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- Nerd grudge match: Geek Squad vs. Apple Genius
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Corporate, Retail
You've seen the Geek Squad with their fancy Volkswagens, spiffy ties and shiny, orange buttons. You've also seen the Apple Geniuses walking around with their crisp T-shits, swell ID badges and all that knowledge.
They're both cool (for professional nerds), but who's happier? According to Glassdoor Blog, it's the Geniuses. They make more money on average and spoke better of their work environments in recent satisfaction surveys. Plus, who wouldn't choose to wear jeans and a T-shirt to work over a shirt and tie?
Actually, I kind of like the Geek Squad uniforms. They're a cross between Men In Black and Waldo from the Hot For Teacher video. But ... nerdier.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Terminal Tips: Stop Safari "saved text" dialogs
Filed under: Terminal Tips
We're continuing with Safari hacks for today's Terminal Tip. Have you ever typed text on a web page, but then realized that you want to go to another page without saving your input? However, when you close the window or tab, Safari rudely tells you that you have saved text and if you navigate away, your changes will not be saved.
While these dialogs can be useful, most of the time they're annoying. If you want to get rid of them, just type in this Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/) command and press enter:defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugConfirmTossingUnsubmittedFormText NO
You will no longer see the dialog when you have typed text on a page and want to navigate away. To reverse the command, replace "NO" with "YES."
Want more tips and tricks like this? Visit TUAW's Mac 101 and Terminal Tips sections. Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Adium 1.3.1 released
Filed under: Software
It was just last week when our favorite multi-service instant messaging client was updated. Now Adium has been updated to 1.3.1. While there is nothing new with this version, some major bug fixes improves the application's usability.
Here's some of the major bug fixes in this version:
- Facebook timing out when attempting to connect is now fixed
- Avatar not updating in open message windows after change is now fixed
- Stopped Adium from crashing when updating an account password
Thanks, Eric!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Last second App Store deals
Tonight, TUAW has a couple of last-second deals for you from the iPhone App Store:
Air Sharing Although Avatron's Air Sharing software will eventually sell for $7, they're offering it for free for the next couple of weeks. Air Sharing allows you to mount your iPhone or iPod as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows or Linux computer according to the Application Description writeup on iTunes.
Text Guru For the next 24 hours, you can pick up a copy of Brancipater Software's Text Guru app for just $0.99. It normally sells for $5. it provides an iPhone-based multi-function text editor that includes cut/copy/paste (inside the app, not between apps), file sharing and email support.
[Via CoolThingsForComputers]
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Transmit turns 10, we Panic
Filed under: Software
Milestones come and go, but the big milestone of the day was 10 years in the making. Panic's Co-founder, Steven Frank, noted on his personal website that their flagship product, Transmit turned 10 years old.
Transmit, originally called "Transit," was released on September 8, 1998. Who knows, without the success of Transmit we might not have the other beautiful applications from Panic. If you want to relive the old days of Transmit, Panic offers up a free version (you must be running a pre-OS X Mac, or have a classic mode enabled Mac) for your downloading pleasure.
Join TUAW in saying, "Congratulations, Panic." We cannot wait to see what is next!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Misspelling is faster on the iPhone
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Productivity, Tips and tricks, iPhone
I'm not sure that I quite agree with this in the wider scheme of things, but these examples are hard to argue with -- apparently it's easier and faster to just misspell words on your iPhone than to take the time to type them out in full. "We're," for example, is usually six hits on the iPhone's keyboard -- four for the letters, and one to shift to punctuation and another to punch in the apostrophe. But if you type "Weree," just five hits, Apple's little corrector will fix it for you, and you can keep on writing.
Normally, the little corrections made by the iPhone are more frustrating than anything else, but in this case, it could be a benefit -- as long as you remember to misspell all the words with apostrophes while typing. Hopefully, any habits incurred while trying to save time on the iPhone won't translate into anything else you happen to write -- weree not responsible for any mistakes that might get made.
[via MacBytes]Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Dude, he invented the friggin' iPod. Have you heard of it?
Filed under: Apple Corporate, iPod Family, Odds and ends
Meet Kane Kramer. In 1979, he filed a patent for a device called the IXI, an early digital device that held about three minutes of music. He let the patent lapse a decade later, and never saw a penny from Apple's blistering success with the iPod.
You might think this was a story of a bitter man with an agenda against Apple. There, you'd be wrong.
Apple was dealing with a lawsuit from Burst.com in which they claimed to have originally come up with the idea for the iPod. Apple asked Kramer to testify on their behalf, talking about how he filed his patent years before Burst did. Instead of fighting further, Burst and Apple settled out of court. Kramer was paid a consultancy fee for traveling to California and making his deposition.
"The questioning by the Burst legal counsel there was tough, ten hours of it. But I was happy to do it," Kramer told the Daily Mail. "To be honest, I was just so pleased that finally something that I had done which has been a huge success and changed the music industry was being acknowledged."
Presumably on friendly terms, Kramer is negotiating now for compensation from Apple with regards to his original idea.
[Via Valleywag.]
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Pixelmator puts new shortcuts in 1.2.3, pitches 1.3 Tempo beta
Filed under: Software, Productivity
My favorite plucky little picture editor, Pixelmator, has recently updated to version 1.2.3 with a few bug fixes and improvements. They've also added even more keyboard shortcuts -- enough to necessitate a keyboard shortcuts document. Unfortunately, making it white-on-black, which may fit the app's style, doesn't really help with printing. However, if you want to go a little bit past the usual Open Apple-C and Open Apple-S (yes, I'm a die-hard, and so are they), it's a good cheat sheet.
But the even bigger news is that beta 1.3 "Tempo" is right around the corner, and they're soliciting beta testers right now. If, like me, you use the thing every day and want to see what the new version is like, hit up their beta email and see if you can get a little testing in for them. This is an app that has grown in leaps and bounds ever since it first premiered. While it still isn't quite as in-depth or solid as many other image-editing apps out there, its style and relative simplicity has really won me over.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Chrome features are coming to WebKit
Filed under: Internet Tools, Developer
Although Google's Chrome browser is currently only available to Windows users (unless you are running an Intel-based Mac and VMWare Fusion or Parallels), its WebKit underpinnings mean that Safari, and other WebKit-based browsers, can benefit from Google's code.
One of the larger innovations of Google Chrome, the V8 JavaScript engine, is incredibly fast. The WebKit project has its own new JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish, used in Mobile Safari and the WebKit nightlies. Still, the code base for V8 along with the Skia graphics library are making their way into the main WebKit repository. The Skia graphics library may already be in some of the newest nightly builds.
What does this mean for Mac and Safari users? Superficially, it might mean very little for right now, however, the Safari team can choose to implement any of the Chrome features that have been added back to the repository. That's the beauty of open source.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Five iPhone apps for football junkies
Filed under: iPod Family, iTunes, iPhone, App Store
With apologies to our friends across the pond who have their own take on what "football" really is, the first full day of a new season of American football got underway yesterday with a whole host of league games that stretched late into the night. The only thing better than watching a football game is having some really cool football-related apps on your iPhone or iPod touch while you watch. Keep reading to learn more about my favorite five apps.
Pro Football Live - Here's where to go for all the latest updates, scores, and news around the NFL. Customize your own page to the upcoming schedules of your favorite teams and the latest photos from around the league. Individual team page give great breakdowns of team and individual stats on every game -- including preseason. If you're a stats junkie, this is the app for you.
Fantasy Football Cheatsheet '08 - Keep track of everything that's going down with your players and team with this cool app. It's got the rankings of 400 players and their defenses, so you can easily through data while you assemble your draft wish list. Search players by name or team, and choose the My Team tab for instant info on how your players are doing. Sweet.
AP Top25 College Football 2008 - Not strictly related to the NFL, of course, but how else would I keep track of how well West Virginia played (or not) this week, and how those Heisman candidates are looking? Use this app to get weekly AP poll info, view team progress and scores, get rankings, and even view photos of recent games.
Paper Football Lite - Jonesing for a football fix but stuck at the office? Play a few quick rounds of Paper Football instead. It's not the same thing as a fun game of pickup in the backyard, but it'll do in a pinch.Don't have an iPod touch or iPhone? Not to worry, I've got you covered.
UPDATE: I pulled an app at the last minute and, as an eagled-eyed reader who counts better than I noticed, that knocks the count down to four. For an extra App-By-Default, check out comment #4. :-)
Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Copy and paste on the Newton
Filed under: Hardware, Portables, iPhone, Apple History
While everyone waits for Apple to implement copy and paste on the iPhone (or hacks their own), Newton users have been enjoying it for 15 years.
Here's a great video of the just how Apple pulled it off on a previous touch device. Clicking and dragging selects the text, and moving it to the side of the screen sends it to the clipboard, represented by a shortcut. You can then move multiple copies out of the clipboard and into your applications with a drag of that shortcut.
It seems like a variation of this could work for the iPhone -- drag text to an edge or corner as a clipboard. Of course, there's a lot less text manipulation on the iPhone than the Newton, which was a PDA.
Either way, I still love my Newton. Sure, people make fun of me for carrying around a PDA the size of a baby dolphin, but I don't care. At least I have copy and paste.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Winners in the Back-to-School giveaways
Filed under: TUAW Business
If you entered one of our snazzy back-to-school giveaways in August you might want to check your email (and junk mail folders) today. We've sent confirmations to everyone who won. Congratulations to you, randomly-selected recipients!
Here's a look at what we gave away:
- Ten licenses of Searchlight, the OS X and iPhone search tool
- Three copies of Bento, a personal database solution
- A big bag of goodies from Dr. Bott
- A Dymo DiscPainter
- 200 premium disc conversions from Ripstyles
- A bunch of games from Freeverse
Переслать - TUAW Tip: Regular Expressions for Beginners
Filed under: TUAW Tips
Sometimes I think Regular Expressions are like the tax code: if someone professes to know everything about them, they're probably not telling the truth. In reality, Regular Expressions (or RegEx) is a syntax to help you construct very precise search terms to find and replace bits of text in a variety of applications.
In applications like Coda, BBEdit, and TextMate, you can search for a "string" -- meaning just any old collection of letters next to each other -- using a Regular Expression. For example, I could search for the string "laugh" and it would show up in laughter, slaughter, and Laughlin.
While I can't show you everything about Regular Expressions, I can at least start you off. Keep reading for more about how you can integrate Regular Expressions into your workflow.
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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Microsoft Gurus are not Apple Geniuses
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple
According to a Friday article on Yahoo! Finance, Microsoft is introducing "Microsoft Gurus" at Best Buy and Circuit City stores nationwide. They plan on having 155 Gurus deployed by year-end, and will expand the program based on its success.
While it may seem like this is copying Apple's Genius program, it's not. The Geniuses hang out at the Genius Bar in the local Apple Store, helping new Mac owners migrate data or resolve problems, fixing iPod and iPhone issues, and otherwise giving the customer help when they really need it -- after they've committed money to a product and can't get something to work properly.
In contrast, the Microsoft Guru program is only concerned with pre-sales questions. Gurus provide demos of how Microsoft applications work together, as well as answer questions about PCs in general and Windows in particular. This is reminiscent of Microsoft's previous attempts at having in-store sales reps, particularly in 2004 and 2005 when the company had contract staff at stores to push the ever-popular MSN Direct Smart Watches. You say you've never heard of MSN Direct or Smart Watches? That should give you an idea of how successful that pre-sales program was!
What do you think about the Microsoft Gurus? Leave a comment and/or take our poll.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - 3rd Australian Apple Store opens this weekend
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Retail
Australians waited a long time for Apple to establish a retail presence in their backyard, but now the stores are popping up everywhere.
Apple Store Chadstone will open on Saturday, September 13th at 10:00 AM. This will be Australia's third store to open in so many months. As ifoAppleStore points out, with all three of Australia's Apple Stores in the east (this one is south of Melbourne), there's plenty of room for expansion in the west (like Perth).
If you visit Apple Store Chadstone over the weekend, let us know! We'd love to have your stories and pictures.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Press event bingo on your iPhone
Filed under: Software, Other Events, Internet, Internet Tools, iPhone
Are you excited for the Sept. 9 press event? Do you like to play bingo? Are you an iPhone application developer? Then this post was delivered from on high directly to your visual cortex.
We've played bingo here on TUAW before. Who could forget iPhone Bingo or MWSF 2008 Bingo? Those were good times. Today, Ernst-Jan Pfauth at The Next Web wants to create a Let's Rock! bingo game, and he needs your help.
Forget PDFs, he wants a full iPhone application, and has posted some possible mock-ups on his site. It would be fun to play collaboratively over Wi-Fi or even upload additional cards for future events.
A web-based version is available here, but let's help Ernst-Jan realize his dream. iPhone developers -- can you give the guy a hand? And while we're at it... speaking of "limited utility..."
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Waiting on Spore and the App Store approval process
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, iPhone, App Store
Update: The wait is over! As of 3:00 PM Eastern, the iPod touch/iPhone version of Spore Origins is available (with exclusive features) for $9.99US [App Store link].
Spore Origins for the iPhone does exist. We've seen it. However, as of this writing, it still hasn't spawned in the App Store.
Several months ago, it was announced that an iPhone companion would be released on the same date as the desktop version. An iPod version is available (in fact it preceded the full version of Spore), but iPhone users are still waiting to evolve. What gives?
Granted, it's not even 24 hours late, but we've heard stories of Apple taking their sweet time in approving App Store applications. One developer even told us of receiving notificaiton that their application was available hours before it actually showed up in the store.
Of course, we cannot confirm the reason for Spore's tardiness. We will keep our eyes peeled for it, and let you know when it arrives.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - O'Reilly iPhoneLive Event on November 18th
Filed under: Software, Other Events, Developer, iPhone, App Store, SDK
O'Reilly has announced a new event for iPhone developers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts. The iPhoneLive conference is scheduled for November 18, 2008 at the Holiday Inn in San Jose, CA.
Described as "a gathering of the brightest and best participants in the iPhone ecosystem today," iPhoneLive is a one-day event highlighting iPhone development, the emerging iPhone market, and how businesses can capitalize on the success of the platform. iPhoneLive is co-chaired by Raven Zachary of iPhoneDevCamp fame and Bill Dudney, who will be hosting Cocoa Studio in Denver October 28-30.
Space is limited, so be sure to sign up soon if you're interested in attending.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - My ideal iPod touch
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, SDK
Don't get me wrong, I love my iPod touch. As a matter of fact, I'm writing this post with it on the beach as my girlfriend goes surfing. But with Apple's new product announcement on Tuesday, it makes me wonder what changes could be in store for our favorite supercharged music player.
I think the single greatest thing Apple could do for the iPod touch is take a page from the Amazon Kindle and offer free "Whispernet" service for every iPod touch sold. (Or, say, roll it in with a Mobile Me subscription.) Amazon bought access to a chunk of Sprint's EVDO network, which means every Kindle has network access wherever it goes.
Apple could make such a deal with AT&T -- and its various partners worldwide -- to provide the necessary bandwidth. Who knows -- perhaps they have already. Allow tethering with software like NetShare, and you've got Internet access for your Mac, too. Instant-on, and always there. Brilliant.
Another simple addition would be GPS functionality, bringing the iPod touch in line with its newer sibling. Suddenly, the need for both a GPS and an iPod in your car is obviated, and it opens up interesting opportunities with the car manufacturers who already offer iPod integration in their vehicles.
Third, and this could apply to new iPhones too, would be to allow access to the dock connector for Apps. This opens up all kinds of options for iPhone and iPod touch owners to use voice recorders and cameras, as well as potentially control a wide range of equipment from industrial automation tools to backyard telescopes.
Who knows what Apple has up their sleeve? Certainly not me. But with this wish list fulfilled, you can be sure a new iPod touch is in my immediate future.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Terminal Tips: Force Safari to open all links in new tab
Filed under: Terminal Tips
Firefox users have been able to open all links clicked within Firefox in a new tab for a while now, but what about us poor Safari users? Well, sure, you could always hold down command while clicking a link, but that's not fun, now is it? With this simple Terminal hack, you will be surfing like a pro!
Just open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/) and type in the following command:
Once you restart Safari, all clicked links will open in a new tab. If you want to reverse the command for some reason, just replace "true" with "false."defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Want more tips and tricks like this? Visit TUAW's Mac 101 and Terminal Tips sections.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать
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