08/29/2011
Gartenberg: The importance of the MacBook Air
Analyst Michael Gartenberg takes on the MacBook Air, and why it's just the beginning.
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Ten One releases Pogo Sketch Pro stylus
Ten One Design started the iOS stylus craze with the Pogo Sketch; now, the company?s attempting to top its previous offerings with The Pogo Sketch Pro.Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=3c920dbd14acc0f1242c11c9365bb809
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08/28/2011
10.7: Enable HiDPI mode for higher resolution displays
To enable HiDPI mode, you first need Xcode 4.1 for Lion. It's a free download from the App Store. (Xcode 3 will not work.)
Launch Quartz Debug from /Developer/Applications/Graphic Tools, then enable the 'HiDPI' support. This setting is found under Window » UI Resolution. You'll be forced to log out and re-login to activate the change.
Now, check out the Displays preference in System Preferences. Some resolutions will now have '(HiDPI)' appended to their name. Choose one to see this feature in action.
HiDPI mode uses graphics (and fonts) that are twice as large as standard DPI mode, similar how how the retina di ...
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10.7: Active Directory Binding
Initially I managed to get machines to bind by manually creating an edu.mit.Kerberos file and populating it before performing the actual bind. This would work but a reboot would often cause a 'Network Accounts Unavailable' message.
The opendirectoryd logs were full of messages such as 'No preferred destination' and 'Failed to retrieve keychain password for 'MACHINENAME$' module '' node '/Active Directory/DOMAIN'.'
On a whim I tried disabling IPv6 on the ethernet adapter -- which is apparently no longer possible using the GUI in 10.7. Once I disabled it from the command line the machine bound without the need to create a kerberos file and authentication worked perfectly.
You can disable IPv6 from the command line with:
networksetup -set ...
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New category home pages arriving in the App Store
Apple's been quietly tweaking the design of the App Store, and The Next Web notes Apple has been posting new updates to App Store category pages and their designs. Games and Education are the first two to get a new, cleaner look. If it looks familiar, that's because the main music homepage uses the same design, with one big bar and a scrolling list of other featured titles on the side.
I don't know that this will necessarily affect app sales much. The New and Noteworthy sections are still prominent, and just anecdotally, I'm not sure how many people actually browse the App Store for apps. I'm sure they do that on the day they come home with an iPhone or iPad, but after that I presume most app sales are by word of mouth ("Go check out this app!") or by specifically searching on the store for something.
Getting spotlighted by Apple never hurts, though, and a cleaner category page means it's easier for anyone to shop there. You can see the new pages in action in iTunes right now.
New category home pages arriving in the App Store originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/25/new-category-home-pages-arriving-in-the-app-store/
Best apps for tracking Hurricane Irene
If you're in the path of Hurricane Irene and you haven't gone through the App Store already looking for the best sources of info on the storm, there are others who have done it for you. Information Week, Appolicious, and MSNBC's Technolog have all made lists of apps for various flavors of smartphones.
Virtually all the lists of apps include the free Weather Channel App for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry*. The application description doesn't clearly state if the free app (there's a paid version) has push notification for weather alerts, but the $3.99 Weather Channel Max app does include them.
Aside from TWC's contributions, there's also the paid Hurricane for iPhone or Hurricane HD for iPad which shows up in multiple lists of suggested apps. You may want to try searching for an app for a TV station in your area; a lot of them have notifications for breaking news or weather alerts which you can set up.
CNN has a few apps listed alongside Twitter feeds to watch and things like a multipurpose radio which includes weather band information, a flashlight, a USB port for charging, and a hand crank to make the whole thing go.
Google has set up a crisis response map with a wide variety of layers including power outages, shelters, forecasts and loads more.
Here are some basic tips for maximizing battery life on your smartphone/tablet/laptop/e-reader in case of power outages: Turn the screen brightness down as low as you can, turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and if you can run multiple apps at once, quit anything extraneous. That way you'll get the most out of your battery before you have to hook it to that Axis radio and work the hand crank till your arm gives out.
If you do need this list of apps because you're in Irene's path, all of us at TUAW (who aren't battening down our own hatches) are thinking of you and wishing you well.
*Irene doesn't care what smartphone you use.
Best apps for tracking Hurricane Irene originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/27/best-apps-for-tracking-hurricane-irene/
Apple up to $1.3 million on government lobbying in 2011
Apple has so far spent at least $1.3 million on lobbying the US government this year, says First Street Research. The firm's data covers the first two quarters of the year, during which Apple spent $560,000 and $790,000, respectively. The money can be further subdivided between four major contracted lobbying firms: Capitol Tax Partners, Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, Franklin Square Group, and Jefferson Consulting Group....
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Google vs. Apple: The acquisition showdown
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