you have to play an instrument and second, you have to use a Mac."
by Neale Monks, TidBITS
It does everything an impage prep program needs to do with minimal fuss. Simply as a resizing and reformatting tool it would earn its keep; that it adds watermarks as well is icing on the cake.
by AppleInsider
One developer has stumbled upon references to copy and paste in the frameworks of Apple's first beta of iPhone Software 2.1.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Ted Landau, Macworld
Here's a primer on how to navigate your way out of app trouble.
by Sramana Mitra, Forbes
Apple has the entire semiconductor industry wrapped around its little finger.
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
It's an invaluable tool if you plan to put your DVD collection on your Apple TV.
by Rich Mogull, TidBITS
Apple has not yet provided a patch, unlike dozens of other companies that make or distribute operating systems or DNS server software.
by Craig dos Santos, A Search For (My) Life
I've been a Windows user my entire life, and some old habits die hard.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
When your OS stinks, you go buy a new OS. (And perhaps a CEO or two.)
When your online strategy stinks, do you go buy Google?
(Is MobileMe such core to Apple's strategy that they have to build it themselves?)
by Wayne MacPhail, Rabble
I mean, God love open source folks. Their hearts are int he right place but, man, a lot of open source software is the worst looking, unusable junk I've ever seen this side of a Microsoft WIndows ME hack-a-thon.
I'm more or less convinced that UI design is not compatible with wisdom-of-the-crowd. Just like you typically don't see good movies directed or written by a committee.
by Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post
What's both sad and, perhaps, ultimately encouraging is that Apple and its users have been through this before.
by Gizmodo
According to their forums, if you opt-in to the community feature, Aurora Feint looks through your contact list, sends in unencrypted to their servers, and matches you up with your friends who are currently playing right now.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Virginia Tech's Center for High-End Computing System is building a new cluster, this time using 324 Mac Pro towers, that will have a theoretical computing capacity of 29 teraflops.
by David Pogue, New York Times
The real problem is how Apple is responding. For a company that's so brilliant at marketing, it seems to have absolutely no clue about crisis management.
by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
The ad hor method allows any developer to authorize up to 100 iPhones to run an application without going through the App Store.
by Peter Kafka, Silicon Alley Insider
Perhaps he's been jetting off to China and/or Russia, where Apple still doesn't have iPhne deals with carriers.
by Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune
In the iPod age, music sound quality has been dumbed down to "Fisher-Price toy" levels, rock star and tech enthuisast Neil Young said Wednesday.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
If you seek a powerful (though sometimes challenging) mobile applcation for creating action items and orgnizing them within contexts and project—and one that also acts as an extension of an even more powerful desktop application—OmniFocus for the iPhone can clearly help you get that done.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
We wanted to look a little further into the matter and find out if the iPhone 3G really twice is as fast as its predecessor.
by Mike Curtis, Macworld
Advanced asset management and workflow software for video content creators.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Galen Gruman, InfoWorld
The 13 key omissions Apple must fix before it can really compete with BlackBerry and Treo.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Why is the Apple store still selling iPod touch without the 2.0 software and the App Store goodness? Could it be a new iPod touch — or a brand new replacement — is coming soon, so Apple doesn't bother to update the Apple Store with new iPod Touches?
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
While Apple employees eat healthy, Jobs takes it to an extreme, one employee says, eating dark green vegetables such as broccli and asparagus, grilled or steamed.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
Apple gets points for acknowledging the issues and trying to make it right, but that will do little to placate people who just want the service to work as promised.
by Dedric Lam, Shanghaiist
Hong Kong based agency Eight Partnership has just been appointed to handle Apple's creative marketing in Asia.
by Paul Rako, EDN
When you think about it, almost every major development in the last decade has been the result of overcoming the problems that software managers cause.
As the saying goes, make it simple, but no simplier than what is needed.
by Jeff Carlson, Macworld
Overhauled .Mac service gets pushy—and that's a good thing.
by Matt Haughey, A Whole Lotta Nothing
This is one of the few times I have to say Windows has it right (and has had right for many years) — it is extremly easy to find a way to bump the entire OS to larger more legible fonts with just a couple clicks, but I'm not seeing it anywhere on a Mac running Leopard.
by Gizmodo
The most innovative, game-changing apps might not ever make it to your squeaky clean iPhone.
by MacNN
A group of hackers say they have cracked Apple's close Fairplay DRM on Sega's Super Monkey Ball for iPhone.
by Walter S. Mossberg, AllThingsD
If Apple does get MobileMe working smoothly, it could be a terrific service. But it's way too ragged now.
by J. Shirley
I found myself getting more done and in less time.
by Matt Asay, CNET News.com
I'm increasingly of the mind that open-source developers appreciate the excellence of Apple's products.
by Jim Goldman, CNBC
The simple truth is this: Apple knows that it must disclose Jobs' health status if it is somehow material to the company. By not disclosing his health issues, and calling them a private matter, Apple is tacitly telling all of us that whatever is ailing Jobs is not seroius enough to be material to the company.
by Mike Elgan, Datamation
Apple succeeds because customers love the products and the brand. But in China, brands mean little to most potential customers, and hardware even less. Chinese consumers prize value above all.
On the other hand, status, and the toys that come with status, does mean something in China, I believe.
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Apparently, the new version of Mail feels the need to beep every time a new message comes in, and that's a problem given that MobileMe's "push" option for email means that new messages are being received constantly. Maddening!
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac
AT&T has authorized stores in its Northern California region to begin taking iPhone pre-sale orders with a promise of 72hr availability, according to the manager of one of the region's busiest stores.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Security vulnerabilities in the iPhone's e-mail application and Safari web browser can be used by phishers to dupe users into visiting malicious sites or by spammers to flood the phone's inbox with junk mail, a researcher warned Wednesday.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
What still stands out about Apple's third-quarter performance—for me, at any rate—is just how well the company's Mac business did.
by MacNN
The new iPhone 3G commercials feature similiar aspects, but are stylized differently depending on the country in which they are aired.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
Apple should have staged the conversion from .mac to .me. It not only make technical sense, but it fits in with the Apple ethos.
by Pariah S. Burke, Macworld
Narrowly focused update features moderate enhancements.
by Heather Kelly, Macworld
Sometimes you just need to doodle, to be creative and make a little art without the complications of Illustrator or the mess of Crayolas.
by Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, Wall Street Journal
There are way too many interesting apps to review here, but these are some we liked.
by John Markoff, New York Times
In recent weeks, Mr Jobs has reassured several people that he is doing well and that four years after a successful operation to treat a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he is cancer free.
People who are close to Mr. Jobs say that he had a surgical procedure this year to address a problem that was contributing to a loss of weight. These people declined to be identified because Mr. Jobs had not authorized them to speak about his health.
by James B. Stewart, Wall Street Journal
Attention, bargain hunters: Two technology darlings are on sale at steep summer discounts, Apple and Google.
by Timothy Lee, TechDirt
Refusing to serve iced espressos may be a good business strategy.
As Guy Kawasaki once wrote, if Apple had listened to its customers, the Macintosh will simply be a faster MS-DOS machine.
by Brent Smmons, Inessential.com
The problem is 100 times worse when it comes to deleting features.
by Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal
Apple's approach seems to be working, with sales growing apace even as the company on Saturday opened its first full-service Apple store in China, in Beijing. Over the past two years, more Apple reseller have begun popping up in China's sprawling computer malls.
by Etan Horowitz, Orlando Sentinel
Don't believe the Apple availability page.
by Tim Bray, ongoing
There's a design flaw in Apple's current lineup of Mac keyboards; easily fixed though.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
Idle, speculative and uninformed talk is feeding fear uncertainty and doubt, that is not worth serious consideration. Even so, given what's publicly known about Jobs' medical hidostry, questions about the condition of his health are certainly fair to ask, and the ones who should be doing the asking are Apple's outside directors.
by Jeff SMykil, Ars Technica
While the company will preinstall Ubuntu 8.0.4 or Windows XP, the computer the company claims to be Apple-compatible won't actually be able to do so with Mac OS X.
by MacJournals
Isn't accounting fun?
by Merlin Mann, 43 Folders
Is four digits (or a trivial password) enough to protect your irreplaceable private data? Are you willing to assume that risk? It's unbelievable that the question even needs to be asked.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
The addition of GPS made the iPhone much more effective for traveling and MobileMe is a godsend.
by Slash Lane, AppleInsider
Microsoft this week offered a window into the first phase of a mega million dollar advertising campaign designed to clear up 'misconception' about the quality of its Windows Vista operationg system exacerbated by in-your-face marketing efforts on the part of longtime rival Apple.
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
The bottom line is that if you're an Apple investor and you don't like the "Steve's health is a private matter" statement made by CFO Peter Oppenheimer then there's only one thing you should do - sell your Apple stock and invest in a company that you trust more.
by Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
The main concern will be the warning over gross margin in Apple's fourth fiscal quarter ending in September and into fiscal 2009.
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld
Software update offers dramatic security improvements, though gaps remain.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
New in Finale 2009 is streamlined workflow interface that makes it easier to create and enter music, move and edit what you've written.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
... isn't it about time that Apple put those iLife "Shop For" commands to good use?
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
On Windows, MobileMe will always pop up a dialog telling it cannot do any sync whenever I do not have internet access. Which is a real irritation, if you ask me.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
With the addition of the App Store and third-party applications, the problem of how to move data around the phone has increased exponentially.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Among the changes specific to Word are a fix for Spotlight keyword saving so that it works in Word 2008 Save As dialogs. The update also fixed a problem that caused Default Folder X to not include folders in its Recent Folders list when saving in Microsoft Word 2008.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Excel Software has introduced its developer-focused ClickInstall 1.0 software for Mac OS X.
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
Although IPNetSentryX is a sort of jack of all trades when it comes to firewall software, its most salient distinguishing characteristic is that it uses adaptive rather than fixed rules.
by Emma L. Carew, Star Tribune
After Apple opened its online application store, DoApp's "myLite Color Strobe and Flashlight" program quickly broke into the store's top 10 free downloads.
by Roman Loyola, Macworld
Impara's Plopp is a drawing tool for kids that not only makes 3-D easy, but it makes it fun, too.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc. installed a control panel applet for its MobileMe online sync and storage service on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems when they were updated to iTunes 7.7 - the second time this year that it's bundled new software with an update for an existing program.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
I wish Microsoft's Live Mesh can offer some real competition to Appel's MobileMe.
I am not hopeful, but I do wish. Even Google right now does not offer such a comprehensive package of convenience.
by Allan Hoffman, The Star-Ledger
Apple's latest iPhone signals a new era, with a shift in the center of the computing world away from the full-fledged computer and onto the hand-held device.
by Dhanya Skariachan, Reuters
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
In the conference call, Apple executives repeated referred to a "product transition" that may affect Q4 revenue numbers.
If I have to bet, I'd say new notebooks, with many of the MacBook Air features migrating to the MacBook Pro and MacBook lines.
by Leander Kahney, Cult Of Mac
"Jobs has no plans to leave Apple. Steve's health is a private matter."
by Alan Zisman, Low End Mac
VirtualBox for Mac has grown up; while it lacks every feature available in its commercial virtualizer competitors, it offers good performance, networking, and USB support.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
Apple gets points for acknowledging the issues and trying to make it right, but that will do little to placate people who just want the service to work as promised.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
by Macworld UK
Apple shipped 2,496,000 Macs during the quarter, representing 41 per cent unit growth and 43 per cent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The company sold 11,011,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 12 per cent unit growth and seven per cent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
Even as it struggles to meet demand in existing markets, Apple plans to introduce the iPhone 3G to new countries next month. The company said that the latest iPhone would go on sale in 20 additional countries by August 22.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Access your music using a web browser.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
You Software updated its custom menu creation utility, You Control. The new version provides support for iCal calendars served via a CalDAV server.
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
Internet utility suite produces mixed results.
by Dan Kaufman, The Age
I began setting it up, moving all my documents, music and photos over from my PC using a flash drive, before the horrible realisation dawned; Apple Mail doesn't import Outlook email files.
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
Apple decided not to include last quarter's iPhone sales in its report because older models sold during the period lacked updated software.
by Ultimate Technology Base
Having recently made the switch to a Mac myself, I've put together a list of the top ten free Mac OS X programs that made switching from a PC to a Mac a breeze.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G supply dropped dramatically over the weekend, as the company's own inventory tool showed fewer than 9% of its stores had any phones to sell on Sunday.
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
Apple's buggy Contacts application has effectively hobbled an integral feature of the iPhone and it's also brought down Mail and SMS with it.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
If I remember my history correctly, Apple's iPod used to support MusicMatch software on Windows. Pretty soon, it was dropped when iTunes for Windows was unveiled.
So.... guess how long Apple's MobileMe will support Internet Explorer? Notice that Safari is already on Windows...
by Brian Stelter, New York Times
For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his web site, MacRumors.com.
It had been a hobby — albeit a time-consuming one — while Dr. Kim earned his medical degree.
by Robert Seidman, TV By The Numbers
If Apple announces a DVR in Apple TV it will upset a few people. If it announces Slingbox functionality it also will rub some folks the wrong way. It's too bad that is the way it is, but because it is, it's not easy for Apple and I believe that's why it has played Apple TV down so much.
by Atomicbird
One of the most useful sources of information for a software developer on any platform is... other developers working on the same platform. The ability to discuss issues with other developers, compare notes, and get questions answered is extremely valuable. But none of that is allowed for iPhone developers.
by Justin Montgomery, InformationWeek
The suit claims breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets.
by Dave Thomas, PragDave
So, to write a book about the iPhone SDK, you have to download it. In order to download it, you have to accept the agreement. And the agreement says that the download will contain confidential information that you can't pass on to third parties. That makes it hard to publish the book.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
The well-known iPhone Dev Team has released one of the first utilities to jailbreak iPhone 3G and let it run unsanctioned apps, albeit one with more than a few catches.
by Zachary Abrahamson, The Hartford Courant
Two Connecticut software developers are among those looking to take advantage of the App Store, where iPhone users can choose from hundreds of additional features for their phones.
by Sam Oliver, AppleInsider
by Lonnie Lazar, Cult Of Mac
Software engineer Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect of Microsoft's Windows 95, picked up a Mac for the first time two years ago. He was so impressed, he says he'll never touch a PC again.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
Apple made one other mistake that it is now apologizing for. Apple had been preauthorizing charges up to 121 GBP to European customers who signed up for a free MobileMe trial.
by MacNN
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Any time you need to type on Apple TV, if you have the Remote app open on your iPhone, the keyboard will appear and you can just type on your iPhone instead.
by Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com
by Edward F. Moltzen, ChannelWeb
MobileMe is not what you'd expect from Steve Jobs' Apple. The company simply overpromised and underdelivered.
by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org
I think it was easier for Apple to reduce its packaging and do a better job of recycing old parts than it will be for them to give up some of the controls they're exercisig over the iPhone platform.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Firefox 3.0.1 corrects a Mac OS X-specific issue invoving malformed GIF files.
by Maria Kiselyova and Sophie Taylor, Reuters
For now, Apple has given tacit consent to the informal supply chain by adding Russian and Chinese language options.
by Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet.com
Don't make Steve Jobs out to be more than he is. Stop worrying about what he's going to do to open source.
Make him worry about what open source is going to do to him.
However, Apple is not in the businesses where open source is of any significant threat. Except maybe Safari. But Safari is given away free; it is to support the real business of MobileMe.
by CCTV.com
Consumers in Beijing will soon be able to access Apple products directly from the company itself.
by Charles Arthur, The Guardian
Bottom line, Apple's iPhone still have a lot of room for improvement, especially if you are looking at it as a computer that does phone functions.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
"If you are a .Mac user and are trying to publish iWeb content via this MobileMe(ss), you can forget about it for now. It doesn't work. Period."
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by Electronista
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Aimed at small business users who need to create invoices to bill clients for products and services, Invoice lets you create colored invoices, keep track of payments, use drag and drop to create and arrange invoices, maintain currency conversions, save selected invoices as PDFs, create recurring invoices, manage smart folders and smart counters and more.
by Jeremy A. Kaplan and Sascha Segan, PC Magazine
We took a look back over the years at some of the greatest flops to come out of both Microsoft and Apple, technology that failed not because it was lacking in brilliance but often because it was simply ahead of its time.
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
No, I don't believe in cross-platform GUI code. Never seen one that is good enough.
But, wouldn't it be great if I can start using my Macintosh to write Windows application? MFC, WTL, ATL, .Net and plain Win32. Pretty please?
(Yes, I've actually used Visual C++ for Macintosh. If you don't know what this is, you should be thankful. Worse than Bob.)
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
If you think that designing the UI for iPhone to do cut and paste is easy, just take a look at the mess which is Adobe Acrobat Reader.
by Technospeedia
Mac is ready to use out of the box.
by Paul Thurrott, SuperSite For Windows
Apple has a history of over-promising and under-delivering and they get a total pass on this with the press.
by Mike Elgan, Internet News
The handful of recent stumbles by Cupertino is just a temporary rough patch, right?
by Paul Taylor, Financial Times
The two most glaring problems from a business perspective are the lack of a physical Qwerty keybaord and, as most other commentators have noted, rather disappointing battery life.
by Fraser Speirs
If you haven't got it already, it's time to move your head to this place: iPhone OS is Apple's mainstream platform for 2012 and beyond. It's a bold prediction, but the numbers seem fairly clear.
by Rick Fay, TidBITS
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Customers looking for an iPhone 3G may have to wait up to a month for Apple to boost its orders with suppliers and refill the pipeline, a Wall Street analyst said Thursday.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
RiffVault secures credit card numbers, documents and other data using 256-bit AES encryption combined with SHA-256 hashing.
by Steven Schwankert, IDG News Service
"This is the first of many stores we will open in China," said Ron Johnson, Apple's senior vice president of retail. He later added that Apple will open stores "in Beijing, in Shanghai and beyond."
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Apple may have updated the iPhone. But the App Store is brand new — and it shows.
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
Play around with Apple's App store and one thing is clear: So far it's mostly about playing around.
by Dan Miller, Macworld
There are plenty of painting and drawing programs for Mac kids, but plasq's Doozla is one of the best I've seen.
by Justine Ezarik, Tasty Blog Snack
by Frank Bruni, New York Times
"We'll just bring the charger cord," Gary said, "and plug the phone in the restaurants we visit." "Right," I said, "I'm sure they're going to let us do that."
by Edward C. Baig, USA Today
The App Store turns the iPhone into an important new computing platform.
by Mark Hachman, PC Magazine
Apple again cracked the top three in U.S. PC sales for the third quarter, according to surveys released Wednesday by both Gartner and IDC.
by David Pogue, New York Times
by Sven-S. Prost, Quarter Life Crisis
Once you automate more of your UI work, you reduce the number of eyes seeing it before being shipped. As a consequence bad UI experiences will increase as users get to use an absolutely virgin UI.
by Merlin Mann, 43 Folders
Today I want to point you to three applicatins that make me feel like I'm a music fan of the very-near-future — where personalized data flies through the air, phones play rock music bassed on your personal preferences, and everybody listens to Silkworm on moving sidewalks and in tricked-out rocket cars.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
If you love Scrabble, then it is easily worth the $9.99 price tag. If you are only a casual Scrabble fan, you may want to wait until the WiFi multiplayer version comes out.
by Dan Moren, MacUser
AirRadar lets you scan the area for Wi-Fi access points and provides you with details on their signal strength, whether or not the network is secured, and will even identify the strongest network for you.
by Frank Bruni, New York Times
On Saturday night, the day after the iPhone 3G came out, I recruited a friend who had purchased one to join me in an experiment. For more than four hours we hopped around the city, asking Urbanspoon to suggest somewhere good to eat.
by Nik Cubrilovic, Tech Crunch
The problem with Apple is that the blind demand is driven by a distorted reality, so those same developers who poured thousands of hours into the BSD kernel now turn around and purchase an iPhone running that code, but it is now tied up in DRM, licenses and restrictions placed there by others.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
This is the cause of my syncing angst—that little progress bar—which is part of a fun game I like to call the "iPhone Backup Lottery."
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
Tricks to make you a keyboard efficency expert.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
You tap on an embedded YouTube video, and it launches the iPhone's YouTube application and plays said video.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
I tested every iPhone Sudoku app and picked out those worthy of your iPhone's screen. (It was a tough job, but somebody had to do it.)
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
Apple spokesman, Bill Evans, told Macworld: "We want to apologize to our loyal customers and express our appreciation for their patience by giving all current subscribers an automatic 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription free of charge."
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
iPhone will have to earn its reputation as an enterprise device by mating with Exchange Server as seamlessly as my BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices do. But iPhones also has to satisfy th eneeds of one, two, or five users. MobileMe puts Apple on an ambitious path toward that goal.
by Tony Poulos, TelecomTV
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple took more than three months to patch an iPhone vulnerability, even though it had technical details of the bug and had crafted a fix for Mac OS X, the reseacher who reported the flaw said Tuesday.
by John O'Brien, Courier Mail
One of Firefox's advantages over Safari is its thriving ecosystem of plug-ins.
by Casey Chan, The iPhone Blog
There was a 'Mac-line' for people who weren't interested in the iPhone 3G but wanted to buy a Mac, play Frisbee with the MacBook Air, get free WiFi, or just do whatever you do at the Apple store. That line was at lesat a 30 minute wait—to just get into the store!
I'm pretty sure everything will be back to 'normal' real soon now. And I'm betting that there are people in the Mac-line who are just interested in taking a look at the iPhone, and not buying either a phone or a computer.
by David Ciccone, Mobility Today
Apple completely failed here and they should be embarrassed to tell their enterprise customers this is a full featured email device.
by Andrew Garcia, eWeek
Apple's first-generation configuration tools for back-end management and policy controls are woefully under-featured when compared to modern mobile device management platforms.
by David Dehlquist, MacUser
Take that, cheaters!
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
If you own an iPod touch that hasn't been updated to version 2.0 and would like the update, just plug your iPod touch into your Mac and decline the 2.0 update.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Writing the code to implement a system-wide clipboard isn't the hard part — the hard part is coming up with the right UI design for it.
There are at least two criteria in evaluating which feature to add in a newer software release: how important or critical the feature is, and how easy or difficult to implement. I am guessing that the fact that copy-and-paste is not a critical cannot-function-without-it will-be-killed-by-Blackberry feature, plus the general difficulty in getting a right UI are why it got pushed down the to-do list.
by Gizmodo
by Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
The bottom line is that this application is very well done. It performs well, the stability is about as good as you can ask for on this platform at this time, and the UI is a pleasure to use.
by Erik Kennedy, Ars Technica
The final release adds support for SDKs for additional platforms (read: iPhone/iPod touch), gcc 4.2 and llvm-gcc-4.2 as alternate compilers, an integrated property-list editor, user-interface improvements to a variety of tools, and a number of performance improvements and bug fixes.
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
by Dan Moren, Macworld
The iPhone 2.0 software is full of the kind of refinements that you'd expect from a second-generation Apple product.
by Christopher Breen, Macworld
Yes. Yes, it is.
by Lexton Snol, Macworld UK
Apple has scrapped plans to cut its UK iTunes prices, despite promising to do so at the start of the year.
by MacNN
Apple has begun legal proceedings against Psystar, documents confirm.
See Also: Apple Suit: Psystar's Mac Clones Must Be Recalled, by Ina Fried. Apple's list of grievances against Mac clone maker Psystar spans 16 pages, but, in the end, its argument boils down to the one expected. Psystar, Apple says, had no right to do what it did, and should be stopped and forced to pay.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Problems remain with MobileMe, with users signing to test the service claiming to have been charged full price; plus last-minute feature removals and more.
See Also: Apple Delays iDisk File Sharing, MobileMe Issues Continue, by Chris Foresman, Ars Technica.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Mark Jaquith
Many applications, including Apple-made applications, simply ignore this switch and will gladly send their noises to the external speaker, angering everyone on the plane, or waking your sleeping wife (this one actually happened to me). The only safe way to silence the iPhone is to enable the "silent" switch and plug in some headphones.
As the writer observed, Apple has to allow applications — such as alarm clocks — to ignore the silent switch. But, please don't abuse this, app authors, please?
by Jason Perlow, ZDNet.com
by Jacqui Cheng, David Chartier and Clint Ecker, Ars Technica
It's great as a consumer device, but with enterprise users' expectations having been raised this time around, we feel it still has quite a ways to go.
by John Siracusa, Macworld
Apple could succeed where TiVo has failed. In addition to its technology and design prowess, Apple has shown that it's willing and able to take on the powers that be.
by MacNN
Comic Boom includes unlimited drawing placement, allowing kids to quickly design four-panel comic strips to post on blogs, websites or saved sas PDF or JPG files.
by Brady Forrest, O'Reilly Radar
by Craig Hockenberry, Furbo.org
The tools that developers use to analyze and debug [iPhone software] problems are sorely missing at this point in time.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
Apple should certainly be proud of the fact that it sold a million iPhone 3Gs in the device's first weekend—but how about a word or two of appreciation for the patience of the folks who endured a tremendous amount of inconvenience to enable Apple to hit that mark? And while we're at it, maybe Apple could also reassure its customers that it will look into what went wrong on Friday so that it will minimize the chances of repeating those mistakes at future product launches.
by John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine
A few opinion makers, hand-selected by Apple to get phones in advance with the expectation of a glowing review, and the editors think this is just peachy? And they wonder why blogs are so popular. Perhaps it's because you ca get a less-corrupted opinion.
by Brian X. Chen, Wired
Instead of happily tapping their touch screens, many iPhone users are using their fingers to point accusingly at Apple - and the developers of iPhone applications.
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
One behind-the-scenes aspect of the phone that I think shows some level of thoughtful design is that applications can very easily link to other aspects of the phone.
by Dan Moren, MacUser
It appears that you can teweak that setting if you don't mind venturing into the dark realms of .plist editing.
by Jeff Smykill, Ars Technica
There is one application that I am looking forward to: an eBook reader. Unfortunately, creating one may be a lot harder than it seems.
by Sascha Segan, ExtremeTech
Why isn't there cut and paste? Apple has a priority list of featuers, and they got as far as they could down that list with this model, Apple product head Greg Joswiak said.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
There are some really cool games you can download that won't cost you a penny.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Apple indicates that more than 800 native applications are now available for download from the App Store, with more than 200 available for free.
by AppleInsider
Despite widespread activation problems, Apple said Monday that it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, just three days after the new handset launched worldwide on Friday, July 11.
by Tim Haddock, Macworld
RapidWeaver 4.0 strikes just the right balance between customizability and ease of use. If you find iWeb limiting, Dreamweaver intimidating, and hand coding impossible, give RapidWeaver a try.
by David Zeiler, Baltimore Sun
This would be a humiliation for any large company, but it's worse for Apple, which has built its public image on a foundation of superior design and customer service.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
by Larry Magld, CBS News
If this does catch on, it could be incredibly disruptive to both the terrestiral and the relatively new satellite radio industries. With the internet, stations no longer neeed transmitters, satellites or hard-to-get-FCC licenses to broadcast to mobile listeners.
It's like podcasts, but live.
by Pete Mortensen, Cult Of Mac
With Pandora and AOL Radio, it has officially made the iPhone superior in every way to a satellite radio — unless you care about Howard Stern.
by Michael Mace, Mobile Opportunity
Apple's PR miasma is also starting to twist the thinking of people in the tech industry who ought to know better.
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
Apple Inc. may have sold as many as 425,000 of its new iPhones in the first three days after the handset made its debut, in line with projections even after a technical breakdown seemed poised to stall sales.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet.com
Woz claims that he was invited to the front of the line and didn't cut.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Tipulator's user interface is pleasant and friendly, and while it works well enough, for such a simple process, it sometimes seems like overkill.
by Simon Tsang, Sydney Morning Herald
In many respects, the biggest difference between the iPhone 3G and its competitors won't be the device itself but two new online services Apple is launching called App Store and MobileMe.
by Jeff Carlson, TidBITS
It wasn't a party, but it wasn't a slog, either.
by Clint Ecker, Ars Technica
by Yardena Arar, PC World
The battery life on Apple's new 3G iPhone isn't great, but it beats that of other 3G smartphones we've seen.
by Joe Nocera, International Herald Tribune
For heavy cellphone users - and who isn't these days? - the battery is going to need a charge by lunchtime. Good luck with that.
by Colleen Cason, Ventura County Star
Watchers of the tech scene have predicted the demographic for this new version of the iPhone would skew older. Older and wiser, they had been burned by Betamax and Quadraphonic sound.
by Macenstein
It seems several different companies have renamed their iPhone games to begin with either a space, a quotation mark, or some other symbol so that they appear first in the list of 197 games on the iPhone portal to the App Store.
by Stephen Withers, iTWire
The situation regarding .Mac's Groups and HomePage features is still unclear.
by Rene Ritchie, The iPhone Blog
It's just that simple... which is really the point.
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
Most of tips boil down to turning off features you're not using. Turn off 3G, location services, push e-mail, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth if you're not using them. Adjust brightness. Minimize use of third-party applications like games that prevent the screen from dimming or shutting off, and applications that use location services.
by Melissa J. Perenson, PC World
I've become accustomed to being frustrated—an experience I'm not used to associating with Apple. Of course, much of the frustration emanates as much from the inadequacy of the AT&T network as it does from the iPhone's issues.
by Arnold Kim, MacRumors.com
In order to use the advanced Push capabilities of MobileMe from your Mac, you need to enable "Automatic" synchronization by selecting it in the MobileMe control panel.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
We're getting anecdotal reports that Apple Stores still have lines of would-be iPhone shoppers over the weekend (though nothing like the block-long queues you would have seen on Friday).
by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com
According to Doug and Patrice Broussard, Woz actually never waited in line at all. The couple said the Apple co-founder lounged on some of the mall's nearby sofas for about four hours and them ambled up to the front of the queue when the store opened at 8 a.m. and simply cut in line. No discussion.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
I can't help but feel that it might benefit from a bit more polish and refinement.
by John Markoff, International Herald Tribune
When Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone 18 months ago, he contended that viewing the web on it was comparable to browsing on a desktop personal computer.
As it turns out, Jobs may well have understated the quality of the iPhone web experience. Visiting web sites that have been redesigned for the iPhone is often a quicker and more pleasing experience than it is on those increasingly cinema-style desktop displays.
by BRad Reed, Network World
by Connie Guglielmo, Bloomberg
Almost all of Apple Inc.'s stores in the U.S. reported they will have the iPhone 3G to sell, a day after thousands lined up to buy the handset and emptied most of AT&T Inc.'s inventory.
by Louis Gray
by Prince McLean, AppleInsider
by Jeff Gamet, Mac Observer
by Duncan Stewart, Financial Post
In the short term, I think the single best way for Canadian investors to make a bet on the iPhone's success is to buy ROgers.
by John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News
For many iPhone fans, the 3G launch is not just a sale but a happening.
by Spanner Spencer, Pocket Gamer
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
The iPhone 3G packs quite a punch, both in its design and in the 3G and GPS capabilities. Combined with the new features available to all iPhone owners, it is a generational leap forward that raises the bar for what a mobile device can be.
by Mat Lu, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
by Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
I used to wonder what kind of person stood in line for the better part of the day to buy a product when it first became available. Now I don't have to wonder — I am the one.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Some data that gets lost when you drag photos from iPhoto into the Finder.
by Kelly Turner, Macworld
Connected Flow's Exposure puts the world of Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo-sharing service, at your fingertips with an intuitive interface that makes it easy to not just show off your own photos, but also to explore the latest snapshots from your friends and the larger Flickr community.
by Lexton Snol, Macworld UK
Flanked by police officers Apple staff effectively closed the London Apple Store today in the middle of the afternoon.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
Activation nightmares plague iPhone owners, new and old.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Victor Godinez, Dallas Morning News
Well, I guess Apple does care about games.
by Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code
The current situation is confusing, as it is never clear where a particular application's settings can be found.
I don't have an iPhone to play with, but it seems that developers should (re)design their applications to suit the iPhone's HIG and capabilities.
by Robert Scoble, Scobleizer
It's worth the hell. Apple and AT&T will do just fine after fixing all the bugs that caused today's debacle.
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
by Duncan Martell, Reuters
by Dan Gillmor, Center For Citizen Media
by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Apple disclosed Friday that the iPhone 2.0 software, which can be downloaded by users of the previous-generation iPhone, fixes some bugs in the browser and networking software in that earlier device. Some of the browser bugs are serious and could give attackers a way to sneak malicious software onto the iPhone.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
Remote works well with iTunes, but it's a godsend for Apple TV—especially if, like me, you've got a massive music collection.
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
Overall, a worthwhile upgrade. Still, having to pay for an update that contains security updates sucks a bit.
Apple should really change the iPod touch's accounting, so that customers can get new software free.
by Joel Johnson, Popular Mechanics
The advent of the "auth chip" made it impossible for any third-party company to produce iPod-compatible gadgets without dealing first with Apple—the only company selling the chip.
by Danny Dumas, Wired
Lining up in front of the San Francisco Apple store during the wee hours on Friday morning, Wired.com correspondents talked to a litany of fascinating iPhone fans, geeky tech-heads and even some cynics.
by AppleInsider
by David Pogue, New York Times
"For reasonable interest rates, the new plan is cheaper."
by The Macalope, CNET News.com
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Super Monkey Ball is all about the racing, the core component of hte game's GameCube predecessor. But the mini-games and multiplayer games that make the GameCube game fun when you're having a party are all absent—something for Sega to work on for the next installation, for sure.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
It only makes sense that one of the most popular games to be developed for "jailbroken" iPhones would see life anew as an official App Store release.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
3-D puzzle game gets multi-touch controls.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
I keep seeing these little iPhone names pop up in my iTunes, then disappear back into oblivion. Over and over.
by Oliver Moore and Matt Trevisan, Reporton Business
Christian Meagher yawned as he did his fifth interview of the morning. Minutes away from being the first person to buy the new iPhone in Canada, he'd been up all night and was having trouble staying excited.
by Linda Nguyen, Hollie Shaw and Brendan Kennedy, Finance Post/Ottawa Citizen/Edmonton Journal
by Ryan Block, Engadget
There are always things that could be improved, features to be added, fixes that should be applied — but from first to second gen, from year one to year two, Apple has proven itself a relentless upstart in the mobiile space, and is showing no signs of slowing down.
by Gizmodo
by Brian Braiker, Newsweek
For a small, disparate group of passionate technophiles, Steve Jobs & Co. can do no right.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
The game of Bejeweled is fun to play and the iPhone is probably the best mobile platform made for it to date, and yet Bejeweled 2 is not nearly as good as it could have been.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
The service was expected to be fully operational by now, but things have clearly not been going according to plan. And Apple has now confessed to problems.
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
However, if you've hungry for music and media you won't find this in the new iTunes Stores - they're App Stores designed to support the iPhone 3G.
We started asking whether iTunes is suitable name when Apple added movies and TV shows. Now, we essentially have iTunes Stores that do not even sell music, movies or TV shows. Still iTunes Stores, eh?
by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Software problems marred the launch of the iPhone 3G at Apple's flagship store in London, where customers had difficulty activating their new phones.
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Pete Mortensen, Cult Of Mac
The fact that Apple has made room for someone else to deliver media to the iPhone really announces to the world that it is a platform for other companies to make money.
by Matt Hartley, Globe And Mail
After striking an eleventh-hour deal with Apple on Wednesday night, the president and founder of Tornoto-based Comwave Telecom Inc. is pleased with the way his legal odyssey with the computer maker has ended.
by AFP
Apple fans across Asia lined for hours to get their hands on the new iPhone Friday, looking to be the first to own a gadget the company hopes will be as big a worldwide smash as the iPod.
For the purpose of this article, Australia and New Zealand are also part of Asia.
by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
On the iPhone's App Store app, at the bottom of the details page for every app is a downloads count. Given that the only way to downoad a non-free app is to buy it, it more or less puts sales figures out in the open.
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
It's just that I think there will be so many great free apps in the store that I won't even need to worry about paying for software.
by Paul Glazowski, Mashable
by Beth Snyder Bulik, Advertising Age
Blog after blog chronicles the move from Windows to Mac operating systems.
by Natasha Lomas, CNET News.com
The iPhone—and its app store—has bags of potential as a business tool—so in the not too distant future it will undoubtedly be disrupting a fair amount of workplaces, and work practices.
by Gizmodo
by AFP
Japan's Apple fans traded sleep and comfort for the thrill of being the first to buy the iPhone, with many camping out days before the launch.
by Jake Widman, The Industry Standard
Remember the iPhond naysayers? The experts, observers and competitors who said Apple's mobile phone wsa too expensive, overhyped, or otherwise lacking? Well, the Industry Standard went back to seven of the critics — including John C. Dvorak, Dan Gillmor, and Steve Ballmer — and asked them what they think now that the iPhone has proven itself a hit with consumers and turned the mobile world upside-down.
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple's revamped online service, MobileMe, remained unavailable to users throughout much of the day Thursday, prompting some angry complaints on the company's support forums.
by Craig Grannell, Cult Of Mac
My concern is that the genius of Apple's lack of physical controls for most applicatoins might be its undoing in the games world.
by Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
We have talked to several developers, some with several apps that didn't make the cut and have made some guesses as to what Apple's process was.
by Bbum's Weblog-O-Mat
Having bi-directional, fully stateful, communication between the remote and the media playback device is a gigantic game changer.
by Joanathan Seff, Macworld
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
The first three native EA Mobile iPhone games from EA are Scrabble, Sudoku and Tetris.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Here on the first day of the App Store's existence, what do we find? Three alternatives to Apple's built-in calculator.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Freeverse Software's debut game on the iPHone is a challenging 3D vehicle racing game called Wingnuts Moto Racer.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Twitterrific displays tweets from your contacts and lets you send tweets.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
The most fascinating feature of Exposure by far is using the iPhone's built in location service to browse pictures that were taken near your current location.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
by Dan Moren, Macworld
LateNiteSoft's Sketches lets you draw all over your iPhone, including on pictures that you import from your iPhone's photo albums or camera.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
Circulator lets you track of what stuff of what stuff you've borrowed and what you've lent, including the day the loan started and the due date of the item in question.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Ambrosia Software, long-time Macintosh utility and application developer, announced Thursday that it has launched three iPhone games with the introduction of the App Store. Ambrosia's kicking off its iPhone application releases with Aki Mahjong, mondo Solitaire and Mr. Sudoku.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
by Dan Moren, Macworld
Among the first programs available in Apple's newly launched App Store is a free application called Remote, developed by Apple itself. Remote lets you control your iTunes library or an Apple TV all from your iPhone or iPod touch.
by Jason Snell, Macworld
If you've ever seen something interesting on your iPhone's screen and wanted to capture it—or, more practically, you're someone who writes about the iPhone and has lamented its inability to take screen shots—you'll be happy about a small feature in the iPhone 2.0 software.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
When you click Buy in the App Store, you buy immediately.
by John Markoff and Laura M. Holson, New York Times
Wem Apple opens its online App Store for iPhone software on Thursday, Steven P. Jobs will be making an attempt to dominate the next generation of computing as it moves toward internet-connected mobile devices.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Here's a first look at the new service and how it works.
by Dan Moren, Macworld
by Jason Snell, Macworld
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
by Jonny Evans, Macworld UK
by iPodNN
The new version is designed to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G as well as download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.0 or later.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
If you spend a lot of your work day dealing with text, having a tool that helps you quickly insert special characters can be a real productivity booster.
by Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service
Apple will open a retail store in Beijing on July 19, stepping up its presence in China three weeks before the start of the Summer Olympic Games.
by Justin Scheck and Nick Wingfeld, Wall Street Journal
The Justice Department has ended its criminal investigation of backdated stock options at Apple Inc., deciding not to bring charges against the company or several current and former executives it had been probing for two years, people familiar with the case said.
by Jefferson Graham, USA Today
With 500 programs launching internationally Thursday night, "This is the biggest launch of my career," says Jobs.
by CTV.ca
Rogers Wireless has slashed the cost of using an iPhone in Canada following an outcry of customer complaints over the price of its data packages.
by MacNN
Greenpeace is again calling Apple out on its enviromental practices, citing that the iPhone 3G uses the same toxic building materials that it found in its breakdown of the original device.
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Dan Lyons, the former Forbes writer and soon-to-be Newsweek writer, announced Wednesday in a rambling post that he's shutting down the tech industry phenomenon known as The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
PowerTunes lets you create multiple iTunes libraries, organize your music among multiple music folders, share music and libraries between multiple users on a single machine and more.
by MacNN
Home Sweet Home allows gamers to act as home designers.
by Kris Abel, CTV
Enjoy the crazy rumours for their entertainment valu, but please don't be so quick to take them seriously.
by MacNN
Apple's flagship American store, the Fifth Avenue location in New York City, will temporarily close on July 10th, Apple has announced.
by Joel Evans, Geek.com
That was it. No commotion, no negotiation, just calm, cool, and confident. I felt reassured that my MacBook would come back soon an