Gearing up for Mother's Day? Try bringing a compact photo printer alongside your digital camera.
Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=8b982954ae278306495860f812dcc29e
Saturday 30 April 2011
Snapshot printers liven up family gatherings
Gearing up for Mother's Day? Try bringing a compact photo printer alongside your digital camera.
Apple Tweaks Mac OS X Lion UI In Response to Criticism
With Apple having pushed out a new update to the Mac OS X Lion developer preview program, those with access to the new build have been looking for changes in an attempt to see what Apple has been working on over the past few weeks.
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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/29/apple-tweaks-mac-os-x-lion-ui-in-response-to-criticism/
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Microsoft updates OneNote Mobile for iPhone
The Redmond software giant has released its first major update to OneNote Mobile, its iOS client for creating notes and syncing with Web and Windows counterparts.Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=f6fddf2e0b665161b6111de987f04c7d
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Apple, Google to testify at Congressional hearing on location tracking
Senator Al Franken released a statement today thanking Apple and Google for agreeing to attend a hearing on mobile technology and privacy. According to Franken, the goal of the hearing is to "serve as a first step in investigating if federal law protecting consumer privacy-particularly when it relates to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets-is keeping pace with advances in technology."
The hearing is set for May 10 in Washington, D.C. and has the catchy title "Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy." We'll keep you posted on the result of that hearing and we'll reach out to Sen. Franken for comment after they conclude. Full press release below.
Sen. Franken Thanks Google, Apple for Agreeing to Appear at Hearing on Mobile Technology & Privacy
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Today, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, thanked Apple and Google for agreeing to send representatives to testify at the May 10th hearing on mobile technology and privacy. They will be joining officials from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission; Ashkan Soltani, independent privacy researcher and consultant; and Justin Brookman, Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology's Project on Consumer Privacy.
"I'm pleased that Apple and Google have confirmed that they'll be sending representatives to testify at my upcoming hearing on mobile technology and privacy," said Sen. Franken. "This hearing will serve as a first step in investigating if federal law protecting consumer privacy-particularly when it relates to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets-is keeping pace with advances in technology. Each of the witnesses at the hearing will play a critical role in helping us better understand this complex issue and I look forward to hearing from them."
Sen. Franken's hearing, called "Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy," is scheduled for Tuesday, May 10th at 10:00 a.m. in 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Protecting Minnesotans' and Americans' consumer rights and privacy has been a priority for Sen. Franken since he came to the Senate. Last week, he sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking him to address privacy concerns about the company's iOS 4 operating system, which security researchers have said secretly stores detailed information about users' locations on their iPhones, iPads, and any computers to which the devices are synched, generally in an unencrypted format. Since then, Apple, Inc. has announced that it will update its iOS 4 operating system to address several of the issues raised in Sen. Franken's letter.
Last year, Sen. Franken pressed Attorney General Holder to incorporate an analysis of geotags-information about a person's location that is embedded in photos and videos taken with GPS-equipped smartphones-into an updated stalking victimization study connected to the National Crime Victimization Survey. This March, Sen. Franken also led several of his Senate colleagues in urging Facebook to stop plans that would have permitted third party application providers to access users' home addresses and phone numbers. Earlier this month, he asked the U.S. Department of Justice to clarify its interpretation of a critical federal law that protects personal data after a security breach at Epsilon Data Management and allegations that several popular smartphone applications were gathering and disclosing users' private information without their knowledge or consent.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Today, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, thanked Apple and Google for agreeing to send representatives to testify at the May 10th hearing on mobile technology and privacy. They will be joining officials from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission; Ashkan Soltani, independent privacy researcher and consultant; and Justin Brookman, Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology's Project on Consumer Privacy.
"I'm pleased that Apple and Google have confirmed that they'll be sending representatives to testify at my upcoming hearing on mobile technology and privacy," said Sen. Franken. "This hearing will serve as a first step in investigating if federal law protecting consumer privacy-particularly when it relates to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets-is keeping pace with advances in technology. Each of the witnesses at the hearing will play a critical role in helping us better understand this complex issue and I look forward to hearing from them."
Sen. Franken's hearing, called "Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones, Tablets, Cell Phones and Your Privacy," is scheduled for Tuesday, May 10th at 10:00 a.m. in 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Protecting Minnesotans' and Americans' consumer rights and privacy has been a priority for Sen. Franken since he came to the Senate. Last week, he sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking him to address privacy concerns about the company's iOS 4 operating system, which security researchers have said secretly stores detailed information about users' locations on their iPhones, iPads, and any computers to which the devices are synched, generally in an unencrypted format. Since then, Apple, Inc. has announced that it will update its iOS 4 operating system to address several of the issues raised in Sen. Franken's letter.
Last year, Sen. Franken pressed Attorney General Holder to incorporate an analysis of geotags-information about a person's location that is embedded in photos and videos taken with GPS-equipped smartphones-into an updated stalking victimization study connected to the National Crime Victimization Survey. This March, Sen. Franken also led several of his Senate colleagues in urging Facebook to stop plans that would have permitted third party application providers to access users' home addresses and phone numbers. Earlier this month, he asked the U.S. Department of Justice to clarify its interpretation of a critical federal law that protects personal data after a security breach at Epsilon Data Management and allegations that several popular smartphone applications were gathering and disclosing users' private information without their knowledge or consent.
Apple, Google to testify at Congressional hearing on location tracking originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/29/apple-google-to-testify-before-senate-on-location-tracking/
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Combat Mission returns to the Mac with 'Battle for Normandy'
Wargame maker Battlefront.com will be releasing the first installment in their new series, Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy on the Mac platform (OS X 10.6 or higher) in mid-May, and are offering the real-time strategy war simulation game in a special limited collectable edition SteelBook box which holds both the original game DVD as well as up to three future episodes that players can purchase separately along with the full 200-page printed manual. The game faithfully recreates the tactical land warfare scenarios of WWII in western France....
Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=dfb68e3a4d3d5e8b0ddd9ff9c04a17ec
Zynga buys Wonderland Software, makers of GodFinger
Zynga has added another iOS developer to its growing stable -- Wonderland Software, makers of GodFinger, the Ngmoco-published freemium title, has been purchased and rebranded as Zynga Mobile UK. Wonderland made GodFinger for Ngmoco, so that game isn't part of the buyout, but Zynga will, of course, use the company and its resources to build up a developer presence in the UK for both mobile and social games.
This buyout follows the purchase of two other big iOS developers by Zynga, including Drop7 dev Area/Code, now Zynga New York, and Words With Friends' Newtoy, which has seen been rebranded as Zynga With Friends. That's quite a growing empire Zynga is building out of iPhone developers, and I'm inclined to say we'll see a few more studios bought up in the future. What we haven't seen quite yet is just what these studios are doing for Zynga -- Words With Friends has been marked with a Zynga logo, but Zynga's iOS push doesn't have any new games to play with yet. Hopefully we'll see the fruits of these deals at some point.
Zynga buys Wonderland Software, makers of GodFinger originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/28/zynga-buys-wonderland-software-makers-of-godfinger/
Review: Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) Zeppelin Air AirPlay-enabled audio system
Five after Apple positioned the iPod Hi-Fi as a "home stereo replacement," to much criticism, B&W's Zeppelin Air really can replace a home audio system for many listeners.Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=dd1a72042709e7e678a617e8f7f18c16
Friday 29 April 2011
iPhone: "Does this white paint make me look fat?"
Ryan Cash had an opportunity to compare the new white iPhone with the more traditional black model that many of us know and love. Placed side-by-side on the desk, it appears that the white model is ever so slightly thicker. This is possibly due to a need to filter light, a design problem originally floated back last October and confirmed this week by Steve Jobs.
Apple does not list any technical specification differences between the two models. If you've got a new iPhone 4 blanco, please let us know if you have any difficulty using an existing case or cover with it.
Engadget has a pretty clear picture of what's going on here.
iPhone: "Does this white paint make me look fat?" originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/28/iphone-does-this-white-paint-make-me-look-fat/
Snapshot printers liven up family gatherings
Gearing up for Mother's Day? Try bringing a compact photo printer alongside your digital camera.Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=8b982954ae278306495860f812dcc29e
SnuggleTruck: Rejected app goes cuddly for Apple approval
Imagine you're an iOS game developer, and your new app's theme focuses on smuggling illegal immigrants over the border. It offers a politically charged satiric scenario, one that could possibly offend customers. Apple reviewers consider the game, but they determine that it fails the smell test. Too tasteless -- not gonna make it into the App Store. What do you do?
If you're Owlchemy Labs, what you do is this: you redesign your somewhat edgy software to provide exactly the same gameplay, but change the artwork and sounds to provide an even more ironic take on the original.
Owlchemy substituted happy zoo animals for the original illegal immigrants. The cuddly creatures "escape from the wilderness for the comfort of a zoo, where they are provided with plenty of food, shelter and state-of-the-art healthcare." Basically, Apple's rejection allowed Owlchemy Labs to provide another layer of metatextual satire on top of the original satiric content.
The mind boggles.
Nevertheless, Apple happily approved this extremely subversive software now that people had to think before becoming offended. The original SmuggleTruck software is available for sale on both Mac and Windows, and it offers the new SnuggleTruck mode as a built-in extra.
SnuggleTruck is now available for sale on iTunes for US$1.99 for the iPhone version and $2.99 for the iPad HD version.
A video from the developers that explains the redesign follows after the break.
[via Joystiq]
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SnuggleTruck: Rejected app goes cuddly for Apple approval originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/28/snuggletruck-banned-app-goes-cuddly-for-apple-approval/
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Backup Mail Notes
This hint offers a low tech solution to an all too common problem. The forums are filled with exasperated people who have lost months of notes they created in Mail after a crash, update or simple mistake.
Perhaps Apple is assuming we all have a Time Machine drive hooked up. Whatever the reason, they have not seen fit to provide a straightforward way to backup Mail.app Notes.
There are two easy solutions, and while they will not update or sync in any way, at least you can recover your notes if you inadvertently lose them all.
If you have just a few notes, the first and simplest is method to make a text clipping.
The second involves digging around in the Finder to find w ...
Perhaps Apple is assuming we all have a Time Machine drive hooked up. Whatever the reason, they have not seen fit to provide a straightforward way to backup Mail.app Notes.
There are two easy solutions, and while they will not update or sync in any way, at least you can recover your notes if you inadvertently lose them all.
If you have just a few notes, the first and simplest is method to make a text clipping.
- Select all of the text in your note.
- Click and drag the selected text onto the desktop or your backup folder.
The second involves digging around in the Finder to find w ...
Source: http://feeds.macosxhints.com/click.phdo?i=0fc6af3b1ed9661ad06f58604981862e
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Apple is the World?s Most Admired Company
For the fourth straight year, Apple has been named the world?s most admired company by Fortune Magazine. ?The company?s blistering pace of new product releases has continued to set the bar high for tech companies across the board,? writes Fortune. Apple also ranked #1 for Innovation and led computer companies in eight of nine categories, including Quality of Products and Social Responsibility.
Source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2011/snapshots/670.html
Angry Birds game reaches 140 million downloads
Downloads of the Angry Birds game has reached 140 million, according to publisher Rovio MobileSource: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=7bbe4c3561303a191a3232832cc1ea52
Instapaper's free version goes on extended hiatus, dev explains why
Marco Arment has an interesting writeup on his blog about his iOS app Instapaper (and of course the web service that runs behind it). Arment says on his blog that he's quietly been removing the free version of the app from the App Store, and that's resulted in a surprising effect: Sales of the full app have actually increased. Because of this, Arment says he's rethinking a free version completely, and may not bother ever bringing it back to the App Store.
Traditionally, free or "lite" app versions are very helpful -- they give users a taste of what the app does without any overhead costs to them but the time to download, and they can raise awareness of an app in certain situations. Of course, the drawbacks are that a free app doesn't make any money, and can often be a drain on resources, requiring extra development time or support.
That's where Arment says his problem comes in -- the free app isn't really worth it, doesn't convert to paid as he'd like it to, and perhaps most interesting, actually causes some "image problems." A lot of free users don't realize that the free version has a limited featureset, so they aren't even seeing what the full Instapaper app can do. Moreover, the reviews for the free app (drawing from a pool of users who haven't invested anything in the app, and can "download and dump" but still review it) are noticeably worse than those for the paid version.
The whole post is intriguing, and really goes against some of the conventional wisdom on free versions of apps. Of course, I think games are different than Arment's service, but it's true -- while a free app will likely grab you a larger audience than just putting out a paid version, it still may not be the best thing for a specific app to do. Instapaper Free is gone for now, says Arment, and it may not be back at all.
Instapaper's free version goes on extended hiatus, dev explains why originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/28/instapapers-free-version-goes-on-extended-hiatus-dev-explains/
Thursday 28 April 2011
Analyst: white iPhone could increase sales by 1M or more
Analyst Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities reacted to the long-delayed arrival of the white iPhone 4 by predicting it could push sales of the popular phone even higher, AppleInsider reports. He believes that it will attract some customers that may have passed on the black model, along with new customers who simply waited for the white color to be available. Apple has officially announced that the white iPhone 4 will be available beginning tomorrow, April 28th, in 28 countries....Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=34f2ab537bc8b5788936773876a09d22
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Apple's Bob Mansfield sells stock worth over $13.6 million
Apple's senior VP of hardware, Bob Mansfield, has made his largest-ever sale of Apple stock, an SEC Form 4 filing reveals. On Monday Mansfield is reported to have sold 38,863 shares of company stock, each worth $351.89 at the time. The deal returned $13,675,504.96, leaving just 501 Apple shares in his holdings....Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=3e3c5fc3ba6b796925b68cd475e5430d
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