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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Thanks to a “dramatic overhaul,” Aperture 2, “Apple’s all-in-one photography tool, overtakes Adobe’s Lightroom,” reports Alex Singleton (macworld.co.uk). “Much faster than its predecessor,” Aperture 2 has “a new user interface [that] makes it more appealing to first-time users, and over 100 new features means it significantly leapfrogs Lightroom in functionality.”
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
What makes the App Store “a win for the user”? Andy Ihnatko (suntimes.com) ticks off the reasons: “The entire universe of iPhone software is in one central location.” “Prices start at free.” “Buying and installing an app is dead simple and reliable.” And thanks to the App Store, iPhone and iPod touch now “represent a formidable and legitimate new computing platform.”
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
When Jonathan Takiff (philly.com) conducted his own touchscreen-to-touchscreen comparison of three new smartphones — iPhone 3G, LG Dare, and Samsung Instinct — the results were crystal clear. “The new iPhone,” he reports, “still reigns supreme in overall performance and enjoyment.”
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Did you know that you can tell Spotlight not to index folders you’d prefer to omit from your searches? Or that you can control the order in which search results appear? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
أعزائي .. إخواني .. أخواتي .. زوّار مدونتي المتواضعة ..
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله تعالى و بركاته ..
أستميحكم عذراً على الإنقطاع المفاجيء .. غبت عنكم شهراً .. كانت وعكة .. و أحمد لله تعالى أنه كشفها و أزالها ..
حاليّاً أمر بأواخر مرحلة النقاهة و الحمد لله الشافي .. و أتمنّي دعائكم ..
أتمنى تعويضكم عن غياب الشهر الماضي .. بأحب الخلفيّات التي صنعتها إلى قلبي .. فكرتها في بالي منذ سنتين .. و تنفيذها استغرق حوالي الـ ٦ أشهر .. و هي جاهزة على جهازي و أستخدمها منذ فترة و أتحيّن اللحظة المناسبة لطرحها لكم .. و هي هدية بسيطة و عرفان أشكركم به على السؤال المتكرر عن أحوالي .. أشكر كل من سأل و أبدى إهتماماً .. كلماتكم كانت بلسماً رقيقاً .. أشكركم جميعاً .. الله لا يحرمني منكم .. و أسأله ألّا يريكم مكروهاً في أنفسكم و أحبابكم ..
هديتكم المتواضعة إمّا غداً أو بعد غدٍ بإذن الله تعالى ..
و سامحوني مرة أخرى على إنقطاعي عنكم ..
و الحمد لله رب العالمين ..
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
“It’s a candy store, dude,” David Pogue (nytimes.com) exclaims — a “single, centralized, utterly complete source of software” that makes “the iPhone (or the iPod Touch) do absolutely amazing things…stunts a cellphone has no right to perform.” And because the new App Store “is beautifully integrated with the iPhone itself,” it makes “it fast, simple and idiot-proof to download and install new software morsels.”
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
After taking it on a test drive across Michigan for ten days, Mike Wendland (freep.com) concludes that “the 3G network makes the iPhone about as close to a laptop in convenience and functionality as a mobile phone can be.” Yet “it’s the new iPhone 2.0 software upgrade that is the most impressive — allowing users to connect seamlessly to business e-mail and run hundreds of new games and programs.”
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Bento, the personal database application for Mac OS X Leopard, ”may be one of the most user-friendly relational database applications I have ever encountered,” suggests Tom Nelson (about.com). “For a remarkably low price of $49, FileMaker has created a truly easy-to-use database product.”
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Week after week, season after season, the series captivated the country as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigated the paranormal and bizarre in The X-Files. Now David Duchnovy and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Mulder and Scully in The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The film, directed by Chris Carter, who also created the television series, opens in theaters on Friday, July 25.
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
“We’ve got some incredible products,” says John Burke, president of Trek Bicycle. “But if you don’t tell people about them, it doesn’t really matter.” Not about to let that happen, Trek uses their Macs to create videos as marketing and training tools. “We’re using podcasting to talk” directly to consumers about Trek bicycles. As a result, “they’re walking right into the retailers asking for the product.”
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
With Exposure, you can take Flickr on the road, browsing and enjoying the billions of photos on Flickr on your iPhone or iPod touch. Both Exposure (free) and the ad-free Exposure Premium ($9.99) let you browse your own library, flip though a contact’s recent uploads, create favorites, add comments, even search through Flickr’s vast library of images.
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
In financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter, Apple reported its best June quarter for both revenue and earnings in Apple’s history, posting revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share. It also set a new record for Mac sales, shipping 2,496,000 Macs during the quarter, representing 41 percent unit growth and 43 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter.
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
In its special report on the IDEA 2008 winners, BusinessWeek reports that the iPhone, MacBook Air, and the Apple Wireless Keyboard won Gold awards and iMac won a Silver award in the prestigious annual competition sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
In its special report on the IDEA 2008 winners, BusinessWeek reports that the iPhone, MacBook Air, and the Apple Wireless Keyboard won Gold awards and iMac won a Silver award in the prestigious annual competition sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Hosted by Dr. Biology (CJ Kazilek) and brought to us by Arizona State University, “Ask a Biologist” features interviews of prominent scientists who discuss tiger beetles, marine biology, the history of fire, microbes, bird song, arachnology, and a wide range of other life science topics. Whether you listen to the shows, read the transcripts, or both, “Ask a Biologist” makes for an enjoyable and thought provoking experience.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
From the new App Store to easier mail management to support for Microsoft Exchange and MobileMe, PC Advisor steps you through the major and minor additions and improvements offered by iPhone 2.0 software. Awarding it five stars for its value for the money, PC Advisor concludes that iPhone 2.0 offers “a welcome step-up for what was already arguably the best mobile platform on the market.”
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
So far as Ed Baig (usatoday.com) is concerned, “the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch” is “the killer app many of us expected,” an application that “turns the iPhone into an important new computing platform.” In his review, Baig takes a look at some of the apps — Pandora, AOL Radio, Super Monkey Ball, MooCowMusic: Band, Etch A Sketch, and five others — that can make “you feel like a kid in a toy store.”
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
“If you have an iPhone,” cautions Rik Fairlie (NYTimes.com), “you just might forget that the device is capable of making phone calls,” considering all of the diverting applications available on the new iPhone App Store. “Simple to use, thanks to its elegant and intuitive interface,” the App Store offers “an object lesson for other cellphone makers and carriers on how to make your customers’ phones indispensable.”
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
“iPhone 3G is the best touchscreen phone and media player by far on any network,” proclaims Mark Spoonauer (laptopmag.com) in his 4-star (out of five) review of iPhone 3G. “It delivers the best mobile Web experience on any smart phone,” offers “excellent App Store integration,” “vastly improved call quality,” and “Microsoft Exchange support.” And, he adds, iPhone 3G is a “stellar music and video player.”
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Tomorrow, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight opens in theaters across the country. The eagerly anticipated film — with Christian Bale reprising his Batman role and Heath Ledger starring as the Joker — has already received rave reviews. Before you head to the theater, watch the trailers on the Movie Trailer site. You can even download them to take with you on your iPod.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
In Mac OS X Leopard, Safari offers a great new search feature called Find. In addition to instant Google searches, Safari now lets you easily and quickly locate any text on any web page. Safari displays how many instances of your search term it found, and it highlights each instance on the page. To find out how you can take advantage of the new Find feature in Safari, read the latest Pro Tip of the Week.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
It’s the software, maintains BusinessWeek’s Stephen Wildstrom, that “separates the iPhone from the pack.” And, he predicts, “the App Store will turn that gap into a gulf.” That’s because the iPhone “provides a unique combination of an extremely capable device, millions of customers hungry for ways to expand its usefulness, and an enthusiastic (crazed, one could say) community of developers.”
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
The iPhone 3G earns a four (out of five) mouse rating from Jason Snell (macworld.com), who reports that the new iPhone “improves on the original iPhone’s audio quality, offers access to a faster data network, and sports built-in GPS functionality.“ It also provides access to “the exciting new world of third-party software” and to “new Exchange syncing features.”
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
“I would have posted this sooner, but I just can’t put down the new iPhone 3G,” relates Eric Benderoff (chicagotribuine.com). “Blame the 3G speed. The faster network connection is such an improvement over the first iPhone that you’ll be hard-pressed to stop using the new iPhone because it truly has become a mini Mac in the palm of your hand.”
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Carrying a piano around town has never been easier — now that MooCowMusic: Pianist lets you tickle the virtual ivories on your iPhone or iPod touch. Pianist offers a complete 88-key piano keyboard, each note sampled from a real piano. And Pianist, one of the more than 800 applications now available on the new App Store, offers multi-track recording, so you can even play a duet with yourself.
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
We’re all creatures of habit, even online. So if you’re web browsing routine has you visiting the same websites every day, you can use Safari in Mac OS X Leopard to open all of those sites at the same time — each in a separate tab, with just a single click. You’ll learn how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
“As a result of a combination of higher screen resolution and software design,” contends John Markoff (nytimes.com), “the iPhone today is clearly the best hand-held device for viewing the Web.” Says Markoff, “visiting Web sites that have been redesigned for the iPhone is often a quicker and more pleasing experience than it is on those increasingly cinema-style desktop displays.”
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
On Sunday, Apple sold its one millionth iPhone 3G, the company announced today.
“iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world.”
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
During its first weekend, iPhone and iPod touch customers downloaded more than 10 million applications from the new App Store. The groundbreaking App Store now has more than 800 native applications, including over 200 offered for free and more than 90 percent available for less than $10.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Need to write a research paper for a summer course? Then you’ll want to pay a visit to the Florida Community College at Jacksonville and sign up for English Composition II. The 24-unit video course provides a comprehensive resource for writing academic essays. And you can also learn about technical writing, writing for business, and literary analysis, as well. It’s another fine course available on iTunes U.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Dark Horse Comics has published comics and graphic novels for more than 20 years. And for most of its superpowered history, the Mac has played a key role. Thanks to a network of nearly 150 Macs, Dark Horse publishes 30 or more comics and graphic novels a month. And the Mac has helped Dark Horse expand into film and television, producing blockbusters from 1994’s The Mask to this summer’s Hellboy II.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Opening August 27, Traitor stars Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) in a “taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counter-espionage operations.” You can catch the exclusive HD trailer for Traitor, written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, on the Movie Trailers site.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Having tested the new iPhone 3G for more than three weeks, Ed Baig (usatoday.com) states that “with GPS newly added to the mix, this handheld marvel has no equal,” and he offers an “enthusiastic thumbs up.”
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
In his review of iPhone 3G, Walt Mossberg (allthingsd.com) considers it “much, much faster” than the original iPhone. In fact, he found that “ doing email and surfing the Internet typically was between three and five times as fast.” iPhone 3G was just as fast handling Mossberg’s corporate email, which, he says, “was pushed to the phone as soon as it was received on the company’s servers.”
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
When the iPhone 3G went on sale on Friday, July 11, more than 500 native applications became available on the revolutionary new App Store — including more than 125 free applications. And when they find applications they want, customers can wirelessly download them directly to iPhone and begin using them immediately.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
When the iPhone 3G goes on sale tomorrow, more than 500 native applications will be available on the revolutionary new App Store — including more than 125 free applications — Apple announced today. Customers can wirelessly download the applications they want directly to iPhone and begin using them immediately.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
You won’t see — or hear — anything else like it on television. And to deliver a series of such uncompromising quality, the seven-person creative team that brings us Live from Abbey Road depends on Final Cut Studio to edit, color, correct, and export the entire show. “If I put myself in a time machine and went back ten years, I’d never have believed I could do this,” remarks editor Keith Mottram.
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Time Machine makes it easy to back up everything on your Mac’s hard drive. But what if you have items you don’t want Time Machine to back up for you? Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to find out how you can set up Time Machine to skip files you don’t want to back up.
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
“One of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers, Axel Springer AG, has announced plans to migrate its 10,000 employees and 150 newspapers in 30 countries to the Mac,” reports Jonny Evans (macworld.co.uk). The migration “will make Axel Springer Apple’s second largest corporate customer, after Google.”
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
“Sales of Apple’s Macintosh computers have been growing much faster than PC sales overall, with many new Mac buyers switching from years of using Windows computers,” admits Walt Mossberg (allthingsd.com). And to help those who have made the switch, he’s assembled “a quick tip sheet explaining a few of the most common differences” between Mac OS Leopard and Windows.
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Aperture 2: Professionally Manage Digital Photographs, a new title from Ben Long, Richard Harrington, and Orlando Luna, guides you step-by-step through the entire Aperture workflow, even providing hundreds of sample images to experiment with. Download the free Aperture 2 trial, work through the book’s in-depth tutorials, and you’ll see how far Aperture 2 can advance your photography.
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Of three ultrathin portables — MacBook Air, Toshiba Portege, and Lenovo ThinkPad — which is the most usable? To find out, Computerworld turned to usability experts and 20 impartial testers. Those testers, David Haskin relates, found MacBook Air the most usable, the most fun, and the best value of the three. In fact, they made MacBook Air “the clear winner when asked which laptop they’d purchase.”
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
When open windows start piling up on your desktop, Mac OS X Leopard provides a great way to establish control. Spaces. How can Spaces help you get more organized? Find out by reading the latest Pro Tip of the Week.
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Thanks to a new educational initiative, teachers and parents can now access a wealth of K-12 educational curricula on iTunes U. Delivered by state and district agencies in Arizona, Florida, Maine, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Utah, the free content provides “global access to educational content, curricula, learning materials, news, best practices, and other resources,” reports Dave Nagel (thejournal.com).
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
THE WAR, the most watched PBS series in the last decade, now serves another tour of duty as an excellent online educational resource. WETA, Washington D.C.’s public broadcasting station, provides film clips, lesson plans, and additional educational resources for students and teachers. Watch — and enjoy — them today on iTunes U.
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle) considers the 17-inch MacBook Pro “the fastest, most powerful, and most capable notebook I’ve tested.” And he’s particularly taken with its display. “All I can say is, ‘Wow.’ With its bright, deeply saturated colors and rich, dark blacks, full-screen HD video is mind-boggling.”
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Get Smart introduced us to Bruce and Lloyd. Now the two, played by Masi Oka (Heroes) and Nate Torrence (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) appear in their own film: Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control. A hilarious treat for the holiday weekend, it’s available online exclusively on iTunes for purchase or rental. Enjoy.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Ever wished you could drag the contents of one PDF into another? You can — using Preview in Mac OS X Leopard. We show you how in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
As a scientist, your Mac can be a valuable asset, especially when it comes time to share your research findings with colleagues. To find out how you can use tools on your Mac to create research posters, websites, and dynamic presentations, visit the Science Productivity Lab, where you’ll find tips and tutorials created with the needs of the scientific community in mind.
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Then you’ll want to download the free Making of Bruce & Lloyd Out of Control. The short, now available on iTunes, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the hilarious new film that parallels the Get Smart movie. It features Bruce (Masi Oka of Heroes) and Lloyd (Nate Torrence of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) as they conjure up inventions for use by unsuspecting CONTROL agents.
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