Tracking Thieves With 'Find my iPhone'

An anonymous reader wrote in to say "A friend of mine who just got an iPhone 3GS and has Mobile Me just used the "Find my iPhone" feature to track down his lost and subsequently stolen iPhone. This story involves three nerds wandering sketchy streets with a MacBook, and ends with a confrontation at a bus stop."

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Commander: Europe at War [(universal) Patch]

Control the Axis or Allied forces throughout the entire European Theatre. This update corrects issues with sound, fixes other minor bugs.

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[Source: Apple Games - What's New]

Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days

Apple today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. �Safari 4 is an incredible success on Mac and Windows with more than 11 million downloads in the first three days,� said Philip Schiller, Apple�s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. �Safari users love the incredible speed and innovative features like Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow.�

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[Source: Apple Hot News]

iPhone 3GS �the finest iPhone Apple has made�

In his 4.5 (out of 5) mouse review, Jason Snell (macworld.com) points out that the iPhone 3GS offers �a major step forward in terms of the iPhone�s technological underpinnings,� one that results in �indisputably faster device, not just at some tasks, but at every task.� And in detailing the many new features it introduces, Snell concludes that iPhone 3GS �is still leading the pack, in most cases by a wide margin.�


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[Source: Apple Hot News]

Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

Roskolnikov writes "Apple has apparently decided that ZFS isn't really ready for prime time. We've been discussing Apple/ZFS rumors, denials, and sightings for some years now. Currently a search on Apple's site for ZFS yields only two hits, one of them probably an oversight in the ZFS-cleansing program and the other a reference to open source. Contrast this with an item from the Google cache regarding ZFS and Snow Leopard. Apple has done this kind of disappearing act in the past, but I was really hoping that this was one feature promise they would keep. I certainly hope this isn't the first foot in the grave for ZFS on OS X."

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iPHONE 026 by ANONYMOUS

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What Will Apple Borrow Next?

Apple has a history of either buying apps or boldly copying features from developers and including them in OSX. So what borrowed features could we see in OSX next?

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[Source: TheAppleBlog]