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Hands-on with the Kensington USB 3.0 Docking Station with Dual DVI/HDMI/VGA Video (Giveaway!)
The popularity of Apple’s MacBook Pro and Air laptops is one of the reasons ...
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Caturday: Me-WoW!
We don’t have a name for this week’s Caturday model, but owner Baz Francis of Adelaide, South ...
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iOS-only OnTrees hopes to be the Mint.com of the UK
I’ve been attending a lot of meetings with various London-based startups ...
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PureShot is a full featured iOS camera app
PureShot, a US$1.99 universal app, takes a very shooting-oriented approach to photography on ...
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Daily iPhone App: Combo Crew does beat-em-up on a touchscreen
Combo Crew is an interesting experiment that just showed up this week on iOS. Beat-em-ups and fighting ...
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Apple seeds OS X 10.8.4 beta build 12E55 to developers
A little over a week since the previous build, Apple has seeded OS X 10.8.4 beta 12E55 to developers. Once again, the build contains no ...
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9to5Toys Last Call: $50 Logitech Solar Keyboard for iPad (refurb), App Sales Galore, $80 Logitech UE Bluetooth speaker, more
From 9to5Toys.com: A large majority of the deals we cover each day come from a variety of ‘Daily Deal’ websites or are so popular that they don’t ...
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Apple trolls us with ‘iWatch’ tease in latest iPhone music ad
Here’s an amusing little image for your Friday: the screenshot above is a clip from Apple’s newest “Music Every Day” ad, which was posted on ...
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FDA begins cracking down on medical diagnosis apps starting with ‘uChek’ iPhone urinalysis app
Bloomberg reports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is launching a first of its kind inquiry into medical diagnosis apps starting with the ‘uChek’ urine ...
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How to Change the Country for iTunes & App Store Accounts
Country association with an Apple ID, and thus the App Store and iTunes Store, can be changed easily. This allows access to content and apps ...
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“Music Every Day” is Apple’s Newest iPhone Commercial
Apple has started to run a new television ad for the iPhone 5, titled “Music Every Day.” The commercial follows people listening to music while ...
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How to Clear Call History on the iPhone
It’s really easy to delete calls from the iPhone call history log, and you can get quite specific in the process. You can delete a ...
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How to Enable a Hidden Debug Menu in Photo Booth for Mac OS X
Photo Booth is the goofy picture taking application in OS X that can take normal shots or apply a bunch of weird effects to distort ...
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Quick Fix iPhone Stuck in “Headphones” Mode & Speakers Not Working
Ever had your iPhone get stuck in Headphone mode? The symptoms are fairly obvious; you go to change the volume level and the little volume ...
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Working Apple 1 Computer Sells for Record Auction Price of $671,400
The New York Times reports that a working Apple 1 computer has sold at auction in Germany for a record $671,400, breaking the ...
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OS X 10.8.4 Build 12E55 Seeded to Developers [Mac Blog]
As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple today seeded build 12E55 of OS X 10.8.4 to developers. The release comes nine days after the previous
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Apple Removes Download Options From Quicktime Trailers Website
It appears that Apple has begun quietly phasing out its trailer download options from the trailers.apple.com website, effectively eliminating 1080p trailer availability. ...
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Automatic Connected Car System Delayed Until August [iOS Blog]
Automatic introduced its Automatic Link connected car system in March of this year, promising to ship out the app and the Bluetooth adapter ...
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iPhone Urinalysis App Draws U.S. Government Scrutiny
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent a letter to BioSense Technologies over its iPhone uChek urinalysis system, asking why its medical app ...
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The Macalope Weekly: Business time
That’s right, it’s business time! And by that the Macalope sadly means trying to figure out why business folks never get Apple. Sorry for any ...
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The Week in iPad Cases: Golden slumbers
If you enjoyed this week’s roundup of iPad cases, check out last week’s edition, Just Keep Swimming.
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The Week in iOS Apps: Music all around you!
Like music? Like making it? Discovering new artists? Figuring out who the heck is singing that song on the TV commercial? We’ve got you covered ...
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Horace Dediu's four questions for Tim Cook
The ever sharp tech analyst has four incisive questions for the Apple CEO ahead of Cook’s appearance at next week’s D11 conference. (asymco.com)
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Bugs & Fixes: iTunes 11.0.3 update improves app updating
Along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, the recently updated iTunes 11.0.3 introduces several interface tweaks. For my money, the most welcome ...
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iPad shipments could see first ever year-on-year decline in Q2, analyst says
Due to a combination of seasonality and heightened competition from Android device makers, shipments of Apple’s iPad may see a year-on-year drop for the first ...
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Google's Motorola issues second appeal of dismissed ITC case against Apple
Motorola has given notice to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that it will be contesting the International Trade Commission’s dismissal of ...
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iPhone urinalysis app draws scrutiny from FDA
Biosense Technologies’ uChek system turns Apple’s iPhone into a capable urinalysis device, and now the Food and Drug Administration is saying that it may need ...
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South Australia's first Apple Store draws line hours ahead of opening [update: photos and video]
While Apple’s latest retail outlet in Australia isn’t scheduled to open for another three hours, customers eager to get into the region’s first Apple Store ...
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Best Buy to offer $50 off all iPhone 5 & 4S models starting Sunday
Starting this Sunday, electronics retailer Best Buy will be offering $50 off the purchase of any new iPhone model with a service contract, marking a ...
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The Promise of Cinnamon – TechFan Podcast #120
Download or listen here Subscribe in iTunes Topics include the XBOX ONE, UFO and Big Foot sightings, subsidizing internet connectivity and computers, and Tim reviews ...
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The J-Men Show – MyMac Podcast #458
Download and listen here Subscribe in iTunes Before We start I’d like to say RIP Tim Verpoorten he was a massive influence on me when ...
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Mac Kung Fu – Book Review
Mac Kung Fu, Second Edition – Over 400 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for Apple OS X Author: Keir Thomas Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf Price: ...
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Double Vision – TechFan Podcast #119
Download the show here Subscribe in iTunes Google Glass is the discussion this week, as well as Tim and David disagreeing on the state of ...
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Mac Hacks – Book Review
Mac Hacks - Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X Author: Chris Seibold Publisher: O’Reilly Media Price: US $24.99 (print) | US $19.99 ...
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Four key ways the Apple Store has revolutionized retail
There’s no doubting that Apple’s iOS devices and Macs are popular…
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Apple’s OS X 10.8.4 to deliver WiFi compatibility, FaceTime fix, 802.11ac, and more
What’s inside Apple’s OS X 10.8.4 12E55…
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Digging in on the Church of Market Share
iOS is what you get when you try to make the best products and maximize the number of people who use them…
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Taxing Apple just taxes you
In reality, companies pay zero taxes…
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Apple unlikely to settle U.S. e-book price-fixing case
Apple (AAPL) is under pressure to settle a civil antitrust case…
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Minbox: the Fastest Way to Share Large Files, Privately
Email nailed communications, and tiny file sharing. Dropbox nailed syncing folders between colleagues. CloudApp and Droplr nailed small file sharing. But ...
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The Best Code Editors for Your Mac in 2013
Web development — and app development — is an ever-growing industry. Over at ThemeForest, there are thousands of website themes available ...
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Spotdox: Take Dropbox Anywhere
I’m a big fan of Dropbox, but I don’t think it’s necessarily the easiest to use of the various cloud storage ...
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Weekly Poll: Do You Own a Game Console?
Do You Own a Game Console? It’s the season for game console news, with both Sony and Microsoft recently unveiling their ...
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The Best Apps for Mobile Mac Users
Earlier this year, I made the move to a MacBook Pro being my primary machine after years of having a desktop ...
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Smart Driving Assistant ‘Automatic’ Delayed Until August
Automatic, the California-based startup that turns the iPhone into your own driving assistant, had ...
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Keep Your Smartphone Charged With The PowerBar [Deals]
If you’ve been wishing for an easy way to charge your smartphone ...
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Ending Soon: The Name Your Own Price Adventure Gamer Bundle [Deals]
All work and no play makes any computer user a dull user. That’s ...
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Five Useful Tips To Master iBooks On Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch [Feature]
Apple’s iBooks provides one of the best, most accessible ...
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Apple TV Vs. Xbox One And Tim Cook Goes To Washington On Our All-New CultCast
This week on The CultCast: Apple Chief Tim Cook brings his Southern charm to ...
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Apple Cuts Prices on Refurbished iPad Mini, iPad 4 Units
Apple’s anticipated reveals of new iPad hardware may only be a couple of months weeks away (unless they shock us all and reveal them at ...
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iOS 7: 30 Things We Want to See at WWDC 2013
It’s been six years since we first laid eyes on Apple’s iconic vision for the smartphone home screen, and after dozens of iterations ...
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Free App Friday: Attack of the Knock-Offs Pt. 1
In the shadow of the dearly departed Skyview Drive-In Theater, Santa Cruz’s weekend flea market was another bit of my youth’s paradise. Between all of ...
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AT&T Adding LTE/HSPA+, iPhone Support to GoPhone Prepaid Service
AT&T’s prepaid GoPhone service and the iPhone have always had a complicated relationship — mostly because the carrier ...
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App Recap: 1Password 4 Mac Beta, Units 2.0, Mailbox Goes Universal
Whether you use a Mac, iPad or iPhone, the last 24 hours or so have produced some welcome ...
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Nozbe
My thanks to Nozbe for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Nozbe is a tool that helps busy professionals and teams organize time and manage ...
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Digging in on the Church of Market Share
This whole article from Jay Yarow is weak. He disparages John Kirk’s widely-cited Techpinions piece on Android market share, but addresses none of Kirk’s ...
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Mailbox for iPad
Even though I don’t use it (because it’s Gmail-centric, rather than a general IMAP client), I greatly admire the design of their iPhone app. This ...
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‘The Making of Kubrick’s 2001’
Stanley Kubrick: “I don’t like to talk about 2001 much because it’s essentially a nonverbal experience. Less than half the film has dialogue. It attempts to ...
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Benedict Evans: ‘On Market Share’
Benedict Evans: However, there’s a rather important problem with looking at the data like this: there is no such thing as a “smartphone market”. Or rather, ...
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How to create your own audiobooks
For authors who want to use their own home equipment to narrate an audio version of their own books, or if you want to record ...
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Games for the weekend: Dude Perfect
Inspired by the real world YouTube sensation of the same name, this game uses clouds, buildings, trucks, balloons, fences and even flying saucers as obstacles ...
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Changes ahead: more details on how iOS 7 will look
Apple is said to be planning new looks for basic iOS apps that are mostly black and white and uniform in look. Functions like slide-to-unlock ...
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Why you should do your own mobile app store research before buying a phone
Canalys reports the mobile app gap is still big when it comes to Windows Phone and BlackBerry offering the top titles. But a closer look ...
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Don’t forget these apps when packing for your Disney trip
Know before you go: the best iOS apps for planning for, getting around and navigating the lines at Disney World.
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Apple confirms WWDC keynote for 10 June
Apple has confirmed that it will kick-off its Worldwide Developers’ Conference with a keynote speech on Monday 10 June. It hasn’t said who will deliver ...
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Analyst: Apple iWatch not a watch and won’t ship til 2014
Apple’s much talked about iWatch is on the way, but won’t ship until late 2014, according to one analyst. Perhaps more surprisingly, it won’t be ...
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Tim Cook defends Apple tax arrangements at Senate hearing
Tim Cook was grilled by US Senators today over allegations that Apple was the ‘Holy Grail of tax avoidance.’ During the hearing, Cook claimed that ...
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Yahoo buys Tumblr as users seek sanctuary in WordPress
Yahoo confirmed today that it had shelled out a hefty $1.1bn (£723m) for content platform, Tumblr and, perhaps in acknowledgement of what has happened to ...
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Tim Cook hints about US-built Mac
Tim Cook has again talked about the Mac Apple will build in the US later this year. The Apple CEO told US politics website, Politico ...
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Create secure passwords with Siri
Siri’s ability to access Wolfram Alpha lets you access a huge amount of interesting data by talking to an iOS device. One useful thing ...
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Put Mac to sleep with Drafts on iOS
Agile Tortoise’s Drafts is a nifty tool for writing texts and doing things with them on an iOS device. I use it mostly for ...
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Use Flickr as a cloud drive
Flickr has announced that all users will now have 1 TB of storage for free. With that much space, surely it would be interesting ...
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Quick way to get artwork from currently playing iTunes track
iTunes makes it easy to retrieve the artwork from the currently playing song. Just drag & drop the artwork displayed in the iTunes LCD (the ...
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Control iTunes AirPlay streaming with AppleScript
iTunes 11.0.3 provides AppleScript support for controlling AirPlay devices. Below is a basic script that illustrates how AirPlay devices can be selected and applied using ...



