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Early Snow Leopard in Q1 2008?: “ It looks like Snow Leopard might be coming a bit earlier than expected if slides from Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard are to be believed.’ The presentation was given at LISA ‘08 last week in San Diego.” Originally planned for ‘about a year’ from WWDC 2008 (July), the change of schedule would be a significant bump in expections from people outside of Apple.’ While Q1 extends to the end of March, this could also indicate th

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We previously reported that Return7’s CastCatcher 1.3 update had been rejected by Apple due to “excessive” bandwidth usage, and briefly discussed how fragmented and odd Apple’s app approval process really was, and how they really needed to straighten up. CastCatcher is an internet radio application that works similarly to many other applications in the App […]

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Social Gaming Network (SGN) is helping the iPhone to become a real threat to the established game consoles, SGN has launched iFun an iPhone app that turns it (iphone or ipod touch) into a wii like game controller, the perfect companion for their 4 sport applications, the first of such apps available is iGolf, you can swing your iPhone to hit the ball, the same way you do with your wii sport game. The iphone app can be downloaded from the AppStore and and a registration at SGN website is neces

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We have also found this iPhone skin currently being sold on eBay. The seller’s price is $7.99 each. There is a total of 100 available. This sale began on November 19, 2008, and will be available at this price until 6:11 am EST on November 26, 2008 or until all 100 are sold. The seller, “gsm4world”, ships these from Ship From Hong Kong and they can be sent to any location worldwide. Payment can be made by PayPal. See more details and pictures here at the listing’s original eBay page.

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iOrgSoft iPhone Video Converter is an all-in-one software for converting video to iPhone(3G). Being powerful but easy to use, it enables you to convert all popular audio and video files, such as AVI, MPEG, RM, WMV, MOV, MP4, VOB, DivX, XviD, FLV, AAC, AV3, MP3 ect. to MPEG 4 and H.264 Video, MP3 and WAV audio that can be playable on iPhone. Step one: Add Video File Click the add icon, the program will let you browse your hard disc. First you should select the format,then the correspon

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November 19, 2008 Everyone hates headphone cords trailing around everywhere and getting in a tangle, which is one of the reasons Bluetooth has proven so popular for listening to music from Bluetooth capable players and phones. For those whose phones and portable music players aren’t Bluetooth capable, RXS has released two new adapters, which add Bluetooth functionality to iPods, iPhones or any device with a 3.5mm headphone socket. .. Tags: Audio, Bluetooth, iPhone, iPod, Music Related Article

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Adobe Fireworks CS4 includes new features and enhancements that make this a significant upgrade. The new interface is makes it easier to use most tools and controls as well as switch among various Creative Suite products.

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Sempre achamos que “vida boa, é a vida do vizinho”. Este vídeo é um ótimo exemplo de que este pensamento está errado. O criador da Apple, Steve Jobs, dá um ótimo depoimento sobre algumas passagens de sua vida. “…certa vez li num livro uma frase que dizia: ‘Se você viver cada um de seus dias como se fosse o último, certamente acertará’ … Fique com fome, fique tolo.”

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When Trism hit the App Store, life changed for 29-year-old Steve Demeter, relates Brandon Griggs (cnn.com). In just two months, Trism netted the former ATM software designer a cool $250,000, encouraging him to found his own iPhone game development company, Trismology. “It’s done phenomenal business,” says Demeter of the game. And he already has five more titles in development.

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Numberkey is an application that turns your iPhone into a numerical keypad pad. To make Numberkey work you need to install the $1.99 application on your iPhone and your MacBook. Fire both applications up and you can start punching in numbers to your favorite spreadsheet app or figure out how much money you’ve lost over the past couple of months. The lack of numerical keypads on notebook keyboards can be a real pain, prompting some users to buy bulky notebooks just to get those extra digits.

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Well you never know what’s going to come through the door at the MacMedics Mac Lab. Today a PowerMac 6500 came in for some work. As you can see it’s sitting right next to a new Uni-body MacBook. New or old we can handle it. SCSI to SATA we’ve got you covered. Got an old Mac with some forgotten data on it? We can help! Bring it in and we’ll burn it to a DVD for you.

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Copy and Paste, Flash, MMS are probably the most requested features by users since the launch of the iPhone. We had some news on Flash yesterday, Adobe and ARM had jointly announced that they will be collaborating to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for ARM…

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Yea!  My laptop is back and working thanks to The Mac Support Store and AppleCare.  It’s been weird not being connected all the time.  Luckily I was working this whole week, so I didn’t have to go through complete laptop withdrawal. During a shoot last week we noticed that the previews in Capture One Pro v3.7.9 were slow to render, they were rendering with the curve/style already applied and the P25+ was shooting slower than it normally did, all this à la the old P25 style.  For those of you w

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Apple has really managed to do something amazing by cramming a lot of very useful features into a very beautiful package. There are constant reminders of the failed attempts by other companies to bring users all the great features that we love about mobile phones, all while keeping the phone from becoming an ugly mass. The IcePhone Next Gen WinMo Communicator has managed to bring a lot of good features to users, but at a very costly price. If you must have it all it certainly won’t be pretty,

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Johnny Cupcakes latest accessory release is an iPhone case for both the iPhone and iPhone 3G. These sweet %100 rubber cases features Johnny’s fork logo embossed on the back and comes in pink and white. Available now through Johnny’s online store and at the Boston shop. The LA shop will get them in this weekend. $24.99 Info: Johnny Cupcakes Online Store

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The first news of upcoming zombie-based FPS Zombie Mansion broke early last month.  We were frankly surprised to see in the comment and forum posts just how fond readers are of zombies.  (”Woo! Zombies! I’m buying this one! The game could be watching zombies watching paint dry, i’d buy it.”) Well, zombie fans: get ready.  Fuel Industries has just submitted Zombie Drive to the App Store and it should be available in a day or two. As the developer frames it, It’s called Zombie Drive, and it ce

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iPhone lomography apps by Erik Peterson, now available on the app store. Just a dollar each, and perfect for giving pictures on your iPhone that vintage look. I have to say I’m quite agreeing with Scott that “Vint Green” is the hands down winner. h/t ISO50

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Apple 24? LED Cinema Display Back in October Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc. CEO announced a new 24? LED Cinema Display would go on sale in November. Well, that time has arrived and the display is now available to purchase. With a screen resolution of 1,900 x 1,200, built in iSight camera and mic, 3 USB ports, integrated speakers, DisplayPort and a MagSafe adapter, Christmas has come early for many Apple fans out there. Retailing at £649 this monitor is slightly out of my budget at the moment. Not

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Nesten en måned etter Apple først introduserte den nye LED-baserte Cinema Display, har Apple nå endelig gjort skjermen klar for bestilling. Apples første skjerm med full støtte for DisplayPort er nå å finne i Apple Store og autoriserte Apple forhandlere. Hos Apple Store er det allerede 7-10 dagers behandlingstid på alle bestilte skjermer. les mer

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By comparing the hippocampus of a patient suffering from episodic memory to that of a healthy person of the same age, Professor James Brewer can determine whether the patient is suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Trouble is, to manually assemble the 256 hippocampi MRI images, it can take an entire week. Or he can run NeuroQuant on his iMac and get a statistical report in about 8.5 minutes.

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Attendees at the SC08 high-performance computing conference in Austin got a progress report on OpenCL, the the Apple-spearheaded parallel computing API that figures to be a prominent new feature in the upcoming Snow Leopard update to OS X.

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I’m not a huge nut for fruit-infusion tisanes.  I enjoy them, they rarely disappoint me, but its not a driving interest.  When I want a hot beverage, I generally want a good, old fashioned black or oolong.  So when this latest package of teas from The Teacup (Seattle), arrived at Teaviews, I didn’t think much of the little package with “Turkish Lime (Fruit Tisane)” scribbled on the outside. It was only a few days later, when one of our reviewers requested a sample of “Turkish Lime” that I fina

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When I launched raven.me in August, I had plans to post daily content on the iPhone market, including the iPhone daily briefings (which had quite a following, but were too time intensive). Since that time, I have been busy with iPhone projects and the time I would normally spend posting here has been spent working for clients instead. Add to this the fact that I have been asked by O’Reilly Media to blog on O’Reilly Radar and Inside iPhone. If you’re not already subscribed to those blogs, I enco

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YAHTZEE released for iPhone and iPod Touch. EAmobile have finally got round to releasing YAHTZEE on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Priced at $4.99 / $2.99. Get it in iTunes App Store USA Get it in iTunes App Store UK It’s interesting that there are two versions. A USA version and an International version. It’s got nothing to do with language, they’re both in English. I’ll try an find out the differences and let you know. Here’s the Official Blurb… Roll out the fun with YAHTZEE Adventure

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Need help with an application? In Mac OS X Leopard, you’ll find Help in the menu bar of every application. Help points the way to tutorials, user guides, keyboard shortcuts, and other valuable resources. Specific to the application you’re using, Help offers Numbers help when you’re running Numbers and Pages help when you’re using Pages. Learn more about Help in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it, hectic travels. This is the busiest time of the year when it comes to traveling, especially for families. Luckily, online and mobile tools help make the experience much more manageable. From travel planning sites to navigation apps and services to help you keep track of your spending, here are over 20 resources to help you survive the holiday travel season. Are you planning to travel? Which services have you found most helpful? Tell us more

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An ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra uses 20 MacBook computers to compose and perform new music. “We tilt the notebook and use its built-in accelerometer to expressively control sound. We use the trackpad as a kind of violin bow,” explains Ge Wang, SLOrk’s founder. ”You can make some wild, diverse music with the MacBook.”

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Der Glanz um mein Album geht langsam dahin… Eine Idee die ich damals hatte, war es euch noch zusätzlich zu ermöglichen alle meine Titel selbst zu remixen! Der Moment ist nun gekommen. Hiermit stelle ich euch meine Apple Loops zur Verfügung und ihr könnt diese in eurem GarageBand verwenden. Fortgeschrittene User können mit den Loops ja auch sonstwas machen. Ich will eigentlich gar nicht lange rumreden Warum, Wieso, Weshalb und alles. Das liebste wäre es mir. Wenn ihr sie einfach nehmt und m

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Equipped with a detached air of superiority and the bitterness that can only come with covering Mac gaming, Chris Holt entered the fray at a GameStop party to celebrate the release of the new World of Warcraft expansion pack, The Wrath of the Lich King.

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Following my post yesterday on financial transparency my brother Graham released complete sales and financial details for his OzWeather iPhone app. This should prove extremely useful to those who are developing iPhone apps or considering doing so. Covered in his detailed post are daily revenue data since the app’s release, estimates of development costs, and comparison with advertising revenue from the initial web app. The upshot is that Graham is currently earning around A$220 per day fro

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The highly anticipated Google voice recognition search application that was set to push last Friday, will now likely be made available through the App Store on Monday. Google’s voice recognition search application allows users to speak into the device, converting the sound into a digital file that is sent to Google’s servers where the information is analyzed for the best search display. Simply put, you can speak and ask questions directly into your iPhone and receive the appropriate search

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In 1979 game desginer Warren Robinett created the world’s first action-adventure game.  It was called Adventure.  It was release for the Atari 2600 game console.  It was historic. It is now available for the iPhone [App Store]. And it’s free. The player’s goal is simply to find the enchanted chalice and return it to the gold castle. The player character, represented by a square, explores a multi-screen landscape containing castles, mazes, and various rooms. Hidden throughout the world are a s

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Ein Macintosh, vor allem ein Mobiler, ist an und für sich ein äußerst ruhiger Zeitgenosse. Selten dreht der Lüfter im Spitzenbereich, selten beanspruchen Prozesse das System derart stark, dass unheimlich die Drehzahl angezogen wird. Einer der Gründe, warum dies dann und wann geschieht ist “Spotlight”. Apples systemweite Such indiziert dann und wann die Daten. CPU Auslastungen […]

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Tapulous has brought a new rhythm section to its highly popular Tap Tap Revenge. The first special edition of the music game — Nine Inch Nails Revenge ($4.99)— lets you tap and shake to the beats of 13 Nine Inch Nails tracks. Play solo or against a friend in head-to-head two-player mode.

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Incredible, sexy sound - Introducing the Vibe II for iPhone and iPod touch Hey, that’s really nice iPhone you’ve got there. It’s a 3G, no? Nice case, too. But wait just a second here, what are those white sticks hanging out of your ears? Oh, I see, those are the lovely white earphones that came with your iPhone. So you’re willing to walk around with the best mobile gadget of the decade but don’t mind sporting those freakin’ ugly earbuds with mediocre acoustics? Sure, we know Apple improved

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Iotum, a local startup in the teleconferencing space co-founded by Alec, just announced some major news yesterday. Their popular teleconferencing service called Calliflower now has a premium edition which allows for things like white-boarding and document sharing. Good stuff Even better, as the video above shows, Calliflower can now be found on the iPhone so you can participate in these media rich conference calls from anywhere!

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Seeing that I’m a big Apple fan, I’m curious to see if the latest MacBook Air rumors turn out the be true. Apple Insider has it that the next line of MacBook Air laptops will switch from an aluminum case to a new carbon fiber setup to cut the weight of the worlds thinnest laptop down to under three pounds! The new carbon fiber would be used on the bottom of the laptop. What’s carbon fiber, well just what it sounds like, according to Apple Insider: Carbon fiber is an extremely lightweight m

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It is very inconvenient for the iPhone to only have a landscape QWERT keyboard in Safari and not in any other mode. For over a year nothing has been done as far as updates or application to remedy the problem. iSoft has been the first to set out and bring one to the iPhone. Although Apple would never allow such a useful application, it did not stop the development of such a feature.  There are three catches to this feature that will be deal-breakers for most. The first roadblock that users w

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Rapidtvnews.com is reporting that the BBC wasn’t overly positive about Apple’s stance to DRM, during a talk about the success of iPlayer recently. Incidentally, the Beeb also rolled out some BIG numbers about iPlayer usage…: “Huggers supplied some impressive statistics showing how growth had doubled over the past nine months, from a January monthly total downloads of 11.2m to September’s 22.8m (daily growing from 361,000 to 759,000 over the same period)” The BBC’s iPlayer traffic is coming

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