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When it debuted in the fall , Textastic offer developers and World Wide Web designer a way to perform plain text editing and syntax highlighting from the comforter of their iPad . The late update to the mobile app from developerAlexander Blachlooks to make it even easier for those computer programmer to get at their files , with the gain of Dropbox and FTP musical accompaniment . Textastic user can now plug into to remote Indian file Robert William Service using FTP or Dropbox ....

What , Dan Moren ’s not available ? Where could he be ? What could he be doing that ’s so important , it accept precedence over theMacworldnews remainders for Friday , January 14 , 2011 ? MIT Mystery Hunt(MIT ) patently a bunch of eccentric get together and solve puzzles over a weekend at this Boston - expanse event , which kicked off this morning . Shame that it starts on a Friday , though ....

Like the Macalope tell last week , do n’t leave your seating area yet , this fight ’s just getting start . The Verizon iPhone ’s on the path and analysts are drooling at the potential bit of iPhone sale it could mean . ( Is that eldritch ? Who drools at numbers ? That seems weird . ) Then , the Macalope provide some unusual praise and we ’ll fill up this calendar week wondering if cockamamie pundits willeverlearn ....

Last week , the formidableInternational Consumer Electronics Show(CES ) ravaged the Las Vegas Convention Center , leaving behind a annihilating trail of cutting - edge consumer electronics … and a whole lot of young iPhone 4 cases . as luck would have it , we ’re here to pluck up the dot piece and neatly coiffe them for your commodious digestion . As you could see , there ’s no shortage of young iPhone 4 case on the market — and this roundup does n’t even take into score the recent ado of cases for the Verizon iPhone ....

Most applications let you interact with and control them in several ways : by clicking on - screen button , choosing menu items , and using your keyboard . Using menu items is probably the slowest means , but it does n’t assess your memory ; you just need to know in which menu to look for the function you seek . snap buttons is promiscuous , for those push button that are present , but requires that you use your mouse or trackpad to move your pointer ....

Mobile operator were out in full force at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week , boost their improved data networks and unveiling Modern devices . But with their marketing efforts in overdrive , the operators may confuse rather than draw in users . AT&T , for example , bulge out calling its current upgrade HSPA+ internet 4 thousand instead of 3G. It ’s not the degraded major connection in the country — that ’s Verizon ’s LTE , base on advertised speeds — but AT&T tell it has a better changeover path to its next - generation meshwork ....

It ’s the 64 million indorser question : now that the iPhone is available on Verizon , how many folks will jump ship from their current flattop ? ChangeWave Researchconducted a survey on this very issue in December , not long before the actual proclamation took place . Of the 4050 consumers survey , 10 percent said they were planning on switching carriers in the next 90 days , the highest overall churn rate in the past year and a half ....

You sleep with you should back up your data . And many of you also have it away that Apple ’s made it wanton to do with the Time Machine technology that ’s built into Leopard and Snow Leopard . Yet the absolute majority of the great unwashed do not regularly back up their data point . While some may give way to do so because they believe it ’s a complicated procedure , and others because of their misplaced trust in the robustness of hard drives , many Mac user only do n’t have a reasonable idea of what to back up and how to best go about it ....

Something about Thursday must inspire templates , as three package developers foretell new theme aimed at assorted Apple iApplications . TakeiPresentee , which liberate Keynote Themes 8.0 . The $ 30 collection includes 80 topic for Apple ’s Keynote introduction software . That total sport 10 new agiotage themes , with names like Cloverleaf , Crayon , and Paperclips . Among the 80 themes in iPresentee ’s Keynote Themes 8.0 are 10 Modern offerings ....

The appearance of an iPhone on Verizon this workweek was big news program , but dig past it and you quickly incur that … well , there was n’t that much else to find . We still do n’t know , for deterrent example , what data plans Verizon will offer for the iPhone , or how much they ’ll cost . But one additional titbit did appear : Verizon customer would be capable to rick their iPhone into a “ personal hotspot ....

When I woke up Tuesday morning to the news that Verizon Wireless would offer a version of the iPhone that works on its connection , the first thing I did — as I ’m sure you all did , too — was gather up all my family ’s iPhones and throw them into the nearby lake ! Because , of grade , Verizon provide an iPhone signify that all other iPhones are wretched ....

Curious to see how Verizon and AT&T pile up against Sprint ? Check out Macworld ’s updated plan comparability . Many of you probably take an Apple - Verizon deal the 2nd coming of the iPhone . Perhaps you ’ve suffered on AT&T since June 29 , 2007 , or maybe you ’ve been abide your metre with that dilapidated Motorola RAZR , wait for the day the iPhone was to be liberated ....

Has the flame fizzled out of your kinship with AT&T ? Was it originally love at first sight , but now you ’ve caught yourself eye that new iPhone Verizon just announced ? Do n’t worry , our sexual love affairs with gadgets and wireless carriers are often fleeting , and the only affair at peril of get injure is your wallet . If you ’re looking to switch from AT&T for Verizon ’s fresh iPhone 4 , here ’s how you may do it ....