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Ninja Theory partners with Chillingo to publish Fightback
Ninja Theory is an excellent game developer based in the UK that’s produced Enslaved: Odyssey to the ...
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Apple cuts prices on refurbished iPad mini, iPad 4
Apple has further reduced the prices of refurbished iPad minis and fourth-generation iPads. The mini is ...
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Wake Alarm wants you to get out of bed ... now!
Being the sucker that I am for well-designed user interfaces, I was immediately intrigued ...
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Friday Favorite: Type2Phone
Type2Phone (US$4.99) is one of the most practical tools in my development ...
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Judge reportedly leaning towards DoJ in Apple e-book case
In less than two weeks, Apple will head to trial over allegations that ...
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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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Apple cuts prices again on refurbished iPads
From 9to5Toys.com: Apple this morning dropped prices across the board on iPads in its refurbished section of the online Apple Store as noted by MacRumors. We’ve ...
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HP expands Mac-cloning design approach across all of its latest notebooks
HP appears to be taking its If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em design philosophy to something of an extreme with the new HP Envy notebook. A ...
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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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Use FileVault to Get Full Disk Encryption in Mac OS X
FileVault is an amazing disk level encryption feature that comes with Mac OS X. When it has been enabled, it encrypts everything, all disk contents, ...
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How to Change the Dock Indicator Lights Color in Mac OS X
The color indicators in the Mac OS X Dock provide an easy way to tell what apps are running just by glancing at the Dock. ...
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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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Best Buy to Discount iPhone by $50 Beginning Sunday [iOS Blog]
Best Buy is launching a new four week promotion that will drop the price of new iPhone ...
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Skycore Creates Platform for Passbook Delivery Via MMS [iOS Blog]
Skycore, a marketing and developer support firm, has introduced a new feature to its services platform to allow developers to send Passbook passes ...
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Apple Slashes Prices on Refurbished iPad Mini and iPad 4 Models
Apple today significantly reduced prices on refurbished models of the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad, with all models now carrying approximately 15% discounts ...
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More Details on Jony Ive's Flat iOS 7 Design: Heavier on Black and White
9to5Mac shares more details on Jony Ive’s redesign for iOS 7, noting that not only will ...
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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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Review: Battle with comic legends in Injustice: Gods Among Us for iOS
Comic book characters have so far struggled to score a smash hit on a mobile platform, with few titles proving worthy of the Marvel and ...
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Mac Gems: Eye-Friendly is a handy resolution switcher for Retina MacBooks
Jörg Jacobsen’s $5 Eye-Friendly (Mac App Store link) is the third resolution-switching utility for the Retina MacBook Pro that I’ve looked at, after ...
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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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Rains once more cause damage at Apple's Fifth Avenue NY store
Weather woes continue at Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York City, as rain is once again seeping into the retail location, and now ...
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Haswell chips could bring 50% more battery life to Apple's next-gen MacBooks
The next generation in Apple’s MacBook line could see 50 percent greater battery life thanks to the processors expected to go into them, according to ...
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Verizon Cloud iPhone backup software launches on Apple's App Store
Verizon this week launched a new iPhone application for its subscribers that gives access to the carrier’s cloud-based syncing and backup service.
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New service delivers passes for Apple's Passbook via text message
Users of Apple’s Passbook feature for iOS have a new option for getting tickets, coupons, and more delivered to their devices, as Skycore has launched ...
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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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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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Tim Cook: Apple’s quiet leader
The private man, who grew up and went to college in Alabama, has given little away about his life outside Apple…
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Why Waze is a hot takeover target
There have been rumors for the past few months that a big tech firm…
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Why Apple’s next-gen Macs will go to waste
Next month, Apple is expected to unveil upgraded Macs…
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Steve Jobs and family have been donating to charity for more than two decades
In Silicon Valley, people get very rich, very fast…
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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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HP Wants You To Believe That Its New Laptops Were Designed By Apple
PC makers have been copying the Mac for years, but every now and then ...
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The FDA Is Worried About You Using The iPhone For Urinalysis
The FDA has gone after Biosense, a health startup that makes uCheck, an automated ...
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Smarter Stand Clips: Turn Your Apple Smart Cover Into An iPad Stand [Deals]
If you own an iPad with a Smart Cover or Case, then ...
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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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Fifth Avenue Apple Store Roof Springs A Leak, Again [Video]
Apple is having some trouble with its signature store on 5th Avenue in ...
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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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Unofficial Google Music App for iOS Adds Support for All Access Subscriptions
Google may be the enemy in the eyes of many iOS users, but it’s hard to deny the ...
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Overnight Recap: WWDC 2013 Keynote, Evernote Reminders, HTC First Pause
We’re heading into a three-day weekend for Memorial Day here in the United States, so we’ll be taking ...
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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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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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Android and iOS Are Both Winning
Virtual Pants: People often forget that Google and Apple are playing the same game with different goals in mind. Apple strives to maximize profitability in hardware ...
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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 ebook antitrust trial set for 9-12 days in early June
Apple and the federal government met on Thursday for a final hearing before their trial, which is set to begin on June 3, and features ...
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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 ...



