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- CES Watch: More clocks and docks
Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Odds and ends, Other Events, iPhone
As expected, there are a number of iPhone and iPod-related accessories coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Here's a couple we've seen already:
- iHome's got both audio systems and alarm clocks on display -- the clocks even have a sync button that will pull the time in straight from your iPhone or iPod, so no more having to set it yourself.
- They've also got another unit for the kitchen, but is it just us or do these all look pretty much the same?
- Sharper Image has a clock that uses an app on the iPhone screen as the clock hands, while sitting in a dock that holds numbers around the handset. They also have a speaker dock that can pull sports, news, and weather information from a custom app and display it on a separate LED screen. Pretty cool, actually, even if an iPhone already gives you all of that information anyway.
- FLO TV and Mophie are trying to bring mobile television to the iPhone this year.
- And Tunebug is showing off "surface sound" speakers -- you attach a little piece to a bike helmet or other surface, and it turns the whole thing into a giant speaker, sending the music into your head. Freaky.
TUAWCES Watch: More clocks and docks originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple working with NYC cops to find stolen iPhone
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Steve Jobs, Apple, iPhone
Remember Alisa, the subway sweetheart whose iPhone was stolen and then re-surfaced in her email inbox when the knucklehead thief tried to get it replaced? Apparently she sent a note to our favorite iCEO Steve Jobs as a last resort when the standard Apple CSRs were unwilling or unable to help. As Metro NY reports, Alisa's pleas did not fall on deaf ears.
Over the New Year's weekend, Alisa sent her email, and the day after we reported Alisa's story, she received a call from Apple's executive support team. I corresponded with Alisa, and despite the runaround she received, she was told there is in fact an internal procedure for dealing with such situations.
Apple's Corporate Investigations department is now working with local law enforcement to rectify Alisa's situation. While it is good to hear that the right people are finally communicating to resolve this matter, it is disappointing that it required the victim emailing a CEO to get any real traction on the problem. And even though Alisa has since purchased a Blackberry, we hope she gets her iPhone back soon.TUAWApple working with NYC cops to find stolen iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - How to run Windows apps for free with Wine on OS X
Filed under: Software, Open Source
There are many options for running Windows programs on the Mac. Boot Camp, for instance, is included with OS X for installing Windows on a separate partition. Parallels, VMware, and Sun offer virtualization software that let you run your Windows programs without logging out of OS X. And then there's Wine.
Wine is an Open Source application layer that runs within the Mac operating system rather than as a stand-alone, sandboxed operating system. The thing that all of these options, except Wine, have in common though is that they legally require you to actually run Windows and therefore own a Windows license. Wine, however, implements the Windows API allowing you to run Windows applications without actually running Windows.
David Baumgold has put together an excellent tutorial for setting up and using Wine on your Mac. The tutorial does a good job covering the pre-requisites, the actual installation, and then what to do with Wine once you have it installed. It should be noted that the installation of Wine is rather technical and should not be attempted by those unfamiliar with Terminal.app.
Once you get Wine up and running, you can install a myriad of different Windows applications from games to productivity apps (Office, anyone?). If you're curious about a particular program's compatibility with Wine, you can check out the AppDB for a list of applications and any issues present when running with Wine.
If you're interested in the technical benefits of Wine, you can also check out the excellent application Crossover, which is an easy-to-use port of Wine (pun intended) that makes it dead simple to get up and running with Wine.TUAWHow to run Windows apps for free with Wine on OS X originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Panic releases Unison 2, improves binaries support
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools
Panic has released a major update to its Mac Usenet client Unison. Usenet is one of those historical districts of the Internet that's a bit off the beaten track these days, but still has its uses. It began as a global message board system and still has lots of folks doing that, but it has also become a huge repository of binaries and a good alternative to bittorrent and other peer to peer systems.
Back in the day I was a Usenet fiend, but I'd fallen away until very recently; I returned courtesy of NewsgroupDirect, a good, Mac-friendly third-party Usenet provider that provided a review account for TUAW use (you generally have to subscribe these days for Usenet access). What I was surprised to discover on my return was the advent of NZB files and search engines which make it extremely easy to find binaries (unlike the old days when you had to look for everything manually). The new version of Unison offers native support for NZB searching within the application (via binsearch.info and others). It also automatically takes care of finding missing parts, PAR recovery, and RAR unpacking. In short, Unison is now clearly your best bet on the Mac for Usenet binaries.
Of course Unison also retains its older message reading features and adds handy new ones like threading. There's an updated interface and the general level of Mac goodness one associates with Panic. Unison 2.0 is $29 ($18 upgrade from version 1) and a 7-day demo is available. If you need a Usenet subscription, Panic is offering the companion service Unison Access for $9 a month; NewsgroupDirect offers a range of plans from $8 to $20 per month.TUAWPanic releases Unison 2, improves binaries support originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: Bose headphones grafted onto Apple inline remote
Filed under: Mods, Found Footage
Our buddies over at Engadget turned us on to this short video, in which modder Freddy Deeble created a sonic hybrid -- a pair of Bose headphones using an Apple inline remote.
If you're handy with a pair of wire cutters, a small screwdriver, and a soldering iron, then you can mimic how Mr. Deeble achieved the best of both worlds with his little mod. Not only does he get better audio quality from the over-the-ear Bose 'phones than he would from a standard pair of Apple earbuds or in-ear headphones, but he also gets to keep that sweet little inline "squeezably soft" remote.
TUAW, of course, takes no responsibility for any damage you may cause to your Bose headphones, your Apple earbuds with remote, or yourself if you do this. And your warranties? Consider 'em gone... Enjoy the video, and stay safe, kids.
TUAWFound Footage: Bose headphones grafted onto Apple inline remote originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Parrot unveils the AR.Drone, an iPhone-controlled microcopter, at CES
Filed under: Gaming, Hardware, Peripherals, Other Events, iPhone, App Store
Probably the coolest iPhone-related product to come out of the festivities at CES so far this week is the AR.Drone, created by a company called Parrot. It's a little working microcopter that's remote-controlled by an iPhone app, and it's decked out with all sorts of interesting gadgetry, including an accelerometer, gyroscope, and two cameras. A key feature is Wi-Fi integration, so the AR.Drone can actually be controlled by any Wi-Fi device, not just an iPhone.
Release is rumored to happen as early as March of this year, although the product itself is still somewhat surrounded in mystery -- we don't know a price, and even some of the features sound a little fantastical. Apparently the drone has an "autofly" setting, in which it'll follow certain visual stimuli in the environment, and it apparently also watches the floor for flight stabilization. The features go even further than that, with the cameras on the real-life drone providing an augmented reality game feed (like shooting robots around your house as you explore with the drone) back to the iPhone.
Like I said, the features are fantastical. Parrot hasn't actually been able to show off controlling the copter with the iPhone in anything but the video above -- apparently there's too much Wi-Fi permeating the air around CES. But this is the most-hyped item coming out of the first few days of CES for sure. It'll be interesting to see how the actual product looks and works as we get closer to the expected release. Boy, a price would be nice to hear, though it'll probably be high!TUAWParrot unveils the AR.Drone, an iPhone-controlled microcopter, at CES originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - This week's TUAW TV Live moved to Thursday due to memory error
Filed under: Video, Podcasting
It's Wednesday, which means that there's going to be another exciting episode of TUAW TV Live this afternoon!
Not.
Coming back to reality after a few weeks of semi-comatose holiday "time off," your host set up an appointment with a client right at the same time as the weekly Ustream show. It won't happen again, since that time is now blocked off in iCal in bright, shiny red. This week's show, however, is going to happen on Thursday, January 7th, at the regularly scheduled time (5 PM ET).
If you'd like to watch one of the previous episodes, head over to http://ustream.tv/TUAW and you can pull up the fun from either the December 23rd or the December 30th shows.TUAWThis week's TUAW TV Live moved to Thursday due to memory error originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - AppZapper: a great big upgrade for a small utility
Filed under: Software, Cool tools
I discovered AppZapper years ago. It was a huge boon for me, helping me keep my support folders a little cleaner as I began the early stages of my habit of installing 2 or more new apps a day, trying them, and usually deleting them. It let me drag an application to its interface, and would then search for related files that application may have left around the hard drive. A quick double-check (by me) to make sure it wasn't mistaken, one click and poof, all traces removed.I've tried other, similar applications over the years ... CleanApp has some great features, and Amnesia is pretty cool, but AppZapper "just worked." I managed to stay loyal to it long after I had assumed its development had gone dead. Then, to my pleasant surprise, a major update dropped yesterday. My AppZapper is not only freshened up, it's bursting with some very cool features.
The standard drag and drop panel of old is still around, and its automatic search is snappier. Up at the top corner of that first panel, though, is a switch flips the panel around, revealing the "Hit List." This clever screen lets you sort a grid of all your applications, plugins, preference panels and widgets (all together or individually) based on their last-opened date and file size.
You can, for example, see all the apps on your drive that are larger than 50MB and haven't been touched in the last two months. From there, you can click on one, see its related files in the bottom bar, and click the "Zap" button to say goodbye. You can also launch apps directly from this screen, which is helpful for those moments when the app's name sounds familiar, but you can't for the life of you remember what it does. These are 90% sha-na-na-na, hey hey for me, but it's always nice to be sure.Random warning: the new version of AppZapper makes a rather loud, somewhat grating zapping sound when performing a delete. I recommend you jump straight into preferences and disable that (before it scares the whole house in the middle of the night because you forgot to turn your speakers down when you were testing it out).
Lastly, there's a whole license management section built into AppZapper now. It's not just for apps you hate anymore, but the ones you love. Just drag items from Finder or out of the Hit List to indicate you own them. It will create a card for the app, and clicking the card flips it around and allows you to enter purchase info, license details and attach files. Not as full featured as something like 1Password or LicenseKeeper, but it's a really well-executed touch on this new incarnation of an old classic.My license of old seemed to upgrade fine, so I believe existing owners of AppZapper can enjoy the upgrade for free. New users can try out a free download, and pay $12.95US if you love it.
TUAWAppZapper: a great big upgrade for a small utility originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Tablet speculation: How could a tablet connect to the world?
Filed under: Portables, Odds and ends
Do you know what word Dave Caolo is hearing in his sleep? Tablet. What phrase is trending mightily on Google Search? Tablet. What is every Apple fanboy and fangirl dreaming of for...um...some new gift-giving holiday in the March/April timeframe? Tablet. It's what good little geeks hope to find on their doorstep if their credit cards are not maxed out and Apple ships on the rumored schedule.
In addition to bringing world peace, universal vaccination, and rainbow puppy unicorns, the tablet carries its own compliment of mobile issues: specifically, how and how well will it connect? This is a question we were kicking around this morning in the TUAW chatroom, after encountering a number of speculative reports in our morning RSS feed. Rather than predict which way Apple is going to go, we thought we'd run down the most likely possibilities.
We all agree that a tablet would be, at a minimum, no less connected than an iPod touch. That is, none of us think that Apple will ship a tablet sans Wi-Fi connectivity. And with McDonalds now offering free Wi-Fi at over 11,000 restaurants world wide, let alone sponsored municipal Wi-Fi, new Wi-Fi for pay services on airplanes, and other commuter-based Wi-Fi services, you can easily imagine an urban tablet that works in most major cities around the globe.
A Wi-Fi-only approach, though, cuts out a lot of possibilities for tablet use on the go, when users move away from cities. 3G/4G access, similar to the kinds of deals currently offered on Dell netbooks and laptops, might be a way for Apple to go as well. Of course, that would involve signing up for 2-year contracts at outrageous prices (it doesn't matter who does the service, the prices are outrageous across vendors). That could seriously put off existing iPhone contract holders, who might not be willing to expand their obligations to another multi-year commitment.
Unless the tablet offers a USB port (doubtful) and supporting software, it's pretty unlikely that Apple might support using solutions like the new United States-based DataJack service, which provides unlimited 3G data for 40 bucks a month. The MiFi router solution would work to provide 3G connectivity over Wi-Fi, as it currently does with iPod touches and laptops. MiFi service isn't particularly cheap, involves carrying around an extra hardware device, and is best suited to the hardened road warrior who doesn't mind paying $60/month for the convenience.
I've heard iPhone tethering floated around as a possible solution to augment built-in Wi-Fi, as well. Users carrying both an iPhone and a tablet could use the 3G connectivity of the former to power the net services of the latter, when out of W-iFi range. It's a nice thought -- but in the United States, would AT&T really welcome a further strain on its 3G network without additional revenue? Of course, if Apple did manage to swing a deal (say $10/month extra for tablet tethering only), it might explain why AT&T missed its "tethering this year (2009)" deadline.
Regardless of how the tablet might hook up to the net, it's likely to be just as bandwidth-hungry as the iPod touch and the iPhone, if not more so. With more pixels to fill, any streaming video content will demand more data to display. Add in an e-book store for reading on the go, as well as movie rentals and the App Store, and tablets will continue to expand the way Apple mobile devices consume purchasable media. And that's not even considering the everpresent rumors about front-mounted cameras and possible video conferencing.
Apple's iPhone and iPod touch business model has put a lot of emphasis on end-user shopping. Purchasing on the go has go to be a big part of Apple's tablet business plan moving forward. Consider Amazon's Whispernet service. It allows end-users to purchase media on the Kindle device. Powered by Sprint EVDO service in the US and by AT&T internationally, Whispernet downloads content from Amazon regardless of where users are. You can buy books while commuting, while at home, while at work, or at the park for lunch. Ubiquitous purchases form the backbone of Amazon's Kindle success story.
There are constraints to ubiquitous data network access, however. Whispernet limits Internet access to purchasing and downloading Kindle titles. Users cannot easily use this service to generally access the Internet (although the Kindle does have a basic browser). Amazon is providing a convenience that benefits both itself and customers, but these conveniences do not extend that to the kinds of day-to-day tasks like checking e-mail and full-featured web browsing that are so common on the iPhone and iPod touch. Users who want to read particular websites are allowed to subscribe to them, usually for a small monthly fee.
Even on the Kindle, Amazon's approach works, in our opinion, mostly because E-books are tiny. Shopping and product fulfillment place little demand on providers. Could Apple offer a similar shopping service for its tablet? Hard to say, because audio (not to even mention video!) would require a much higher load on services.
It's imaginable that Apple might launch a text-only "purchase wherever you are" system to take on the Kindle head-on, and expand that to audio and video as 4G (and later) infrastructure grows. It's also imaginable that Apple has evaluated the trade-offs between sales, commissions, contract terms, and rights owners and decided this is not a feasible path due to their relatively tiny margins. And, it's extremely imaginable that Apple has evaluated the strength of the jailbreak community, which opens up the iPhone's underlying Unix operating system for general computing use, and decided that a Whispernet-like approach would be too easy to exploit.
In the end, where "mobile" and "media" meet, which is where I envision the Apple tablet playing to its strengths, connectivity is going to have to play a huge role. Buying on the go, accessing already purchased data on the go, and general net access will be the questions raised and the solutions needed. I'm looking forward to seeing how Apple has realized tablet connectivity and where it will take us as media consumers.TUAWTablet speculation: How could a tablet connect to the world? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Munster: Apple will sell more than 36 million iPhones worldwide in 2010
Filed under: Apple Financial, iPhone
The wizard of tech on Wall Street, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, is bullish on AAPL.
Not only does the senior research analyst (who looks nothing like our artistic portrait at right) project that the company will sell 36 million iPhones in 2010, but he believes that the number is conservative for international sales and doesn't take into account any expansion to other U.S. cell carriers -- Verizon, for instance. Munster's prognostications were published in a note to investors this morning, where he noted that this will be the first full year of sales with new carriers in the U.K., Canada, and France, and also the first full year of sales in China.
Munster also believes that a new iPhone model will arrive around the usual June - July time frame, and that will drive sales as well. While the estimates seem rather optimistic, Munster says that his models are actually quite conservative, particularly when international sales are taken into account. For example, the Piper Jaffray models show that AT&T alone will sell 15.8 million iPhones to their customer base of 82.5 million customers, while a composite figure for three Russian carriers shows 1.8 million iPhones being sold to a combined base of 160 million subscribers.
Looking ahead for calendar year 2011, Munster sees a worldwide total sales figure of 48.5 million iPhones, once again based on a model that he considers conservative.
[via AppleInsider]TUAWMunster: Apple will sell more than 36 million iPhones worldwide in 2010 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Rumor: Beta version of iPhone SDK with tablet simulator to be unveiled on 1/27
Filed under: Rumors, Apple, SDK
In yet another drop of information from the firehose of tablet rumors, French blog Mac 4 Ever claimed earlier this week [English translation] that a beta version of the iPhone SDK -- used by developers to create applications for the iPhone, iPod touch, and now possibly Apple's new tablet device -- could be unveiled during the upcoming event to be held on January 27th.
What I find interesting about this tidbit is the timing: most of the rumors we have heard concerning which operating system the tablet might run have generally pointed towards a newer build of the iPhone OS. So, if the tablet will be running a new build of the iPhone OS, and that build is only expected to be in beta stages by the end of this month, then it stands to reason that the tablet may not actually hit the market until later this year. I'm thinking somewhere around March, maybe?
Then again, it is possible that the device might ship with a preliminary version of the OS which doesn't make immediate use of the App Store, buying some time for developers to get their feet wet using the beta SDK and giving Apple the chance to ramp up a good selection of apps to be ready for sale when the App Store becomes available.
Either way, the idea that Apple may release a beta version of the SDK more than a month ahead of schedule serves as an indication that Apple has indeed learned from past mistakes, and hopefully developers will be able to get their hands on the SDK sooner, rather than later.
[via AppleInsider]TUAWRumor: Beta version of iPhone SDK with tablet simulator to be unveiled on 1/27 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Rumor: Apple employee says tablet UI has "steep learning curve"
There's yet another tablet post at Cult of Mac today. This time, a reader shares info from a "friend" who works at Apple (the Internet seems rife with people who've got loose-lipped friends at Apple; friends who are willing to discuss their employer's secrets at coffee shops) regarding the tablet's UI. According to the friend, consumers should "...be ready for a steep learning curve regarding the 'new' Apple product about to be released [and its] interface."
The reader goes on to say that his informant was fresh from a meeting when s/he shared this little tidbit. Perhaps using her iPhone. In the hallway.
The takeaway is obvious without this post: The tablet will behave in a way that we aren't expecting. For some, the iPhone's UI took some learning, as most consumers hadn't seen a touchscreen device before, let alone a touch-based phone. That doesn't mean it will be difficult to use, just different.
Rumors are rumors but one thing is certain: they're only going to get worse between now and the tablet's release.
[Via MacDailyNews]TUAWRumor: Apple employee says tablet UI has "steep learning curve" originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - DTV, flying robots and car control: more iPhone goodies from CES
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch
Yesterday Mike pointed out some iPod and iPhone docks seen at CES, but our friends at Engadget have unearthed a steady stream of iPhone goodies at CES 2010. Here's a sampling:
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OnStar and Chevy show off Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone control apps for Volt
Chevy and OnStar officially launched their suite of mobile applications for the Volt, set to be available for BlackBerry, Android, and the iPhone and set to deploy with the launch of the car itself sometime between the end of 2010 and 2011.
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Tivit promises to bring Mobile DTV to the iPhone and other WiFi-equipped mobile devices
Dubbed Tivit, the pocketable box is a said to be a bit smaller and lighter than a deck of cards and claims to stream television to a number of WiFi-enabled devices, including the iPhone...
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Parrot's AR.Drone seeks us out, destroys us as we go hands-on
Any device that supports 802.11 can connect to the drone to send controls to it and, interestingly, download video from the camera on the nose. The first such device is the iPhone...
Also of interest:
TUAWDTV, flying robots and car control: more iPhone goodies from CES originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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- Apple ten years on
Filed under: Hardware, Odds and ends, Internet, Apple
This is a pretty wandering post over at the NZ Herald (it starts out with a screening of Avatar, and drops a few local actor names before getting down to business), but it eventually gets to an interesting premise: what will Apple's hardware look like not in 2010, when we're all breathlessly awaiting the tablet, but in 2020, ten years from now? Of course we're talking about complete speculation here -- not even Apple knows what they'll be doing in ten years. But it's not like we haven't done it before: Apple's devices are smaller, faster, and more powerful than ever. What will they be like ten years down the line?
More gesturing and intuitive human interfaces seem like a good guess -- with the iPhone, the accelerometer has been used in all sorts of interesting ways, and it's probably not far until Apple figures out a way to track movement in 3D space, either by moving an iPhone or a controller around, or as the piece suggests, by tracking our body in some way. Slimmer display screens and extra battery life will be in the future as well. And the article mentions solid state storage, but if our predictions for this year are any indication, Apple will try to move off the hard drive as much as possible, and start placing data for multimedia and other files in a cloud server, accessible via Internet whenever they're needed.
Like I said, interesting thought experiment. What do you think Apple will be like ten years from now?TUAWApple ten years on originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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