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Five apps to help you identify birds and their beautiful songs
Spring means migration and the return of birds to many parts of North America. ...
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Agile Partners releases Lick of the Day 2.0
“Wait, who’s Brett Terpstra? Does that guy still write here?” Yes, he does, on ...
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Asymco's Horace Dediu touts record Apple Store revenues in Q1 2013
Asymco mobile industry analyst Horace Dediu is up to his number-crunching again, this time with numbers showing that ...
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File Lite, File Lite Pro for iPhone shown to have vulnerabilities
Users of iOS file management apps File Lite and ...
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Happy Owl Studio Cashbox: a beautiful hand-crafted iPad cash register
The last time I talked to the guys from Happy Owl Studio, they were busy cranking out
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Apple publishes recommendations on tax reform ahead of Senate hearing on offshore tax practice
Apple today has published its testimony proposing corporate tax reform and detailing the company’s tax practices ahead of CEO Tim Cook’s appearance at a Senate ...
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Yahoo’s new Tumblr for iOS updated with “stacks” like post type chooser, app attribution
Tumblr, which was purchased by Yahoo today for a cool $1.1 billion, received an update for iPhone and iPad today that introduces a new post ...
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Rumor Roundup: iPad 5 could weigh less than a pound, new MacBooks coming soon, and a 1.5″ OLED iWatch?
We showed you images of what we expect the fifth generation of the iPad to look like back in January, and today Digitimes reports that the ...
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US Apple Stores make record sales whatever the measurement, says new analysis
Apple’s US retail stores, which already make more money than any other store per square foot, also top the list when it comes to revenues ...
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Turkish PM visits Apple, Google & Microsoft ahead of tender for 10.6m tablets for schools
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan has visited Apple, Google and Microsoft in the run-up to a tender for 10.6 million tablets for use in Turkish ...
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How to Check an iTunes / App Store Account Balance Quickly from iOS & Mac OS X
Ever wanted to check the remaining balance of an Apple ID, so you know how much credit is remaining for iTunes, iBooks, or App Store ...
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How to Save Web Pages as PDF Files on the iPad & iPhone
One little feature that iOS really needs is the ability to natively “print to PDF” directly on the iPad and iPhone, a popular trick on ...
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How to View All Running Apps & Processes in Mac OS X
There are a variety of ways to see all applications or programs which are running on a Mac, ranging from only seeing “windowed” apps running ...
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How to Add Text to Photos Easily Using Preview in Mac OS X
Adding text to images is a fairly simple process to begin with that is made even easier with Preview, the basic image viewing app that ...
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Get a New iTunes MiniPlayer & Show Album Artwork with Songs in iTunes 11.0.3
Apple introduced an update to iTunes versioned as 11.0.3 which adds a few user interface refinements and some minor features. The update can be downloaded ...
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AT&T to Expand FaceTime Over Cellular to All Customers by Year End
In a statement to The Verge on the future of pre-loaded apps, AT&T today revealed that ...
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Apple Releases Statement Ahead of Tim Cook's Senate Appearance on Tax Policy
Apple today released a statement [PDF] ahead of Apple CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and head of tax operations Phillip A. Bullock’s
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Tumblr for iOS Gets Redesigned User Interface After Yahoo Aquisition [iOS Blog]
Following its acquisition by Yahoo, Tumblr for iOS has been updated with a redesigned user interface that offers up a brand new post type ...
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U.S. Mac Sales Flat in April as iPod Sales Continue to Slide
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today released a brief report highlighting April data from market research firm NPD looking at Apple’s U.S. Mac and iPod ...
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Apple's Revenue Per Store Visitor Hits Record High
Apple’s retail stores have been ranked as the U.S. retail chain with the highest sales per square foot for a number of years and ...
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Review: PDF Editor Pro 3 a pricey step up from Preview for PDF editing
PDF Editor Pro is a PDF editing and annotation tool from Wondershare that aspires to be a replacement for Apple’s built-in Preview app. ...
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Clearing up Mac App Store confusion
Reader Jack Sanford is being lied to by the Mac App Store and would like to do something about it. He writes: When I checked for ...
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How to sync an Android phone to your Mac
Thanks to iCloud, syncing an iPhone with a Mac is a piece of cake. But Mac users who don’t buy into the whole “one vendor ...
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The Macalope Weekly: Missed connections
You can almost see the “missed connection” personal ads these pundits would write: “You: gullible reader, looking for more information about the technology industry. Me: ...
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The Week in iPad Cases: Just keep swimming
If you enjoyed this week’s roundup of iPhone cases, check out last week’s edition, Opposites Attract.
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Apple details 'extraordinary amount' of taxes it pays in testimony to US Senate
Apple on Monday published in full the formal testimony that Chief Executive Tim Cook plans to give before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in the ...
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Apple debuts new iPhone discounts, subsidies to gain ground in India
Apple is continually trying new methods to get its products into the hands of Indian consumers, and the Cupertino company recently rolled out a range ...
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Domestic Mac sales flat in April, viewed as slight positive for Apple
The latest data from the NPD Group shows that domestic sales of Mac computers were about even year over year in the month of April, ...
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Apple's retail stores now earn record $58 per visitor
For every person who visited an Apple retail store last quarter, the company took in a record setting $57.60 in revenue, according to a new ...
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Prime minister visits Apple HQ as Turkey ponders 10.6M-tablet buy for education
Ahead of a planned purchase of more than 10 million tablets, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Apple’s campus to hear the company’s pitch ...
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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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An AppleTV TV set? Why?
For quite some time various Apple watchers have been talking about an AppleTV as an actual television set. Oh so very high end with all ...
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Platforma Messenger Bag for iPad – Review
Platforma Messenger Bag for iPad Strotter Price: $170 Strotter’s unusual Platforma Messenger Bag for iPad is basically a high quality carrying case that can be ...
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iCookbook – App Review
iCookbook Company: Publications International, Ltd. Version: 3.1 Price: $4.99 Requires: iPhone 3GS and above, iPod touch 3rd generation and above, iPad, iOS 4.3 or later. ...
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Apple publishes full testimony to be given before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee
Apple today published the company’s full testimony to be given before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee…
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Apple intros new incentives to make iPhone more affordable in India
Apple is offering a range of incentives to make its iPhone more affordable to Indian customers…
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NPD: Nearly one-third of all U.S. smartphone sales are prepaid
Year-over-year total smartphone sales increased 42 percent
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The iPhone and the death of the mid-range smartphone
Current Analysis tracks U.S. device pricing for phones and tablets…
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Bloomberg News poll: 71% say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator
When Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011…
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Thanks to Our Sponsor: Doo
It shouldn’t be so difficult to find that one document you need, but it often is. You’re stuck searching between different ...
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Screenhero: Work Together Across Screens
Undoubtedly the first time you used a real-time collaborative web tool like Google Docs, you were wowed. I definitely was, and ...
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Let Organize:Me Help You Turn Todo Into Done
In the continuing search for the perfect task management app, I’m trying out Organize:Me. More than just simple todos, Organize:Me gives ...
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Viber for Mac: Video Calling, Sync, and Easy Call Transfers
Since 2004, I’ve used Skype for free calls and instant messaging between friends, clients, and loved ones abroad. And because of ...
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Cloud Storage Without Using up Local Storage with The New ExpanDrive 3
Cloud storage is anything but a panacea for small SSDs. You might have 25Gb of iCloud storage, or 100Gb in Dropbox, ...
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The Lenmar Helix Battery Pack: Powerful, But Not Powerful Enough [Review]
External battery packs are one of the least sexy aspects of the mobile age. ...
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Fix The Multiple Purchased Books Bug In iBooks On Your iPad [iOS Tips]
When I opened iBooks on my iPad mini the other day, I tapped ...
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Apple Posts Wish List For U.S. Corporate Tax Reform
Apple CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to appear before a Senate committee tomorrow morning ...
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Samsung Unveils New High-Res Display With Higher PPI Than Retina 13-Inch MacBook Pro
It was just last Fall that Apple announced the 13-inch MacBook Pro ...
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Apple Now Makes A Record $57.60 Off Every Apple Store Vistor
Not only are Apple Stores some of the most popular retail stores ...
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U.S. Carriers Rally Around "It Can Wait" Anti-Texting Campaign
Texting while driving has become such a big problem that all four major U.S. ...
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Weekend Recap: Intel CEO on iPhone, Handbrake 0.9.9, Tresorit for Mac Teased
Aside from some rumblings of a big Yahoo! deal (we’ll get into that shortly), it was a ...
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Game Spending for iOS Outpaced 3DS, Vita in Early 2013
On the off chance that you need further evidence of mobile gaming’s rapidly changing landscape, IDC and App Annie recently released the results ...
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Free App Friday: Realtor.com Rentals
Summer is rapidly approaching, and with that comes the burden of moving. Whether your family is expanding and ...
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Overnight Recap: MacBook Air Firmware, eBay Updates, BlueHarvest 5.5
It’s our last recap of the week, which means the weekend is once again upon us! There ...
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Two Takes on Google Glass at I/O
Mark Wilson, writing for Fast Company: “Even Google’s Own Developers Won’t Be Seen Wearing Google Glass”: Those of us who believe in the future of ...
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Samsung’s Share of Android Hardware Profit
Andy Boxall, writing for Digital Trends: Analysts broke it down like this: Globally, it’s estimated the Android industry made $5.3 billion profit in the first quarter ...
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Yahoo Acquires Tumblr
Marissa Mayer, on her Tumblr: I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr! We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly ...
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All Things D: Yahoo Board Approves $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Tumblr
Kara Swisher: As part of the deal, Tumblr CEO David Karp — who got a windfall of cash from the deal — will stay at Yahoo ...
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EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’
Owen Good, Kotaku: At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn’t developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the ...
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Apple offering new incentives to make the iPhone more affordable in India
The iPhone maker has been tweaking its pricing strategy and incentive offerings in markets where smartphone ownership has only recently begun to take hold. In ...
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How iPads, apps and YouTube can be a band’s best practice tools
While OS X continues to be a starting point for my music, I find now when it comes to rehearsals, everything I need is on ...
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Games for the weekend: Skylanders Cloud Patrol
A carnival-style shooting game that resembles Fruit Ninja — except the targets are trolls, not fruit.
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Surprise: Yahoo’s mobile push is working better than you think
… according to new statistics from Onavo, which tracks actual use of mobile apps and games by “millions” of iOS users.
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Apple may not have answer for Google’s music service at WWDC
Reports indicate Apple is still working out the licensing details with music publishers for its “iRadio” service.
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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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Apple announces fifty billion downloads from App Store
Apple confirmed today that the 50 billionth app has been downloaded from the App Store. The milestone was reached when a man from Ohio, Brandon ...
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Google beats Apple to launch streaming music service
Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference today to launch a streaming music service, the snappily-titled Google Play Music All Access. The new ...
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Hadfield Space Oddity recorded on iPad using Garageband
International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield’s video of Space Oddity was recorded on an iPad using Garageband, according to his son Evan. In a discussion ...
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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 ...
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Save disk space by deleting copies of Mail attachments
By default, Mail will keep file attachments that you’ve opened or viewed in your ~/Library/Mail Downloads folder, until you delete the associated email. You can ...
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Fix for missing "Assign to..." Mission Control bug in 10.8.x
Having originally upgraded to 10.8 from 10.7, all of my applications’ desktop assignments in (now) Mission Control were already set. I recently decided to wipe ...
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Set up Facebook chat in OS X Messages
You can set up Facebook chat in Messages. Since Facebook uses Jabber, all you need to know is your user name, and you can create ...
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Disable swipe gesture to go back and forward in Chrome
A Stack Exchange user asked a question a while back: is it possible to turn off the swipe gesture in Chrome that goes back ...



