Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Learning to Love Technology: My Wife and the iPhone

As I think it goes with most geeks, our better half (yes as a matter of fact, some of us have girlfriends and wives!) usually isn’t the most technical of people.
My lovely wife can use a computer just fine, but she’s not the type of person who considers that technology can be leveraged to make [...]

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�Twas The Night Before Macworld

�Twas the night before Macworld, when all through the blogs
Every pundit was asking �Where is Steve Jobs?�
His stockings were hung at Mascone with care,
But it seems his last keynote was for MacBook Air.
The attendees were not yet settled into bed;
All concerned that we only get Schiller instead.
Will there be dazzling products? What can we expect?
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Don�t Expect Mass Enterprise iPhone Adoption in 2009

The iPhone has a lot of potential for enterprise use. It’s a powerful device, and it supports Exchange synchronization, and more and more, businesses are integrating Apple computers into their current IT loadout. Still, BlackBerry dominates the business market. Especially in more traditional corporate climates, the impetus required for a shift to Apple’s device isn’t [...]

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FieldRunners Will Get You Hooked

Price: $4.99
Links: Developer | iTunes
A few days ago I saw a friend mention this iPhone game he�d been hooked on called �FieldRunners� and decided to try it out for myself.
Basically, the premise of this game is to build towers with special abilities to keep enemies from crossing from their base to enter yours. You can [...]





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12seconds.tv Brings Video Recording to the iPhone�Sort Of

12seconds.tv has just launched a new iPhone app ($0.99) in the App Store that allows you to output video files from your iPhone and share them with your friends on the web. It’s just not the video that you had in mind. This clever little app lets you take three photos, or pick them from [...]

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Daily Apple: Gesture Patents, 10.5.6 Danger, Hobo Justice, iPrint, & Brighter Pics

Old Dog, New Tricks Via Multitouch - I remember crudely wrestling with swipe gestures on my various Palm pilots over the years. It wasn’t perfect, but I did appreciate the quick delete function that a backwards stroke of the stylus resulted in. Apple may be working on putting in some similar gesture controls in upcoming [...]

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Daily Apple: Flash, Code-Fueled Rumors, Netbook Guide, Fonts, & Book-Banning

Flash Comes to (Jailbroken) iPhones (Sometimes) - Not, probably, what most people are looking for in terms of Flash on the iPhone, but if you’ve already jailbroken, it might be worth a look. Apparently buggy, but provides more Flash than the current, non-jailbroken iPhone does, that much is certain.
iMac, Mac Mini Rumors Get a Little [...]

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Keep Your World Together With Firefox

About seven months ago I made the decision to sell my Macbook and use only my iMac. I love this decision and I don’t regret it, other than one small issue…portability. This isn’t a huge issue but since I do quite a bit of traveling it does cross my mind once in a while.
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Daily Apple - Update Updates, FFXIII: Awkward Controls, Copywrong, Check Means Yes, & The Vatican

Glitchy 10.5.6 Update Gets Improved - A week after its initial release, Apple has updated their, ahem, update, making it significantly less glitchy. People were experiencing problems with Bluetooth and Mail.app, among others. I jumped the gun, and I haven’t had problems yet, but I don’t generally use Bluetooth, so who knows if I’m fine [...]

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VirtualBox 2.1 Adds Support for Hardware Virtualization On OS X

Christmas has come early for users of VirtualBox, a free and open source virtualization solution from Sun Microsystems. Version 2.1 is a huge upgrade to the product as it includes VT-x and AMD-V hardware virtualization support on OS X and full VMDK/VHD support — including snapshots — putting it on par (at least from a [...]

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Contract free iPhone 3G sales begin in France

It was a few weeks back when we first learned that the iPhone 3G would be available contract free in France, and now retailer FNAC has become the first to begin sales. Of course, as you would expect, the contact free handsets are not in any way inexpensive. The 8GB model is priced at �799 [...]





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Weekly App Store Roundup: Dec. 27, 2008

This week I pick my 12 favorite apps of the year as we lead 2008 around the back and shoot it’s face off, while gently beckoning a fresh-faced 2009 through the front door.
Just because it’s the holiday season, doesn’t mean Apple news stops happening. Quite the contrary in fact because this week we got all [...]

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Freestyle Vocabulary Learning With Keep Your Word

Keep Your Word, produced by Bamboo Apps is a tool for those learning a new language. It allows you to build your own dictionary as new words are discovered, classifying and grouping the terms exactly how you want to, while helping you learn a large vocabulary through various exercise modes.
Features
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My Top 5 iPhone Apps of 2008: A War of Attrition

It was a long, drawn out, brutal affair. Finally, after many months, five apps have emerged victorious, and earned a long-term place on my iPhone’s home screen. There are a lot of apps that I’m initially impressed with, and which actually work really well, or have interesting features, but it takes something special for me [...]

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WWDC 2008 Winners: Where Are They Now? � Squirrel

When French student Axel Peju wanted to use his Mac to track his finances and manage a budget, he couldn’t find an application to meet his needs, so he created his own. He developed Squirrel, a personal finance program for the Mac (and soon, the iPhone). It’s full of features to help you save and [...]

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Books-As-Apps: Cutting Out the Clutter

Over the holidays, I ended up reading an awful lot using my iPhone/iPod touch. I started with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, just to determine whether or not I wanted to cough up ten bucks to go see the Brad Pitt movie, and then, since I enjoyed it, I downloaded and read a number [...]

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iPhone Developer Too Cheap to Buy Icons [UPDATED]

It may be the season of good-will, but one naughty iPhone-developer has decided to play the role of Scrooge in the iTunes App Store.
Movies, created by French developer, Olivier Bernal, went live at the App Store on December 19. The app, retailing at $2.99, allows users to grab essential information on the latest box-office releases.
The [...]

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Mac 101: Photo Booth Tips

When’s the last time you played with Photo Booth? I’m guessing you and your friends had some raucous laughs with it when you first got your Mac, and then haven’t done much with it since. Well I’m here to suggest you bring it out of mothballs and check out a few things that you may [...]

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iPod Games: Real Soccer 2009 [(iPod) Article]

Take control of one of more than 290 clubs and national teams, guiding it to a first-place trophy in a cup or league - choose from four cups, five national leagues, and 10 club leagues. Survey a roster full of real players from around the world and decide your formation and strategy, then hit the field in one of nine real stadiums, taking in the roar of the crowd as you maneuver your team into position for a decisive goal in the final game. Fill your case with trophies.

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Quad Core MacBook Pro On the (Macworld) Horizon?

You may or may not have forgotten about the MacBook Pro’s larger self, the 17-inch model. Following its conspicuous absence from the lineup of new laptops announced at the notebook event which took place this past October, news came that Apple had not forsaken the bigger-screened version, but that its release was delayed due to [...]

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iPhone purchase leads to murder arrest for three men

Another example of how crime does not pay, in this case it looks like their greed may have helped speed up their capture. Three men have recently been charge with first-degree murder in the death of Daniel Frederick, the 62-year old owner of Blondie’s Antiques. The three men allegedly murdered Frederick in an effort to [...]





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12seconds.tv Interview

12seconds.tv is a boot-strapped startup that has been a labor of love for the three founders, Sol Lipman, Jacob Knobel, and David Beach. A host of other characters have helped along the way, influenced by promises of burritos, but the small group hasn’t taken any outside money.
The project was conceived in January, launched in July, [...]

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One Juicer: Managing the App Store Beast

There are many ways to keep on top of app releases. You could, for instance, just visit the app store on your iPhone and sort the lists by release date. You could also try AppSniper, an application designed solely with keeping tabs on iPhone releases and pricing. Or, you could go with a web or [...]

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Plan Your Macworld 2009 Schedule

At this past year’s SXSW one of the most popular “tools” used by attendees was a web app called SCHED. It was immensely helpful in figuring out what events were offered, who was going, and if you wanted to go.
I’m excited to announce that this is now available for Macworld 2009 courtesy of TheAppleBlog.
If you’ll [...]

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Vaja continues the iPhone nano speculation

Yet another case maker has come forward with some iPhone nano models, this time they are coming from Vaja. It was just before Christmas that XSKN has posted their model, and now it seems like this rumor is not going away just yet. Normally, these types of leaks would just be chalked up to a [...]





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SimCity: Create a Bustling Metropolis on Your iPhone

EA dropped SimCity ($9.99) for the iPhone recently, and I actually almost missed it. I was still buzzing over Hero of Sparta and I Love Katamari, both of which are also recent releases.
Of course, I had to put everything on hold and take a crack at SimCity, since the PC versions of the game had [...]

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

iPhone Developer Too Cheap to Buy Icons

It may be the season of good-will, but one naughty iPhone-developer has decided to play the role of Scrooge in the iTunes App Store.
Movies, created by French developer, Olivier Bernal, went live at the App Store on December 19. The app, retailing at $2.99, allows users to grab essential information on the latest box-office releases.
The [...]

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USBfever intro�s magnectic mounting iPhone camera lens

Despite how big an iPhone fan that I am, I will be the first to admit that the built-in camera leaves something to be desired. Sure, it is usually good enough, but it could be improved upon. That said, most of the products that aim to improve the camera are bulky and not always ideal [...]





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US Army using the iPod touch as a field translation device

It seems that the US Army is now using everyday technology as a translation tool. That everyday technology item is the iPod touch, and instead of just playing games and listening to music, it is also helping soldiers communicate a little more effectively while in foreign countries. The demo, which comes courtesy of the Pentagon [...]





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Clear iPhone 3G replacement cover shows off internal guts

The latest in case mods for the iPhone 3G is coming from Russian manufacturer iCustom and is showing off the internal guts of the iPhone thanks to a clear replacement back cover. Looking at the image, I am finding it hard to look away, almost like a car crash. I am not sure that I [...]





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iPhone Dev Team offers �How The iPhone Was Hacked� video

Coming in the form of an (almost) hour long video, the speech comes from the recent talk the DevTeam gave at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. One of the first things that we learn from the speech is that despite the team originally forming in June 2007, this is the first time that most [...]





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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros

Newscloud writes "As PC Mag reported last week, Apple OS X 10.5.6 can break some MacBook Pros leaving some users (like me) with a dead backlit black screen after the Apple logo appears. While I initially thought I had a hardware failure, it turns out that there is a fix as long as you have an external display, keyboard and mouse. The problem only appears on the second restart, so if you sleep your MacBook a lot as I do, you might not realize the problem is related to the OS update you did the week before. The problem was related to older, incompatible firmware that Software Update wasn't flagging before the upgrade. This definitely gives weight to the argument for waiting a bit to run software upgrades."

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Weekly App Store Roundup: Dec. 27, 2008

This week I pick my 12 favorite apps of the year as we lead 2008 around the back and shoot it’s face off, while gently beckoning a fresh-faced 2009 through the front door.
Just because it’s the holiday season, doesn’t mean Apple news stops happening. Quite the contrary in fact because this week we got all [...]

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Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview

ClaraBow writes with this excerpt from MacWorld: "A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened. ... Cygnus's owner and president Gregory Swartz developed the technology laid out in the patent while working on IT consulting projects, McAndrews said. The company is looking for 'a reasonable royalty' as well as a court injunction preventing further infringement, he said. ... Cygnus applied for its patent (#7346850) in 2001. It covers a 'System and method for iconic software environment management' and was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office in March of this year."

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Keep Your World Together With Firefox

About seven months ago I made the decision to sell my Macbook and use only my iMac. I love this decision and I don’t regret it, other than one small issue…portability. This isn’t a huge issue but since I do quite a bit of traveling it does cross my mind once in a while.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Daily Apple: Gesture Patents, 10.5.6 Danger, Hobo Justice, iPrint, & Brighter Pics

Old Dog, New Tricks Via Multitouch - I remember crudely wrestling with swipe gestures on my various Palm pilots over the years. It wasn’t perfect, but I did appreciate the quick delete function that a backwards stroke of the stylus resulted in. Apple may be working on putting in some similar gesture controls in upcoming [...]

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Apple and Orange Lose Their Sweetheart Deal

A French watchdog agency has decided that the exclusive deal between Apple and France Telecom’s Orange is not fair and must be suspended. The suspension of the deal is set to take place no later than Thursday of this week. The reason for the short time frame for implementation is to give a chance to [...]

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2008 Best App Ever Awards: Your Vote Counts!

iPhone news and review site 148apps.com has announced the launch of Best App Ever, a new site which allows you to nominate your favorite apps and games in any one of thirty categories.

Most Innovative App - The most innovative app on the iPhone OS platform
Most Useful App - The app you just can’t live without
Best [...]

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Where To iPhone App Acquired by FutureTap

Many of you will be familiar with the iPhone application Where To which provides a quick way to find points of interest around you (whether you’re looking for food, places to shop, fun things to do or a whole range of other options). The application has been available through the App Store since day one, [...]

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Mac Giving Tree From MacHeist

It�s the holiday season, the season of giving, and the people behind MacHeist are giving away a bundle of free applications through the Mac Giving Tree. It’s simply a case of signing up and returning on Christmas Day to receive the promotional codes and ‘unwrap’ your presents.
Gifts currently offered through the deal are Synergy and [...]

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Tales From the Command Line: textutil

I really enjoy the overall experience reading books and articles on my Sony PRS-500 eBook reader, but dislike having to fire up Boot Camp or VMware into Windows in order to purchase books from the Sony eBook Store, especially when there are thousands of books in the public domain and tons of blog and article [...]

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I Came, I Saw, I Played Word Flow

I’m of the opinion that word-based puzzle games are where it’s at for the iPhone. Sure, the shooters and other touch games for the platform are cool, but I get longevity from the dynamic nature of word based challenges. So when the opportunity came to play with Word Flow from 3V Games, I jumped at [...]

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The State of App Store Reviews

While nothing short of a fantastic delivery vehicle for all things iPhone Application, the App Store still has had its share of nuisances. (Even Apple doesn’t nail everything right out of the gate.) But with the unparalleled popularity of the iPhone and the ability to pair it with 3rd party applications, growth is a necessity, [...]

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Location Based Job Searching With JobCompass

JobCompass is a new application on the iPhone that allows you to search through millions of jobs, locating and plotting them on a map in relation to your current position. It pulls vacancy information in real time, so new listings appear on a regular basis.
The idea for JobCompass was born when Titus Blair, the developer [...]

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Daily Apple: Wal-Mart, Crime Fighting Clouds, Lots of Gas, 3D Investments, & Snow Leopard

iPhone Confirmed For Sale at Wal-Mart on Dec. 28th - It was the rumored date, and now it’s the confirmed date. Wal-Mart will officially begin selling Apple’s iPhone in their stores across the U.S. on December 28. The confirmation comes via Bloomberg, who called multiple retail locations to ask about the start date.
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Weekly App Store Roundup: Dec. 20, 2008

According to the App Store, the holiday season has begun proper, with a deluge of Christmas-themed goodies up for grabs. However, that hasn’t hindered happenings in the greater world of Apple this week.
In a disappointing but somewhat expected turn of events, was Apple’s official announcement of their final attendance at next year’s Macworld. Next up, [...]

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Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview

ClaraBow writes with this excerpt from MacWorld: "A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened. ... Cygnus's owner and president Gregory Swartz developed the technology laid out in the patent while working on IT consulting projects, McAndrews said. The company is looking for 'a reasonable royalty' as well as a court injunction preventing further infringement, he said. ... Cygnus applied for its patent (# 7346850) in 2001. It covers a 'System and method for iconic software environment management' and was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office in March of this year."

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New AIM for Mac & AOL Desktop for Mac

Only two months after going into beta, AOL has released AIM for Mac 1.0. Unfortunately, not a whole lot has been changed since our review of the beta. There is still no option for video or audio chats, and beyond the addition of AIM Expressions (a library of Buddy sounds, wallpaper and animated Buddy Icons), [...]

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DIY Magi: Great (and Free!) Gift Pack for New Mac Owners

With both shopping days and budgets running short, you may be wondering what to get your friends and family members who have either just purchased or will be receiving a new Mac.
With 1-8GB USB flash drives having a street price of ~$6-$15.00 and a plethora of highly useful free software for the Mac ripe for [...]

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Is a 24? Cinema Display For Your MacBook Worth the Money?

Apple’s new notebook-oriented 24-inch LED Cinema Display is certainly a glorious piece of equipment. If you’re not up to speed, this 24-inch LED-backlit 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution glossy-finish widescreen unit includes a built-in iSight video camera, mic and speakers in an elegant, thin aluminum and glass enclosure stylistically consonant with the new unibody MacBooks [...]

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Daily Apple: Snake, Paris, Keynote Concerns, & Business Triggers

Metal Gear Confirmed for iPhone - Snake’s going to be stealthy on your iPhone or iPod touch in the near future, thanks to Konami. They’re also planning on releasing Silent Hill and Dance Dance Revolution games. I want Grey Fox in the Metal Gear game. That’s an order.
Apple Expo Paris Nixed - Yesterday, Apple was [...]

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Friday, December 26, 2008

Confirmed: Walmart to begin selling iPhone 3G Sunday

According to an official Walmart announcement, the company will begin selling Apple’s iPhone 3G beginning Sunday, December 28.
Unfortunately the iPhone will not be sold for $99 as many of us had hoped, instead it will be retailing for merely $2 less than Apple’s price, $197 (8GB) and 297 (16GB.)
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One Juicer: Managing the App Store Beast

There are many ways to keep on top of app releases. You could, for instance, just visit the app store on your iPhone and sort the lists by release date. You could also try AppSniper, an application designed solely with keeping tabs on iPhone releases and pricing. Or, you could go with a web or [...]

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My Top 5 iPhone Apps of 2008: A War of Attrition

It was a long, drawn out, brutal affair. Finally, after many months, five apps have emerged victorious, and earned a long-term place on my iPhone’s home screen. There are a lot of apps that I’m initially impressed with, and which actually work really well, or have interesting features, but it takes something special for me [...]

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Mac 101: Photo Booth Tips

When’s the last time you played with Photo Booth? I’m guessing you and your friends had some raucous laughs with it when you first got your Mac, and then haven’t done much with it since. Well I’m here to suggest you bring it out of mothballs and check out a few things that you may [...]

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Petz: Catz 2 [(Intel) Demo]

Welcome back to the adorable world of Catz! In Petz Catz 2, you can now pick your perfect pet companion from several adorable breeds. Feed and groom her, play with her and pick out toys, accessories and even little outfits to make your cutie even cuter!

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Freestyle Vocabulary Learning With Keep Your Word

Keep Your Word, produced by Bamboo Apps is a tool for those learning a new language. It allows you to build your own dictionary as new words are discovered, classifying and grouping the terms exactly how you want to, while helping you learn a large vocabulary through various exercise modes.
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Smooth Open Street Maps For the iPhone

detrow writes "A number of projects are working on bringing a smooth Open Street Maps Viewer to the iPhone, where smooth means as smooth as the Google Maps application. Route-Me is one of them (New BSD License, complete Objective-C native code). The GPS Mission blog reports that their application (GPS Mission) uses Route-Me and made it to the App Store as the first application using that OSM component. The map looks real nice and behaves just like Google Maps with all the well known zooming and panning available. What other iPhone applications exist that feel as smooth as Google Maps but use the Open Street Map?"

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Don�t Expect Mass Enterprise iPhone Adoption in 2009

The iPhone has a lot of potential for enterprise use. It’s a powerful device, and it supports Exchange synchronization, and more and more, businesses are integrating Apple computers into their current IT loadout. Still, BlackBerry dominates the business market. Especially in more traditional corporate climates, the impetus required for a shift to Apple’s device isn’t [...]

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Virtual cigarettes come to the iPhone, iPod Touch

Electric Smoke [app store, $0.99 ] is one of the more far-fetched iPhone applications I have seen in my time, it allows users to smoke a virtual cigarette by inhaling/blowing through the iPhone’s microphone.
While the manifestation of this technology isn’t all that exciting, the concept behind this fun little iPhone game is incredibly cool. We [...]





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VirtualBox 2.1 Adds Support for Hardware Virtualization On OS X

Christmas has come early for users of VirtualBox, a free and open source virtualization solution from Sun Microsystems. Version 2.1 is a huge upgrade to the product as it includes VT-x and AMD-V hardware virtualization support on OS X and full VMDK/VHD support — including snapshots — putting it on par (at least from a [...]

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Smashing Research at CERN

�The 17-inch MacBook Pro is my main computer,� says Brian Cox. A particle physicist, Cox works at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, which scientists will soon use to try to recreate the �Big Bang.� Cox uses the Mac because it can run both UNIX for research and productivity apps for everything else. And he�s not alone. �When you look around a physics conference now,� he says, �you see more Macs than anything else.�

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iPod Games: Trivial Pursuit [(iPod) iTunes]

Play for the pursuit of happiness with Trivial Pursuit on your iPod. Use simple, Click Wheel controls to choose categories and answers. Challenge yourself with up to 1,000 questions on entertainment, geography, history, and more.

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iPod Games: Slyder Adventures [(iPod) Article]

Rotate the environment with your click wheel (or by turning your fourth generation iPod nano) and let gravity take over as Slyder and his friends drop through over 150 levels spanning four worlds. In Exploration mode, take the time to learn the secrets as you chomp goodies and watch out for robots and other hazards. In Timed mode, race against the clock to reach the goal before time runs out, or lose a life.

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Snapture looks to bring a Xenon flash to the iPhone

Normally, I am not a big fan of iPhone add-ons, especially if they get in the way of a protective case, however this latest offering from Snapture appears to be pretty interesting. The new addition is a Xenon flash for the iPhone, which sounds like it would significantly improve the iPhones photo taking ability in [...]





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Coming Attractions: Defiance

In Defiance, the four Bielski brothers (played by Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, and George MacKay) recruit Jewish refugees to the Belarussian forest, where they ultimately build a 1200-person strong force of resistance fighters. The film, directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai), opens in theaters on December 31.



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iPhone Book app, Knife Music banned for �offensive content�

One of the more interesting apps to begin making their way into the App Store are those that contain just one title, most often they are done by authors without a major publishing house behind them. However CNET’s David Carnoy has not had his novel Knife Music approved due to “offensive content.” According to the [...]





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12seconds.tv Brings Video Recording to the iPhone�Sort Of

12seconds.tv has just launched a new iPhone app ($0.99) in the App Store that allows you to output video files from your iPhone and share them with your friends on the web. It’s just not the video that you had in mind. This clever little app lets you take three photos, or pick them from [...]

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USA Today offers up iPhone, iPod touch application

USA Today has recently added a new app to the App Store. The app is simply dubbed USA Today, and offers users the latest “news stories, sports scores, weather and photos.” The app is available for free, and in addition to checking the latest headlines, they can also be shared by email, text and even [...]





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iPod Games: Chinese Checkers [(iPod) iTunes]

Play Chinese Checkers on the go and enjoy the original board game you grew up with. Featuring stunning graphics, easy-to-use Click Wheel controls, and pass-and-play multiplayer with up to five friends.

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iPhone App: Flash Metronome

Often, the simplest iPhone applications are the best ones. There’s a lot to be said for uncluttered interfaces, few buttons and spare layouts. You’re more likely to use an app that doesn’t take an hour to figure out — at least I am.
That’s a key reason I like Flash Metronome, a .99 app from Diatche [...]





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App Store Pick of the Week: The Weather Channel

If you�re traveling this holiday season, be sure to take the Weather Channel with you. Yes, everyone�s favorite source for weather now takes to the road on iPhone and iPod touch. The Weather Channel app offers location-based weather, customizable weather maps, and severe weather alerts. You can even share a weather alert or forecast by emailing it from your iPhone or iPod touch.



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12seconds.tv Interview

12seconds.tv is a boot-strapped startup that has been a labor of love for the three founders, Sol Lipman, Jacob Knobel, and David Beach. A host of other characters have helped along the way, influenced by promises of burritos, but the small group hasn’t taken any outside money.
The project was conceived in January, launched in July, [...]

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Interested in Science?

Then you�ll enjoy the Forum Network Lectures brought to us by WGBH. In the mostly video lectures, we hear noted planetologists, mathematical physicists, authors, and biologists explore such subjects as the birth and death of stars, the canopy ecosystem of coastal redwoods, and time travel. Come and �entertain your brain� with the Cambridge Forum Network Lectures on iTunes U.



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Mac Clones: Where Does Apple Draw the Line?

With all the hoopla surrounding Psystar these days, a few other companies have jumped on board the Mac clone bandwagon. In some cases they�re using somewhat, shall we say, unique, methods. Still, the intent is clear: skirt Apple�s EULA and sell a solution that allows Mac OS X to run on generic PC hardware. In [...]

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�Twas The Night Before Macworld

�Twas the night before Macworld, when all through the blogs
Every pundit was asking �Where is Steve Jobs?�
His stockings were hung at Mascone with care,
But it seems his last keynote was for MacBook Air.
The attendees were not yet settled into bed;
All concerned that we only get Schiller instead.
Will there be dazzling products? What can we expect?
And [...]

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HP intro�s iPrint Photo for the iPhone, iPod touch

HP has just unveiled a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch that will allow for wireless printing. The app is called iPrint Photo and will allow users to print wirelessly to an HP printer that is on the same Wi-Fi network.
The app allows for borderless 4×6 prints and assuming your printer has [...]





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SimCity: Create a Bustling Metropolis on Your iPhone

EA dropped SimCity ($9.99) for the iPhone recently, and I actually almost missed it. I was still buzzing over Hero of Sparta and I Love Katamari, both of which are also recent releases.
Of course, I had to put everything on hold and take a crack at SimCity, since the PC versions of the game had [...]

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Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone

Anonymous writes "Citrix is putting out word that it's developing an iPhone receiver that could make 'millions' of Windows applications work on Apple's handset. (Something Citrix is calling 'Project Braeburn.') Aside from Flash and a few other apps, is anyone pining for Windows-based apps on the iPhone? (Exchange on the iPhone seems to be successful, but so does Apple's App store, which has done pretty well without Windows.)"

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

2008 Best App Ever Awards: Your Vote Counts!

iPhone news and review site 148apps.com has announced the launch of Best App Ever, a new site which allows you to nominate your favorite apps and games in any one of thirty categories.

Most Innovative App - The most innovative app on the iPhone OS platform
Most Useful App - The app you just can’t live without
Best [...]

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More iPhone Nano Rumors

The Website Mac Rumors is reporting that a maker of cases for the iPhone has a category for “iPhone Nano”, adding more fuel to the speculation that a new form-factor iPhone could be on the way.
The manufacturer, XSKN, has a page that lists “iPhone Nano”. The page is shown in the graphic at right, with [...]





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DIY Magi: Great (and Free!) Gift Pack for New Mac Owners

With both shopping days and budgets running short, you may be wondering what to get your friends and family members who have either just purchased or will be receiving a new Mac.
With 1-8GB USB flash drives having a street price of ~$6-$15.00 and a plethora of highly useful free software for the Mac ripe for [...]

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Tapping the power of podcasting

To effectively train and communicate with its 4,000 staff members, 800 reserve personnel, and nearly 20 divisions, the Orange County Sheriff�s Department found a great solution in podcasts. Unfortunately, it could take weeks for the department�s video staff to produce and deliver their podcasts in a variety of formats. Until, that is, Podcast Producer turned weeks of arduous production into mere hours of automated production.

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Dev Team offers video proof of iPhone 3G unlock

While the unlock is not expected to be available to the public until New Years Eve, the Dev Team has released a nice video showing off some proof of yellowsn0w in action. The video, which comes courtesy of MuscleNerd shows the iPhone 3G going from being active on the AT&T network to active on the [...]





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Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS

Preedit writes "Mac cloner Psystar is claiming in new court papers that Apple's copyright suit against it should be dismissed, because Apple has never filed for copyright protection on Mac OS X 10.5 with the US Copyright Office. Infoweek is reporting that the claim, if it holds up, could open the door for third-parties to enter the Mac market without fear of legal action from Apple. In its latest set of allegations, Psystar is also accusing Apple of bricking Macs that don't run on genuine Apple hardware." We've been following the Psystar-Apple imbroglio since the beginning.

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