Pandora 2.0 Comes to the App Store – Everyone’s favorite internet radio app gets a major upgrade today. Cover flow is introduced, and an improved recommendation engine. Us here in Canada are still out of luck. There’s also other new features, but I’m too bitter and jealous to tell you about them.
Apple iPod Touch Ad [...]
The Rumors of Macworld’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated – At least according to one blog, that is. Tom Yager at Infoworld thinks the trade show will be just fine without their darling star. In fact, he thinks the move will greatly improve the show, since presenters won’t have to worry about pissing off Apple, [...]
iPhone To Be Tethered This Week – It’s a rumor that’s been around the block and then some, but according to TUAW, the eagle is finally landing this week. They think it’ll come out as a press release announced sometime during the show. Previously published details put the price of the plan at an extra [...]
yellowsn0w Disrupts The White Stuff – The iPhone is no longer pure as the driven snow. The dev team, true to their word, has delivered the iPhone 3G unlocking tool to the public. Dubbed “yellowsn0w”, it appears to work well enough, based on Stephen Fry’s anectdotal evidence via Twitter, at least.
28″ iMac A Possibility – [...]
See Inside Your iPhone – It’s a case mod that lets you in on the secret of your magical phone. iCustom is making these clear plastic cases for the iPhone, but apparently the mod is only available in Russia, at least for now. Any Russians out there keen to do this? I can’t see why [...]
We Invented The Thumbnail – Apple, along with Google and Microsoft, are facing another patent holder in yet another legal battle. This time, a Michigan-based company is claiming to have a patent pending on image previews for files and programs, aka thumbnails, which are used in Apple’s Finder and Cover Flow technologies.
Real (Fake) iPhone Nanos! [...]
Old Dog, New Tricks Via Multitouch – I remember crudely wrestling with swipe gestures on my various Palm pilots over the years. It wasn’t perfect, but I did appreciate the quick delete function that a backwards stroke of the stylus resulted in. Apple may be working on putting in some similar gesture controls in upcoming [...]
Glitchy 10.5.6 Update Gets Improved – A week after its initial release, Apple has updated their, ahem, update, making it significantly less glitchy. People were experiencing problems with Bluetooth and Mail.app, among others. I jumped the gun, and I haven’t had problems yet, but I don’t generally use Bluetooth, so who knows if I’m fine [...]
Flash Comes to (Jailbroken) iPhones (Sometimes) – Not, probably, what most people are looking for in terms of Flash on the iPhone, but if you’ve already jailbroken, it might be worth a look. Apparently buggy, but provides more Flash than the current, non-jailbroken iPhone does, that much is certain.
iMac, Mac Mini Rumors Get a Little [...]
iPhone Confirmed For Sale at Wal-Mart on Dec. 28th – It was the rumored date, and now it’s the confirmed date. Wal-Mart will officially begin selling Apple’s iPhone in their stores across the U.S. on December 28. The confirmation comes via Bloomberg, who called multiple retail locations to ask about the start date.
The Cloud Fights [...]
Metal Gear Confirmed for iPhone – Snake’s going to be stealthy on your iPhone or iPod touch in the near future, thanks to Konami. They’re also planning on releasing Silent Hill and Dance Dance Revolution games. I want Grey Fox in the Metal Gear game. That’s an order.
Apple Expo Paris Nixed – Yesterday, Apple was [...]
Get Your Older Mac Looking Greener – The preference pane icon on the most recently released Macs for the Energy Saver functions is a flourescent bulb, not the power-hungry incandescent one those of us with older machines are stuck with. Check out this handy little tutorial to figure out how to replace your own boring [...]
68% of Businesses To Allow Macs Next Year – According to one survey, up to 68 percent of 700 businesses polled say they’ll allow employees to use a Mac as their work machine in the upcoming year. Apparently, the main push is coming from employees who are “begging to use a Mac,” and not any [...]
EFi-X USA To Begin Shipping OS X-Friendly Computers – That’s EFi-X USA. Not to be confused with EFi-X, which has nothing to do with the new doppleganger. Except that they’ll offer the EFi-X dongle for sale with their new, OS X ready PCs, which are high-end, powerful computers. They won’t actually be installing OS X, [...]
TuneUp iTunes Plug-in Released for Mac – I keep my iTunes library obsessively organized. In fact, I’ll only keep full albums, so no hit singles for me. If you’re the same, but are tired of spending so much time getting everything perfect, TuneUp might help. It fills in metadata and cover art for tracks, and [...]
Apple Could Sell 1 Million Gift Cards – Analysts like big numbers. Shaw Wu, an analyst for Kaufmann Bros. likes six zeros, to be precise. He’s claiming that information he’s received from his network of Apple retail channel contacts puts the estimated sales of the iPhone gift cards Apple recently started offering at up to [...]
Keyboard Maestro 3.5 Released – The Mac macro software gets a big update today, bringing in support for their new iPhone and iPod touch app, which allows you to execute macros remotely from your device. Combined with new iTunes control actions, it nicely supplements Apple’s own Remote app.
The Computer Mouse Approaches Middle Age – Our [...]
iPhone 3G Heads to Lithuania and Latvia – Starting this Thursday (Sept. 25), Lithuania and Latvia will be able to bask in the goodness of the iPhone 3G. TeliaSonera will be providing the telecom muscle to pull it off.
Remix Radiohead – For a mere $0.99 you can download pieces of different instrument tracks used in [...]
iPhone Dev Process – Some really great insight from developer Mike Ash on the whole development and app store submission process for NetAwake.
Zero-Day Exploit Code For Quicktime Posted – Supposedly Apple has ignored a submitted vulnerability and in turn the person who found the vulnerability has published it online.
Jobs and his turtleneck out in public [...]
Get iTunes 7’s Album View back in iTunes 8 – Think the album view from iTunes 7 is gone? Think again.
iPhoneModem – If you’re the jailbreaking type and want to share your iPhone’s internet connection with your computer, check this out. This unsupported app will set you back $10.
Remote 1.1 Released – Use your iPhone/iPod [...]
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