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iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Odds and ends, Podcasts, Holidays Here it is, T-7 days until Black Friday, and you don’t have any gift ideas? I joined MacJury podcaster Chuck Joiner earlier this week to provide my ideas for gifting. This was part two of a holiday gift ideas episode on the popular podcast. Joining me on the podcast were MacMouseCalls [...]
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iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Software, Cool tools MacUpdate announced today the release of version 5.0.2 of the MacUpdate Desktop utility, which allows users to manage application and widget software updates on their Mac OS X machines. The new version of the application adds some features and bug fixes as well as support for more languages. MacUpdate Desktop can track [...]
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Iphone Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Humor, Cult of Mac, TUAW Interview We got a chance to sit down (virtually) with the unofficial version of everyone’s favorite iCEO, via his alter ego & consigliere Dan Lyons. Fake Steve’s perspective is always unique and sometimes astonishing; read on. TUAW: Fake Steve, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to speak [...]
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 2 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"...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 2 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...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 6 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...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 8 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...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Filed under: Security , iPhone , App Review Despite some security-conscious enterprise experts pointing accusatory fingers at the rather bleak encryption story and only-recently fixed ActiveSync policy compliance on the iPhone platform, there's no doubt that IT and network professionals are grooving on the iPhone -- there are many apps designed for administrators to take control of their operations...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Odds and ends It should be pretty obvious by now that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health . What's not as obvious is that it might be bad for your Mac, too. According to The Consumerist , two different people got turned down for AppleCare maintenance because their Macs were used in a house with a smoker. Both people appealed their cases all the way...
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touchmyiphone.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Filed under: Security , iPhone , App Review Despite some security-conscious enterprise experts pointing accusatory fingers at the rather bleak encryption story and only-recently fixed ActiveSync policy compliance on the iPhone platform, there's no doubt that IT and network professionals are grooving on the iPhone -- there are many apps designed for administrators to take control of their operations...
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touchmyiphone.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: iPhone , App Store Twitter has flipped the switch on some new features, including geotagging of tweets and automatic retweeting. As a happy user of Stone Design's Twittelator Pro 3.3.1 [iTunes link ], I was even more giddy when I found out that my favorite Twitter app already supports both of these features. The geotagging feature lets you optionally attach a latitude and longitude to...
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touchmyiphone.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Odds and ends , iPhone Gee, we were just saying how competitive it is getting in the iPhone nav department, and Navigon has gone and cut prices for holiday travelers. For 10 days only, beginning today (November 20-30) Navigon's iPhone app, Mobile Navigator [ iTunes link ]will be on sale for U.S. $69.99 instead of $89.99 providing a $20.00 savings. In addition, Navigon's Traffic Live feature...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: iLife , How-tos , Freeware , Internet Tools Since iWeb comes with just about every Mac, it's surprising that it isn't used by more Mac users. For some people, coughing up US$99 a year for MobileMe hosting is the barrier, but there are other ways to get your iWeb pages out where the world can see them. Last night, while participating in a recording of the MacJury podcast, one of my gift...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Software , Steve Jobs , Apple , Developer I don't know if this was the right thing for Steve Jobs to say, but on the other hand, I do think it's the perfect thing for him to say. The story, as reported by our buddy Daniel Brusilovsky over at Crunchgear , goes like this: A company called The Little App Factory got a letter from Apple, who had a legal issue with one of their apps, formerly...
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iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store TUAW told you it was coming, and it has arrived. TomTom has updated its U.S. GPS navigation app [US$99.99, iTunes link] and added text-to-speech, advanced lane guidance, and a ‘help me’ feature for use in emergencies. TomTom has been a little late to the text-to-speech party, with most competitors already offering [...]
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