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100 Tips #7: More Dock Customizing

We've already explained how the Dock is split into two halves, and looked at the applications side of it in the last screencast.
This time, we're looking at more ways to customize the Dock, and make it bend to your will.

By default, the Dock is a lively little thing. It moves, the icons jump around. Some [...:]

Overnight How-To: Cram More Music On Your iPhone

Last week's release of iTunes 9.1 was largely noted for enabling the use of the iPad, no small feat. Of potentially far more use for those of us who haven't yet managed to scrape together the pennies to buy an iPad is the ability to downsample all music for devices, whether iPad, -Pod, or -Phone, [...:]

Surprise — Your Old USB Car Charger Won't Feed Your iPad

As noted by new iPad owners (including the Cult's editor, Leander Kahney), the iPad is a hungry baby, and sucking at the teat of some older USB ports leaves it screaming for more juice.
What about keeping the iPad topped up on a road trip via the USB car-charger you bought last year? No can-do — [...:]

Daily Deals: $99 iPod nano, App Store Freebies, iTunes Freebie

We reach midweek with another round of Mac-related deals. First up is a number of bargains on Apple iPods, starting with a fourth-gen 8GB iPod nano for $99. We also check into a new batch of App Store freebies, including "BaseBrawl," touted as a violent baseball game. The iTunes store has released another freebie: Juliet [...:]

Report: 7.3M iPhones Sold in First Quarter 2010, Owners Prefer Apple

Current iPhone users will likely stay iPhone users, indicates new research released Wednesday. More than 9 in 10 iPhone owners stay Apple fans, an analyst said.
"While we believe that this retention can change rapidly, anecdotally during our survey we even received emails from three respondents asking when the next iPhone will be available," wrote UBS [...:]

Report: Verizon CEO Asked Apple for iPhone

A curious report emerged Tuesday surrounding the seeming never-ending attempt by Verizon Wireless to break into the exclusive U.S. iPhone market. While previous reports have used anonymous sources in the will they, won't they soap opera, the latest voice heard came from Verizon's CEO.
Ivan Seidenberg, speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations, said his [...:]

Will 2nd-Gen iPad Include a Camera?

The second-generation iPad may include a camera, an analyst told investors Wednesday. Omnivision, which makes sensors for digital cameras is "well-positioned" to be a supplier to Apple's iPad, as well as the iPhone, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Paul Coster.
In a related note, RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky said Tuesday most consumers interested in buying [...:]

Rumor: iWorks Hints At Future iPhone OS Printer Functionality

Is printing directly from your iPhone or iPad in the cards for iPhone OS 4.0?
Well, maybe, although the evidence is pretty scant.
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Check the support pages for iWorks, and you'll find this little note on the subject: "Printing directly from iPad is not currently available."
The operative word here is currently, and while we're reading a [...:]

SNES Emulator Running "Super Mario Kart" on iPad

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3J0cMAwHUo
You won't see this on the App Store anytime soon, since Nintendo would pretty much throw a conniption fit, but here's Super Mario Kart running gorgeously on the iPad through the glories of emulation.
The emulator's from ZodTTD, who has previously done iPhone's SNES and N64 emulators. All we need to do now is just [...:]

TSA: You Don't Need To Remove Your iPad for X-rays

The hellish ordeal of going through airport security may involve throwing away all your liquids, walking shoeless on a filthy floor, being groped by a glorified rent-a-cop, and becoming the nude subject of body scans… but at least you won't need to take your iPad out of your bag along with your other laptops. Yet.
According [...:]