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  • Gmail flips the switch on IMAP support

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    Our country cousins at Download Squad have picked up the scent of a major change over Gmail way: support for IMAP access to Google's multigigabyte free email service appears to be up and running as of tonight (possibly not yet turned on for all accounts; check your settings to be sure).

    What this means for Mac users: better support for Gmail within Mail.app, Thunderbird and Entourage. For iPhone users: a way better Gmail experience over the previous POP or web client approaches -- Gmail has even posted handy setup instructions for you. First step: Don't choose the Gmail setup button, choose "Other..." instead. (Yes, they know, they're working on it.)

    If you use Gmail and want to fire it up in IMAP on your iPhone, by all means let us know how it goes.

    Thanks Chris

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  • Leopard/Parallels/Windows bundle on Mac Warehouse

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    If you haven't preordered Leopard yet, but both plan to get it and have a need for a little Windows action, Mac Warehouse has the deal for you. They're offering a bunch of Leopard, Parallels, and Windows XP (or Vista, but seriously, Vista?) for just $279. That's basically getting Parallels for free, and a little over $100 off the price of XP Pro. If you haven't bought any of these yet, and plan to use all three, that right there is a tasty deal.

    And speaking of deals, we've gotten a lot of tips about this, so even though we've mentioned it before, it's probably worth another mention: Amazon is going aggressive on Leopard pricing, so they're offering it for only $109, twenty bucks off the price elsewhere.

    Of course, buying Leopard in either of these ways won't get you the satisfaction of being there on Friday when Apple's new operating system goes on sale. But then again, how much are the crowds and the lines worth to you?

    Thanks, Michael!
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  • Send files directly from iPhone to another

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    Today I spent far too much time again investigating Bonjour zero configuration networking. Starting with my code from yesterday, I have now updated SendFile to allow you to share any file in your Media/Documents folder with another iPhone or iPod touch. The hardest part of the effort was trying to figure out how to send the name of the file along with its data; I ended up using simple property lists to send both. Another big hurdle involved Objective-C'ifying the Core Foundation code so that it would run as a separate "mdns" class rather than as part of my main application.

    If you want to give this a try, you can download SendFile (version 0.22) from my FTP site. Select a file on one phone or touch and "share it". Then "scan" on the other. To switch roles, just quit the app (tap Home) and run it again.

    So what next? It would be nice to have some features like passwords and choosing which file to download. Also, I think I may add the sharing (not the scanning) part to SendSong, if people are interested. I also need to figure out where I messed up in terms of switching from scanning to sending. I'd like people to be able to do both without having to restart the app.

    Now that I have a relatively easy to use mdns class that can both send and receive, I think it would also be cool to start building apps that communicate with each other, like Chess or Battleship. And, of course, I still want to finish my Push-to-Talk toy. Got other requests or suggestions? Let me know in the comments.

    Thanks to NerdVana, Chasehx, az1324 and Luke!

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  • European Online Stores Down

    Just as the resident UK blogger is hoping to catch a few ZZs, this just in from numerous TUAW readers: a plethora of European Online stores are taking a break from it (I've tried the UK, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and they're all offline). Whilst of course it could just be routine maintenance (it is nearly midnight here in the U.K. after all) if there's anything new, we'll let you know.

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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  • Apple adjusts side-positioned Dock in Leopard

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    TUAW readers may recall that when the new look of the desktop in Mac OS X Leopard was unveiled, the side-placement of the Dock didn't exactly set the world on fire. In fact, almost everyone decried it as horrific, with John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame) writing "The lighting and "fake 3D sitting on a tray" visual effect look like crap with the Dock on the side." He (and others) couldn't have summed up the Mac community's sentiment better - or suggestions better.

    Thankfully, Apple seems to be in a listening mood - are we seeing a return of 'the Apple we know and love' that our very own Mike Schramm talked of last week? - for MacRumors has revealed that the side-located Dock we loathed has been replaced with a 2D, black background Dock with a white border and it looks rather good (at least to me). I'm no fan of the 3D Leopard Dock in general so whilst I'm pleased that Apple has backtracked on one of the most talked-about design points in Leopard, I'm more interested in being able to apply the new look to a bottom-positioned dock. Some of us are never satisfied I guess.

    Thanks Sebastiaan!
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  • Arizona Apple Store set to open

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    Apple will open Arizona's fourth Apple Store this Friday, October 26th at 6:00 PM at SunTan Village (why 6:00 PM on a Friday? Gee, I wonder....) The store is located at 2218 E. Williams Field Road in Gilbert, Arizona, near the Gordon Biersch Restaurant. You can get full travel directions here.

    As usual, we're asking any TUAW operatives who visit this weekend to send us stories and photos. Good luck, have fun and we're hoping you score a T-shirt and a box full of Leopard!

    Thanks, Jonathan!
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  • More reflections on Apple's 07Q4 earnings report

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    I've been catching up on the Apple financial news today after yesterday's nigh-incomprehensibly strong results and the analyst conference call. A few items that stand out:

    A huge barrelful of unlocked iPhones. The announced estimate of phones sold to presumptive unlockers -- 250,000 -- was so high that some questioned whether I heard it correctly (including me). Apple, of course, knows both how many iPhones have been sold and how many AT&T contracts have been activated, so barring a large quantity of phones purchased as gifts and languishing in underwear drawers, that number has to be taken at face value. Our commenters also note that iPhone bulk purchases may be under tighter control now, and unlocked iPhones are readily available for purchase in the Far East.

    With the fraction of iPhones sold to unlockers edging towards 20%, there has to be a powerful cognitive and contractual dissonance at work in the braintrust at One Infinite Loop. On the one hand, there's no subscription revenue from AT&T for those phones; on the other, hey, that's an additional 250K phones sold, not a bad thing. It will be very interesting to follow this number quarter-over-quarter and see if the legitimate EU introduction lowers the demand for unlocked devices.

    More below...

    Continue reading More reflections on Apple's 07Q4 earnings report

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  • The Complete Led Zeppelin, iTunes exclusive

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    Led Zeppelin is one of those quintessential rock bands. Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to respect what they have done for music. Now, you can preorder an exclusive iTunes digital box set that spans their entire career. The box set includes every Led Zeppelin album for $99.

    When you buy the box set you are automatically entered into a contest for a chance to win tickets to the Led Zeppelin reunion concert on November 26th (you can also enter by filling out this form).

    The box set, as well as each individual Led Zeppelin album, will be available for download on iTunes on November 13th.
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  • iPhone Elite team announces "revirginizer" release

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    Over at Google Code, the iphone-elite team has released their revirginizing tool, which is designed to rebuild your iPhone's seczone lock table. After using this tool, the team suggests, your 1.0.2 unlocked iPhone will return to its pre-unlocked state and be safe to upgrade to 1.1.1.

    As with all restore/revirginizing methods, I recommend caution. You may want to wait a few days, listen to reports, and see if iPhones truly get restored to a "never been kissed" or even "never held hands" state of pure Apple-in-the-Garden innocence.

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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  • Happy Sixth Birthday, iPod

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    Doesn't time fly when you're having fun selling ridiculously well? It's hard to believe that six years ago to this very day, the iPod was officially brought into the world at a Steve Jobs Special Event. In six years, we've seen 1,000 songs in your pocket become ever more affordable, and as hard-disk technology has progressed, so too has the number of songs an iPod can hold.

    We may have seen the demise of the FireWire connectivity in the iPod, the inclusion of less extras (such as a dock) with the players, but it seems to have done little to dampen demand for the ubiquitous music player. Who'd have thought that a little white music player, with a name inspired by a phrase from 2001: A Space Odyssey no less, would have powered the digital music revolution, and helped rejuvenate Apple beyond everyone's wildest dreams. It's been a fantastic 6 years for the iPod - but I daresay there's plenty more in the pipeline that will make the next six years just as memorable.

    After the break, there's the video from the Special Event where it all began. Happy Birthday, iPod.

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  • RapidWeaver 3.6.4 is available

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    RapidWeaver by Realmac Sofware is a WYSIWYG web editor that we like. If you're unfamiliar, it's a super-simple editor that features iLife and .Mac integration, flash photo galleries, an SDK and so on. Version 3.6.4 offers Leopard compatibility.

    Realmac also announced today that Rapidweaver 4.0 is under development. It will be exclusive to Mac OS 10.5 and a free upgrade for registered users. Cool! In fact, you can get a sneak peek of of RapidWeaver 4.0 at London's MacLive Expo at the end of this week.
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  • Pomoto 1.0.1 plays better with iPhoto

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    Pomoto is basically a replacement for iPhoto's .Mac web albums, designed to take your iPhoto collection and put it on the web with as little trouble as possible. Like FlickrExport (although this is a separate app, of course, not a plugin), it looks like a pretty smooth way to get all the cool stuff in iPhoto out where everyone else can see it.

    The latest version, 1.0.1, includes support for iPhoto 7 Smart Albums and Events, better "privatization" of private Albums, and "more robust photo loading," which I'll leave up to you to decide. Since Pomoto publishes your photos for you, it's really an app tagged into a subscription service, so it costs either $3 a month or $30 a year. If you really like the .Mac photo publishing features, but don't need all of .Mac, it's definitely worth checking out.
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  • Wakoopa for iPhone keeps tabs on web apps

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    Reader Robert sent me a note to tell us that his startup site, Wakoopa (which, I was sorry to note, has nothing to do with Mario's enemies) has created a section specifically for (and compatible with) the iPhone.

    Wakoopa is a social network of sorts that lets you discuss and recommend different software applications for various platforms. If you like using Firefox, for example, you can discuss that and track your use of it, and your software preferences get displayed for anyone to see. Just like Slife, I'm thrilled by the information available here, but not so sure I want to participate myself.

    But the iPhone site is pretty useful as a directory. From the browser, it's a little slow to navigate through, but the real genius of it appears on the iPhone itself at i.wakoopa.com. As Robert told me, it's basically like Apple's web app directory, but easy to browse where you actually need to find and access web apps for the iPhone.

    The implementation on the iPhone works well, and if nothing else, you can bookmark just one page and be able to access all the popular apps right from there. These web apps still aren't any substitute for a real SDK, but you need something to hold you over until February, right? I think the stuff at the top of Wakoopa's list is about as sweet as this solution is going to get.
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  • Leopard to come packed with all new Macs on Friday?

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    If you listened to the TUAW Talkcast last night (which should be available for download later this week, I'm told), not only did you hear that I have an atrocious backup plan, I burn a DVD every other year or so and write the date on it with a Sharpie, but you also heard about a very interesting strategy to get Leopard a little early. Mat told us that Apple plans not to sell computers with Leopard installed on them next Friday, but instead pull the computers out of the backstock, and just throw a Leopard box in the bag when you leave.

    Considering that I'm planning on buying a Mini with Leopard on it rather than Leopard itself, that's a very interesting plan. And now we've all but got corroboration-- reader Bren sent a tip that says he was hanging around the Apple Store this weekend, and was told by an employee that when the Apple Stores receive their shipments on Friday around 11am or noon, they'll start attaching copies of Leopard to the new computers right away.

    I find it hard to believe that they would do that and then still require people who were just buying Leopard itself to wait until 6pm, but you never know. Even if not, you can always do the up-to-date thing, or just wait until later in the evening to buy your new computer-- after the release at 6pm, it's almost guaranteed you'll get a new copy of Leopard with your purchase. But if you're planning to buy a new Mac this Friday anyway, you might try calling ahead (or showing up early) to see if you can get Leopard early with your machine.

    Update: An anonymous Apple employee tells us that employees will be working overnight to pack the boxes of new Macs with discs. No word on if Macs sold earlier in the day will have these discs or not.
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  • BONG! Welcome to Macintosh

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    Am I the only person who still whispers, "Welcome to Macintosh" upon hearing the Mac start-up sound, even though that message stopped appearing on our screens years ago? It's Pavlovian, I swear. Hello, TUAW readers, I'm Christina Warren and I'm a new member of the TUAW (and also the Download Squad) team. My excitement over Leopard's impending release is only tempered by my genuine geek glee at the opportunity to blog about it, and other Apple products, here at TUAW.

    I'm a reformed hardcore PC/Windows/Linux advocate turned Mac fan girl and though my status as a full-time switcher is still pretty new, I have been using the Mac since 1995. I'll admit, I was tentative about the transition at first; I told myself I would never be one of those people who espouses about Apple and the Mac like it is a religion. Cut to 48-hours after I bought my MacBook: I'm on the phone with my mom, plaintively telling her that her next laptop will be a Mac, no ifs ands or buts. I've even had to start biting my tongue, lest the dreaded "well if you had a Mac, it would just work" roll out, when I get a frantic phone call from some friend or relative (ahem, DAD) who somehow broke their networking protocol - and cut off the rest of their house from Wi-Fi, leaving the other computers, printer, and TiVo in a state of confusion.

    And my specs, for people that are interested:
    Black MacBook 2.16 C2D, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, two external drives, including one set as a Boot Camp/Fusion/Paralells partition that I look forward to reconfiguring on Friday, or as it is known in iCal - "Leopard Day!"
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  • MDNS and caffeine: How I got Bonjour running on my iPhone

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    See this picture? It's a picture of my iPod touch. But here is the interesting thing. The picture you see is actually a screen shot from my iPod touch. As you can see from the iPod logo, it has no on-board camera. Instead, it's subscribed to a Bonjour service on my iPhone and using its camera instead to take a picture of itself.

    Continue reading MDNS and caffeine: How I got Bonjour running on my iPhone

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