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Mousing around: A review of Disney theme park iPhone apps

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , Holidays , App Store , App Review My wife and I are unabashed Disneyphiles, so the last two months have been a lot of fun. After my wife taught a tutorial in L.A. last month, we spent a few days at the West Coast properties -- Disneyland and California Adventure . This month, we had some Disney Vacation Club points left over, so we spent five days at our "home"...

GrandCentral Web site to jump the tracks

Cnet (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Google on December 31 will shut down site for GrandCentral, which it acquired and reworked into Google Voice. Users should backup old messages now.

• Google To Shut Down GrandCentral Website - TechCrunch
• GrandCentral Website Shuts Down Next Month: Download Your Data and Contacts - Mashable

iPod touch with camera to appear in spring?

MAC News Network (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Apple's long rumored camera-equipped iPod touch may have a more definite release window, according to a purported source. A contact insists the device is back on track and that it would unusually launch outside of Apple's typical upgrade cycle, releasing in spring 2010. To make that goal, however, Apple would use the same 2-megapixel camera as in the...

The Huffington Post has seen the iTablet... not!

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Filed under: Humor , Rumors Gerald Sinden of the Huffington Post writes, with tongue firmly in cheek, that he was given the first production model of the iTablet and 24 hours to play with it. According to his post , it's gesture based and sports a 10" screen along with being a phone, albeit a large one. And foam corners. To prevent people from inadvertently blacking their eyes when they try to...

Attention to Detail: What we love in an app

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Software , App Store Software. It doesn't matter if it's for a Mac or for an iPhone . There are certain qualities we just love, that make an app really stand out to us. As a rough approximation, we call it "Attention to Detail" but there's a lot more going on than just looking at tiny details. It's about understanding the user, what he or she wants from...

Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available [Apple]

Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol' fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Bootcamp update. You can grab them here , report back with results. [ Uneasy Silence , thanks Dan! ]

• Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available - MacBlender

BragIt releases HTML Slideshow Plug-in for Adobe Lightroom

MacMegasite - News for Mac Geeks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

BragIt today releases BragIt HTML Slideshow 1.0, a plug-in to Adobe Lightroom. Publish a collection of photos to the web like a slideshow. The resulting slideshow has a scrolling index page of all photo thumbnails, an identity plate, and an introductory description. Visitors to the website can scroll through thumbnails of all photos, and then start the slideshow to see large photos sequentially with...

Smoking may void Applecare warranty due to "health hazard"

AppleInsider (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Apple owners claim that their Applecare warranties have been refused due to "health risks of second hand smoke."

Magic Mouse: Decent Mouse, No Magic Spell

Webomatica (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

I picked up the Apple Magic Mouse a while back, but took the time to really put it through its paces before writing this review.

Getting bit by the Gmail "exceeded IMAP bandwidth limits" bug

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , Bugs/Recalls , Troubleshooting , Snow Leopard I have a couple of Gmail accounts set up with Google Apps , so that Google is hosting my email using my own domain names. While those accounts have been working flawlessly for quite a while, I suddenly ran into issues a few days ago where Apple Mail couldn't pull email from the server. I could use the Gmail Web...

Inside Google's Android and Apple's iPhone OS as software markets

AppleInsider (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Google's Android is working to match the iPhone App Store's mobile software market but with fewer restrictions for developers. This article is the fourth in a series examining how Android stacks up in comparison to the iPhone as a smartphone software platform, with this segment looking at third party support.

Super-panoramic showdown for Mac

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Filed under: Software , Reviews , Graphic Design There are several photo-stitchers available for Mac (and several for iPhone as well ), and most do a stellar job for stitching together 3-4 images into a panoramic image. However, I recently completed a project that required stitching together hundreds of images into some very large panoramas of several locations around beautiful Peoria, Illinois. What...

HP Pavilion DV6-1350US 15.6-Inch Espresso Laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium) Review

Elec.Buy-108.Com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Description on HP Pavilion DV6-1350US 15.6-Inch Espresso Laptop For those who want an all-in-one performance notebook with rich multimedia features, the HP Pavilion dv6 Entertainment series delivers excellent mobile performance that looks as great as it runs. Powered by the latest processor and graphics technologies, it delivers the features you need to support your digital [...]

• HP Pavilion DM3-1040US 13.3-Inch Laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium - Slayo.com

Giving or getting a Mac for the holidays? 10 apps every new Mac user needs

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , Freeware All new Macs come with great bundled software. Between the iLife suite, Safari , iTunes , and TextEdit, plus the ability to access and use cloud applications for free, almost all of the most basic modern computing needs get met for most users. That said, having used four different Macs over the past seven years, there are several applications...

Microsoft Gives Away Acer Tablet PC

übergizmo (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Folks who attended Microsoft’s PDC09 (Professional Developers Conference) should be rather happy, as Steven Sinofsky, Windows and Windows Live Division President, announced that all of the PDC09 attendees will be receiving a free Acer Aspire 1420P Convertible Tablet PC. The free tablet was supposedly to show Microsoft’s gratitude towards all of the PDC attendees and the support that the...

iPod is to find your computer MAC Address.

byrd543658522 | 11/18/2009

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Wake on LAN

byrd543658522 | 11/18/2009

Yes, your iPod Touch / iPhone can do that! I do not apperceive if it is your case, but I accept a Linux Media Center computer in my active allowance with Mythbuntu installed, that makes me absolutely happy. So far, this has been appealing abundant my capital passion... until I got my absolutely nice iPod Touch! Here you are alert to a blessed buyer of an iPod Touch 2nd generation. Since I bought it,...

How to convert MOV files to FLV on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard included)

hot2lee | 11/18/2009

How to convert QuickTime MOV to FLV on Mac (Snow Leopard included) You might have some interesting MOV videos or MOV footage from your camera on your Mac. Don't you want to share them with your family, friends or even people around the world? Sending MOV files to each person is quite troublesome and, what's more, time-consuming! So if you can convert the MOV videos to FLV format and upload them to