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- Infectious 'Cut to the Core' design challenge winners
Filed under: Accessories, Odds and ends, Graphic Design
We reported the Infectious "Cut to the Core" design contest a while back, but the winners have just been announced and their designs are truly gorgeous. I rarely sticker my computers, but the Infectious skins are vinyl and won't leave a mess behind when you remove them. These designs are created to work around the glowing Apple logo on the top half of your notebook computers, and the winners really hit the mark.
You can buy the winners' designs directly from Infectious for your 13", 15" and 17" Mac laptops. Skins cost $29.99 each. Check out the winners in the gallery, below.Congratulations to Jun Nuñez who takes home first prize of $1000 for his vision of the Apple logo as the pulsing heart of a robot with ReCharged. Kudos as well to Aren Vandenburgh and his design "Creative Workflow, Dimo Trifonov and his old-school rainbow striped Back to Basics and to Jamal Issawi and his arcade game-inspired Mac Man.
TUAWInfectious 'Cut to the Core' design challenge winners originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Apple - TUAW - Unofficial Apple Weblog - Macintosh - LaptopПереслать - Holy Grail of turn-by-turn arrives: Navigon updates GPS app with text to speech
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App Store, App Review
Users have been begging for it, and now Navigon has updated the Mobile Navigator [iTunes link] app to read street names to you as you drive.
I've tested the app around town, and it worked well, and the speech is clear and easy to understand. Here in Arizona, a lot of the street names are Spanish, and in most cases, the app pronounced them correctly.
It meant that I could drive around getting navigation instructions without ever looking at the iPhone screen, which is a real safety improvement.
Navigon has also added good iPod control functions. You can add new playlists or tracks, and listen while you are using navigation. This is an option that must be turned on, so if you want the function, be sure to do so.
I also like that the app now knows when it is night time and switches the display accordingly. Again, this is a feature you can use, or disable.
When I updated, the old version of the app was completely replaced, and the new app is 1.44 GB, so make sure you have the room and the time to get it downloaded.
Other features added to version 1.2.0 include the ability to email a destination to another Navigon user directly from the app. If the person gets the mail while on an iPhone and taps the location, it will launch the Mobile Navigator app and set the app for the forwarded destination.
Navigon has said the app would be US$99.00 the first of September, but the price is $89.99 instead, keeping it just under the $99.00 TomTom app, and reflecting, I think, how competitive navigation apps are getting with each other.
The company has also announced a car kit available in October, but few details and specs are known. This is the second update to Mobile Navigator since it has been released. Navigon says more updates will be coming. Traffic info and weather data would be nice.
In my view, with text to speech, Navigon has pulled ahead of the pack. I'd still like to see more points of interest in the database, and of course multi-tasking would be nice, but that is an Apple issue, not a Navigon issue.
I like this app, and it has been aggressively updated. Check it out if you are looking for nav, and if you already have this app, get on with the update.TUAWHoly Grail of turn-by-turn arrives: Navigon updates GPS app with text to speech originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - appstore - Apple - Navigon - Global Positioning SystemПереслать - We've got a sub for that...
Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, Apple
In the UK, iPhone and iPod touch users who are used to hearing Apple's "there's an app for that" tagline in advertisements are now doing a double-take when they go to their nearby Subway sandwich shop.
Sharp-eyed TUAW reader Welby McRoberts was accompanying some buddies to Subway for lunch when he noticed that things seemed a little too familiar. As you can see in the photos from Welby's blog that are also in the gallery below, Subway UK is using the similar phrase "We've got a sub for that" in their in-store signage and on employee shirts.
McRoberts notes that "It appears that subway are imitating Apple's "there's an app for that". It turns out that this campaign has been done by McCann Erickson and is a 'light-hearted' campaign complete with UK TV adverts. The phrase Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery comes to mind."
There's no word on whether this campaign will migrate to any of the other 90 countries with Subway franchisees, or if Apple is going to refer to the fabled iTablet as a "Five-Hundred Dollar Foot Long." Chuck and the CIA should be very happy with this new campaign!
TUAWWe've got a sub for that... originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - IpodTouch - Apple - TUAW - Unofficial Apple WeblogПереслать - iTunes 9 Focus: Tips for editing your iPhone apps screens
Filed under: iTunes, iPhone, iPod touch
While of my colleagues are tremendously excited about Norah Jones and iTunes LP, I've got to say I was far happier to discover the new iTunes 9 iPhone application management screens that Brett touched on yesterday (Sorry, Dave!). Located in the Applications tab for each iPhone and iPod touch device, the manager lets you organize your applications on a screen-by-screen basis from the comfort of your desktop. Unfortunately, the organizer remains fairly primitive.You can...
- ...check or uncheck apps that you want to sync or not sync.
- ...drag apps around individual pages to reorder them
- ...drag apps between screens to reparent them.
- ...change page order by dragging them within the page column.
And that's pretty much it. There's no way to sort your screens alphabetically or by category. There's no way to copy or share layouts between devices. There's no undo support if you change your mind about any changes. That having been said, there are some iTunes 9 tricks that may help you better organize your applications. Here are TUAW's top four.
Use Command-Click to group apps. Command-clicking an application icon adds it to (or if already added, removes it from) the currently selected group. You can move groups all at once between pages.
Use empty pages. If you have the pages to spare, use the empty pages that iTunes makes available to you to help organize applications by "theme". For example, you can drag an empty page into, say, the page 2 position and then start filling that page with games from the other pages. Adding apps to that empty page causes another empty page to appear at the end of the list if there is room. You're limited to
eight11 pages total for your applications.Use the dock. Your dock provides a home for up to four applications that you use the most. Docked applications appear on every page, offering the quickest access to your most-used apps. Don't feel limited to the apps that the iPhone OS defaults to. It's your dock. Use it the way that best suits you.
Use the home screen. If you have more than four apps that you need quick access to, don't forget that the first screen of apps is always just a Home button click away. Tapping the home button when viewing apps automatically jumps you to the first page. Place your high priority apps on this first page if they fall short of the urgency of the dock items.
The new Application editor is certainly a great step forward from the way things were. Here's hoping that Apple will make it even easier to manage your applications in future iTunes releases.
TUAWiTunes 9 Focus: Tips for editing your iPhone apps screens originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - Apple - ITunes - IPod Touch - Norah JonesПереслать - iPhone OS 3.1 now enforces Exchange encryption policy, may block pre-3GS iPhones
Filed under: Enterprise, iPhone, iPod touch
The Apple Support forums are a'buzz with reports of several users upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 and discovering a new "feature" which was not available previously. As mentioned in our comments, after upgrading to 3.1, some original iPhone and iPhone 3G owners with Exchange accounts are having trouble accessing their email. Apparently the server-side encryption policy option for mobile devices (only available as of Exchange 2007 SP1) is now being appropriately enforced.
This is not affecting owners of the iPhone 3GS, due to the newer device's support for Exchange encryption. Prior to iPhone OS 3.1 the encryption policy was ignored for all models. Now that 3.1 is available, users are seeing this policy being correctly enforced and older iPhones without encryption support are left without access to Exchange services.
I have yet to find any reports of issues with the iPod touch, but I suspect that it will also be affected by this software change. We're awaiting confirmation from Apple on whether this will impact the newly announced iPod touch models as well.
While many are reacting to this issue as though it's a bug, and are reporting it as such, the reality is that the Exchange encryption requirement is a feature and the fact that it was not being correctly enforced was actually a security hole. IT administrators with Exchange 2007 SP1 servers and iPhone clients are probably going to be fielding an above-average level of incoming questions, but at least they can rest easy knowing that Exchange encryption is now working correctly. Cold comfort for their users, though.
If you are running into this issue, the straightforward (though pricey) solution is to upgrade to the iPhone 3GS; or consider bribing your IT guy with Red Bull so he will disable the encryption requirement for mobile devices. But we want to hear from you; are you using an Exchange account? Can you still access it following the upgrade to 3.1? Which device are you using, iPhone or iPod touch; 3G or 3GS? Is this a little thing that means a lot to you from a security perspective or have you been left high and dry without access to critical email?
[Via Broadband Reports]TUAWiPhone OS 3.1 now enforces Exchange encryption policy, may block pre-3GS iPhones originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - IpodTouch - Apple - TUAW - iPhone 3GПереслать - Get your notifications: experimental Mac app from Facebook
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Beta Beat
Mac-using Facebook fans are going to be happy to learn about Facebook's experimental Desktop Notifications app. Desktop Notifications sits in the menu bar, and pops up notifications (using Growl if you have it) when they occur. It also gives you quick access to your news feed, profile page, and quick ways to update your status or start a new Facebook email message.
There are two things about Desktop Notifications that are compelling, yet have nothing to do with the app itself. The first is the fact that it's a native Mac application, rather than yet another Facebook client written on Adobe Air. The second is that it was actually
developed by Facebook themselves[Update] Thanks to Raul and Nate for pointing out in the comments that the application is marked as "not developed by Facebook", though one of the developers listed works for Facebook. It's unclear at this point how serious this project is; it's clearly marked as experimental, which is clearly becoming the post-Gmail way of denoting that something is beta.In terms of raw functionality, Desktop Notifications is pretty barebones, since most of what it does is take you to a particular Facebook page. Personally I kind of like it that way. It's relatively light in terms of memory usage, and uses virtually no CPU cycles at all unless you are actively interacting with it, which is exactly what I want from a utility that is running all the time.
My one beef is that the built-in hotkey that pops up a status update dialog box conflicts with another utility on my system, and there is no way to modify it. Since Desktop Notifications is still in the experimental stage, that's a pretty small complaint.[Update] Commenter Scott points out that there is a preference setting to change the hotkey.
[via TechCrunch]TUAWGet your notifications: experimental Mac app from Facebook originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Apple - Facebook - Adobe Integrated Runtime - Adobe Systems - GmailПереслать - iTunes 9 Focus: iTunes LP
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, Multimedia, Software, iTunes
For me, the most exciting feature of iTunes 9 is iTunes LP. As a kid, I read CD booklets cover to cover, looked at every photo, saw who played what instrument on what track and who wrote the songs. That's an experience I've missed since distribution went digital, but I've accepted it.
A couple of years ago, Apple added digital booklets to to the iTunes Store, and some of them were quite nice. But even the best don't compare to iTunes LP. Today I purchased the deluxe version of "Come Away With Me" by Norah Jones [iTunes link] and spent nearly 20 minutes exploring it, just like the old days.
The album contains a bonus track ("Peace"), but the real fun begins when you double-click the "Deluxe Version" file and you're presented with something that resembles a DVD menu. A simple animation draws Norah's name while the first few measures of "Come Away With Me" are heard. From there, you're set to explore.
This album has seven options: Play album, songs, memorabilia, photos, videos, liner notes and credits. The first two do what you'd expect, accompanied by photos and lyrics. The memorabilia feature surprised me with pictures of backstage passes, the tour calendar and a "quickie rundown" of events from the 45th Grammy Awards (Norah's appearances highlighted).
There are sixteen photos and four videos including -- surprise! -- Norah's appearance on Sesame Street (much to my 4-year-old's delight). Finally, the full liner notes, biography and album credits are included, each with beautiful photos.
Music fans will love this feature, as will fans of participating artists. It's not like holding a record jacket or CD booklet in your hand, but that's an unfair comparison anyway. Paper liner notes don't contain videos, photos of this size or some of the other goodies. iTunes LP is a very welcome treat.
Check out the gallery below for screenshots.
TUAWiTunes 9 Focus: iTunes LP originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iTunes Store - Norah Jones - Apple - DVD - MultimediaПереслать - Ask TUAW: Backing up photos, remove Boot Camp partitions, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 and more
Filed under: Features, Bluetooth, Ask TUAW, iPhone, Snow Leopard
Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Mac troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about backing up photos, removing a Boot Camp partition, Snow Leopard and Windows 7, Bluetooth menus, iPhone search results and more.
As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of Mac OS X (we'll assume you're running Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions.
Han asks:
What is the best way to archive photos without using iPhoto? I have about 100 GB of original photos and I have been saving them on my NetGear ReadyNAS Duo. Sometimes I leave the photos in the folder and just copy it to the NAS or sometimes zip them before I put it in the NAS. What I am worried about is if I zip the folder and somehow the zip file itself gets corrupted, is it harder to recover them? Is it better to just not zip and leave it as a folder then copy it to the NAS?
Because photos are pretty important and almost impossible to recreate I take my photo workflow and backup seriously. First, I never import photos directly into iPhoto and instead, using a card reader, copy the files to a folder I have labeled specifically for these photos which resides in my main "Photography" folder.TUAWAsk TUAW: Backing up photos, remove Boot Camp partitions, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 and more originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Snow Leopard - Mac OS X - iPhone - BootCamp - AppleПереслать - With the iPhone 3.1 update little things mean a lot
Filed under: Software Update, iPhone, MobileMe
Sometimes it's the smallest thing in a software update that means the most to some users. This latest iPhone update contains a few little gems that should not be lost in all the excitement over new iPod hardware.
One of the nicest additions is the ability to remotely lock your iPhone if you're a MobileMe subscriber. It could be very helpful if you've left it somewhere and are not sure where, or you know it's stolen but don't want to wipe all your content in case the phone is quickly recovered. This doesn't replace the very welcome remote wipe feature, but it is a nice add-on.
The place to activate the remote lock is on your MobileMe settings page, which you can access from a web browser. You can give a four digit code, and if your phone is turned on it will immediately lock. You will also get a confirmation e-mail from Apple.
One item to note, once you have done this, it is not a one-time thing. When you get your phone back and you unlock it, it will lock up again when your auto-lock activates unless you turn the feature off in your iPhone settings. I tested the remote lock function, and it worked as advertised.
Another worthwhile addition in the iPhone 3.1 software is the ability, finally, to use Bluetooth voice commands with a Bluetooth headset. This feature should have been included in the iPhone 3.0 software, but I am glad to see Apple address this obvious shortcoming,
With my Jabra Bluetooth headset I could initiate a voice call without any problem. I also asked the phone what song is playing and got the correct answer, but the voice responded through the phone and not the headset. No big thing.
It's nice to see Apple cleaning up some of these little issues as the iPhone moves forward. Wonder where it will be in a year?TUAWWith the iPhone 3.1 update little things mean a lot originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: iPhone - Bluetooth - Apple - Unofficial Apple Weblog - TUAWПереслать - Apple introduces new iPod shuffle colors, adds a new $59 2GB model
Filed under: Apple, ipod shuffle, Music
Along with the new iPod nano, iPod touch and iPod classic updates, Apple today also introduced 3 new colors of the iPod shuffle, a special stainless steel edition, and a 2GB model for $59.
The new colors are green, pink and blue, and are available for both the 2GB and 4GB models.
Also, there's a new $99 4GB stainless steel model, available for $99, $20 more than the regular 4GB colors.
Finally, there's a new 2GB model of the 3rd generation shuffle, available for $59, and also comes in black, sliver, green, pink and blue.TUAWApple introduces new iPod shuffle colors, adds a new $59 2GB model originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: IpodNano - IpodTouch - IPod Classic - Apple - iPodПереслать - Apple releases video of today's event
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Corporate, iTS, Software, Other Events, iTunes, Steve Jobs, iPod nano
Update: The video of the keynote announcement is now linked off the front page of Apple.com.
Though the video of today's event is not yet on Apple.com (as of this writing -- though you can find it here), it has been added to Apple's official podcast. Even if you were underwhelmed by today's announcements, you don't want to miss Steve's return or the ovation he received. The video of today's press event is just over one hour and fourteen minutes long.
We'll be diving deep into the new features of iTunes 9 over the next 24 hours, so check back often. Until then, launch the stream and succumb to the Reality Distortion Field.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!TUAWApple releases video of today's event originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sponsored Topics: Steve Jobs - Apple - IpodNano - ITunes - TUAWПереслать - Win another big bag of goodies from Stylit.tv and TUAW
Filed under: Accessories, Odds and ends, Other Events
TechStyle has begun round two of their giveaway on Stylit.tv, and this one ends September 15. There are even more prizes in this bag, and TUAW readers need only enter a special promo code to get extra chances to win. Thanks to our friends at Stylit.tv, host Shira Lazar and the vendors who donated the loot.
On the next page you'll find the special code, a video of Shira at Macworld Expo (plus see us give away the two other bags of goodies at the event) and a list of what's in this giveaway.Continue reading Win another big bag of goodies from Stylit.tv and TUAW
TUAWWin another big bag of goodies from Stylit.tv and TUAW originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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