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Oct

Microsoft Store Looks Eerily Similar to Another Store

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If you’ve ever been to an Apple store, you’ll recognize the new Microsoft store. Wood floors – check White walls – check Employees with T-Shirt and black pants – check Tables in the center with notebooks – check Employees with lanyards – check Ad with tons of app icons on a white background – check They even open the stores the same way. With clapping employees giving high fives. We half expect to see iPhones being sold. This is your grand plan Microsoft? To copy Apple in every way possible? Oh wait…

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Oct

Metal Detector App for iPhone – It Actually Works!

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Developer Patrick Giudicelli decided to take the compass on the iPhone and use it to help us figure out who’s bringing weapons to the sales meeting. The Metal Detector ! app is $.99 and is available now. [iTunes link] The app detects ferromagnetic metals like steel and iron using the iPhone’s built-in compass feature. We don’t have any guns at work today–Thursday’s are knife day–but the app did detect the metal in our staplers, wire in-boxes, and random metal external drives. Speaking of knife day, because the knife on my desk is stainless steel, the app couldn’t detect it. Stainless steel is usually an alloy metal that isn’t magnetic. Which means I can continue my stabby ways without fear of detection.

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Oct

Video Concept Brings Exposé to the iPhone

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Ever wish the wonderful Exposé feature on the Mac could find its way over to the iPhone? Well, a Swedish design firm did, and they made a video about how it could possibly work. In the video, when you tap the Home button, you’re brought to a screen that features a search bar and the multiple Home Screens on the iPhone. We’d guess that it would work just like Spaces/Exposé on the Mac does in that you could move stuff around and rearrange the Home Screens, etc. While it would be nice to see an on-screen implementation of the iTunes-like Home Screen manager, we would much rather see other important features like the ability to stream live video over the AT&T network without having to connect to Wi-Fi. Via Cult of Mac

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Sep

Microsoft Also Has a Secret Tablet Project, But Get This — It Has a Pen!

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Un-fuckin-believable. Like Apple, Microsoft is also secretly developing a multitouch tablet, according to this report on Gizmodo. But where Apple’s device will be designed for your fingers, Microsoft’s includes a pen! WTF? Is this the nineties? Has Microsoft learned nothing from the iPhone at all? Yeah, Apple’s tablet will also support a pen. For detailed graphics work,

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Sep

Sony Ericsson Introduces Motion-Sensitive Earbuds

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The scenario is familiar: you’re rockin’ out to your favorite tunes and you have to answer a phone or converse with someone, requiring you to pause the iPod, remove an earbud, then the reverse to get back to the music. Apple took a stab at easing this annoyance by including a pause and volume switch

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Sep

Report: Microsoft’s Cloning of Apple’s Stores Continues With Hiring of Apple Staff

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Microsoft is attempting to hire Apple retail managers to staff its new stores, Jim Dalrymple of The Loop reports. Citing anonymous sources, The Loop says managers are being offered better money and in some cases, relocation expenses. They are then encouraged to recruit their former colleagues with similar incentives. The strategy seems to be in line with

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Aug

Bring out your dead! App rejected? Roll again, adventurer

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Apple , App Store If you’ve had an app rejected by Apple in the past and it didn’t actually involve nekkid pictures or you think it did not violate App Store policies (yes, realizing those policies can be vague at times), try submitting that app again. It appears to be a season of reconciliation, and it’s time Apple got this right. TechCrunch wrote (a couple of weeks ago) that the developers of the Rising Card app were happily surprised when none other than Phil Schiller intervened on their behalf and got their app approved . Great! We’re hearing similar stories of previously delayed or rejected apps getting a second going-over. So all we need now is a senior VP from Apple to jump in every time there’s a minor discrepancy or some completely foolish misunderstanding of policy and implementation, right? Somehow I doubt this will scale. Phil is no doubt a ball of energy, but he can’t power the entire App Store approval process — which I’m guessing is getting a bit of an overhaul right now, but that’s my guess. For all I know Phil just cloned himself and this will all just go away as Phils 1-99 take care of business. Speaking of business, if you have had an app rejected and Sir Phil hasn’t rode in on his horse to save the day, we want to hear about it in the comments below. Who knows

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Jul

Finance Websites Briefly Claim 40-Point AAPL Gains

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This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp . This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp. A bit of fun, here. Multiple websites and stock reporting services today briefly misreported that modest gains in Apple’s stock today (2 points as of 11 a.m.) was actually a titanic leap of 40 points, or more than 33 percent of its gain. As submitting reader SBI notes: “WTF? Just checked AAPL

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Jul

iPhone Weekly Digest: Revised Classics, Parachutists, Wireless iPhone Drives, and Virtual Tools

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This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp . This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp. It’s Friday and it’s time for our new weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac. APP OF THE WEEK Parachute Panic: Fun rescue game, akin to swipe-based G&W Parachute – drawn with a biro. Infectious music. 4/5 $0.99 http://is.gd/1F76A Grunts: Simplified Cannon

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Jul

Go Retro-Fabulous with Happy Mac iPhone Case

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This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp . This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp. This handmade iPhone cover enlists an Apple icon born in the early 1980s to protect your smart device. The gray felt case sporting a Happy Mac face is 5.125″ high x 3.25″ wide, so it should fit all iPhone models. I’d buy it just for the tiny, embroidered Apple rainbow symbol in

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