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An analyst report sent today hints at Apple producing an iPhone that would work with both GSM and CDMA networks. The OTR Global note obtained by AppleInsider claims to know of an iPhone in development with a hybrid Qualcomm chipset that will support the two normally incompatible standard...

By Ross Miller So we knew a select number of authorized resellers would start stocking iPhones soon, and thanks to a tipster, it looks like we might be getting a glimpse at a none-too-surprising recipient of the new order. As these pics from an anonymous tipster show, "big hug for your mobile life" retail...

By John Herrman The Best Chorus: Hey, Apple, when people start making apps just to help people find new apps, take it as a sign that your App Store interface could use a little help. Chorus crowdsources the effort to cut through the endless jungle of trash:

By Jon Buys Now I think that the three functions of iTunes are tied together because of the iTunes store. Since Apple used the same distribution model that had been successful with music for movies and TV shows, adding the functionality to iTunes and the iTunes Store offered the path of least resistan...

By Darrell Etherington While the timing of both rumors happens to be concurrent, please note that it is very unlikely that if Apple were to release an 8GB iPhone 3GS in time for the holiday season, it would use the new RFID tech. It’s more likely that the RFID integration will come to fruition in later models of the iP...

Apple gained market share in the summer but slipped in the face of tougher competition, according to new IDC data. The iPhone's share of smartphones grew from 16.6 percent to 17.1 percent during the quarter but was overtaken by Research in Motion's record BlackBerry sales, which pushed it a...

By Wilson Rothman This isn't about photos and music. Apple TV is better at both of those than any of this stuff. It's also not about renting movies or buying movies, or even streaming movies from Netflix. Roku has a nice cheap box for that, and Apple TV is suitable if you just want to live inside Steve Jobs' media st...

By John C Abell Everything We Know About Apple’s Touchscreen TabletGadget Lab Contest: Show Us Your Apple Tablet Mock-UpFinancial Times Confirms Apple Tablet for SeptemberRumor: $800 Apple Tablet Coming in OctoberRumor: 10-Inch Apple Tablet Landing in Early 2010Rumor: Apple Tablet Will Featur...

By jeremy@ilounge.com (Jeremy Horwitz) As is obvious from the photographs here, the new Apple Remote is the extremely rare example of an Apple design that actually has grown significantly from its predecessor—previously 3.5” long, it’s now roughly 4.7” long, and thus taller than the iPod nano, a design change that enables it to...

By Charles Jade That latter comment sounds eerily familiar, not at all unlike predictions about iPod competitors in 2004. Back then, the iPod’s success was attributed to everything from the iTunes ecosystem to Apple marketing, but what really set the iPod apart was the interface, especially the paten...

By Charles Jade That latter comment sounds eerily familiar, not at all unlike predictions about iPod competitors in 2004. Back then, the iPod’s success was attributed to everything from the iTunes ecosystem to Apple marketing, but what really set the iPod apart was the interface, especially the paten...

By John Herrman Apple can permanently patch the blacksn0w exploit in their next firmware update. You must download Cydia's "On File" system in case Apple blocks more exploits in future updates. It's still safe to run the tool, but keep in mind that Apple can—and probably will—patch the core exploit used b...

By Peter Burrows No company is as well positioned to satisfy this demand than Apple. Many carriers have plans to make their content available in more numerous, and interesting ways. Microsoft continues to push its "Three Screens and a Cloud" vision. But only Apple has iTunes. Hundreds of millions of people h...

By Darrell Etherington According to “multiple sources” speaking to All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka, Apple is trying to gather support for a monthly subscription service that would see TV programs made available via iTunes in an on-demand basis. Luckily for most, Apple is keeping the proposed service open to...

By Wilson Rothman 6. No DivX "This file was not transferred because it is unable to be played on Apple TV." Steve Jobs once said that only 4% of music on iPods came from iTunes. A lot of movies that would be nice to play on Apple TV simply don't, while H.264 is an option on Handbrake and other personal-use DVD-encodin...

Quickly validating rumors, Apple has officially released v3.0 firmware for the Apple TV. The core change is a new menu system, designed to make it simpler to flip between major categories; it also draws focus to particular information, such as which videos have been rented or are unwatche...

By John Herrman iPhone OS is already a superpower with massive adoption, a huge app store and a bright future. They're not going anywhere. They learned their lessons about the importance of volume and apps when I was still a kid. But what about the other two smartphone players that consumers really love? You...

By Dave Greenbaum AASP (Apple Authorized Service Provider) What is it: Business that is permitted to do Apple warranty repairs for reimbursement and order parts from Apple. Requirements: Have an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician on staff, among other requirements.

By (Frank Ohlhorst) Psystar's latest challenge to Apple is a software package that purports to let PC owners install a Mac OS on their systems. But does it really work? Yes and no.

By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) To solve this problem, Apple tided its users over with Classic, an environment that emulated Mac OS 9 within Mac OS X. But this solution was fated not to last forever. Classic reached the end of its life in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger; later versions of Mac OS X don't include Classic, and Classic doesn't r...

By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) Recently, TidBITS reader "Rene Belloq" alerted us to a large and growing thread on Apple's Support Discussion forums (currently at over 20,000 views and nearly 300 replies). The thread details various user encounters with an iPhoto '09 bug that prevents the Faces feature from recogniz...

By Brian Lam The larger case allows the iMac to use four sticks of user-serviceable RAM, accessible from the bottom. (That's useful futureproofing now that OS X Snow Leopard is shipping, and programs and the OS in 64-bit can address more than 4GB at a time.)

Apple today released a pair of software updates targeting Final Cut Studio and Snow Leopard Server users. Pro Applications Update 2009-001 (243.23 MB) offers an update to a number of components of Final Cut Studio.Pro ...

By Darrell Etherington Move over Bluetooth, there’s a new direct device connectivity technology out there, and it’s on track for a mid-2010 production rollout. The tech in question is Wi-Fi Direct (previously known as “Wi-Fi peer-to-peer”), and Apple is now one of its main proponents, along with other heavy h...

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Apple on Tuesday released iMovie 8.0.5 [36MB], an update to its free movie editing software bundled with all new Macs. According to Apple, the update improves compatibility with a number of devices and fixes other minor issues, including improved compatibility with camcorders using the...

By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) At first I had been inclined to propose a theory that maybe some external force, such as a bad scripting addition, might be messing things up somehow. This was a reasonable guess, because the Snow Leopard transition to 64-bit has in fact caused existing 32-bit scripting additions to becom...

Apple today released iPhone OS 3.1.2, addressing several issues regarding waking from sleep, network service disruption, and crashing during video streaming. iPhone users should connect their iPhones to iTunes and click the "Check for Update" button...

By Arik Hesseldahl AT&T has now, it says, taken the necessary steps to allow IP calling applications to run on its 3G wireless network. It had argued in an August 21 letter to the FCC that "...both parties [Apple and AT&T] required assurances that the revenues from the AT&T voice plans available to i...

By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) I do wish Apple would give more hints about how to continue using a theoretically supported Apple printer under Snow Leopard. Suggestions for Ethernet-to-parallel/serial print servers and an explanation of what Normal, Raw, and BSP mean with respect to connection types would be welco...

The  iPhone Dev Team had warned iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users who had jailbroken and/or unlocked their iPhone to avoid upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1  a day before it was released and had asked them to wait for them to release the PwnageTool. iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1 for iPhone OS 3.1...

By John Herrman to show it's real. If you look at the board, it states Apple 2009 very clear. The 2nd gen AKA iPod touch out now, has 2008 on it. They haven't revised the 2008 touch. I will compare them in pic in a sec. I acquired this from a guy that I buy parts phones and iPods from. I believe he's a recycler in *********...

By John Biggs So that’s that. Apparently the Tapplet will look like a big iPod and act is sort of an MID device between the Macbook and the iPhone. I wouldn’t think it’s like Palm’s Foleo but more like a more powerful iPhone. “The device, which I’ve held mock ups of, is going to have a 10 inch screen, and when I sa...

By Joachim Bean Amidst the release of Mac OS X 10.5.8 for Leopard users, Apple has also released Security Update 2009-003 for users of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This update fixes 7 of the same security vulnerabilities that were patched as part of the 10.5.8 update. There are updates available for PowerPC and Intel vers...

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At this year's Black Hat security conference, one of the largest conferences on Internet and computer security, researchers demonstrated the potential for SMS-based attacks on the iPhone that could disable the device or extract sensitive information from it. Although Apple reporte...

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It is possible to copy an iPhone app, purchased with one iTunes account to another iPhone linked to a different iTunes account. Without paying for it again. Here's how to do it. Sponsored Topics: IPhone - List of iPhone applications - ITunes - Apple - Handhelds

Sanford tried to explain all this to Apple, but to no avail. He submitted PasswordWallet three times, each time upping the rating after being rejected. For the final attempt, he gave PasswordWallet the highest possible rating, since each rejection took 8 to 10 days, and he couldn't afford...

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Call me obsessive, call me retentive, but just don't call me on an "iPhone 3G S," since Apple has quietly started changing the new iPhone's name to "iPhone 3GS," removing the space before the trailing S. As I said in "New iPhone 3GS Boosts Power, Performance, and More" (2009-06-08), "Techn...

By tomek aTV Flash, a patchstick that enables installing plugins and other applications on Apple TV, has released 3.5.5 version of their installer program. This version includes a number of efficiency improvements for the installer application as well as support for the popular Hotspot Shield a...

By Jason D. O'Grady Apple’s Scott Forstall mentioned that Gizmodo has posted a tutorial on how to enable the hidden 3G data tethering in the developer builds of iPhone OS 3.0. It’s as simple as installing a 36KB file called “ATT_US.ipcc” on the iPhone (running 3.0) then flipping a new “Internet Tethering” swi...

By Brian Lam Time Capsule is $500 for a 1TB and $300 for 500GB of storage. That's not a ton of storage for high-end machines these days, and multiple machines will almost certainly require the 1TB setup if you want to keep a moderately detailed history of your computers' data changes. As you'd expect from...

By Jesus Diaz If you want to install cool apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free, easily, breaking Apple-imposed limitations without breaking your warranty or Applethingie, here is the how-to guide for Mac and...

At the same time, however, he thinks Apple is smartly preparing to play in this future mobile Web, while currently cashing in on the App Store. He marvels that Apple made it possible for iPhone users to add their favorite websites on the home page of the device, next to all the apps they've dow...

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By glenn@tidbits.com (Glenn Fleishman) My first reaction to Steve Jobs's announcement at the Macworld Expo keynote that Apple would offer downloadable rentals was, oh, good, my wife and I can finally give up on the pretense that we actually watch movies via our Netflix subscription, rather than simply let the discs gather dus...

Recipe for Apple Butter Spice Cake  NC - How about a cup of fat-free apple butter instead? Health-conscious bakers have been using applesauce to cut fat for a long time, but the delightful ...

Apple on Thursday issued a version 1.1 revision to the Security Update 2006-002 patch released earlier this week. Apple's Web page about the update provides very little information, other than to say that it's only for Mac OS X v10.4.5 users, as a reader pointed out in the comments. Thanks to Ma...

By David Chartier The review probably isn't anything the typical Apple fan hasn't heard about already, but it's still awesome that a site like CNET has given Apple a good mark for a great product. via Digg] ReadPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by Google