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Quick Tip of the Week: Maps in Address Book

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Monday
Feb 4,2008

You have an upcoming meeting with a colleague who works clear across town. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get directions to her office in just a few seconds? Thanks to the tight integration between Address Book and Google Maps, you can. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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  • Video Tip of the Week: Maps in Address Book

    • Filed under: News
    Monday
    Feb 4,2008

    You have an upcoming meeting with a colleague who works clear across town. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get directions to her office in just a few seconds? Thanks to the tight integration between Address Book and Google Maps, you can. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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  • MacBook Air now shipping; Apple TV Update coming soon

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    Wednesday
    Jan 30,2008

    The world’s thinnest notebook is now shipping, Apple announced today. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point. And at its maximum height of 0.76-inches, it’s less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.
    Apple also announced that the free Apple TV software update enabling movie rentals is not quite finished and will now be available in another week or two.

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  • MacBook Air Now Shipping

    Wednesday
    Jan 30,2008

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  • Quick Tip of the Week: Using Data Detectors

    • Filed under: News
    Monday
    Jan 28,2008

    Data detectors—a new feature in Leopard Mail—lets you quickly create a new contact in your Address Book, map an address, or create an iCal event. How does it work and how can you take advantage of the data detectors in Mail? Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to find out.

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  • iPhone Sales Numbers Not Adding Up

    • Filed under: Hardware
    Monday
    Jan 28,2008

    iPhone Sales Numbers Not Adding Up (news/iphone-hardware/iphone-sales-numbers-not-adding-up-20080128435)
    January 28, 2008
    Last week, both Apple and AT&T reported their earnings. Apple has reported 3.7 million in iPhone sales worldwide, while AT T had a paltry 2 million iPhone activations leading many to wonder as to why the gap between the two.

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  • Folding the Mac into Origami

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    Thursday
    Jan 24,2008

    A physicist by trade, Robert J. Lang also has a quite unique claim to fame as one of the world’s foremost origami artists. In fact, he has a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wing span at permanent display at the Redpath Museum of Natural History and a long list of commissions and commercial projects waiting in the wings. And he uses his MacBook Pro, two software programs he authored, and Wolfram’s Mathematica to help him conceptualize and map out each new creation.

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  • Apple Working On Cut and Paste

    • Filed under: Software
    Thursday
    Jan 24,2008

    Apple Working On Cut and Paste? (news/software/apple-working-on-cut-and-paste-20080124434)
    January 24, 2008
    Despite MacWorld bringing a host of new features in iPhone software update 1.1.3, cut and paste continues to be among
    the most demanded improvements among our iPhone owners in our forums. According to SvenOnTech (http://svenontech.com/2008/01/24/the-skinny-on-why-the-iphone-update-lacked-cut-n-paste-and-exchange-support/), Apple is working on a solution.

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  • Apple posts 2008 proxy statement online

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    Wednesday
    Jan 23,2008

    Apple today made its 2008 proxy statements available online at www.apple.com/investor. The move, complying with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule, allows Apple to significantly reduce the environmental impact of producing and delivering printed materials.

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  • Apple’s 2008 Proxy Statement Now Online

    Wednesday
    Jan 23,2008

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    1. Ars Investigates: Does Google Mobile use Private APIs? - Tonight, our peeps pointed us to this Daring Fireball post that suggests that Google Mobile got an application by Apple that uses private iPhone APIs. Said peeps asked me whether Google is getting a better deal than most devs, or whether Google just pulled something over on Apple. The answer is, to say the least, complicated.
    2. BlackBerry Storm Is Not Quite a Perfect Storm - It's hard to overstate how important the BlackBerry Storm is to RIM and Verizon. It's RIM's bold effort to fend off the iPhone and Verizon's best hope for a star handset that draws people in, or at least keeps them from bailing.
    3. BlackBerry's Storm: Awkward and Disappointing - Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm looks handsome enough, but it will disappoint prospective buyers hoping for a credible touch-based iPhone alternative.
    4. Engadget reviews the BlackBerry Storm! - The Storm, a widescreen, touchscreen device boasts many of the same features as the iPhone, but adds innovations like a clickable display, and comes packed with RIM's legendary email and messaging services. Mainlined into the biggest and best network in the States, the Storm is an almost deafening blast to the competition at first glance.
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    6. Interview with Bachar Sarah - AppCraver recently heard from Bachar Sarah the developer of the MyMate app. He answered our questions about developing apps for the iPhone and iPod touch.
    7. Interview: Ocarina is Music to the Ears of Smule’s Founders - Smule’s Ocarina iPhone app is an electronic version of the physical instrument. Blow into the microphone, touch any combination of four “holes” and tilt the phone to alter vibrato. If you have any talent (I don’t) you’ll be playing music in no time.
    8. Unlocking the iPhone 3G With Proxy SIMs - In the interests of all those readers who need to unlock their iPhone 3G’s for use on different carriers andtested an iPhone 3G unlock that really seems to work. While the iPhone Dev Team plunder the secrets of the mysterious baseband in search of the ever elusive software unlock, some of us regular users just can’t wait.
    9. Verizon Wireless bets on Storm for holiday season - Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T Inc.
    10. iPhone Your Life - Apple Helps Organize the App Store - Apple has unveiled a new section of their website called “iPhone Your life.” With the new page, Apple is attempting to help organize the sea of applications that have flooded the App Store. This is a welcome addition, especially since it’s directly from Apple. Nobody has a better directory as to what applications are in the [...]