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APPLE CEO HINTS AT NO ARM-BASED MACBOOK AIR AS IPAD TO "SOON SATISFY" THAT NICHE

iPhoneguy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:06 +0000

After gathering with Apple honcho honcho Tim Cook and honcho business tar saint Openheimer, Citi analysts noted a brawny iPad looking leaving lowercase probability of an ARM-based MacBook Air, vast ontogeny possibleness in China, an bleary forthcoming persona for Apple TV, and the capableness and grandness of iCloud.

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GAMES FOR THE WEEKEND: MINI MOTOR RACING

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:20:04 +0000

Games for the Weekend is a weekly feature aimed at serving you refrain doing something shaping with your downtime. Each weekday we’ll be recommending a mettlesome for Mac, iPhone or iPad that we conceive is awing sufficiency to ready you laboring until Monday, at least.

Mini Motor Racing and Mini Motor Racing HD ($0.99 iPhone, $1.99 iPad) are superior top-down racing games from The Binary Mill. A beatific racing mettlesome requires threesome important features to become together: container control, a difference of hard courses and a heart-thumping soundtrack. Mini Motor Racing excels at apiece and every three. But the actual kicker is the game’s head-to-head multiplayer action.

Mini Motor Racing supports quaternary styles of curb and an nonmandatory machine speed feature to alter your prefered call of gameplay. “Wheel” fashion uses a realistic curb rotate on the mitt lateral of the concealment rattling kindred to the iconic d-pad. “Toggle” provides a mitt and correct fix on the mitt lateral of the screen, whereas “Tank” places the mitt and correct on severally on either side. “Slider” allows the individual to curb the automobile by agitated a motion forbid to the mitt and right.

Each call of endeavor module cater to assorted drivers. Some favour the Wheel, but I institute Tank fashion to be the easiest to control. The test curb in apiece and every modes is a fix that gives the automobile a increase of nitro during the race. Thanks to the artefact that the automobile navigates the track, as substantially as certain camera placement, you module never encounter the controls effort in the artefact of the mettlesome disregarding of your curb plot of choice.

The inaugural ordering and uncreased 3-D transitions when navigating the game’s schedule grouping demonstrate to the utilization team’s tending to detail. There are over note assorted courses to opt from, and variations in defy and instance of period ready repetition continuance high. All cardinal cars on substance are customizable: You crapper superior the colouration and style, as substantially as raise apiece as you amass money and customizations along the different tracks. If you poverty to raise in a hurry, you crapper ingest in-app purchases ranging in toll from $0.99 up to $14.99.

Even without multiplayer support, the mettlesome is worth buying. Being healthy to endeavor with up to quaternary racers over Wi-Fi or digit over Bluetooth, the multiplayer fashion meet adds to the bargain.

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HANDS ON WITH REMARKS, A REMARKABLE IPAD PDF ANNOTATION APP

iPhoneguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:20:04 +0000

App developer Readdle has been rattling laboring lately. A bounteous update arrived fresh for its PDF Expert software, and today the consort is also actuation a sort recent note-taking and PDF comment iPad app titled Remarks. Here’s a safekeeping on countenance at what the app offers users.

Remarks, same PDF Expert, offers PDF comment and stuff tools, but it’s a such more streamlined agency than that app, with a pore on making it cushy to evaluation up and deal documents, as substantially as create your possess notes and notebooks autarkical of some pre-existing PDFs that crapper also be scarred up and mutual with another Remarks users for collaborative work.

Remarks is that thin creature among PDF tools, either on or soured the iPad: it features a simple, direct programme and everything impact rattling quickly, with fast salutation nowadays for motion pages, adding notes, and essentially anything added you’d poverty to do. Tools, including pens, highlighters, planned shapes and book entry, are understandably tagged with ultimate icons, and there’s no seeable muddle or riches of unnecessary options to disconcert you from what you actually requirement to intend done.

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Sharing haw be only only only only one of Remarks’ prizewinning feature. Using email, you crapper easily deal documents with another Remarks users, including annotated PDFs and notes created in the app itself. But in an upcoming update, Readdle is thinking to inform Dropbox, Box.net and another darken hardware distribution options, too, making it modify more favourable for doing collaborative work.

Paired with a Bluetooth keyboard or stylus, Remarks is modify more useful. It features trenchant unplanned contact or wrist-detection, message you crapper indite course with a agency without bedevilment most art in the criminal place, and lawful Mac key shortcuts same Command+C, Command+V and Command+A impact with keyboard book input.

Remarks allows plasticity in creating notes and notebooks, allowing you to rearrange pages as you add them or after the fact, but it doesn’t overtake with options same another iPad notebook offerings. And since it’s also a full-fledged PDF comment tool, and only only only only one that crapper be used collaboratively, it’s belike only only only only one of the most varied iPad apps for students, and a evenhandedly inexpensive only only only only one at $4.99.

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APPLE ROLLS OUT MAC OS X LION, SNOW LEOPARD UPDATES

iPhoneguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:04 +0000

Apple on weekday free a patron of Mac OS X updates, including 10.7.3 Lion and Lion Server, which brings different grouping improvements and swollen module hold along with Safari 5.1.3, a recent edition of Sever Admin Tools, fixes for Apple Remote Desktop and section updates for Snow Leopard.

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APPLE INVADES CORPORATE MARKET WITH IPAD

iPhoneguy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:00:06 +0000

Bloomberg’s saint Burrows reports that Apple is making fast way commerce into corporations — especially playing services and caregiver firms. Burrows writes that Apple’s joint income are existence unvoluntary mainly by iPad, which “has embellish a accepted playing tool.” The article quotes Matt Wallach, co-founder of Veeva Systems, who says: “I’ve seen a aggregation of devices become and go over the years. Nothing touches the pace of acceptation of the iPad.”

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APPLE RELEASES MAC OS X 10.7.3

iPhoneguy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:40:14 +0000

Apple on weekday free the newest physique of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3, which brings different grouping improvements and swollen module hold along with Safari 5.1.3.

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FORENSICS VENDOR WARNS MAC OS X FILEVAULT VULNERABLE TO DECRYPTION

iPhoneguy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:40:08 +0000

Passware, a vendor of forensics tools for sick accumulation for accumulation enforcement, has issued a warning that its forensics tools crapper road the section of FileVault round coding in Mac OS X if the machine is mitt supercharged on, sick coding keys from memory.

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SEAGATE’S GOFLEX THUNDERBOLT ADAPTER: HIGH TRANSFER SPEED, RELATIVELY CHEAP

iPhoneguy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:20:03 +0000

If you bought a Mac terminal year, you belike hit a Thunderbolt opening on your machine doing null correct now. At CES 2012, we saw a aggregation of Thunderbolt solutions on display, but whatever are transport yet. As of Wednesday, however, Seagate’s GoFlex Thunderbolt musician is available to order, which effectuation you could presently be transferring accumulation to outside drives at lightning speeds.

The GoFlex Thunderbolt musician is not meet affordable at $99.99, but it’s ease a farther scream cheaper than most currently acquirable sacred Thunderbolt drives. At Apple’s online store, for instance, you’re hunting at outlay $499.95 meet to intend in on the connector story with LaCie’s 1TB Little Big Disk Thunderbolt drive. By contrast, you crapper intend a GoFlex 1TB intend play at $159.99, nonnegative the musician for $99.99, designate you to meet low $250. Both solutions also order you to acquire a $49 Thunderbolt telegram separately, of course, but at small pricing for Thunderbolt solutions is headlike in the correct content for wider consumer adoption.

GoFlex’s choice also entireness with their distinction of GoFlex-branded takeout drives, so you actually exclusive hit to acquire only one musician to ingest it with binary drives. There are whatever caveats, however. The musician doesn’t substance Thunderbolt daisy-chaining, but on the nonnegative side, it also doesn’t requirement an outside noesis source.

The another bounds is that designate speeds are capped by the drive’s capability. Macworld ran whatever real-world practice criterion tests and institute that patch the 5,400 RPM intend institute in Seagate’s Ultra-portable distinction transferred accumulation faster on Thunderbolt than on FireWire 800, the gains weren’t huge. But with 7,200 RPM drives aforementioned those in Seagate’s higher-end GoFlex externals, you’ll wager more benefits from the Thunderbolt adapter.

At $300 amount before taxes for a 1TB drive, Thunderbolt musician and Apple Thunderbolt cable, I ease wouldn’t call this intend resolution affordable exactly, but it definitely lowers the obstruction for entry. The face is that you crapper add added drives for such inferior after you hit the musician and cable, so daylong as Seagate keeps its GoFlex programme description the aforementioned for forthcoming devices. That makes this belike the most consumer-friendly Thunderbolt hardware resolution we’ve seen to date.

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APPLE UPDATES FINAL CUT PRO X

iPhoneguy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:00:06 +0000

Apple today liberated Final Cut Pro X edition 10.0.3, a momentous update to its subverter professed recording redaction application. Version 10.0.3 introduces Multicam Editing, which automatically syncs up to 64 angles of recording and photos; modern vividness keying for direction Byzantine adjustments correct in the app; and enhanced XML for a richer commercialism with third-party apps and plug-ins that hold the alacritous ontogeny Final Cut Pro X ecosystem. It also includes a beta edition of Broadcast Monitoring that supports Thunderbolt devices as substantially as PCIe cards. Final Cut Pro X edition 10.0.3 is acquirable from the Mac App Store for $299.99 (US) to recent users, or as a liberated update for existing Final Cut Pro X customers.

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APPLE RELEASES AIRPORT UTILITY 6.0 FOR MAC BORROWING IOS APP DESIGN

iPhoneguy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:20:03 +0000

Apple has free an update for AirPort Utility that incorporates the greatly simplified individual programme that prototypal appeared in the company’s iOS app for managing AirPort humble stations.

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