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App Store Pick of the Week: Google Mobile
Available only on iPhone, Google Mobile features Voice Search. Simply speak your query and let Google do what it does best. The free application also offers My Location searches (finding businesses based on your current location), performs contact and history searches, and includes a new Apps tab for rearranging Google Apps. Give it a try. It works, and it’s fun.
  Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:13 PST
Striking it rich with iPhone
When Trism hit the App Store, life changed for 29-year-old Steve Demeter, relates Brandon Griggs (cnn.com). In just two months, Trism netted the former ATM software designer a cool $250,000, encouraging him to found his own iPhone game development company, Trismology. “It’s done phenomenal business,” says Demeter of the game. And he already has five more titles in development.
  Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:22:27 PST
Quick Tip of the Week: Help Pointers
Need help with an application? In Mac OS X Leopard, you’ll find Help in the menu bar of every application. Help points the way to tutorials, user guides, keyboard shortcuts, and other valuable resources. Specific to the application you’re using, Help offers Numbers help when you’re running Numbers and Pages help when you’re using Pages. Learn more about Help in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
  Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:11 PST
iMac delivers MRI analysis in less than 10 minutes
By comparing the hippocampus of a patient suffering from episodic memory to that of a healthy person of the same age, Professor James Brewer can determine whether the patient is suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Trouble is, to manually assemble the 256 hippocampi MRI images, it can take an entire week. Or he can run NeuroQuant on his iMac and get a statistical report in about 8.5 minutes.
  Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:18:47 PST
Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs
An ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra uses 20 MacBook computers to compose and perform new music. “We tilt the notebook and use its built-in accelerometer to expressively control sound. We use the trackpad as a kind of violin bow,” explains Ge Wang, SLOrk’s founder. ”You can make some wild, diverse music with the MacBook.”
  Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:33:39 PST
App Store Pick of the Week: Nine Inch Nails Revenge
Tapulous has brought a new rhythm section to its highly popular Tap Tap Revenge. The first special edition of the music game — Nine Inch Nails Revenge ($4.99)— lets you tap and shake to the beats of 13 Nine Inch Nails tracks. Play solo or against a friend in head-to-head two-player mode.
  Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:35:06 PST
iPhone and iPod touch vying with game leaders
iPhone and iPod touch have become “serious competitors to Nintendo’s DS handheld and Sony’s PlayStation Portable,” report Nick Wingfield and Christopher Lawton (online.wsj.com). And for good reason. Says one gamer who “sold his PSP and may get rid of his DS soon”: “‘I can listen to my iPod and play games at the same time, and when I’m done I can just put it in my pocket.’”
  Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:31:14 PST
Get organized for the holidays
By downloading the Bento 2 Holiday Pack. In addition to a free, 30-day trial of Bento 2, the Holiday Pack comes with pre-designed templates you can use to organize contacts and keep track of the cards you send and the gifts and donations you make.
  Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:21:08 PST
iPhone now top handset in the U.S.
“Move over, Motorola,” says Alana Semuels (latimes.com) iPhone has become the top selling handset in the U.S. “Consumers are buying more iPhones than RAZRs because there is a ‘watershed shift in handset design from fashion to fashionable functionality,’ said Ross Rubin, NPD’s director of industry analysis.”
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:31:47 PST
iPhone passes RAZR in sales
NPD announced today that iPhone 3G “surpassed Motorola’s RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers” last quarter, reports Jim Goldman (cnbc.com). “That’d be a big deal no matter when it happened, but it ends RAZR’s 12-quarter winning streak as the nation’s top handset.”
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:23:26 PST
Logic and The Killers
Interviewing guitarist Dave Keuning prior to the release of The Killers’ new album, Ben Rogerson (musicradar.com) learned that “ the band’s hotly-anticipated third album Day & Age was demoed in Apple’s Logic.” In fact, each member of the band “recorded demos separately in Logic, which allowed us to email our ideas to each other and to Stuart Price, the producer.”
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:17:04 PST
Quick Tip of the Week: Granting guests access
When friends or relatives come to visit this holiday season, you can easily grant them guest access on your Mac. With a guest account, they can get email, surf the web, or download a file. You can even set parental controls for younger guests. To find out how you can grant guest access to visitors in a few simple steps, watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:00:41 PST
iPhone second among smartphones worldwide
“Apple’s blowout quarter for iPhone 3G sales lifted it into second place among all smartphone vendors worldwide,” says cnet.com’s Tom Krazit. Trailing only market leader Nokia, iPhone vaulted “over Research In Motion to take second place, with 6.9 million shipments, or 17.3 percent of the market.” Apple also shipped more iPhones “than all the Windows Mobile devices shipped worldwide by Microsoft’s partners.”
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:42:29 PST
iPhone earns highest satisfaction score among businesspeople
In its survey of business customers, J.D. Power and Associates “asked respondents to rate the smartphones for ease of operation, operating system, physical design, handset features, and battery aspects,” reports Tom Krazit (cnet.com). And the iPhone, “which generated the highest amount of customer satisfaction among smartphone-using businesspeople,” earned perfect rankings in four of the five categories.”
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:33:36 PST
iPhone “performed well in exceeding customer expectations”
In leading the J.D. Power survey, “iPhone did particularly well in ease of operation, physical design and handset feature factors,” explains Shawn Brown (slashgear.com). Brown quotes Kirk Parsons, Senior Director of for J.D. Power, who said that ‘by making basic applications and features easy to use and providing functionality in a thin, lightweight device, Apple has performed well in exceeding customer expectations.”
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:31:40 PST
“iPhone ranks first — for business customers”
“This is a stunner for Apple and its iPhone,” declares Jim Goldman (cnbc.com). “JD Power and Associates,” he explains, “ranked the iPhone highest in customer satisfaction, not for everyday consumers as you might expect. But for ‘business wireless smartphone users.’” It led the survey “with a score of 778 out of 1,000, ‘performing particularly well in the ease of operation, physical design and handset factors.’“
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:27:54 PST
iPhone tops all other smartphones in J.D. Power customer sat survey
Although the lack of a physical keyboard “was supposed to be a deal breaker for hardcore smartphone users in the business world,” suggests Philip Elmer-DeWitt (fortune.cnn.com), iPhone “ranks highest in customer satisfaction among business types, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ second annual survey of smartphone users. Apple’s device easily outscored phones with physical keys made by RIM, Samsung, HTC, and Motorola.”
  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:44:52 PST
Stream music wirelessly with AirTunes
Thanks to AirPort Express with AirTunes, you can easily stream music wirelessly from your Mac or PC to a stereo or other powered speakers in your house. AirTunes lets you stream music to multiple speakers. And you can even choose the music you want to hear and control its volume — remotely — using your iPhone or iPod touch. To find out how, watch our new Streaming Music Wirelessly video.
  Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:34:42 PST
Coming Attractions: Quantum of Solace
James Bond returns to theaters next week with the Quantum of Solace. Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, and Olga Kurylenko (as Camille), the 22nd James Bond film continues the story begun in Casino Royale with Bond relentlessly pursuing the man whose ambitions led to the death of Vesper Lynd. In addition to the film’s trailers, you might also enjoy the original Quantum of Solace soundtrack on iTunes.
  Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:04:57 PST
Celebrating the legacy of Louis Armstrong on iTunes U
At the centennial of his birth, the Artistry of “Pops”: Louis Armstrong at 100 celebrates the legacy of “the man whose name is synonymous with jazz music.” The program, courtesy of Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies offers historic clips of “Pops” and a discussion about Armstrong’s contribution to jazz and American culture by musician and jazz critic Stanley Crouch and trumpet legend Wynton Marsalis.
  Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:19:01 PST

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