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Denon Set to Roll Out AirPlay on Existing Home Stereo Equipment

2 hours 26 min ago

Engadget reports that rolling out AirPlay support for some home stereo equipment vendors may be as simple as deploying a firmware update for compatible equipment already on the market. The music portion of AirPlay allows users to wirelessly ...
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MacUpdate Fall Bundle: 12 Mac Apps for $49.99

3 hours 2 min ago

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacUpdate to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least 12 Mac applications for $49.99 (a $443 value if all purchased separately) including:

Toas...
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Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac to Debut on September 14th

4 hours 56 min ago

Parallels today announced that its next-generation Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac virtualization software will launch on September 14th, bringing speed enhancements and a host of new features. Retail boxes ...
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Notes on Sixth-Generation iPod Nano: Teardown, Video Playback Hints, Photo Slideshows, Voice Memos

5 hours 58 min ago
After the flurry of news yesterday about the iPod touch, we're now turning our attention to the new sixth-generation iPod nano, which has seen a number of minor tidbits revealed since it began making its way into the hands of consumers.

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Apple's App Store Review Guidelines Offer Remarkably Candid View of App Store Philosophy

7 hours 22 min ago

Just a short time ago, Apple announced that it is making some changes to the App Store review process, and among the changes is publication of the company's App Store Review Guidelines, offering developers a more transparent look at how their...
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Apple Opens App Store to Third-Party Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 23:24

Apple today announced that it is making several changes to its App Store developer policies and procedures, with one of the most significant changes being an easing of its earlier move to ban third-party ...
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VLC Video Player Coming to iPad

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 19:09

As first reported by Mac4Ever, VLC has been ported to the iPad by Applidium with the blessing of the VideoLan team. The app is currently in submission with Apple and is awaiting approval.

After several month of porting, we ...

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Apple Releases New 'iPad is Musical' Commercial

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 19:01


As a followup to their iPad is Delicious and What is iPad commercials, Apple introduced a new iPad commercial last night.

The ad features the iPad in a variety of scenes, each captioned with text including "medical, li...
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Game Center Games Starting to Appear in App Store

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 10:47

A forum thread on TouchArcade is maintaining a list of current and expected Game Center enabled games. Game Center offers a centralized achievement and leaderboard system for the iOS platform. In addition, Game Center provides matchmaking ...
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iOS 4.1 Restores Field Test Mode

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 09:20

Gizmodo reports that iOS 4.1 has reincluded the Field Test mode to iOS. Field Test mode allows you to get a numerical figure for your antenna strength rather than the traditional bar measure. To get to Field Mode:

- First, u...

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Fourth-Generation iPod Touch Does NOT Have Vibration

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 07:59

Another piece of news coming out of iFixit's iPod Touch teardown is that despite an earlier report, Apple's newest iPod Touch does not include a motor for vibration. TouchFans apparently mis-identified a microphone for a vibration motor on ...
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Fourth-Generation iPod Touch Offers Only 256 MB of RAM

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 06:17

One of the key pieces of information coming out of iFixit's fourth-generation iPod touch teardown is that that the device carries only 256 MB of RAM, the same as the iPhone 3GS and iPad but less than the 512 MB found in the iPhone 4. iFixit'...
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iMovie 1.1 for iOS Adds 4th-Generation iPod Touch Compatibility, Video Clip Splitting, and More

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 05:56

With the new fourth-generation iPod touch launching today, Apple has released an update to its iMovie application for iOS, adding compatibility for the new device to the existing support for iPhone 4. The updates also adds several new featur...
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Fourth-Generation iPod Touch Teardown in Progress

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 05:43

The experts at iFixit are at it again, documenting their fourth-generation iPod touch teardown as they proceed carefully through the process. Updates will continue throughout the teardown process, but here are some items of interest so far:<...
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BridgeCo to Bring AirPlay Streaming Technology to Home Audio Equipment

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 04:47

At Apple's media event last week, Steve Jobs briefly demoed a new feature called AirPlay rolling out in iTunes and coming to iOS devices in November with iOS 4.2. An extension of the existing AirTunes feature for streaming audio to remote de...
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Microsoft Touts Co-Authoring, Scheduling Assistant, and Broadcast Slideshow in Office for Mac 2011

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 04:34

Microsoft has posted a new behind-the-scenes look at several new features in the company's forthcoming Office for Mac 2011. The new features include:

- Co-Authoring: Using SkyDrive or SharePoint cloud storage, Office for Mac 2...
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Apple Releases iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 03:08

Right on schedule, Apple has released iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The update, known as Build 8B117 and available for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and second- and third-generation iPod touch models, brings several new featu...
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Unboxing Photos of Apple's New iPod Nano and iPod Touch

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 00:49

Following up on its extensive gallery of unboxing and comparison photos for the new iPod shuffle yesterday, iLounge has now done the same for the new iPod nano and iPod touch. The gallery, which will continue to be updated with additional ph...
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App Store's Meteoric Growth Compared to iTunes Song Downloads

Thursday, 09 September 2010 - 00:34

Asymco offers an interesting graph showing the relative growth of iTunes song and App Store downloads over their respective histories, demonstrating the App Store's meteoric growth that is setting it up to pass the music portion of Apple's me...
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Extended iTunes Store Song Samples Held Up Over Licensing Issues

Wednesday, 08 September 2010 - 12:25

Just two days before Apple's media event last week, CNET reported that Apple was set to extend the length of song samples in the iTunes Store from 30 seconds to as much as 90 seconds, offering consumers g...
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