We start the day with two – count ‘em, two – 27-inch iMacs. First up is an iMac Core i5 Quad running at 2.66GHz for $1,699. Next is a Core 2 iMac running at 3.06GHz, outfitted with 8GB of RAM for $1,899. If you haven’t found an iPhone 3G yet, AT&T is back with a

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Daily Deals: iMacs, iMacs, and iPhones – Oh, My

Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Originals If St. Patty’s day for you means time to drink, then these applications can help you to enjoy the experience, play with your drinks and cope with the damage the morning after. Beer Brands Seller: Webworks Compatibility: iPhone and iPod touch Requirements: iPhone OS 1.6 or higher File Size: 1.4 MB Price: Free Age Rating: 17+ If you want to be the expert of all things beer, then this application will help you out with a guide to a wide range of beers. Sure, a Bud or a Sam Adams may be a find standard for everyday drinking, but on St. Patty’s Day it is time to step things up a notch and expand your pallet. It also gives you a nice set of pairing options for each of the 7,800 beers in the listings. Good news if you want to slow down your—or a friends—consumption. Download Beer Brands Leprechaun Drinking Game Seller: Brand Ambassador Group Compatibility: iPhone and iPod touch Requirements: iPhone OS 3.1.2 or higher File Size: 4.8MB Price: $0.99 Age Rating: 17+ Drinking is more fun with a gimmick. If you are too bombed to think of one , this application can help you. It is quite simple to play, so being too smashed won’t get you out of it. All you have to do is tap the leprechaun. He will give you a drinking line that gives you an idea of how much you need to consume. Then, you pass it on to the next unwitting victim, and watch him/her imbibe.

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Originals Anyone who loves nature knows that camping can be both a fine art and a subtle science. When you do it right, it can be an amazing experience. Doing it wrong can make for a nightmarish evening in the woods. These applications can help make for a memorable and entertaining trip: Campwhere from Big Nerd Ranch, Firefly Night from Joseph Walters, and 100 Horror Stories, Sounds and Scares from Vroom LLC. Campwhere Seller: Big Nerd Ranch Compatibility: iPhone and iPod touch Requirements: OS 3.0 or higher File Size: 1 MB Price: $3.99 Age Rating: 4+ Anytime you camp, you need to find a camp site.  No doubt if you are an outdoor lover you have some favorite sites, but visiting those places over and over again defeats the exploration spirit that drew you out to begin with. Campwhere can help you to expand your options easily. The interface is an easy to use map that allows you to zoom in and out with a pinch.  The listings are color coded so you can tell if you are looking at a National Park, city or county park, state park or army corp of engineers site. It also has a handy array of secondary features that let you search parks, find the closest to your location, and save easy access to a few favorites. The new version covers Canada as well as the U.S. Buy Campwhere Firefly Night Seller: Joseph Walters Compatibility: iPhone and iPod touch Requirements: 3.0 or higher File Size: 20.2MB Price: $0.99 Age Rating: 4+ As things get dark, you may be in search of summer’s iconic bug: the firefly. If you can’t find any, this game can help you to get the experience. The game mode lets you sort different color flies into jars as a speed trial. Numbers mode is all about unlocking achievements by creating sequences of numbers in jars. Buy Firefly Night 100 Horror Stories, Sounds and Scares Seller: Vroom LLC Compatibility: iPhone or iPod Touch Requirements: iPhone OS 3.0 or higher File Size: 29.9MB Price: $0.99 Age Rating: 12+ When things get good and dark, the time has come for ghost stories. If your imagination is light or if you simply enjoy classic tales of terror, then this application is for you.  It houses more than 100 stories and has classics such as The Fall of The House of Usher , The Phantom of the Opera and The Monkey’s Paw , as well as a lot of newer, but compelling tales

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iPhone and iPod touch apps to take on the camping trip

We close out another week we three hardware deals. First up is a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with a 22-inch screen and lots of extra goodies from ExperCom, including 8GB of RAM and three years of AppleCare – all for $1,399. Next up is a deal on a MacBook powered by a Core

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Daily Deals: 3.06GHz 22″ iMac $1,399, $1,193 MacBook,$189 iPod Classic

The iPhone has a number of advantages over its smartphone competitors, but one thing it hasn’t had that users have been clamoring for is true multitasking. Push notifications were intended as a workaround designed to give users the ability to stay up-to-date with multiple apps without having to actually run them at the same time. It’s still only a partial solution, though, and one many iPhone users aren’t satisfied with. True multitasking is still high on the want list of many iPhone users, and really remains the only thing not addressed by the many major feature additions iPhone 3.0 brought. Luckily, true app backgrounding capabilities are said to be on the way in iPhone 4.0. That’s according to sources AppleInsider describes as having a “proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances.” According to those same sources, though, Apple still has a ways to go before it can introduce these features to iPhone users. But the problem doesn’t lie with the iPhone’s ability to run multiple applications at once. In fact, the iPhone is quite good at multitasking in its current incarnation. Nike+ runs great while you do other things like take calls and/or check your email. But it’s the only non-Apple app that’s allowed that privilege.

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Rumor Has It: iPhone 4.0 Bringing Multitasking

In the wake of the tsunami of iPad related rumors and news both before and after it was unveiled in late January, new rumors about the next iPhone have been scarce by comparison. But that may be about to change, with various sources reporting that multitasking will finally come to the iPhone with the next major software update. AppleInsider is reporting that “people with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances” have leaked some significant details that point to a “full-on solution” to multitasking on iPhone OS 4.0. With competitors like Palm’s WebOS and Google’s Android flaunting their multitasking in recent hardware, it was probably only a matter of time before Apple figured out a solution for the iPhone. If the reports are true, it would silence once and for all the one major criticism of the device at long last. Apple introduced push notifications with iPhone OS 3.0 to stem some of the complaints, but ultimately that solution only made things more complicated, since the software is only capable of displaying one notification at a time, which limits its usefulness. Of course, since iPhone OS has its roots in Mac OS X to begin with, you wouldn’t think that multitasking should have taken Apple four generations to figure out in the first place. The current iPhone OS 3.x software is a “fully preemptive multitasking operating system, but it artificially restricts apps (other than specific ones bundled with the system by Apple) from running in the background” — for instance, the ability to leave the Phone app during a call while entering another app such as Maps, or playing music via the iPod app while reading e-mail or browsing the web. Multitasking on the iPhone is not a technical problem, but rather one of battery life and the ability to optimize resources, which Apple has not been shy about stating publicly. Jailbreak users already have the ability to install software via Cydia or Rock Your Phone which will allow multitasking on the device as well. If it’s true that Apple will introduce multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0 — presumably with a new hardware model in June as they’ve done for the last three years — the only challenge will be how to implement it in a user-friendly way without consuming further battery resources. Apple, we have faith in you… bring it on!

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iPhone OS 4.0 To (Finally) Bring Multitasking?

Arcade fans with an iPhone or iPod touch, rejoice! Capcom has made your dreams come true today by announcing the immediate availability of Street Fighter IV to Apple’s App Store. Capcom is widely known as a leading developer and publisher of video games the world over, with their popular Street Fighter games being among them. Now, the gaming company has rebuilt the hotly anticipated Street Fighter IV from the ground up to take full advantage of the iPhone OS platform, while remaining true to the legendary series’ high-action arcade roots. Street Fighter IV brings eight classic characters from the blockbuster console version, including Ryu, Chun Li, Able, Blanka, M. Bison, Dhalsim, Guile and Ken, putting them in seven realistic environments. Veteran players will instantly recognize the game’s robust move sets, including Unique Attacks, Special Moves, Focus Attacks, Super Combos and Ultra Combos. But the advanced fighting experience is also open to newcomers by way of the game’s new “Dojo” mode — get on the path to becoming a world warrior by following simple to advanced lessons in order to dominate the game. Of course, no fighting game is complete without a multiplayer mode, and Street Fighter IV will not disappoint. Players can battle head-to-head in “Versus” mode via Bluetooth, bringing the excitement of the arcade to the palm of their hand. Capcom has introduced a unique new “Visual Pad” system specifically for the iPhone. By activating “SP Move Assist,” players can trigger their character’s Special Moves with the tap of a button and a directional input. Hardcore gamers can disable the feature and enter the complete command manually as well

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Capcom’s Street Fighter IV Arrives at the App Store

We take a look at three hardware deals for Mac fans. Apple has 2.13GHz MacBooks for $749. A 22-inch 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo iMac is on sale for $1,363. A 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook, bundled with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive is $1,573, rounding out our top trio for the day. As

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Daily Deals: $749 MacBook, 22″ iMac, 2.26GHz MacBook

Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 8, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh Zevrix Solutions is offering BatchOutput Server —its output workflow automation solution for InDesign—at 50% off on maczot on Tuesday March 9th. BatchOutput Server offloads printing and exporting to PDF and PostScript to a central system by processing InDesign files from hotfolders. Originally developed for a major magazine publisher in the United States, the software saves companies countless hours that are lost each year because operators have to wait for InDesign to output files. Macgamestore.com has announced Murder, She Wrote . The game was developed by leading casual games developer and publisher, Legacy Interactive. Murder, She Wrote is an interactive seek and find who-dun-it mystery adventure with unique minigames in every scene. Play as the lovable murder novelist Jessica Fletcher and solve each of the five cases by carefully and methodically investigating murders using an innovative new style of hidden object and light adventure gameplay. Eternal Storms Software has announced the immediate availability of flickery 1.8 for Mac OS X. flickery is a unique desktop flickr client which combines the flickr photo-community with the ease-of-use and elegance of Mac OS X. Easily upload photos and videos to your Flickr photostream, organize items in photosets and groups, browse Favorites, and more. flickery 1.8 adds Google Maps to the search functionality to bring more powerful searches to flickery users. Badia Software has announced the public beta release of Exportools Professional 3.0 , its flagship software for high-end exporting and printing of multiple Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress documents. Exportools Professional 3.0 has been entirely rewritten in Cocoa, and it’s the first add-on for InDesign and QuarkXPress built with 64-bit code, boosting overall performance and stability.

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Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad product news – March 8, 2010

We close out another week with a trio of hardware deals. In the spotlight is a deal on 3.06GHz 22-inch iMacs from ExperCom. The desktop computers are outfitted with 8GB of RAM and AppleCare for $1,399. (There are other iMacs available in today’s deals.) Also on tap: MacBook Pro laptops, starting at $849. We round

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Daily Deals: 22-inch 3.06GHz iMac, $849 MacBook Pro, Mac Pro Xeon