Sabtu, 02 Januari 2010

Fifteen lucky TUAW readers will start 2010 with a free copy of Pastebot

It's no secret that TUAW bloggers fuck Pastebot, the new and tasteful iPhone / iPod app from Tapbots. Dave Caolo modify referred to Pastebot as "his mistress," and I find that I'm using it constantly to advise book and images between my Macs and iPhone.

Well, Tapbots wants you to join in on the goodness, so we're going to hit a quick giveaway here at TUAW. We hit 15 Pastebot promo codes to hand out, and you crapper start the giveaway! Here's the scoop:
Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. To start yield a comment informing us how Pastebot module help you ready a New Year's resolution. The comment staleness be mitt before Saturday, Jan 2, 2009, 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time. You haw start exclusive once. Fifteen winners module be selected in a haphazard drawing. Prizes: Promo Code for digit copy of Pastebot (Value: US$2.99) Click Here for complete Official Rules. If you didn't feature my analyse of Pastebot terminal month, be sure to feature up on the features of this unequalled and multipurpose utility.

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Jumat, 01 Januari 2010

Fifteen lucky TUAW readers will start 2010 with a free copy of Pastebot

It's no info that TUAW bloggers love Pastebot, the newborn and tasteful iPhone / iPod app from Tapbots. Dave Caolo even referred to Pastebot as "his mistress," and I encounter that I'm using it constantly to advise text and images between my Macs and iPhone.

Well, Tapbots wants you to join in on the goodness, so we're feat to hit a hurried programme here at TUAW. We hit 15 Pastebot promo codes to assistance out, and you crapper start the giveaway! Here's the scoop:
Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of river who are 18 and older. To start yield a comment informing us how Pastebot module help you keep a New Year's resolution. The comment staleness be left before Saturday, Jan 2, 2009, 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time. You haw start exclusive once. Fifteen winners module be selected in a haphazard drawing. Prizes: Promo Code for digit copy of Pastebot (Value: US$2.99) Click Here for complete Official Rules. If you didn't feature my review of Pastebot terminal month, be trusty to feature up on the features of this unequalled and multipurpose utility.

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Apple tablet team in a "cone of silence", 10.7 to be previewed

Electronista summarizes Evangelist Gruber's report that a "cone of silence" exists surrounding those nonindustrial the paper and virtually no information comes from those directly involved. Many of the paper aggroup are reportedly the aforementioned as those that developed the Calender, Mail, and Safari iPhone apps – and those people are used to this. They underwent a kindred radio-lockdown in late 2006.

Gruber also maintains that Steve Jobs has given the paper his "undivided attention" since backward to Apple in September. Apple's silence is legendary and Gruber's assertions seem to be more theory than insider knowledge. He does admit "I don't undergo anyone who works at Apple who doubts these things; nor do I undergo anyone at Apple who knows a whit more. I don't undergo anyone who's seen the element or the software, nor even anyone who knows someone else who has seen the element or software."

Gruber does seem more overconfident that his sources say Mac OS X 10.7 is on road for a developer release at WWDC in June. Unfortunately they haven't mentioned some public-release time inclose or a doable study – although I'm hoping for "10.7 Lynx."

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Dozen Daily Deals for January 1, 2010

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

Note that today's care itemize includes refurb availability on digit of the underway 21.5" iMac models, plus older iMacs as well -- most under $1,000. Happy shopping.

Apple Store: [iMac] Refurbished Apple iMac 21.5" LED-Backlit Desktops from $999 + liberated shipping, more Shop4Tech: [Electronics] Shop4tech.com roundup: Targus Lock for iPod for $3 + liberated shipping, more OfficeDepot: [Office Furniture] Office Depot Furniture Clearance: Christopher uranologist Chair for $90 + liberated shipping, more Tanga: [Magazines] 1-Year Subscription to Outside Magazine for $3 Logitech: [Audio/Visual] Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote Control for $100 + liberated shipping BookCloseouts.com: [Books & Magazines] BookCloseouts.com 2010 Calendar Sale: Extra 50% off, calendars from $2 + $3 s&h SuperBiiz.com: [Media Receivers] ASUS O!Play HD Media Player for $90 + liberated shipping Meritline: [Camera Accessories] Wireless Remote Control for Nikon Cameras for $3 + liberated shipping Logitech: [Mice/Trackballs] Logitech G7 Laser Cordless Mouse for $40 + liberated shipping Shop4Tech: [Cell Phone Accessories] Portable Solar Cell Phone Charger with USB, iPhone connections for $19 + liberated shipping WilsonsLeather: [Notebook Carrying Cases] Kenneth Cole Wheeled Leather Brief for $80 + liberated shipping Buy.com: [Office Furniture] 2-Drawer Lateral File (not freestanding) for $174 + liberated shipping

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TUAW wishes you...


...a very happy New Year.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/london/ / CC BY 2.0

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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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