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- Check out Movie Vault for iPad and win a free copy for yourself
I love old movies, so much so that I even wrote a book about a 60s movie producer. Some of the best of the old classics have slipped into the public domain, which means they're free. Some of the old PD titles have been put out on DVD over the years, but a great many are in a kind of film limbo, with no easy way to see them if they don't get picked up for DVD distribution.
I'd suggest one nice solution for the iPad. It's called Movie Vault, and basically it lets you stream more than a thousand public domain titles for your viewing enjoyment, either over WiFi or 3G. Now I won't say most of these films are in pristine condition. Quite the contrary. With no studio claiming them, there haven't been any restorations, but there's a lot of gold in those PD hills.
You can search by title, by genre, or a director or cast member name. I found a lot of bad films, and some great ones. For whatever reason, Bela Lugosi was in his share of clunkers. The infamous 'Plan Nine from Outer Space' is one example. Well, sorta. Lugosi died before the film was made and director Ed Wood used test footage so he could put Lugosi in the credits. Another howler is 'Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla'. It also stars Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo who do an uncanny Martin and Lewis imitation. There are lots of westerns, horror, sci-fi, romance, action and documentary films. One of the gems is 'The Stranger' with Orson Welles, playing a Nazi in hiding in the United States while being chased by Edward G. Robinson.
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Check out Movie Vault for iPad and win a free copy for yourself originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Talkcast tonight, 10pm ET: Mac App Store & more, open phones for developers
There was something for everyone at Wednesday's 'Back to the Mac' event: new hardware, new software, new OS preview and new paradigm for Mac software sales. If you've got an opinion on any of these topics -- and we know you do -- then be sure to join us tonight on the TUAW Talkcast.
We're going to be joined by a special guest this week; Talkcast frequent flyer Ged Maheux from the Iconfactory (the company's latest iPhone app, music auto-resume utility Take Five, is in the App Store now). Ged will bring his perspective on the Mac App Store, so we'd also like to extend a special invitation to any and all Mac developers: come on down! We want to hear your take.
To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the Web UI, just click the "TalkShoe Web" button on our profile page at 10 pm on Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (take advantage of your free cellphone weekend minutes if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.
If you've got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac or your PC, you can connect via the free Gizmo or X-Lite SIP clients or by using the TalkShoe client's ShoePhone tool; basic instructions are here.
We'll kick things off at 10pm ET/ 7pm PT. See you there!Talkcast tonight, 10pm ET: Mac App Store & more, open phones for developers originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Adobe launches Project Rome preview, all-in-one content creation/publishing
Apple's favorite software vendor has just released a preview of a new content creation and publishing tool called Project Rome. Project Rome is an Adobe AIR application that can either be run as a web app in your browser or downloaded and installed on your local machine.
Project Rome is mix of old-school desktop publishing, graphical editing, animation and content publishing. You can create everything from business cards, to newsletters or even full web-sites within the tool and then publish the content to your favorite social networking site or to an Adobe hosted account. It comes with a lots of built-in templates or you can create your own and share them through Adobe.
The new app can run on Mac OS X 10.5 or higher or on Windows. For now the preview is free, but it looks like Adobe plans to charge for the app at some point. Adobe has created both a home and business edition and a second version for education. Check out the videos in the second half of the post for a preview and grab it to try out for yourself at Adobe.
[via Macworld]Continue reading Adobe launches Project Rome preview, all-in-one content creation/publishing
Adobe launches Project Rome preview, all-in-one content creation/publishing originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Omni Group commits to Mac App Store development
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Omni Group has jumped aboard the Mac App Store train. Omni has long been a popular creator of Mac applications and has done pretty well for itself with the iOS apps that it has already released, with more on the way. On the day after the Back to the Mac event, Omni Group CEO Ken Case tweeted that the Mac OS X versions of all five of the company's Mac apps will also be available on the Mac App Store.
That group includes the ever popular OmniOutliner, plus OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, OmniGraphSketcher, and OmniPlan. OmniFocus and OmniGraffle are already available for the iPad, with OmniGraphSketcher and the others promised soon.
In all likelihood the vast majority of Mac developers will move into the App Store, with the likely exceptions of Adobe and Microsoft. For most developers, having an outlet built into the OS and avoiding the hassles of payment systems just seems like too good a deal to pass up.
[via MacObserver]Omni Group commits to Mac App Store development originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Photos from the opening of the Chicago Lincoln Park Apple Store
We received a handful of emails from Apple fanboys who had visited the new Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago on Saturday. The store is beautiful, and there's a garden on the top of the building. TUAW reader Thomas Matysik visited the store at about 1 Pm on Saturday and snagged a t-shirt, which is definitely different from the generic black t-shirts that are normally handed out at Apple Store openings.
Thomas also attempted to visit the rooftop garden, but ended up in the basement with a group of Apple employees instead. He was told that the garden was more for "sustainability purposes rather than to be looked at," and ended up not seeing it.
Thomas sent a number of photos from the opening, which can be viewed in the gallery below. The photo above was from a gallery of photos on the Apple website.
Photos from the opening of the Chicago Lincoln Park Apple Store originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Happy 9th birthday, iPod!
Wow. It seems like just yesterday that we were all looking at Apple's new baby for the first time. No, I'm not talking about the new MacBook Air, but the device that seems to have jump-started Apple's meteoric climb to success.
The iPod was first launched on October 23, 2001 and begat a family of highly-popular portable media players that continues to this day. The first model was a Mac-compatible device with a 5 GB hard drive and a capacity that put, in the words of Steve Jobs, "1000 songs in your pocket."
Since then, we've seen iPods as tiny as the third-generation iPod shuffle and as large as the 160 GB, sixth-generation iPod Classic. The iPod touch has become a huge success as a web-surfing, game-playing, picture-taking "iPhone without the phone."
The iPod even has some popular siblings now, the iPhone and iPad, both of which include and expand upon the media player roots of the iPod family.
The name iPod was first proposed to Apple by copywriter Vinnie Chieco, who thought of the phrase "open the pod bay door, HAL" when he saw the first all-white prototype of the original device. Chieco thought the relationship between the media player and a personal computer was similar to the small space pods in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the large Discovery mothership.
We'd love to have you share your memories of your iPods with us. Please leave those wonderful (or not) thoughts in the comments below.
Happy 9th birthday, iPod! originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - AT&T trains retail staff on non-iPhone smartphones
When the iPhone burst upon the world three and a half years ago, the smartphone landscape was very different from the one we see today. Palm Treos, Blackberries and Windows Mobile were the dominant players; they were mainly selected by geeks and people that needed them for business. In the intervening period, the staff at AT&T stores have focused on selling and supporting Apple's super-phone, but that's beginning to change as it appears ever more likely that iPhones will soon be available from other American cell carriers.
Bloomberg reports that after dipping its toe into the Android pool in the past six months, AT&T is about to dive into the deep end with three more Motorola Android phones plus three Windows Phone 7 handsets -- all in anticipation of losing exclusivity on the iPhone. Consultant Craig Johnson warns that AT&T may risk turning off customers by offering too many new choices at once after focusing on a single device and user interface since 2007. Given the tight grip that Microsoft is maintaining on the Win7 interface and the consistent Motoblur skin that Motorola is applying to its phones, that might not be so much of a problem. The main choice that customers will have to make is the desired form factor and features on the individual phones.
While AT&T plans to keep selling iPhones for the foreseeable future even if Verizon gets a version come 2011, it has already begun refreshing its stores and training its 25,000 retail employees to sell and support all of the new handsets. Staff in urban areas will get four hour in-store classes while those in rural stores will participate via live video streams. Sales staff will also be incentivized to move the new phones with an offer of a free handset for being among the first to sell four of the new phones.AT&T trains retail staff on non-iPhone smartphones originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - MacBook Air software update addresses responsiveness and graphics issues
A MacBook Air update already? Yes, we've had some tips about intermittent MacBook Air issues, and it seems Apple's next-generation super-thin wedge-Macs are already sporting a shiny new software update that addresses "an issue where a MacBook Air (Late 2010) computer may become unresponsive while playing back movie trailers in iMovie" and a bug where the Mac becomes unresponsive after waking from sleep when connected to an external display. Oh, the the requisite "general graphics performance updates," whatever that means.
Fire up software update or check here for the manual download. The update is wafer thin like the new Air itself!Thanks to Swords for the tip.
MacBook Air software update addresses responsiveness and graphics issues originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPhone passes BlackBerry in worldwide market share
It's not an earthshaking event, but the occasion should be marked. According to StrategyAnalytics, the iPhone has passed RIM (BlackBerry) as global smartphone shipments reached 77 million units in the 3rd quarter of 2010.
According to the report, the iPhone sold 14.1 million phones, while RIM moved 12.1 million. For RIM, the news gets worse, as the company dropped 16.1 percent in sales from the previous quarter. Nokia is still way out in front with 26.5 million sales, but it also dropped more than 3 percent while the iPhone was up 18.3 percent.
Recently, RIM CEO Jim Balsillie got into a nasty back and forth with Steve Jobs, after Jobs heaped scorn on the upcoming 7" BlackBerry tablet product as 'dead on arrival.' Balsiille responded that people are 'getting tired of being told what to think by Apple.'
[Hat tip to The Loop]
iPhone passes BlackBerry in worldwide market share originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Flash plugin absence on MacBook Air was deliberate, says Apple
Several of the folks lucky enough to get their hands on new MacBook Air review units noticed something a little strange: the Adobe Flash Player, usually bundled as a browser plugin with new Mac OS X installations, was AWOL. It wasn't clear at first if this was an early-build hiccup or a design decision; although Apple has been dinged in the past for shipping out-of-date versions of Flash Player, it hadn't stopped bundling the plugin. I confirmed today that shipping units and Apple retail store models were also Flash-less.
Now Engadget has an official statement from Apple that confirms the situation: yes, Flash Player is no longer being included, and users can & should download the most up-to-date version from Adobe if and when they need it. Alternatively, they could just grab a browser that bundles it in.
The official statement: "We're happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac, and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe."
Easy enough for them to say, not always so easy for the novice Mac owner to do. I expect that some of the MacBook Air-shaped packages under the Christmas tree may be followed on 12/26 by phone calls saying "YouTube is broken! Help!" Then again, another plugin not installed by default: Silverlight.
Flash plugin absence on MacBook Air was deliberate, says Apple originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - App Review: Pentago is a twisty strategy game with legs
The ideas behind the two-player abstract strategy game Pentago are about as old as any abstract strategy games we can think of. If Connect 4 is an evolution of tic-tac-toe, then Pentago is an evolution of Connect 4. There's also a bit of Reversi/Othello in the game, with enough of a twist (and I use the term advisedly) to make it different.
The game designed by Tomas Flodén and was first released IRL in 2005 in Sweden and has received two Game of The Year awards (2005 in Sweden and 2006 in France) and was also named a Mensa Mind Games selection in 2006.
In the App Store, its history is questionable. The currently available app, called simply Pentago [$1.99] was in the store for a while but then disappeared. That app did not have an AI, but a similar app from a different company, Pentago HD, offered the same gameplay and an AI opponent for a short while. It disappeared without a word and has not resurfaced. Now, Pentago is back, and you might want to snag it while you can even though this looks like an official port from Mindtwister, the company that makes the tabletop version. Don't know if you want to or not? Read on to find out.
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App Review: Pentago is a twisty strategy game with legs originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - WaterField cases are another reason to buy a new MacBook Air
I need a new MacBook Air like I need a third eye (in other words, I don't need one), but when the first press release we received after the announcement on Wednesday was about some MacBook Air cases from WaterField Designs, I could feel my resolve slipping rapidly.
This company is based in San Francisco (Go Giants!) and is known for making nice looking and rugged cases for a variety of devices. Their iPad Exo SleeveCase, for example, is a customizable bag that can be trimmed in leather, outfitted with a choice of straps, and will even fit an iPad that's already wearing an Apple iPad case.
Well, the object of my desire is their Laptop SleeveCase, which comes in new sizes to snugly fit the new MacBook Air models. The cases are available for pre-order, with shipping scheduled for October 29th. The price depends on what accessories you get -- just the bare SleeveCase will put you back US$37, while one that is outfitted with leather trim, a closable flap, a suspension strap, and a piggyback pouch with leather trim will run up the cost to $111.
I must go lock away my credit cards before I end up buying one of these and a MacBook Air. Sigh.
[via Macsimum News]
WaterField cases are another reason to buy a new MacBook Air originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - The first Presidential iPad autograph?
At a recent rally at the University of Washington in Seattle, President Obama signed a well-wisher's iPad. As far as we know, this is the first presidential autograph captured with an iPad.
Sylvester Cann attended the rally with Adobe Ideas running on his iPad. He tells TechCrunch that at first the Secret Service were hesitant, but eventually relented, while the President thought the idea was "cool." He proceeded to "draw" his signature with is finger.
Autograph collection is a fun pastime for many, and Mr. Cann certainly has a unique one.The first Presidential iPad autograph? originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Timeline tweak returns iMovie '11 to old school
iMovie '11 makes it easy to regain the traditional horizontal timeline that was lost with iMovie '06, to the delight of many.
When Apple released iMovie '08 in August of 2007, many users were upset by the decision to move the timeline from the bottom of the app's window to the upper left-hand corner. The outcry was so loud that Apple made iMovie '06 available for download.
Now, version '11 lets you put a vertical timeline back in place. As TidBITS explains, it's a simple as swapping the Events and Projects browsers. Yes, you can make that swap in iMovie '08 and '09, but this is the first time it will result in a horizontal timeline.Timeline tweak returns iMovie '11 to old school originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - App Review: Claim Denied!
Ever wanted to have the horrible job of denying people health care so you can make your company more money? Me neither, but I'm a fan of tower defense games and got a kick out of the satire presented in Claim Denied! when a reader brought it to my attention.
Claim Denied! puts the player in the position of a young claims adjuster at a private health insurance company. Your job is to stop your paying customers who need medical care from getting to the hospital. Perched atop the hospital roof, you main weapon is a "Denied" rubber stamp you wield at the onslaught of needy patients. The more sick and elderly you stop, the more money you get paid and the more your job security (health-meter) rises. As you make money for denying patients, you can use your funds to buy more "weapons," including stacks of paperwork you can drop in the infirm patients' paths to slow them down, pre-existing condition clauses that cut patients' health by 50% (making them easier to defeat), and finally, blue dogs that maul the sick who have kept up-to-date on their premiums. You can also use your funds to "lobby for job security" which effectively adds more power to your health-meter.
The game starts out a bit repetitive and easy, but as you progress, your "enemies" -- including the obese, wheel-chaired, walkered, and pregnant -- become stronger and harder to defeat. With over 50 levels and a satirical score, Claim Denied! would actually be fun if it didn't hit so close to home for a lot of people. Still, for US$0.99, Claim Denied! isn't a bad way to use your thumbs while on your evening commute -- or in a waiting room. Sure, a game like this might inspire a little heated discussion, but that seems to be what the game's creators were after in the first place. Plus, it's always cool when technology -- even games -- can convey timely social satire.App Review: Claim Denied! originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Analyst: Apple will sell 700K MacBook Airs
DigiTimes has the details (and translation) on a Chinese-language Commercial Times report suggesting that Apple will sell 700,000 MacBook Air laptops during the upcoming quarter.
Commercial Times cites vice president of Concord Securities Research Mingchi Kuo as predicting the impressive sales numbers. Kuo believes that the MacBook Air, especially the 11.6-inch model, will make a compelling choice as a second computer for many. Kuo also believes that the appeal of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will further spur sales.
Kuo formerly worked with DigiTimes and was the one to break Apple's intentions to build an 11.6-inch laptop back in July.
[Via Macsimum News]
Analyst: Apple will sell 700K MacBook Airs originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - BetterZip Quick Look Generator shows contents of archive files
In response to an article about Archive Utility's preferences, a reader asked if there was a way to show the contents of an archived file. I used to have a QuickLook plugin for this, but it stopped working at some point and I had never gotten around to finding a new one.
The BetterZip Quick Look generator works fine for me under Snow Leopard, and supports QuickLook for the contents of a huge number of various archives. According to the website, it supports ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary. Or, to put it another way, it supports all the formats you are ever likely to come across, plus about 5 more.
Simply download the file (from the page above), and install it either to /Library/QuickLook/ (if you want the plugin to work for anyone who logs into the machine) or ~/Library/QuickLook/ if you want it to just work for the current user. If you have never installed a QuickLook plugin before, you may need to create that folder. Note that although the feature is called "Quick Look" the folder name should not have a space in it.
Then you need to restart the Quick Look framework. This either requires waiting (if you're the patient kind), logging out/rebooting, restarting the Finder (according to the website, but that didn't work for me), or open Terminal and type
qlmanage -r
which is what I did, and it started to work immediately (you should see a message "qlmanage: resetting quicklookd" after you enter the command).
BetterZip QuickLook Generator is a free plugin by the folks at MacItBetter.com who also make a $20 program called BetterZip which gives you a whole host of options for creating and managing archives. I haven't used it myself, but it looks pretty impressive if you want some advanced options for archives. Our own Brett Terpstra reviewed it back in May if you'd like more information. Dave Caolo also mentioned BetterZip Quick Look Generator in his 2008 article 10 ways to get the most out of Quick Look. If you want to learn more about additional Quick Look plugins, that's a good place to start.
BetterZip Quick Look Generator shows contents of archive files originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - The cracked crystal ball -- how the TUAW blogger predictions fared
Shortly before the Back to the Mac event on Wednesday, TUAW blogger Michael Grothaus compiled a list of predictions from the rest of the blogging staff. I thought it would be fun to go through the predictions and score our ability to foresee the future, giving each correct prediction a +1 score and every wrong prediction a -1 score. I gave the bloggers a zero if they suggested something, and then followed it up with a "not likely."
How well did our predictions match reality? Check out the scoring on the next page -- just click or tap "Read More" to see who the true fortune-tellers were for the Apple event.
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The cracked crystal ball -- how the TUAW blogger predictions fared originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - And you thought the iPad was sexy: Victoria's Secret comes to your touchscreen
Victoria's Secret launched an iPad app a few days ago, and it'salready climbed to the #4in the #1 spot on the Top Free iPad Apps chart. The app is part catalog, part video and photo diary of what it's like to spend time with some of the hottest women on the planet as they march around in lingerie for photo shoots and commercials.
The VS All Access section of the app lets you browse by your favorite model, while the Connect tab lets you share what you've been browsing with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers (uh, creepy). Besides a lot of pictures and videos, the app also offers a store locator in case you forgot to pick up that really expensive bra you've been needing. The Victoria's Secret iPad app is available as a free download now in the App Store.And you thought the iPad was sexy: Victoria's Secret comes to your touchscreen originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - HP Slate has a bad solution to "too many stickers" syndrome
Daring Fireball points to this little gem in the hands-on gallery our sister site Engadget had with forthcoming Windows would-be iPad competitor, the HP Slate. To explain what you're looking at, you'll need to look into this crystal ball showing an image of HP's product design offices six months ago...
"Hey boss, this HP Slate we're making. It'd be a shame to mess up our sculpted backplate with our usual eleventy billion barcodes and the Windows licence sticker and all that stuff. Maybe we should just slim all that info down somehow?"
The Boss sits back in his chair and sips his Tab. He thinks about how much work it would be to renegotiate the licence sticker requirement with Microsoft, or even to try and convince the support guys that they could make do with just one serial number per product. He sips his Tab again. Then inspiration strikes and he cries, "No, peon! I have a better idea! Tabs! Retractable tabs!"
Yes, dear reader, that's a little pull-out drawer who's only role in life is to hold and display a dizzying array of licencing and serial number data. There's even more of this stuff on the back too.
If an Apple designer pitched this craplution to Steve Jobs, he'd rip their still-beating heart clear out of their chest.
HP Slate has a bad solution to "too many stickers" syndrome originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Mac 101: What's happening when your Mac is starting up?
Recently, in the interest of sleeping soundly through the night, I've been turning off my 27" iMac every night. No, I'm not doing this for energy conservation, but the darned thing used to light up at random intervals in the middle of the night. Since I now have to power up the iMac every morning, I see the bootup process regularly.
You know how it goes. First you hear the startup chime, then you see that gray screen, then the gray screen with the Apple logo and spinning gear on it, then a light blue screen, and finally a login window or the desktop appears. What's actually going on while all of this is showing up on your screen? Well, as those of us who have gone through the training and tests to become Apple Certified Support Professionals are aware, each of those visual cues is an indication that a milestone in the bootup process has been reached.
Follow along as I take you on a tour behind the scenes of the Mac OS X boot process, starting on the next page.
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Mac 101: What's happening when your Mac is starting up? originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iPads join tongue depressors and latex gloves as a hospital fixture
The next time you visit a hospital or medical clinic for a routine check or emergency, don't be surprised if the doctor shows up with an iPad in hand.
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that in several Windy City hospitals, the iPad is making inroads in a big way. The Loyola University Medical Center has given Apple's tablet to all of its orthopedic residents as a pilot program, while the University of Chicago Medical Center is expanding an existing pilot by providing iPads to all of their internal medicine residents.
What are the iPads used for? At the University of Chicago, plastic surgeon Dr. Julie Park shows breast-cancer patients what they may look like after reconstructive surgery. At the Metro South Medical Center, many of the emergency room doctors purchased their own iPads once they found out that they could access the hospital's medical record system from the devices. One Metro South doctor was quoted as saying that the iPads resolved one of the traditional problems with moving from paper to electronic records -- having to go to a desktop computer to order lab tests or update patient notes.
Since the iPad is used as a portal device to the record system at Metro South, no patient info is stored on the device. Both the medical record system and iPad are password-protected as well, keeping secure information safe from prying eyes.
If you're using an iPad in a hospital or other medical venue, let us know how it's working out by leaving a comment.
[via MacDailyNews]
iPads join tongue depressors and latex gloves as a hospital fixture originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - TUAW's Daily App: Samurai II: VengeanceWe'll start with the obvious: Samurai II: Vengeance is one of the best, if not the best, looking games I've ever seen on the iPhone. It is simply gorgeous, with a unique, cel-shaded look filling out incredible 3D worlds. I'm excited for Epic Citadel's progeny, of course, but this one's in a class all its own in terms of the graphics. It's just amazing.
The gameplay isn't quite as astounding, but it's still quality. You play a samurai who (surprise!) is looking for vengeance and has to hack and slash his way through hordes of bad guys. Attacks are combo-based, and controls are responsive enough, given that they're based on overlay buttons, to pull off the attacks you want. Enemies are somewhat repetitive, but in an action game like this, that's kind of the way it works. And speaking of action, things can get kind of gory. Sometimes, by attacking just right, you'll up and chop a guy's head off or even slice him in half. That might be offputting if you're a more casual gamer, but what did you think was going to happen if you ran around swinging a samurai sword?
The game is US$2.99, and when you consider that includes both iPhone and iPad versions as well as Game Center integration and a survival mode, Samurai II: Vengeance is a bargain at twice the price. Definitely pick it up, if only to wander through the game's world and marvel at the way it's all portrayed.TUAW's Daily App: Samurai II: Vengeance originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - BusyCal Info Panel Preferences give you more event options
BusyCal is what iCal should have been. It continues to impress me the longer I use it, and recently I found a way to customize it that I did not know about previously.
Event details, like the one shown in the image here, can be customized from a much larger list than what BusyCal shows you by default. To access the Info Panel Preferences, click the small white "i" at the top right of the Event Info panel. (See item #1 in the image here. Note that you can only access these when the panel is floating on its own, not from the BusyCal sidebar.)
There are 18 different fields that you can use, and most of them are self explanatory (you can see an image in the gallery below), but I want to draw your attention to a few that I find very helpful. The first is "my URL" which gives you an easy way to link an event to a person from your address book. Simply drag the name from the address book to the my URL field and a link will be created (see #2 in image). Clicking that link will open their contact information in the Address Book.app.
You can also drag a person (or business) to the Location, Attendees, My Notes, or Notes field. For the latter two, you get more than just a link to their name, you get address and phone number information (see item #3 in image).
While you could use "Attendees" for the same purpose (and that field is shown by default), when you do that, BusyCal wants to know if you want to "invite" them or send them changes whenever you edit the event. That isn't a feature I ever use, so I didn't want to use Attendees, but my URL is almost perfect.
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BusyCal Info Panel Preferences give you more event options originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Flickr Find: Juno's Hamburger iPhoneIt's been a couple of years now, but remember the hit movie Juno, and the main character's hamburger-styled telephone? That phone made a splash with fans of kitschy art, and Flickr user Karen apparently decided to take the idea and run with it on her 3G iPhone. She's posted a nice gallery of pictures on how to give her iPhone a hamburger-style case, building out foam and plastic molds around a DVD flipcase.
In the end, the prop looks pretty excellent, even if it doesn't quite work exactly the same as the phone in the movie does. But it's a cool project nonetheless. And the graphic on the iPhone is pretty funny, too.Flickr Find: Juno's Hamburger iPhone originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - FaceTime security flaw fixed
Our own Dave Caolo suggested FaceTime's widely publicized security flaw would be easily fixed, and it turns out he was right. Initially, FaceTime allowed users with physical access to a machine to edit a user's information without first having to enter a password. According to Cocoa Touch Apps, Apple's already patched this hole with a server-side workaround. I verified this myself: instead of giving anyone and everyone in front of your Mac access to your Apple-related info, clicking "View Account" in FaceTime now does... precisely nothing. It just kicks you back to the account preferences tab.
It's a somewhat silly workaround, and it's likely a temporary one until Apple releases a FaceTime update. Meanwhile, it's good to see that Apple took this problem seriously enough to issue a quick fix for its still-in-beta software.FaceTime security flaw fixed originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Facebook disabled iPad mobile Safari zooming?
I noticed it first a few days ago. Then people started emailing me about it. Now it's gaining increased mention on Twitter and the rest of the net: when you go to Facebook.com on your iPad you can no longer use the pinch and zoom features of iPad's mobile Safari web browser on the site.
Reader Stephen F. noted in an email to me that when you go to Facebook on an iPad this line of code appears: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />
It's the user-scalable=0 part that disables zooming on the iPad. Stephen also pointed out that you can test this by changing the user agent on your web browser to iPad and seeing how the code only appears for the iPad. To change the user agent in the OS X version of Safari to emulate Safari for iPad go to Safari>Preferences>Advanced>Show Develop menu in menu bar, then select Develop>User Agent>Mobile Safari 3.2.2 - iPad.
In short, Facebook has either deliberately or accidentally disabled zooming in mobile Safari on the iPad. If it's accidental, it's odd that they haven't fixed it in almost 72 hours. If deliberate, the question is why? Was dinner that bad?
UPDATE: Zooming works again just fine again. I contacted Facebook PR about the issue, but they didn't reply.
Facebook disabled iPad mobile Safari zooming? originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Can you trust a Steve Jobs email? "Nope."
A reader just emailed us to point out a post I wrote this past April. MacStories.net had published an email a developer at Chiaro Software had sent Steve Jobs to ask him if the rumors of a Mac App Store and no software running on OS X without authorization from Apple were true. Job's answer? "Nope."
Yesterday's Mac App Store announcement puts a different spin on that response. Jobs sent the "nope" email in late April. It's unrealistic to think that Apple had no plans for a Mac App Store at that time -- I mean, it was less than six months ago.
Does that mean Jobs was lying? Not lying so much as 'selectively answering.' The developer asked Jobs a two-part question to which Jobs answered truthfully to one part (you will still be able to install & run OS X apps on the Mac that are not bought through the Mac App Store) and left out the part where Apple was actually working on a Mac App Store.
So the "nope" was true -- just not the whole truth. As my colleague Erica Sadun has pointed out, regarding Apple's future product directions and plans, when Jobs says "No" you should always hear "Maybe."Can you trust a Steve Jobs email? "Nope." originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - iFixit tears down the 11-inch MacBook Air
Less than a day after the new 11-inch MacBook Air hit shelves, iFixit's already dissected it. The repair site gave the new MacBook Air a repairability rating of 4/10, with 10 being easiest to repair. Two major obstacles face any user trying to do their own repairs on the MacBook Air. First, the screws involved in a MacBook Air teardown are T5 Torx screws for the internals and five-point security Torx on the outside, so you'd better either have those types of screwdrivers or be prepared to file down a flatblade like iFixit did. iFixit notes that once you get those screws out, servicing the MacBook Air is relatively easy, but the second obstacle is more insidious to DIY repairers: the MacBook Air takes the phrase "no user-serviceable parts inside" to a new level. Nothing inside the MacBook Air is "off the shelf." RAM is integrated into the logic board, the six-cell battery is in a weirdly customized configuration, and the flash memory the MacBook Air uses in place of a hard drive is proprietary.
Aside from the serviceability issues, the MacBook Air's internals are pretty impressively put together. Once dismantled, there's barely over a dozen major parts to the entire computer, and it's clear that not one cubic centimeter of space was wasted. However, the multiple-cell design of the battery looks a bit odd compared to the integrated batteries of the MacBook Pro line, and it'll be interesting to see what impact, if any, this has on battery reliability.iFixit tears down the 11-inch MacBook Air originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Rovio Mobile passing on Chillingo in the futureChillingo closed a huge deal with EA yesterday (becoming the second big iPhone publisher in as many weeks to be picked up), but the company's work with its biggest title apparently left a bad taste in the mouth of the developers, Rovio Mobile. That company tells TechCrunch that they'll never work with Chillingo, or any publisher, again. That's not so much a reflection on Chillingo, though, as it is on Rovio's success -- Peter Vesterbacka says that with the way the App Store is set up, you just "don't need publishers" any more.
For a lot of iPhone developers, I would disagree -- Chillingo has put together a nice set of iPhone titles over the past few years, and seeing their name on an iPhone game can give a nice boost in profile to a developer just starting out. Obviously EA agrees -- while this doesn't mean we'll see EA start taking advantage of the Angry Birds license (necessarily -- I'm sure Rovio is poking around in as many places as possible to recreate the Angry Birds game on other platforms), it does mean that EA is getting access to a significant amount of experience in creating, publishing, and marketing iPhone games. Chillingo seems to have a talent for finding titles of solid quality that are willing to experiment a little bit, so this should bring us some more EA games that are outside of the standard Madden/Need for Speed/Tiger Woods ilk.
As an iPhone user, I'm excited about both the Chillingo and the Ngmoco deals recently -- both will create more options for two iPhone publishers who have made a solid name for themselves, as well as bring a little more standing to the platform at large as a great place to publish and release great games. Rovio's done with iPhone publishers, but the rest of us are just getting started.Rovio Mobile passing on Chillingo in the future originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Steve Jobs chilling with President Obama todayAccording to Business Insider, President Obama is scheduled to be flying into the San Francisco area this afternoon to attend an event for District Attorney Kamala Harris and to deliver remarks at a later dinner. What isn't on the President's public agenda, according to an anonymous source familiar with the matter, is a one-on-one meeting with the turtlenecked crusader himself, Steve Jobs.
You may think that they'll be talking about several important issues regarding Apple's lead in the technological frontier, but we all know that the President probably just wants to have a little chat about iWeb not being updated.
Somebody's in trouble...Steve Jobs chilling with President Obama today originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - AT&T activates record-setting 5.2 million iPhones this summer
AT&T set a new record by activating 5.2 million iPhones in the US over summer of 2010. That's a huge number, especially considering that it activated 3.2 million iPhones in the spring. That's a soaring leap of 62.5 percent.
In total, AT&T switched on more than 8 million "integrated devices" during that quarter, the majority of which were iPhones. The company also grew its customer base by 2.6 million, bringing the grand total of those of us enjoying its services to 92.8 million. Finally, the iPhone is being recognized for producing AT&T's best ever customer turnover rate of 1.32 percent.
Remember that "antenna issue" that was supposed to kill the iPhone 4? Yeah.
it will be interesting to see what happens to AT&T's numbers should the rumors of a Verizon phone come to fruition. Would there be a mass exodus? We can only assume that AT&T hopes the answer is no.AT&T activates record-setting 5.2 million iPhones this summer originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Adobe announces HTML5 Video Player widget
Adobe's Dreamweaver Team Blog today broke the news that they've created an HTML5 Video Player widget which generates code to play video in the best player for a specific platform using a variety of video codecs.
The widget is available through the Adobe Widget Browser and works with or without Dreamweaver CS5. It is based on the Kaltura open source library, and is compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera.
The team blog noted that HTML5's <video> tag has limited browser support at this time, forcing web designers to "scramble for a solution" that would work regardless of browser or platform. The widget shifts from the <video> tag to Flash Player when the tag is not supported, and does this regardless of the device on which video is being watched.
The standalone widget can run from directly inside Dreamweaver or as a standalone app using Adobe AIR.
Hat tip to our old friend David Chartier.Adobe announces HTML5 Video Player widget originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - New Apple Store opens in Australia, and a sneak preview of the new Chicago storeApple celebrated the opening of another retail store in Australia, the fifth such store in the state of New South Wales, and the tenth in the country. The Charlestown Apple Store had a grand opening today at 5:00pm, and TUAW reader Paul L. was on hand for the festivities, replete with the usual blue-shirted employees and lines of customers. He says he waited in line and got a black store opening t-shirt for his troubles, but unfortunately, there's no word on which of yesterday's big announcements, if any, were on display in-store.
Elsewhere in the world of Apple retail, the Chicago Tribune's blog site has a great sneak preview of that Chicago Apple Store that's opening up this weekend. This is that store at the North/Clybourn stop that Apple spent $4 million on, with the city's blessing, to not only design a new three-sided Apple Store, but also completely renovate the El stop nearby. Turns out the store is a "Significant Store" for the company -- rather than just imitate the normal design, Chicago's new store was specifically designed for the area that it's in.
Sounds fascinating -- the store in Chicago officially opens to the public on Saturday. I'd love to go if I was still in town (I actually used to help manage the Borders directly across the street from it), but since I've moved out to the West Coast, we'll have to recruit some of you readers. If you go to the Chicago store opening this weekend, be sure to send pics and tell us how it all went.New Apple Store opens in Australia, and a sneak preview of the new Chicago store originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - If you don't have Snow Leopard, iLife '11 is a no-no
iLife '09 was certainly moving toward an Intel processor requirement, but iLife '11 has made the transition complete with even tighter requirements. You have to have an Intel-based Mac, of course, and that Mac has to be running Snow Leopard.
It's not a giant surprise; things have been slowly rolling that way, both from Apple and other Mac software developers. If you are still running that big Mac G5 desktop or one of the older non-Intel laptops the walls are slowly closing in on you.
Also note that iLife '11 really wants you to have only the latest version of the software suite. An install will upgrade (replace) iLife '09, so once you pull the trigger there is no going back. Consider yourself informed, and warned. Do you feel it is a mistake for Apple to leave so many customers behind, or are you OK with the new requirements?
If you don't have Snow Leopard, iLife '11 is a no-no originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Mac 101: Use Archive Utility preferences for control over archives
Most users know that you can easily create .zip files in OS X by selecting a file in Finder and choosing File » Compress "FileNameHere" or by control+clicking the file and choosing the same option from the context menu. You can open .zip (and other archive formats such as gzip, tar, and bzip2) simply by double clicking on them.
You may not have known that additional options are available. For example, after you make a .zip file, you could have the original files moved to the trash automatically, or you could have all .zip files that you create automatically saved to the same folder.
Similarly, you can have all archive files that you expand open to the same directory as the archive, or have them saved to a specific folder.
The feature that I was looking for was this: after I expand an archive, just move the original file to the trash so I don't have to, because I don't want to keep it.
If the default settings work for you, great! But if you'd like a bit more control, there are two ways to do it. (Note: these system paths are current for Snow Leopard. Previous versions of Mac OS X may be different. See note at bottom of this message.)
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Mac 101: Use Archive Utility preferences for control over archives originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Survey: 32% of iPad owners have never downloaded an app
This is a fascinating little stat that echoes a few anecdotal statements I've heard before. Nielsenwire is claiming that a full 32% of iPad owners have never actually downloaded an app on the device, with another 5% only downloading free apps. That's a pretty crazy figure when you think about it -- with all of the functionality offered by third-party software on the iPad, almost a third of users have never, ever taken advantage of any of it. And I've heard similar things from developers in the past -- that a surprising amount of their users have either never downloaded an app on their iPhones at all, or have only ever downloaded free, jailbroken, or pirated apps.
With the news yesterday of the Mac App Store coming, you wonder if we'll start seeing this same thing happen on traditional computers -- lots of users who only stick with the default features, and never explore any farther into what their devices can do for them. In a way, it's disappointing that these folks aren't taking full advantage of what the iPad can actually do. But then again, it makes those customer satisfaction stats all the more impressive -- 91% of users love their iPads, and only 68% of them have downloaded apps for it. That 23% in the middle must be really easy to please.
[via MacStories]Survey: 32% of iPad owners have never downloaded an app originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Found Footage: TWEET IT a video parody of Beat it
We're a few days late on this one, but I thought that it was quite well done and rather clever in a Weird Al Yankovich sort of way. In this spoof of Michael Jackson's Beat It, Pantless Knights, a group that has made some pretty good musical spoofs, presents TWEET IT. In this video the hipsters, sporting iPhones, and the suits, all with iPads, take it to the streets in a battle of the tweets.
At the quarterly Apple earnings call this past Monday, it was mentioned that Apple hasn't marketed the iPad to the enterprise market though iPads have gotten on the approved acquisition list of many Fortune 500 companies. However, it was also noted that 85% of Fortune 500 firms are currently deploying iPhones. So wouldn't it make sense for the hipsters to brandish iPads while the suits threatened them with iPhones?
Click on the Read More link to take a gander.Continue reading Found Footage: TWEET IT a video parody of Beat it
Found Footage: TWEET IT a video parody of Beat it originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Two new interactive eBooks for Halloween
Just in time for Halloween, Oceanhouse Media introduces two more of their excellent interactive children's storybooks. Both of them are spooky, but certainly not scary, being targeted to the four year old and up crowd. Both are about acceptance and teach a gentle lesson about not judging a book, an empty pair of pants or a pumpkin by its cover.The first is a short book by Dr. Suess titled What was I Scared of? (US$1.99). It only runs 22 pages so it's priced a dollar less than most of the Oceanhouse Media titles. In it, a very brave furry little guy meets up with a pair of empty pale green pants in the woods that keep popping up wherever he goes. He winds up being not as brave as he thought he was as he becomes more and more frightened of the disembodied pants. It turns out the pants were as scared of him as he is of them, and this is the beginning of their friendship. This book originally came out in 1961, and I have fond memories of reading it to my children. The soundtrack is terrific and as usual, tapping on objects highlight and speak words.
The difference I noted between this and the other Oceanhouse Media books is that if you choose the Read To Me option, the young reader must turn the pages by themselves. In the other titles I've seen, this was done for you. The same is true with Spookley and I think was a great design choice.
Authors note: I'm wrong on this last point. All the Oceanhouse Media books work the same way. I mistakenly confused the Read To Me with the Auto Play function. The Auto Play function does turn the pages automatically.Continue reading Two new interactive eBooks for Halloween
Two new interactive eBooks for Halloween originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Переслать - Developer reactions to the Mac App Store
The announcement of the Mac App Store has caused mixed feelings for everybody, but I was especially curious to get a wider view of reactions from the people directly involved in Mac software creation and development.
TUAW polled several developers to find out what their initial reactions were, and I'd like to present a few thoughts, straight from the mouths (and keyboards) of the Mac software community.
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Developer reactions to the Mac App Store originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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