Thursday, May 10, 2007

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  • Best Buy "Apple Boutiques" appearing

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    A few weeks ago, we wrote about Apple's plan to expand their presence in Best Buy stores (Best Buy is a big box electronics store here in the US) in 2007. Now, some of these store-with-a-store "boutiques" are beginning to appear, and they look great. The Macs are prominently displayed on their own minimalist set up, all running and ready to go. PB | Central says of the setup:

    "The makeover is so major that when you first come across it, you might think you took a wrong turn somewhere. Once you step foot into the new Apple section, you might think you were magically transported to a regular Apple Store..."

    If you come across one of these, let us know. They look great.

    [Via MacDailyNews]
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  • iTunes UK pwns competition for artist pay

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    Pretend you're a struggling musician. How much money would you rather take home for each track sold? £0.70 or £0.005? Not even a close contest, is it? Jacqui Cheng of Infinite Loop writes about a huge disparity between UK music services. iTunes just totally pwns the competition when it comes to artist and label payments. Cheng links to this Macworld story which suggests that iTunes is doing a far better job of getting money to artists than many other online music stores. If I were a struggling UK musician (as opposed to a person who can merely carry a tune in a bucket, or perhaps two buckets) I know where I'd spend my marketing dollars and which service I'd be promoting the hell out of.

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  • Apple: We will meet initial iPhone demand

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    If you plan to buy an iPhone the moment they become available, don't worry about availability. Apple says they'll have enough to meet the initial demand. After a recent meeting with several Apple execs, USB analyst Ben Reitzes reportedly had this to say:

    "...[Apple is] confident the product will ship on time with volumes to meet customer demand."

    Steve stated at MWSF 07 that Apple hopes to capture 1% of the mobile phone market - that's approximately 10 million units - within 12 months of the iPhone's introduction. Financial analyst Shebly Seyrafi is projecting that Apple should achieve their goal, and even sell as many as 25 million units by 2009.

    Morgan Stanely expects 8 million units to leave shelves in 2007, and has raised their estimates on AAPL on that analysis.

    With all of this positive press from both the financial and business world, plus the incessant chatter from future customers, it looks like the iPhone could be huge indeed.
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  • Finder Fu: Force an Application to open your Document

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    Has this happened to you? You drag a document onto an application icon. And nothing happens. The icon does not go dark. The application doesn't launch and load the data. But you know that it should; it just won't. Fortunately, OS X allows you to force an application to try and open that file. By holding Command+Option while dragging, you tell OS X applications to open files regardless of whether they "support" that file type. For example, you can Command+Option drag a C or Ruby source onto Safari and open that source code in a new browser window. Or you can Command+Option drag a tab-delimited text filed onto Excel. It's a very convenient work-around.

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  • Free Aperture web seminar for iPhoto users

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    Our faithful reader and tipster Nik Fletcher just passed a link our way to a new web seminar Apple has made available called Aperture for iPhoto Users. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet (I wanted to share it with y'all before diving in myself), but details on the site reveal exactly what you would expect: the seminar explores the advantages of stepping up to Aperture from iPhoto, as well as how to migrate your library (spoiler: it's really just a one-click process - I recently did it myself as I'm testing out the Aperture demo) and even how to use both applications for your photography workflow (something I'm particularly interested in). Apple also includes links to other Aperture resources such as the O'Reilly-dedicated Aperture site with links, blog posts and tips of their own, as well as another Apple seminar that covers the world of Aperture extensions.

    If you ask me, this seminar was far too long in coming, but it looks like it could be a great start on answering all those 'why should I move to Aperture?' questions for anyone interested in stepping into the world of professional digital photography management.
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  • Rumor: Wireless downloads on the way - for the Zune

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    Engadget is reporting that a rumored firmware update to Microsoft's Zune DAP (Digital Audio Player) could usher in wireless downloads from their Zune Marketplace digital media store. No word yet on whether these would be all-you-can-eat subscription downloads or purchases made via the Zune Marketplace's points system, but regardless: if Microsoft gets this out in the near future and Apple hasn't stepped up to the plate (possibly with wireless iTunes downloads to the iPhone), they'll be one of the last major players in the DAP market that hasn't snipped the chord on downloading yet. Mobile phones and services from the likes of Cingular, Sprint and Verizon are all enabling wireless downloads, with Sprint recently matching the iTunes price of $.99 per song.

    While Microsoft doesn't seem to be causing any loss of sleep for Apple in terms of iPod sales just yet, wireless downloads is one of the undeniable holy grails that digital media lovers everywhere have been clamoring for since the rumor mongers first began posting their silly claims of 'wireless iPods any day now' many years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the debut of this feature alone made at least a few potential iPod switchers finally make the leap to black, white and brown waters.
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  • Meteorologist unofficially updated to 1.4.5, Universal binary

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    Many times after posting a screenshot on TUAW I've had people ask about the weather program I run in my menubar. Despite having tried nearly all of the menubar weather programs (of which there are many as we mentioned a while back) I always come back to the open source Meteorologist. As much as I like it, however, it has been difficult to recommend to people because development had almost stopped and no official Universal build was available (though some unofficial Intel builds had been cobbled together, which is what I had been running). A new official version has not been released, but nonetheless there is good news for fans of Meteorologist. In a thread at Sourceforge a new volunteer, Marcus Brenneman, has arisen to help bring the project forward (and the project owner, Joe Crobak, seems willing to accept this help).

    The first fruits of this is an unofficial build 1.4.5 that solves many of the problems that had arisen as Weather.com changed its weather data server. Furthermore, it is finally a Universal Binary. There are still a few bugs (you can only search for cities by name, not zip code), but the important thing is that it's basically working and Marcus and Joe seem committed to getting the project going again. In the meantime you can now download the unofficial 1.4.5 from Brenneman's personal site here (download link) and once again run the best (free) menubar weather program for the Mac.
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  • Apple releases Pro Application Support 4.0

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    Apple has released a Pro Application Support 4.0 update that "improves general user interface reliability for Apple's professional applications." Basically, if you use any of the Final Cut Suite apps, Aperture, Final Cut Express HD or Logic products, you'll probably see this in Software Update. Strangely, as with previous Pro Application Support updates, there isn't a whole lot of extra information as to what this update fixes, or what bugs and quirks it squashes; it's just 6 MB of UI update goodness, I guess.

    [via MacDailyNews]
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  • KeyCue 35% off at MacZOT today only

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    Last October was when we first mentioned KeyCue from ergonis software, the utility that displays all the keyboard shortcuts for the app you're in, and even though I fell in love with it I somehow missed its update to version 3.0. Luckily, today's MacZOT was just the reminder I needed, as KeyCue is on sale today for only $12.99, a 35% discount from its regular $19.99. If you've ever wanted a handy birds-eye view of every shortcut for an app without having to dig around in menus and manuals, KeyCue is definitely the way to go. It even works with just about every app I've thrown at it, including Firefox and Photoshop. This latest 3.0 version added a performance boost of up to 10x when collecting shortcuts, as well as a theming engine with a new Dashboard theme that darkens the rest of the screen when activating the shortcuts window.

    KeyCue is a great app that I personally recommend, and it's a steal at today's MacZOT price.
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  • Mac 101: Address Book Tricks

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    For a pedestrian little program Address Book has a lot of neat features that people often forget about. If you go into the address book and click on on the name tab in front of a phone number you can select "Large Type" and have the number displayed all the way across your screen (see image after the jump). The original purpose of this feature was presumably so that you could display the number on your computer and easily dial it from across the room.

    This "Large Type" seems to be built into OS X and so can be invoked in other ways as well. For instance, Quicksilver has "Large Type" as a built-in action for text. So if you invoke Quicksilver, enter text mode with a period (.), type some text, then tab to the action field and select "Large Type" it will be displayed in the same manner. This is surprisingly useful as I sometimes leave messages for other people on their Macs this way, and as we mentioned in a more advanced Quicksilver tip, this can be a great way to give yourself timed reminders.

    In addition to Large Type on phone numbers, Address Book has lots other tricks up its sleeve. For instance, if you click on the tab in front of an address you can select "Map of" to open that address in Mapquest in your default browser (see after the jump). As we mentioned a while back, there's also a plugin to add Google Maps to this as well. With the appropriate Bluetooth phone Address Book can send SMS messages and dial numbers. You can even print out a pocket sized address book. If you haven't done so, check out the Address Book help for all these tips and more.

    Continue reading Mac 101: Address Book Tricks

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  • McCracken returns as PC World editor in chief

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    Last week we mentioned the resignation of PC World editor in chief, Harry McCracken who seemed to have quit because PC World (and former Macworld) CEO Colin Crawford canned a story on "10 Things We Hate About Apple." In the brouhaha that followed the canned story finally came out (revealing not much substance to speak of), and now finally the other shoe has dropped. PC World is itself reporting that McCracken is returning to PC World as "vice-president, editor in chief" and Crawford will leave as PC World CEO to rejoin parent company IDG "as executive vice president, online." IDG is presently undertaking a search for a new CEO to lead PC World and Macworld.

    So the story has a happy ending for McCracken and probably the right thing was done in the end. I'm sure everyone at IDG, PC World, and Macworld is just glad this thing is over.
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