Mar 16

In an interesting blog post today, mobile analytics firm Flurry offers estimates of unit sales for Motorola’s Droid and Google’s Nexus One smartphones over their first 74 days of availability, the amount of time it took for Apple to reach one…

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Mar 16

A new study found that nearly half of all BlackBerry owners would be likely to switch to another smartphone, with a majority of those eyeing Apple’s iPhone.

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Mar 16

Apple, which takes up the the lion’s share of global NAND flash memory supply, has been reluctant to negotiate with suppliers in 2010 due to high prices.

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Mar 16

A judge upheld a ruling to let Steve Jobs raze a crumbling mansion in Woodside, California, though a preservation group may appeal the decision, again.
The saga of the sagging 30-room Jackling mansion is a long one. Jobs bought it in 1984 and lived there for about a decade, then rented it until 2000. Built in [...]


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Mar 16

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On Windows, when you’ve finished using a particular piece of software, you close it with the X symbol in the top right corner of the application window.
Many switchers assume that the window close control in the top left of an OS X application window does the same job: but that’s not quite true.

On Windows machines, [...]


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Mar 16

Earlier this month, Apple had already come clean that many of the iPad’s accessories would not actually be available for purchase simultaneous with the April 3rd release of the tablet itself. At that time, the ship date for accessories like the iPad keyboard dock and spare iPad power adapter was placed in mid-April. Now they’ve [...]


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Mar 16

There’s more than one company to experiment with iPhone payment schemes lately, and while the likes of Square looks pretty good, I think there’s something beautifully simple about the way PayPal’s iPhone app handles transactions: you just open the app, type in the amount of money and bump your iPhone against the iPhone of the [...]


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Mar 16

Of all the eccentric Mac-lover accessories out there, these clocks might be some of the most phoned-in I’ve ever seen: they’re basically just old Apple keyboards clawed out of an electronics dump with their keys shaken loose and stuffed with cheap horological guts.
Even so, I’m sort of tempted by the iMac Bondi Blue Clock: [...]


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Mar 16

Apparent Software announced today the participation of Cashculator and ImageFramer in the TheMacBundles March bundle. Cashculator offers a unique way for Mac users to track their cash flow. ImageFramer allows to frame images with beautiful photo-realistic and artistic frames. Cashculator is a different kind of personal finance application – instead of focusing on the past and logging previous transactions, it focuses on the future by forecasting a user’s financial situation.

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Mar 16

California based 24×7digital today announces Smiley Sight Words 1.0, an educational flash-card app for iPhone and iPod touch. Smiley Sight Words is a comprehensive learning tool containing over 1,500 high-frequency sight words, compiled from many sources including Dolch, Fry, and UK word lists. Students may tap the sight word to hear professionally recorded American-English pronunciations, swipe flash-cards to navigate the stack of words, and shake their iPhone to shuffle the flash-cards.

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