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April 28, 2010

iPad 3Gs Now Shipping For Delivery On Friday (Update: Maybe Not.)


Well, would-be iPad 3G owners. Your long, long wait is finally coming to an end. According to 9to5Mac, pre-orders of the iPad 3G are finally starting to ship, and should be in your hands by Friday. If you didn't pre-order one, you may be able to snag an iPad 3G at an Apple Store if [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 05:27

Reader Proves He Is The Creator Of Woz's Latest Wardrobe Addition, The "Gray Powell" T-Shirt


Accept no imitations! Reader Rob Kearney wrote us to claim ownership of the genius that came up with the original "i Went Drinking With Gray Powell And All I Got Was A Lousy iPhone Prototype" t-shirt. And he can prove it!

Rob wrtes:
Hate to be a bore, but I am the creator of the "original" Gray [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 05:18

iPhone OS 4.0's Game Center Will Integrate Video Conferencing


With Gizmodo's leaked fourth-generation prototype confirming both front and back-facing video cameras in the next iPhone, we can now take it as read that video conferencing is coming to iPhone OS, as the 3.2 and Beta 4 SDKs have long hinted.
So what kind of software video features can we expect in the next iPhone? MacRumors [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 05:05

Spotify Goes Social, Adds Streaming Libraries and Inboxes


The popular European music streaming service Spotify has gotten a substantial new desktop update in new version 0.43, which brings social networking integration, the ability to import your own MP3 into your Spotify library, an offline storage locker, and a new user inboxes for the sharing of tracks.

The music library feature is probably the most [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 04:45

Panic's Transmit FTP Program Updates To Version 4.0


Transmit, the popular OS X FTP client by Panic Support, has finally broken its half decade run of version 3.x executables and finally released version 4.0, a significant and shiny upgrade that boasts faster performance, a new user interface and several fantastic new features.

The new user interface is very attractive: jettisoning the old Aqua-style drop [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 04:33

New York Times: Apple Bought ARM Design Firm Intrinsity For $121MM


Confirming earlier rumors, the New York Times is reporting that Apple has purchased ARM design firm Intrinsity for an estimated $121 million.

Intrinsity was the company that helped design the Samsung Cortex A8 core, one of the fastest mobile processors out there before the A4 chip, which could only be clocked up to a 650MHz. [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 04:23

Microsoft Licenses Key Smartphone Patents To HTC Across All Handsets (Even Android)


HTC just got a powerful new ally in its patent fight against Apple.
Following Google's announcement that they would support their frequent manufacturing partner in its defense against complaints made by Apple that HTC handsets infringe upon a number of key iPhone-related patents, Microsoft has issued a press release saying that they have signed a [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 04:16

Pat McGovern Meets with Steve, the Deal is Done [Recollections]


In part 8 of "My Close Encounters With Steve Jobs," Macworld founder David Bunnell describes how Steve Jobs and IDG publisher Pat McGovern sign a deal to launch Macworld in conjunction with the Mac.

One major obstacle remained before the first issue of Macworld magazine could roll off the presses at the Brown Printing Company [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 04:00

100 Tips #14: What Is Cover Flow?

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In the last tip, we showed you three standard views for looking at files in a Finder window.
There's a fourth view, though. It's called Cover Flow, and we've given it a tip all of its own because you're likely to see it in many different places.

Cover Flow shows the contents of a folder as [...:]



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Published on April 28, 2010 02:25

April 27, 2010

AdMob, Owned by Google, Shows Android Overtaking iPhone in Web Traffic


The Blagoblogs are a-buzz with a report that shows Android has overtaken the iPhone in mobile web traffic. This would be concerning were it not for two things:

The report only shows Android overtaking iPhone in the U.S. (it's still dominating globally)
The report is created by AdMod, the mobile advertising company owned by Google, and is [...:]



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Published on April 27, 2010 23:45

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