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Entries from January 2008

Apps: iPhone Drive, Nicecast

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iPhone Drive 1.4 ($20) Mac OS X application which lets the iPhone and iPod Touch be used like a disk for portable file storage. This release adds Adds Call Log access. Adds SMS message access. Adds camera photo access. Adds the ability to play music stored on the iPhone or iPod Touch. This release adds Call Log access; SMS message access; camera ph…

iTunes usage overtakes RealPlayer for the first time

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Although often considered the de facto choice for music sales, Apple’s iTunes media player has just recently surpassed RealPlayer and is now second only to Microsoft’s Windows Media Player for streaming media.

Website Optimization cites new resear…

MarsEdit Update Kicks Your Blogging Up A Notch

Posted under mardedit, software-update, blogging, News, software, Apple on January 31st, 2008 by admin0 comments

I’m not one to get excited about dot-update releases from a software vendor, but a tool that was mentioned in my “must have” post – MarsEdit – has just updated from version 2.0 to 2.1, with that “0.1″ adding far more than a tenth of new features.
One of my major complaints about the previous version […]

Garmin’s iPhone rival; MacBook Air’s CPU non-exclusive; more

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Garmin is looking to become the first credible rival to Apple with a touchscreen phone that adds real GPS navigation and 3G. Meanwhile, reports have the MacBook Air’s special Core 2 Duo surfacing in Windows PCs, and Apple may use the tale of one iPh…

Patents: AAC audio, hierarchical menu items

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The US Patent and Trademark Office today published 11 of Apple’s patent applications. Among the 11, a patent regarding AAC audio bit allocation, as well as one pertaining to hierarchical menus stand out. Apple has presented a concept for perceptual audio encoding, a bit allocation technique that is designed to reduce the size of a file by finding a…

iBank 3 Public Beta adds iPhone support

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IGG Software today released iBank 3 Public Beta, a trial version of its financial management application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The software includes iBank for iPhone, a Web-based iPhone application that allows users to enter transactions from an iPhone on-the-go. The update powers a redesigned interface with Mac OS X Core Animation technology,…

iPhoneDrive 1.4 adds access to SMS, call history, more

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Ecamm Network today announced the release of iPhoneDrive v1.4 (US$19.95), a Mac application which lets iPhone and iPod Touch users access iTunes media, iPhoto library, notes, and other data stored on the device…

iSale 5 adds research tool, template editor

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Equinux today began shipping the fifth generation of its online auction management software, iSale 5. The application allows Mac users to create as well as manage online eBay auctions, and features a template editor that allows supports customization of the included 222 templates. iSale 5 simplifies the search for product information and pictures, …

Nokia to demo touch UI, ‘full’ web next month

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Nokia will use much of its time at next month’s Mobile World Congress to demonstrate future technology for its smartphones, the company says in two entries on its official Symbian series 60 (S60) blog. The Finnish firm had previously previewed a small number of technologies at its Go:Play event last year but now intends to elaborate on its plans. …

Stay on track with Ruby on Rails Bootcamp in Europe

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Big Nerd Ranch Europe, premier provider of week-long, intensive training classes for Web developers, system administrators and programmers, announced its popular Ruby on Rails Bootcamp taught by Charles Brian Quinn is coming back to the beautiful monastery “Kloster Eberbach” near Frankfurt, Germany, April 7-11, 2008…