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Mar
In a bit of irony, Apple reportedly is hesitating to sign longterm deals with flash memory suppliers because of high prices which some blame on Apple’s heavy use of the chips in a growing array of devices. Although demand is weak for the flash memory in some areas, prices remain high due to chip makers
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Apple Wary of Long-term Deals Amid High Flash Memory Prices
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Mar
Excitement over the iPad’s introduction continues to accelerate production of new App Store entries more than six weeks after Apple unveiled its tablet device. Indeed, the number of new iPhone OS apps produced rose 185 percent since the iPad became public January 27. “Over six weeks since Apple announced the iPad, Flurry continues to measure a
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Mar
A new app called Silent Bodyguard features a panic button that sends an SOS distress signal with GPS coordinates to potential rescuers without alerting onlookers. While the $3.99 app, available on iTunes, isn’t the first ICE (in case of emergency) app, this one is backed by Dr. Clint Van Zandt, former FBI chief hostage negotiator and criminal
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iPhone App Arms Users With Silent Panic Button
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Mar
While most Apple watchers have been concentrating on the iPad, something unexpected happened: sales of Macs and iPods rose higher than financial experts expected. The new retail numbers makes one analyst believe Wall Street is in for a surprise for the March quarter. According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s interpretation of retail sales figures supplied
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Analyst: Second Quarter Mac, iPod Sales Ahead of Estimates
15
Mar
Filed under: Apple We’ve had a few concerned readers contact us, worried that Apple has deleted or otherwise discontinued the “Downloads” section of its Web site. Fear not, gentle reader, they are still available in the same place as always: http://www.apple.com/downloads/ . What caused the confusion was the redesign of Apple.com that took effect at the end of last week. In order to make room for an iPad tab in the navigation bar at the top of Apple’s Web site, something had to go. Fortunately you can easily locate the downloads section simply by typing the word “downloads” into the search box. Below the links to Apple products, the iTunes store and the Apple store, the bottom link will bring you to Apple’s downloads page, which has a wide variety of applications available, both from Apple and from various third-party developers. You can also click the Support tab if you’re looking for Apple Support Downloads , where you can find downloads for security updates and “point-releases” of software that you might otherwise update via Software Update. Downloads aren’t gone from Apple.com, just less visible originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Downloads aren’t gone from Apple.com, just less visible originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Downloads aren’t gone from Apple.com, just less visible
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15
Mar
When a pair of rugged adventurists decides to trek 700km across a frozen lake in Siberia, chronicle the expedition in a daily blog complete with photos and videos — and share it all on the Internet — it should come as no surprise when Apple hardware and software features prominently among their gear. Vašek Sůra and
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Pair Puts Apple Gear to Siberian Trek Test
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Mar
About a hundred years ago, while I was still a Windows user and thought that a Mac was what you covered in a cheese and slurped down for lunch, I whiled away way too much time playing a DOS-based artillery duel game called Scorched Earth. Dot Matrix Interactive Designs have created their own version in
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KIL.A.TON: How Do I Blow Thee Up? Let Me Count The Ways [Review]
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Mar
Instapaper Pro has long been a great way to load your iPhone with content that you can browse at leisure–even if you don’t have a wireless connection. Now they’ve enhanced it in version 2.2 with pagination, dictionary (Wiktionary) lookup, an in-app browser, and email support. Instapaper lets you download web pages into your iPhone so they can be viewed offline later. A simple add-on to Safari and Firefox adds a "Read Later" bookmark to select sites for Instapaper. It does a good job of extracting the text so you don’t have to worry about trying to pinch-zoom or accidentally side scrolling. You can easily change the font size for easy reading. In the past, you had to either set the pages to scroll continuously or use the "tilt-scroll" feature. Tilt scroll is admittedly sexy, scrolling the page slowly as you tilt the phone. But like most eye-candy the fascination wears off quickly. The new pagination feature works like most e-readers; just touch the bottom or top of the screen to turn pages
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Instapaper Enhancements Just in Time for the Release of the iPad
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Mar
VMWare has announced the availability of the beta version of Fusion 3.1, and it includes significant enhancements that the user community has been awaiting. Perhaps most eagerly desired are the graphics enhancements for gamers and 3D applications. OpenGL 2.1 is now supported on Windows Vista and Windows 7. They claim better DirectX 9.0 SM3 performance as well (and hopefully that means more DirectX 9.0C app compatibility). Other new features include USB "Easy Connect", a feature that is designed to help Fusion remember your preferred settings for each USB device. You can configure larger virtual machines as well, with the maximum virtual disk expanded from 950 GB to 2 TB. They now support up to 8-way symmetric multiprocessing as well. Boot Camp virtual machines run a but more quickly–especially during the boot process, and they have improved the PC migration process. You can download the beta here , and if you do, it’s a good idea to voluntarily participate in the user experience improvement program so they can use your data to make sure it’s ready for prime time before the final release.
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A New Public Beta of VMWare Fusion 3.1 Delivers Long Awaited Enhancements
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Mar
Filed under: Hardware , Apple , iPad Apple’s new iPad battery replacement service is actually an iPad replacement service. Apple announced this week that if an IPad requires service due to a dead or dying battery, it will replace that iPad entirely with free shipping. The service itself costs US$99. Note that the battery must have died on its own accord; if you dropped it, spilled Mountain Dew inside or otherwise damaged the iPad in a way that diminished the battery’s functioning, it’s not covered. Also, the iPad you receive will not contain any of your data, so make a full backup before you send the defective unit off to Apple (and do a factory restore to remove all of your data if you’re the paranoid type). You can get the process started at an Apple Retail Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider . Apple says to expect the whole exchange to take about 1 week. [Via MacUser ] Apple announces iPad battery replacement service originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Apple announces iPad battery replacement service originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Apple announces iPad battery replacement service
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