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Below is an what the Dev Team has to say about firmware 2.2. We will be keeping an eye on their website for any future info. So, as anticipated our friends the misfits have recently released the long awaited 2.2 update. We can confirm that this update SHOULD NOT be applied using iTunes if you want the chance of a soft-unlock in the near future. If you want to keep that option of a ‘soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2

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Mac Viruses Continue to Lag Behind Windows Counterparts Posted by Adrian in Apple, Security Tags: dralnuX, Mac, Virus, Windows 21 Nov Quite a few software makers routinely release Windows versions ahead of Mac flavors — Skype, Google Chrome and Adobe Photoshop Elements to name a few — and now it seems that poor Mac users can’t even get a decent virus that’s on par with the threats Windows users face. Yes, that’s right, there’s a new Mac virus lurking out there in the wild, but unless

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According to Hitwise, the leader in online competitive intelligence, the Apple iPhone heads the top of the table for searches for mobile phones in October of this year. The Apple iPhone took the top spot with 5.8 percent of all mobile phone searches. The Apple iPhone’s popularity has helped Apple achieve becoming the most searched for consumer electronics brand in the UK last month, but the so named “iPhone Killers” are moving up close behind, such as the Nokia N96, the Samsung Omnia, and the

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Ted Landau uses Prosoft’s Data Backup to protect himself from data loss. But lately, he’s run into a problem with running the backup program on his MacBook Pro that has both him and the developer stumped.

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iPhone users can now upgrade their iPhone with the new firmware 2.2 today. As what the few rumors leaked in the past few weeks, new features like Google Street View and Podcast download have been added to the new version. You will be able to turn off the keyboard’s auto correction too, giving you the option to disable the annoyed wrong correction. Enhancements to Maps Google Street View Public transit and walking directions Display address of dropped pins Share location via email Decrea

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Apple släppte idag en uppdatering av iPhones programvara och är nu uppe i 2.2. Några av sakerna som kom med uppdateringen är: - Maps har Google street view. - Podcasts kan laddas ner automatiskt till telefonen, högst 10Mb över 3G. - Safari är snabbare och stabilare. - Man kan stänga av rättstavningsfunktionen. Klicka här för att läsa mer på Apple.com

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Today, Apple has released their latest firmware update for iPhone that is 2.2 version. This release brings a lot of new feature to iPhone users, such as: Google Street View: Street View takes you on a virtual walking tour: Navigate street-level photographs of places you’ve located in Maps. Public Transit and Walking Directions: Get walking directions, find public transit schedules, check fares, and estimate your travel time. Share Location: Tap the Share Location button to send an email that i

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Logitech’s Squeezebox Boom is a cool alarm clock, Internet Radio, and iTunes
playback device, all in a single self-contained unit with built-in speakers. Jason
Snell has the details.

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Here’s another iPhone battery backup, the iSound 2-in-1 battery backup. As well as being able to charge your iPhone it can also charge your iPod as well. The iSound can provide an extra 30 hours of music, 6 hours of video and up to 3 hours of extra talk time, whilst this isn’t as much as previous models we have seen, it’s pretty good considering the price. The iSound 2-in-1 iPhone battery backup is available for $39.95 from Xtreme Geek. This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring

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Apple has released their 2.2 update for the iPhone. Still no copy/paste, but here are the enhancements: Enhancements to Maps - Google Street View - public transit and walking diretions - display address of dropped pins - share location via email Enhancements to Mail - resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email - improved formatting of wide HTML email Improved stability and performance of Safari Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi an

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As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the new firmware update today for the iPhone (version 2.2) includes Google StreetView.  I’m still loading the update on my phone, but I’m expecting good things.  As with Google Earth for the iPhone, I would think that the multi-touch input will work very well with StreetView.  We’ll see. In the meantime, here’s a quick screenshot from CrunchGear. Post from: Digital Earth Blog StreetView comes to the iPhone

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Laser printers offer great speed and reliability for demanding business and home users. If you’re in the market for one, we’ve got tips on what to look for and three recommendations for models you should consider.

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If you thought a handful of AirPort Express Base Stations, an iPhone, and Apple Remote application for that iPhone would bring you the greatest multi-room audio playback on earth, think again. Sonos has it beat hands down.

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With the popularity of the iPhone and the G1 Android phone on the rise, Blackberry has released its long expected answer, Blackberry Storm. Storm is a device that allows users to do more social things like listen to music, access MySpace or Facebook, and take photos. The device has one big innovation, in what the company refer to as a ‘clickable touch-screen,’ a screen that compresses when you tap it, in order to mimic the feeling of a real keyboard. The Storm is being widely perceived as an

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Kill A Killer Product November 21, 2008 6:45 AM | 0 Comments Thanks to April Dunford’s tweet for pointing out this entry on her blog pertaining to how to kill a killer product. One thing she leaves out and I have been meaning to mention for a while is — in the consumer space — the importance of naming a product effectively. For example Apple is a master at selecting simple, easy and trendy product names. iMac, iPod, iPhone. Sony is one of the companies that uses too many letters in i

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Apple releases iPhone 2.2 firmware Posted by Adrian in Apple, Mobile Tags: dralnuX, Firmware, IPhone 21 Nov Apple has just released firmware 2.2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch - if you don’t care for jailbreaks and soft unlocks, you can grab the update through iTunes or via these direct links: 1st Gen - http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-5779.20081120.Pt5yH/iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw 2nd Gen (3G) - http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/

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The battle for smartphone industry continues, with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion today claiming ‘record’ downloads of new application, MySpace for BlackBerry. In a joint announcement, MySpace and RIM claimed MySpace for BlackBerry software downloads to have exceeded 400,000 downloads in one week, “an all-time high for both MySpace and RIM in terms of first week […]

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Sitting “in a class by itself,” the new iPod touch receives a perfect 5 stars from Cliff Edwards (businessweek.com). “Apple has managed to make the touch look better, work better, and deliver more features,” Edwards points out. “No longer simply a high-end iPod, it has become the foundation of what’s sure to be an increasingly important handheld computing platform for Apple.”

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For individual users of the standalone product, Contribute CS4 is not a worthy upgrade, due to the lack of compelling new features. Larger companies may benefit from the improved workflow options. But if you are pleased with Contribute CS3, you will probably not find the changes to be worth the upgrade cost.

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“Watch out, Nintendo. This game is just getting started,” warns Dean Takahashi (venturebeat.com). “Thanks to the multi-touch display, great sound, good graphics, and the accelerometer-based tilt feature,” iPhone 3G offers serious competition as a prime gaming device. To wit: Apple has “had more than 200 million downloads from its App Store since the store debuted in July.”

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After last Friday’s false start, Google’s iPhone Voice Search app is finally available in the iTunes store; this intuitive app ditches typing altogether and lets you search via voice commands. Hat Tip: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/googles-voice-search-finally-hits-the-iphone/ Link: http://www.theawesomer.com/c/click.php?id=1829

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Available only on iPhone, Google Mobile features Voice Search. Simply speak your query and let Google do what it does best. The free application also offers My Location searches (finding businesses based on your current location), performs contact and history searches, and includes a new Apps tab for rearranging Google Apps. Give it a try. It works, and it’s fun.

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In similar fashion to the patent for a today screen, Apple Insider is reporting Apple’s new filing shows a way of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone’s display even though the phone is locked with the backlight not turned on. Apple seems to be paying attention lately to alerts/notifications and that is great news! Apple proposes the implementation of a dual backlight system, where a secondary, low-power backlight system would be positioned behind the primary backlight system

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De los programas que he de recomendar para que usen en OS-X es burn, opensource como siempre posee las siguientes caracteristicas: Grabar datos (para mac o pc). Grabar discos de música. Grabar discos de video. Grabar iso o imágenes de disco. Esta disponible para PPC o Intel. Esta en tu idioma. Ademas puedes obtener su código o mejorarlo y para mi es la herramienta principal que uso para copiar cd’s o crear cd’s de datos.     Enlaces: Sitio de Burn.

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Orb 2.0 just popped up in the App Store.  What does Orb 2.0 do?  It’s a media-streaming app that lets you watch live TV from a tuner connected to a Windows PC, as well as stream music, videos, and photos from their libraries.  Plus, Orb lets you monitor a webcam, so you can spy on your roommate to make sure he stays on the other side of the line. No date …

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Subscribe in iTunes I have recently added podcasts to the content mix here on the Wilderness Blog. The podcast is a companion to the Apple Investor in the Wilderness blog. So, now you can get the Wilderness Blog on your iPhone or iPod Touch, or any iPod by subscribing to iTunes. Just click the subscribe link above to go to the iTunes page and subscribe. The podcast is getting pretty good reviews too, with and average rating of 4 1/2 out of 5 stars! But you don’t have to go to iTunes to get th

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Damn, so close.  Scandinavian wireless carrier TeliaSonera is planning a homegrown application that will grant multimedia messaging functionality to the handset.  Let’s hope the application makes it through Apple’s approval.  After that, it’s only a matter of time before it lands in the App Store in the US. [T3] addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.porhomme.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fso-close-yet-so-far-away-iphone-3g-to-get-mms-service-in-scandinavia%2F’; addthis_title = ‘So+close+yet+so+far+away%3A+iPhone+3

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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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