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50 Mac Essentials #4: Perian

Perian calls itself "the Swiss Army knife for QuickTime," a description that's pretty much spot-on.
Technically, Perian is a "QuickTime component" and it's a preference pane rather than an application (which means that after installing, you'll find it in System Preferences, not in your Applications folder).

But if the technical details leave you blurry-eyed, all you need [...:]

Cupidtino: Dating Site for Apple Fans

If you don't want to go out with a PC, there's a new start-up determined to help you meet other Apples: Cupidtino.
The reasoning behind it?
Diehard Mac & Apple fans often have a lot in common – personalities, creative professions, a similar sense of style and aesthetics, taste, and of course a love for [...:]

Artist Microwaves Brand New iPad 3G

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmn5EExfbvY
The iPad is smoldering hot, especially in a professional grade microwave where it goes in pristine, then bursts into flames and comes out a charred, broken brick.
Kenny Irwin, aka dOvetastic, who zaps everything from 1960s telephones to gas masks in an industrial microwave on YouTube, ordered an iPad 3G just to fry it in a performance [...:]

Daily Deals: $99 8GB iPod nano, iPhone 3GS, App Store Freebies

Are you looking for a good price on an iPod? Maybe $99 for a nano? We have the deal for you. The Apple Store is selling a number of iPods (nanos and touches), starting at $99 for an 8GB fourth-generation iPod nano. There's also a deal on a 16GB iPhone 3GS for $149. Finally, the [...:]

Gallery: Rock Show Taps iPad as Marketplace for Digital Art

  
Rock Show, the music poster marketplace developed especially for Apple's iPad by Neutrinos, received an update in the iTunes App Store Wednesday that should help the Portland-based startup gain recognition for its innovative business model as well as for the creative designers behind the posters in its inventory.
Rock Show leverages the iPad's screen real estate [...:]

iPhone Beats Android 2-to-1 in North America

As the old saying goes, statistics can be made to say anything. Particularly when it comes to the increasingly-heated rivalry between Apple and Google. Half of all visits to mobile websites are done via the iPhone, ad network Chitika just announced.
The numbers come just days after Admob released figures in late April indicating smartphones running [...:]

Report: Google to Unveil eBook Sales in June

Add Google to the list of companies planning an ebook service. The Internet giant's Google Editions service could be up and running as early as June, the Mountain View, Calif. company told publishers Tuesday. Google would compete with Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble for the growing audience of electronic readers.
Unlike its competitors, Google [...:]

Brando's iPhone-Sized Bluetooth Keyboard For iPad

Infamous crap-gadget house Brando's latest dispensable accessory is a compact Bluetooth keyboard that they claim is perfect for the iPad, which crams 52 keys into a form factor no larger than the iPhone in a device only half-an-inch thick. It costs $37.
I don't get it. If you want to type on your iPad, you can [...:]

Seagate GoFlex Drives Are Future Proof, Can Be NTFS Formatted Even On Macs

It's a bad time to invest in a portable USB hard drive as a Mac fan. Apple's dropped Firewire support on many of their notebooks, but have yet to adopt the USB 3.0 standard, leaving Apple customers stuck using aging and slow USB 2.0 hardware.
If you're looking for a new hard drive, then, it's easy [...:]

Campus Police Access Security Cam Footage via iPhone

Campus police at the University of Illinois are testing an iPhone app that lets them keep an eye on students via an iPhone app which puts security cam footage at their fingertips.
They're using an app called iRa C3, a video command center designed for security personnel and first responders that can be accessed via web [...:]