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Zombie Killing Doesn't Get Better Than "Alive 4-Ever Returns"

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There's no shortage of ways to kill zombies on the iPhone. Blast them in the head with a shotgun, gobble them up with a venus flytrap, or hit them with a car. Even so, Meridian Digital Entertainment's Smash TV like, Alive 4-Ever, was one of the more satisfying ways to blow apart fetid corpse flesh [...:]

Apple Is Hiring iPad Camera Engineer

It's a sure thing that the iPad will get a camera in its second generation. After all, there's already an empty, iSight-shaped slot in the iPad's frame, and it's pretty much a sure thing that both the next iPhone and iPod Touch will have a camera. It would be absurd if the iPad didn't get [...:]

Steve Jobs: Next Final Cut Pro Will Be "Awesome"

A recently chatty Steve Jobs has once again rattled off a personal email on his iPad, this time to an Apple fan worried that Cupertino was ignoring Final Cut Pro.
Customer Alex J wrote to Jobs:
Getting worried about Apple's interest in Final Cut. Last updates were not stellar. I heard a bunch of engineers were dropped [...:]

Quick Review: Atomic Web Browser for iPad, iPhone Has Tabs, AdBlock, Offline Mode and More

Mobile Safari's method of handling multiple pages groks well with the iPhone's small touchscreen, but on the iPad, it seems slow and cumbersome when there's plenty of real estate for desktop Safari's standard method of navigating between open websites: tabs.
Atomic Web Browser ($0.99, Free) brings tabs back to the iPhone OS. Better, it [...:]

New MacBook Pros' Amazing Battery Life Explained By Automatic GPU Switching

One of the major improvements of the latest MacBook Pros is in battery life: the 13-inch MacBook Pro is now boasting an impressive ten hour battery life, while even the more power hungry 15 and 17 inchers are promising eight to nine hours of mobile performance.
How's Apple doing it? Dynamic graphics switching between the workhorse [...:]

The Urban Tool iPhone icaseBelt Is A Fanny Pack, But A Cool One [Review]

The icaseBelt from Austrian company Urban Tool is a modern version of the old-fashioned fanny pack, retooled for the iPhone/iPod age. It holds everything you might need for a day trip or jog, and includes built-in controls for your iPod.
Trouble is, the icaseBelt is way too cool for someone my age, but I like it anyway.
Worn [...:]

The Urban Tool iPhone CaseBelt Is A Fanny Pack, But A Cool One [Review]

The icaseBelt from Austrian company Urban Tool is a modern version of the old-fashioned fanny pack, retooled for the iPhone/iPod age. It holds everything you might need for a day trip or jog, and includes built-in controls for your iPod.
Trouble is, the icaseBelt is way too cool for someone my age, but I like it anyway.
Worn [...:]

Twitter Management Making Developers Nervous?

The tweet-world is in a tizzy after news last week that Twitter snapped up both the Tweetie desktop client and iPhone app, as a first step to re-releasing the $3 app as Twitter's free, official iPhone client.
While iPhone twittaholics might be pretty pumped about the move — the Cult's Pete Mortensen has said Tweetie 2 [...:]

Apple Earns 8% PC Market Share on 34% YoY Growth — Gartner

Apple sold an impressive 1.4 million Macs in the first quarter of 2010, says research firm Gartner, recording very healthy 34% year-on-year growth. The PC market as a whole grew about 25% — the biggest first quarter volume ever, Gartner says. Apple is the fifth-largest PC maker in the U.S. with an 8% share of [...:]

MacBook Air So Hot it Burns?

The MacBook Air may be light but its reputation has been weighed down by overheating problems that Apple attempted to patch up with a fix in 2008.
This scorching photo comes from Sarah, who says her 1-year-old machine branded her:
I got this burn an hour into working Monday morning, after picking up my machine [...:]