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by Paul Govan, Wired
With all the excitement over the iPhone and iPod Touch games it’s easy to forget that the original iPod can also play an impressive array of games. Tweet
by Jung-Ah Lee, Dow Jones
A South Korean government agency said Thursday that it has requested Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) Korea unit to recall some of its iPod nano music players on concerns that batteries in the device may overheat. Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Cocktail 4.4, a "general purpose utility for Mac OS X", adds ability to reset home directory permissions and Access Control Lists (ACLs), and to set Time Machine's backup interval and to modify other Time Machine settings.
The Missing Sync for Palm Pre "works with Mac applications you already know and use — Address Book, iTunes, iCal, Entourage and iPhoto — to let you transfer and sync information and files between your Mac and Pre."
Nisus Writer Pro 1.3 word processor "adds a completely new document manager."
REALbasic and REAL Studio 2009 adds "OpenGL support for 3D images and animation."
XMenu "adds global menus on your menu bar to give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and snippets." Tweet
by Gus G. Sentementes, Baltimore Sun
Catering to Mac owners proves a viable business. Tweet
by Helen Walters, BusinessWeek
Jonathan Ive isn’t prone to making wild proclamations about design, his boss, Steve Jobs, or Apple, the company at which he’s led the design team since 1996. Indeed, he’s not really one for speaking in public much at all. So it was with a sense of keen anticipation that a group of 700 or so Londoners descended on the Royal Geographical Society in posh South Kensington to hear Ive in conversation with Sir Christopher Frayling, rector of the Royal College of Art. Tweet
by Garry Barker, The Age
Good presenting, whether for a big audience or a small school class, is not about screens full of bullet points, text and pie charts. It is about capturing the interest of an audience by telling a story, says Les Posen, president of iMUG, the Internet Macintosh User Group, a clinical psychologist and a Keynote guru whose skill with the application has been recognised by Apple. Tweet
by Emery P. Dalesio, BusinessWeek
The reason is that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company continues to negotiate contract and other details involving the offer by Catawba County and the town of Maiden, said Dale Carroll, deputy secretary of the state Commerce Department. Tweet
by Scott Foval, Huffington Post Tweet
by John Casasanta, Tap Tap Tap
So even though Apple isn’t touting it, the increased RAM size of the iPhone 3GS is definitely a major contributor to the “S” in its name. It’s an incredibly welcome improvement. Tweet
by Farhad Manjoo, New York Times
Here are some of the best apps to keep your life running smoothly. Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Is anyone raising the question whether Apple's apparent refusal to go into 'netbook' business is because Apple have insider knowledge about Google's plan with the Chrome OS? Tweet
by Brad Stone, New York Times
Google’s new operating system, which the Internet search giant said could ship in the low-cost computers called netbooks by next year, is likely to create more questions for regulators looking into Google’s relationship with Apple. Tweet
by Tom Yager, InfoWorld
The 15-inch MacBook Pro is the best of the tier-one commercial notebooks, full stop. There are cheaper notebooks, but I'd challenge you to find one that's faster, quieter, and better built than MacBook Pro. Tweet
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
$144,326.06, according to Busted Loop. Which, I believe, is within Guy Kawasaki's budget, if he still works at Apple. Tweet
by Grey Sacle Gorilla
What really blew me away though is the fact that the touch point on your photo also regulates exposure and color temperature. Tweet
by Joseph Cadotte, Inside Mac Games
This is an excellent game with immense depth. I highly recommend it to people who are tired of fantasy or find EVE to be too daunting. There is great possibility for both casual and obsessive play. Tweet
by Magnus Nystedt , Shuffle Gazine
Why is it that we Apple fans get so excited when we see or meet other Apple users? Tweet
by Bambi Brannan, Mac360
Layers captures your Mac’s whole screen in a Photoshop layered image. Tweet
by DigMo
If you are anything like me you are spending a fair amount time uploading photos to flickr, documents to ftp spaces and even more regularly emailing documents and files to colleagues. The sharing process takes time but the good news is it is about to get considerably quicker with the release of Dropzone. Tweet
by Macworld
Also announced: SkypeCap, Flickery, XMenu, and EasyFind updates; Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone for iPhone. Tweet
by Jonathan Seff, Macworld
According to Apple's notes, the update improves the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine and includes the latest compatibility and security fixes. Tweet
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Your position on Apple's board of directors now looks completely untenable given Google's intention to release a lightweight operating system for personal computers called Chrome OS. Tweet
by Nick Spence, Macworld UK
California-based Shared Memory Graphics claims the Apple iPod, Nintendo’s motion-controlled Wii, and Sony PSP and PS2 game consoles make use of two graphic accelerator systems patented by the company. Tweet
by Lex Friedman, Macworld
I spent some time composing and reading 140-character missives with five popular Twitter apps. Here’s how they stack up. Tweet
by Joe Kissell, Macworld
You'll always be able to access critical passwords if you take these steps. Tweet
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