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- Year-end reflections and predictions roundup
Filed under: Odds and ends, TUAW Business
All our prognostications, anticipations, best-of lists and year-end reflections -- in one handy place.
Our favorite iPhone games of 2009
The first full year of the App Store is coming to a close, and so let's take a look back at our favorite games of 2009. Note that these aren't best-selling, most important, or even the best games...
TUAW bloggers post their Apple predictions for 2010
It's the end of another calendar year, which can mean only two things. First, every blog is going to be posting lists of 2009 retrospectives, and second, there are going to be a lot of posts...
January 1 reflections on my favorite things
January 1 is always a little strange. A quiet time after a night out, a time to take the tree down and deal with all the green light cords that started out so neatly applied and wind up a tangled...Other news of import
TUAWYear-end reflections and predictions roundup originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Congrats Palm: you've finally hit 1% of the App Store's total.
Filed under: App Store
On September 27, 2005 Jon Rubinstein, Palm CEO and former Apple Vice President of the iPod Division, said Apple would be silly to get into the mobile handset marketplace:
We all know what's happened since - Apple dominates the smartphone market while Palm struggles. But you gotta give them something, don't you? So Palm, congratulations on finally crossing the thousand-app barrier. Give us a ring in 2024 when you pass the 25,000 app mark.Is there a toaster that also knows how to brew coffee? There is no such combined device, because it would not make anything better than an individual toaster or coffee machine. It works the same way with the iPod, the digital camera or mobile phone: it is important to have specialized devices.TUAWCongrats Palm: you've finally hit 1% of the App Store's total. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - SSH and the case-sensitive username in Snow Leopard
Filed under: TUAW Tips, Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard introduced a lot of under-the-hood changes and many are not very obvious. One such change is to the authentication requirements for logging in remotely via SSH.
In 10.5 logging in remotely via SSH was a pretty standard affair. In 10.6, however, security has been beefed up a bit to require case-sensitive login credentials. While this requirement has already been imposed on passwords, Snow Leopard now requires a case-sensitive user name as well.
In other words, when logging in via SSH, Snow Leopard differentiates between the username "aron" and "Aron." This threw me for a loop for quite some time and is another one of the numerous reasons I have held off upgrading my Mac mini to 10.6.TUAWSSH and the case-sensitive username in Snow Leopard originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Magic Mouse draining Bluetooth keyboard batteries
Filed under: Accessories
There's a group of users on Apple's Discussion Boards who claim that their Bluetooth keyboards have been devouring batteries since they started using a Magic Mouse. Despite switching to rechargeable batteries and running all pertinent updates, the problem persists. Most of the thread's participants claim to need new keyboard batteries weekly.
Some have guessed that the Magic Mouse is preventing the keyboard from going into sleep mode. One user swapped his Magic Mouse with a Logitech model and saw the problem disappear, while another claims to have heard from Apple Tech Support that this is a known Bluetooth driver issue and that a fix is in the works.
This thread appeared on November 12, 2009, just a few days after Apple released Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 on the 9th. The update was meant to "...use the function key one-touch controls of your Mac with your aluminum Apple Wireless Keyboard," and doesn't seem related to the battery issue.
The Magic Mouse was released on October 20, 2009, and is the first consumer mouse to have multi-touch capabilities. Together, the mouse and keyboard make a pleasant, clutter-free desktop, but aesthetics are worthless if you're constantly buying batteries. Have you experienced this issue? Let's hope it gets fixed soon.TUAWMagic Mouse draining Bluetooth keyboard batteries originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - UK mobile operator O2: iPhone apps are hurting our network
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone
Everyone knows about the struggles US mobile phone company AT&T has had with keeping its network up to speed given the huge bandwidth requirements of the popular iPhone. Well, they're not the only mobile carrier having issues.
In the UK, O2 has been having problems with the huge amount of data being schlepped around the network by iPhones. O2 CEO Ronan Dunne told the Financial Times that performance of the O2 network had been disappointing since this summer and that the company was trying to cope with the increasing number of mobile apps running on devices such as the iPhone. TUAW reported a multi-day data outage that affected O2 users just a few weeks ago.
Most of the issues have been confined to London, so the company is installing 200 additional base stations to support the increased levels of traffic. Dunne also noted that the company is working with Apple, RIM, and other handset manufacturers to learn more about which applications are causing the heavy demands on the O2 network. O2 has been working with Nokia Siemens Networks to modify the network infrastructure to better handle the combination of voice and data traffic.
While trying to iron out these issues, it appears that O2's parent company, Telefonica, is making moves that could place further demands on the network. Telefonica purchased mobile VoIP company Jajah to add to O2's portfolio of services, and VoIP services are notorious devourers of bandwidth.
In the United States, Verizon can smirk about AT&T's network issues, but O2's problems point out that no mobile operator is immune from the bandwidth-eating apps that are popular on the iPhone platform.
[via Techworld]
TUAWUK mobile operator O2: iPhone apps are hurting our network originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Our mistake, your gain: win one of fifteen free copies of Weightbot
Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touch
I need a brain transplant.
When Paul Haddad of Tapbots offered us fifteen license codes for a giveaway, I blithely assumed that they were for Pastebot, their cool cut, copy, and paste app for iPhone. I set up the giveaway yesterday and have been thrilled with the number of entries (you can still enter until midnight ET tonight, by the way).
Well, Paul reminded me this morning that the giveaway was for Weightbot, as we wanted to do a tie-in to everyone's resolution to lose (or in some cases, gain) weight in the new year. After flogging myself for my lack of memory, I received another email from Paul stating that it would just be easier for him to create promo codes for Pastebot and we could keep the Weightbot codes as well. Thank you, Paul!
What does that mean? We're giving away fifteen copies of Weightbot, too! This will be a completely different giveaway, and to enter you just need to leave a comment telling us how many pounds you'd like to lose or gain this year. Here are the rules:
- Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
- To enter leave a comment telling us how many pounds you'd like to lose or gain, tracking it with Weightbot
- The comment must be left before Sunday, January 3, 2009, 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time.
- You may enter only once.
- Fifteen winners will be selected in a random drawing.
- Prizes: Promo Code for one copy of Weightbot (Value: US$1.99)
- Click Here for complete Official Rules.
TUAWOur mistake, your gain: win one of fifteen free copies of Weightbot originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: Knowledge Navigator concept from 1987
Filed under: Humor, Software, Odds and ends, Apple
Remember back when Apple made concept videos of their future hardware instead of people making concepts for them? I actually don't, but that's just because I'm a young punk -- the last major official concept video I remember seeing was the old (and somewhat prescient) "You Will" commercials. But on the eve of what already seems like the year of the tablet, here's a retro look at a 1987 video made by Apple featuring the "Knowledge Navigator," a tablet-style computer with web access (sorry, "university network access" -- the web didn't exist yet) and personified software agents to search, field calls, and even run apps and simulations.
Good stuff -- I doubt we'll see video clips of bowtied male secretaries answering calls from the iPhone if the tablet should appear later this month, but here in this future time of 2010, it's fun to look back and see what we thought we'd be doing now: asking favors from Jill Gilbert, taking Kathy to the airport by 2, and ignoring calls from Mom.
[Via DF]TUAWFound Footage: Knowledge Navigator concept from 1987 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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