Macworld
- iTunes TV rentals now available on Mac and PC
- Though Apple specifically talked about renting TV shows episodes on iOS 4.1 devices and the new Apple TV, you can fire up iTunes and start renting now, as long as you dont mind watching them on your Mac and PC.
- Botnet takedown may yield valuable data
- Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for spam.
- Facebook Connect mysteriously disappears from Apple's Ping
- Apple has mentioned Facebook Connect support for new social network Ping in Wednesdays keynote, the iTunes 10 how-to video, on the Ping Website, and even in a conversation with All Things D. So why is the feature no longer available?
- Apple's iOS beats Android 6 to 1 on the Web
- Apples iOS mobile operating system is now the third-most popular platform on the Internet, with a share nearly six times larger than Androids, according to Web measurement company Net Applications.
- CourseNotes for iPad gains sharing, premium content
- A major upgrade to this note-taking, sketching, and to-do-tracking iPad app for students adds the ability to share notes on Facebook and directly with other CourseNotes users. A new in-app store with premium content also provides access to specialized note
- Samsung launches Galaxy Tab
- Samsung has finally revealed the Galaxy Tab, a tablet computer running Android 2.2 that will begin shipping in October in Europe. Theres no date given for when the tablet hits the U.S. or how much it will cost.
- FCC asks for more feedback on net neutrality
- The FCC will ask for a new round of comments on net neutrality, with the questions focused on managed services and mobile broadband.
MacNN
- Mophie Juice Pack for iPhone 4 coming next week?
- Add-on battery maker Mophie will soon release another battery pack, this time for the iPhone 4. Engadget believes the accessory will arrive as soon as next week, priced at $79, or less than
- Samsung hints Android Honeycomb will be tablet-optimized
- Samsung in a brief talk on Thursday both confirmed a future Android codename and hinted at its tablet focus. In confirming that it hoped to upgrade the Galaxy Tab to Android 3.0, nicknamed
- Walkman temporarily outsells iPod in Japan
- Sonys Walkman line has temporarily passed the iPod for sales in Japan once more, researchers at BCN claimed today. Basic players like the S640 helped Sony creep past in August with 47.8 of
- Apple patents document media browsing, cloud sync
- Two new Apple patent applications have appeared in listings at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The first, Method and User Interface for Accessing Groups of Media Assets, is directly linked to the
- Google intros final Chrome 6 with new speed, simpler UI
- Just after the two-year anniversary of its Chrome browser, Google on Thursday released a new Chrome 6 stable build for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Its engine is faster than for Chrome
- Toshiba jumps into tablet space with Folio 100
- Toshiba after months of teases confirmed its launch into the mobile tablet space through the Folio 100. The 10-inch tablet runs a heavily modified version of Android 2.2 and is one of the
- O2, Vodafone expected to enter German iPhone market
- Deutsche Telekom-owned carrier T-Mobile will soon lose its exclusive hold over German iPhone sales, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. O2 and Vodafone are expected to begin selling iPhones in the country in
Apple - Hot News
- New Bento 3 Project Manager
- FileMaker, Inc. announced the Bento 3 Project Manager, a brand new set of templates designed to make it easy for Mac users to track their personal projects and manage their time within one integrated, intuitive place. The Bento 3 Project
- Apple Introduces iTunes 10 with Ping
- iTunes 10 features Ping, a new social network for music that lets you follow your favorite artists and friends to discover what music they’re talking about, listening to, and downloading. With Ping you can post your thoughts and opinions, your
- Mac Pro Is Go-To Choice for Creative Professionals
- Computer Shopper makes the quad-core Mac Pro an Editors’ Choice, citing its speedy performance, easy upgradability, and new lower price. The reviewers write: “Creative professionals who need a machine with both muscle and good looks, and Mac fans who love
- iTunes U Downloads Top 300 Million
- In just over three years, iTunes U downloads have topped 300 million — making it one of the world’s most popular online educational catalogs. A dedicated area within the iTunes Store, iTunes U offers users public access to university courses,
- Auto Innovators Roll with iPhone and Custom Apps
- JM Family — an $8 billion diversified automotivate company and the largest Toyota distributor on the planet — has integrated iPhone and business apps available in the App Store into all of their daily operations. The company has also created
- Apple iAd Partners Happy with Early Results
- The Los Angeles Times reports that Apple’s iAd mobile advertising platform is “getting favorable reviews from the companies whose advertisements were the first to run on the new system.” The article quotes Joe Jacoby, a senior manager of Nissan’s media
- Sophisticated But Simple iMac
- PC Magazine makes the new quad-core 27-inch iMac an Editors’ Choice, calling it “a highly sophisticated, yet simple to use media PC.” The magazine found the new iMac to be faster than other all-in-one models they’ve recently tested and concludes
AppleInsider
- Google disputes Apple's indirect claims about Android activations
- Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs suggested Wednesday that reported Android activations from Google are falsely inflated because they include upgrades -- an insinuation that the search giant quickly disputed.
- Apple's Jobs says 'onerous terms' kept Facebook ties out of Ping
- Apples new music-related social network, Ping, is not tied in to Facebook because the website demanded onerous terms that Steve Jobs said his company could not agree to.
- Apple aiming to improve syncing, sorting of cloud-based content
- A day after the new cloud-based Apple TV was unveiled, two patent applications from Apple describe methods to improve the experience of over-the-air syncing, and browsing of Internet-based content.
- Wall Street views new Apple TV as small step, not living room revolution
- While the new Apple TV was given the coveted one more thing slot in Steve Jobs keynote Wednesday, the product will continue to play second fiddle to the iPods that were introduced, analysts on Wall Street believe.
- iTunes 10 now available for download
- After minor delays, Apples latest version of iTunes is ready for download.
- Amazon offers purchases of Fox and ABC shows for 99 cents
- Amazon challenges Apple by announcing 99-cent video purchases the same day Apple announces rentals.
- New Apple TV runs same custom A4 processor as iPhone 4, iPad
- The new, smaller Apple TV announced Wednesday will stream 720p HD video thanks to the same custom-built ARM A4 processor found inside the iPhone 4, iPad and the new iPod touch.
Mac Rumors
- Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H535 to Developers
- Apple continues its trend of weekly releases of Mac OS X 10.6.5 developer builds today by pushing Build 10H535 to registered developers. The release marks an increment of four builds since last weeks re...
- Spammers Already Taking Aim at Apple's Ping
- Its been less than 24 hours since Apple released iTunes 10 and its integrated social networking functionality, Ping, but spammers and scammers are already starting to spread their messages via the service. The first major instance appears t...
- Fourth-Generation iPod Touch Teardown Photos Posted by FCC
- Engadget notes that Apples new iPod touch introduced yesterday has appeared on the website of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Along with other standard information on radiation emissions required by the FCC for approval, t...
- Confusion Over Facebook's Brief Appearance in Ping for iTunes
- Screenshot from Follow Music and People with Ping video tutorialWith yesterdays release of iTunes 10, Apple also deployed a new music-focused social network feature known as Ping. When it initially launched yesterday, users creating...
- Twitter for iPad Offers a Fresh New Interface
- Tonight Twitter released a new update to their popular Twitter application that makes it a Universal app with native support for the iPads large display. While native support has been a long requested feature for the native Twitter app, the
- Apple Posts September Media Event Video Stream in Multiple Formats
- Apple has posted the full stream for todays Media event. While the stream had been available for Mac OS X 10.6 and iOS users immediately after the broadcast, it is now provided in multiple formats that can be viewed cross
- iTunes 10 Now Available to Download
- Apple has finally posted the iTunes 10 release for download. iTunes 10 was introduced today during the keynote event. The new version of the media management application features a streamlined interface and a new networking feature called P...
Macworld
- Review: HoneyDo for iPhone
- This slick, easy-to-use task manager makes navigating chores a breeze. The ability to share tasks and assign them to other people helps HoneyDo stand out from the crowd.
- First look: iTunes 10
- It’s become a tradition in recent years: to coincide with Apple’s September music event, where new iPods and related hardware are presented, iTunes increases its version number by a notch. This year’s vintage features one major new feature, a handful
- Review: Blogo 1.3
- Blogo 1.3 is a versatile blog editing application that goes the extra mile by offering features you won’t find in similar applications.
- Review: PongVaders: Episode 1 for iPhone
- Aliens have taken over the center of your screen and are intent on destroying Earth. Using your square, tennis-like paddles, you and a partner (the game is multiplayer only) must work together to deflect any missiles the aliens throw at
- Review: Chronicles of Mystery for iPhone
- Chronicles of Mystery is a hidden picture mystery game that is riddled with software bugs, a complicated plot, dull character dialogue and repetitive gameplay.
- Review: Corkulous for iPad
- While this brainstorming tool has a few quirks, it provides a great way to map out ideas on your iPad.
- Review: Knight's Rush for iPhone
- Knight’s Rush is an expansive and impressive side-scrolling beat-em-up in the vein of the addictive medieval console title Castle Crashers.
Digg Apple
- Apple's Ping network linked to trademark agreement
- Apples new Ping social network -- introduced alongside iTunes 10 -- required a special trademark agreement to make happen, a press statement reveals. Karsten Manufacturing notes that it technically owns the Ping name for one of its sub-brands, which produces
- IBM Introduces World's Fastest Processor: 5.2GHz Enterprise Chip
- Dont blink -- if you do, you may miss IBMs new processor. The company is boldly claiming that the chip within IBMs new zEnterprise clocks in at 5.2GHz, making it the worlds fastest microprocessor. Were sure this claim could be
- Be honest Reddit, what do you *really* think about America?
- and tell us which country you are from to make this even more interesting. Edit: Its great getting so many perspectives. Edit (2): Please stop saying you and your when talking about the US. Guys Im Australian. Edit (3): Why
- Do you ever feel bad about killing bugs or spiders?
- There was a spider hanging out in an upper corner of my room. My bed is right up against this wall. I couldnt fall asleep with a fucking spider hanging right over me, so I got a shoe, stood there
- Juror Expelled for Posting Verdict on Facebook
- Social media and jurors do not mix.
- Twitter’s iPad App: All the Bells and Whistles
- Twitter has just announced the services official iPad app. Its free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is
- MarketOnTwitr.com » Give your Twitter experience a new direction...
- Marketontwitr(MOT) is an amazing twitter app offering amazing features for twitter marketing and enhancing your twitter business. With this twitter software you can follow lots of twitter followers, manage your twitter accounts, schedule tweets, schedule rss feeds and much more
TUAW
- iOS 4.1 with HDR built-in comes as a shock to HDR app developers
- If I had to make a list of the top ten features I thought would be included in the iOS 4.1 update, HDR photography would not have been on it. HDR really
- Set up your own Priority Inbox with Apple's Mail
- Last month, Google released Priority Inbox, a system that learns which messages are the most important to you and highlights them automatically over time. Its in beta right now and Google is
- Five dislikes plus five likes equals iTunes 10
- Before I get rolling here, let me warn you -- Im not a frequent user of iTunes. I dont spend all of my time purchasing new music, videos, and movies, nor do
- iTunes 101: How to set up Ping
- Apple has jumped into the social media pool with both feet by introducing Ping to iTunes 10. Since this is brand-new, well show you how to set it up and start pinging
- Official Twitter app updated for iPad
- A few months ago, Twitter announced that they had acquired Tweetie and the web (I refuse to use the word blogosphere because it is a stupid word) exploded with predictions
- Count The Beats: Akai brings the analog synth to your iPhone, and more
- If you have a secret love affair with shoulder padded t-shirts (that you wear around the house when no ones looking), and you instinctively roll up your sleeves when you
- Billboard nominates music app awards
- Billboard has announced that it will be giving awards out for iOS music apps (of all things). At the Music App Summit on October 5th, Billboard will choose winning iOS apps in six
Mac Geekery
- Enable iPhone Tethering ... Now.
- This has been floating around the Internet but I felt the need to say that:I tried it.It works.The German site BenM posted a few days ago that it had written up some configurations for iPhone OS 3.0 that enable tethering
- Using PostGIS to Reverse Geocode
- I have a need. I have to make latitude/longitude (LL) points more reasonable and usable by humans.This is quite possibly one of the more difficult tasks out there right now, and also one of the most-outsourced as a result. The
- Auto-adding Files to a Repository
- Since I use Mercurial and it doesn’t have Xcode integration, I find that I’ll have added classes or whatnot and they will not have been added to the repository and I’ll forget about them come checkin time. That’s bad.So I
- Adding Keyboard Shortcuts for Folders
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- First Look: MacBook Pro (Late 2008)
- The new MacBook Pros are a substantial change from the previous generation of MacBook Pros, but it’s hard to call them an upgrade, in my opinion. I’ve been using Macs for a couple of decades now and when I think
- Cleaning Out the Queue
- Can i install my Leopard OS onto my PC?Yes. The current solution is to use a piece of software called simply “PC-EFI” that emulates a Mac firmware environment. There’s some instructions out there already for how to get this done.Hello,
- Apple Removes iPhone SDK NDA
- Well, it’s about damned time.I’ve been wanting to write up some iPhone dev pieces for a while but pushed the idea aside because of the SDK NDA issue. Well, Apple’s finally come to their senses and removed the NDA so
Daring Fireball
- That Skype for Android Update That Purported Worked Over Wi-Fi? Not So Fast
- Still tied to Verizon’s 3G network — your Wi-Fi connection doesn’t disconnect while using the app, but Skype doesn’t actually use it. Sounds great. ★
- CRN: ‘Samsung Vows Allegiance to Google Android’
- CRN: And while Samsung also expects to leverage its own software, called bada, in future devices as well, it’s putting the majority of its eggs in the Android basket, as Android’s popularity continues to snowball with other device makers like
- Steve Jobs on Why Ping Doesn’t Integrate With Facebook
- Kara Swisher: And Facebook is nowhere on Ping, either. Currently, there is no linking, sharing or participation of any kind with Facebook–or Twitter or MySpace–on Ping, which will work only on the iTunes software on computers, iPhones and iPods. When
- Tim Bray on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
- Give Samsung credit: their debut Android tablet is not a clone of the iPad. Smaller and lighter, if it has an advantage, it’s that you can hold it in one hand for reading. Bray has links to coverage elsewhere, too. ★
- Felt Tip Inc.
- Summer’s almost over and you want to get in shape and shed thoseextra pounds. I’m Lucius Kwok, and my company Felt Tip Inc has somegreat iOS apps for that. Couch to 5k gets your butt off your couch andrunning a
- Skype Mobile for Android Now Works Over WiFi, But Still Verizon-Only
- Android is open, but more open on Verizon. ★
- Put Up or Shut Up
- Roger Ebert: Our political immune system has only one antibody, and that is the truth. ★
Cult of Mac
- Epson Announces ‘Fastest In Class’ All-In-One Stylus NX625
- With all the Apple hoopla yesterday, we missed the fact that Epson announced a new all-in-one printer it says is the “fastest in its class.” The wifi-equipped all-in-one Epson
- Samsung Reveals Half-Pint iPad, The Galaxy Tab
- Its name suggests it might be a ’70s-era diet soda laced with LSD, but the Galaxy Tab is actually the latest iPad challenger from Samsung — a 7-inch tablet
- Daily Deals: New nano, touch and Apple TV
- Today is all hardware on the daily deal showcase. First up is Apple’s new nano, smaller and with a touchscreen. The 8GB and 16GB versions also come with new
- iPhone 4 Coffee Table Gets You Better Reception Than iPod Table?
- Choices, choices. The latest in Apple-related furniture is a custom made iPhone 4 table. Details on it are scant (OK, it seems the Internets aren’t yielding much of
- Walkman Outsells iPods in Japan, Can Wristwatch Nano Change That?
- Sales of Sony’s MP3 Walkman briefly outsold iPods in Japan again, but that was before the iPod Nano “wristwatch” hit the scene. This small victory also happened at
- Amazon: Buy – Don’t Rent – 99-Cent Fox, ABC TV Episodes
- Possibly attempting to steal some thunder from Apple’ Wednesday announcement of 99-cent TV episode rentals, rival Amazon.com launched episodes for sale at 99-cents each. The Internet bookseller and Kindle
- Analyst: New Apple TV Rival for Cable’s Video-on-Demand
- Stories leading up to Wednesday’s debut of a $99 Apple TV focused on how some studios were worried about the impact of the Cupertino, Calif. company offering 99-cent episodes.