Macworld
- Report: Google eyes departure from China on April 10
- A report in the China Business News says that Google will announce on Monday that it plans to pull its business out of China on April 10.
- Windows Phone 7 mirrors iPhone missing features
- As more details emerge regarding the upcoming Windows Phone 7 series, it seems to be defined more by the features and functions it lacks.
- BugMe brings sticky notes to your home screen
- Electric Pocket’s BugMe allows you to jot down on stick notes with your fingers and have them displayed on the home screen.
- Fake MacBook Air, 'big iPhone' tablet on show in China
- A Chinese gadget maker showed off a knock-off MacBook Air running Windows and a tablet computer shaped exactly like an iPhone with a 10-inch screen.
- Palm CEO: We could have been bigger than Droid
- Palm released disappointing third-quarter results and said that inventories are piling up for operators.
- AT&T happy to play it cool with LTE
- AT&&T isnt sweating the fact that rival Verizon will be the first U.S. carrier to offer 4G LTE services.
- Logic Pro, Express updated to 9.1.1
- Logic Pro and Logic Express have been updated to version 9.1.1, smoothing over some issues caused by the transition to 64-bit and adding 64-bit native support to Express.
MacNN
- Microsoft sued again by VirnetX over same patents
- Microsoft suffered its second legal setback in as many days on Friday with word of a second patent lawsuit from VirnetX. The accuser hopes to expand on the $105.8 million fine against Microsoft
- JVC ships HD camcorder with Bluetooth
- JVC picked an unusual Friday timeframe to start shipping the Everio GZ-HM550BUS, its first camcorder with Bluetooth. The short-range wireless gives the 1080p60 camera unique control features. With an installed app, a smartphone
- Apple seeds another 10.6.3 dev build, final version imminent
- Apple has reportedly seeded yet another Mac OS X 10.6.3 beta to developers, just days after the previous release. The latest version is said to focus on graphics drivers, Quicktime, iPhoto, Mail, and
- Early iPad devs forced to shroud rooms, lock down devices
- Apple is requiring that the few pre-release iPad developers with hardware exhibit the same level of secrecy that it implements itself, a rare insight into the process has shown. Those with access to
- BlackBerry OS 6 allegedly leaked, widgets in view
- A possible leak has emerged today of what may be a major revision to the BlackBerry platform. Coming from whats supposed to be a best source, shots of BlackBerry OS 6.0 show a
- Canon fixes EOS 5D Mark II bug in new firmware
- Canon today quickly acted on the discovered audio bug in its latest EOS 5D Mark II firmware by rolling out a 2.0.4 update. After patching earlier in the week, the full-frame DSLR had
- HP slate may cost $45 more than iPad
- The in-progress HP slate may actually be more expensive than the iPad when it goes on sale, a Spanish hands-on has revealed. The tablet is said to be shipping to the US in
Apple - Hot News
- iPad Now Available for Pre-Order
- Starting today, you can pre-order your iPad from the Apple Online Store and have it delivered free to your door. Or buy it at your favorite Apple Retail Store starting April 3.
- New and Improved FileMaker Pro 11
- FileMaker, Inc. announced this week the immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 11. Packed with new and innovative features led by charting, ”on the fly” reporting, a new Quick Find capability, and a host of productivity tools for easier database creation,
- Final Cut Studio at the Oscars
- CNET News reports that 9 out of 10 of this year’s nominees in the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short categories used Final Cut Studio to make their films, including category winners “The Cove” and “Music by Prudence.”
- Apple World’s Most Admired Company
- For the third year in a row Apple has been named the World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine — this year by the widest margin ever. What makes Apple so admired? Fortune explains: “Product, product, product. This is the
- iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold
- Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store, the world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store.
- 10 Billionth Download for iTunes
- The New York Times caught up with 10 billion song download winner Louie Sulcer and asked him about his prize, a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Says the 71-year-old Sulcer,”I don’t think I’ll have to worry about buying birthday and Christmas
- iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold
- Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store, the world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store.
AppleInsider
- Briefly: Intel short on supply of MacBook Pro-bounce processors
- Intel is struggling to meet demand for its new family of Core mobile processors that are widely expected to turn up in the next round of updates to Apples MacBook and MacBook Pro lines of notebook computers, according to a
- China Mobile knocks on Apple's door, seeks preferential treatment
- Fearing growing competition from its smaller rivals, iPhone holdout China Mobile is reaching out to Apple this month in hopes that the mobile device maker will concede to building support for Beijings proprietary 3G standard into its next-generation handset.
- Apple tables push for TV subscriptions on iPad, seeks 99 cent episodes
- Apple had high hopes of delivering an all-you-can-eat buffet of television shows in the form of a subscriptions service by the time its iPad hits the market next month, but opposition from networks has forced the company to adopt Plan
- Apple's iPad secrecy leaves many developers handicapped
- An elite group of software developers afforded early access to the iPad must provide photographic evidence that theyve complied with a stringent set of requirements before Apple hands one over, but for everyone else, authoring software for the upcoming device
- Release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6.3 Update appears imminent
- Apple on Thursday provided its developer community with a second private beta of its forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard update in as many days, suggesting the software is rapidly approaching a release candidate.
- Apple has pre-sold "hundreds of thousands" of iPads
- Apple is on pace to potentially sell more iPads in its first three months than it sold iPhones in the three months after the touch-screen handset made its debut back in 2007, people familiar with the companys running sales totals
- Apple preps 27-inch LED Cinema Display, dodeca-core Mac Pro
- Apple is putting the finishing touches on a pair of new products targeted at its professional customers, namely a larger version of its LED Cinema Display and a major update to its Mac Pro workstations, AppleInsider has been told.
Mac Rumors
- Researcher Set to Announce 20 Zero-Day Holes in Mac OS X
- The H Security reports (via The Inquirer) that noted cybersecurity researcher Charlie Miller is set to announce the discovery of twenty new zero-day holes in Mac OS X that could offer hackers means of entry to compromise computers running the...
- China Mobile Still Pushing Apple to Adopt TD-SCDMA for iPhone
- The Financial Times reports (registration required) that China Mobile continues to express interest in bringing the iPhone to its network, but that little progress has been made on convincing Apple to ado...
- Apple Keeping Tight Wraps on iPad as Lucky Developers Gain Restricted Access
- Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that select developers have been provided access to the iPad ahead of its official April 3rd launch, allowing them the opportunity to build and test their application directly on the device rather than having to...
- Intel Experiencing Shortages of Notebook Chips?
- DigiTimes reports that Intel is currently experiencing tight supply of its Core i3, i5, and i7 notebook chips introduced in January. Apple is expected to use several of the chips in a highly-anticipated ...
- One More Build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 Seeded to Developers
- iPhone in Canada yesterday reported that Apple has seeded Build 10D572 of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to developers. The new release comes just two days after the previous seed and carries only a single increment in...
- Apple Preparing to Launch 27-Inch LED Cinema Display, Mac Pro Update by June?
- Mockup of existing 24 LED display (left) next to 27 model (right)AppleInsider reports that Apple is preparing to launch a 27-inch LED Cinema Display and a refresh of its Mac Pro lineup, pegging a release window of by June for
- Apple Reportedly Tempering Expectations as iPad Content Deals Remain Unfinalized
- The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is tempering its own expectations for launch content on the iPad as it continues to struggle with finalizing deals with publishers ahead of the devices April 3r...
Macworld
- Review: TuneUp Media TuneUp
- TuneUp can help fix with missing and mislabeled metadata in your iTunes tracks, but it wont find everything.
- Review: Grand Theft Auto for iPhone
- Rockstar Games doesnt do anything half-way, and the first iPhone version of its Grand Theft Auto series is no exception. The game for the iPhone and iPod touch is a big, ugly, raw title thats huge in scale and depth.
- Review: Sony A230 SLR camera
- If youre on a budget, the A230 is one of the most affordable SLR kits around.
- Review: Brother HL-3070CW color printer
- The Brother HL-3070CW color LED printer gives small offices color printing on the cheap and it has Wi-Fi, too.
- Review: Max and the Magic Marker
- Max and the Magic Marker is an enjoyable and clever platformer that will most likely keep kids engaged for hours, allowing them to color inside, outside, and all around the lines.
- Review: V1 Golf for iPhone
- Avid golfers will appreciate V1 Golf, which helps you analyze your swing with the help of the iPhones built-in camera.
- Review: March Madness on Demand for iPhone
- This app, which streams video and audio from the NCAA mens basketball tournament to your iPhone, has made some improvements from last years edition -- most notably, the ability to stream live video over a 3G connection.
Digg Apple
- Apple Pays Tribute to Board Member Jerome B. York
- Apple Board member, and president and CEO of Harwinton Capital, Jerome B. York has passed away at the age of 71.
- iPhone 4G's 25 Most Wanted Features (Slideshow)
- Before Apple released the iPhone 3GS, a lot of people were hoping it would have ...
- Evolution of the iPod: 2001 to Present
- In this retrospective feature, we attempt to make sense of all the iPods and place them in a concise timeline. From the original iPod in 2001 to the d...
- iPhone Mobile Notifications Platform For Any Website
- Send mobile notifications from your website to mobile phones by just adding a couple lines of code. You dont need to spend thousands of dollars to make your own iPhone app, you can simply use Notifo which is more than
- Amazon releases Kindle ebook reader application for Macs
- Amazon has finally released a version of its Kindle ebook reading software for the Mac. The company previously released a Kindle app for the iPhone a year ago, and has plans for an iPad version of the software as well.
- HTC Disagrees with Apple's legal actions
- HTC Corporation today outlined its disagreement with Apples legal actions and reiterated its commitment to creating a portfolio of innovative smartphones that gives consumers a variety of choices.
- Apple’s Working on a New Social Location App Called iGroups
- Location is heating up and Apple wants in on the action.
TUAW
- PCMag offers "best" alternatives to Apple products, redefines "best" in process
- Filed under: Odds and endsPCMag.coms recent article The Best Apple Product Alternatives couldnt smell any more like bait without being covered in worms. Hoping to appeal to those who have some innate desire
- Bharti Airtel will sell iPhone 3GS in India
- Filed under: iPhoneBharti Airtel has announced that it has reached an agreement to sell the iPhone 3GS in India. Bharti Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India, with more than
- Mac OS X 10.6.3 imminent?
- Filed under: OSAfter only two days since the last build was seeded, Apple has pushed another 10.6.3 version out to developers. The newest build is numbered 10D572 and focuses on Graphics Drivers,
- Found Footage: iPhone alphabet made from 540 apps
- Filed under: Found FootageUrikane, an iPhone user with a LOT of time on his hands, has put together a full alphabet using 540 apps. Each screen contains one letter. Outside of this being really clever, you have to admire the
- 27-inch Cinema Display, 12-core Mac Pro by June
- Filed under: Desktops, Hardware, Rumors, Mac ProAppleInsider is reporting that Apple is preparing to launch a 27-inch Cinema Display and 12-core Mac Pro by June. The 27-inch Cinema Display is rumored to use
- Apple updates Logic Pro, Express
- Filed under: Software, Software UpdateApple has updated Logic Pro and Logic Express, its digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software applications. The Logic Pro 9.1.1 update weighs in at 192MB and addresses
- Chaos Rings trailer looks awesome
- Filed under: GamingJust yesterday, we heard about this new Square Enix RPG due to come to the iPhone this year, and today, not only do we have official confirmation, but a first official trailer as well. And boy does it
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
- Dissecting iTunes Links
- Detailed analysis of iTunes URLs, from Bjango. ★
- Inside the Collapse
- Compelling 60 Minutes interview with author Michael Lewis, on the Wall Street financial collapse. ★
- The ‘Agency Model’
- Macmillan CEO John Sargent: Starting at the end of March, we will move from the “retail model” of selling e-books (publishers sell to retailers, who then sell to readers at a price that the retailer determines) to the “agency model”
- Paul Thurrott’s Curiously Shifting Thoughts on Copy-and-Paste
- Delightful catch by Chris Grande. Here’s Paul Thurrott in July 2007, regarding the iPhone: And what’s up with the lack of cut/copy and paste? This is a basic OS feature that Apple included in the first Mac OS almost 25
- Amazon Playing Hardball With Book Publishers Over Kindle Pricing
- Quoting a report in the subscriber-only Publishers Marketplace: At least one independent publisher of scale was told categorically by Amazon in a recent phone call initiated by the etailer that Amazon would not negotiate agency selling terms with any other
- Web Sites That Demand Money for iPhone App ‘Reviews’
- Brian X. Chen: The two sites that were most frequently mentioned by programmers who contacted Wired.com were TheiPhoneAppReview.com and AppCraver.com. Both sites appear in the top four Google search results for the search term “iPhone app review.” ★
- Wikipedia Uses Ogg
- Wikipedia’s media format policy: The preferred formats are JPEG for photographic images, SVG for drawings and line-art illustration, PNG for non-vector graphic iconic images, Ogg Vorbis for sound and Ogg Theora for video.So, there’s one major site that uses Ogg.
Cult of Mac
- What are you playing on your iPhone this weekend? Us: “Space Miner: Space Ore Bust”
- It’s Friday, and we’re all a little tired, so welcome to a new weekly whatever here on Cult of Mac, where we’ll spend Friday afternoon feverishly anticipating the forthcoming
- Daily Deals: $990 MacBook Pro 2.46GHz, 1.8GHz MacBook Air, 17″ MacBook Pro
- We close out the week (and winter in the U.S.) with a trio of MacBook deals. First up is a MacBook Pro with a 2.46GHz Core 2 Duo processor,
- TV Becoming Next Competitive Arena for Apple and Google
- For some time, Apple has viewed its Apple TV product as a ‘hobby.’ While the device has been updated occasionally, the streaming video gadget has not been seen as
- Would-be iPad killer, the HP Slate, is just a Windows 7 netbook on the inside
- Back when everyone thought Apple’s tablet was going to be called the iSlate, HP stole the rumored name for their own iPad-esque wedge of aluminum and metal, the HP
- Security Expert: “Mac OS X Is Safer, But Less Secure”
- Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.He says OS X is full of
- 27-inch iMac’s panel will be used for K59, Apple’s next Cinema Display
- It was inevitable that Apple’s 27-inch iMac would eventually be stripped off the computer guts that drove it and pared down into Apple’s long-anticipated update to their original LED-backlit
- UK Heritage Charity Opens Up, Releases iPhone App
- The National Trust is one of the UK’s national treasures – a charity that looks after all manner of old and ancient pieces of British heritage.That means owning and