Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 16, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh Selznick Scientific Software, LLC has announced PasswordWallet 4.5 , a major update to their best-selling password management solution for Macintosh and iPhone. The app now allows the user to automatically share all of their passwords between their Mac, iPhone and MobileMe accounts, as well as their Windows, Android, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre devices. Simple and secure, PasswordWallet encrypts and stores passwords and other private information in one, convenient location. Yazsoft has announced Playback 1.5.1 , an important update to their popular zero configuration media server for Mac OS X. Playback allows anyone to share their media with any Playstation 3, Xbox 360, or other supported UPnP compatible device. Playback can also share media stored in folders or even make entire disks available to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. By default, Playback will share almost any content on the users system.

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iDevice Apps , iDevice Accessories , Reviews Provides: Flexible tripod for phone support Developer: Joby Minimum Requirements: iPhone 3G or 3GS ( iPod touch and other models available) Price: $39.95 Availability: Now More and more, I find myself using my iPhone for snapping quick photos. The picture quality is not nearly as good as that of my Nikon D40 DSLR, but my iPhone is always with me, and it’s easier to port around. Trouble is, it’s nearly impossible to balance on a ledge, chair, rock or what have you if I want to be in the picture myself, or if I want to steady the shot. “Kirk, you foolish man,” I hear you say, “if you’re worried about steadying a shot, you’re already caring too much to be satisfied with your iPhone camera.” Perhaps, but that doesn’t change the fact that I sometimes find myself unable to take an unexpected photo because I have no tripod that supports the iPhone. “Tripod?!” you continue. “Read your first paragraph! You leave your Nikon at home because it’s too much to lug around, and now you want to lug around a tripod?! Your thought process is devoid of all logic!” Easy, guns. You many not understand what I mean, but Joby does. Hence, the Gorillamobile for the iPhones 3G and 3GS. This flexible tripod comes in a package nearly as small as the iPhone itself, making it convenient to have with you at all times. The beauty of the device is its three jointed legs that allow you to bend and twist them as needed

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Some iPhone applications use the built in features on the iPhone, update and offer promotions for existing iPhone games, or spoil the plots for your upcoming season finale. Gym Finder Gym Finder is as strait forward as you can get with a free iPhone application.  With Gym Finder you can, well, find a gym.  When you open it up you are given a list of popular gym chains like 24 Hour Fitness, Athletic Club, Bally Total Fitness, Curves, Gold’s Gym, and others.  You can select one of these gyms and then it will locate those that are relatively near to your location.  You can select a specific location and it will give you directions utilizing the iPhone Maps feature along with basic contact information.  It is also possible to do this in reverse by searching just by location to find what is near by.  Gym Finder does what it promises adequately, but it does make you wonder why you need a program that is so specific to finding one type of business.  Why not just use a Yellow Pages application?  Why not use the Maps function on its own?  Gym Finder is perfectly reasonable for the purpose it promises, but this is still part of the trend at the iTunes’ App Store that stresses quantity over quality.   iMobsters 28 Favor Points The most important quality that is universal between all text based iPhone MMO RPGs is the constant need for updates and promotions.  iMobsters, which is one of the most popular mafia themed text based iPhone MMO RPGs from the Storm8 tradition, has now released its most recent update.  iMobsters 28 Favor Points is actually more of just a free Favor Points offer than a true iMobsters update.  The reality of iMobsters 28 Favor Points is that it is used to simply to perpetuate interest in the free iPhone game.  Since Favor Points are really the only way that Storm8 can make money off of the iMobsters franchise this is really just to spark interest in what will supposedly just be a later series of purchases.  Inside iMobsters 28 Favor Points you are not going to see much quantitatively different to the base iMobsters software except for the most minor of update changes.  Fundamentally iMobsters remains the same, which puts iMobsters 28 Favor Points into a weird place.  Any free Favor Points package is going to be of interest, and possible necessity, to iMobsters players.  On the other hand, free Favor Points are not going to be really attractive to those who do not already have an interest in iMobsters.  There is nothing about iMobsters 28 Favor Points that is going to attract new players.  If you already play iMobsters then iMobsters 28 Favor Points is going to be one of the first free iPhone downloads on your list, but if not you can forget it entirely. Spoilers For the TV addict in the room online spoilers can be the main source of water cooler gossip.  The ‘there’s an app for that’ logic has infected almost every possible online institution, and this one was a late arrival.  Spoilers is a basic free iPhone application that gives you the available episode information for some of the most popular  on the air.  These are presented mainly in a large list of alphabetical options like Burn Notice, Entourage, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, and others.  These are presented in the largest list in the Shows tab where you can select the shows you want.  You can then find the ones you want and then add them to your Favorites, which will then list them under that specific tabs.  This is really where Spoilers becomes useful, especially once you have established a clear list for your Favorites.  You can also look according to Upcoming Episodes, but it is much more relevant to just get information from the episode specific lists.  All of this is find if Spoilers was more than simply adequate in what it provides.  Spoilers is not extremely detailed in the information it offers about each program, and more often than not you are not going to have access to the entire list of shows you will want.  Program information is limited at any given time, and Spoilers usually has issues bringing up all of what you are requesting.  This does not make Spoilers incredibly useful even in the marginally interesting feature it has.  With the time it takes to sift through the occasional info from the application you can easily use more reliable and complete online sources.

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Filed under: Apple App Store clutter remains an ongoing issue. In addition to “business card” applications that offer little or no functionality beyond a simple web page [1] , there are lite editions, demo editions, full editions, and even in the case of Tweetie 2, completely new applications providing upgraded functionality . Each of those applications must be registered with a unique app identifier, each one takes up a separate slot when installed on your iPhone’s home screen, each application occupies a separate App Store listing, complete with its own screen shots, marketing material, reviews, and so forth. Each one must be managed by you in iTunes, where you must decide which to sync, which to keep, and so forth. Add to the mix, the possibility that we’re likely to see iPad- and iPhone-specific application releases in the near future in addition to the Universal Application solution that Apple has been heavily promoting. That’s because iPad applications offer developers the opportunity to re-imagine their interfaces, adding features without the constraints of the iPhone’s small screen and modal interaction limitations. An iPad app that adds significant new functionality may branch off and become yet another related app in a single application family. Continue reading iPhone devsugar: The need for multiple ipa delivery iPhone devsugar: The need for multiple ipa delivery originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 5, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh Hyperbolic Software has announced Tidy Up! 2.2.0 , the latest version of the award-winning duplicate finder and disk tidying utility. Tidy Up! has become a must-have utility to reclaim disk space being taken up by duplicate files and packages. Tidy Up! locates duplicate items using a wide range of criteria including owner application, time created or modified, name, label, extension and content. Version 2 introduces nearly 50 new features to this already comprehensive tool. Zenopolis has released Tiptoe 1.0 , a new privacy application for Mac OS X. Tiptoe is the first Mac privacy application to bring a “private browsing” like feature to all sorts of applications. This initial release supports 15 popular Mac applications, enabling users to run these applications without a trail of their actions being stored. The ability to reset (remove) existing privacy data is also included. Tiptoe is $19.95 (USD), a Universal Binary for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later. St. Clair Software has announced the release of Default Folder X 4.3.6 . Default Folder X enhances the file dialogs in all Mac OS X applications.

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Section: Haven’t caught all of the Appletell news this week?  Here’s your chance to catch up on this week’s top 10 articles! The iPad: To 3G or not 3G? “We are just past halfway through the 60 day waiting period that Apple announced for the release of the WiFi iPad. While we don’t know everything about the device, we do know there are six different models split in half by a single feature:…” MORE » Appletell reviews Bento 3 for Mac OS X “Provides: Template based database creation and management Format: Digital download or CD Developer: FileMaker, Inc. Minimum System Requirements: Mac OS X v10.5.7, 867MHz PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor, 512MB RAM, CD drive Processor Compatibility: Universal…” MORE » Appletell reviews Stinger Table Hockey for iPhone, iPod touch “Category: Stinger Table Hockey Seller: Stinger Games Requirements: iPhone OS 2.2 or later Compatibility: iPhone and iPod touch File Size: 10.6MB Version Reviewed: 1.1 Price: $1.99 Age Rating: 4+ Before I begin this review, I should disclose that rod hockey is my…” MORE » Appletell reviews the Beats by Dr. Dre Lady Gaga Heartbeats from Monster “Provides: In ear audio reproduction Developer: Monster Cable Minimum Requirements: Audio source with 1/8” stereo mini-jack Price: $119.95 Availability: Now Quality is almost synonymous with Monster Cable. But the Beats by Dr. Dre Lady Gaga Heartbeats are about more than just great audio, they’re…” MORE » Appletell reviews the Dexim P-Flip Foldable Power Dock “Provides: iDevice external battery, stand and dock Developer: Dexim Price: $54.90 Availability: Now In a sea of boxy, single purpose batteries, one company dares to think different.  Dexim has put some real thought into what an iDevice battery can and perhaps should do for you.  Their…” MORE » Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad product news – March 1, 2010 “Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 1, 2010:  Macintosh iPod Macintosh Divine Fiat has announced The Complete Set, their entire collection…” MORE » Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad product news – March 2, 2010 “Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 2, 2010:  Macintosh iPod Macintosh The Mac Sale is now live with a new bundle.…” MORE » Story behind Apple startup sound revealed in interview with its creator “Perhaps one of the best known sounds in the geek universe is the startup gong that we Mac users hear almost every time we start up our machines.

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , Mac Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod/iPad product updates and announcements for March 4, 2010: Macintosh iPod Macintosh app4mac has released Projector 2.0.8 , an update to their powerful project management application for Mac OS X. Projector provides all the tools you need for professional project management. It is designed to keep track of tasks and calculate a project’s cost. Projector is an easy-to-learn, cost-effective tool that simplifies project scheduling. Projector is also coming soon on iPad and iPhone. Cocoamug Software has released CosmoPod 4.2.1 , an update to their bright application for Mac OS X. CosmoPod is a one-click simple extension to Apple Safari browser that helps you saving and converting internet media content to your Mac, iPhone, AppleTV or iPod. It’s just like an extra Download window for your media. CosmoPod supports most popular web video formats, including FLV, DivX, WMV, MMS, RM, and RTSP. This update mainly improves the application capability to easily import DVD.

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Filed under: Apple , Developer , iPhone , iPod touch , iPad Universal apps. They’re the solution for delivering your iPhone OS application to both the iPhone and the iPad and having it run natively on each without silly make-do’s like pixel doubling. It’s a way to ensure that your app “fits” each platform, providing art and interfaces that match the target screen. Or, as Apple puts it, “Developers can now start planning for universal applications, allowing them to take full advantage of the technologies found on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch with a single binary.” Right now, I’ve got a bug up my sleeve about the whole issue. I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for a lot of apps. Just because you *can* merge an iPhone app with an iPad app, and sell one product, you shouldn’t — unless the functionality is significantly the same for both platforms. Continue reading Should you be building universal apps for App Store? Should you be building universal apps for App Store? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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ThinkFlood’s latest product, the RedEye Mini, is another universal remote dongle for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but it’s interesting in that it is both more and less gainly than the iPhone Universal Remote Case we wrote about last week. Unlike the iPhone Universal Remote Case, the RedEye Mini is a small dongle that plugs into

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , iDevice Accessories Maybe you didn’t think ThinkFlood’s original RedEye IR dock was the best solution for controlling your IR gear. That’s okay, because ThinkFlood listened and is preparing to release the RedEye mini; and like their original IR solution it’s just a bit different from the competition. Instead of using the dock connector and a dongle like everyone else, the RedEye mini uses your iDevice’s headphone jack. Anyone else feeling a little deja vu? This was how Pocket PCs without built in IR added this functionality too many years ago for me to remember.  While this technology might seem a little antiquated, remember two things: IR isn’t exactly bleeding edge technology in the first place, and more importantly, your dock connection remains open. That means you can have your iDevice plugged in to a battery, a battery case or other accessory that hogs the dock connection.  This also means you don’t have to hold your iPhone upside down to use it as a remote. Yes ! The RedEye mini uses the same app as the original RedEye dock, so there are no surprises there.  Well, actually, it seems they’ve added an electronic program guide. Awesome.

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