Today's Headlines - Thursday, July 9th, 2009

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Zensify Let’s You Keep Tabs on Twitter and Facebook Simultaneously - 04:50 PM
Product News

Zensify announced today that its 'lifestreaming' application for iPhone and iPod touch has left beta status and is now available. Zensify allows users to aggregate, update, search and discover information across multiple social networks and Web services -- all from within a single application.

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SEC Investigating Jobs Health Disclosures - 04:29 PM
News

It's no secret that Apple CEO Steve Jobs took a six-month leave of absence for health reasons, but the Securities and Exchange Commission doesn't seem convinced the company was completely open when it discussed his health conditions. The U.S. government agency is apparently focusing on an investigation on Apple's change in stance over Mr. Jobs's condition from "simple" to "complex" in little over a week.

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User Interface Blues - 03:50 PM
Ted Landau's User Friendly Blog

I have no patience with poor user interface design. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop manufacturers from making such products. As proof, here are three examples of poorly designed "technology" items, all of which I have had the misfortune of using in the last year.

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Chrome OS Complicates Apple & Google Boards of Directors - 03:42 PM
Reports

Apple and Google could find themselves under increased FTC scrutiny now that they compete in yet another market, that of operating systems. With the announcement of Chrome OS this week by Google, the two companies have a more complicated relationship, at least from an antitrust standpoint.

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Cloudburst 1.0 Weather App Now Available for iPhone, iPod Touch - 01:57 PM
Product News

Lewiston, Maine-based Advenio announced Thursday the release of Cloudburst 1.0 for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch handsets. The application shows you the current weather conditions, including temperature, wind, visibility, etc. for your favorite locations.

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Life ‘09 Software Drops to $59.99 Delivered - 01:08 PM
Deal Brothers

The Deal Brothers found a deal on iLife '09 for only $59.99, and that includes free delivery.  That's $19 off the retail price of $79.

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TechRestore Posts Stop-motion iPhone 3GS Breakdown - 11:06 AM
News

TechRestore, known for breaking down electronic devices and recording the process with photos and video, added the iPhone 3GS to its long list of gutted devices with a stop motion video that starts with unboxing and works all the way down to an empty case.

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Parallels versus Fusion: Reader Favorites - 10:17 AM
Hot Forum Topic

Today TMO readers are comparing Paralls Fusion, two popular virtualization systems for Mac OS X, and offering their take on which is better.

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LaCie Unveils LaCinema Rugged HD Multimedia Hard Drive - 09:32 AM
Product News

LaCie announced the immediate availability of the LaCinema Rugged HD multimedia hard drive on Thursday. The drive includes an HDMI port for content playback on high definition TVs.

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CheckUp 2.5 Adds Snow Leopard, New Mac Support - 08:54 AM
Product News

app4mac announced the immediate availability of CheckUp 2.5 on Thursday. The update for the system monitoring application added support for Apple's most recent Mac models as well as Mac OS X 10.6.

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Latest Microsoft Ad Hits at MacBook Price Again - 08:37 AM
News

Microsoft's latest Laptop Hunter commercial follows the same formula as the other ads in the series: Buy a PC because Macs cost too much. Thankfully, it doesn't borrow from the company's recent Internet Explorer 8 campaign, so no one is forcefully expelling what they ate for lunch on camera.

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TMO’s Jeff Gamet Dives into Social Media at CoMUG - 08:06 AM
TMO Appearances

Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer's managing editor, will be speaking at the Colorado Macintosh User Group meeting on Thursday, July 9, in Boulder, Colorado. Jeff will be talking about Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools and services.

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Looking Ahead at the App Store’s Future - 07:30 AM
The Back Page

 

Seems the App Store had a birthday Monday, celebrating its first full year of operation, most of which was spent being a massive game changer in the cell phone/smartphone market. What's a poor pundit to do with such an auspicious occasion but look ahead to the next year and try to guess what will come?

 

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Today's Headlines - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Pipe Mania Puzzle Game Released for Mac, iPhone - 06:48 PM
Games

Virtual Programming on Wednesday released Mac OS X and iPhone editions of Pipe Mania, a new version of a classic puzzle game in which players connect a pipeline from spout to drain as a liquid -- in this case, it's called Flooze -- creeps through the line.

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Apple Releases Safari 4.0.2 with Nitro JavaScript Engine Improvements - 05:36 PM
Product News

Apple updated Safari to version 4.0.2 Wednesday, an update that improves the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine. It also includes other recent security patches from recent Safari updates.

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Royalty Crisis Averted for Pandora & Other Internet Radio Stations - 05:30 PM
News

An agreement has been reached between SoundExchange and a group of Internet radio stations that includes the popular Pandora service. The various parties involved announced the agreement late on Tuesday, an agreement that reduces royalty rates set by a 2007 ruling from the US Copyright Royalty Board, rates that were generally higher than the total revenue of the affected stations.

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The Missing Sync for Palm Pre Makes a Mac and Pre Close Companions - 05:17 PM
Product News

Mark/Space announced the immediate availability of Release 1.0 of The Missing Sync for Palm Pre, for Mac. This utility allows users to synchronize contacts, calendars, music, ringtones, photos and more between a Mac and the new Palm Pre phone.

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New iPhone Games: Extreme Hangman, Jewel City, Rise of Atlantis, Word Solitaire - 03:43 PM
Games

SkyZone Entertainment on Wednesday released three new iPhone games – Extreme Hangman, the adventure puzzle game Jewel City, and the action puzzler Rise of Atlantis – while Candywriter issued Word Solitaire, which mixes word creation games with traditional solitaire card games.

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TapStar iPhone Game Features Cheap Trick, Other Sony Artists - 03:38 PM
Games

EpicTilt on Wednesday announced the release of its iPhone game TapStar, a rhythm title featuring music from Cheap Trick, Spin Doctors, Los Lonely Boys, Sarah McLachlan, P!nk, and other Sony artists.

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Gameloft Opens Contest to Name iPhone Game Character - 03:09 PM
Games

Gameloft has started a contest to find a name for the hero in its recently released iPhone game Castle of Magic, an action platform title in the vein of Sonic and Mario.

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