Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Safari 4 Released, Claimed "30 Times Faster Than IE7"

CNETNate writes "Apple has released the beta version of Safari 4 for Mac and PC, with claims that its Nitro rendering engine is '30 times faster than IE7,' and three times faster than Firefox 3. Other new features include 'Top Sites,' which shows users the most frequently visited Web pages, 'Full History Search' for searching through not only the URLs and titles of visited pages, but also the complete text within the page itself — something Opera has been doing for a while."

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Steve Jobs turns 54 today, Happy Birthday!

It is February 24, and that means its the birthday of none other than Steve Jobs. He was born in the year 1955, which means he turns 54 today.
While many probably remember the good things that he has done for Apple, both in the early years and since his return in 1996, he is [...]




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How iPhone app management in iTunes should be, but sadly its just a concept.

A new concept video has surfaced showing off what appears to be a much nicer way to manage your iPhone apps within iTunes. Moving and rearranging your apps directly on your iPhone is likely manageable for most people, however there are plenty of us who often have way more than we should, and whatever your [...]




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Introducing: TheAppleBlog App Review

I’m exceedingly happy to tell you all about a brand-new series of articles we’re launching here at TheAppleBlog, entitled: The App Review.
Every other weekday, I’ll be sticking my big hands deep into the gaping jaws of the App Store and pulling out a fresh app for a top-down examination.
In each review, I’ll take the app [...]

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Where the White Labels Are: The Imaginary Beast of iPhone Carrier Value-Add

In the recent past, I’ve covered a couple of the different white-label solutions from third-party developers for carriers that offer the iPhone. These offerings are generally meant to correct some oversight on Apple’s part, or answer a perceived desire for some feature on the part of iPhone owners that Apple seems unwilling to offer itself.
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Introducing Safari 4, the world�s fastest and most innovative browser

Apple today announced Safari 4 public beta for Mac and Windows. With its new Nitro engine, Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. And it features many innovative new features that make browsing more intuitive and enjoyable, including Top Sites, Full History Search, Cover Flow, Tabs on Top, and still others. Safari 4 beta is available for immediate download for the Mac and PC.


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Android Open vs. iPhone Closed: Is It Really That Simple?

Mark Sigal at GigaOM wrote a nice article that questions if, essentially, “open” is all it’s cracked up to be.
I’ve written about this before, and agree with Sigal’s take. He sums up one aspect of it especially well when he says:
The reality is that openness is just an attribute -� it�s not an outcome, [...]

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A Look at Snow Leopard: New Features From the Latest Build

World of Apple this week has been kind enough to post a series of screenshots taken from the latest build of Snow Leopard that show off some of the new features coming in Apple’s latest OS revision. While Snow Leopard is being billed more as a streamlined and smoothed-out version of OS X 10.5, there [...]

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Doing the Job With Obsolete Hardware in a Recession

While my new unibody MacBook is pretty state-of-the-art, and indeed the most contemporaneously avant garde computer I’ve ever owned, I’m still a fan of good older hardware and getting a lot of useful work out of my two nine-year-old Pismo PowerBooks.
The Pismo, for a variety of reasons, has proved an extraordinarily long-lived machine in terms [...]

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Jailbroken iPhone gets paired with Apple�s Bluetooth keyboard

Generally, I am pretty happy with the virtual keyboard on my iPhone. I would not say it is perfect, but the lack of a physical keyboard helps keep the phone thinner, for that I prefer the iPhone the way it is. That said, I do think a hack that allows you to use the Apple [...]




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AT&T�s Ralph de la Vega sits down, speaks plenty about the iPhone

Engadget recently had the opportunity to sit down with AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega and as you would expect there was plenty of iPhone related talk. After reading the interview, it seems they have covered just about everything you could hope to learn with topics including the recent reception issues, future updates, dropped [...]




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iTunes Pass: A Musical Grab Bag for Superfans

Apple’s all about introducing things today. First, there was the Safari 4 Public Beta, which fellow TAB writer David Appleyard covered at length. But quietly coming in under the shadow of that big announcement is the arrival of the new iTunes Pass, a service that allows users access to early and unique content from their [...]

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12 Subversion Apps for OS X

Subversion (also known as SVN) is a popular version control system. Accessing SVN repositories with OS X is easy - and there are numerous options to do so. In this article we’ll cover 12 different applications that let you access and use Subversion in OS X.
Version 1.4 of the command-line SVN client ships with OS [...]

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FollowUp iPhone Conversation Tracking

A recently released application for the iPhone exploits an interesting new market — tracking conversations and following up calls. FollowUp aims to provide a location for noting down the action you need to take after receiving or making a call, along with a due date.
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As you’d expect, FollowUp integrates well with the Contacts application for [...]

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Quick Tip of the Week: Using Spotlight to locate a file in the Finder

In Mac OS X Leopard, you can instantly find and then immediately open a document using Spotlight. But what if you find a document and you�re not sure it�s the one you want to open? Or you simply want to learn where it�s located on your Mac? Instead of opening the file, find out how you can ask Spotlight to take you to where you saved it on your hard drive by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.


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Pixelmator GPU Powered Image Editor for OS X

Last month, reinstalling Leopard on my G4 PowerBook broke Photoshop Elements 6, and one reason I’ve been able to procrastinate about the necessary application reinstall (there oughta be a better way, Adobe — nothing else broke) is that Pixelmator is getting so darned good that I haven’t really needed Elements for anything yet.
PSE 6 still [...]

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Is This the (Rear) Face of the New Mac Mini?

This photo has been making the rounds since yesterday, after having originally popped up in the MacRumors forums. The photo’s poster claims that it is the business end of the new, redesigned Mac mini, which he was apparently shown by a friend. No word on who that friend might have been, but “Monthy,” the original [...]

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Best Buy offering up to $100 off iPhone 3G�s for Reward Zone program members

Another option to save some money on an iPhone 3G is upon us, except this time, instead of refurbished models from AT&T, the deal is for new models from Best Buy. A recently announced savings for Reward Zone members is offering up to $100 off, of course the amount you save depends on your Reward [...]




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Taking Control of AppStore Reporting With AppViz

Like the majority of Apple products and solutions, Apple’s App Store is sleek in its presentation to the consumer. However, one of the less polished aspects is the developer back end, iTunes Connect. Don’t get me wrong, this is functional, but it’s not targeted at the consumer market and as such it just does the [...]

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Zagg offering Z-buds buy-one get-one half off for a limited time

In addition to the invisibleSHIELD, ZAGG also offers a very nice set of earbuds designed for the iPhone, and for a limited time you can get a nice deal on them.
The deal, which is currently available runs through February 28, 2009 and will allow you to buy one pair at full price and get [...]




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Tumblr On the iPhone: 3 Apps Reviewed

I have tried just about every blogging platform out there and the one I finally stuck with was Tumblr. I like many of the more advanced functions in WordPress, but Tumblr is where it’s at for me. I’ve notice over the past couple of months I have started mobile blogging a lot more, and what [...]

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Brainpipe [(universal) Demo]

A unique gaming experience. The ultimate objective is to transcend humanity. You do this by navigating the tunnels of your mind, exercising your hand-eye coordination while relishing in the funkadelic sights and sounds of your inner self. Collect the illuminated glyphs while avoiding the nasty obstacles.

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Task Scheduling With Lingon

In the Windows world, system administrators are likely to be familiar with the Scheduled Tasks service. This allows you to schedule processes, scripts or applications to run regularly at a specific time. In the Linux (and UNIX in general) world the cron daemon has traditionally handled this task.
Until the Tiger release, OS X also used [...]

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Kyte Opens the Floodgates for Underwhelming Music Apps

If you’re an App Store watcher, like me, who enjoys nothing more than the occasional sift through the recent arrivals, you’ll likely have noticed the conspicuously timed arrival of a number of different band/musician applications over the past couple of days. Lady Gaga, All American Rejects, and The Pussycat Dolls are the ones I came [...]

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Goodbye, 20? Cinema Display. No Hello, 20? LED Cinema Display?

Another one bites the dust. Another in Apple’s line of Cinema Displays, that is.
Apple pulled the 20″ entry-level model of their popular professional caliber display line Thursday, leaving behind only the legacy 30″ model and the 24″ newly updated LED Cinema Display with DisplayPort that was introduced alongside the new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros [...]

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Ballmer Pleads For Openness To Compete With Apple

mjasay writes "At the Mobile World Congress, Steve Ballmer took aim at Apple's closed iPhone ecosystem with an ironic plea for openness: 'Openness is central because it's the foundation of choice.' Ballmer has apparently forgotten his company's own efforts to vertically integrate hardware and software (Zune, XBox), its history of vertically integrating software (tying SharePoint into Office, IE, SQL Server, Active Directory, etc.), as well as years of illegally tying Windows to Internet Explorer that only the US Justice Department could undo. Indeed, Microsoft's effect on the browser market has pushed Mozilla to get involved in a recent European Commission action against the software giant, with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker recently declaring that 'A number of illegal activities were also involved in creating IE's market dominance,' now requiring government intervention to open up the browser market to fair competition. Putting aside Microsoft's own tainted reputation in the field of openness, is Ballmer right? Should Apple open up its iPhone platform to outside competition, both in terms of hardware and software?"

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Apple Mac OS X Window Management: Way Ahead of Windows 7

Much is being made lately of Microsoft Windows 7 and it’s new taskbar. I’ve been running the beta myself and consider it a nice improvement over Vista. One of the improvements is in the area of window management. The new taskbar shows previews of all the open windows in an app when you hover the [...]

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Goodbye, 20? Cinema Display. No Hello, 20? LED Cinema Display?

Another one bites the dust. Another in Apple’s line of Cinema Displays, that is.
Apple pulled the 20″ entry-level model of their popular professional caliber display line Thursday, leaving behind only the legacy 30″ model and the 24″ newly updated LED Cinema Display with DisplayPort that was introduced alongside the new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros [...]

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We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps

maximus1 writes "A new report compiled by iPhone analytics firm Pinch Media finds the majority of people stop using apps the day after they download them, and only 1 percent develop a long-term relationship with any given app. Instead, most tend to lose interest after a few minutes, according to this article. Paid apps fare slightly better. 30% of the people downloading a paid app return the next day compared to 20% who download a free app. No surprises that the survey found that apps that focused on games and entertainment seem to outlast other categories when it comes to long-term love."

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Is This the (Rear) Face of the New Mac Mini?

This photo has been making the rounds since yesterday, after having originally popped up in the MacRumors forums. The photo’s poster claims that it is the business end of the new, redesigned Mac mini, which he was apparently shown by a friend. No word on who that friend might have been, but “Monthy,” the original [...]

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AirPhones: The True Potential of AirTunes on Your iPhone

I like my Airport Express with AirTunes. I use it to connect my home theater set-up to my iTunes library, and more frequently, for listening to Internet radio via iTunes. But it’s always bothered me that I couldn’t use it to listen to audio from any other source beyond iTunes. I don’t know about you, [...]

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Friday, February 20, 2009

AirPhones: The True Potential of AirTunes on Your iPhone

I like my Airport Express with AirTunes. I use it to connect my home theater set-up to my iTunes library, and more frequently, for listening to Internet radio via iTunes. But it’s always bothered me that I couldn’t use it to listen to audio from any other source beyond iTunes. I don’t know about you, [...]

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EFF Volleys to Make Jailbreaking Free of �Jail-Time�

As most savvy technology readers know, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits “circumventing” digital rights management (DRM) and “other technical protection measures” used to protect copyrighted works. While this ban was meant to deter copyright infringement, many corporations have misused the law to chill competition, free speech, and fair use. Every three years, the U.S. [...]

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Coming Attractions: Echelon Conspiracy

When Max Peterson (Shane West) first receives the phone, he�s understandably surprised by the unusual � and profitable � calls he receives. But then NSA operatives begin pursuing him, and he learns that others who have received a phone have died under mysterious circumstances. Welcome to the Echelon Conspiracy. The film, which also stars Ed Burns, Ving Rhames, and Martin Sheen, opens February 27.

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Super Simple Invoicing With Involer

There’s no shortage of invoicing applications for OS X, with a notable few including Billable, iBiz, Billings, and On The Job. They all offer different functionality, and may fit your requirements perfectly. However, another contender has recently emerged on the scene in the form of Involer.
Rather than attempting to be a complete solution for project [...]

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MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove

Slatterz writes "Going just a bit further than your average unboxing, someone has stripped a new 17-inch Apple Macbook Pro to its component parts revealing one or two little surprises. The biggest of which is that the built-in battery is easily accessible, requiring the tinkerer to remove just the 13 Philips screws which hold the bottom cover in place, and the three tri-wing security screws which hold the battery in place."

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$99 refurbished iPhone 3G�s once again available with AT&T

As we have seen in the past, AT&T currently has a supply of refurbished iPhone 3G’s available. The model that is currently available is the 8GB model in black. Similar to the regular priced iPhone 3G’s, these refurbished deals also require you to sign a two-year agreement. Also, just as a nice extra little perk, [...]




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10 iPhone Apps for Sports Freaks

Back in the day, you used to have to count the hours until your favorite sports team took the field or court, and there was precious little to do in between games. Fortunately, now there are a metric ton of apps in the App Store that help you while away the hours until tipoff or [...]

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Native AMBER Alert app coming soon to the App Store

One of the reasons why I love the App Store so much is the wide variety of available apps, we see everything from the silly and childish, to the super useful and even at times helpful. It is very true, that there is an app for just about anything. The latest app that is soon [...]




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App Store Moral Battleground: �South Park� Nixed

Apple may or may not be thinking about it this way, but the iPhone App Store is fast becoming a moral battleground for the gaming and entertainment industry.
Forget the ESRB, forget the MPAA, the new moral authority developers and studios have to contend with is Apple’s App Store reviewers, and they may be setting the [...]

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Apple Mac OS X Window Management: Way Ahead of Windows 7

Much is being made lately of Microsoft Windows 7 and it’s new taskbar. I’ve been running the beta myself and consider it a nice improvement over Vista. One of the improvements is in the area of window management. The new taskbar shows previews of all the open windows in an app when you hover the [...]

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Newly released GeoTweeter app combines Twitter and your location

A new Twitter application has entered the App Store, and this one seems to be worthy of a download. The app is called GeoTweeter and comes courtesy of Schmap, who you may already know from schmap.me. The app is being referred to as “the iPhone app that puts the ‘where’ in your tweets” and catchy [...]




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AT&T unveils plans to roll-out 4G network by 2011

AT&T has recently announced roll-out plans for their next-generation network. This should come as good news for any AT&T customer who is wanting more speed while on the go.
The upgrade calls for AT&T to have the 4G (Long-Term Evolution or LTE) network in place by 2011. What does that mean, well other than the [...]




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Taking Control of AppStore Reporting With AppViz

Like the majority of Apple products and solutions, Apple’s App Store is sleek in its presentation to the consumer. However, one of the less polished aspects is the developer back end, iTunes Connect. Don’t get me wrong, this is functional, but it’s not targeted at the consumer market and as such it just does the [...]

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