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2.3iPhone taking business calls
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5.5New iPod nano “smarter, slimmer and sexier”
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1.3App Store Pick of the Week: Grocery IQ
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6.1Shaking things up on iPhone and iPod
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7.5Quick Tip of the Week: Organize your Workspaces
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1.9Mac OS X Leopard Pro Tip: Make Your Mac Speak
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1.0New iPod nano “at the top of the class”
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5.1Watch Over Here on iTunes U
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1.0Coming Attractions: Rachel Getting Married
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10.0Quick Tip of the Week: Dragging Files
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7.5Enjoying “another great set of iPods”
- Genius on iPod nano makes new musical connections on the fly
- App Store Pick of the Week: Air Sharing
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6.9And the winner is…
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6.7New iPod nano on Vanity Fair’s Hot List
Friday October 3rd, 2008
2.3
iPhone taking business calls
From Apple Hot News, 2 days ago,
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“Kevin Willis, the retired basketball center turned entrepreneur, gave up on the BlackBerry and depends on Apple Inc.’s iPhone to stay in touch with buyers, suppliers and the high-profile clients who wear his custom jeans,” reports Connie Guglielmo (bloomberg.com). He’s not alone. Apple, Guglielmo suggests is successfully ”using the iPhone to attract a new audience: business buyers.”
Thursday October 2nd, 2008
5.5
New iPod nano “smarter, slimmer and sexier”
From Apple Hot News, 3 days ago,
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Calling iPod nano (4th generation) “the sleekest and prettiest of the bunch,” Nancy Wang (media.dukechronicle.com) extols its “aesthetically-pleasing exterior,” its built-in accelerometer, and the fun shake-to-shuffle feature. But she believes “the best thing about the newest iPod nano is that it allows listeners to enable the Genius feature” and generate new playlists with other similar songs on the fly.
Wednesday October 1st, 2008
1.3
App Store Pick of the Week: Grocery IQ
From Apple Hot News, 4 days ago,
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Thanks to Grocery iQ ($4.99), you may never have to write another shopping list. Now you can tap to quickly build a comprehensive and highly legible list on iPhone or iPod touch, arrange your list by aisle to match the layout of your grocery store, check off items as you add them to your cart, build a purchase history and a list of favorites. Grocery IQ even lets you email your list to a designated shopper.
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Shaking things up on iPhone and iPod
From Apple Hot News, 4 days ago,
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Thanks to the built-in accelerometer, you can Shake to Shuffle your music on the new iPod nano (4th generation) or shake iPhone or iPod touch to have Urbanspoon recommend a nearby restaurant. “Game designers” and other app developers “have been having a field day making use of the accelerometer,” notes Jefferson Graham (usatoday.com). And the fun has just begun.
Monday September 29th, 2008
7.5
Quick Tip of the Week: Organize your Workspaces
From Apple Hot News, 6 days ago,
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Using Spaces — one of the great features in Mac OS X Leopard — you can stay organized and avoid desktop clutter by putting applications in their own Spaces: Pages and Numbers in one; iTunes in another; Mail, iChat, and Safari in a third Space. But what if you want to use Mail and iChat regardless of the Space your working in? Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
Friday September 26th, 2008
1.9
Mac OS X Leopard Pro Tip: Make Your Mac Speak
From Apple Hot News, 9 days ago,
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You don’t have to be a magician to make your Mac speak. In fact, the ability to speak text in email messages, Pages documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other text-based files is built in to every Mac. You turn it on in System Preferences, where you’ll find all the Text to Speech options made available to you in Mac OS X Leopard. You can read about them in the latest Pro Tip.
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New iPod nano “at the top of the class”
From Apple Hot News, 9 days ago,
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The “latest iPod nano continues to hold the edge over competitors,” observes Tom Rose (bostonherald.com), “thanks to two main factors: ease of use and third-party accessories.” Rose points out that the iTunes Store “remains the best. The store’s navigation is brilliantly simple. Likewise, the syncing between iTunes and iPod could not be easier.”
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Watch Over Here on iTunes U
From Apple Hot News, 9 days ago,
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They were teenagers, New Yorkers, members of “the greatest generation,” when the world suffered through the economic and geo-political upheaval of World War II. Many years later, thanks to the PBS station WNET, they sat across from six high school filmmakers to tell the story of what it was like to live during those tumultuous times. Enoy Over Here on iTunes U.
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Coming Attractions: Rachel Getting Married
From Apple Hot News, 9 days ago,
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Opening October 3, Rachel Getting Married stars Anne Hathaway as Kym, a troubled ex-model who returns home to attend the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt). Written by first-time screenwriter Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married is the most recent film from the Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme. Watch the trailer and an exclusive film clip on our Movie Trailers site.
Thursday September 25th, 2008
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Quick Tip of the Week: Dragging Files
From Apple Hot News, 10 days ago,
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On a Mac, you can drag a file from Location A to Location B, moving the file from its old residence to a new one. But what if you wanted two copies of the file: one at Location A and a second one at Location B? Or, here’s another option, what if you wanted the file to live at Location A but have an “alias” live on the Desktop? Learn how you can drag yourself to all three outcomes by watching this week’s Quick Tip.
Wednesday September 24th, 2008
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Enjoying “another great set of iPods”
From Apple Hot News, 11 days ago,
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“Some things,” says Bob Levitus (chron.com), “are inevitable.” Such as “new and improved iPods.” He’s pleased that the new 120GB iPod classic offers more storage for less money and that the new iPod touch “supports the Nike + iPod sensor in my running shoes” without an additional receiver. And he certainly admires the “gorgeous new curved aluminum and glass enclosure” of the new iPod nano.
Genius on iPod nano makes new musical connections on the fly
From Apple Hot News, 11 days ago,
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Not only did Ryan Kim (sfgate.com) find the new iPod nano “great for video,” but he also found the new Genius feature “surprisingly helpful in mixing up my listening habits.” Genius allowed him “to create a new playlist on the fly that made my listening experience feel fresh again.”
App Store Pick of the Week: Air Sharing
From Apple Hot News, 11 days ago,
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Wish you could copy that new proposal to your iPhone and review it on the plane? Now you can. Air Sharing ($6.99) from Avatron Software lets you wirelessly connect iPhone or iPod touch to a Mac, PC, or Linux computer. Drag documents (including MS Office docs, Pages documents, Keynote presentations, PDFs, images, and others) to your iPhone or iPod touch. And view them on the go.
Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
6.9
And the winner is…
From Apple Hot News, 12 days ago,
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After he learned how to use Final Cut Pro during his weekly One to One training sessions, Larry Newman created his very first movie. The other day, Newman picked up his first Emmy Award. His film, “Children’s Music Workshop: 2007 All Schools Honor Orchestra,” reports Filip Truta (softpedia.com) took the Emmy “in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Children/Youth and Music Programming.”
6.7
New iPod nano on Vanity Fair’s Hot List
From Apple Hot News, 12 days ago,
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“Apple refreshed its iPod nano line last week,” report Jessica Flint and Hamish Robertson (vanityfair.com), “introducing nine new colors in the thinnest casing to date. Somehow they’ve also squeezed in an accelerometer, allowing you to literally shake the iPod to shuffle your songs.” Try an iPod nano and “you’ll once again be telling yourself you actually do need this new iPod.”