Kamis, 31 Desember 2009

Mac 101: Making Text Replacement Work

Text replacement: it's one of Snow Leopard's really modify features. With it, you crapper type abbreviations and they'll automatically modify into flooded text. You crapper convert your most ordinary phrases into meet a few keystrokes, and permit Snow Leopard verify tending of the rest. Here's a hurried unofficial of what you requirement to do to attain book equal impact for you.

Creating Macros in System Preferences.

Open System Preferences (it's in the Apple schedule at the crowning of your screen) and navigate to Language & Text > Text. There you'll encounter a Symbol and Text Substitution list. Click the + fix to add a newborn item. For this example, place (tuaw) into the Replace article and The Unofficial Apple Weblog into the With column. Leave the incase to the mitt of these items checked.

So ground use the parentheses? Strictly speaking, they're not necessary. You crapper define book substitutions on any set of characters, as shown in the concealment effort below. What these parentheses do for me, is that they characterize between when I poverty to type TUAW and not hit it expand, and when I poverty the abbreviation to transform into the flooded Weblog name.



Enabling Text Replacement

Text equal works on a per-application basis. Many applications default to this feature existence off. To attain book equal happen, right-click within any book entry Atlantic much as a essay pane in Mail or the book entry earth in Colloquy, etc. The contextual schedule provides a Substitutions submenu. Make sure Text Replacement is checked. If it is not, select it to switch the option from on to soured or soured to on.



Applying Text Replacment

The big secret to making book equal happen, erst you've circumscribed the shortcuts and enabled Text Replacement in the contextual menu, is the expanse key. Snow Leopard does not administer the road equal until it detects you hit finished typewriting a phrase. Only then does it action its interior countenance up and substitution.

Also educate to move a ordinal or so. The equal book often lags behind your typing. So go aweigh and keep incoming text. The operating system module grownup up and action its change impact without your oversight.

For Mike G., with TUAW affection

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iPod bedding set redefines 'touchably soft'

All you rattling need to do is ask yourself threesome things: Do I hit a banter bed? Could my banter bed be so much cooler with an iPod contact puff and pillowcase? Can I afford 349 Nordic kronor (about US $45)?

If you answered 'Yes! Yes! Uh... yes!' to this everyday creation survey, Nordic merchandiser Ellos has just what you need. Questions upraised in the TUAW offices like "Is that a touch-based capacitive sleep-enabled UI?" and "I astonishment if that opencast is oleophobic?" may visit firsthand testing.

The substance set looks to be a pretty faithful iPod contact reproduction, with the omission of the misspelled legend for the Calendar icon. It's so faithful, in fact, that I wouldn't be astonied if the consort heard from Apple's Nordic legal representation in short order, with a suasion that this creation be dispatched to rest with the fishes.

OK, I grant you, this is no Tauntaun unerect bag -- but if you're upbringing a household flooded of Apple geeks, it strength be worth a look.

Thanks Bertil!

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Rabu, 30 Desember 2009

iPod bedding set redefines 'touchably soft'

All you rattling requirement to do is ask yourself threesome things: Do I have a banter bed? Could my banter bottom be so such cooler with an iPod contact duvet and pillowcase? Can I give 349 Nordic kronor (about US $45)?

If you answered 'Yes! Yes! Uh... yes!' to this informal creation survey, Nordic merchandiser Ellos has exactly what you need. Questions upraised in the TUAW offices same "Is that a touch-based capacitive sleep-enabled UI?" and "I wonder if that surface is oleophobic?" haw order firsthand testing.

The bedding ordered looks to be a pretty truehearted iPod contact reproduction, with the omission of the misspelled fable for the Calendar icon. It's so faithful, in fact, that I wouldn't be astonied if the consort heard from Apple's Nordic jural representation in short order, with a suasion that this creation be sent to sleep with the fishes.

OK, I grant you, this is no Tauntaun unerect bag -- but if you're upbringing a household flooded of Apple geeks, it strength be worth a look.

Thanks Bertil!

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Found Footage: Sudoku Grab goes Augmented Reality


When it comes to the iPhone, Augmented Reality refers to applications that combine springy camera feeds with accumulation generated either candid from those camera images or from attendant accumulation linked to the user's actual concern location. Over the past year, we've seen a number of augmented reality applications appear on App Store and in the Cydia store, substance a artefact to connect actual concern visuals with enhanced accumulation presentations.

On the past Augmented Reality front, Sudoku Grab [iTunes Link] developer Chris Greening has been inspired by Apple's past selection to allow calls to UIGetScreenImage(), the machine duty that allows iPhone developers to copy an ikon candid from the iPhone screen. By relenting on this issue, Apple has allowed programmers to pull springy accumulation from the iPhone camera, and impact that accumulation in actual time. That opens the entranceway to immediate ikon processing and visual show of accumulation on top of that ikon stream.

The above video demonstrates this knowledge by scanning for Sudoku boards. When it detects one, the drawing in discourse invoke green. So how multipurpose in generalized is this newborn SDK feature? Chris says, "It's a taste horrible to do anything really useful, you haven't got a candid take from the camera so you hit to do a taste of jiggery pokery if you want to entertainer on top of the camera advertisement and ease hit something usable." As you crapper verify from the video, his "jiggery pokery" is pretty substantially done. His actual instance scanning and improvement of nakedness ikon accumulation allows his detection routine to impact with the camera's springy take to take newborn Sudoku boards.

It's ease primeval days on the augmented reality front. Greening's impact represents meet the start of where this technology crapper go. With faster processors and meliorate concealment access routines (UIGetScreenImage is a very andante call compared to the iPhone's non-public CoreSurface routines), actual concern combining is meet feat to get meliorate and better.

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It's Wednesday: time for another TUAW TV Live episode at 5 PM ET

Our little research terminal hebdomad was much a success that we're feat to do it every week.

The ordinal springy broadcast of TUAW TV Live starts at 5 PM ET (2 PM PT) today. Join Steve Sande as he takes your input and feedback via springy chat, talks most this week's Apple news, and generally has fun with TUAW readers for an hour.

The exhibit is springy via Ustream, and we'll place an embedded viewer / chitchat tool here on TUAW at most 4:45 PM ET. Just come on backwards this afternoon and savor the conversation.

If you uncomprehensible terminal week's show, it's acquirable for your viewing feeling at http://www.ustream.tv/tuaw.

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Our Favorite Apps: Stuff that stayed on our phones in 2009

As the assemblage draws to a close, we thought we'd happen a spotlight on some of the selection apps we utilised this year. These are the "sticky" apps, the ones that lingered on our iPhones after we gave them a origin spin. There's so such on the App Store, good, intense and indifferent; here are a few suggestions for items that merit your attention.
iAssociate [$1.99] Hugely hornlike and long-term fun, this Funny-Farm-style mettlesome makes you brainstorm discover associations from a core word or phrase. (Original TUAW review) -- Erica Sadun TrailGuru [Free] Not a amend app but a rattling accessible digit to keep road of your neighborhood walks. I fuck the way that TrailGuru lets me locate my maps after apiece walk, keeps road of my cipher and max speed, and how I crapper break the achievement downbound into laps. That rattling helps since I separate to achievement in mile-long circles. -- ES
Twittelator Pro [$4.99] I ingest Twitter a aggregation when I'm away from home, and Twittelator Pro from Stone Design meet keeps getting better. When Twitter changes, Twittelator Pro is usually the prototypal app to hold the newborn features. -- Steve Sande Dropbox [Free] In case you haven't already figured it out, I'm a Dropbox fanatic. The iPhone computer is fast, free, and makes it cushy for me to view, share, or withdraw files on every of my machines. (Original TUAW post) -- SS Doodle Jump [$0.99] All impact and no play makes Steve a dull boy, so I hit my deal of games on my iPhone. As the App Store ad warns, Doodle Jump is addictive. My crowning reason isn't that great, but Doodle Jump keeps me reaching back for more. -- SS BeejiveIM [$5.99] When we're discover on the go, we ever poverty to stay connected to apiece other. Beejive offers many IM features that allow us to do this, including its recently-added assemble chat support. -- fiddler Bean MoodAgent [Free for now] A enthusiastic lowercase app for creating playlists based on a variety of criteria same tempo, sensuality, mood, etc. Similar to Genius, but I find its playlists to be more appropriate in most situations. (Original TUAW review) -- Brett Terpstra Instapaper Pro [$4.99] My eventual read-later collection. Save pages to it from some covering (including Mobile Safari), then feature text-only or flooded versions of them when you're beatific and ready. It crapper also output .epub files for Stanza, but the built-in reader has some excellent functionality. (TUAW weekday Favorite) -- BT Stanza [Free] My selection e-book reader. It's free. 'Nuff said. -- BT Bookmark [$2.99] An audiobook sub-system for iTunes. It lets you locate bookmarks, ever saves your place, stays on when the app is winking and lots more. I ingest it every day. (Original TUAW Review) -- David Winograd Boxcar [Free] Given the pick between executing SMS messages to get updates from Twitter and another networks, or using Boxcar to curb notifications and provide me meet what I need... well, it's a keeper, even with the added costs to hold more web services. -- Mike Rose Evernote [Free] We speech most it every the time, but it's because we ingest it. Evernote gives you a PDF viewer, writing management, notes with geolocation, and every without hassles or aggravation. (Recent TUAW coverage) --MR Radio Paradise [Free] There are plentitude of moving frequence apps on the store, many with more plasticity and more penalization brainstorm power (much love, Pandora), but none with the homespun goodness of the Radio Paradise app. You crapper instantly evaluation or buy tracks you like, and the rest timer feature + the AirCurve acoustic base = bedside penalization nirvana. --MR Roambi [Free] This accumulation image app isn't going to entertain you on long trips or sound you to sleep, but provide it your business spreadsheets or sales projections and watch the fireworks. Roambi's ability to drill downbound into super accumulation sets should wow your colleagues at the next quarterly position meeting. With a $99 Roambi Pro account, you crapper pull accumulation directly from a Google Spreadsheet for the eventual in darken charting. --MR Fast Contacts [$1.99] attained a blot on my bag screen with a pair of key features Apple forgot in the vanilla occurrence app. Two multipurpose features: occurrence operation in numerous ways (even location) and an circumstance itemize that will alert you to birthdays (provided you signaling them). -- Victor Agreda, Jr. Sally's Spa [$2.99] is digit of a assemblage of instance direction games, but it's been a guardian on my iPhone. I picked it up back when it was on sale for 99 cents, and it was worth the money. The graphics are rattling nice, and updates boost draw the game's responsiveness. The only downside is the shelling drain. -- Megan Lavey Currencies [$1.99] was vital when I visited my fiancé in the UK in October. The covering has a pleasant programme and is cushy to ingest to switch back among multiple currencies. There are many converters discover there, but this digit evidenced to be the most responsive. -- ML Lose It! [Free] is the prizewinning food and training book you crapper find for the iPhone, especially for the price. The stylish edition only adds to it by allowing you to deal your progress online. It's cushy to update and, since you're probable to hit your iPhone with you whenever you're eating or exercising, it's hornlike not to forget to update your food or training log throughout the day. -- ML Sportacular [Free, Pro available for $1.99] There are a bevy of apps on the App Store fashioned to provide you the scores for your selection teams when you requirement them, but this one's the prizewinning -- it's hurried and cushy to use, has a flooded activity field of features, and hits a bag separate with free, customizable near alerts whenever you poverty them. The Facebook integration and social features (discuss games with others online, or interpret your predictions over a season) are meet extra points on the board. -- Mike Schramm I am T-Pain [$1.99] Ok, yes, it's a joke. But the iPhone has been a nurture connector for innovative penalization applications, and this, the lowercase app that automatically autotunes your vocalise to distinction up with a surprising amount of scenery penalization choices, actually appeals to every musicians, from the joint desk jockey who meet wants to vocalization discover "shawwty!" after a hornlike day at impact to the indie performer who wants a cheap autotune sound for their LP. It's a professed example of software hidden in a rattling unplanned product -- an app that's amend for the iPhone platform. -- MS Of course, we poverty to center your crowning picks and can't-live-without-em apps as well... permit us know!

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Selasa, 29 Desember 2009

Our Favorite Apps: Stuff that stayed on our phones in 2009

As the assemblage draws to a close, we thought we'd shine a spotlight on whatever of the selection apps we utilised this year. These are the "sticky" apps, the ones that lingered on our iPhones after we gave them a preliminary spin. There's so such on the App Store, good, intense and indifferent; here are a few suggestions for items that deserve your attention.
iAssociate [$1.99] Hugely hornlike and long-term fun, this Funny-Farm-style game makes you brainstorm discover associations from a core articulate or phrase. (Original TUAW review) -- Erica Sadun TrailGuru [Free] Not a amend app but a rattling accessible digit to keep road of your community walks. I fuck the way that TrailGuru lets me locate my maps after apiece walk, keeps road of my cipher and max speed, and how I crapper break the achievement downbound into laps. That rattling helps since I tend to achievement in mile-long circles. -- ES
Twittelator Pro [$4.99] I ingest Twitter a lot when I'm away from home, and Twittelator Pro from Stone Design meet keeps effort better. When Twitter changes, Twittelator Pro is usually the first app to hold the newborn features. -- Steve Sande Dropbox [Free] In case you haven't already figured it out, I'm a Dropbox fanatic. The iPhone computer is fast, free, and makes it cushy for me to view, share, or withdraw files on every of my machines. (Original TUAW post) -- SS Doodle Jump [$0.99] All impact and no play makes Steve a dulled boy, so I hit my deal of games on my iPhone. As the App Store ad warns, Doodle Jump is addictive. My crowning score isn't that great, but Doodle Jump keeps me reaching backwards for more. -- SS BeejiveIM [$5.99] When we're discover on the go, we ever poverty to stay connected to apiece other. Beejive offers whatever IM features that allow us to do this, including its recently-added assemble chat support. -- fiddler Bean MoodAgent [Free for now] A enthusiastic lowercase app for creating playlists based on a difference of criteria same tempo, sensuality, mood, etc. Similar to Genius, but I find its playlists to be more appropriate in most situations. (Original TUAW review) -- Brett Terpstra Instapaper Pro [$4.99] My eventual read-later collection. Save pages to it from whatever browser (including Mobile Safari), then read text-only or flooded versions of them when you're good and ready. It crapper also output .epub files for Stanza, but the built-in reverend has whatever superior functionality. (TUAW weekday Favorite) -- BT Stanza [Free] My selection e-book reader. It's free. 'Nuff said. -- BT Bookmark [$2.99] An audiobook sub-system for iTunes. It lets you locate bookmarks, ever saves your place, stays on when the app is closed and lots more. I ingest it every day. (Original TUAW Review) -- king Winograd Boxcar [Free] Given the choice between executing SMS messages to intend updates from Twitter and another networks, or using Boxcar to control notifications and provide me meet what I need... well, it's a keeper, even with the added costs to hold more web services. -- Mike Rose Evernote [Free] We speech about it every the time, but it's because we ingest it. Evernote gives you a PDF viewer, document management, notes with geolocation, and every without hassles or aggravation. (Recent TUAW coverage) --MR Radio Paradise [Free] There are plentitude of moving audio apps on the store, whatever with more plasticity and more penalization discovery noesis (much love, Pandora), but none with the homespun goodness of the Radio Paradise app. You crapper instantly evaluation or acquire tracks you like, and the rest official feature + the AirCurve acoustic humble = bedside penalization nirvana. --MR Roambi [Free] This accumulation image app isn't going to contemplate you on long trips or sing you to sleep, but provide it your playing spreadsheets or sales projections and check the fireworks. Roambi's ability to drill downbound into super accumulation sets should wow your colleagues at the next quarterly position meeting. With a $99 Roambi Pro account, you crapper pull accumulation direct from a Google Spreadsheet for the eventual in cloud charting. --MR Fast Contacts [$1.99] earned a spot on my bag screen with a pair of key features Apple forgot in the flavourer occurrence app. Two useful features: occurrence sorting in numerous ways (even location) and an circumstance itemize that will signal you to birthdays (provided you signaling them). -- Victor Agreda, Jr. Sally's Spa [$2.99] is digit of a multitude of instance direction games, but it's been a guardian on my iPhone. I picked it up backwards when it was on understanding for 99 cents, and it was worth the money. The graphics are rattling nice, and updates boost draw the game's responsiveness. The exclusive downside is the shelling drain. -- Megan Lavey Currencies [$1.99] was indispensable when I visited my fiancé in the UK in October. The covering has a pleasant interface and is cushy to ingest to switch backwards among multiple currencies. There are whatever converters discover there, but this digit proved to be the most responsive. -- ML Lose It! [Free] is the prizewinning matter and training book you crapper find for the iPhone, especially for the price. The stylish edition exclusive adds to it by allowing you to deal your progress online. It's cushy to update and, since you're probable to hit your iPhone with you whenever you're intake or exercising, it's hornlike not to forget to update your matter or training index throughout the day. -- ML Sportacular [Free, Pro acquirable for $1.99] There are a bevy of apps on the App Store designed to provide you the scores for your selection teams when you requirement them, but this one's the prizewinning -- it's hurried and cushy to use, has a flooded playing earth of features, and hits a bag run with free, customizable near alerts whenever you poverty them. The Facebook integration and ethnic features (discuss games with others online, or interpret your predictions over a season) are meet player points on the board. -- Mike Schramm I am T-Pain [$1.99] Ok, yes, it's a joke. But the iPhone has been a breeding connector for original penalization applications, and this, the lowercase app that automatically autotunes your voice to distinction up with a surprising turn of scenery penalization choices, actually appeals to every musicians, from the joint desk jockey who meet wants to vocalization discover "shawwty!" after a hornlike period at impact to the indie performer who wants a affordable autotune good for their LP. It's a professional piece of code unseeable in a rattling unplanned creation -- an app that's amend for the iPhone platform. -- MS Of course, we poverty to center your crowning picks and can't-live-without-em apps as well... permit us know!

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'iGuide' another rumored tablet/service name from Apple

"iSlate" isn't the only less-than-exciting study that Apple may be considering for their rumored upcoming paper release. MacRumors has uncovered added doable trademarked study for the newborn device: iGuide. They institute what appears to be a bomb consort created by Apple a patch back (December 2007, around the same time that the iSlate stylemark was filed) fashioned to stylemark the study "iGuide" for a newborn device or service. The determine of said service? To browse, transmit and play whatever types of multimedia content, including videos, audio, movies, photos, and even electronic publications same books, magazines, and blogs.

Obviously, this is a pretty unclear effort in the dark, but matched with recent rumors that the newborn paper will allow whatever Kindle or Nook-style reverend functionality, iGuide could trusty be a conveying assist for the newborn device, variety of an iTunes but for every kinds of media, fashioned to deliver noesis directly to the reader. We're just giving discover ideas here -- as I said yesterday, this thing isn't actual until it is. But the possibilities are rattling engrossing for sure.

[If you want to wager more speculation and anticipation around the paper in convenient recording format, analyse discover Mike R.'s attendance on Fox Business News earlier today.]

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Rumor: iPhone 3GS coming in 8GB size?

This morning's report from Electronista suggests that we haw be seeing a slimmed-down power on the iPhone 3GS soon, attractive over from the 8GB spot currently serviceable by the $99 iPhone 3G holdover. A refurb buyer in Hamburg, FRG got a mixed-message incase that contained the promised 3G phone but said "iPhone 3GS v2.2, 8GB." on the product label.

Packaging mix-up, or suggestion of things to come? Rumors were circulating of the 8GB 3GS backwards in early November, but didn't materialize. It haw be added housing of a stealth storage bump, which is just what happened backwards in 2008 with the 16GB units... so we'll ready an receptor on those refurb pages and an fruit to the ground.

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CNBC to air 'Planet of the Apps' on January 7

I was meet watching CNBC and saw a advertizement for a primary titled "Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution!" The one-hour program looks at how the start of the Apple iPhone in June of 2007 gave relationship to a turning in ambulatory technology. The important site lists whatever highlight from the show, including a example on Heroes person Greg Grunberg and his "second job" as an app developer (he's digit of the grouping behindhand the Yowza! app). From the press release:
Apps are everywhere. In less than two years, the app craze has taken over. These diminutive applications – or apps – that fit on our ambulatory sound do everything from helping us accomplish mundane tasks to keeping us entertained while we move for the bus.

Apps are favourite and profitable. Studies estimate, the Apple iPhone apps accumulation lonely generates about $200 million a month in sales. Innovative and ofttimes addictive apps are dynamical the artefact we impact and live.

Welcome to Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution. In this hour we'll countenance at how apps hit denaturized our lives, foregather whatever of the creators behindhand them, and amount out meet how bounteous a business they rattling are.
CNBC's "Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution!" will execute on Thursday, Jan 7th at 10PM, and repeats at 1AM. No interpret on the intelligence of the show's title, or lack thereof.

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Senin, 28 Desember 2009

CNBC to air 'Planet of the Apps' on January 7

I was meet watching CNBC and saw a advertizement for a special called "Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution!" The one-hour program looks at how the launch of the Apple iPhone in June of 2007 gave relationship to a turning in ambulatory technology. The main site lists whatever particular from the show, including a piece on Heroes actor Greg Grunberg and his "second job" as an app developer (he's one of the grouping behind the Yowza! app). From the press release:
Apps are everywhere. In less than digit years, the app craze has taken over. These diminutive applications – or apps – that sound on our ambulatory phone do everything from serving us accomplish unremarkable tasks to ownership us entertained patch we move for the bus.

Apps are favourite and profitable. Studies estimate, the Apple iPhone apps store alone generates about $200 million a period in sales. Innovative and ofttimes addictive apps are dynamical the way we impact and live.

Welcome to Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution. In this hour we'll look at how apps hit changed our lives, foregather whatever of the creators behind them, and figure discover meet how bounteous a business they rattling are.
CNBC's "Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution!" will execute on Thursday, January 7th at 10PM, and repeats at 1AM. No interpret on the cleverness of the show's title, or lack thereof.

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XBMC "Camelot" update brings lots of new features

Just in housing the gifts you got from your kinsfolk terminal week didn't advise your dish (no kidding, I got a Yakov Smirnoff DVD -- I fuck my parents, but they're not the prizewinning heritage givers in the world), here's added fun inform to unwrap. The folks at XBMC free a brand newborn edition on Christmastime Eve, and it's acquirable as a free download correct today over on their website.

XBMC is the unstoppered maker app that started off as "Xbox Media Center" (designed to be separate on the example Xbox hardware), but has today blossomed into a full-featured media edifice that is usable on your Apple TV or Mac. Thanks to an app, you crapper ingest your iPhone as a far as well.

The newborn edition 9.11, a.k.a. "Camelot," has far likewise some newborn changes for us to list in their completeness here, but there's a revamped (and good-looking) user interface with increased skinning capability, updated hold for assorted subtitles and recording formats, newborn flick database scrapers for production up information, and specifically in Mac OS X, hold for the rattling popular Logitech Harmony Universal Remote. The devs say they're agog to intend this digit discover the door, if only because it means they crapper advise on to large and meliorate rattling soon. Kudos on the promulgation (during the pass season!), and if you're an XBMC fan, hit at it!

[via Engadget]

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Dozen Daily Deals for December 28, 2009

'Tis the flavour to shop until your brains mix (or skip it all entirely, depending on your rendering of the constituent holiday). In that spirit, for the incoming some weeks we'll be misreckoning up a dozen regular deals courtesy our friends at DealNews.com. Each afternoon tune in to TUAW for this accessible summary. Keep in nous that patch our posts module springy on, the deals won't. Each is lovingly generated by the deal-bot every day, so get 'em patch they're hot. Enjoy!

OfficeMax: [Bluetooth Headsets] Up to 92% off headsets at OfficeMax: Jabra JX-10 Wireless Bluetooth for $20 + $8 s&h Skype: Skype.com: Unlimited calling from $3 per month Buy.com: [Keyboards] Kensington Ci70 Wireless Desktop Keyboard and Mouse Set for $21 + liberated shipping eBay: [Networking Cables] Cables To Go Retractable USB 2.0 Cable Kit for $7 + liberated shipping Staples: [Office Furniture] Up to $100 off Computer Desks at Staples: Z-Line Aura for $70 + liberated shipping, more Meritline: 5-Foot Flat HDMI Cable 2-Pack for $6 + liberated shipping ExperCom: [iMac] Apple iMac Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz 24" Desktop with AppleCare for $1,399 + $17 s&h Shop4Tech: [USB Hubs] 7-Port USB 2.0 "Squid" Hub with built-in cables for $8 + liberated shipping Buy.com: [USB Hard Drives] LaCie Petit 320GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for $61 + liberated shipping Meritline: [CD/DVD Cases] White Paper CD / DVD Sleeve 100-Pack for $2 + liberated shipping eBay: [Keyboards] Foldable USB Keyboard for $8 + liberated shipping Dell Small Business: [Networkable Hard Drive (NAS)] Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 1TB Gigabit NAS for $250 after rebate + liberated shipping

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Mail.app plugin WideMail makes a comeback in Snow Leopard

Since upgrading, Snow Leopard users with widescreen displays haw hit been absent WideMail, the plugin for Mail.app that gives you a 3-column pass of your messages. We mentioned it whatever instance ago, and you haw request it existence digit of the casualties of my Snow Leopard upgrade. Letterbox, an deciding plugin, has been mostly useful in Snow Leopard for a patch now, but I've personally been inactivity for WideMail. Well, it's back, and available as a open beta at developer Dane Harnett's site.

For users with widescreen displays, the accepted Mail pass panels -- stacked vertically -- don't really maximize the usage of the pane space. WideMail takes plus of the concealment breadth of most modern displays, and positions the itemize of mails and the advertisement horizontally, allowing apiece to verify up the full peak of the pane patch ease providing the needed viewing area. It also provides a new article in the telecommunicate organisation called the "WideMail column," which has digit rows and is configurable in the preferences to pass some of the needed aggregation for apiece telecommunicate in an optimized width.

As I mentioned, WideMail 2.0 is beta (prerelease 1 correct now), but I've been using it for most of the period without some problems. I'm rattling glad to wager it back, and despite trying to ready my Mail plugin itemize as trim as possible, this is digit I study worth running. If you essay it and fuck it, be sure to donate a some bucks for its continuing development!


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Minggu, 27 Desember 2009

Breaking: AT&T website stops selling iPhones in New York City?


What category of Christmas inform is this? The Consumerist is news that AT&T has stopped selling the iPhone in the New royalty metropolitan area, at least via the company's website, cod to high accumulation congestion (or mayhap cod to online fraud). Update: While Consumerist's place ease cites 'network congestion' as the reason for the NYC income hold, we've been told by another customer service reps that the actual reason is a spike in fraudulent purchases; another sites hit gotten the same story.

Stephen in borough says he made the brainstorm patch shopping on AT&T's website for an iPhone today:
I was on the AT&T Wireless website disagreeable to intend an iPhone. However, when I place in my fix cipher 11231, the site says the iPhone is unavailable. This seemed a little mismatched so I started punching in another famous fix codes: 90210, 60609 (spiegel catalog), 02134 (zoom, an older children's show).
For theses cities, LA, Chicago, Boston, iPhone is available. Then I looked up whatever another fix codes: Dallas, Miami, St. Louis, Philadelphia, San Francisco. All those cities are ok. Then I started putting in more NYC fix codes: midtown, Staten Island, the Bronx...no iPhone available.
This is weird...AT&T has cut soured New royalty City.
Laura Northrup at the Consumerist contacted AT&T Customer Service to analyse if the demand of iPhone availability in New royalty City was a website glitch or a designed disruption. The online rep she chatted with addicted that the sound was indeed not being oversubscribed to New Yorkers via the website, although it relic acquirable via the Apple store website and via both Apple and AT&T fleshly stores. Mashable, BoyGeniusReport, and Gizmodo hit also verified with AT&T Customer Support that the iPhone is indeed not acquirable through website visit in New royalty City.

This is sure to piss soured thousands of possibleness customers in NYC. Let's meet hope AT&T Media Relations releases a evidence informative when the forbiddance module be lifted and if it module happen in some another cities. In the meantime, meet conceive of this as more render for the blast as to why Verizon should hit the iPhone; and of course, NYC iPhone shoppers crapper continue to garner up iPhones at the Apple Stores or at the AT&T outlets in the city.

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iSlate has a friend -- meet the mysterious Magic Slate

The slates just ready coming. Now MacRumors is reporting that Apple has filed a stylemark for a figure titled "Magic Slate."
The constituent was classified broadly to cover computers, machine peripherals, machine hardware and such more. "Magic Slate" adopts a kindred denotive convention to the fresh free multi-touch Magic Mouse from Apple. It's not hornlike to imagine that a "Magic Slate" would be a multi-touch marginal for computers, such same the multi-touch iGesture Pad free by Fingerworks before their acquisition by Apple.
Back in Oct a multi-touch trackpad was rumored to be making an attendance but it never materialized. If Apple does still plan on emotional the device, it would sound in nicely with the "Magic"-peripheral theme. Now, where's that stylemark for "Magic Keyboard"?

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App giveaways roundup for December 26

Here's a some of our past app giveaways. There's ease time to enter!

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Sabtu, 26 Desember 2009

App giveaways roundup for December 26

Here's a some of our past app giveaways. There's still instance to enter!

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This programme has got it going on: you could get both the League Pass and Game Time apps from the NBA, plus a swag bag full of equipment and goodies... Thumbnail for Holiday giveaways: Cellar 2.0 for the intoxicant lover Holiday giveaways: Cellar 2.0 for the intoxicant lover
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Can't amount out what to put on the iPhone or iPod contact you got as a gift? We've got the prescription: holiday giveaways galore! Here's an app programme that module support you grownup up on the classics... More app giveaways:
Win a double of Things for Mac and iPhone

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App giveaways roundup for December 26

Here's a some of our past app giveaways. There's still instance to enter!

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Can't amount out what to place on the iPhone or iPod contact you got as a gift? We've got the prescription: holiday giveaways galore! Here's an app programme that module support you grownup up on the classics... solon app giveaways:
Win a double of Things for Mac and iPhone

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Holiday giveaways: NBA apps and prize pack

The crowds in the stores and the healing from pass over-indulgence got you down? We've got the prescription: more cowbell pass giveaways galore! There's individual on tap for this weekend, and a pair of them module be App Hub exclusives, so you'll have to analyse there later today to see what pops up in the heritage cornucopia.

The prototypal programme du jour is a valuable accolade arrange for any NBA sport fan, so blast up those commenting fingers and intend ready for gametime. You crapper start the programme just by leaving a interpret with the name of your selection sport team. One serendipitous reader module be going home with these items:

Two NBA iPhone apps, the frequence game tracker NBA Game Time Mobile [$9.99, iTunes link] and the springy moving video app NBA League Pass [$39.99, iTunes link] to ready you up to speed on every the state finished the rest of the 2009-2010 season A NBA-branded heritage arrange including an Adidas association sweatshirt, accessible packsack and another mixed b-ball swag

Our thanks to Patrick W. and the NBA for providing today's programme prizes. There's more to come!

Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of river who are 18 and older. To start yield a interpret on this post letting us know your selection sport team. The interpret must be mitt before Monday, 12/28 at 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time. You may start only once. One succeeder module be selected in a haphazard drawing. Prizes: One copy apiece of NBA League Pass for iPhone and NBA Game Time for iPhone; NBA branded goods arrange (total ARV $150.00) Click Here for rank Official Rules.

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iPhone ... in an iPhone


Here's a pleasant post-Christmas nous delivery for you -- it's created by a company titled Ogmento (they change in augmented actuality applications -- get it?) and is an iPhone app that creates an augmented actuality version of the iPhone. In another words, they put an iPhone in your iPhone so you crapper iPhone patch you iPhone. Dawg.

Why did they do this? Apparently it's a promotion for the iPhone start by Orange Telecom in Israel. But it's pretty disturbed -- the iPhone inside the app modify runs apps, though they're meet ease pictures. And it's a lowercase disappointing that you interact with the fake iPhone via the actual iPhone's touchscreen. If it rattling was an augmented actuality demonstration, wouldn't you interact with the augmented actuality iPhone meet by agitated your hand in the expose where it should be?

Maybe that's likewise mind-melting after a quiet Christmastime day. At some rate, enjoy the disturbed video above. This isn't anything we'll wager coming to the App Store some instance soon, we're sure, but it's meet the kind of abstract to get your nous up and running again after every that foodstuff pin and holiday cheer.

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Jumat, 25 Desember 2009

Is Google Voice available for the iPhone?

Need a refresher on the Google Voice and Apple saga? Let's recap the news to date:

Apple pulled every Google Voice attendant apps from the App Store backwards in July, which led to an FCC inquiry, which led Apple to verify they had not unloved but were "studying" Google Voice, which Google contradicted. The biggest assail in the full scenario is that AT&T said that they had no difficulty with Google Voice on the iPhone.

Yet here we are, 4 months later, and ease no decision (that we undergo of) has been made. I've previously referred to this as Apple's incurvature oppose of Google Voice where they are healthy to feature they haven't unloved it when they have, in effect, unloved it. Put it every together, and this has led me to locate up a website for your "Google Voice on iPhone" questions, which I narrowed downbound to IsGoogleVoiceAvailableForTheiPhone.com?

As it stands today, the respond is a eligible "No" in that there are no Google Voice apps acquirable from the App Store, but I was peculiar to wager what options are available. I found threesome tools that you crapper use today, and digit more which is on the horizon.

1) Google Voice's Mobile site: Using Mobile Safari, you crapper intend to Google Voice's Mobile locate and admittance a difference of features, including motion phones on and off, making calls or sending SMS through your Google Voice account. This works, albeit slowly, and you are implausible to poverty to attain whatever calls this way, it's just likewise such of a hassle. And did I mention that it's slow? Especially compared to a topical app, it's pokey.

2) Google Voice Bookmarklet Generator: king Friedman came up with an creative method for creating Google Voice "bookmarklets" for calling grouping using your Google Voice number. He then mutual that intent on his website, which led someone else to write a Python playscript which module modify your whole address aggregation to Google Voice shortcuts. His content was not to reproduce Google Voice functionality, but exclusive to attain it easier to call grouping through Google Voice.

Check discover the article where he explains how this entireness for more details. It's fairly geeky, but whatever of you may find it a good agency for your utility belt.

3) GV Mobile: One of the apps pulled from the App Store was GV Mobile by Sean Kovacs. Rather than wager his impact go to waste, Sean liberated GV Mobile for liberated to the jailbreak accord through Cydia. Jailbreaking involves trade-offs (then again, so does "not jailbreaking"), but if they are trade-offs you are selection to springy with, this is perhaps your prizewinning alternative today.

What if there was added option? What if there was a artefact to intend most of the benefits of a autochthonous app, topical speed, offline access... but without having to wait for the App Store approval process?

This is decent an increasingly captivating solution to folks who are locate soured by the App Store delays, not exclusive for initial approval (and the existence of being yanked at whatever instance if Apple decides to "study" your app) but for updates. For example, what happens when you create a Twitter computer for iPhone but Twitter makes API changes which intercommunicate whatever or every of your app inoperable? Or, what if Google changes the authorization method for Google Voice? This happened recently, which broke whatever Google Voice apps that grouping had bought and downloaded before they were pulled soured the App Store. Those developers hit no artefact to intend fault fixes to those customers who paying to acquire their apps, which is intense for the developers (who intend support requests for a difficulty they can't fix) and for customers who paying for apps rendered useless by Apple's capricious decision.

It turns discover there is added option. Neven Mrgan of Panic.com fresh liberated an iPhone mettlesome called Pie Guy which is a scheme app, but is stored locally using HTML5. What that means is that it feels very such same a autochthonous app running at native-app speed, and it crapper be utilised offline.

Riverturn, which had developed a autochthonous Google Voice iPhone app called VoiceCentral, is hunting to attain the aforementioned move for Google Voice. Instead of inactivity for Apple to amount discover if they are feat to allow iPhone clients for Google Voice, Riverturn is nonindustrial an HTML5 scheme app which you download to your iPhone. It is called VoiceCentral Negroid Swan Edition and it is currently in "very limited beta." Those who hit Google Voice accounts crapper clew up for the beta itemize at the website, which has whatever added information and screenshots.

Riverturn provided admittance to the beta to a whatever of us at TUAW and the response was a unanimous "Wow." Quite frankly, if someone bimanual you an iPhone which had Negroid Swan already ordered up, I'm not sure that you would be healthy to verify it isn't a autochthonous app. I utilised it to locate a whatever calls and it worked quickly, easily, and reliably. The prizewinning conception is that when the app is updated, every users module immediately intend the updated version. No inactivity for Apple to okay it.

Web apps are not a curative for the issues in the App Store. Before the iPhone SDK was announced, Apple promoted scheme apps as the prizewinning (and only) artefact to amend for the iPhone. It didn't manoeuvre up: whatever users knew it, developers knew it, Apple knew it (they had already developed autochthonous apps, proving that for whatever cases they were needed).

That said, there is a aggregation more than crapper be done with "web apps" than you strength imagine, especially with HTML5 and topical databases. Pie Guy is a enthusiastic warning of a scheme app game, and BlackSwan looks same it is feat to be added enthusiastic warning of what developers crapper fulfill modify when Apple gets heavyhanded most what crapper be offered on the App Store.

In my opinion, Apple has been too restrictive with the App Store, keeping worthwhile apps from the safekeeping of users who poverty them. These apps don't break Apple's initial itemize of limitations of what would be allowed in the App Store (as discussed previously):
Illegal Malicious Porn Privacy Bandwidth hog Unforeseen (the handy catch-all) Google Voice apps do not move under whatever of those categories (well, you could argue any app that didn't subsist at the instance Apple prefabricated its announcement was "unforeseen"). Apple had authorised individual of those apps and profited from them; then, without warning or explanation, removed them. It took an inquiry from the FCC to intend Apple to attain whatever evidence most it at all, modify if that evidence includes the laughable suasion that Apple necessary more instance to "study" Google Voice. They said that quaternary months and digit days ago. Apple could hit complete an whole college semester course in think of Google Voice by now. Still we wait, with no recourse, and no alternatives added than jailbreaking our iPhones -- an state Apple considers hostile enough to break the iPhone warranty.

I suspect that others module feature "if you don't same the iPhone, don't use it." Except that I'm today in a lessen with AT&T, a lessen that I prefabricated based, at small in part, on Apple's promises regarding the availability of apps which did not break the above 6 points. Even if I wanted to abandon my iPhone now, would Apple pay my primeval conclusion fee? Should we move ease added collection state suit against Apple? Wouldn't it be easier on everyone participating if Apple would exclusive go backwards to its original guidelines for the App Store? How such faster would the analyse impact be if the reviewers exclusive had to vexation most those 6 things?

As anticipative as I am that Apple module loosen its grip on the App Store, I'm not retentive my breath, which is ground I'm pleased to wager innovative developers same Neven Mrgan and the folks at Riverturn finding alternative solutions.

I'm thinking a full analyse of VoiceCentral Negroid Swan when I've had more of a quantity to use it. In the meantime I'll essay to support you keep road of Google Voice's authorised status on the iPhone. I ease wish that Apple module allow Google to promulgation its iPhone app for Google Voice, as substantially as allow customers who hit already bought and paying for apps to intend fault fixes, etc. I applaud the folks at Riverturn for their ingenuity and creativity, and wish Negroid Swan is a alarming success. Perhaps it module inspire added developers to countenance at locally stored scheme apps as a utilization option.

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Kamis, 24 Desember 2009

TUAW wishes you...


a rattling merry Christmas and a bright New Year.

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Commodore 64 1.2 released in the App Store with three new free games

The creators of Commodore 64, that emulator app that eventually gained Apple's blessing, emailed to feature that they hit free a sort newborn edition [iTunes link] with whatever sort newborn (old) C64 games to revisit. The gist of this digit is that you crapper acquire C64 ROMs to play finished in-app purchases, but correct out of the receipts with edition 1.2, threesome assorted games are free: Bruce Lee, Laser Squad, and Samurai Warrior. So if any of those anulus your unhappy bell, you crapper go move in on the app today -- it's $1.99.

If you want to add in whatever player games, it'll cost you 99 cents each, but they've today prefabricated Alleykat, Uridium, Paradroid, Stormlord and Nebulus all available that way. Unfortunately, not all emulator developers hit been healthy to bonded such a deal with Apple, but C64 enthusiasts hit to be excited most what's available with this one.

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Merry Christmas Eve: Evernote for iPhone gets a major update

Evernote for iPhone [Free, iTunes Link] has conventional a field update to version 3.2.0, which went live New this evening in the App Store and should be arriving in App Store updates soon. According to our contacts at Evernote, the newborn app is much faster, with speed improvements in launching, searching, syncing, creating newborn notes, and browsing.

As TUAW heard during a November discourse with Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, the updated app provides topical caching and searching. Any state that is created or viewed on the iPhone is cached locally for watch and searching, modify when offline. Premium users can choose to have any or every of the notebooks they've created full downloaded to their devices, erst again enabling offline usability. Rich book notes can be regenerate to plain book for editing, and a copy of the original state is touched into the belittle for forthcoming recovery.

Other newborn features include: In-app purchase of payment accounts A newborn "sync" tab Ability to search while syncing Additional languages A sort of fault fixes and improvements to the app A hurried tour by the App Store on my iPhone this evening showed that the update was not still available, but I was healthy to download the newborn version. For every Evernote users, this is a pleasant early Christmastime present.

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Rabu, 23 Desember 2009

Merry Christmas Eve: Evernote for iPhone gets a major update

Evernote for iPhone [Free, iTunes Link] has conventional a major update to edition 3.2.0, which went springy New this evening in the App Store and should be arriving in App Store updates soon. According to our contacts at Evernote, the newborn app is such faster, with pace improvements in launching, searching, syncing, creating newborn notes, and browsing.

As TUAW heard during a November discourse with Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, the updated app provides topical caching and searching. Any state that is created or viewed on the iPhone is cached locally for viewing and searching, modify when offline. Premium users crapper choose to hit any or every of the notebooks they've created full downloaded to their devices, erst again enabling offline usability. Rich book notes crapper be regenerate to plain book for editing, and a double of the original state is moved into the trash for forthcoming recovery.

Other newborn features include: In-app acquire of premium accounts A newborn "sync" tab Ability to search patch syncing Additional languages A sort of fault fixes and improvements to the app A quick tour by the App Store on my iPhone this evening showed that the update was not yet available, but I was healthy to download the newborn version. For every Evernote users, this is a nice primeval Christmas present.

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HBO releases iPhone app

HBO has liberated their rattling possess app for the iPhone, and it's surprisingly unfathomable for an app liberated by a premium telegram channel. There's the manifest clog -- you can view schedules and watch clips and previews of HBO shows as substantially as behind-the-scenes and other content. But there's modify whatever cool iPhone-specific stuff, same creating SMS reminders when your shows become on, whatever unseeable goal games to play, and modify the choice to buy whatever shows with manus straightforward into iTunes. The app is fashioned pretty well, too, and for an app that's basically promoware, there's a aggregation of content and features included.

It's rattling substantially done -- if you don't hit HBO, you belike won't requirement the app, but if you are a subscriber with an iPhone or iPod touch, it's substantially worth the liberated download.

[via Aaron H.]

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My wife needs an intervention for her Live Cams addiction

It's a difficulty commendable of an episode of Intervention. Yes, I'm disgraced to adjudge that my spouse is addicted to the Live Cams app on her iPhone.

It every started when she was searching for newborn apps in the App Store, and she detected a little app titled Live Cams [US$0.99, iTunes Link]. It measured innocuous sufficiency -- the app provides a way to search, browse, view, and in whatever cases, curb springy scheme cams every over the planet. At a toll of inferior than a buck, Live Cams couldn't harm anything or anybody, could it? We were both sure that the developer, Barry Egerter, couldn't hit whatever grievous intentions, so she bought Live Cams and installed it on her iPhone.

That's when I detected the changes reaching over my wife. Rather than conversing over dinner, she would countenance at her iPhone, occasionally touching the concealment to switch to a newborn webcam or intend a camera at a newborn target. She'd interrupt my unceasing attempts at reaching a newborn high reason in DoodleJump [iTunes Link] by gesture her iPhone in grappling of my face, forcing me against my will to countenance at artful kittens cavorting on a felid cam in Tokyo. And when she started waking up at 3:30 AM to see what the "Really curvy agency in Slovenia" looked like in daylight, I knew she had a problem.

Apparently, she's not alone. The app was at the top of the iTunes App Store charts terminal night, and she's somehow crooked me on Live Cams as well. After all, I crapper kibosh looking at the take from the Shamu river whatever instance I poverty to. Really.

Live Cams is a rattling addictive app. As my spouse place it, "It gives you brainwave into what's feat on every over the world correct now." The intent behindhand the app is ultimate -- display the most past take from thousands of webcams around the world. Launching the app brings up a haphazard 4 panoramic x 3 gangly installation of webcam images, and swiping the concealment to the mitt brings up another installation of images. Every instance you alter up the haphazard screen, there are another 108 images you crapper countenance at.

Tapping on whatever of the diminutive displays fills the iPhone concealment with the image, and there are buttons to let you curb cameras (if they're controllable over the Internet), snap a picture of the screen, or place a webcam on your favorites list. My spouse has substantially over 100 webcams on her favorites list, including several display ponds in continent where wildlife (lions, elephants, wildebeest...) crapper be spied from instance to time.

There are whatever views that are spectacularly beautiful, much as the borough Bridge cam, the Eiffel Tower cam, and my personal selection display the hillside municipality of Positano in Italy. Some cams are only for fun, including the delightful Cat river in Tokyo. And there several cams that don't deserve a second look, like the one display the inside of a computer room in Milan, Italy.

If you hit your own clannish webcam, it crapper be additional to the app as well. All you requirement is the IP come and port, individual name, and password, and within seconds that cam appears on your iPhone screen. Hey, if I had the money to acquire a bunch of webcams, I conceive I'd hit 'em ordered up to check my felid during the nowadays we're not in the house.

Live Cams is meet most the most recreation you crapper hit for a buck. And I'm willing to look that my spouse and I crapper intend a group rate on an intervention for our Live Cams addiction... if we adjudge that we hit a problem. Check out whatever of our selection concealment shots in the gallery below.

Gallery: Live Cams - A recreation addiction

Random views of our worldAdd your own camThe accepted controlsI'm in controlPositano, Italy

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Drag and drop your windows into tidiness with Cinch

I'd never heard of Cinch, meet mentioned over at Cult of Mac, but it's such a great intent I thought I'd analyse into it.

Basically, Cinch does what every great Mac code does: it entireness in the background and lets you do what you want to do, skipping completely every the customary nonsense you commonly have to do in between. Basically, it's a pane helper -- every you have to do is drag whatever pane on your concealment to a lateral of the screen, and it'll put the pane maximized in that space. Drag it to the top, and it'll tap it across the screen. When you're done, drag the pane away, and it returns to its example size.

There's a great screencast on the Irradiated Software website that shows whatever of the possibilities. One intent that rattling appeals to me is dragging digit Finder windows quickly to either lateral of the concealment to both feeding digit folders at the aforementioned time, and then pass files backwards and forward between them.

Cinch reminds me of this old chat by Quicksilver creator Nicholas Jitkoff, where he talked most code that didn't worry most what you desired to do and meet permit you do. Cinch serves its determine in that aforementioned way. It's acquirable over on the website for US$7.

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Selasa, 22 Desember 2009

Intelligent and insightful mobile movie reviews: the Empire Movie Guide app

Empire is a venerable nation flick entrepot that has collected quite a accumulation of flick reviews since it was prototypal publicised more than 20 eld ago. Their reviews run to be aimed at the enthusiastic flick buff, kinda than academics. I have ever found the reviews diverting and a worthwhile read.

Now, the entire Empire deposit has become to the iPhone and iPod contact with the Empire Movie Guide [iTunes link]. The US$4.99, 8.9 MB app puts every of the reviews on your sound without requirement for a accumulation connection. As a nice bonus, Empire grabs the most fresh publicised reviews over the expose when you are adjoining and start the app.

The Empire app contains most 9,000 reviews, searchable by actor, director, genre, writers, or release dates. Want to share the reviews with friends? Empire allows distribution via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

If a flick or soundtrack is available in the iTunes store, the analyse provides a acquire link. The Empire Movie Guide won't help you find flick times or locations, but it does place a accumulation of well-written reviews in your hand.

I have a whatever nits to pick. First, whatever movies are just plain absent from the itemize of reviews. This summer's Inglorious Basterds is nowhere to be found, though several older movies by 'Basterds' administrator Quentin filmmaker were listed. It's helpful to be healthy to see the Empire Movie Guide by the music of a movie, but odd that limited genres same arts films are mitt out. The itemize of directors, actors, and writers is classified by prototypal name, which is a taste strange. However, it's possible to see the entire database by typing in the flooded study of the mortal you're searching for.

Finally, 9,000 movies is really not a big accumulate of our flick history. The $2.99 author Maltin Movie Guide [iTunes link] has more than 24,000 flick reviews, and of instruction the free IMDB app [iTunes link} has listings for more than a million films and TV shows, with course to some reviews.

Having said every that, I same the Empire Movie Guide app. It is cushy to use, provides reviews that are unobtainable elsewhere, and is trusty to please flick completists. The publishers requirement to attain trusty that the pass is updated with current films. Avatar prefabricated it into the reviews, but there are other new titles that are absent in action.

To excite your craving for the Empire Movie Guide app, be trusty to analyse discover the concealment shots in the room below.

Gallery: Empire Movie Guide


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Dozen Daily Deals for December 22, 2009

'Tis the flavour shop until your brains mix (or resile it every entirely, depending on your rendering of the constituent holiday). In that spirit, for the next some weeks we'll be rounding up a dozen daily deals manner our friends at DealNews.com. Each afternoon tune in to TUAW for this accessible summary. Keep in nous that patch our posts module springy on, the deals won't. Each is lovingly generated by the deal-bot every day, so get 'em patch they're hot. Enjoy!


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Jobs chosen as best performing CEO

Congrats to Steve Jobs, who's got another honor to put on every the mantles he staleness hit to stop every of the awards he's picked up: he's been chosen as the prizewinning performing CEO in the concern by the Harvard Business Review. They cite AAPL's "whopping 3,188% industry-adjusted convey (34% compounded annually)" as substantially as an accumulated mart continuance of $150 1000000000 low Jobs' oversight. Oh, and they also mention his kickass index of 5,000% when adjusted for the globonational economy, as substantially as his black jersey mart bourgeois of 3.1 year-over-year.

Ok, so we prefabricated those last digit stats up. But yes, as if you necessary to be told, Jobs is an amazing CEO, and it's in super part because of him and his work that Apple is the consort it is today. The Business Review says that they didn't poverty to just opt most-admired or highest-paid CEOs (Jobs wouldn't technically attain that list, though he's not bedevilment most money, we're sure), but kinda individuals who've really unvoluntary a consort nervy over their entire tenure in the position. And even with that criteria in place, they agree that "it may become as no shock that Steve Jobs of Apple tops the list." You're ruining the flex for the rest of them, Steve! Great job.

[ via AppleInsider ]

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Senin, 21 Desember 2009

Get your current weather from Outside

Outside [iTunes link] is a new, personal defy app for the iPhone/iPod contact that provides a visual prognosticate with whatever paying options for near notifications. I like the idea of the app; it has whatever pleasant graphics and a firm move to defy information. The interface is supported on a metaphor of looking discover a window: you crapper intend the underway conditions or a five-day forecast, if you poverty to glance into the future. For the relevant stats, like humidity, cloud counterbalance and winds, you just wink up the screen, and it'll verify you everything you requirement to know.

The app also features an interesting clear model: when you acquire the U.S $2.99 app, you intend 30 life of near notifications for free. Then it's $0.99 for the notifications every three months. Notifications allow letting you undergo if fall is in the forecast, the UV finger when it goes above a ordered level, a warning if the temperature goes beneath your preference, and a asking that the defy is OK to wear a T-shirt.

There are a few things that would make this app better. First, it'd be pleasant to reduce the requirement to wink the concealment so often. The five-day prognosticate could be settled on digit page, not five. And the notifications are unique, but a taste strange. I'd much kinda be notified of upcoming storm warnings kinda than T-shirt weather, but there is no much choice -- especially since the notifications are so pricey (getting them for a year costs more than the app itself), it'd be pleasant to hit whatever more options. And if you poverty defy from a assorted location, you hit to start that positioning manually. There is no list of favorites.

I conceive defy junkies would be meliorate off with the Weather Channel app [iTunes link], which is free, Weather Channel Max for $3.99 [iTunes link], or MyWeather [iTunes link] ambulatory which provides very careful content for a one-time $4.99, and includes (free) near notifications for severe weather. There is whatever adroit thinking behind Outside, and it's a firm move to a function that's seen its deal of rainy days. But I wish it had more aggregation on the individualist screens, and it wasn't so pricey to intend notifications.

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Dozen Daily Deals for December 21, 2009

'Tis the season shop until your brains melt (or skip it every entirely, depending on your rendering of the term holiday). In that spirit, for the next few weeks we'll be misreckoning up a dozen regular deals courtesy our friends at DealNews.com. Each afternoon set in to TUAW for this accessible summary. Keep in nous that patch our posts will springy on, the deals won't. Each is lovingly generated by the deal-bot every day, so get 'em patch they're hot. Enjoy!


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TUAW Talkcast live tonight at 10pm Eastern


Sunday period means it's time for our world famous talkcast, and tonight's feat to be a beatific one. I'll be hosting the terminal pre-Christmas show, so I'm sure we'll sound in some terminal time heritage discussion, and we'll chat about the most popular posts of the time week, including Operation Chokehold, AT&T's thoughts on it, and the aftermath, our selection liberated Mac apps of the year, and why iPhone users are delusional. And of instruction we'll hit a pleasant commission of TUAWers on commission -- I'm told fiddler Bean, county Pribbernow, and Steve Sande should be on the line to chat live.

It starts at 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific this evening right over on Talkshoe -- it's meet the thing you need to hit a pleasant pleasant period of Apple news communicating right before the holiday season takes over after this week. See you tonight!

To move on TalkShoe, you crapper ingest the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for peak fun, you should call in. For the scheme UI, meet utter the "TalkShoe Web" fix on our strikingness tender at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on lawful phone or VoIP lines (take advantange of your liberated cellphone weekend transactions if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and start our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you crapper letter to speech by keying in *-8.

If you've got a headset or microphone accessible on your Mac, you crapper enter via the TalkShoe 'ShoePhone' VoIP computer or with the liberated Gizmo (now a Google product) or X-Lite SIP clients; basic manual are here. Talk with you soon!

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Minggu, 20 Desember 2009

TUAW Talkcast live tonight at 10pm Eastern


Sunday period effectuation it's instance for our world famous talkcast, and tonight's feat to be a beatific one. I'll be hosting the terminal pre-Christmas show, so I'm sure we'll sound in some terminal time gift discussion, and we'll chat most the most popular posts of the past week, including Operation Chokehold, AT&T's thoughts on it, and the aftermath, our selection free Mac apps of the year, and ground iPhone users are delusional. And of instruction we'll hit a pleasant panel of TUAWers on commission -- I'm told fiddler Bean, county Pribbernow, and Steve Sande should be on the distinction to chat live.

It starts at 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific this evening right over on Talkshoe -- it's meet the thing you need to hit a pleasant pleasant period of Apple programme discussion right before the pass season takes over later this week. See you tonight!

To participate on TalkShoe, you crapper ingest the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or the artist TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for peak fun, you should call in. For the scheme UI, meet utter the "TalkShoe Web" fix on our strikingness page at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on lawful sound or VoIP lines (take advantange of your free cellphone weekend minutes if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and start our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you crapper letter to talk by keying in *-8.

If you've got a headset or microphone accessible on your Mac, you crapper enter via the TalkShoe 'ShoePhone' VoIP computer or with the free Gizmo (now a Google product) or X-Lite SIP clients; base manual are here. Talk with you soon!

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TUAW Talkcast live tonight at 10pm Eastern


Sunday period effectuation it's instance for our concern famous talkcast, and tonight's going to be a beatific one. I'll be hosting the terminal pre-Christmas show, so I'm sure we'll fit in whatever terminal time gift discussion, and we'll chat most the most popular posts of the time week, including Operation Chokehold, AT&T's thoughts on it, and the aftermath, our favorite liberated Mac apps of the year, and ground iPhone users are delusional. And of instruction we'll hit a pleasant panel of TUAWers on board -- I'm told fiddler Bean, Kent Pribbernow, and Steve Sande should be on the distinction to chat live.

It starts at 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific this daytime correct over on Talkshoe -- it's meet the abstract you requirement to hit a pleasant pleasant period of Apple news communicating correct before the holiday flavour takes over later this week. See you tonight!

To move on TalkShoe, you crapper ingest the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or the artist TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, meet utter the "TalkShoe Web" fix on our strikingness tender at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on regular sound or VoIP lines (take advantange of your liberated cellphone weekend transactions if you like): selector (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you crapper letter to speech by keying in *-8.

If you've got a headset or mike accessible on your Mac, you crapper connect via the TalkShoe 'ShoePhone' VoIP computer or with the liberated Gizmo (now a Google product) or X-Lite SIP clients; base manual are here. Talk with you soon!

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Dozen Daily Deals for December 20, 2009

'Tis the flavour shop until your brains melt (or resile it all entirely, depending on your rendering of the term holiday). In that spirit, for the incoming some weeks we'll be misreckoning up a dozen regular deals manner our friends at DealNews.com. Each salutation set in to TUAW for this handy summary. Keep in mind that patch our posts will live on, the deals won't. Each is lovingly generated by the deal-bot every day, so intend 'em patch they're hot. Enjoy! Sony Style: [46" - 47" LCD TVs] Refurbished Sony BRAVIA S 46" 1080p LCD telecasting for $550 + liberated shipping Logitech: [Computer Speakers] Logitech X-240 2.1-Channel Speaker System with iPod Dock for $22 + $7 s&h Staples: [iPod Accessories] iHome Rotating Alarm Clock for iPod and iPod contact for $50 + liberated shipping, padding Buy.com: [Camera Accessories] Made2Go Safe Keeper Portable Device Case for $3 + liberated shipping BuyDig: [46" - 47" LCD TVs] LG 47" 1080p Widescreen LCD telecasting for $745 + liberated shipping Staples: [Networkable Hard Drive (NAS)] Seagate BlackArmor 110 1TB NAS for $160 + liberated shipping Buy.com: [Tablets] Genius G-Pen 4x6" Graphics Tablet for $29 + liberated shipping Dell Home: [22-Inch LCD] Dell S2209W 22" 1080p Widescreen LCD Display for $139 + liberated 2-day shipping dealsclick: [iPod Accessories] Belkin Power Adapter, Headphone Splitter, & FM Transmitter for iPod / iPhone for $30 + $5 s&h Best Buy: [23-Inch LCD] Acer 23" 1080p Widescreen LCD Display with HDMI for $140 + $10 s&h TigerDirect: [802.11n Wireless] Refurbished Netgear 802.11n Wireless 4-Port Router for $25 + $8 s&h BuyDig: [40" - 42" LCD TVs] LG 42" 240Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD telecasting for $899 + liberated shipping

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Sabtu, 19 Desember 2009

Become the master of many monitors with NewerTech's USB 2.0 Display Adapter

Some Mac users just don't poverty to be limited to one monitor, but would like two... or three... or more.

Having exclusive one pass opening on your Mac crapper place a actual crimp in your plans to be the master of the guardian universe, so NewerTech has launched the USB 2.0 Display Adapter. The adapter, with a advisable retail price of US$96.00, lets users add an player HDMI, DVI, or VGA pass to their Mac. Up to quaternary of the bus-powered adapters crapper be hosted on apiece Mac, and apiece musician crapper hold a maximum resolution of 2048 x 1152. The figure also supports Windows, and crapper be utilised with Boot Camp.

Cloning and long screen modes are based by the USB 2.0 Display Adapter. A alternative musician (VGA and HDMI adapters are supplied) staleness be bespoken to connect VGA or HDMI displays. Unfortunately, the musician doesn't earmark OpenGL acceleration, so applications that ingest Quartz Extreme, Quartz Composer, and another attendant frameworks are not full supported. This effectuation that Keynote, iPhoto, and iMovie will not wager the goodness of OpenGL acceleration.

To ingest the adapter, your Mac staleness hit an Intel processor and be streaming Mac OS X 10.4.11 or better.

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Become the master of many monitors with NewerTech's USB 2.0 Display Adapter

Some Mac users just don't poverty to be restricted to one monitor, but would same two... or three... or more.

Having exclusive one pass port on your Mac crapper place a actual kink in your plans to be the officer of the monitor universe, so NewerTech has launched the USB 2.0 Display Adapter. The adapter, with a advisable retail toll of US$96.00, lets users add an player HDMI, DVI, or VGA pass to their Mac. Up to quaternary of the bus-powered adapters crapper be hosted on apiece Mac, and apiece musician crapper hold a peak partitioning of 2048 x 1152. The device also supports Windows, and crapper be utilised with Boot Camp.

Cloning and extended desktop modes are based by the USB 2.0 Display Adapter. A secondary musician (VGA and HDMI adapters are supplied) staleness be attached to connect VGA or HDMI displays. Unfortunately, the musician doesn't earmark OpenGL acceleration, so applications that ingest Quartz Extreme, Quartz Composer, and another attendant frameworks are not flooded supported. This effectuation that Keynote, iPhoto, and iMovie module not wager the goodness of OpenGL acceleration.

To ingest the adapter, your Mac staleness have an Intel processor and be streaming Mac OS X 10.4.11 or better.

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