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Archive for November, 2009

Analysts predict lower Black Friday sales at Apple’s brick-and-mortar retail locations may be offset by a double-digit increase in online electronic purchases. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said Mac sales were down compared to 2008, but warned investors it may be too early to predict Apple sales on the all-important after Thanksgiving shopping spree.
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Clues of a possible successor to the iPhone 3GS have been detected by an application used by San Francisco public transportation. The hints were found in logs of iBart, a guide to the California city’s subway, according to a report Monday. The logs identified as “iPhone 3,1″ a device used to connect to the transportation [...]

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inspiretech Apple iPhone 3G Screen Protector Review

I review iPhone games for a living and I need a screen protector that is unnoticeable and has the same slick feel of glass so the game perform the same. Other screen protectors don’t work well for this, but the harder plastic on this one makes it perfect. The only think I would like to see would be more than one protector per package.

inspiretech Apple iPhone 3G Screen Protector Feature

• Design for Apple iPhone 3G
• Full front cover
• Ultra Clear Finish

inspiretech Apple iPhone 3G Screen Protector Overview

Glass-like clarity, The Film will retain the full color vibrancy and life of your iPhone 3G surface as it provides many other benefits. It is specifically designed to protect your sensitive iPhone 3G screen against unwanted scratches from the front. It covers the whole glass part in the front of your iPhone, also its pre-cut for the ear part and the button.

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How a car-rental service lacking a smartphone app beat out the one that does.
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Apple’s app rejection policy is pretty harsh, but even harsher have been the times when apps get through, only to be pulled or have features removed. Here are 10 of our favorites.

Originally posted at Web Crawler

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There have been many debates regarding the choice of the best high-tech device between iPhone 3G and Blackberry Storm.  Undoubtedly they are meant for the different categories of consumers varying mainly between business and entertaining goals according to the features listed below:

For Blkackberry Storm the advantages are: Stereo Bluetooth capability (a good opportunity to  listen to your music collections via Bluetooth, wireless headsets without buying a third-party adapter), Removable battery (in case of using up it can be replaced by a new one easily, while the iPhone’s battery is fixed in), expandable memory (an expandable microSD media card slot allows to accommodate cards up to 16GB, but many prefer the iPhone’s fixed 8GB or 16 GB memory to a Stoprm’s tiny extra card), Video Recording(for those who consider video capture more essential Storm is better for its 3.2 megapixel to the contrary of iPhone with its 2.0 megapixels).

As for the iPhone 3G: it’s now second-generation, it has a pretty cool design. What makes the Phone usability simple is the famous Safari browser. Surfing and zooming with two fingers on the pages is a real happiness. On the Facebook wall posts, friends, photos, all that becomes easier to arrange with iPhone which displays all the strengths of your community that are on the screen of a real computer. It possesses iTunes App store with a huge variety of iTunes, iTunes integration and iPod media player. So if music listening is your favorite leisure go ahead with choosing iPhone. As for Wi-Fi support with 3G you can have quite convenient internet score wherever you go.  Regarding the applications it still remains better than Blackberry devices.

At the end it should be noticed that no matter who you are – the busiest businessman or a joyful teenager both of these devices might be quite attractive for all of you.  Perhaps the best solution is to acquire the both to satisfy all your inner needs.

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According to an article in the Korea Times–and an anonymous source–Apple is using questionable tactics with its flash memory providers. If the report is correct, Apple has been leaning on Samsung and Hynix, providers of NAND flash memory. The accusation states that Apple is ordering more memory than it actually buys, a move which floods the market, and ensures prices are kept low. The manufacturers can’t do much about this, because they rely on Apple for so much of their business. ”Apple has asked Korean semiconductor makers to produce a certain amount of chips for its digital products, only to actually purchase a smaller volume eventually. The company doesn’t make immediate purchases, but waits until chip prices to fall to the level the company has internally targeted,” says an industry insider.

We have no idea about the veracity of these claims, but if true, this is dark, bullying behaviour from Cupertino, who are abusing their position of power over the manufacturers.

[via Electronista]

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Tweetie 2.1 has landed, and the updated version of the super popular Twitter app has added a slew of new functionality. While most of the upgrades are fairly minor, there are a couple of big ones: geotagging, user lists, and retweeting using Twitter’s new methodology. It’s a free upgrade on the $2.99 application, and is available from the app store now. A complete list of new features is after the jump.

What’s new

- Lists (create, edit, manage, and more)
- Retweet
- Geotagging
- Report Spam (via new API)
- Tweet stream “gap” detection
- What the Trend
- UI tweaks
- Set history=1 for j.mp
- Definitive quoting syntax
- Handle “@user/list” links
- New video options: Posterous, Mobypicture, Vid.ly
- Handle custom protocol schemes in embedded browser
- User Manual
- Google Mobilizer
- Custom Mobilizer
- Overlapr service
- Post ‘message’ parameter through custom API endpoints
- URL encode data sent to custom URL shortener
- Refactor Settings
- Improved accessibility
- Disable pinstripes option
- Disable “Mark as Read” when no unread
- Generated VCards now link to https
- Improved errors on sending
- Option to disable browser rotation
- Call from linked address book screens
- Improved iTunes Store links
- New protocol handlers (see developer.atebits.com for more)
- Hook for easier custom URL endpoint installation
- Image compression options
- Fix multiple browser popups
- Fix tweetie:/// style handlers
- Fix upside-down browser and image viewer
- Fix rare crash translating tweets
- Fix saved state bugs
- Fix rare conversation threading hang
- Fix TextExpander integration
- Fix problem reposting outgoing tweets
- Fix botched geotag pins
- Fix Japanese posting bug
- Fix Email conversation

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Today only, the EverythingiCafe Store is offering 10% off all iPhone and iPod touch accessories using coupon code: MONDAYET. You can select from a large assortment of cases, headphones, car mounts, chargers, Bluetooth products and more. Get started on your holiday shopping early with store-wide savings, super-fast shipping and the comfort of knowing all products are backed by our 30 day return policy.

If you have a member in your family with a BlackBerry or Palm Pre, shop our sister sites and enjoy the same Cyber Monday savings.

Offer expires at midnight PST, Monday Nov. 30, 2009.

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According to Ars Technica, Microsoft have tweaked their Silverlight streaming service, to allow it to get onto the iPhone. They’ve taken their IIS7 server software, and made it compatible with the the HTML5<video> tag, which Safari on the iPhone can read. This means that content providers who use Microsoft Silverlight now have the ability to stream their data to iPhone users, without the need for specific apps.

NetFlix uses Silverlight to stream media for NetFlix Media Center. If Silverlight can now stream to the iPhone, does that mean we can get watch NetFlix? Because that would be absolutely freaking amazing! On demand, streaming, legal videos on my iPhone. Brilliant!

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