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Coming Attractions: Miracle at St. Anna

Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna tells the story of four black American soldiers caught behind enemy lines in World War II. The film opens next Friday. Catch the trailer on our site, and if you’re in New York on the 25th, hear filmmaker Spike Lee discuss his new film at theApple Retail Store, SoHo. In fact, SoHo hosts 3 directors on 3 successive nights: Fernando Mereilles (“Blindness”), Lee, and Guy Ritchie (“RocknRolla”).

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iPhone News: 3G speed throttling, T-Mobile sales figures, AT&T data plans

Latest iPhone News: Monday 26 August 2008

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3G Issues

There have been some interesting developments regarding the performance of the 3G iPhone over the weekend. Tests on the handset suggest that it is “completely normal”, in comparison with a Nokia N73 and Sony Ericsson P1. There’s a strong possibility that the mobile network is playing a part in 3G performance. In anecdotal testing, Rogers had the fastest connection for iPhone users, while Orange has admitted speed capping French iPhone users to a fraction of optimum 3G speeds. Apparently, though, this affects all French 3G phones, not just the iPhone…

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iPhone News: white iPhones, international launches, Earthscape, Bose SoundDock II, lawsuit

Latest iPhone News: Friday 22 August 2008 More white 16GB iPhone 3Gs in UK For those who really care, the Carphone Warehouse has announced that it has stocks of the 16GB white iPhone 3G, so if you were waiting for…

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A look at WritingPad

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As of now WritingPad is unavailable from the App Store, but before it disappeared I had a chance to install it and test it out. Bottom line? The “guessing” it does worked surprisingly well, but a few glitches (like trying to add a question mark, which you’ll see near the end of the video) marred the intelligence of the autocorrection.

The results of pitting the standard input versus WritingPad, however, weren’t great. I found that if I trust Apple’s built-in keyboard and autocorrect, my typing is faster. Plus, by smearing your finger around the screen the hand you’re holding the iPhone with can get fatigued. I tend to either one-finger type or use both thumbs delicately perched above the keyboard. Also, you have to think a bit more when typing with WritingPad, which sometimes messed me up as I “spelled” the words with my finger. You may type by pressing one letter at a time, however. Guesses appear three at a time below the text entry area. Moving the cursor around is harder because it doesn’t magnify the screen as Apple does (so you guess a bit). When you do finish typing you can email the text to yourself or save it inside the app.

WritingPad is a very nice tech demo, but I don’t see it usurping Apple’s virtual keyboard entry method any time soon. Perhaps a larger screen using similar technology makes sense?

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New iPhone products from Griffin Technology

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Those inventive dudes at Griffin Technology have come up with two new products for iPhones.

Griffin Technology AirCurveThe AirCurve for iPhone and iPhone 3G is a really cool idea — an amplifier that uses no power adapters or batteries. Instead, it amplifies the sound from the iPhone’s speaker using a coiled waveguide (think of an old-fashioned cheerleader megaphone wrapped around into a helix, and you’ve got the concept). The AirCurve is made of translucent polycarbonate so you can see the curving waveguide. There’s a pass-through slot so you can charge and sync your iPhone. The AirCurve is much less expensive than powered alternatives, selling for $19.99.

ClarifiThe other new product, Clarifi for iPhone 3G is an attractive iPhone 3G case with a difference. It has a built-in lens that slides into place for taking close-ups. While the normal iPhone 3G can focus up to about 18 inches away from the subject, the Clarifi’s lens can bring you in as close as 4 to 6 inches. The suggested price is $34.99. By the way, it’s not as cheesy as the telephoto lens for iPhone we covered last month.

Both products will be available in October from the Griffin Technology website and retailers.

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Mobi Products Touch Screen Stylus Pen

Mobi Products Touch Screen Stylus PenMade from special materials particularly designed for the , this stylus will let you type faster and with greater accuracy!

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Rivals: Samsung Omnia versus iPhone 3G

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The Samung i900 Omnia is a valiant attempt at a touchscreen phone. Take a look at the adverts for the handset — it’s all about the touch. How does it stack up against the iPhone 3G? Read on to find out…

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Keep track of your treks on iPhone 3G

RunKeeper ($9.99), new to the App Store, lets iPhone 3G help you keep track of your “runs, hikes and walks,” says John Biggs (nytimes.com). While you’re out, “RunKeeper displays the current pace, distance and time as well as a bar graph of the speed over time.“ Then, it “automatically uploads the data to www.runkeeper.com. Log in there to see a Google map of the route as well as the run’s total distance.”

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Getting serious about games

“Apple is serious about playing games,” opines Winda Benedetti (msnbc.com). To prove her point, she quotes, among others, Gonzague de Vallois, senior vice president of publishing at Gameloft: “We think the iPhone is the beginning of a new era for mobile gaming.” iPhone and iPod touch offer “this combination of great device, great games and a great distribution model that has proved to be revolutionary.”

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AKQA: Interactive Innovators

If content is king at global interactive agency AKQA, the Mac is the kingmaker. “The Mac is at the core of our creative process,” explains creative director Neil Robinson. “The majority of our creative and development teams use Macs, and we use Final Cut Studio to cut all our footage.” Reliable, flexible, and powerful, the Mac gives “us the creative freedom we need to stand out in this field.”

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Apple updates Remote app for iPhone, adds Genius functionality

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Apple just dropped an update for the Remote application for iPhone/iPod touch. Remote.app allows you to control any iTunes library (or Apple TV) over a local WiFi connection. According to the release notes, you will now be able to create a Genius playlist, and create/edit playlists in iTunes.

This application (and its update) is a free download from the iTunes App Store. Take a look at our gallery of screenshots below. And be sure to sound off in the comments if you notice anything different in this version!

Gallery: Remote.app 1.1

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Apple releases Remote Desktop 3.2.2

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Apple just released two updates for its Remote Desktop product. The client update and the admin update promise the following fixes:

  • Improved reliability with the Copy Items command.
  • Upgrade Client Software command now uses unicast packets for improved reliability on some networks.
  • Fixes to the Force Quit All Applications and Copy Items to Computer Automator actions.

The update is available to Mac OS X systems running 10.3.9 (or later) and ARD 3.x. You can download the updates by opening Software Update (Apple menu > Software Update) or by visiting Apple’s downloads website and downloading the installer packages.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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Today’s a big day for Steve

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Fun fact: September 16 is the day in 1985 that Steve Jobs left Apple, and also the same day in 1997 that he returned to Apple as then-iCEO.

Jobs first left after CEO John Sculley ousted him from Apple’s board of directors after both had tried to be “co-CEOs.”

Jobs also filed papers that same day in 1985 founding NeXT, the company that he intended to use as a weapon against Apple. Instead, Apple wound up acquiring NeXT for $400 million in 1996. Parts of the NeXT operating system, NeXTStep, eventually became the underpinnings of Mac OS X.

[Via Wired.]

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Today’s a big day for Steve

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Fun fact: September 16 is the day in 1985 that Steve Jobs left Apple, and also the same day in 1997 that he returned to Apple as then-iCEO.

Jobs first left after CEO John Sculley ousted him from Apple’s board of directors after both had tried to be “co-CEOs.”

Jobs also filed papers that same day in 1985 founding NeXT, the company that he intended to use as a weapon against Apple. Instead, Apple wound up acquiring NeXT for $400 million in 1996. Parts of the NeXT operating system, NeXTStep, eventually became the underpinnings of Mac OS X.

[Via Wired.]

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Apple releases Remote Desktop 3.2.2

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Apple just released two updates for its Remote Desktop product. The client update and the admin update promise the following fixes:

  • Improved reliability with the Copy Items command.
  • Upgrade Client Software command now uses unicast packets for improved reliability on some networks.
  • Fixes to the Force Quit All Applications and Copy Items to Computer Automator actions.

The update is available to Mac OS X systems running 10.3.9 (or later) and ARD 3.x. You can download the updates by opening Software Update (Apple menu > Software Update) or by visiting Apple’s downloads website and downloading the installer packages.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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7digital launches MP3 store with all 4 major labels

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7digital launched an all-MP3 digital music store featuring songs from all four major labels: Sony BMG, Universal, Warner, and EMI. The tracks are DRM-free and encoded at 320kbps.

Currently, the store is available to users in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. 7digital plans to launch stores in the U.S. and Canada in Q4.

The company reached a deal with Sony BMG — the lone holdout — bringing the store’s catalog to about four million songs. Some music was previously available in Windows Media format, and MP3 “upgrades” for those tracks will be available for free.

Only EMI has offered its catalog for iTunes Plus, Apple’s DRM-free offering, along with several smaller indie labels. The labels have had a long-term strategy of pressuring Apple by withholding DRM-free tracks while encouraging other music stores like Amazon MP3 and eMusic.

Tracks available in the 7digital store range from 79p to 99p (≈ $1.41 to $1.77), and albums are £5 (≈ $9) on up. MP3 files play on almost every digital music player made in the last 10 years, including every iPod.

[Via DistortedLoop.]

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London 2012 Olympics Blog iPhone optimized

I’ve just discovered a new blog about the London Olympics that have an iPhone version with apparently a new WordPress iPhone theme and plugin. So check it out at London 2012 News, or:

iPhone Version:

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Computer Version:

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iPhone Application Watch: Air Hockey, Gesture, Word Party Lite, OmniTuner, Enjoy Sudoku Daily Free, Midway, Pole Position: Remix

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Air Hockey

At the risk of yanking the iPhone out of your opponent’s hands, Air Hockey is a neat application which simulates those great little tables in the arcades. Of course, you’re using the relatively small screen of the iPhone, but the game features large mallets, realistic sounds, and subsequent versions should feature a “Pro” 1 player mode and improved responses. £0.59.

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Gesture

Create digital paintings from your photos with Gesture, which translates the iPhone’s movements into paint strokes using sampled colours from the photo. £2.99…

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iPhone 3G named Gadget of the Year

The readers of Stuff magazine have cast their votes, proclaiming iPhone 3G
the Gadget of the Year in the magazine’s “public vote to find the year’s best gadget,” writes Peter Griffiths (uk.reuters.com). In winning top honors, iPhone 3G outscored the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii Fit. The original iPhone,” Griffiths reports, also “won the coolest gadget prize at last year’s ceremony.”

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iPhone 3G named Gadget of the Year

The readers of Stuff magazine have cast their votes, proclaiming iPhone 3G
the Gadget of the Year in the magazine’s “public vote to find the year’s best gadget,” writes Peter Griffiths (uk.reuters.com). In winning top honors, iPhone 3G outscored the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii Fit. The original iPhone,” Griffiths reports, also “won the coolest gadget prize at last year’s ceremony.”

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App Store Pick of the Week: X-Plane 9

Fasten your seat belt. It’s time to jet away. With X-Plane 9 ($9.99), Laminar Research brings “the Gold Standard for accurate flight simulation” to iPhone and iPod touch, letting you fly your choice of 4 planes. In turbulent or calm skies. Over oceans or mountains. What’s it like to fly a plane using only your iPhone?

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VMWare Fusion 2.0 is released

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Great news for any virtualization junkies out there (I know I’m not the only one). VMWare Fusion 2.0 has just been will be released Tuesday! Fusion 2.0 is a free upgrade for all existing 1.x customers, and it adds more than 100 new features and enhancements.

[Note: VMware's product manager told us an official announcement time of 12:01am Tuesday morning, EDT; however the final version of Fusion 2.0 has not appeared on VMware's website yet as of 12:45am, as pointed out by Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch. -Ed. Update: as of 1 am EDT, the Fusion page has been revised to include the 2.0 upgrade information. -Ed.]

I’ve been using Fusion 2.0 since it first entered beta during the summer and have been very impressed with its performance and feature set. In addition to TUAW, I also write for Download Squad, where we’ve been a little bit Chrome-Crazy for the last couple of weeks. Although I have access to a few Windows machines, because all my tools for writing and screenshots and graphics are on my Mac, I’ve been using the beta and release candidate versions of VMWare Fusion 2.0 for all of my testing.

Fusion 2.0 features lots of improvements and new features, but the most significant feature, from a technology-pushing perspective, is probably the ability to run Leopard Server as a virtual machine. When Apple made the decision to allow for server virtualization right after Leopard’s release, both VMWare and Parallels announced plans to integrate that feature into their respective products. Parallels released Parallels Server back in June, targeting the higher-end enterprise market. VMWare decided to include the feature in Fusion 2.0 to give consumers a taste of the good life.

Although my year-old MacBook isn’t really the ideal platform to run a virtual instance of Leopard Server, I did give it a go with one of the RC releases and was pleasantly surprised to find I could run a stable local MAMP server off it, and it withstood a pounding from my boyfriend’s MacBook and the other media computers we have scattered around our apartment. On a loaded iMac or Mac Pro, I could see Fusion being very handy for testing or replicating a production environment.

Another new feature to Fusion 2.0, which first appeared in one of the release candidates, is a 1-year subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus. Although I personally prefer NOD32 for Windows anti-virus protection, having anti-virus software already built into the virtual machine is a great step, especially for users who might be new to virtualization and/or the Mac. There is no longer an excuse to not have some sort of protection on your Windows installs.

VMWare Fusion 2.0 is $79.99 for new users, and free for existing customers. VMWare offers a 30-day free trial, if you want to try it out before buying. You need an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher. Like all virtualization products, the more RAM you have in your machine, the easier things will go.

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed hits the App Store

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Back in July, we got our first glimpse of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the iPhone. In the demo, the game seemed to make clever (although possibly somewhat distracting) use of the touch screen. In the end, we were eager to try it out.

Today, we finally can. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is now available in the App Store [link]. As of this writing there are only four user reviews written, but each gives the game a four-star rating. It sells for $9.99US.

We’re going to begin playing with this immediately, so check back soon for our full review. Star Wars in your pocket? What more could you want?

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iPhone Applications Directory and more…

If you struggle to find what you want on the App Store, or if you want some suggestions on which free or paid applications-games you should install on your iPhone or iPod Touch, Apptism is for you, check it out:

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iPhone News: 3 snipes at O2, German VoIP banned, iPhone 2.1 jailbroken, in-house processors

Latest iPhone News: Tuesday 16th September 2008

3 claims Apple was wrong to pick O2

3, the mobile operator that never has any complaints about the quality of its network (!) has suggested that Apple was wrong to select O2 as the iPhone’s exclusive network. “The iPhone is not on the right network, a handset is only as good as its operator,” said Bernie O’Beirne at 3′s recent summer ball. The network claims that O2 has the UK’s least developed 3G network, and has also questioned its pricing policy…

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iPhone News: 3 snipes at O2, German VoIP banned, iPhone 2.1 jailbroken, in-house processors

Latest iPhone News: Tuesday 16th September 2008

3 claims Apple was wrong to pick O2

3, the mobile operator that never has any complaints about the quality of its network (!) has suggested that Apple was wrong to select O2 as the iPhone’s exclusive network. “The iPhone is not on the right network, a handset is only as good as its operator,” said Bernie O’Beirne at 3′s recent summer ball. The network claims that O2 has the UK’s least developed 3G network, and has also questioned its pricing policy…

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iPhone Application Watch: Flutter, iQualizer, iPedometer GPS, Wordsearch Unlimited, Network Utility, iMandelbrot, LondonCam, Nat Geo coming?

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Flutter

The Flutter application allows the iPhone to be used to send picture messages and geo-tagged locations to any mobile phone. In other words, it’s MMS – a feature which Apple still hasn’t made available natively. Sounds like a promising app from JuiceCaster that has had a few teething problems over launch weekend.

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iQualizer

iQualizer is an interesting little app which visually represents whatever the iPhone’s microphone picks up. The application claims that you can’t play music at the same time, though with most apps you just have to start the music first, then launch the app. In any case, unless you play music through the internal speakers or via a sound system, it’s not going to be much use to this app. Could provide a bit of fun. It’s £1.19.

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Now Appearing on iTunes: Snow Angels

You can now find the critically acclaimed Snow Angels — directed by David Gordon Green and starring Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Griffin Dunne, and Amy Sedaris — on iTunes. The film is available for rent ($3.99) or purchase ($14.99), and you can watch it in HD if you order it from Apple TV.

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iPhone 2.1 Software Update “a must-have upgrade”

“In a survey conducted by Wired.com,” relates Dylan Tweney (wired.com), “40 percent of readers report that they’re getting fewer dropped calls than they did before the update,” and “many reviewers are reporting that phone reception in general is better.” And those are just two of the reasons Tweney calls the iPhone 2.1 Software Update “a must-have upgrade.” Read more. And install the Update today.

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Now Available: Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.2

Apple today released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.2. The update allows Aperture 2 and iPhoto ’08 to support the RAW formats generated by a range of additional camera models from Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus, Samsung, and Sony. For a complete list of supported camera models, visit the Aperture 2 site.

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Seidio Innocase Holster for iPhone 3G

Seidio Innocase HolsterThe ultimate in convenience and functionality, the innovative, well-designed, and well-engineered locking swivel clip holster is the easiest way to carry and fully protect your cased iPhone 3G.

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New iPod nano “the best non-touchscreen iPod yet”

“Now’s the time to buy,” says Dan Frakes (macworld.com) of the “lightest, full-featured iPod ever.” Awarding it a 4.5 mouse rating (out of 5), he notes that iPod nano (4th generation) offers “an on-iPod version of Genius,” “Spoken Word Menus,” a “new voice-recording functionality,” “better-than estimated battery life,” “audio crossfade,” and even more features that make iPod nano “better in every way.”

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iPhone Applications: Flutter, iQualizer, iPedometer GPS, Wordsearch Unlimited, Network Utility, iMandelbrot, LondonCam, Nat Geo coming?

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Flutter

The Flutter application allows the iPhone to be used to send picture messages and geo-tagged locations to any mobile phone. In other words, it’s MMS – a feature which Apple still hasn’t made available natively. Sounds like a promising app from JuiceCaster that has had a few teething problems over launch weekend.

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iQualizer

iQualizer is an interesting little app which visually represents whatever the iPhone’s microphone picks up. The application claims that you can’t play music at the same time, though with most apps you just have to start the music first, then launch the app. In any case, unless you play music through the internal speakers or via a sound system, it’s not going to be much use to this app. Could provide a bit of fun. It’s £1.19.

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Pictures of OS X ‘mod-chip’ EFi-X in the wild

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In June, Mat wrote about the EFi-X, the internal USB-dongle that claims to allow a user to install OS X from a retail disc onto a non-Apple PC. Essentially the EFi-X is a mod-chip for certain Intel motherboards that will trick the Apple Retail discs into thinking that the hardware is Apple-sanctioned.

The product was delayed several times, and there is some debate in the hackintosh community over the ethical bona fides of the device (because there are claims, unproven as far as I can tell, that the device uses technology developed by the community), not to mention its legality.

Well, there are now reports that the product is in the wild and in the hands of at least three users. In the InsanelyMac forum, two members have reportedly received the device. The first user, who took the time to take un-boxing pictures, has not had success getting the device to boot on an unsupported MSI board (this is the list of supported motherboards), but another member claims to have the device working on his ASUS board (also not supported) without any problems.

The Incomplete News Project also has some unboxing pictures, with testing results still to come.

The complicated legal circumstances surrounding this device likely means that anyone in the US may have to buy one from an international dealer, or more realistically, contact someone in one of those countries to purchase and then send them the dongle (much like the early mod-chip process for the original PSX, you know, not that I got my friend’s brother to import one of those from Taiwan for me or anything *cough*).

This is an interesting device. If it works as claimed, it could be a cool product for hobbyist builders who want to dual-boot a truly stellar system without the limitations of a Mac Pro or iMac.

[via Engadget]

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Freeware Find: Bean

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Departing TUAW blogger Giles Turnbull caught my attention in his recent list of favorite Mac apps. At the top of his list was an application called Bean, which had the unfortunate effect of causing me to think about Rowan Atkinson’s comedy character (at right). As soon as the nausea wore off, I took a look at the app and found a lot to like.

It’s a rich text editor from developer James Hoover that is surprisingly powerful, very lean, and open source. It’s the perfect in-between text editor, nestled somewhere east of Microsoft Word and west of TextEdit. It’s small, fast, and easy to use.

Features of Bean (the app, not the Mr.) include live word count, in-depth statistics, autosaves and dated backups, page layout mode, dictionary, word completion, and in-line graphics. If you feel a need to add some functionality to Bean, the Objective-C source code is readily available.

Bean reads and writes .rtf, .rtfd, .txt, .html, and .webarchive formats, and can transparently import and export to and from .doc, .docx, .odt, and .xml formats. It can also export to .html, .pdf, .doc, and .rtf formats (the latter two with images intact).

All I can say is that I can see why Giles likes Bean. It rocks!

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iPhone News: Japan, App Store growth, iPhone growth, Opera not Safari?

Latest iPhone News: Monday 14th September 2008

Slow Japan sales

Reports suggest that Japan is another country where the iPhone 3G isn’t selling too well. Analysts believe that demand for the phone is now a third of what it was during the initial hype, when around 200,000 iPhones were sold. Japan is home to some of the most advanced cellphones in the world, and the iPhone doesn’t have some of the capabilities of other handsets, such as mobile TV. Additionally, the report suggests (perhaps surprisingly) that Japanese consumers are wary of buying online via a mobile handset, making the App Store, though unique, difficult to push…

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iPhone 2.1 Software Update now live in iTunes

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Apple has now released firmware version 2.1 via iTunes software update. It’s a hefty 237MB download, but of course you’re on a fast broadband connection anyway, right? Download screen says that iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including:..

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iPhone Application Watch: Real Soccer 2009, Blog Press, Brain Tuner, iWalk, iSign

Real Soccer 2009

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Demoed at the “Let’s Rock” event, Gameloft’s Real Soccer 2009 is a football arcade game reminiscent of EA’s FIFA games, and featuring 198 teams with real player names, 3D graphics, 12 stadiums, accelerometer support, and virtual control pad. Available for £5.99.

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App Store tops 100 million downloads worldwide

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Apple has announced that iPod touch and iPhone users have downloaded over 100 million applications from the App Store in the two months since its launch on 11th July. There are now over 3,000 applications available in the App Store, with nine in ten priced at $10 or less, and over 600 available for free. Apple has marked the event by getting soundbites from several application developers. “iPhone’s unique capabilities, easy SDK and the ability to reach an audience of millions via the App Store made this an easy development choice for us,” said John Pollard, Jott CEO. “To date, we’ve had hundreds of thousands of downloads of Jott for iPhone, which has been a major win for our company.”…

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Breaking News: iPhone gets firmware upgrade: version 2.1

Steve Jobs has just announced that the iPhone’s firmware has been upgraded to version 2.1 (from 2.0.2). It’s a free upgrade, available from the iTunes store from Friday. It will offer a number of performance improvements, better battery life, less…

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Breaking News: Thinner iPod Touch coming for Christmas

Steve Jobs has just announced that a new model of the iPod Touch will be available in time for Christmas, sporting the same screen size but a thinner body, and made with contoured stainless steel. It will feature a built-in…

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iPod nano inspires “sense of wonder and curiosity”

When he “played a movie on the iPod nano’s incredibly sharp screen,” Jeff Carlson (seattletimes.com) “saw that familiar sense of wonder and curiosity” on the faces of his lunch companions. That lunch convinced him that with its arresting display, built-in accelerometer, shake-to-shuffle mode, spoken menus, and Genius playlists, there’s “no sign of iPod fatigue with [the new iPod] nano.”

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Quick Tip of the Week: Bootable Backups

You just got a new Mac and would love to make backup copies of the DVDs that came with it. No problem. Your Mac comes with all the software you need to make copies of those DVDs. In fact, you can even use your copy of the original Install DVD to start up (or “boot) your Mac. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week on “Bootable Backups.”

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Blueant V1 Voice Controlled Bluetooth Headset for iPhone 3G, iPhone

Blueant V1 Voice Controlled Bluetooth HeadsetBlueAnt’s V1 Voice Controlled Bluetooth Headset introduces the revolutionary BlueGenie Voice User Interface, letting you control most functions with the sound of your voice. Amazingly, the headset will actually talk back to you too!

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Traitor: Closely Watched

Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and film editor Billy Fox knew exactly how they wanted Traitor to unfold onscreen. And the pair agreed, as well, about the editing solution they needed to achieve their vision. Final Cut Studio. Now in theaters, Traitor was edited entirely in HD on Macs running Final Cut Pro in a front-to-back tapeless workflow involving every Final Cut Studio application.

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Breaking News: iTunes 8 launching today

Steve Jobs has just announced the launch of iTunes 8. It will feature a number of improvements including better accessibility, browsing of music and movies, high definition TV shows, and the Genius auto-recommendation function. Genius will combine (anonymously) the musical…

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iPhone News: Firmware, Japan, India, Best Buy

Latest iPhone News: Tuesday 9th September 2008

New iPhone firmware coming today?

Along with the rumoured updates to the iPod and iTunes, it’s possible that Apple will release an upgrade for the iPhone’s firmware, taking it up to version 2.1 from 2.0.2. A full “point one” upgrade could provide more decent fixes and feature improvements. A much better push notification service for third-party applications has been expected to arrive in September. Updates to GPS navigation would also be great, and presumably if iTunes itself upgrades to version 8, with whatever features that might bring, then the iPhone software will be updated to accommodate it. (Via Information Week)…

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iPhone Application Watch: Spore Origins, Yammer, Say Where

Spore Origins Electronic Arts has released Spore Origins for the iPhone and iPod Touch, so you can finally get some evolutionary goodness going on. The official blurb lists the following exclusive features: Tilt, turn and twist your way through the…

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Found Footage: Database app for iPhone — HanDBase

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Another longtime developer of apps for Palm and Windows Mobile has been heard from! DDH Software, developer of HanDBase, announced that its flagship database app will be available for iPhone in the 4th quarter of 2008. At this time, DDH hasn’t provided pricing or an exact ship date, but it did provide the link to the YouTube video seen above.

To quote the DDH Software website, “HanDBase is a light and fast relational database manager for desktops, PDAs, and smartphones which offers data entry, searching, sorting, filtering, printing and synchronization across a wide variety of desktop computers, handheld computing devices and smartphones.”

If the YouTube video is too grainy for you, try the QuickTime movie instead (click here).

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iPhone 2.1 firmware out now

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As announced on Tuesday, the iPhone 2.1 firmware is out now, downloadable via iTunes.

According to Apple’s website, updates include:

  • Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
  • Significantly better battery life for most users
  • Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
  • Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
  • Faster installation of 3rd party applications
  • Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
  • Improved performance in text messaging
  • Faster loading and searching of contacts
  • Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
  • Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages (in case you missed the beep the 1st time)
  • Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
  • Genius playlist creation

To get the update, connect your iPhone to your computer, load up iTunes 8 and click “Check for Update.”

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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