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Neil Swidey, Boston Globe
Parents who hand smart phones to their preschoolers as a distraction are shocked to see how quickly the kids become pros. They may worry about such early screen time. But for this generation of “mobile kids,” portable, wireless technology promises to improve the way they learn. Tweet
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET News
If putting an iPhone into their hands makes them happier and smarter, and, well, hushed in concentration, then might this not be a good thing? Tweet
MacNN
The application is designed to remove noise in the color and luminance layers of images, both separately and together. The upgrade delivers a series of new features including support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 8, 64-bit Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Snow Leopard, as well as improvements to both the noise reduction algorithm and interface. Tweet
Don Reisinger, CNET News
If you're a fan of comic books, you should also be a fan of the iPhone. Apple's smartphone is home to several neat comic-book apps designed specifically for those who want to enjoy harrowing stories of their favorite heroes in the Digital Age. Tweet
Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
1. Cover Flow.
2. Mobile Safari likes to crash.
3. iTunes likes to automatically start playing when I remove or insert the headphone. Tweet
James Galbraith, Macworld
With its considerably faster 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of RAM, it’s no surprise that the new $799 Mac mini was noticeably faster in our tests. Tweet
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS
The reason for this omission is the Chinese government's efforts since 2003 - in fits and starts - to promote a proprietary security standard for 802.11 devices called WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure; WLAN standard for wireless local area network). Tweet
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Owners of Apple's new iMacs, including the pricier 27-in. model, have reported major performance problems with their machines, including extremely sluggish playback of Flash-based video, according to posts on Apple's support forum. Tweet
Sang Tang, TUAW Tweet
Macworld
Apple TV 3.0 is a nice, mild update to an outdated piece of hardware that’s still not nearly as capable as it should be. The real question is, what’s next for Apple’s hobby? If Steve Jobs knows the answer, he’s not talking. Tweet
CNET News
Apple released iTunes 9.0.2 today an update that included additional improvements to app sorting for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Tweet
Technologizer
If you measure Rhaspody for iPhone’s success by the downloads it has accumulated — over a half million — it would be a hit. But looking at Real’s quarterly results, which reported subscriber numbers for the service, a different story is told. Rhapsody is still steadily losing subscribers, definitely not good news for the company. Tweet
Jimmy Yap, iMerlion
Alvin Ng may be blind but that has not stopped him from being an avid iPhone user. He loves playing around with the device and trying out apps from the app store. He even provides iPhone tech support to his wife, a private tutor who has normal sight. Tweet
Jimmy Yap, iMerlion Tweet
Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac
The big problem is that the Magic Mouse doesn’t operate completely like a little trackpad. Instead, it’s a hybrid between a regular mouse and a multitouch trackpad. Tweet
Gizmodo
If there's one Apple product that lives outside the Reality Distortion Field, it's Apple TV . But hey wait, 3.0 is out , doesn't that change everything? Well, considering Apple rolled it out on a Thursday afternoon with no fanfare, whattaya think? Tweet
App Advice
It is common belief that all purchases on the App Store are definitive. Well, it’s not the case. It’s true indeed that you might get disoriented in iTunes but if you know how to proceed and as long as you have a valid reason, there is no obstacle to getting your money back. Tweet
Josh Lowensohn, CNET News
Time-lapse movies can be a complicated affair, and quite often involve either a lot of special equipment, and/or post-processing skills. For just a buck though, you can use the recently released Timelapser app to turn your iPhone into a tool that can do this time-bending filming technique using nothing more than the onboard camera. Tweet
Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal
The buzz-killer is price. Tweet
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet
Apple’s weathered the economic downturn like almost no other company, pulling in massive profits without having to resort to deep price cuts. But what’s its secret? Tweet
MacNN
Apple on Thursday released iTunes 9.0.2, an update do its media software. The latest version adds support for Apple TV's v3.0 firmware, which features a revamped menu system and several iTunes features such as Genius Mixes, LPs and Extras. Tweet
AppleInsider
Users can now watch iTunes Extras and iTunes LP in fullscreen with their Apple TV, as well as listen to Genius Mixes and Internet radio through their home theater system. The new Apple TV software is available immediately free of charge to existing Apple TV owners. Tweet
Sharon Zardetto, Macworld
Bail out of all sorts of situations with this one versatile key. Tweet
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone1 is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A portable networked computing and gaming device that can be easily operated with one hand can be used in a surprising variety of situations. Tweet
Matthew Bolton, Techradar.com
And why there's no pinch-to-zoom. Tweet
AppleInsider
Google on Wednesday revealed a free online navigation service that will be a part of its forthcoming Android 2.0 mobile operating system. It could also come to the iPhone, the company said, if given the green light by Apple. Tweet
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Natalia Nowak, Mac 360 Tweet
Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine
The Apple iMac 27-inch (Core 2 Duo) is certainly a class-defining product. It's got a huge screen, looks beautiful, and has some serious power under the hood. Tweet
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Half a billion doesn't seem like so much when it's compared with the $1.4 billion Microsoft spent in fiscal 2009, or the $811 million Dell spent on ads I can't remember ever seeing. In fact, as a percentage of revenue, Apple has actually been decreasing its ad spending every year for the past eight, from nearly 5% in 2001 to 1.37% today (1.17% if you use non-GAAP revenue). Tweet
Lance Whitney, CNET News
Tweetie is the app I've stuck with the longest, and the one I heartily recommend. Tweet
MacNN Tweet
AppleInsider
Multiple sources have noted that Apple will be transitioning its retail store EasyPay handheld checkout systems from Windows-based PDA devices to iPod touch hardware for the 2009 holiday season. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
Brett Terpstra, TUAW
Timeline from PixelNovel aims to take the "geek" requirements out of using version control in Photoshop. Tweet
Jim Dalrymple, The Loop Tweet
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
The Mac and iPod slices shrank between '08 and '09. iTunes grew a bit. iPhone grew a lot. Tweet
Erica Sadun, TUAW
It has been a long journey from the ill-fated Lyrics with its censoring issues, Easter eggs, and unlicensed data to the fully licensed Lyrics 2. Hopefully, Kluivers' story will provide an inspiration for the other small developers out there. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
MacNN
Excel Software has announced an update to its project- and document-protection application, DocProtect 1.1. The program is designed to protect rights and prevent access to HTML projects, image collections, video and audio files, PDFs, and Excel spreadsheets for all non-licensed users. Tweet
James Galbraith, Macworld
Compared to the system it replaces, the new 2.26GHz MacBook was faster than the older 2.13GHz MacBook in every test we ran, though, in many cases, not by very much. Tweet
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
The number of apps already in the store — and, even more so, the momentum with which new ones are being added — almost certainly guarantees the continuing popularity of the iPhone and iPod Touch for the next few years. But Windows is proof that popularity doesn’t guarantee market-leading quality. Tweet
Om Malik, GigaOm
Back home, the machine is sitting on the table, wrapped up in cellophane. I dread even booting it up. What’s the point if this one is going to be another lemon – three in a row is a pretty bad sign, don’t you think? I am not even angry anymore – I have lost the data, I have lost my time and more importantly, I have lost my trust in Apple and its hardware. As an unabashed fan boy of Apple products – that is the worst part of this whole ordeal. Tweet
Ken Ray, TUAW Tweet
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica
Giving Psystar $50 buys you repackaged open source software but doesn't guarantee a fully-functional hackintosh. Rebel EFI appears to be just another attempt to profit from others' work. Tweet
Editable Apple Tweet
The Digital Lifestyle Tweet
Dennis Sellers, Macsimum News Tweet
Tarmo Virki, Reuters
A legal battle between Apple Inc and Nokia Corp over patent infringement is likely to last for more than a year, said Bill Merritt, the head of mobile licensing firm InterDigital. Tweet
Jonathan Seff, Macworld Tweet
AppleInsider
Starting in January 2010, part-time Apple employees who have been with the company for one year will receive full medical insurance coverage, as part of their compensation. Tweet
Doug McLean, TidBITS Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo
"The holiday lineup is set."
It's all going to be pre-announcements from now until end of the year? Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld
ScreenFlow 2.0 is a big step forward for the screen recording application. The addition of transitions, freeze frames, clip speed adjustments, audio ducking, and basic color adjustment tools really make ScreenFlow an all-in-one solution. It’s now something that I could use for an entire project from start to finish, instead of exporting my edited screen recordings for further processing in Final Cut Express. Those users who need higher-end features, such as real color correction or advanced titling and more control over transitions, will still want to do some work in Final Cut or Final Cut Express; for most anyone else, though, ScreenFlow should meet their needs. Tweet
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Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Overall, I’ve been impressed with VMware Fusion 3’s performance during my time with it. Creating new virtual machines was simple, performance was good even on a mid-range iMac, and the ability to use Aero effects and run 3D games in the virtual machine was impressive. The new Virtual Machine Library screen eases the management of multiple virtual machines, and the built-in update tool will make it easy to keep up to date with future releases. Tweet
MacNN
App4mac has released a major upgrade to its data protection program for both the Mac and iPhone: SecretBox 2 is designed to create a database which can be used to store information such as credit card numbers, software registrations, and e-mail logins. Tweet
AppleInsider
Third party testing has confirmed that Apple's new 27" iMac can only be used as an external display for devices designed to provide DisplayPort video. It will not work with any equipment that only supports VGA, DVI, or HDMI output. Tweet
Apple
With thousands of doctors, nurses, and administrators in 11 hospitals — including the busiest trauma center in the country — Memorial Hermann Healthcare System depends on the latest mobile technologies to streamline its services and deliver better patient care. iPhone and state-of-the-art medical apps like AirStrip OB let Memorial Hermann’s physicians keep a finger on patients’ pulses even when they can’t be at their bedsides. Tweet
Dave Caolo, TUAW Tweet
Don Reisinger, eWeek
As the marketing battle between Apple and Microsoft continues to heat up, desktop and notebook buyers are benefiting from improvements in features, security and user experience on both platforms. Apple keeps hammering away with the message that its platform is more secure and reliable. Microsoft is counting on improvements in Windows 7 to trigger a sustained wave of hardware and operating system upgrades that will keep buyers committed to the Windows platform. Here are 10 reasons why the Microsoft-Apple market war is a win-win situation for PC buyers. Tweet
Nate McMahon, Motley Fool
To understand why Apple's crushed earnings predictions were no shock, take a look at the business model that telegraphed the punches behind what Apple called its most profitable quarter ever. Tweet
John Biggs, CrunchGear Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
Judging from the first Verizon commercial about the Droid project, it would seem that they clearly believe it is better than the iPhone. But if Verizon is so confident in this new device, why would they put themselves through the hassle of dealing with Apple to get what they view to be an inferior device? Tweet
Lex Friedman, Macworld Tweet
Lex Friedman, Macworld
Much of the focus on last week’s quarterly earning announcement focused on record-setting Mac and iPhone sales and Apple’s recession-defying performance in this part of the globe. But just as interesting were the stellar numbers Apple turned in from other continents—and whether the company can keep that trend going into the lucrative holiday-shopping season. Tweet
MacNN
Apple has agreed to spend over $4 million on renovating a Chicago subway station, according to Chicago Business. The station is situated near the intersection of North and Clybourn, where Apple is set to build another retail store for the city, measuring some 15,000 square feet with design by long-time partner Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The lease on the real estate is expected to cost Apple at least $700,000 annually. Tweet
Charles W. Moore, Low End Mac Tweet
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet
For App Store developers, these sorts of statistics must make depressing reading. It’s also a shameful indictment of a certain segment of iPhone/iPod touch users who happily pay hundreds of dollars for a device and feel the need to steal an app worth a few bucks. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
Roman Loyola, Macworld
Although it’s not perfect, the Magic Mouse successfully combines design and usability. It's great as a two-button wireless mouse, but if you need more than two buttons, the Magic Mouse is not for you. Tweet
Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog
We feel so good about our lofty development ideals, that we spend a lot of time kicking back and reflecting on what a great job we’re doing. Some of us even write lengthy blog posts sycophantically congratulating ourselves on a collective “job well done.” Jerks. In spite of our skillful self-adulation, we also appreciate and seek the opportunity to be rewarded with admiration from presumably unbiased groups. That is to say, we’re interested in awards. Tweet
Ian Paul, PC World
The New York Times' Executive Editor, Bill Keller may have inadvertently confirmed the existence of the oft-rumored Apple Tablet in a private speech earlier this month. Keller may have also let slip the name of the new device: Apple Slate. Then again, he may have been speaking hypothetically based on the common assumption that Apple is about to release a tablet device in the next few months. Tweet
Joe Kissell, Macworld
BusyCal addresses almost every common complaint about iCal, adds useful new features, and yet maintains the same simple interface and ease of use Mac users are accustomed to. The program is overkill for users with simple calendaring needs who have never found iCal limiting, but for anyone who needs to share calendars or wants a wider range of scheduling options, BusyCal is an ideal choice. Tweet
Leena Rao, TechCrunch Tweet
Rick LePage, Macworld
If you measure solely by whiz-bang new features, Photoshop Elements 8 comes across as a minor upgrade from version 6. However, with a the addition of few strong new tools and lots of small improvements, Elements remains a bargain for those people who want much of the power of Photoshop, but don’t want to pay the high price. Tweet
Jeff Carlson, Macworld
Editing video is a task ideally suited to large monitors and lots of screen real estate. You want to see your video large, but still have plenty of room to view the project’s clips. Unfortunately, most of us don’t own a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display.
The designers of iMovie were sympathetic, however, and included several options for maximizing the editing environment for any screen size. Whether you want to focus on your project instead of your video library, or just want to recover some elbow room while editing, the following techniques will help. Tweet
Charles Arthur, Guardian
The big - the really big - question though is: what does Apple want a new filesystem to do? What is there that HFS+ Journaled [to use the American spelling] doesn't do that it needs a file system to do? Tweet
AppleInsider
Bandwidth-heavy mobile devices like Apple's iPhone will require new policies because of a coming "spectrum gap," the U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman said in a new interview. Tweet
Meaghan Block, SCSU University Chronicle Tweet
S M Ong, The New Paper
Why can't the adult apps be segregated into a "Mature" category that I can tell my kids to avoid? Tweet
Mitch Wagner , InformationWeek
Healthcare professionals and individuals are finding ways to manage health and wellness with applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Tweet
John O'Brien, NEWS.com.au
But has the rapid rise come at a cost? Does the App Store - and by extension the iPhone and iPod touch - risk becoming a victim of its own success? Let’s consider the evidence ... Tweet
Jeff Carlson, Seattle Times
I've written in this column about the importance of having a good, reliable backup of your computer's data. Of course, you know it's a good idea, but backing up is like flossing: you know you should be doing it regularly, but something more important or interesting to do often comes up instead. And besides, your data won't get lost, right? Tweet
Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDNet Tweet
Robert Scoble, Scobleizer
I’m not going to be switching anytime soon, and neither are you. Tweet
Jack Loftus, Gizmodo Tweet
Steve Birenberg , Seeking Alpha Tweet
Louis Gerbarg, /dev/why!?! Tweet
Brooke Crothers, CNET News
By not coughing up a low-cost MacBook, as some had expected, Apple has ceded a potentially huge market to PC makers. But is this just all part of Apple's marketing genius? Tweet
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
Both companies beat expectations last week, but only one of them was growing. Tweet
Wendy Lee, The Tennessean
Apple's iPhone has become a frenzied frontier to sell and market products, but making a profit there or even getting noticed is far from a sure thing. In Nashville, businesses ranging from well-funded corporations such as Nissan to entrepreneurs operating out of their homes have developed applications for the iPhone with different goals. Tweet
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Dan Zak, Washington Post
Finger painting used to be the province of the preschooler. Now adults do it. Doodlers do it. Serious artists do it, like pop art master David Hockney. They do it -- as we do nearly everything these days -- with an iPhone application. "Brushes," which allows users to paint on the white digital canvas of an iPhone screen or iPod Touch using their fingertips, hit the app store in August 2008. Sales soared earlier this year after artist Jorge Colombo designed the New Yorker's June 1 cover art using the application. Tweet
Reuters
Apple faces the possibility of having to pay the world's top cellphone maker Nokia up to $US1 billion ($1.08 billion) for the technologies used in iPhones sold so far if it loses a lawsuit brought by Nokia, analysts said. Tweet
Douglas MacMillan, Peter Burrows and Spencer E. Ante, BusinessWeek
It's easy to shrug off the kooky world of apps. The bite-size software programs people load onto their mobile phones or tap into on the Web seem mostly to be silly games and pointless novelties. But look past the beer-drinking apps and flatulence programs and you'll see something significant taking shape: a bustling app economy that's creating new fortunes for entrepreneurs and changing the way business gets done. Tweet
Eric Norwood, App Advice
This is the first app from the United States space program for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It gives users direct access to up-to-date space mission content, NASA mission updates, images, and video links. Tweet
Computer Shopper
While some all-in-one desktops have come close to besting the iMac in certain areas, none has been able to beat Apple’s flagship desktop on both levels. Factor in the new Magic Mouse, and a beautiful LCD with more real estate than anything this side of a $1,000 monitor, and Apple has cemented the iMac’s reputation as the all-in-one to beat. Tweet
Scott McNulty, Macworld Tweet
Ted Landau, Macworld Tweet
Matt Neuburg, TidBITS Tweet
Nicole Martinelli, Cult of Mac
Today is the 8th birthday of the iPod and yes, though it hasn’t reached even a decade of life, it’s already the object of several museum exhibits. Tweet
Stephanie Ebbert, Boston Globe
The mayor’s campaign treasurer acknowledged this week that he called the Boston Redevelopment Authority two years ago about the permitting process for a massive iPod banner ad along the Southeast Expressway, an outsize display that Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s administration ultimately endorsed, despite its usual discouragement of new billboards. Tweet
TJ Luoma, TUAW Tweet
MacNN
Following news of Nokia's patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, UBS analyst Maynard Um suggests the possibility of a hidden agenda. The case -- involving Nokia patents on technology ranging from 3G to Wi-Fi and GSM -- could be a preemptive strike in order to avoid possible infringement issues with soon-to-be-released Nokia phones, many of which contain multi-touch capabilities similar to Apple's own. Tweet
Doug McLean, TidBITS
Users find that, upon attempting to find other matches for a particular face, spinning progress arrows appears next to the text, "X may also be in the photos below." For most affected users, no matches are ever made, and the arrows continue to spin. In some cases, after an inordinate amount of time, iPhoto returns a random group of off-the-wall suggested matches. Tweet
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
It’s the same herd mentality that led to the rash of Apple needs to get in the “netbook” game punditry that I claim-checked earlier this week. I could have linked to a dozen others. The argument, though, is the same: everyone else is making netbooks, so Apple should, too. Why? Because everyone else is. Tweet
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Apple’s official project to port ZFS to Mac OS X has been canned. Tweet
Caleb Kingston, App Advice Tweet
Roman Loyola, Macworld
Yojimbo 2.0 is a well executed update with truly worthwhile enhancements. It may not have everything on your wish list (where are those nested collections and rule-based smart collections?) but Yojimbo handles information with aplomb and is top notch in its class. Tweet
Harry McCracken, Technologizer Tweet
Michael Rose, TUAW
Domestic TV watchers who tuned into the NBC Thursday comedy lineup or the Yankees-Angels playoff game on Fox were treated to three new Get a Mac ads in heavy rotation tonight, all focused on the launch of the latest Windows version. You can watch all three ads (Broken Promises, Teeter Tottering & PC News) over on Apple's site.
My favorite is PC News. Tweet
Philip Michaels, Macworld
Apple rolled out minor updates for the components of the latest version of its Final Cut Studio video-production suite on Thursday, with all five updates included in a single bundle. Tweet
Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb
A top AT&T executive on Thursday acknowledged that his company could lose its exclusive contract with the Apple iPhone, but brushed off concerns that such an event would have a major impact on AT&T. Tweet
Philip Michaels, Macworld
Apple released a server diagnostic download on Thursday that the company says will test servers running Mac OS X Server 10.6 for hardware issues. Tweet
Dan Grigsby, Mobile Orchard
Providing a “Gift This App” mechanism would open up a universe of novel marketing, bundling and promotional opportunities — all of which would drive App Store revenues, none of which would threaten Apple’s commission. Tweet
Charlie Sorrel, Wired Tweet
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple today announced that it will update its Boot Camp utility before the end of the year to support Microsoft's just-launched Windows 7. Tweet
Steve Reiter, Minyanville
While Apple may not always be the first out of the gate, it tends to quickly surpass the competition with style and originality. Tweet
Mike Schuster, Minyanville
Apple's behavior has become that of an alcoholic relative: You're pleading with them to stop and you despise what they've turned into. Has success gone to its head? What will it take for it to show some humility? How much will Apple customers take before they leave in droves? Tweet
AppleInsider
Mac cloner and enduring litigant Psystar has rolled out a new $50 application that will allow certain Intel-powered PCs to run Mac OS X. Tweet
AppleInsider
Apple's revamped new MacBook takes everything the company learned from last year's aluminum unibody MacBook Pro redesign and applies it to make a solid, curvy, entry level notebook that carries the same $999 price tag. Tweet
Sang Tang, TUAW Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
Reuters
The world's top cellphone maker Nokia Oyj filed a lawsuit on Thursday against smaller rival Apple, claiming the U.S. firm had infringed ten Nokia patents. Tweet
Thomas Ricker, Engadget
You know who's missing from the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (or DECE) consortium? A group bent on redefining the way we buy, access, and play digital content with a membership roster that includes Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox, HP, Intel, Lions Gate, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign, and Warner Bros? Right, Apple and Disney. Tweet
The Mac Observer
Chronos announced the immediate availability of SOHO Organizer 8 and SOHO Notes 8 on Thursday. Both applications added video, audio and photo recording support, and Notes 8 also added iPhone Wi-Fi sync support. Tweet
Macworld UK
The Australian Classification Board has written to the Australian government 'expressing concern' that iPhone applications, espicially games, are being released through the iTunes store without being rated. Tweet
Macworld UK
Extensis has released an "significant update" of it's Universal Type Server 2, which adds deeper font compliance management, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 compatibility. Tweet
Nick Spence, Macworld UK
The beta software release, aimed at serious amateur and professional photographers, promises new improved intuitive importing, unparalleled noise reduction and sharpening tools and enhanced slideshow capabilities. Tweet
MacNN
AT&T today provided results for what it says is one of the best summer quarters in its history. The company says it activated 3.2 million iPhones, the most ever in its history and a steep jump from 2.4 million in the spring. It comes despite the iPhone 3GS having launched the previous quarter and points to increasing demand for the phone between July and September. Tweet
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
Most people see iTunes as a single-window program: when you click something in the sidebar, the main window’s content changes. But you may not realize that iTunes can let you use multiple windows for different purposes. Here’s an overview of what you can do with iTunes windows. Tweet
Justin Yu, CNET News
At first glance, Apple's new Magic Mouse might change your thoughts about love at first sight. The curvature of the soft white shell paired with the speckled silver underbelly is enough to make any Applehead salivate, but we warn prospective buyers to head out to your local Apple Store before taking the plunge, because you might be disappointed. Tweet
The Temasek Review
A government which does not care and love its people will not win respect or allegiance from them. We will become a nation without a soul, a playground for the rich and a hotel for foreigners to make a quick buck. Tweet
Harry Wallop, Telegraph
Apple's new iPod shuffle has come botton in a survey of mp3 players tested by a leading consumer watchdog. Tweet
Industry Standard Tweet
The Mac Observer Tweet
Roman Loyola, Macworld
The Magic Mouse has a plastic top, and aluminum bottom with two plastic rails. Moving the mouse on my desktop with and without a mouse pad wasn’t smooth at all—it was a grating sensation. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
Nicole Martinelli, Cult of Mac Tweet
Franklin Pride, Inside Mac Games
The modern Pipe Mania is a work of art. Tweet
Macminicolo.net Tweet
Ian Paul, PC World
While the new all-in-one looks promising, there are a few problems with moving the iMac from the study to the living room. Tweet
Associated Press
The EU's top antitrust official on Wednesday described a deal among Apple Inc.'s iTunes, music companies, distributors and online licensing groups as a "great breakthrough" that would roll out more Internet music sales across Europe. Tweet
CNBC Tweet
Glenn Fleishman, Wi-Fi Net News
The additional transmit and receive antennas improve how far signals can travel to a client, and how sensitively an access point can pick up distant transmissions. This accounts for Apple's statement on improved range. Tweet
Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
Apple’s upcoming tablet computer (whoops, “rumored” upcoming tablet) just got a little more interesting: there are signs that the company is getting into the digital comic book market. Tweet
Nat Ives, AdAge
Conde Nast is introducing a slick platform for selling, displaying and enhancing its titles' regular print issues on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Issues rendered for the iPhone screen will sell as apps, starting with this December's issue of GQ, priced at $2.99 in the app store. Tweet
Brian Caulfield, Forbes
You know who has designed a really sweet Windows machine? Here's a hint. He's British, he works in Cupertino, Calif., and lately he has a thing for dark aluminum. Tweet
John Biggs, CrunchGear
This MacBook is not for everyone. It’s a great addition to the MacBook canon, an effort to appease the analysts with an entry level laptop, but don’t ever expect something like this to drop past the $500 mark. Apple doesn’t deign to play in those muddy fields, leaving that to the PC makers in their race to the bottom. Tweet
Devin Coldewey, CrunchGear Tweet
Roman Loyola, Macworld
The most obvious change is to the iMac screen. Both the 21.5- and 27-inch screens are made with high definition video in mind. Like on many HDTVs, the black border around the new iMac’s screen reaches out to the very edge; the aluminum border that surrounded the screen in the previous iMac is gone. This gives the effect of the screen being bigger than it really is. To the chagrin of many, there is no matte screen option. Glossy is your only choice. Tweet
AppleInsider
Apple's new Magic Mouse brings multitouch technologies first exposed on the iPhone and MacBook touchpad to the venerable mouse. Tweet
David Chartier, Macworld
Acorn 2.1's most significant new feature is definitely "scripting for humans" in the form of AppleScript, complete with a series of example scripts to get users started. Tweet
Adam Berenstain, Macworld
The My Albums templates in iWeb aren’t just for pictures––they can hold videos, too. Here’s how to use them to make life easier for you and your audience by organizing your movies in one convenient place online. Tweet
MacNN Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
Jason Snell, Macworld
The new model, while still clad in white polycarbonate, now features the same unibody construction and bright LED-backlit screens as Apple’s other laptops, as well as the same glass multi-touch trackpad found in the MacBook Pro line. Tweet
Steven Sande, TUAW
A Mac mini server has a lot of possibilities, and I foresee a lot more small companies choosing Mac OS X Server as their server OS of choice now that this "server in a box" is available. Tweet
Tim Beyers, Motley Fool
Billions in the bank, earning nothing more than passbook savings rates. You call that excellent capital allocation? Tweet
John O'Brien, Courier Mail
Apple's insistence on building "the whole widget" of hardware and software has resulted in superior products over the decades but, in the case of its computers, saw the company relegated to the margins of the commodified PC industry. It didn't stop the iPod from gaining majority share of the music player market, but the jury is still out on the more mature and complex mobile phone industry. Tweet
Brad Stone, New York Times Tweet
Matt Neuburg, TidBITS
LaunchBar is one of those utilities I'd describe as massively explorable: it has far more features than I'm truly familiar with. In fact, I use it actively in a surprisingly limited set of ways. So instead of trying to list everything that LaunchBar can do - which you can explore for yourself, by downloading LaunchBar or by reading its documentation online - I thought I'd let you peek over my shoulder and watch how I actually use it. Tweet
Brett Terpstra, TUAW
Today saw a price drop for a top-of-the-line configuration, which makes the price almost $1000US cheaper. Tweet
David Morgenstern, ZDNet
I am interested in whether the iPhone’s halo effect will be felt in this new market. What will be Macintosh sales? And before anyone remarks on how totally price-conscious the China market is and how it’s foolish to expect any sales there, may I point out that these are the same arguments that have been made for every other market segment worldwide and keep getting knocked down. Tweet
Pete Mortensen, Cult of Mac
The company also quietly put up for sale a brand new Apple Remote, the first revision since Fall 2005. It’s longer and aluminum, and now features good control of docked iPods and iPhones. Tweet
Dan Frakes, Macworld
According to Apple’s Web site, the AirPort Extreme Base Station now sports “improvements in antenna design” that allegedly provide up to 50 percent better Wi-Fi performance and up to 25 percent better range than the previous iteration. Tweet
Jason Snell, Macworld
Apple on Tuesday announced an update to the Mac mini line of compact desktop Mac systems, adding faster processors, doubling memory capacity, and introducing a new server configuration that trades an optical drive for more storage. Tweet
Jason Snell, Macworld
Apple on Tuesday banished the 2005-vintage Mighty Mouse and its wireless sibling to the other side of the island (under the new name Apple Mouse), replacing them with a new wireless Magic Mouse that features a multi-touch surface on its entire top side. Tweet
Lance Knobel, Reuters
Here’s how bullish Steve Jobs and his colleagues at Infinite Loop in Cupertino feel: After a blowout September quarter, the forward guidance they are offering for the December quarter is comically modest. In the tech world, people have long known that Jobs loves messing with the expectations of both competitors and his legions of Apple fanboys. He plays his games with the financial world as well. Tweet
Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek Tweet
AppleInsider
New customers and new computers helped drive a record-setting quarter for Apple's Retail Stores, bringing in the company's highest quarterly revenue ever. Tweet
BusinessWeek Tweet
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Wall Street Journal
While the Cupertino, Calif., company has made some improvements, such as speeding up the approval process, it’s clear to developers Jon Myers and Chuck Hootman that Apple continues to work in mysterious ways — though they’re not complaining this time. Tweet
Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer
Sales of Mac OS X, or Snow Leopard, clocked in at more than double compared to Leopard for the first five weeks each OS was available. Apple confirmed the strong Snow Leopard figure during the company's fourth quarter earnings conference call on Monday afternoon. Tweet
MarketWatch
They were downright giddy after the company reported even stronger than expected earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter, though some on Wall Street had also questioned whether expectations for such strong results were already baked into the stock, which has more than doubled this year and touched the $200 mark in after-hours trading Monday for the first time since January of 2008. Tweet
Gus G. Sentementes, Baltimore Sun
Watch out, BlackBerry. The iPhone is creeping into the workplace – and that's a good thing for BoxTone. Tweet
MacNN
Apple during the conference call discussing its record quarterly results this summer provided multiple hints of price drops on its products in the near future. Tweet
AppleInsider
Apple said Monday that fourth-quarter profits rose more than 46 percent to 1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share, on sales of $9.87 billion for the three-month period ended September 26, 2009. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
MacNN
Apple is not playing fair in terms of supporting video hosting services beyond YouTube, claims the chief technical officer of Dailymotion. Olivier Poitrey comments that the iPhone edition of Safari relies on a special plug-in for YouTube videos, allowing it to jump straight to H.264-encoded copies. Tweet
AppleInsider
A Texas company has targeted Apple and a number of other technology companies in a new lawsuit regarding a handful of computer networking patents issued in the 1990s. Tweet
App Advice Tweet
Mac Slocum, Nieman Journalism Lab At Harvard
You’d think selling subscriptions within iPhone applications would appeal to media companies. Tweet
Michael N. Roach, DigitalAppleJuice.com Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch Tweet
Brad Stone, New York Times
This nasty name-calling does not bode well for the prospects of the iPhone joining Verizon in 2010, talks for which were said to have begun earlier this year. Tweet
Om Malik, GigaOM Tweet
Jacqueline Emigh, PC World
While Apple's new in-app purchase feature for iPhones is being widely touted as an antipiracy measure, Apple's more overarching motive seems to be that of keeping the iPhone at the development forefront for the coolest new apps for mobile users. Tweet
Eli Hodapp, Touch Arcade
On the iPhone and iPod Touch, each of these instruments are played by tapping four areas on the screen to match up with the musical notes coming down the screen. Tweet
Omar El Akkad, Globe And Mail
For smart phone makers – and, indeed, for an increasing number of electronics makers designing everything from radios to televisions – the emphasis is quickly shifting away from hardware design and toward the type and variety of applications that users can download and run. Tweet
App Advice Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
The iPhone app is the first example of Wolfram Alpha’s new APIs that they hope will extend their most valuable asset: Their data. But if you’re trying to get more people to use access your data, charging $50 is not a great play. A better one may be to get people hooked on your data, then charge down the road when they realize how valuable it is — if they ever do, which is still far from certain with Wolfram Alpha. Tweet
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET News Tweet
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street has worried recently that expectations for Apple could be too high. Tweet
Christina Warren, Masbable
The application is pretty advanced, as its $49.99 price-tag suggests. Before your jaw drops over the price, keep in mind that this is much more than just a mobile version of the website. It’s a high end graphing calculator (that supports discrete number theory, Calculus derivative and plotting of functions), an almanac, a currency/unit converter and a pretty sophisticated stock analysis tool. And that’s just the beginning. Tweet
Bill Andad, DaniWeb
I'm just not convinced that there is any real need for old technology such as FM radio on a next-generation device like the iPhone. Tweet
Veronique Brossier , Inside RIA
This article will explain some of the engineering behind the magic of an ActionScript project appearing on your desktop as an ipa. It will describe how what has changed under the hood affects your source code. It will go over some best practices to develop for devices with small CPUs such as the iPhone and other smartPhones. Tweet
Harry McCracken, Technologizer Tweet
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
What's Wall Street expecting this quarter? The analysts we polled are all over the lot. Tweet
Mike Schramm, TUAW Tweet
Scott McNulty, Macworld Tweet
Joachim Bean, TUAW
Just shortly after the discovery of an 3G "backdoor" for the EyeTV app, it has been pulled from the App Store. Tweet
Alan Warms, Business Insider
With yesterday’s announcement, every company out there can offer a free iPhone App, thereby reducing the friction of driving adoption, knowing that over time they can work with their consumers to find offers that make sense for both parties. Tweet
Mike Shields, Mediaweek
The broadcast networks are dialing up their collective presence on the iPhone. Tweet
John Paczkowski, Wall Street Journal
Overwhelming demand for the iPhone has made it hard for Apple to keep the device in stock globally, so much so that some observers wonder if the company’s fourth-quarter earnings might be a slight disappointment. Tweet
Mark Tutton, CNN
The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection. Tweet
Matt Casamassina, IGN
More than a 85,000 apps -- many of them games for a buck. Why that should have some publishers scared. Tweet
Lex Friedman, Macworld
There’s some treats to be found this Halloween at the App Store. Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld
If you’ve ever wondered about which programs are using your Internet connection at any point in time, here’s one way to find out using Terminal. Tweet
Rich Mogull, TidBITS Tweet
Gene Steinberg, TechNightOwl
What’s strange about the particular shortcoming I’m about to discuss is that Apple solved the problem with the very first Mac in 1984, and Microsoft clearly isn’t paying attention, despite spending tens of billions of dollars to make Windows into a reasonably stable, productive operating system.
I’m talking about mouse tracking! Tweet
Michael Wuerthele, Inside Mac Games
Kung Fu Panda is a good game that displays console roots at every turn. Keyboard and mouse controls are functional, but plainly some sort of gamepad is what’s intended for the controls of the game. Credit goes to whomever set the price for the game, as it was released a year after the movie and the tie-in games for just about every other platform in the world were shipped. As Mac users, we’re accustomed to delayed releases, but it still isn’t optimal. Kung Fu Panda defeats all expectations of ports and movie games with a body splash attack, but I’m afraid that even with the aggressive pricing for a new release game, the release is too little too late. Tweet
Ted Landau, Macworld Tweet
Giles Turnbull, Cult of Mac
I spent time carefully arranging my apps into genre-specific screens like this, and found within days that installing new apps ruined the effect. What I realized was, once you’ve started arranging your apps, you’re tied into constantly maintaining that arrangement. Tweet
MarketWatch
AT&T and Verizon Communications Inc., its main competitor, have largely weather a poor economy because of their sheer size and big lead over rivals in the wireless business. AT&T in particular has benefited greatly from its exclusive rights to sell the Apple iPhone. Tweet
John Cox, Macworld
University of Utah researchers and programmers are creating an iPhone application that will let users edit massive image files containing hundreds of gigabytes of data. When you get bored with that, you can use another of their recently released applications to virtually dissect a real human corpse. Tweet
Tim Cox, Cult of Mac
Through Cydia, you can download and install each item below and add new functionality and usefulness to your iPhone. I give you the Top Ten Must Have iPhone Jailbreak Apps. Tweet
John C. Welch, Macworld
With the significant price cut, new features, and improvements to existing features, Mac OS X 10.6 Server is a solid product. For an all or mostly-Mac network, this isn’t an if upgrade, but a when, especially if you have iPhone users clamoring for push services. Tweet
IT World Tweet
MacNN
The software is geared toward visualizing and working with multiple relational databases in a single view. Tweet
Erica Sadun, TUAW
So what's a developer to do? It seems like the only way to vet an application (let alone an application name) is to submit it and see whether Apple rejects it or not. If the name is used in the application art, you might have to redesign your screens. If the application idea is not okay, you might end up throwing away all your development costs because Apple would not give a preapproval before starting serious development. Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch Tweet
Kim Komando, USA Today Tweet
Azadeh Ensha, New York Times Tweet
Houston Chronicle
At the Houston Zoo, anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch can log onto a new application for a hand-held guide from the meerkats to Toby the red panda. It even offers a real-time, GPS-guided map to the nearest restrooms, handy when nature calls the human cubs that roam the zoo. Tweet
Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch
Apple has long been associated with the saying “it just works”. Well, sometimes it apparently works a little too well, to the point of allowing users to delete their entire Flickr libraries in one fell swoop without really meaning to. Oops. Tweet
David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
Apple will officially launch its handset here this month, but it's unlikely to spur zealotry. That's because the device has long been imported as well as pirated -- and has to vie with the OPhone. Tweet
Brady Forrest, O'Reilly Media
Shortly after installing Snow Leopard I saw the first evidence of the new location services built into the operating system. I got the new version of Clarke, a Fire Eagle updater. After the install a window appeared that asked me if I wanted to share my location with an application. Finally! Tweet
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Mozilla again slammed the browser “ballot screen” proposal that Microsoft’s made to European antitrust regulators, saying that the voting will be skewed Apple’s way because its Safari browser will be the first choice on the list.
Time to rename yourself as AAA Browser Company, eh? Tweet
AppleInsider
Apple has announced that developers who offer free App Store applications can now take advantage of in-app transactions -- a feature that was previously allowed only for paid software. Tweet
Ted Landau, The Mac Observer Tweet
Brett Terpstra, TUAW Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld
Here’s a really simple Spaces tip that works in both OS X 10.5 and 10.6. As best as I can tell, this isn’t documented anywhere in the help files. If you use windows from the same application in multiple Spaces (for instance, three Safari windows in three separate Spaces), switching between them can be done in a number of ways. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld
Logic Express 9 is a tremendous value for musicians seeking a tool more powerful and musical than GarageBand. But with that power comes complexity. While Apple has done much to tame the beast that was Logic, some users will still find its advanced features confounding (and hard to locate). Work through the application’s challenges, however, and you’ll receive many harmonious rewards. Tweet
Jason D. O'Grady, The Apple Core Tweet
Dan Ablan, Macworld
At first glance, Toon Boom Studio 5 looks like a simple, almost kid-like program. But don’t be fooled. The new stop-motion feature, annotation layers, and new export functions make this not just a fun program to use, but one rich in sophisticated features that any creative artist would want as part of their digital toolset. Tweet
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
Gene Steinberg, TechNightOwl Tweet
Wall Street Journal
If companies are going to dump the Chamber over a single dispute, then the overall influence of business in Washington is likely to decline. The Chamber's job isn't to favor one company's agenda over another but to stand broadly for free trade, low taxes and limited regulation—principles that help U.S. business as a whole. Tweet
MacNN
Apple on Wednesday released performance updates for both its Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems. The downloads address intermittent stalls caused by hard drives, an issue reported by a a small number of users. Tweet
John Martellaro, The Mac Observer
Apple's three biggest federal customers are NASA, the Department of Energy, and the National Institutes of Health. Tweet
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet
For a system evolved from a BSD Unix the Mac OS does not get much respect from the open source community. Tweet
Nathan Eddy, eWeek
The Apple iPhone jailbreak exploit 24kPwn is no longer working after Apple updates its bootram file. Tweet
Matthew Bandyk, US News And World Report
From the standpoint of a long-term branding strategy, it seems reasonable to me that Apple and Nike would each make the calculation that shoring up their reputation with green and "progressive" customers will help their sales more. That makes a lot more sense if you view climate change legislation as an inevitability. Tweet
Jenna Wortham, New York Times
UrbanSpoon, one of the most popular apps for the iPhone from Apple, is the latest to make use of augmented reality, a feature that superimposes data or information over the live feed from the phone’s camera. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
SearchSecurity.com
Adobe Systems Inc. issued an update Tuesday, repairing nearly 30 flaws identified as critical, as part of its quarterly update. Adobe warned that one flaw is being actively targeted by attackers. Tweet
Glen Loveland, Examiner.com
Despite the Chinese version of the iPhone not coming equipped with WiFi access, many residents said they were confident that they could restore the service on the phones by performing their own “repairs.” Tweet
Tyler Tschida, App Advice
The long-awaited update contains a handful of new and interesting features, including speech recognition, but surprisingly it’s the new icon that’s causing a bit of a stir. Tweet
AppleInsider
Apple's ability to successfully tame Unix, something it largely inherited from Steve Jobs' NeXT and the years and tens of millions that went into creating what would eventually become Mac OS X at Apple, seemingly should have resulted in tremendous success for Mac OS X Server as well. But that never really happened. Tweet
Peter Wayner, InfoWorld
There are thousands of open source tools available for the Mac, some built for the Mac alone and others that are translations of software created for other operating systems. Some are aimed at a niche of programmers or scientists, but a good number are supremely useful tools for everyone. Tweet
Jessica Dolcourt, CNET News
According to Trillian maker Cerulean Studios, Apple has been sitting on Trillian's submission for the last two months without a peep to indicate a problem with the app's content or the quality. Tweet
Don Reisinger, eWeek
There are at least 10 good reasons why Apple shouldn't fear the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. In fact, the release of Windows 7 on Oct. 22 could well prove to be a golden opportunity for Apple to win more converts to Mac computers and Mac OS X, if the recent history of Windows releases is any guide. Factors such as more imaginative marketing and superior security could help Apple make deeper inroads against Microsoft's desktop dominance. Tweet
Rupert Neate, The Telegraph
3 and T-Mobile are scouring Europe for contract-free Apple iPhones they can offer to British customers threatening to leave for rival networks which hold official rights to the iPhone. The radical plans risk invoking the wrath of Apple, which tightly controls the sale of the iPhone in the UK. Tweet
Brett Terpstra, TUAW
While it still lacks the S3 support that Transmit and Interarchy have, it's solid, fast and offers all of the advanced configuration I need with a very reasonable price tag. Tweet
Matt Neuburg, TidBITS Tweet
MacNN
According to Apple, the update improves compatibility with a number of devices and fixes other minor issues, including improved compatibility with camcorders using the iFrame video format and with importing video captured on the iPod nano as well as fixed problems with resizing the iMovie window during playback. Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
Dan Moren, Macworld
British site Electricpig was contacted by an Apple spokesperson who denied the allegation, saying, “We’re releasing the open specs for iTunes LP soon, allowing both major and indie labels to create their own. There is no production fee charged by Apple.” Tweet
Dan Frakes, Macworld
Notify is a handy way to keep an eye on your Gmail accounts without having to watch the Web site. Tweet
Aulia Masna, Macworld Tweet
John Brandon, Macworld
Program that lets you run Windows apps on your Mac adds support for Office 2007, Quicken 2009. Tweet
Devin Coldewey, CrunchGear
It turns out anyone versed in a little HTML and Javascript can put together an LP that’s just as good as a “real” one. The question is, will Apple take positive measures to lock out third party ITLP files? Tweet
Erica Sadun, TUAW
Under certain very specific conditions, Apple is inadvertently sharing data from other people's accounts. Tweet
ForkBombr
I think the biggest thing that keeps people from dropping a few bucks on a mobile app is that it doesn’t feel like a real app. iPhone apps are usually one trick ponies, while desktop apps are usually more complicated. That, paired with the fact that people don’t view their phones as computers, mean some people don’t view mobile apps as worth anything, while computer programs are worth some money. Tweet
Arik Hesseldahl, BusinessWeek
It's taken iTunes six years to grow from an upstart digital music store into something more powerful than may have been imagined. The moment may be here to turn it into something even bigger. Tweet
Jonathan Seff, Macworld Tweet
Brooks Barnes, New York Times
The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, intends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall.
For the first time, Mr. Jobs’s fingerprints can be seen on Disney strategy, in the same way that he influenced the look and feel of Apple’s own immensely popular retail chain. Mr. Jobs provided access to proprietary information about the development and operation of Apple’s highly successful stores, and Disney executives visited Apple’s research operation in Cupertino, Calif. Tweet
Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer
Prosoft Engineering announced Monday the release of Data Rescue 3, an update to the company's do-it-yourself data recovery solution for the Mac. The new version includes speed improvements, a new interface, a new feature called FileIQ, support for more file types, and more. Tweet
Joachim Bean, TUAW
This update provides numerous fixes and enhancements, as well as addressing several issues. Tweet
Jim Dalrymple, The Loop
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz feels Arthur Levinson made the right decision leaving Google’s Board of Directors. Tweet
Eric Zeman, InformationWeek
The $99 iPhone is turning the wireless industry on its head, and not in a good way. It's having an obvious negative affect on AT&T's bottom line, and it's causing some serious pain for other makers of mobile devices. Tweet
David Coursey, PC World
Apple's "no refunds" policy for iPhone App Store purchase is both not as bad--and worse--than it sounds. Tweet
Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal
News that Lazard chief Bruce Wasserstein had been hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat didn’t hurt the investment firm’s shares too much, down just 1% in Monday trading. The lesson? Openess can be healthy. Tweet
Erica Ogg, CNET News
"We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and we are working on a fix," an Apple representative said in a prepared statement Monday. Tweet
Steven Sande, TUAW
What the Sidekick incident should point out to anyone using cloud-based services is that they're not fail-proof. These systems are run and administered by human beings, who have a sad record of making poor decisions.
Backup, backup, backup. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
David Morgenstern, The Apple Core
A recent tip shows how smart Mac Mail’s dynamic Smart Mailbox feature can be. It really can make using Mac Mail more convenient. Tweet
Tim Mercer, Macworld
All in all, Worms is a fun game with a unique charm all its own that suffers from a few unpolished areas. If Team17 fixes these small annoyances and adds an online multi-player mode, Worms would be amazing. As it stands now, the 1.0.1 version of the game is just pretty good. Tweet
AppleInsider
Reports of a potentially critical Snow Leopard bug that can erase a user's account data have continued to surface since the operating system's debut. Tweet
MacNN
IDG World Expo has announced that Macworld 2010 programming has already been completed, with all of the speaker slots and content locked down five months prior to the actual event. IDG also states that over 28,000 attendees have pre-registered, roughly two-thirds of the number that normally comes to the expo. Tweet
The Mac Observer
The new version of the stop motion animation application added new editing features along with 64-bit support. Tweet
Marco Arment, Marco.org Tweet
Rob Henry, Macworld UK
Veteran Mac backup software gets more than a makeover with latest release. Tweet
Robin Wauters, TechCrunch
Genentech chairman Arthur D. Levinson is resigning from Google’s Board of Directors, the Mountain View company announced earlier this morning. His departure comes shortly after Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidtresigned from the board of Apple, where Levinson is also a director.
No reason for the departure was given in the statement, but it’s safe to assume that it has something to do with the growing tension between Google and Apple, which is still being investigated by the FTC. Tweet
Jean-Louis Gassée and Frederic Filloux, CBS News
The enemy of my enmy is my friend is their new mantra. Tweet
Wesley Fok, The Globe And Mail
Whether its Thankgiving, Christmas or just the post-work rush, Epicurious is sweet on your iPhone/iPod. Tweet
Dennis Howlett, ZDNet
Looks like I’ll have to grin and bear the shortage like everyone else. Tweet
Eric A. Taub, New York Times
There are no refunds. Period. Tweet
John Rizzo, InfoWorld
Steve Jobs once said that Microsoft stole Windows from Apple, but both sides have snatched plenty of ideas over the years. Tweet
Craig Grannell, TechRadar UK
The best tools for coding, testing, uploading and tracking costs. Tweet
Ed Hansberry, InformationWeek
Instead of modifying user's behavior, AT&T needs to modify its network to handle the bandwidth. The exclusivity agreement will end at some point. AT&T needs to do everything it can to make existing users happy. The happier they are, the less likely they are to bolt. Tweet
Ron Miller, DaniWeb
When it comes down to it though, I buy Apple products because they make good stuff most of the time. I couldn't care less if they are fashionable or cool. It doesn't mean Apple's a perfect company, far from it. It only means that what they do right, they do very, very well. Tweet
Jeffrey S. Soloche, St. Petersburg Times
Throughout Shady Hills Elementary, teachers have been taking advantage of iPods as an extra tool aimed at encouraging their students to learn in different ways. The iPods are finding their way into the curriculum as a less expensive, more portable piece of technology that teachers and students can use when computer labs, for instance, aren't available. Tweet
Nick Spence, Macworld UK
Cracked iPhone applications freely available online are restricting the growth and potential of small-time developers particularly as they struggle to make a living in difficult economic times.
That's the findings of Macworld over recent weeks after speaking to several developers, some of whom are seeing just one legit sale compared ten pirated downloads. Tweet
Brooke Crothers, CNET News
Over the last year, I have talked to middle-level and high-ranking executives at enough companies to know exactly what to expect when the topic of Apple is broached: fear. Tweet
Beverly Beckham, Boston Globe
The first time I brought it into the Apple store at South Shore Plaza, I was certain they’d say, “Hey, lady. You didn’t buy this here. Sorry, we can’t help you.’’ But instead, it was like wandering into a Unitarian church and having a group of smiling strangers welcome you and then invite you to stay for coffee hour. Tweet
DesMoinesRegister.com Tweet
Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times
Skype and Vonage Mobile, both free to download and available for the iPhone and iPod touch, use their own calling networks to offer quite inexpensive per-minute calling to destinations outside the U.S. Each application comes with limitations, which are about to change. Tweet
Nic Vargus, Macworld
Tweetie 2 boasts a remarkably long list of new features. What words can’t describe, however, is the blazingly fast new interface, which threatens to turn even reluctant tweeters into Ashton Kutchers and Chad Ochocincos. Tweet
Jeana Lee Tahnk, Mashable
What follows is a list of 20 free apps that won’t necessarily make you a better parent, but can make your life a little easier, or help out in a pinch wherever you are. And when you have a screaming, bored, hungry, or need-to-use-the-bathroom kid, sometimes a little help is all you need. The apps listed below have been compiled from the eyes of a parent, but many can be used regardless of whether you do or don’t have children. Tweet
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Jennifer Hill, Times Online
From tracking mortgages to finding the best store prices there are more than 85,000 apps for iPhone to make your life easier. Tweet
Pete Mortensen, Cult of Mac
It’s incredibly useful, smooth as butter, innovative in design and features, and just works as you expect that it would. It’s as if it sprung, fully formed, from the skull of the iPhone, as if to say, “This is how it should work.” Not only has Tweetie 2 raised the bar for mobile Twitter clients, it’s raised the bar for mobile software. Tweet
CBC.ca
Libraries in Calgary public schools are planning to make way for iPods among the stacks of books.
The Calgary Board of Education wants its libraries to embrace new technologies, such as video conferencing and hand-held devices like smartphones and the iPod. Tweet
L. Samuel Pfeifle, Security Systems News
What would you say if you heard the U.S. Army has four video surveillance installations that are based on Apple’s OSX operating system, and use Apple servers? Or that a large government entity had just initiated an all-Apple installation? Tweet
AppleInsider
On Thursday, both Apple and Psystar filed separate motions, with their respective supporting evidence, requesting a summary judgment from Judge William Alsup in a San Francisco court. Two hearings have been set for Nov. 12, and the outcome could determine whether the trial will take place in January. Tweet
Dan Moren, Macworld Tweet
Lex Friedman, Macworld
Highlights include new settings for public iDisk files, a revamped Web interface, and more granular privacy controls for what others can and can't do with files stored in the online repository. Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
MacNN
The suite uses a new layer structure, with scene, object, plant, lamp, animated object and billboard layers, as well as support for custom ones. Other new options include importing layers from ArchiCAD, or designating a layer as an automatic destination for a particular type of media. Tweet
John Brandon, Computerworld
While not every feature on the iPhone is unique, the way Apple has implemented some of those features is. And the iPhone serves as the base for tens of thousands of third-party applications, many of which make use of its built-in features in innovative ways. Tweet
Daniel Terdiman, CNET News
With the release of "2012," the iPhone app tied to the forthcoming Sony Pictures film of the same name, a group of developers may have kicked off the future of games on the hit smart phone. Tweet
John Herrman, Gizmodo Tweet
Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
AT&T's CEO Ralph de la Vega spoke this week at CTIA about the problems of mobile broadband scarcity. He mentioned that AT&T had seen a 5000% increase in mobile broadband usage over the past three years and was having trouble keeping up with demand. AT&T doesn't forecast that exploding increase in demand to stop any time soon. Tweet
Savio Rodrigues, InfoWorld
Analysis of open source WebKit usage shows high degree of incompatibility across WebKit-based browsers, including Safari and Chrome. Tweet
Henry Blodget, Business Insider
The latest smart-phone numbers from Canalys show that Apple's gaining share like a bat out of hell. Tweet
Steve Ranger, Silicon.com
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the most influential individual in the global technology industry, topping the silicon.com 2009 Agenda Setter's list. Tweet
I, Cringely
Let’s assume that Apple or some Apple competitor announces a really good electronic reader, which means one that costs little, is super-easy to use, stores a lot, and has very low power consumption. That’s just the beginning. Tweet
David Pogue, New York Times
Anyway, the bottom line is this: public pressure+government agency doing its job=corporate behemoths doing the right thing, catching up to other countries and saving you money. Tweet
Apple
When Kevin Burton steps onto a client’s campus, he’s focused on one thing: risk. “I live in a Jack Bauer world,” he says. “I make sure that people are prepared for the unforeseeable.” Burton is the Founder and CEO of Burton Asset Management (BAM), a business continuity and disaster recovery firm. It’s his job to protect his clients from every imaginable hazard—fire, earthquake, flood, terrorist attack, or pandemic.
Integral to Burton’s business operations is iPhone. “The first day I turned the iPhone on, it changed our business model,” he says. “It was so powerful in terms of data, email, and connectivity. It was virtually a laptop.” Tweet
Jackie Dove, Macworld
Xinet has released WebNative Suite 16.0, a new version of its online digital asset management tool. It features a streamlined, Web-based graphical interface, improved tools for administrators, and new features to improve the management of assets and to enhance efficiency. Tweet
Joachim Bean, TUAW
This update fixes the widely reported issue where the iPhone would not wake from sleep, and also fixes an issue involving video playback and cellular service. Tweet
Mark Sigal, O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld Tweet
Louis Gerbarg, /dev/why!?!
Now, the notion that what this thing emits is indistinguishable from something Xcode emits is laughable. They are very different, and not in a good way. While the apps may get acceptable frame rates on an iPhone 3GS, they don't on earlier hardware, and they almost certainly use substantially more battery power than native games. Tweet
Andrew LaVallee, Wall Street Journal
AT&T subscribers still won’t be able to use their iPhones as wireless modems for their computers, despite the carrier’s reversed position on Internet-phone applications. Tweet
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld Tweet
William Porter, Macworld
Pagehand 1.0.6 has the most elegant user interface of any word processor I’ve ever used. By “elegant,” I mean that the exceptional beauty of the program is closely related to the program’s ease of use. But Pagehand’s elegance is aristocratic. It’s not meant for menial work like, oh, index creation or outlining. Pagehand is like a Mont Blanc “writing instrument,” designed for individuals whose writing needs are simple enough that they have time to enjoy the experience of writing. Tweet
CNN
The App Store taps the creative energy of entrepreneurial developers. Whether they're big or small, they can make money through it, even though the challenges for them can be considerable. Tweet
Nicole Martinelli, Cult of Mac Tweet
David Lowe, The Sun Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch
It seems pretty clear at this point that Apple is getting ready to release a new mouse, probably with some kind of multi-touch capabilities, that is probably attached to some new iMacs. No one is happier about that than me, as I hate the current Mighty Mouse. But it looks like Apple may not have a chance to create a device that lives up to that name this time around, as someone else has won the trademark for the name “Mighty Mouse.” Tweet
Edible Apple
The key thing about the app store is that it actually gives you the opportunity to get in a game dominated by 7-footers. It gives you the opportunity to to strike it rich. Actually accomplishing that, however, is entirely different story. Tweet
Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb
App Classics analyzes iTunes rating and sales information to determine which applications have remained popular over time. Tweet
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Adobe's decision to give Flash developers a way to craft iPhone applications is an "end-around" Apple's decision to ban Flash Player from its popular smartphone, an analyst said today. Tweet
MG Siegler, TechCrunch Tweet
Think Progress
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, who last year called for further “scientific inquiry” into climate science because of a “cooling trend,” today rebuked Apple for leaving his organization. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
MacNN
Apple's Time Capsule network drives are still suffering from power failures, complaints on official support forums indicate. Tweet
MacNN Tweet
Joe Kissell, Macworld
Even if you’ve cleared out old, outdated contacts, you’ll still find that one of the most obvious sorts of address book clutter is multiple entries for the same person. This happens most often when you add records that differ slightly—for example, one for “Bob Smith” and another for “Robert Smith,” or ones listing different e-mail addresses or other contact info. Cleaning up these extra entries is easy in Address Book and doable, if a bit more complex, in Entourage. Tweet
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Or: There is no replacement for creator codes in Snow Leopard. Tweet
MacNN Tweet
Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service
One of the iPhone's challenges is that most Japanese users prefer clamshell and slider handsets, but that didn't stop Yamaha and partner Densan System from experimenting with the touchscreen phone. Tweet
Kyle Buckley, The Nillabyte Perspective Tweet
Eric Norwood, App Advice
Apple has issued a statement regarding AT&T’s iPhone changing announcement today. Now that AT&T has no objection to VoIP apps on their wireless network, Apple will be amending their SDK agreement. Tweet
MacRumors Tweet
Farhad Manjoo, Slate Magazine Tweet
eWeek
In just two short weeks, Microsoft will be releasing Windows 7. And all those Apple owners that also run Windows PCs will be taking notice. Although it is possible that they will ignore Windows 7's launch. I believe it's far more likely that they won't. They will find value in Windows 7. They will be more than willing to pick up a copy of the OS (if not buy a new PC). Tweet
Dan Moren, Macworld
All engines, full reverse! That’s the order AT&T seemed to be giving on Tuesday when it announced that it would be altering its existing policy to allow Internet phone applications such as Skype to place calls over the iPhone's cellular data connection. Tweet
Ben Lorica, O'Reilly Media Tweet
MacNN Tweet
The Mac Observer Tweet
Jeff Rock
You really want to trust them to manage your memory, translate your code and keep up with Apple’s SDK? Tweet
Lewis Butler, TidBITS
That's right, the original single-application mode in Mac OS X Public Beta is still with us. Although it was always intended as a simple option for people who are not computer experts, it turns out to be an interesting option for the power user. Tweet
MacNN
Canadian carriers Bell and Telus have announced separate deals with Apple, ones which will let them both carry the iPhone 3G and 3GS beginning in November. Tweet
Eric Lai, Computerworld
The upcoming version of VMware Inc.'s Fusion software for Mac-Windows desktop virtualization includes an interface overlay called "Unity" that erases Windows' long ubiquitous Start taskbar in favor of Mac OS X's Dock, and replaces the Windows Search with one closely resembling Mac OS X's Spotlight search box. Tweet
Tom Rose, Boston Herald
What does a company do when a best-selling product is ready for its yearly update? If the company is Apple and the item is the iPod nano, then they cram as many new features into it as possible without raising the price. Tweet
Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek
Yes, you read that right. Although it’s been criticized by the likes of Greenpeace in the past, today two related groups called Clean Production Action and ChemSec issued a report that highlighted Apple as one of seven companies that are leading the pack in terms of eliminating toxic substances from electronic poducts. Tweet
Bloomberg
Apple Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Duke Energy Corp. are among companies that come out ahead in draft derivatives legislation offered by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank. Frank would exempt such “end-users,” companies that hedge their own risks through derivatives, from new rules and collateral requirements applying to banks and other participants in the $592 trillion derivatives market. Tweet
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
The next version of VMware Fusion has been announced, and it comes with numerous new features that users will undoubtedly love. Snow Leopard support, the latest gaming support, and support for Windows 7 features all top the list, as well as a new Migration Assistant to help those moving their PCs over to a virtual machine. Tweet
Bob Levitus, Houston Chronicle
Time Machine was designed from the start to be drop-dead simple and Apple is doing the right thing by keeping it that way. Fortunately, third-party developers have taken those wishes to heart and created three free or dirt cheap utility programs that do those things and more. Tweet
MacNN
Apple has reversed course and approved iSinglePayer, an iPhone app advocating health care reform in the US. The app had initially been rejected for being "politically charged," as it contains charts and information regarding single-payer health care systems. Tweet
MacNN
Adobe's mobile website contains new information that directly blames Apple for preventing the company's Flash Player from being allowed onto the iPhone platform. Visitors attempting to install Flash Player on their iPhone are reminded that the project has stagnated due to Apple's rules. Tweet
Jeff Bertolucci, PC World
Does this digital diversity in the home mean it's time for Apple and Microsoft to soften their ad campaigns a bit? Tweet
The Digital Lifestyle.tv Tweet
Edible Apple
The level playing field that the app store provides has given all developers the ability to strike it rich, and much like how the iPhone wrestled away much of the control that mobile carriers had grown accustomed to enjoying, the app store has wrestled away the dominance that a handful of large game publishers exerted over the gaming industry for quite some time. Tweet
Jr Raphael, PC World
Apple wants to keep Woolworths Supermarkets from putting an apple into its logo. It's not Apple's first image-driven fight. Tweet
Anthony Ha, Venture Beat
Previously, if you built a cool Flash game to run on the web and you wanted it to work on the iPhone, you’d have to write the app again, with new code. Now you can just build the app and the Flash Creative Suite can create a new version that’s downloadable to iPhones from Apple’s App Store. Tweet
Philip Michaels, Macworld
The computer maker has resigned its membership in the business trade organization, citing opposition to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s stance on greenhouse gasses. The trade group has been a very vocal opponent of current legislative efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
Dan Moren, Macworld
The application, which works on both cellular and Wi-Fi network connections, not only allows users to take advantage of low rates for international calling, but also uses VoIP capability when on a Wi-Fi network to avoid using your phone plan’s minutes. Tweet
AppleInsider
In spite of an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, clone Mac maker Psystar Monday announced plans to license its virtualization technology for Mac OS X to third-party hardware vendors. Tweet
Nic Fildes, The Times
Those customers that have been holding off buying an iPhone in the hope of a massive price cut look set to be disappointed. Tweet
Tom Kaneshige, CIO.com
Everyone is supposed to love their iPhones, lest they be branded an Apple-hater. But Apple's comeuppance is at hand. Tweet
Chris Nuttall, Financial Times
There is still no agreement between Adobe and Apple over its Flash technology being allowed to boost the web browsing capabilities of the iPhone, but the same can’t be said for other devices from today. Tweet
Tom Kaneshige, Computerworld
Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, an iPod and iPhone repair shop, and one of the first technicians to take apart the iPhone 3GS and write a repair guide, has seen his fair share of reasons why broken iPhones need emergency surgery. Here are his six favorites, along with advice on how to triage the problems. Tweet
Stuff.tv Tweet
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Dropbox is great for syncing essential files over the Internet, but it's good for more than just your daily images and Word files. Tweet
Mary Brophy Marcus, USA Today
Most people start their day with a cup of coffee, a shower, a good stretch. Beth Akins rolls over, grabs her iPhone and fires up Shake & Spell, her favorite iPhone app game. Tweet
Julian Lee, Sydney Morning Herald
Woolworths insists its new logo is a stylised W, or a piece of fresh produce; Apple thinks it is an apple, and the California-based technology company wants to stop Australia's largest retailer from using it. Tweet
Joseph L. Flatley, Engadget
Further confirming our suspicion that something more affordable may be on the horizon, Google AdSense this weekend started serving users in the Netherlands with ads for new iMacs, MacBooks, and Mac minis. Tweet
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune Tweet
Jo Best, CNET News Tweet
Steven Sande, TUAW Tweet
Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
A company has supposedly been calling some iPhone users trying to sell them software. The problem? The company is getting users' phone numbers from an application that was available on the App Store. Tweet
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS Tweet
AppleInsider
A California attorney representing Psystar in its defense against an Apple lawsuit withdrew himself from the case this week, according to new court documents. Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld
While the new Tunes 9 feature that automatically adds media to iTunes is pretty easy to use already—just drop an iTunes-compatible media folder on the Automatically Add to iTunes folder in your iTunes folder, and you’re done. But in case you’re looking to make it even easier, here are a couple of hints that do just that. Tweet
MacNN
As promised earlier this week, Research in Motion has launched a dedicated Mac management tool, now rechristened the BlackBerry Desktop Software. The app goes beyond BlackBerry Media Sync in order to also sync contacts, calendars, tasks and notes with a BlackBerry smartphone. Tweet
MacNN Tweet
Ben Schmitt, Detroit Free Press
The music publisher of hip-hop megastar Eminem and computer giant Apple Inc. have reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit brought by the publisher. Tweet
CNET News
There is a growing number of iPhone apps--both those that seek to make money and those that are nonprofit--that are based entirely on crowdsourcing, and which without the buy-in by a critical mass of users would be meaningless. Tweet
Marguerite Reardon, CNET News
The Apple iPhone has boosted AT&T's subscriber numbers, but network problems and a bevy of complaints from frustrated customers are likely hurting the company's reputation. Tweet
Galen Gruman, Infoworld News
Consumers now buy the most smartphones, with the iPhone way in the lead in user satisfaction. Tweet
Etan Horowitz, Poynter Online
With more than 85,000 applications available for download, Apple's iPhone is a Swiss Army-like device for journalists to communicate, produce and consume media from wherever they are. Tweet
The New York Review of Books
Hockney first became interested in iPhones about a year ago (he grabbed the one I happened to be using right out of my hands). He acquired one of his own and began using it as a high-powered reference tool, searching out paintings on the Web and cropping appropriate details as part of the occasional polemics or appreciations with which he is wont to shower his friends.
But soon he discovered one of those newfangled iPhone applications, entitled Brushes, which allows the user digitally to smear, or draw, or fingerpaint (it's not yet entirely clear what the proper verb should be for this novel activity), to create highly sophisticated full-color images directly on the device's screen, and then to archive or send them out by e-mail. Tweet
Rick Broida, CNET News
Here's a look at three such options for streaming the big screen to your small screen. Tweet
MacNN
A small but significant number of corporations are switching from BlackBerries to iPhones, a new report claims. Citing various industry sources, including a "top sales executive" from a major cellphone carrier, the report suggests that several factors are spurring a transition. Tweet
Dan Moren, Macworld
While most of the developers I talked to at the conference were positive about the iPhone’s technological capababilities, almost all had issues with the business side of the platform. More than one told me that they weren’t actively developing any programs for the iPhone, having come to the conclusion that it wasn’t worth the time and energy that they could be spending on more profitable projects on the Mac side.
Why the lack of love? The reasons are varied, but many tie back to a central thread—Apple’s emphasis on control. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
Rob Griffiths, Macworld
After activating Exposé in All Windows mode (F9, or the dedicated key on your keyboard), you can now select windows by typing portions of their names (as shown below each window). Tweet
Ted Landau, Macworld
How to modify your iPhone’s carrier settings—and why you would want to. Tweet
Milind Alvares, Smoking Apples Tweet
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
Kudos to James Thomson of TLA Systems for the new profanity filter in PCalc for iPhone - protecting the innocent minds of society's young mathematicians from turning their iPhone calculators upside down... Tweet
International Business Times
Apple expanded in the UK mobile market as Orange and Vodafone are to offer its popular iPhone for frenzy consumers, signaling a subtle shift in power away from the network operators towards the manufacturers. Tweet
Tom Kaneshige, CIO.com
App prices are hitting a critical juncture as developers test the limits at the high end. Tweet
Bill Snyder, Infoworld
Security holes in any applications are bad enough. Covering them up is even worse. But what's really, really bad about Apple's iPhone security screwup is this: It deals a body blow to true mobility for business users just as the future was looking brighter than ever. The only possible winner in this mess is RIM, whose BlackBerry remains the favorite messaging device for business users but that still offers relatively primitive Web access and add-on applications. Tweet
David Coursey, PC World
While Apple may someday offer a mapping platform of its own, the company would be wise to remain tied to Google until it has something truly incredible to offer. Tweet
Sang Tang, TUAW Tweet
Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
Yep, Apple bought Placebase. But what are they going to do with this software?
See Also: Apple Gets A Mapmaker. Where Does That Leave Google? by MG Siegler, TechCrunch. Tweet
Christopher Breen, Macworld Tweet
Joachim Bean, TUAW
If you're out a lot, and don't want to carry a big spiral-bound book around with you, you might want to consider this, although the price of this app may be limiting. Tweet
Dan Moren, Macworld
The App Store, you see, has very strict rules on pricing. Among those is “no paid updates.” It’s an all-or-nothing proposition: either every upgrade to an application is free for everybody, regardless of how much work the developer puts into it, or the upgrade is delivered as a “new” application that everybody has to pay for it. There’s no facility—none—for developers to give some customers a break on a upgrade price without sending each and every one a check for the discount. Tweet
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
With iWork.com, Apple is bringing too little to the table, and they've brought it far too late. Tweet
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
The only iPhone app I have handy that implements a full browser is Selznick Scientific Software's PasswordWallet. Tweet
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