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- BetterTouchTool makes multi-touch infinitely more useful, for free
Filed under: Software, Cool tools
We recently covered a utility called MagicPrefs that adds a hatful of new and configurable multi-touch gestures to your Magic Mouse. Well, there's another free utility called BetterTouchTool that works with both trackpads and Magic Mice, providing a huge number of gestures and infinite possibilities for configuration. BetterTouchTool is a fork of the MultiClutch project, built for Snow Leopard and expanding the feature set greatly. It's the work of Andreas Hegenberg (also the author of SecondBar), and it's come a long way since the first alpha version I tested a while back.
Aside from improved stability, the interface is one of the elements that's come the farthest. It's now quite easy to start adding gestures such as 'Three Finger Swipe Down' and 'Four Finger Click,' and assign them to predefined actions like 'Show Desktop' or 'Open Finder.' You can also assign any shortcut key you like, or assign a gesture to launch any application ... meaning you can make just about anything happen. BetterTouchTool also has actions available that control window sizing and movement, ala SizeUp, but with gestures.
Groups of gestures can be assigned to specific applications, or made global. The latest version includes presets (which you can switch between), import, and export. Separate gestures are available for the trackpad and the Magic Mouse, and the new "Live View" feature makes it very easy to gain precise control over sensitivity settings and to test out gestures. BetterTouchTool is free, and is likely to remain that way, according to the author. It's still got the occasional glitch, but development is rapid and it's improving and expanding almost daily. If you've got a MacBook or MacBook Pro with a multi-touch trackpad, a Magic Mouse, or both, give it a shot!TUAWBetterTouchTool makes multi-touch infinitely more useful, for free originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Has Skype skipped? It's missing from the app store
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch
If you have Skype on your iPhone, hang onto it. As of this morning it seems to be MIA from the app store. The reason? Unclear. It could be that a new version is about to roll out. It could be that AT&T/Apple are unhappy with the app. It could be a glitch.
The app is also missing from international versions of the app store. There is still a link to the app on the Skype web page, but the link fails with a warning that Skype is not available. An iTunes app store search also fails to turn it up.
People were excited to get Skype on the iPhone when it was released, but there was a let down when it turned out that voice calls could only be made on a Wi-Fi network. There were hints that AT&T was going to allow Skype to use the 3G network, but that hasn't happened yet.
We've got questions about this into Apple and Skype. You'll know morew when we do.
TUAWHas Skype skipped? It's missing from the app store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Textbook publishers dream of the tablet
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Internet Tools
One of the things Apple should do to achieve runaway success with the tablet is incorporate textbooks. The folks at Coursesmart, a joint venture of five publishers that sells college textbooks as ebooks, have produced a video demonstrating how it could work.*
In the video, the user flips through available textbooks, makes a selection and begins reading. He also makes notes, views video of a lecture, adds an event to his calendar and searches the web for additional info, all while sipping a coffee. It's a neat idea, and just one of a slew of concepts that have recently surfaced.
But why textbooks? There are several reasons. First, college students are young and tech-savvy. They're also light on the finances often times, and ebooks are cheaper than their paper counterparts. Also, they could connect to iTunes U to find the books they need and lighten the load of heavy backpacks.
As for the publishers, this type of distribution would eliminate the school's resale of used books, which was a benefit for the students but did nothing for them. If the latest rumor is true, we only have a few more weeks to wait.
*Note that the video is entirely Coursesmart's imagining and not based on an actual product from Apple ... real or otherwise.
[Via MacDailyNews]TUAWTextbook publishers dream of the tablet originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - App Store tops 3 billion downloads
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple Financial, App Store
Apple announced this morning that App Store downloads have officially broken 3 billion, and it happened in less than 18 months.
In a press release issued today, Steve Jobs said, "...this is like nothing we've ever seen before. The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon."
The App Store broke the billion-download barrier in April and hit 2 billion in September. With all the new iPhones and iPod touches (estimated) sold in the holiday quarter, this number should only climb higher.
Part of the store's success is perfection of the impulse purchase. It's ridiculously easy to find an app while you're in line at the bank for instance, do a bit of poking around and hit "buy!" Why not, it's only two bucks!
Competitors have been launched, some more successful than others, but Steve's right in saying that nothing else has matched the App Store's success. Congratulations to Apple!TUAWApp Store tops 3 billion downloads originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple Stores have no gift registries. Bummer.
Filed under: Apple
Lauren and I were chatting with Megan over on iChat today and trying to figure out how to set up her gift registry for her upcoming nuptials with her hawt Astrophysicist boyfriend. Of course, Megan is dying for one of those awesome iPhone remote dodads but we thought that we'd just go for more of a general Apple Store registry thing. I gave my local Apple Store a call to ask how we could get it established. The gentleman at the other end of the phone was polite. Perplexed but polite.
"Um...A gift registry? I don't think we've ever been asked THAT before," he said. "We don't have one. We're kind of a specialized store, you know." Yes, we do know. And it's the kind of specialization that we like. But even Home Depot has a gift registry service, so what's the hold-up Apple? Don't you realize that geeks get married and have babies too?
Sadly, it looks like Megan must rely on word of mouth instead. Don't forget, Apple does have a limit on how many gift certificates you can redeem at any one time online. I think it's something like 4 cards for online purchases but unlimited for in-store ones. Check with an Apple representative for details.TUAWApple Stores have no gift registries. Bummer. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Will Apple buy mobile ad company Quattro Wireless?
Filed under: Apple Corporate
According to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, Apple may announce the purchase of Quattro for the relative bargain price of $275 million. I say bargain because, as Kara points out, Google paid three times that for AdMob, another mobile ad company. So what? This bit of news, when taken with the ad patent filed by Apple, could suggest they are going to implement some sort of ad system on something. But what? AdMob could be used on Android-powered devices...
How about ads on a tablet device? Ads could help lower the cost of the mythical tablet, especially when those ads are sold by, say, content creators like a newspaper or four. I realize those are a lot of threads to pull together, but all the speculation seems to be swirling around this tablet, the cost and the content that'll go inside. Traditionally cost has been the Achilles' heel for an Apple product, but with ad-supported price breaks you could theoretically lower the cost of the product to the consumer while keeping some margins.
Then again, Apple may simply be planning to integrate Quattro into the developers' toolkits, and provide them with an in-house solution for ad-supported apps. Or maybe they are going to sell an ad-supported OS X for Dell machines. Who knows? As I write this neither company had any comment on the sale or announcement.TUAWWill Apple buy mobile ad company Quattro Wireless? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Engadget meets Woz
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Apple, Apple History
Engadget's Josh Topolsky got to chat with none other than Woz recently, and they've finally shared a great video of their meeting. Woz says a lot of interesting things in the video (he runs six navigation systems at a time in his car just for comparison's sake, and carries two iPhones nowadays, just in case the battery life runs out), but the most intriguing thing about this video is just seeing the great Wozniak thinking machine race along at the speed of Woz.
For example, those two iPhones he carries are the two different colors available. Why? "White and black, black and white. Resistor color codes: zero and nine. Those are the digits they end in!" Gosh, we love Steve Wozniak. You can watch the whole video after clicking the link below.
TUAWEngadget meets Woz originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple's top technical feats of the decade
Filed under: Hardware, OS, Software, Odds and ends, Snow Leopard
We're well into 2010 (OK, 4 days), but there's still a few more lists and "top tens" of the last decade to clean up. One of the more interesting Apple-related wrapups is this list by Fraser Spiers, showing off Apple's best technical feats of the past decade. There's certainly tons of technical innovations by Apple in "the naughties" to choose from -- it was the decade of the iPod and the iPhone. But Spiers' list actually avoids direct mention of either of those, instead choosing to highlight some more Mac-based technical feats. Bonjour is in there, as is the great Time Machine and Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch system. Webkit is probably an obvious choice, given all the places it's shown up in Apple's various releases.
And there are some more interesting picks on the list as well, including Aperture, the underrated Exposé, and even the unibody laptop design. Some might argue that a few of these aren't necessarily Apple's innovations (I wouldn't necessarily credit them with DVD burning and encoding in the 2000s), but it's true that all of these were brought into a widespread, acclaimed form by Apple. If nothing else, a list like this shows just how much Apple has done for personal computing in the last ten years -- we tend to think first, these days, of their handheld accomplishments, but they've had plenty of other technical feats as well.
[via Michael Tsai]TUAWApple's top technical feats of the decade originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Airstash brings wireless storage to iPhone
Filed under: Peripherals, iPhone
In 2007 I thought that my 8GB iPhone was as large as I would ever need. Two and a half years later and I've already filled up the 16GB storage of my iPhone 3GS. Enter AirStash, an expandable flash drive (via SD memory) that you will be able to access from your iPhone. Simply plug AirStash into your Mac, drag and drop some files to the mounted volume, and head then out the door with AirStash and iPhone in your pocket.
How the technology works is currently unclear (expect to see a demo at CES 2010), but a logical solution would be that AirStash automatically syncs its contents with an off-site server -- similar to what Dropbox does today. If it truly is as portable as that, it will obviate Dropbox's (and MobileMe's) need to install any client software if you are, for instance, using a friend's computer. Personally, I'd like to see Apple purchase Dropbox and turn MobileMe's cloud storage into something usable; but in the interim, I'm excited by the prospect that AirStash provides.
[via Engadget]TUAWAirstash brings wireless storage to iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Chrome beat Safari in December
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Apple
Here's an interesting fact that dropped over the weekend: Google Chrome, the browser by the search company with a silly name, actually beat Apple's Safari browser in overall usage during the last month of 2009 (Chrome first beat Safari midway through the month, but new month-long data shows that Chrome is here to stay). Internet Explorer continues to lose users, but Chrome has been taking over the ranks pretty quickly, moving in above Safari as the number three browser of choice (after IE and Firefox, of course).
Bad news for Apple -- after their release of Safari for Windows in 2009, you'd think they'd have hoped for a little more in terms of browser share at the end of the year. But it looks like they're going to have to do something even bigger than that to fight the current on this one -- that is, if they want to do so at all. With a relative newcomer topping Safari so quickly, it's possible Apple could back off of promoting and upgrading their proprietary browser entirely. Still, with Chrome using Webkit, the fact is that for the average user, things are getting better all the time.TUAWChrome beat Safari in December originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger creator working on an iPhone project
Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhone, iPod touch
Good news for the new year from Touch Arcade: Hironobu Sakaguchi is developing games for the iPhone. Just in case that name doesn't ring a bell for you, maybe the games he's helped create might: Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, and Xenogears. Yes, those of you who know your console RPG history will know that those are some of the best role-playing games ever made, and if you don't know that, then walk away from whatever you're doing right now and go play all of them -- they're brilliant.
Sakaguchi announced over on the blog for his latest company, Mistwalker, that his team was working on a brand new "blockbuster project" in 2010, and they're also working on releasing something for the iPhone. He doesn't share much at all about either, though he does say that we'll see the iPhone project on the App Store soon. We can't wait -- having a legendary developer like this working on the iPhone platform just shows that while 2009 was a great year for iPhone gaming, 2010 has plenty of potential as well.TUAWFinal Fantasy, Chrono Trigger creator working on an iPhone project originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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