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- Ngmoco's We Rule is live, but buggy
Filed under: Gaming
Ngmoco's We Rule is now available for download worldwide in the App Store -- it's the first ground-up game developed for their big freemium experiment, in which they give away a game and then support it with periodic updates, bringing in revenue with in-app purchases driven by social interaction and game design.
I got to play the game at GDC a few weeks ago, and if you've ever played Facebook's Farmville, you'll find most of it very familiar -- you can plant crops, build a town, and earn money both by waiting in real time for investments to pay off, and trading/giving items among friends. Early App Store ratings are pretty good, and while the app doesn't seem to be charting yet, Ngmoco's Neil Young made it clear at GDC that this is a slow burn model -- they're not worried so much about charts as building up average daily users.
Unfortunately, it seems the app suffered from some early bugs -- the game requires a 'net connection to run (like Farmville, it's very server oriented), and many users were having trouble connecting. Young wrote a blog post himself about the issues the other day; he says that it's primarily a server problem, and that the teams are working as quickly as they can to fix issues. Not unexpected -- Ngmoco's model calls for an "MVP" ("Minimum Viable Product") to be released on the App Store, so again, they're more interested in how the app does long term, not in the first few days.
Other than the hiccups (which did result in a few bad App Store reviews and ratings), We Rule appears to be taking off carefully. We'll have to wait and see if the Farmville-style click-and-wait gameplay is enough to bring in those average daily users that Ngmoco is craving from the App Store.TUAWNgmoco's We Rule is live, but buggy originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Now Software suspends day-to-day operations
Filed under: Software
Now Software, the company that for many years created and sold Now Up-To-Date and Contact to Mac users, has ceased day-to-day operations as of today.
As noted in a tip from TUAW reader Barry T., attempts to view the Now Software website are now redirected to a Google Sites page. On that page, there's a link to information about the current state of the company. That's where this letter from Now's John Wallace explains what killed the company (click the Read More link to view the letter):For those of us who have watched Now Software go from a thriving software company to a floundering mess over the past few years, this is not entirely surprising. NightHawk had reached legendary vaporware status and it appeared that it would never really come out in a full working form. Many Now Up-To-Date and Contact users simply gave up and moved to other packages such as the popular Daylite from Marketcircle. Without an iPhone companion app, Now Up-To-Date and Contact and NightHawk simply became irrelevant to most Mac users.
The Google Sites pages provide access to the user forums and other help-related information from the old Now Software website.TUAWNow Software suspends day-to-day operations originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Apple no longer requiring proof of AT&T contract for iPhone purchase
Filed under: iPhone
9to5Mac reports that Apple has changed the requirements for buying an off-contract iPhone in the USA. US buyers have been able to purchase off-contract iPhones at "list price" for quite some time, but they still had to present proof of an AT&T plan at the time of purchase. That requirement has been removed.
For twenty brief, shining minutes, this sounded like the iPhone was being offered unlocked by Apple, which would have been truly huge news -- if you wanted to use the iPhone on another GSM carrier (meaning T-Mobile, in the States), you could have done it without jumping through any extra hoops. According to both 9to5Mac and Engadget, however, it appears those initial reports were incorrect: the iPhone is still locked to AT&T, though according to one source (supposedly an Apple retail employee), "it takes like 2 minutes to unlock them."
iPhones have been available unlocked in other countries for some time now, but the US is definitely the iPhone's biggest market. Having the iPhone available for sale unlocked, officially, via Apple, would have been a huge deal. But that day, unfortunately, doesn't seem to have arrived quite yet.
[Via Engadget]TUAWApple no longer requiring proof of AT&T contract for iPhone purchase originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Vaja now selling iPad cases
Filed under: iPad
Out of all of the iPod or iPhone cases I've seen, Vaja makes my personal favorites -- I bought one of their cases for my 80gb iPod, and it's still the best gadget case I've ever owned. They're a little pricier than some cases, but the exquisite leather, custom design, and solid crafting makes the purchase worth it.
And now they've introduced an iPad case as well. Of course, the iPad's use chart looks a little different -- it doesn't necessarily seem like the kind of device you'll be pulling out while walking around, and you probably don't need a great leather case if you're just going to use it as a satellite computer around your home (not that anyone knows for sure how they're going to use their iPad yet). But Vaja makes some quality cases, and while they haven't announced all of their iPad options yet (the Retro Slim Jacket is the only one available right now), it might be worth looking at if you'd rather put a little leather on your new Apple tablet.
Customization is not yet announced but likely -- when I ordered my iPod's case, there were a whole bunch of different case styles and colors to choose from. Cost on the one they've got is $120, and they're saying it takes about 25 days to get each custom-made case put together. A Vaja case isn't something to be purchased lightly, but quality like this doesn't come cheap or fast.TUAWVaja now selling iPad cases originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Seen at SXSW: rejected app Holopic
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone
There's nothing offensive about Holopic. It's a rather ingenious app that (according to the developer) uses just a couple of pictures to create a sort of lenticular lens pseudo-3D effect. That is, when you tilt the image you can see other angles in the image, like 3D, but it isn't true 3D. Unfortunately the developer spent a bunch of money getting attractive models into bikinis and then into the app right before Apple put the kibosh on nearly every app with so much as a bare ankle exposed (let alone cleavage). The fact that the app was rejected doesn't really surprise me, given Apple's new stance, but you could tell months of planning had been thrown off track by the decision. The developer was less than pleased about the situation.
Apologies for the fuzzy video, the Kodak Zi8 has no macro capability.TUAWSeen at SXSW: rejected app Holopic originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - New York Times: The race is on for iPad apps
Filed under: iPad
Today's New York Times is reporting on the newest gold rush -- the race to be among the first developers to have apps that are specifically tailored to run on the iPad and tested on a pre-release iPad. Most readers of TUAW know that developers can use the iPad simulator that is part of the iPhone development suite, but a handful of developers are actually testing their apps on real iPads.
According to the post, those iPads are chained to desks in windowless rooms. Among the lucky few companies to actually be able to test their iPad apps are Major League Baseball, The Wall Street Journal, and (of course) The New York Times. While the iPad's form factor is perfectly tailored for reading ebooks, Amazon and Barnes & Noble have both had to develop their iPad apps without the benefit of trying them out on a working device.
The article notes that with the iPhone, some of the earliest developers with products to market have become the most successful. That's the reason that so many developers are working on customizing their iPhone apps for the iPad. However, the developers also understand that making a misstep with a new app that hasn't been properly tested can kill any chance of success.
Panelfly, for one, isn't taking chances with their comic book reader for iPad. The Times quotes PanelFly CEO Wade Slitkin as stating that "As much as we'd love to be there on Day 1, a misstep could kill the train before it even gets out of the station." On iPad launch day, it will be fascinating to see who is in the race for the long run, and who jumped the gun with poorly-designed apps.TUAWNew York Times: The race is on for iPad apps originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - "Gift This App" appears in the app store
Filed under: App Store
When the 2010 baseball season began, I knew I wanted to buy MLB At Bat for a friend. Unfortunately there was no way to do that directly, so I had to settle for a Gift Certificate. Then I discovered that Gift Certificates are only available in $10 increments, starting at $10 and ending at $50.
As of today, that will no longer be a problem. Apple has introduced "Gift This App" for iPhone/iPod touch apps. Simply click on the dropdown menu next to "Buy App" to find the "Gift This App" link. Unfortunately it does not seem to be enabled (yet?) for all apps. When I checked the CBS Sports NCAA app the Gift This App option did not appear.
Then there is the question of what happens if you try to buy an app for someone who already has it? What if you try to send an app to someone who uses a different email address for their iTunes account? What if you buy an app for someone who -- I shudder to even suggest this -- doesn't have an iPhone or iPod touch?
While I am sure that these and other issues will have to be worked out, this is a good addition to the App Store if for no other reason than it will allow people to give the gift of apps without having to go through the extra process of buying a gift card, especially if all you want to spend is $0.99!TUAW"Gift This App" appears in the app store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: Urban Airship's AirMail takes push notifications to the next level
Filed under: iPhone
Here's an exclusive TUAW video preview of Urban Airship's latest product, AirMail. Like their other products, AirMail is powered by a precompiled drop-in library that developers add to their iPhone applications. AirMail adds a whole new spin on push notifications by transforming them from lightweight messaging into a more durable and interactive product.
Normally push notifications give a simple heads-up to users along the lines of "You have mail" or "Someone tweeted your name." AirMail goes further. It uses the iPhone's push notification infrastructure to enhance two-way communications between service providers and their customers.
As this video shows, push notifications are no longer throwaway products. Using AirMail, they can be stored and referenced through an in-app library. Applications can create message histories that persist well beyond the life of a normal push message. What's more, those notifications can involve the user in a multi-directional process, whether confirming that they have taken their pills (as shown here), are ready to take a meeting, or that they acknowledge that a security alarm was triggered in error, among other uses.
What makes this product particularly useful is that it more meaningfully and helpfully breaks through the limitations of Apple's one-app-at-a-time policy. AirMail uses Push in a way that doesn't end when the user acknowledges the notification and launches the application. Instead, AirMail jumps off from the notification, using it as a trigger to begin a user interaction sequence.
It's a given that Apple's remote notification service is unreliable. It's not designed for critical path uses. (For example, new messages can displace older messages from the delivery queue, so messages that are "delivered" might not arrive on a user's device.) So it's nice to see that Urban Airship has engineered an understanding about delivery problems into their AirMail product. I like the way the video showcases the medical application that requires user confirmation that he or she has taken the specified dosages. Should a user not respond in a timely fashion, that particular service is set up to re-issue notifications as needed.
The video here also demonstrates some simpler solutions including coupons, which I thought was brilliant. Transforming notifications into a durable coupon that can be retrieved from the AirMail library at a later time is clearly something that any marketing person can see the advantage of. It melds timeliness and immediacy with a tangible win for both user and sponsor.
Urban Airship has built their business on providing mobile developers with easy-to-use drop-in solutions for mobile commerce and push notifications. For a small fee that scales with usage, they provide the web infrastructure that connects iPhone apps to Apple's remote notification service and in-app purchase fulfillment through REST calls. You can stop by their website for more information about the various services they offer.
It looks like AirMail is going to be a nice addition to their product list, regardless of whether Apple eventually allows multiple 3rd party applications to run at once or not. That's because having an opt-in Web service-based solution for applications that aren't yet running is a sweet add-in to any OS.TUAWFound Footage: Urban Airship's AirMail takes push notifications to the next level originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - MoviePeg iPhone stand is cheap, cool, easy to clean
Filed under: Accessories, iPhone
Here's a nifty little iPhone stand for you. MoviePeg is basically just a piece of plastic with a notch cut into it that slides over an iPhone. Its design makes it the simplest iPhone stand I've ever seen. But as Apple has proven, simplicity works. I used to think that I would never have a need for an iPhone stand, but then I started using recipe apps and I can tell you the stands come in handy in the kitchen. MoviePeg is especially handy because its solid body lacks ridges and is a snap to wipe flour or egg batter from.
MoviePeg works in landscape of horizontal mode and comes in six colors. At £5 (about $7.50US), if you need a durable iPhone stand, MoviePeg is a no-brainer.
[via Wired]TUAWMoviePeg iPhone stand is cheap, cool, easy to clean originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Oh dear, textaholic seeks iPhone for carpal tunnel relief
Filed under: iPhone
Note: The medical opinions expressed in this post are anecdotal in nature and represent the non-professional experiences of one blogger. It's true that some people have had success with trigger point therapy. However, it is our recommendation that Ms. Levitz and any person suffering with carpal tunnel or a repetitive stress injury should follow the advice of his/her physician or other certified medical professional.
File this under "what did you expect?" Annie Levitz, a sixteen year old from Mundelein, IL has been sending 4,000 text messages a month. Yes, FOUR THOUSAND. She began to feel tingling, pain and numbness in her hands and went to her doctor who diagnosed her the the RSI injury, carpal tunnel syndrome. She's had cortisone injections and will need surgery. But Annie thinks there's another solution -- switching to an iPhone. "I do think that since it's touch it won't be as rough on my hands," she said.
Annie, I could make fun of your situation, but I'm not going to because neuropathic pain sucks. Matter of fact, maybe I can help a bunch of our readers out who are in similar situations.
Annie: you especially, and most likely your doctor, are wrong about the solutions to your problem. "Carpal tunnel syndrome" is more often than not a description of the symptoms than a diagnosis of the actual problem. The cure is not an iPhone, cortisone injections, or God forbid, surgery. It's trigger point therapy. How do I know? Because for two years I had crippling back pain. It was so bad I couldn't walk without excruciating pain. I went to the best doctors and physical therapists who did little to relieve my symptoms. Most doctors said they couldn't pinpoint what was wrong but "knew" I needed injections or surgery to fix it. By chance I read about trigger points online and ordered a book about them. It was the best purchase I've made in my entire life. In less than half an hour, I ended my excruciating back pain -- pain I lived with for two years! -- on my own with a tennis ball.
Since then I have been diagnosed with carpel tunnel, plantar fasciitis and a bad knee. I have successfully treated all -- without doctors -- using trigger point therapy. Usually it only takes two days of about 10 to 20 minutes of self-applied trigger point therapy to take care of these "medical conditions."
Now God knows I'm not a doctor. I'm just a normal guy who used to know nothing about anatomy or physiology that took his own health into his own hands -- and it worked. Since then I've helped many people help themselves through trigger point therapy. BTW, trigger point therapy is not acupuncture or some type of "quack medicine." Trigger point therapy relies on physiological science and an exemplary understanding about origins and insertions of muscle, fascia, and tendons. Trigger points are scientifically proven and can be easily viewed under an electron microscope. The therapy was pioneered by Dr Janet Travell, the personal physician to John F. Kennedy.
Most likely, based on my personal experience, the pain you are feeling in your hands is coming from the scalene muscles in your neck. This makes sense if you think of how you hold your device while texting. Your upper body is usually shrugged which causes trigger points to form which in turn puts pressure on nerves that run from your neck to your hands where you are feeling the pain.
Trigger point therapy has been around for over forty years and is only now gaining traction in the medical community. If more people knew about it, computer user's RSI "injuries" could be effectively prevented, treated, and cured. So Annie please, before you get surgery, check out trigger point therapy. It's worth a try, isn't it? Within days you'll know if its worked for you. There's even a trigger point app in the App Store you can use to guide you if you do get that new iPhone. If it doesn't work, you can still have the invasive surgery.
One last thing, stop sending so many texts -- you don't want to be like this guy.TUAWOh dear, textaholic seeks iPhone for carpal tunnel relief originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Microsoft announces "Mac Office Loves You" winners, TUAW reader wins!
Filed under: Hardware, TUAW Business
A while ago we told you about Microsoft's "Mac Office Loves You" sweepstakes. I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft has chosen the two winners and one of them is a TUAW reader who read about the contest on our site! TUAW reader Kristopher Villalpando won a brand new MacBook Pro and a copy of Office for Mac 2008. Kristopher is a twenty year old college student majoring in graphic design. Before winning the contest Kristopher was sans laptop and stuck working on Office for Mac 2004. The other winner was Bryce Porter, a twenty-five year old software engineering student.
Congrats to both of you! Kristopher, thanks for reading and remember who's looking out for ya!TUAWMicrosoft announces "Mac Office Loves You" winners, TUAW reader wins! originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW Bookshelf: Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide
Filed under: Reviews, Books, TUAW Bookshelf
When it comes to software reference books, there are three major varieties -- the detailed soup-to-nuts books that try to tell you everything and weigh about ten pounds, the "dummies" type that are usually so full of obvious information that they're relatively useless, and the small quick reference manuals that assume that you have some familiarity with your software and just focus on the things that you really need to know.
Brendan Boykin's Final Cut Pro 7 Quick Reference Guide (US$29.99 for the printed text, $16.79 for the ebook version), part of the Peachpit Press Apple Pro Training Series, is one of the latter types. It's a small book when it comes to physical size; you can easily tuck it into a laptop bag with your MacBook Pro when you're heading out for location shooting and editing. The 212-page text is divided into sections roughly following the three-part Final Cut Pro workflow of ingest, edit, and output.
Boykin, owner of Creek Mountain Media and an Apple Certified Master Trainer, definitely knows Final Cut Pro. Brendan not only teaches Pro Certification classes, but also works with Final Cut Pro and other Final Cut Studio applications to build digital video solutions for clients.
The Quick-Reference Guide starts with an overview of Final Cut Pro's user interface. While this may seem like overkill for a text that is directed towards working professionals, this reviewer found the section useful as a memory jogger for such things as what the various colors in the render status bar mean, or what some of the many icons in the Tool Palette are used for.
The book layout includes blue tabs in the outside lower corner of the pages to highlight new features in Final Cut Pro 7. This can be very useful for FCP users who are moving up from earlier versions, are familiar with the application and its UI, and who want to learn what's new in Final Cut Pro 7.
The text moves on to the details of setting up a new project before moving to the section on "ingesting," or capturing, video data. Peachpit's books include highlights and arrows denoting tips and important information notes, and they're very helpful for learning your way around a specific feature of Final Cut Pro 7.
Once video has been captured, it needs to be edited. Boykin goes through two quick sections on editing and trimming video next. Rather than describing the three-point nonlinear editing methodology in detail, the author focuses on the Final Cut Pro tools that are used for editing and trimming video. That's exactly what a book like this should focus on, and Boykin does an excellent job of ensuring that this is a quick-reference guide, not a detailed textbook.
Of course, video without audio is rare today, so the book covers the tools used for setting an audio mix, automating recording, and recording voiceovers. The tools for video transitions and filters are next, followed by chapters on keyframing, generators and templates, and compositing. The book then gets into output methods for the final product of your labors. Boykin rounds out the Guide with detailed descriptions of specialized workflows.
The text is well-written with absolutely no fluff. As with most of the Peachpit Apple Pro Training Series, the concepts are explained more fully with a good mix of annotated color diagrams and screenshots. For users who want to take their knowledge to the next level, Boykin provides a 5-page appendix of keyboard shortcuts, and the book is well indexed, as a reference guide should be.
If there's one complaint this reviewer has about the Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide, it's that it's not spiral-bound. For books of this type, it's handy to have the text laying flat next to a keyboard while you're trying something. With a standard paperback binding, you have to hold the page down with a hand or conveniently-placed peripherals. The binding choice, of course, is made by the publisher, not the author.
For both new and established users of Apple's pro video application, the Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide is a well-written, focused, and compact compendium of tool descriptions, tips, and notes. Peachpit also makes an online edition of the book available to purchasers for 45 days at no cost as part of their Safari Books Online digital library.TUAWTUAW Bookshelf: Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Ask TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar, network scanning, and more
Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW
Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about using DVD Sharing on an iMac (instead of a MacBook Air), ignoring Software Updates, getting a drop-down calendar in the menubar, seeing Wi-Fi network channels, using iChat with other services, and more.
As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you're using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we'll assume that you're running Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don't specify), or if it's an iPhone-related question, which iPhone version and OS version you have.Sammyg1010 asks
Is there any way to take software updates that I don't need off the download list? Most recently, I was bugged by the Auto Software update telling me to update for RAW digital cameras. I don't have any of the models listed, and don't plan on it. Not much of a photographer. Same with the printer driver updates. I know I don't have do download them (click of a box), but they bother me sitting on the list. Any ideas?
All you have to do is select the update you don't want and hit the delete key (or alternatively go to Update Ignore Update in the menubar). If you should change your mind at some point in the future, you can reset the ignored update in the Software Update menu.
William asksIs there an easy way to get a small calendar to display when I click on the time/date in the menubar for OS X? Windows 7 handles this really well, with the ability to go back and forth between different months, years, and even decades, just by single-clicking on the date/time in the taskbar. It's kind of annoying to have to open iCal just to see what day a particular date fell on a couple weeks ago, or to see what day a future date falls on, etc...
I've got two suggestions for you: MenuCalendarClock for iCal ($19.95) is the classic utility for doing this and I used it for years. However, lately I've switched over to iStat Menus (donations requested), which not only adds a calendar to your menubar, but also includes a variety of other handy utilities like network throughput, free memory, etc.
chitebbeiv asksToday I was watching a youtube video and I felt the need to fastforward it for some weird reason, but I realized it isn't possible if not under windows with a commercial software called myspeed. I am stil searching for some firefox or chrome plugin, or greasemonkey script that does this kind of task but still no results... if they can do this under windows why isn't it possible under mac?
It turns out that MySpeed has a Mac Alpha available for download and testing. If you fill out their form, they'll email you the link.
MNJayW asksI just moved into a new townhouse, and I am seeing multiple Wi-Fi networks in the area. Is there an application that I can get that will allow me to see what channels the neighbors' networks are on so I can set my wireless router (WRVS4400n) and WAP (WAP4400N) on non-interfering channels?
You need a network scanner like KisMAC. Run this on your Mac and it should show you all of the networks within range, along with the channels they're broadcasting on.
aleonell.10 asksI run the new iMac (snow leopard). Recently, I accidently put my SD card in the CD slot instead of the SD slot, and I was just wondering if I could use my MacBook Pro as the cd drive (I have heard you can do this with a MacBook Air).
You're right that this is limited by default to the MacBook Air. However, there is apparently a terminal hack that should allow you to do this from the iMac to the MacBook Pro. Be sure to turn on DVD or CD Sharing in the Sharing Preference Pane in the System Preferences of the MacBook, then enter the terminal command on the iMac.
Fabian asks seriallyIs there a way to add icq and windows live accounts to iChat? I am using adium at the moment but I don't like it very much.
In the long run, I suspect you'll have better luck sticking with Adium. However, it should be possible to use iChat with ICQ just by adding a new (AIM) account and entering your ICQ credentials. To use iChat with Windows Live, you'd need to use a Jabber transport. I really think this is more trouble than it's worth (and it's text only), but you might be interested in this old tutorial.
Is there a way to remotely control my mac (snow leopard) with remote desktop out from a windows machine? I know about teamviewer but I'm looking for a tool that doesn't display my actions on the remote computer.
There are a variety of ways of controlling a Mac remotely with a PC from VNC to LogMeIn or GoToMyPC. However, as far as I know, none of them will hide your actions on the remote computer.
Chroma asksIn Tiger I was always able to hit the space bar when a prompt had a button outlined in blue. However, I have found nothing like this in Snow Leopard. Can this be enabled, or was it removed entirely from 10.6?
All you need to do is turn Full Keyboard Access to All Controls in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard Preference Pane (or just hit control+F7).
TUAWAsk TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar, network scanning, and more originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Amazon previews Kindle iPad app
Filed under: iPad
Amazon has launched a preview page for its iPad Kindle app. The app itself takes a lot from the iBookstore, including visual page swipes and book cover navigation view (of course, to be fair Apple did "borrow" a number of things from Wil Shipley). One cool eye-candy feature of the Kindle app is that the app's developers have played around a little with Kindle's silhouetted figure reading under a tree iconography. In cover-navigation view, the sky behind the silhouetted figure will change according to what time of day it is.
The ebook war is heating up and, though early on, it looks like Apple and Amazon are going to be the two major players. Given that Amazon last week threatened smaller publishers that it will stop selling their books if they make them available in the iBookstore, it might at first seem odd that Amazon is so readily embracing the iPad. But in an age where content is king, hardware sales take a back seat to continued content sales. Amazon supporting the iPad is like giving away the razors so people have to by the blades -- and indeed Amazon has begun giving away its own Kindle hardware to its Amazon Prime subscribers to secure Kindle book sales. Who knows, in a future where multi-function tablets/ereaders will be the norm, perhaps giving away one-feature dedicated ereaders will become standard practice?
Last week Amazon unveiled its Kindle reader for Mac.TUAWAmazon previews Kindle iPad app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: David Barnard of AppCubby talks about KaleidoVid
Filed under: Found Footage, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
While roaming the floor at Macworld Expo 2010 in February, I had the opportunity to talk with David Barnard of AppCubby about several of their iPhone apps, including GasCubby and TripCubby. David also told me about a project that they had in the works at the time, which has recently been released -- a US$0.99 iPhone kaleidoscope called KaleidoVid.
TUAW's Dave Caolo provided you with details about the app in an earlier post, but we thought you might enjoy this short interview with David where he talks about the app, his reason for developing it, and gives us a short demo of KaleidoVid in action.TUAWFound Footage: David Barnard of AppCubby talks about KaleidoVid originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iTunes 201: Using smart playlists to fill your portable's music library
Filed under: iPod Family, How-tos, iTunes
Unless you don't listen to a whole lot of music, chances are pretty good that your iTunes music library is larger than what will fit on your iPhone. As an example, my music library is over 39 GB, but my iPhone 3G only has a 16 GB capacity -- and I have to fit apps, pictures, videos, and data into that small space, too.
One way of solving this dilemma is by using iTunes's powerful smart playlists to filter your library into a size that's a little more iPhone-friendly. The following smart playlists are examples from my own setup, but the smart playlist system is flexible enough that you can do almost anything with it to filter your songs. Naturally, these tips will work just as well for any of Apple's smaller capacity players, like iPod nanos or lower-capacity iPod touches and iPads; I've focused on the iPhone only because that's what I own.
I've rated almost every song in my library, and those with 4 or 5 stars end up in a playlist called "Top Rated," or in the language of smart playlists, "Rating is greater than three stars." This represents music that I want to listen to more often, and it ensures that songs I don't like don't end up playing when I shuffle songs in iTunes. It also guarantees that only music I actually want to listen to makes it onto my iPhone.
The only problem is that my "Top Rated" playlist is still too big -- almost 23 GB. It takes a little more paring down to get music to fit on my iPhone. Therefore, I created another playlist called "Favorites" which, as you might guess from the name, represents the best of the best in my music library. I set the following conditions for the smart playlist: "Rating is five stars," "Play Count is greater than 4," and I filtered out a bunch of genres that I don't necessarily want to listen to when I'm on the go, by setting "Genre is not" to those genres.
This gets my iTunes library down to a far more manageable 6 GB. Now we're talking. Read on to learn about some more techniques you can use to get the most out of your iPhone's music library.
The "Favorites" smart playlist forms the foundation of my iPhone's music library, with a few standard playlists thrown in to round it out to about 1400 songs. However, I ran into another problem with the smart playlist that I use most on my Mac, one called "Not Recently Played." In order to keep from shuffling through the same songs all the time, I built a "Not Recently Played" playlist based on my "Top Rated" playlist. "Not Recently Played" has a simple setup: "Playlist is Top Rated" and "Last Played is not in the last 1 month." The issue here is that since this playlist is built off of my "Top Rated" playlist, it's far too large to fit on my iPhone. So, in order to get that same "Not Recently Played" functionality in my iPhone's music library, I had to create yet another smart playlist.
Here's how I filtered my "Not Recently Played" playlist into a more manageable size: I created another smart playlist called "iPhone NRP" with the condition "Playlist is Not Recently Played." Nested within that playlist condition by using the (...) button on the far right, I went through and set "Playlist is" to all of the various playlists I synced to my iPhone.
This accomplishes two things: it creates a "Not Recently Played" list for my iPhone with music that I haven't listened to in a month or more, and it pares it down to only songs that are already synced to my iPhone. This playlist doesn't add any music to my iPhone that wasn't already there, but it adds a new condition (not played in the last month) that draws more functionality out of my iPhone's music library.
These are just a few examples of how you can use smart playlists to your advantage when you have a large music library that you need to fit into a smaller device. With all of the metadata iTunes puts onto songs in your library, there are nearly limitless possibilities for setting up smart playlists.TUAWiTunes 201: Using smart playlists to fill your portable's music library originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Another week, another terse email from Steve Jobs
Filed under: Steve Jobs, iPad
9to5Mac has posted an email sent to them from a UK reader where Steve Jobs again calls it as he sees it. The UK reader emailed Jobs to ask if the iPad's Photos app would support Google's Picasa library format. Jobs' reply was a little more than a simple "no" this time. Perhaps that's because he saw it as an opportunity to smack Google again. "No," Jobs replied, "but iPhoto on the Mac has much better Faces and Places features."
So there you go, no Google Picasa library support for you! Picasa's facial recognition feature was launched in September 2008, four months before Apple introduced support for facial recognition in iPhoto '09 with the release of the iLife '09 suite in January 2009.
An interesting note on the email: 9to5Mac posts the entire header information confirming that the email is in fact from Steve Jobs and was sent from his iPhone. The header information reveals that Steve hasn't upgraded to the latest iPhone OS. He's still using 3.1.2.TUAWAnother week, another terse email from Steve Jobs originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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