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Steve Jobs: "Most Valuable CEO" Worldwide?

Steve Jobs once again made Barron's annual list of the 30 most respected CEOs worldwide.
Jobs, however, stands out among the global tycoons — other repeat honorees include Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com and John Chambers of Cisco — being called "probably the world's most valuable CEO." His career is called "cinematic" and on the eve of [...:]

Need Answers? Here's the Steve Jobs Advice Generator

Whether questions like "Will the iPad will live up to its hype?" or "Should I stay or should I go to the Apple store?" are what keep you on edge, now you can ask Steve Jobs.
Head over to Ask El Jobso, the oracle for Apple lovers.
The random response generator was devised by the team at [...:]

MONDAY GIVEAWAYS: Win Eight Sweet Apps on Facebook

I would try and come up with a great package theme for this week's giveaway, but there really is no correlation between these apps. Great bundle, though.
To enter to win these eight sweet apps, just tag us in your Facebook status. Contest ends at 5pm EST Tuesday and we'll pick 5 random status taggers to [...:]

Five Fun Games: A Unique Sim, Arcade Games Underwater, Favorite I Spy Mysteries and More

Happy Friday! Here's this week's selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include helping a sea empress with amnesia, collecting endangered fishies, solving thrilling I Spy mysteries and more.




Aqua Park – Although the game play of Aqua Park is fairly simple, it's [...:]

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt Spotted Chatting Amiably at Coffeeshop

Althoiugh they are supposed to be mortal enemies, Steve Jobs was just spotted chatting amiably with Google's Eric Schmidt at a coffeeshop in downtown Palo Alto, reports Gizmodo.
Overheard from the conversation were two lines by Jobs. Enthusiastically, "They're going to see it all eventually so who cares how they get it." Which seemed to [...:]

Funny True Story: Woman Pinned To Floor Under Heavy Mac Pro

Someone just forwarded me this hilarious story about a woman who was pinned to the floor by her Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro is a big, heavy machine and can weigh upwards of 40 lbs. The story circulated on an Apple consultant mailing list recently. Here it is, typos and all:
This is by far one of [...:]

Apple Updates Pro Apps, but Where are the Pro Machines?

With the update of many of Apple's pro apps including Final Cut, and Aperture, the hardware they're designed to run on is starting to feel a little stale.  Certainly the top of the line Mac Pros, still dominate Geekbench scores for the first thousand pages or so,  but for the first time in the Intel [...:]

Daily Deals: MacBook Air, App Store Freebies, Apple TV

We wrap up the week with a deal on a MacBook Air. The laptop runs at 1.86GHz and is priced at $1,370. Next up is a new batch of free apps from the App Store, including "Magnetic Sports Hockey." We also look at the latest deal on a 160GB Apple TV unit.
Along the way, we [...:]

What Are You Playing On Your iPhone This Weekend? (Us: GeoSpark)

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This week hasn't heralded any major App Store gaming releases, so this weekend, in the wake of the inamorata's shamelessly bragged-about decimation of my all-time high score, I'll be revisiting an old iPhone favorite: GeoSpark ($1.99) by Critical Thought Games.

GeoSpark is one of those deceptively simple little five-minute time wasters that can easily turn [...:]

Outside US, iPad Hits eBay Before Stores

Although Apple has slashed international shipping times for many countries, eBay auctions may bring iPads to early adopters before they can buy them in stores.
In Italy, where the official launch date hasn't been specified beyond "end of April," there are dozens of iPads for sale on eBay, the Apple Lounge found, where those willing to [...:]