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Apple readying dual-mode GSM/CDMA iPhone?

An analyst report sent today hints at Apple producing an iPhone that would work with both GSM and CDMA networks. The OTR Global note obtained by AppleInsider claims to know of an iPhone in developmen...
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Radio Shack to sell iPhone

Radio Shack in a terse notice today said it would begin selling the iPhone 3G and 3GS in its retail stores later this month. The initial rollout is small and will be limited to certain company-run st...
Review: LaCie Sound2 Speakers

LaCie is without a doubt best known for its hard drives and other storage solutions, many of which are often particularly good-looking. The company's new Sound2 Speakers could also be described in ju...
Jumsoft launches Aperture Themes 2.0 with 16 themes

Jumsoft has released Aperture Themes 2.0, a package of ten new themes for Apple's photography software. The new content adds to the six themes available in the previous v1.0 bundle. The styles are gea...

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Review: HTC Hero (Sprint) smartphone

Although it has some quirks, the variety of features and the high customizability that the Hero smartphone offers is hard to beat.
Apple Store announces Reserve And Pick Up program for the holidays

Apple today announced a Reserve and Pick Up program that allows customers to reserve products online and pick them up at a local retail store between December 15 and 24.
Review: The Deep Pinball for iPhone

OOO Gameprom returns with another pinball adventure, this one set in a watery underworld. It's a fun game, with the 1.1 update improving upon the original release.
Speedmark 6: Macworld Lab's new benchmark suite

The Macworld Lab has been hard at work tweaking Speedmark, our overall system performance testing tool, to better accommodate Snow Leopard and to test the Macs on which it runs.
Bugs & Fixes: Magic Mouse loses its way

A pair of irritating symptoms have made Ted Landau's experience with Apple's latest mouse less than magical.

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Spots

I’d like to thank Savoy Software for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Spots, their Wi-Fi hotspot directory app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Spots is a wonderful app, with a...
Google Dashboard

Single-page overview of everything tied to your Google account. Now that I’ve seen it, it’s hard to believe they didn’t offer this until now. Smart. ★ ...
People in Blinking, Animated Glass Houses

David Pogue, writing for The New York Times, which puts at least two blinking, animated ads on every page of its site, including this one: Second, and more important, I don’t think advertisers s...
Google Promoting the Droid on Google.com Homepage

Because the google.com homepage is almost always ad-free, and space there is not for sale, I would call it the most valuable ad space on the entire Internet. ★ ...
OpenOfficeMouse

The OpenOffice.org open source community has designed their own mouse. It has 18 buttons. This is apparently not a joke. Update 1: The same designers made an automobile, too. ★ ...

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“iPhonebook” Art Hack is Completely Awesome

Serious craft from Japan’s Mobile Art Lab in transforming the iPhone into an amazing interactive image in a children’s story book from the future. I love it. All kids should get one for Ch...
Five Fun Games: Traveling Across the United States of Pool, All For One and One for All, Deep-Fried Candy Bars and More

This week’s picks from Mac Games and More is a collection of various games you might not have heard of, to take you into the weekend. Included in the selection: a road trip across the U.S. play...
John Carmack: Apple Looks Down on iPhone Games

Programmer John Carmack helped bring Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake into the world. Getting his games on the iPhone was not so easy. “My relationship with Apple has been long sta...
Daily Deals: iMacs, iPhone Cases and VMWare Fusion 3

We close out the week with deals on iMacs, including a desktop Mac with 3.06 GHz processor, 27-inch screen, 8GB of Ram, plus Parallels with Windows 7 for $1,977. Also on tap: a number of iPhone cases...
Apple Hit With Bizarre Lawsuit Also Naming Sarah Jessica Parker

Apple is the defendant in a number of lawsuits, the latest from Nokia. However, a bizarre lawsuit has appeared, naming the Cupertino, Calif. company and ‘Sex in the City’ actress Sara Jess...

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Rumored Deals Could Give New Meaning to 'Apple TV'

Is Apple about to disrupt the television industry even further? Rumors are circulating that the company is looking into the possibility of offering a TV subscription service through iTunes for $30 per...
Meet the Beatles... re-recording? Bluebeat claims its downloads are legal

A US company is offering digital downloads of the Beatles' music, the first in the world, putting it in the crosshairs of a lawsuit by EMI The Beatles songs are available for digital download, apparen...
Hurry Up With the iTablet Already, Apple

We're already dipping our toes in November, and there isn't an iTablet to be found.
The future is mobile

Notebooks and netbooks now dominate sales, writes Charles Arthur. IN JANUARY 2003, Steve Jobs announced to a slightly surprised Macworld audience that "this is going to be the year of the notebook for...
SADIF Analytics Assigns Positive Long-Term Outlook Rating to Apple Inc

Mira, Portugal a ' November 5th, 2009 a ' SADIF Investment Analytics today announced the release of a new equity research report covering Apple Inc .

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Apple Store Carrousel du Louvre opens today

Filed under: Apple Corporate, RetailApple typically opens retail stores in high-end shopping areas, and this one is as high-end as it gets. Beneath the great glass pyramid that marks the entrance to...
The week in TUAW

Filed under: Video, TUAW Business Need a Mac or iPhone developer? TUAW job boards are here! Notice anything new at TUAW? We've had our job boards up...
Rumor: Smaller iPhone on tap for Verizon in Q3 2010?

Filed under: Rumors, Wireless, Apple, iPhone If you're tired of dropped calls and dead zones, and pondering the merits of turning in your iPhone for a DROID... hold on there, champ. AppleInsider says...
Squarespace hosting/CMS service launches iPhone app

Filed under: Software, Blogging, Internet Tools, iPhone, App StoreAfter a long wait, Squarespace customers finally have an iPhone app of their own. Squarespace is a hosted blogging/CMS service that co...
CoPilot Live for iPhone updates features and maps

Filed under: Software, iPhoneWe're seeing a lot of updates to navigation applications, and the latest is for the CoPilot Live app [iTunes link] for the iPhone. As promised, the company has updated the...

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Cradlepoint PHS300 Personal Wi-Fi Hotspot

If you're like most people, you probably spend a great deal of time away from your home Wi-Fi network. Free open Wi-Fi networks can be few and far between these days so if you have an iPod touch, a Ma...
Secrets of Professional Podcasting

Make your talking time shine. So you've started a podcast, have you? And now that you've got a few episodes under your belt, you're starting to see your audience grow. Now it's time to get a litt...
STM Evolution

Yes, messenger bags are stylish. But after several years of schlepping our MacBooks and their accoutrement around in one, we were ready for something easier to carry. Backpacks--and laptop versions in...
A Great Game...If You're About to Reformat Your Hard Drive

The rules of the game are simple, as simple as the game's title Lose/Lose. Here's how creator Zach Gage describes the game: "Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the player...
Rumor: AT&T Getting an 8GB iPhone 3GS?

While there have been rumors that an 8GB iPhone 3GS could be headed to Canada's Rogers network, as reported by BGR, there are now rumors that AT&T is planning to replace the $99 8GB iPhone 3G wit...

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Apple to Manufacture Verizon-Compatible iPhone in Q3 2010?

A new report from OTR Global relayed by AppleInsider indicates that Apple is planning on manufacturing new hybrid iPhones that will support both Verizon's CDMA2000 network as well as the UMTS 3G netw...
RadioShack To Sell iPhone

In a brief press release today, RadioShack announced that it will begin selling the iPhone starting with the Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City markets later this month. RadioShack plans to sell the...
Apple Retail Stores Roll Out 'Reserve and Pick Up' Purchasing for Holiday Season

Apple has rolled out a new Reserve and Pick Up purchasing program for its retail stores, allowing customers to select and reserve products for later in-store purchase and pick up ahead of the holidays...
Apple Preps Broadway Store for Opening

Fortune reports that Apple has issued media invitations for a preview of the company's fourth Manhattan store scheduled to officially open in New York City's Upper West Side at Broadway and 67th Stree...
Updated iTunes LPs for Apple TV 3.0 Now Available

Apple today began notifying purchasers of its iTunes LP offerings that updated versions compatible with the new Apple TV 3.0 software are now available for download. Apple delivered the Apple TV 3.0...

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Doom game creator suggests Apple embarrassed about iPhone gaming

John Carmack, creator of the classic PC game Doom, described working with Apple as a "rollercoaster ride," and suggested that company executives are not happy about the popularity of gaming on the iPh...
Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010

A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell...
Apple unveils holiday shopping in-store pickup option

In time for the holiday shopping season, Apple has introduced a new "Reserve and Pick Up" option via its retail Web site, allowing customers to reserve products online and pick them up in store.
Apple's Broadway store to open Saturday, Nov. 14

Apple has officially announced that its forthcoming flagship store on Broadway in New York City will have its grand opening on Nov. 14, in time for the holiday shopping season.
Bizarre lawsuits connect Apple with Sarah Jessica Parker, Lil' Wayne

Apple is the defendant in two recent, offbeat lawsuits, including one filed by an artist who alleges he invented and named the iPod and iPhone in the 1980s, only to have Apple and actress Sarah Jessic...

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Going Head To Head With Genius On Playlists

brownerthanu writes "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a system to include an ignored sector of music, dubbed the 'long tail,' in music recommendations. It's well kno...
Apple Not Disabling OS X Atom Support After All

bonch writes "Contrary to previous reports, Atom chip support is working fine in the latest 10C535 build of OS X 10.6.2. Apple's EULA still states that OS X is licensed to run only on Apple hardware,...
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors

Archeopteryx writes "According to Wired's 'Gadget Lab' blog, Snow Leopard's next update, OS X 10.6.2, will block the Atom processor and will disable many 'Hackintosh' netbooks. It is indeed true that...
For September, Book-Related Apps Overtook Games On iPhone

ruphus13 writes "In a sign that ebooks are rising in popularity, a recent survey by mobile analytics company Flurry revealed that users may be using the iPhone for more intellectual pursuits, and not...
Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy

recoiledsnake writes "Groklaw has an extensive look at the latest developments in the Psystar vs. Apple story. There's a nice picture illustrating the accusation by Apple that Psystar makes three unau...

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MacHeist Offers NanoBundle Worth $154, for FREE!

The biggest Mac software bundle makers are offering a what appears to be prelude to their christmas bundle, for free. The list includes: Shovebox, Twitterrific, Writeroom ,TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs,...
Why Steve Jobs Didn't Take Over Apple Back In 1997

Back in 1997, Larry Ellison was on a beach in Hawaii. After sipping his second Margarita that evening, he turned to his pal Steve Jobs, who was listening to Bob Dylan on his Sony Walkman. "Steve...Ste...
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs named Fortune CEO of the Decade

For his role in turning Apple into a groundbreaking technology leader and the most valuable company in Silicon Valley, Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs its "CEO of the Decade."...
This is Why There are 100,000 Apps in the App Store

Most of us are probably wondering just how the App Store grows so fast in such a short period of time. Well, here’s one answer for you. Break up the app content into tens of different pieces.
CNET UK names iPhone 'world's worst'

In June, Apple's smartphone was the editors' choice at CNET UK. How times have changed.

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New For iPhone: 2 Balls 1 Cup

Presented for your approval without comment. [iTunes Link via The Awl]...
This Week's Best iPhone Apps

In this week's never-gonna-switch-so-stop-asking app roundup: Free games, reinvented! Airplane anxiety, averted! Photos, wirelessly printed! Cool apps, discovered by other cool apps! Navigation, cheap...
The iPhone-to-Android Switch: 10 Things You Need to Know

You've had it. Maybe with AT&T. Maybe with Apple's crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you're going to Android: Land of freedom, carriers not named AT&T, and the...
Another iPhone Developer Gets Busted Stealing Phone Numbers

iPhone game developer Storm8, creator of games such as World War, iMobsters and Vampires Live, has just been hit with a suit for secretly gathering the phone numbers of everyone who purchases its game...
$99 8GB iPhone 3GS For Christmas?

It's hearsay at this point, but Boy Genius Report's sources claim the 8GB 3G will be swapped with a 3GS. They've had a decent-enough record with rumors lately, and it makes sense against the $99 Droid...

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FSJ Week in Review

U2's Bono guarantees he won't get a Christmas gift from FSJ, by singing to Bill Gates for his 54th birthday. Oh, and one more thing- see Dear Leader's Greatest Hits here. Windows 7 release does nothi...
Friday's FSJ News Wrap

We read the blogs, so you don't have to. From the FSJ News Center: It's the Day Of The Droid, right on Google's front page. Speaking of Google, CEO Eric Schmidt says he won't make the same mistakes M...
Larry snaps the mast

On his boat, I mean. The big super duper racing boat that he wants to put into the America's Cup. The thing has a 200-foot mast and it snapped like a toothpick. No word on what the cause was, but it a...
Exclusive Story Opportunity: THE MAD SCRAMBLE TO BE IBM

That was the headline on the best PR pitch we've seen in ages, and which we just now got our hands on. One of the filthiest hacks on the beat has been trying to curry favor with Katie, and she's playi...
Larry has a lame-ass aluminum car and he thinks he's so cool

And now, for only $4,500, you can buy a limited-edition book that tells the story of how they built Larry's super-dooper special rich guy race car entirely out of aluminum. The book itself sports an a...

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ViewFinder 1.0

Do you find looking for images for use in presentations a frustrating experience? To address that, Connected Flow has released the first version of its Flickr search utility ViewFinder. The software e...
External Link: Fortune Names Jobs CEO of the Decade

Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. Why Jobs? Fortune says in the past 10 years he has, "radically and lucratively reordered three markets - music, movies, and mobile telephones -...
Captain FTP 6.2

Xnet Communications has updated Captain FTP, its full-featured file transfer client. Along with Snow Leopard support, the latest version adds a few under-the-hood improvements: support for Growl, a ne...
MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.6

MacSpeech has released a maintenance update for the speech recognition utility MacSpeech Dictate. The latest version adds a Dictation Preferences pane that has the capability to enable or disable the...
BBEdit 9.3

Bare Bones Software has released a significant update to the powerful text editor BBEdit. The latest version adds the capability to include saved Finder searches in Projects, improves support for non-...

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Review: iSkin ProTouch Vibe keyboard cover for MacBook/Pro/Air

It has been well documented that my love of blogging is rivaled only by my love of UTZ cheeseballs. This unfortunate battle for my affection has often left my MacBook Pro caught in the middle, with ch...
Happy Halloween from Macenstein!

Well, here’s a real treat! Mac chick of the Month June 2009 Irina Voronina and her Mac-loving friends Brooke Taylor and Raynecat were nice enough to show us that Apple gear is the perfect access...
The best Apple-themed Halloween costume… EVER

And on the 8th day, God created Steve Jobs, who subsequently invented Woz, who then begot Apple, which hired Tony Fadell, and so on and so forth until Dr.Macenstein founded Macenstein.com, which prod...
This is why I never jailbreak my pumpkins

Sure I love all the cool things I can do with a jailbroken pumpkin, but when things go wrong, they go horribly wrong. I resolved last year to stop jailbreaking my pumpkins, and this picture reminds me...
Random thoughts: Apple’s 100,000 iPhone apps and the Google GPS app

Two things happened today that filled me with a resounding feeling of… “meh”. Well, actually lots of underwhelming things happened today (I’m rather hard to overwhelm thanks to...

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Apple Store announces Reserve And Pick Up program for the holidays

Apple today announced a Reserve and Pick Up program that allows customers to reserve products online and pick them up at a local retail store between December 15 and 24.
xGestures updated for Snow Leopard

xGestures is a program that allows mouse movements to trigger menu items, keystrokes, and AppleScripts; it's recently been updated to work with Snow Leopard.
Mac developers band together for One Finger Discount

Over two dozen Mac developers are participating in a "One Finger Discount" sale to celebrate great Mac software and offer a 20 percent discount to customers.
Secrets pref pane updated for Snow Leopard

The Mac preference pane with hundreds of hidden user interface tweaks is updated for Snow Leopard.
MacHeist offers six Mac apps for free

MacHeist offers six Mac applications for free, in exchange for your email address. And no Twitter spamming this time, either.

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