There have been a lot of complaints about the organization of the App Store. Yes, you can search, and browse by category, but the sheer volume of apps available and the relatively simple App Store design make finding something without knowing exactly what you’re looking for a bit of a nightmare. Luckily, you have us to sift through the mess and find the diamonds. Now, you also have the official Apple “iPhone Your Life” website.
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iPhone security posting suggests 2.2 firmware tomorrow
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Germans documenting an exploit that forces an iPhone to dial an unwanted number have also potentially tipped users off to the imminent release of Apple's widely anticipated 2.2 firmware upgrade.
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VMware Fusion On Sale
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Black Friday sale prices are coming a little early for those of you looking to buy VMware Fusion this month. Our readers report that VMware is sending out emails with a 25% off coupon.
Get 25% off automatically when you purchase VMware Fusion online, using the coupon code “FusionRocks” for a limited time only.
Apple launches "iPhone Your Life" site, touts third parties
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Apple has taken its embracing of third parties in the iPhone platform up a notch by introducing an "iPhone Your Life" section to its iPhone 3G product pages. Various third-party apps and tips are recommended in categories like work, play, and everything in between.Read More...
Apple launches "iPhone Your Life" site, touts third parties
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Apple has taken its embracing of third parties in the iPhone platform up a notch by introducing an "iPhone Your Life" section to its iPhone 3G product pages. Various third-party apps and tips are recommended in categories like work, play, and everything in between.Read More...
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Iconfactory releases Frenzic for iPhone
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The Icon Factory has finally released Frenzic for iPhone - and it’s well worth the wait. The game has been available for OS X for a while now, and was also available as a web app…but now, FINALLY, we have one of the best games on the iPhone available for all to play.
Read more »Nehalem EP (Xeon) Processors 'Ridiculously fast'
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TechRadar.com reports on some preliminary benchmarks on Intel's upcoming Nehalem EP chips which they say will be sold as the Xeon X5560 CPUs in the 1st quarter of 2009. Apple has traditionally used the Xeon processors for the Mac Pro line.
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SnapTell for iPhone looks up books and music, but is limited
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SnapTell Explorer is a handy iPhone app that lets you look up various products on Amazon, Wikipedia, and more by snapping a photo. We took a spin and liked the functionality; we just found ourselves wishing it would identify more products.Read More...
SnapTell for iPhone looks up books and music, but is limited
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SnapTell Explorer is a handy iPhone app that lets you look up various products on Amazon, Wikipedia, and more by snapping a photo. We took a spin and liked the functionality; we just found ourselves wishing it would identify more products.Read More...
Read more »iPhone Vulnerability, Fix Coming on November 21st in Firmware 2.2?
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German publication Spiegel.de reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari. The vulnerability was to be announced in ComputerBild on Monday bu...
Read more »IBM to Acquire Transitive
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Earlier this week, IBM announced its plans to buy Transitive, a small cross-platform virtualization company.
MacRumors readers will remember the company for providing the technology behind Rosetta, Apple's PowerPC emulator for Mac OS...
Read more »Mini DisplayPort to Dual-DVI Delayed Until December 23
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As if it wasn’t aggravating enough that new MacBook owners had to go out and replace all of their video adapters since Mini-DVI has been phased out and Mini DisplayPort introduced, today those lucky enough to have a 30-inch external monitor are now out of luck…again.
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Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share
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While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.
Read more »Review roundup: RIM's new touchscreen BlackBerry Storm
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On Friday, Research in Motion and Verizon will answer to the iPhone with the BlackBerry Storm -- a touchscreen-based handset that will sell for $250 with a two-year contract, though a $50 mail-in rebate will bring the cost inline with Apple's entry-level offering.
Read more »OrbLive Media Streamer for iPhone
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Orb Networks has officially announced the availability of their OrbLive 2.0 app for iPhone/iPod touch.
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Vocito lets you use GrandCentral on your Mac desktop
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Thanks to a new application called Vocito, anyone who's lucky enough to be using Google's GrandCentral service can now make GrandCentral phone calls right from their Mac desktops.Read More...
Vocito lets you use GrandCentral on your Mac desktop
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Thanks to a new application called Vocito, anyone who's lucky enough to be using Google's GrandCentral service can now make GrandCentral phone calls right from their Mac desktops.Read More...
Read more »OpenCL team delivers spec, just in time for Snow Leopard
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The team developing the spec for OpenCL, the all-purpose parallel processing language, pulled a six-month-long all-nighter to deliver the spec in time to be supported by Snow Leopard.Read More...
OpenCL team delivers spec, just in time for Snow Leopard
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The team developing the spec for OpenCL, the all-purpose parallel processing language, pulled a six-month-long all-nighter to deliver the spec in time to be supported by Snow Leopard.Read More...
Read more »Frenzic Finally Comes Home
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Iconfactory and ARTIS Software bring their game, Frenzic, to the iPhone. Finally! I’ve been waiting for this since before the iPhone even came to market. The simple yet challenging pie-based puzzle game really, truly seems like a match made in geek heaven, as the co-founder of Iconfactory once said.
Read more »Apple updates AppleTV to 2.3, adds AirTunes streaming
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A update is now available for the Apple TV that adds the ability to stream music from on Apple TV to an Airport Express or other AppleTVs, as well as a couple other handy features, like controlling music volume on the Apple TV itself. Read More...
Read more »Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
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Mozilla.org, creators of the Firefox web browser, has just released version 2.0.0.18 of Thunderbird, its free e-mail client. The new program, an 18.7 megabyte download, sports the following fixes and new features: Script access to .documentURI and .textContent in...
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Read more »Apple authorizes MMS on the iPhone, but not for US users
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Swedish iPhone owners will soon have something they can hold over the heads of most other users of the touchscreen handset: an Apple-sanctioned way of sending and receiving picture and video messages.
Read more »Apple updates AppleTV to 2.3, adds AirTunes streaming
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A update is now available for the Apple TV that adds the ability to stream music from on Apple TV to an Airport Express or other AppleTVs, as well as a couple other handy features, like controlling music volume on the Apple TV itself. Read More...
Growl Tip: Make MarsEdit, any app, play custom sound alarms
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Growl is a great Mac OS X utility that lets third-party applications, and even some of Apple's, display visual alerts for things like new e-mail or new RSS headlines. With a simple trick, you can enable audio alerts in Growl, and even add your own custom sounds to accompany these notifications.Read More...
Apple's customer service gets highest marks among callers
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Based on a customer service survey by a company called Vocal Laboratories, Apple received the top score for call and agent satisfaction among its peer companies.Read More...
Apple's customer service gets highest marks among callers
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Based on a customer service survey by a company called Vocal Laboratories, Apple received the top score for call and agent satisfaction among its peer companies.Read More...
Read more »The Storm Arrives: Is It Just A Drizzle?
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The Blackberry Storm will be available on 11/21 in the U.S. It’s getting some early reviews and they’re a mixed bag. Will this be an “iPhone killer”, will it have similar problems that the Bold encountered, or at the end of the day is it just another Blackberry (not that that’s a bad thing)?
A couple of things I’ve gathered so far that are worth emphasizing:
Growl Tip: Make MarsEdit, any app, play custom sound alarms
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Growl is a great Mac OS X utility that lets third-party applications, and even some of Apple's, display visual alerts for things like new e-mail or new RSS headlines. With a simple trick, you can enable audio alerts in Growl, and even add your own custom sounds to accompany these notifications.Read More...
Read more »Some Users Reporting Late 2008 MacBook, MacBook Pro Trackpad Firmware Update Difficulties
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Following up on Apple's much-anticipated trackpad firmware update for its late 2008 MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks to "address an issue where trackpad clicks may not be recognized," there's mixed news. For most users, the update went well. According...
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Read more »Samsung Announces Mass-Production of 256 GB of Solid State Drive for Notebooks
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Wednesday night, electronics manufacturer Samsung announced that the company has started production of its 256GB Flash SSD. According to Electronista, the 2.5" solid-state notebook drive offers a sequential read speed of 220MB per second but faster sequential write speeds...
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Read more »Apple developing always-on iPhone status indicators
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Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone's displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows.
Read more »Apple TV 2.3 Update Out the Door
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Late Wednesday, Apple released software update version 2.3 for its Apple TV device. The update can be downloading by navigating to Settings -> General -> About -> Update Software. The download typically takes several minutes on a high speed...
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