Macworld
- Navigon releases MyRegion apps for U.S.
- Navigon has released its new MyRegion series, which offers apps for the east, west, and center of the U.S. Additional maps are available via in-app purchase.
- Cable channel taps Fake Steve Jobs writer for tech CEO satire
- Cable channel Epix has announced an original series about a tempestuous Silicon Valley CEO, and its enlisted Fake Steve Jobss alter ego Dan Lyons to write it.
- Apple offers drivers for Samsung, Brother printers
- The printer driver updates, released this week, containing the latest printing software for Snow Leopard users with hardware from Samsung and Brother, respectively.
- Google announces AT&T-compatible Nexus One
- Google on Tuesday announced the availability of a Nexus One model compatible with AT&Ts 3G network.
- Alex eReader available for pre-order
- If youve been anxious to get your hands on the Alex eReader from Spring Design, you wont have to wait much longer. The e-reader, which sports an unusual, double-display design, is now available for pre-order and will be shipping on
- Twitter to roll out '@anywhere' service
- The new service, unveiled at the South By Southwest conference, will allow Twitter users to connect to their accounts through third-party Websites.
- Sophiestication releases Articles Wikipedia reader
- Sophiestication (maker of the apps Groceries and Tipulator) released its Wikipedia reader apps, Articles. The UI-friendly program supports multiple pages and offers easy ways to search in several languages.

MacNN
- Windows Phone 7 to lack copy and paste
- Microsoft at its MIX10 event admitted the Windows Phone 7 platform will lack support for clipboard operations, according to Engadget. The comments may be a surprise to many, as copy and paste functionality
- iLuv ships App Station speaker with iPhone clock app
- iLuv this afternoon began shipping its one-of-a-kind iMM190 App Station speaker dock. The single-piece unit provides a potentially cheaper alternative by using an attached iPhone or iPod touch for more advanced functions. A
- Apple releases OS X drivers for Samsung, Brother printers
- Apple has released several drivers for Samsung and Brother printers connected to Snow Leopard systems, along with an Aperture SlideShow support update. Snow Leopard printer and scanner support has been extended to include
- Astro Gaming intros A30 gaming headset
- Astro Gaming on Tuesday introduced the A30 headset, which can be used as headphones for digital audio players or cellphones as well as a communications device for gamers with an optional device. The
- Monkeybread adds quartz filters to Combine PDFs 5.0
- Monkeybread has announced Combine PDFs 5.0, updating its PDF merge/split software for the Mac. Combine PDFs allows users to merge PDF files and images into a single PDF file. Using drag and drop,
- Briefly: Strainer file renaming utility, Free iWeb themes
- BKTools recently announced the launch of its first Macintosh software product, Strainer. The new application has been designed to help users quickly rename groups of files. Users can define a set of rules

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
- iPad prompts changes to way magazines count circulation
- Though its yet to hit the market, Apples iPad is already changing the rules of the games when it comes to how magazines quantify their reader base and distribution, unlocking the potential for more lucrative advertising contracts with their sponsors.
- Apple asks developers to test fonts in latest Mac OS X 10.6.3 beta
- Apple on Tuesday afternoon pushed out another private beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3, asking its developer community to test font compatibility and stability alongside a handful of other components that have been in need of evaluation for the past
- NPR, WSJ plan Flash-free Web sites for Apple iPad
- In addition to new App Store software, National Public Radio and The Wall Street Journal also plan to create specific versions of their Web sites completely devoid of Adobe Flash for iPad users.
- 'Fake Steve Jobs,' 'Seinfeld' scribe team for Silicon Valley comedy
- Writer and satirical Fake Steve Jobs blogger Dan Lyons will team with Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Larry Charles to develop a new half-hour sitcom set in Silicon Valley with an Apple-inspired name: iCon.
- Apple delays iPad keyboard dock, power adapter until May
- Originally scheduled to ship soon after the iPad launch in April, both the keyboard dock and 10W USB power adapter for Apples tablet computer now have estimated ship dates sometime in the month of May.
- First-gen iPhone, Droid sold 8 times better than Nexus One debut
- In its first 74 days of availability, the Google Nexus One has sold an estimated 135,000 units, compared to 1 million in the same timeframe for the original iPhone, and 1.05 million for the Motorola Droid.
- 39% of BlackBerry owners say they'd switch to an iPhone
- A new study found that nearly half of all BlackBerry owners would be likely to switch to another smartphone, with a majority of those eyeing Apples iPhone.

Mac Rumors
- Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D571 to Developers
- The train of Mac OS X 10.6.3 developer seeds continues today, with Apple pushing out Build 10D571 to developers for testing. iPhone in Canada offers the details, which include a request that developers f...
- Intel Debuts Xeon 5600 Series Processors Appropriate for Mac Pro
- Intel today announced the launch of its new Xeon 5600 series processors, bringing to market a number of new four-core and six-core processors that Apple could choose to utilize in an update to its Mac Pro...
- NPR and Wall Street Journal Preparing to Launch iPad-Optimized Sites
- MediaMemo reports that National Public Radio and The Wall Stree Journal are preparing to roll out iPad-optimized versions of their websites as the device launches in the U.S. on April 3rd. Similar to sit...
- Amid Weakened NAND Flash Demand, Apple Reportedly Looking to Negotiate Long-Term Deals
- DigiTimes reports that industry demand for NAND flash memory of the type used in iPhones, iPod touches, and now iPads has been relatively weak of late, but Apple has been reluctant to enter into deals wit...
- Shipping Windows on iPad Accessories Slipping as Pre-Orders Mount
- 9 to 5 Mac noticed yesterday that shipping windows for several of Apples forthcoming iPad accessories have begun to slip well past the devices own April 3rd launch date.First we noticed the iPad case making a slight shift f...
- Initial Sales of Original iPhone, Droid, and Nexus One Compared
- In an interesting blog post today, mobile analytics firm Flurry offers estimates of unit sales for Motorolas Droid and Googles Nexus One smartphones over their first 74 days of availability, the amount of time it took for Apple to reach
- 10% of Microsoft Employees Using iPhones
- The Wall Street Journal over the weekend profiled iPhone usage among employees of Apples longtime rival Microsoft, noting that approximately 10,000 Microsoft employees, representing about 10% of the comp...

Macworld
- Review: Picfree for iPhone
- This app, which lets you send picture messages to friends, is very easy to use and can really save you some money on texting fees. It offers iPod touch and original iPhone users a way to mimic the MMS capabilities
- Promising prospect: SecondBar
- SecondBar is a promising new utility that puts your menu bar on multiple displays.
- Review: Zepi for iPhone
- Zepi is a match-three puzzle game from OstinGames. Its a ridiculously easy game to play once you figure out how, but the tutorial is remarkably difficult to understand.
- Review: Jasuto Modular Synthesizer for iPhone
- While not for the faint of heart, this powerful modular synthesis toolbox should appeal to synth pros.
- Review: OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Mini portable hard drive
- The Elite-AL Pro Mini portable hard drive offers versatile connection options and produced some impressive times for a portable drive with its copy and duplication tests.
- Review: iPhone quiz apps
- We look at three of the many quiz applications offered in the App Store and find that Moron Test and the latest edition of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader both make the grade.
- Review: Street Fighter IV for iPhone
- Street Fighter fans are rejoicing everywhere, because Capcoms Street Fighter IV has finally made its way onto the iPhone. While not a pitch-perfect port of the popular console fighter, Street Fighter IV for the iPhone captures the spirit of the

Digg Apple
- Keyboard dock, other iPad accessories will be MIA on April 3
- The launch of the WiFi iPad is only a couple weeks away, but only two of the advertised accessories will be available on that day. The rest have been delayed until May, and one seems to be missing from the
- Owe Someone Money? Just Bump Your Phones
- PayPals new iPhone application promises to make it easier to exchange money without cash or checks.
- Nexus One is a Complete Flop Compared to iPhone/Droid
- Flurry compares sales of Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid over their first 74 days, in which Apple sold 1 million units.
- IT Pros: Macs Cost Less to Manage Than PCs
- The Enterprise Desktop Alliance recently surveyed 260 IT administrators in the US to find out which computing environment is cheaper to manage: PCs or Macs.
- Dead iPad battery? Apple not replacing, just sends new iPad!
- Check out the companys opening line: If your iPad requires service due to the batterys diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a service fee. Hear that? REPLACE. Better back up your iPad data
- Google pays Web pioneer to bash Apple
- Tim Bray isn’t as well-known as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, but the guy has had a leading role in defining the Internet. His name tops the list of editors on the official specs for the Internet’s XML language, the basic building
- 40% of Blackberry users willing to trade in for an iPhone
- BlackBerry users tended to have fierce brand loyalty, but the iPhone is apparently changing that. And, while more BlackBerry users are planning to switch to an iPhone, Android-based devices are starting to garner more attention as well.

TUAW
- Case-Mate's Hug allows induction charging on the iPhone
- Filed under: PeripheralsThere are a few features that Id love to see added to the iPhones hardware (an IR transmitter would be nice, for one thing), but first and foremost among those is probably an induction charger. Its a little
- Make your Magic Mouse more comfortable and ergonomic
- Filed under: Hardware, Odds and endsHeres a clever solution to an aggravating problem. Apples Magic Mouse ships with all new iMacs and features the first multi-touch surface on a mouse. As you
- Paypal app goes 2.0, adds Bump integration
- Filed under: App ReviewNever before in human history have there been so many ways to part with your hard-earned cash. The spotlight might be on credit card acceptance tools from
- Navigon launches regional nav apps at lower prices
- Filed under: iPhoneIf youve been lusting after the Navigon apps for your iPhone, the company has just released lower-priced regional versions that divide the country into three sections and let you add
- Found Footage: How to fake an iPhone in PowerPoint
- Filed under: iPhone You might think youve got some PowerPoint skills, but check out what Screenr user slhice of Ice Ltd. has created. With some graphics work that might impress even a veteran Photoshop user, shes assembled a great-looking iPhone
- GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse
- Filed under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, Other Events, Apple, DeveloperLast month at Macworld, Telltale Games announced that theyll be releasing their games day-and-date on both Mac and PC at the same time.
- Blackberry users ready to abandon ship for the iPhone, Nexus One
- Filed under: Surveys and Polls, iPhoneIf a recent survey from market research firm Crowd Science is anything to go by, theres dark times ahead for RIM, maker of the Blackberry smartphone. 40%

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
- The Truth About Karl Rove’s ‘Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight’
- Pitch-perfect parody of the political attack ad, from 37signals and Steve Delahoyde at Coudal Partners. ★
- AT&T’s Success at SXSW This Year
- I said I’d believe when I saw it, and I’m delighted to report that AT&T’s 3G network was simply stellar at SXSW all weekend long — this, in contrast to last year, when it was pretty much worthless all weekend
- Apple Delays Ship Dates for Some iPad Accessories
- The keyboard dock is now slated to ship in May, and the case is shipping in “mid-April”. I think this is for new orders, though — when I checked my account just now at Apple’s web site, the case I
- Jeffrey Zeldman on IE9 and Microsoft’s ‘Enforced Bragging’
- Astute as always, especially with regard to the what-if scenario of Microsoft switching to WebKit. ★
- Day 74 Sales: Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid
- Flurry — a mobile app analytics company — has published a comparison showing estimated sales over the first 74 days they were on sale: Inspecting the graph, it’s immediately clear that Nexus One sales continue to pale in comparison to
- Estimated iPad Pre-Orders Over the Weekend: 150,000
- Daniel Tello, a.k.a. “Deagol”, built a model to estimate iPad pre-orders based on order numbers submitted by volunteers throughout the weekend. It’s inexact, of course, but my money says these numbers are solid. And it’s worth emphasizing that these numbers
- WSJ: Ten Percent of Microsoft Employees Use an iPhone
- Nick Wingfield, reporting for the WSJ: Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives. That figure equals about 10% of the company’s global work

Cult of Mac
- KaleidoVid Makes An iPhone Kaleidoscope
- You know spring has arrived when apps like this start making appearances: New from App Cubby is KaleidoVid, a dollar-app that turns the iPhone into a kaleidoscope.Just point the
- To MacHeist Or Not To MacHeist, That Is The Question
- So another MacHeist has been and gone, and no doubt a lot of Cult readers jumped in to get their bundle of apps for a bargain price.But not everyone
- A Video Record Of Berkeley iPhone Photography Exhibition
- Knox Bronson got in touch to tell us about a little video he’d made. It’s called Pixels at an Exhibition, and it documents the creative efforts of people who
- What’s Next For the iPad? A Tabletop iPad, According to Xerox PARC Circa 1991
- Way back in 1991, just as Apple was transitioning from 68k to PowerPC chips, the braniacs at Xerox PARC were predicting it’s entire iPod, iPhone and iPad strategy. And
- Apple Warms to VoIP Apps, Approves Advanced Softphone For iPod Touch
- Apple seems to be changing its tune on VoIP apps for the iPod touch. Less than a week after it was submitted, Toktumi’s Line2 VoIP app has been approved
- Daily Deals: iPhone, iPod Chargers, App Store Price Drops, 1TB Iomega HD
- Today we have a bit of everything in the way of Mac deals. We start off with a kit everyone needs – a charger for your iPhone and iPod
- Apple Wary of Long-term Deals Amid High Flash Memory Prices
- In a bit of irony, Apple reportedly is hesitating to sign longterm deals with flash memory suppliers because of high prices which some blame on Apple’s heavy use of
