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- TUAW Tip: Get your animated slideshows to MobileMe
Filed under: iLife, Multimedia, Video, Tips and tricks, MobileMe
For all the things Apple does right, there are some strange decisions in the integration of iPhoto and MobileMe. iPhoto has a wonderful way to create animated slideshows with music and professional looking transitions and you can look at them all day on your Mac, or send them to your iPhone or AppleTV. But things get ugly when you want to post them on the web for family and friends using MobileMe. It's baffling, but there is no direct way to upload an animation you've created to MobileMe, even though you can easily send stills or even iMovie videos to the web.
Well, it can be done, but it's a non-intuitive work around.
First, create your slide show in an iPhoto folder the usual way. Then hit the "Export" button on the lower right of the iPhoto screen. From there, you can determine the size of the QuickTime movie you want to make. If it's for the web, I'd suggest the large size.
The movie will render, and then be placed in your iPhoto Slideshows folder inside the Pictures folder. From there, you have a couple of options, none of which are well documented: One way is to open your newly created movie in the latest version of QuickTime. Then from the Share menu, select "MobileMe gallery" from the options presented (you'll get the screen you can see in the thumbnail above). Another way to go is to is to import the movie into iMovie first, and then export it out to MobileMe from there. You can also drag the movie back into iPhoto (and yes, I know this is nutty) and then click the MobileMe icon to upload it there.
Why can't you do this directly from iPhoto? Search me. It should be there -- maybe we'll see it in the app's next version. If you have another method to do this let us know.TUAWTUAW Tip: Get your animated slideshows to MobileMe originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - ION iType brings a full-size keyboard to the iPhone
Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Portables, iPhone
So far, only the jailbreakers have been able to pair up a Bluetooth keyboard with their iPhone, but ION is working on a hardware solution -- they're showing off what's basically a dock at CES that has a full-size keyboard connected to it. Very interesting. Of course, it makes the iPhone a lot bigger (though their marketing says it's for travelers who want a little something less than a full laptop computer -- if only there was a device released to fill that need), but it's also battery-charged, so it'll recharge your handheld while allowing you to type out emails and messages on a full keyboard.
The price is supposed to be "slightly more than $100," and a release is set for the second quarter of 2010. If you've wanted to use a full-size keyboard with the iPhone but haven't gone for the jailbreak, we'll keep an eye on the release for you.TUAWION iType brings a full-size keyboard to the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple seizes 16 domain names from squatterApple dropped the hammer on a domain squatter the other day, reclaiming sixteen different domain names in one fell swoop. The company filed a complaint a while back against a guy named Daniel Bijan, who didn't bother to fight his case at all (not that he has one), and the result earlier this week gives them the rights to all of them. They run the gamut from iphonecheap.com to macbookpro.com (how did Apple not own that one?), and as of this writing, we couldn't find any that were actually being used by Apple yet -- they all seem to point to either a blank Apache page or a simple domain placeholder.
And as you may have noticed, there are no secrets here -- macfriend.com is probably just a stab in the dark on the part of the domain squatter, and ipodsbaratos.com means "iPods cheap" in Spanish. Just Apple reclaiming some of their rightful web space.TUAWApple seizes 16 domain names from squatter originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - CES Watch: More tales from the iLounge
Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, App Store
Another day at CES 2010, another round of new iPhone, iPod, and Mac-related accessories. We're putting them all together in one post -- it's like you're on the show floor, without the terrible AT&T reception.
- iLive is introducing a whole slew of new speakers and micro speaker systems.
- Case-Mate has some cases with charging features, including a pretty slick-looking induction charger panel.
- iWave's also got four new collections of cases, speakers, and headphones to introduce at the convention.
- The Cignias NAO Symphony is a nice looking speaker dock with a strange feature: the ability to control the dock with a second iPhone or iPod touch. You can also stream music to it over WiFi or Bluetooth, and the unit will run you a hefty $299.
- The Phubby will keep your iPhone attached to your wrist, but that looks pretty bad for circulation.
- Toktumi showed off an app that will supposedly add a second phone number to your iPhone.
- Engadget went hands-on with the L5 remote dongle that we talked about the other day.
- SRS is releasing a new iWow adapter -- it's supposed to make music, movies, and TV sound better on your iPhone.
- And finally, Targus is showing off fingerprint blockers to keep the prints off of your devices.
TUAWCES Watch: More tales from the iLounge originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Burglars going after LA Apple Store customers
Filed under: Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Security
I better be careful next time I walk out of my Apple Store here in Santa Monica -- apparently burglars are targeting Apple Store customers here in the Los Angeles area. Over 100 customers have apparently been targeted after leaving the store and keeping a computer or other purchase in their car. The thieves wait for customers to walk away from Apple Store bags in their car, either at home or at another store, and then they break in and take them. For some reason, no computers have yet been returned, either, which makes cops think that they're possibly being "shipped out of the country or fenced right away." But of course that would require an organized ring, and police aren't even sure these are all related yet.
How to prevent this from happening to you? Don't leave an expensive computer unattended in your car (duh), or just make the Apple Store the last stop on your list. I've made a few pricey purchases while driving around out here (most recently, I picked up a PS3), and no matter what the neighborhood, I didn't feel safe about leaving it unattended. Even when I'm just carrying my iPod around, I always lock it out of sight in the glovebox before parking the car. As with all of these types of situations, a little bit of care goes a long way.TUAWBurglars going after LA Apple Store customers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple prepping new prototype retail store in Palo Alto, California?
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Apple may be moving its store in downtown Palo Alto, CA to a new, larger space that would be "a new prototype for the company." Planning documents quoted by the newspaper describe a store that has a completely transparent facade at street level and huge interior skylights. There will be so much daylight in the stores that trees can be grown inside the building.
The store is planned for 340 University Avenue, where a Z Gallerie furniture store was formerly located (see photo at right). The architectural review board for Palo Alto voted 3 - 0 in favor of allowing the project to move forward.
According to the article, the architectural firm involved in the new store is Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. This firm designed the Apple flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, which is a huge glass cube above ground level with the store located beneath the cube. Apple has declined to comment about the proposal, and the applicant for architectural approval was not specifically named, but the architectural review board chair, Alexander Lew, says that "a lot of people have kind of guessed" that the tenant is Apple.
The developers sent the city a note stating that "The proposed store is a new prototype for the applicant. Fully half the function of the store serves to provide education and service to business as well as customer patrons in addition to product sales. The store is a commons for the applicant's community to gather."
The memo continues to say that the glass storefront "dissolves the boundary that traditional store facades create. By not breaking the horizontal ground plane of the sidewalk with opaque wall or landscape element, for example, the street is made part of the store's interior; the pedestrian is in the store before entering it."TUAWApple prepping new prototype retail store in Palo Alto, California? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Google Chrome for Mac (finally) gets Extension support
Filed under: Software
Exciting news for Mac-using Chrome lovers: the latest dev-channel build of Google Chrome (finally) includes support for extensions, among other new features. Similar to Firefox Add-ons, Chrome Extensions allow 3rd-party developers to add new functionality to the browser. There's a decent collection of Extensions available already at Google's Extensions Gallery, although not all of them will work with the Mac version. Interested developers can dive into the documentation on creating new extensions.Additional features include built-in support for bookmark syncing, as well as the ability to "pin" tabs with just their favicon showing. It seems like a big jump in bringing the Mac version of Chrome up to feature parity with other platforms, which is great to see. Remember, these features are in the bleeding-edge dev channel, you won't find them (yet) in the main (likely more stable) beta download.
Side note: there's a continuing issue with Chrome on my MacBook Pro where most common web fonts show up garbled. It's only (apparently) fixable by restarting the font server (
atsutil server -shutdown) before launching, but returns soon after. It might be related to FontAgent Pro, or maybe something horribly wrong with my font cache (which has been cleared and rebuilt with no results), I'm not sure. Until this one is fixed, I'm starting Chrome with a shell script that stops and then pings the font server before launching Chrome. It's not a pretty solution, and I sincerely hope I see a fix for this one soon. If you've got a solution, sound off in the comments![via Lifehacker]
TUAWGoogle Chrome for Mac (finally) gets Extension support originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Candelair IR driver addresses Apple remote issues in Snow Leopard
Filed under: Bugs/Recalls, Freeware, Snow Leopard
As we wait on the threshold of 10.6.3, there are still some hiccups and interesting issues in Snow Leopard that might make your life a bit more difficult (as Aron mentioned recently). In particular, getting your Apple Remote to behave properly with all the apps that it's supposed to control may be an exercise in frustration.
In the case of my unibody MacBook Pro, I couldn't get the machine to recognize any remote commands at all - even after verifying that the batteries were fresh (by looking for infrared flashes via the iSight camera) and trying to pair/unpair the remote. I wasn't alone; there's a five-page thread on Apple's discussion boards detailing a litany of woes with 10.6.x and remote use, with many reports of Front Row overriding remote commands destined for other apps like EyeTV.
Good news, though: even if the upcoming OS update doesn't clear up the remote issues, there's a fine & free solution right now. The Candelair driver, provided by the developers of Remote Buddy, installs simply and works like a charm. You can disable/enable the driver via the provided preference pane, or activate a legacy compatibility mode to help old apps behave as expected. For me, I'm just happy that my remote is working again.TUAWCandelair IR driver addresses Apple remote issues in Snow Leopard originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Friday Favorite: Snippets
Filed under: Software, Reviews, Friday Favorite
Welcome to Friday Favorites! Every Friday, one of us will get all sloppy over an app, web service, or Mac feature that makes us grin like an idiot every time we use it. This week, Brett tells us about his favorite new snippet manager.
If you write code, you probably reuse blocks of it. Whether you're working in HTML, CSS, AppleScript, Objective-C ... it's all code, and a really well-written chunk of it deserves to be used again. You can put a few of your most commonly used snippets into TextExpander, sure, but the biggest problem is finding that function you know you wrote last year but haven't used since. This common little conundrum has given rise to some very elegant applications that aim to solve this and other related problems.
There have been a few great options lately for snippet organization. CodeCollector Pro has been my long-running favorite, with Snippet a close second. I like Snippet's sexiness, but miss having a nice, big, multi-pane window to organize with. CodeCollector Pro is a solid workhorse, but actions such as adding new snippets are a little more cumbersome than I'd like. I often just clip things into Evernote when I'm in a hurry ...
Then, along came Snippets (note the 's' that differentiates it from Snippet) to steal my heart. It's got Code Collector's utility, Evernote's searchability, and it's got an extra dash of sexy, ala Snippet. It has the standard sytax-highlighted code viewer, and a sidebar with groups and folders. Snippets are classified by language, which can be set in a dropdown or by just dragging a snippet to a language folder. It functions on a hybrid folder/tag concept, which happens to be the way I do just about everything. Each snippet can have a description, as well as labels (tags) and all full-text indexed for searching. You've also got groups, which are like folders, but a snippet can belong to multiple groups. It has smart folders which, as you know, function like automatic groups with boolean criteria. On top of all that, folders, smart folders and groups can all be gathered hierarchically in nested folders, with parent folders showing all of the contents of their child folders. Whew!
One of the things that hooked me right away was the way that Snippets handles importing of plain text files. You can just drag whole folders of code snippets (manually created or exported from another app) to the library and have them translated into snippets automatically. It does a pretty good job of determining languages and makes it easy to tab through and add descriptions and labels.
I had my whole snippet library up and running in Snippets in about 30 minutes, which is pretty good considering the number of inane lines of code I keep around. And it works both ways: drag a snippet from the library to your desktop and get a new file, named for the title of the snippet and with a language-specific extension. Drag, drop, copy, paste ... it's all quite intuitive.
There's a menubar item which can optionally keep running even when Snippets isn't. It has a search-as-you-type field, and a dropdown folder browser, and both can be triggered with custom hotkeys. Snippets selected in the menubar can be automatically pasted into the current application. It's not a unique feature (actually pretty standard), but it's a great implementation. There's also a url-handler, which responds system-wide to thesnippet:protocol. It's ostensibly for providing links on a website that will automatically create library items in the reader's copy of Snippets, but it can be massaged into System Services and other bits of fun. Overall, I've found that Snippets really bridges the gap between Snippet and Code Collector Pro.
Snippets is in beta, and some bugs are to be expected (there's some funkiness with the menubar item after changing its preferences, for example). It's free for the duration of the early development, though, so it's worth a test run. I'm not sure what it will cost when it's fully-fledged, but I have a feeling I'll want to keep using it even after it has a price on it. If you are, or aspire to be, an efficient coder (or just a code packrat), give it a try and see what you think.TUAWFriday Favorite: Snippets originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Greenpeace and Apple: Can you feel the love tonight?
Filed under: Apple Corporate
Environmental activist group Greenpeace and Apple haven't exactly been good buddies in the past. For example, in the past Greenpeace slammed Apple with a mock Apple website, had fig-leaf clad representatives visit the first Apple Store in continental Europe, and "greened" the flagship Apple Store in San Francisco. Radical representatives of the group had been ejected from MacExpo London in 2006 for being disruptive, and Greenpeace had assigned Apple low scores in a 2006 e-waste report.
Apparently, the greens and the geeks have kissed and made up, since Apple was ranked #1 in the top 18 consumer electronics company in terms of reduction or elimination of hazardous chemicals in the manufacture of its products. As seen in the Greenpeace table on the next page, Apple was squeaky-clean across its product line, including desktop and laptop computers, phones, and monitors:
However, Greenpeace is still jilting Apple like an impetuous lover pointing out flaws. Overall, Apple was in the middle of the pack of companies in terms of overall "greenness." The enviros spanked Apple for reducing the number of web pages dedicated to information about its supply chain and future plans for toxic chemical phase-outs. Apple has made significant gains since the dark days of the relationship in 2006, but apparently still isn't the perfect soulmate in the eyes of Greenpeace.
[via LoopInsight]TUAWGreenpeace and Apple: Can you feel the love tonight? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: Spinning Wheel of Death painting
Filed under: Cult of Mac
My Painting Has Crashed from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.
James Théopane was asked to create a piece of artwork for his employer. He fused an old painting, a motor built from a kit, and new art done on canvas to create a fantastic interactive piece that pays tribute to the spinning pizza of death / rainbow pinwheel cursor / Marble of Doom. Read about how Theopane developed this work on his Posterous site.
[Via Neatorama]TUAWFound Footage: Spinning Wheel of Death painting originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple's "controlled leaks" and how they spin them
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Rumors, Other Events, Apple
Here's an interesting story that popped up this week, made even more relevant by all of the tablet rumors flying around lately. John Martellaro at the Mac Observer has called out the Wall Street Journal piece earlier this week as a controlled leak from Apple. What he says makes sense: the news came from an unnamed source and was published by two different authors, the WSJ's Apple beat writers, to keep the responsibility divided (and keep Walt Mossberg above the fray, perhaps). If Apple does want to leak information, it seems easy enough -- as Martellaro says, an executive phones a friend, asks to keep their name out of the story, and then a rumor is out there. Of course, there's the question of how often (if ever) this actually happens; most Mac media folk have never been on the receiving end of such a leak.
The other real question is: why? Apple could merely be sending ideas out there to see how they'll play -- the WSJ post specifically mentioned a 10 or 11" display, so it's possible they wanted to pre-test that idea. Martellaro also reckons that Apple's message could have been directed at another company, either a competitor or a partner who needed to be reminded that the tablet release was approaching quickly. And finally, it could have been directed at us press -- rumors build more rumors, which build hype, which, as Martellaro says, put butts in seats at the event later this month.
Of course, there's always the question of stock manipulation, and it could be argued that leaks like this might cause problems there. But otherwise, leaks by Apple are more or less harmless to everyone besides the company itself. If Apple did leak something it doesn't end up delivering on (i.e. promises of one product and another one ends up getting released), it's the companys own reputation that will be on the line. Apple can say that it doesn't respond to or support rumors, but when the company's own executives are allegedly telling the WSJ what the tablet is like, the onus falls on the company's reputation as a whole.
[via Apple Insider]TUAWApple's "controlled leaks" and how they spin them originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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