The events of July 11 — the release of the iPhone and iPod touch 2.0 software , the sale of the iPhone 3 G , the opening night of the App Store , the release of iTunes 7.7 , and the launching of MobileMe — have had a profound impact on Apple and the burden are still being experience . In this episode of the Macworld Podcast , we look at some of these event nearly three weeks on ....
Bummer . The iPhone 2.0 software ( ) fail to bring video recording to the iPhone . Given that , how are you presuppose to document a moving , memorable moment with a gadget small enough to fit in your shirt pocket?Pure Digitalprovides an answer with its latest half - pint - sized camcorder , the $ 180 Flip Mino , a Flash - based camcorder that records up to one hour of 640 - by-480 video in 3ivx formatting ....
Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Grateful as some are that Apple construct microphones into the iMac and its laptops , no one with a amply - function hardening of ears would claim that the outcome of recording undertaken with these build - in mics are wholly square . No , to avoid the kind of background noise and in the main - lo - fi result you get from Apple ’s mic you need an outside microphone ....
The ability to imitate and glue school text on the iPhone has overstep many a leaning of missing features , especially now that the 2.0 package has been released to the world at large . But the fact that copy - and - library paste is miss from the iPhone is even more gross now that the 2.0 software has been released . With the first major version of the iPhone package , Apple did a skillful job of anticipating the most common scenario in which you might want to imitate and paste textual matter — an electronic mail destination or a hyperlink , for illustration ....
Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Sometimes you just need to doodle , to be originative and make a little art without the complicatedness of Illustrator or the mess of Crayolas . Atebites’Scribbles1.2.1 allows both kids and adults to do just that , with a fresh approach to drawing that combines a simple interface with clever intention . The tools are limited — you choose from 12 resizable paintbrushes and the total color spectrum — but fill to exert ....
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The following article is reprinted fromPC World . A few weeks ago , I bought my first Apple laptop , the MacBook Air . I ’ve never loved a laptop more . The skinny profile , the repose of carrying it around , the full - sized keyboard and projection screen , the slick Mac OS X Leopard operating system , the … Okay , enough of that . I ’m not interested in writing another “ Macs are dandy , Windows computers are hound sum ” spiritual conversion story ....
Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Life is too little to expend fumble around for the right keyboard compounding to produce the Euro symbolization . Yet , invariably , that ’s what I wind up doing whenver I ’m spell a story about iPhone pricing on the other side of the Atlantic . At least that ’s what Iusedto do until Ergonis Software’sPopChar Xcame into my life history . Now I ’ve got a handle on sober accents , tildes , and other particular fibre because PopChar lets me sneak in any symbols , Grecian missive , and numerical operator right into a text file without giving a moment ’s thought to the proper keyboard compounding ....
translate our iPhone 3 G review . With the iPhone 3 grand ’s button just days away , it ’s time to revisit the agitate questions refer to Apple ’s next - generation sound . We still do n’t love everything about this forthcoming iPhone 3G — and believably wo n’t until we ’ve picked one up on Friday morning — we do know more than we did immediately after Steve Jobs preview the iPhone 3 G at last month ’s Worldwide Developers Conference ....
Expert’s Rating Our Verdict If you ’re like me , your organization of stash away and organizing software licence data is to pull up stakes consecutive numbers , receipts , and other entropy straw about your inbox and desktop so that only the most mad , thorough searches can retrieve it . I ’ve last brought order to chaos , though , with the helper ofLicenseKeeper , an labor organizer from Outer Level that keep all that license information in one convenient space and with more focussed features than worldwide organizers or record keepers ....
Our up-to-the-minute podcast is a triple - terror , examining of late release particular on iPhone 3 gee activation and pricing , Macs in the enterprise market place , and the in and outs of syncing datum and files between Macs . On the way to these interviews , I take a look at the newRhapsody MP3 Storeand equate it , ever so gently , toAmazon MP3and the iTunes Store ....
Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Not everybody “ gets”Twitter — I interpret that . It might be hard to see the entreaty of a societal networking service that confine its exploiter ’ messages to just 140 characters apiece . After all , what can you mayhap say of value in just a couple short sentences ? And how often can you keep go back to a WWW page and refreshing to see if your friends have see anything interesting ?...
The Worldwide Developers Conference is now a recent , bright store . To celebrate its passing , we devote this instalment of the Macworld Podcast to all things WWDC — a reality check on what Apple announced last week and then a roundtable interview with a radical of Mac developer who have turned their tending to the iPhone . That realism checkout lie of me musing on the true price of the iPhone 3 constant of gravitation and whether it makes sense for current iPhone owners to raise ; the precious few detail we have on the next version of Mac OS X , the no - new - features Snow Leopard ; and what MobileMe brings to the table ( and which bits of ....
