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Apple Day – everything about Apple, iPod, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook

Entries for April, 2009

iTunes 8.2 hints at support for Gracenote’s video platform

Apple on Tuesday equipped iPhone developers with a beta of iTunes 8.2 that appears to add full support for Gracenote’s video platform, which includes components for organizing, searching and managing both DVD and Blu-ray optical discs.
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Apple iPhone “Mediapad” Could Be a Kindle Killer

Is Apple’s rumored “mediapad” entertainment device a threat to Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader? I think it is, but the only people who may care are current Kindle owners, some of whom may end up wishing they had waited on their purchase.
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In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Team to Design Chips

Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple’s work from rivals. The Silicon Valley trend-setter has been hiring people from many different segments of the semiconductor industry, including engineers to…
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Jobs skips town council meeting on property demolition

According to his lawyer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did not feel well enough to attend a town council meeting on Tuesday over demolition permits for one his properties.
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Review: Xerox Phaser 6280/DN

In the universe of sub-$1,000 color laser printers, the Xerox Phaser 6280/DN is a fair performer. It has high-capacity input trays and toner cartridges, and an average cost per print and purchase price. It’s fast at printing longer text documents, but slower at graphics-intensive documents.
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Analysis: What Exchange 2010 means for Mac users

Microsoft’s planned changes to Microsoft Exchange 2010 suggest that Mac users working in an Exchange world may no longer feel like afterthoughts. John C. Welch looks at the changes and how they’ll affect Mac users.
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Apple hires former ATI graphics chip designer

Apple has quietly signaled a new emphasis on graphics by hiring an influential graphics chipset designer from AMD. The former CTO for the company’s ATI graphics product group, Bob Drebin, has indicated on his LinkedIn profile that he is now a Senior Director for an unnamed group within Apple.
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Steve Jobs wants to give you his house. Seriously

As Philip Elmer-Dewitt reminds us, Steve Jobs owns a mansion in Woodside, CA, that he’s been trying to have demolished for years. Why? Because he hates the place.
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Apple building YouTube support into Snow Leopard

Apple will further its endorsement of YouTube and open video standards by building support for the Google-owned video sharing service into one of its flagship applications due to ship later this summer as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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Ocean Way Drums a clear winner for audio pros

Developed by Grammy nominated and winning engineers Allen Sides and Steven Miller, Ocean Way Drums is an incredible product for Mac-using musicians and songwriters.
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40 Awesome iPhone Application Websites

These sites are usually very focused, professional and clean. You will also notice that there’s usually a video displayed in an iPhone casing that shows how these applications are used. In this post we bring you 40 excellent websites designed to showcase iPhone and iPod touch applications.
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How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi

Network World interviews Kevin Hayes, who was the technical editor for the 802.11 Protocol Adaption Layer — one of the big changes in the just-announced Bluetooth 3.0 specification.
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Salma Hayek’s MobileMe account hacked

Celebrities are just people like the rest of us: they send e-mail, they have iPhones, and occasionally they find themselves at the mercy of ill-intentioned hackers.
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More on Apple retail employee numbers

Last week’s report that Apple had cut a substantial percentage of its full-time retail workforce drew criticism, but looking at Apple’s financial reports over the last few years could help provide more context.
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Snow Leopard to offer screen recording via QuickTime X Playe

With the introduction of Snow Leopard, QuickTime Player will assume more of a utilitarian role, with screen recording features reportedly joining the software’s exiting repertoire of basic audio and video capture capabilities.
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