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Sprint SmartView for Macs bricks broadband cards

Filed under: Peripherals , Software , Bugs/Recalls TUAW reader John T. alerted us to an issue with Sprint's SmartView application, version 1.85.0007.0. SmartView for Mac is a recently released (August 28, 2008) application which is used with Sprint's Mobile Broadband cards and USB modems. The issue, which occurs with the ExpressCard cards used with MacBook Pro notebooks running Leopard, causes the...

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Apple releases Security Update 2008-007

[ The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) ] This update caused my machine to hang at a white screen on restart for about 6 minutes with no disk activity and then spontaneously loaded the login screen. Although I have noticed the update install times increase since I installed Leopard, this update should come with a text file outlining this fact as it may lead less observant users to do a manual reboot...

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Apple schedules laptop event for Oct. 14; leaked photos abound

[ The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) ] Our sister site Engadget received an invitation for a town-hall event in San Francisco about new Apple notebooks, featuring an image of what could be hinting at possible new aluminum enclosures for 13-inch MacBooks.

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Tetris-like Game Pulled From iPhone App Store

Filed under: Cell Phones , Video Games , iPhone , Mobile Software Another day, another independent developer gets shafted on the iTunes App Store. Today's casualty? Developer Phunkware and its Tetris-inspired game, Shaker. According to TUAW , the Tetris Company and Tetris Holdings LLC found the game to be too inspired by its titular cash cow, despite the somewhat intoxicating visual themes, inclusion...

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Getting Good with Photoshop's Lens Blur Tool [Photoshop]

Weblog TUAW posts a detailed step-by-step tutorial for using Photoshop's Lens Blur tool to clip objects from one photograph to another. In the example, the author moves an open book from a plane white background to a wood floor, and though the lighting is a little conspicuous, the results are still impressive. The guide is also packed with helpful screenshots, which makes any good Photoshop tutorial...

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PDF version of iPhone developer's cookbook available

Filed under: Developer , iPhone It's a good day to become an iPhone developer: in addition to the screencast we mentioned , someone near and dear to us at TUAW finally got her book out into the wild ... at least the PDF version. Erica Sadun's * " The iPhone Developer's Cookbook " is available as an electronic download from informIT. If you want to dig in and start developing native iPhone applications...

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Shaker Pulled From App Store

Recently, Shaker, a "Tetris-like" game featuring a martini theme, was pulled from the App Store due to its similarity to the gaming classic. According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog, developer Phunkware was told that Shaker would be removed from...

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Beta Beat: fruux keeps you in sync

Filed under: Software , Beta Beat , .Mac One of the most frequent questions we hear from readers on our Ask TUAW posts (and for our doting Aunt TUAW) is a simple one, with no simple answer: "How can I replace the synchronization features of MobileMe with a free service or a software package that doesn't cost me $99 a year?" We feel your pain. For anyone looking to cut their cash outlay and maintain...

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Apple yanks iPhone game for being "too much like Tetris"

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Gaming , iPhone , App Store Shaker, a fun "Tetris-like" game with a martini theme, has been pulled from the App Store. TUAW provided a first look at the game back in early September. According to sources, developer Phunkware was told that Shaker would be removed from the App Store after the Tetris Company and Tetris Holdings LLC complained to Apple that the app resembled...

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Apple.com, a retrospective

Filed under: Internet , Apple History TUAW reader Tyler noticed that Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary by digging up its searchable archives from 2001. He took a peek at some Apple history and shared the find with us. The archives dip into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine , which I decided to use to dig up a series of archived Apple.com sites. You can surf all the way back to 1996 ...

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For those of you with iPhone / Pod Touch devices, TUAW has a review of what looks like being quite a useful program called i. TV

For those of you with iPhone / Pod Touch devices, TUAW has a review of what looks like being quite a useful program called i. TV. "The heart of i. TV (App Store link) is a TV listings browser, which...

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First Look: i. TV brings schedules, trailers to your iPhone

Filed under: iPhone , App Store There are a lot of App Store submissions and works-in-progress that trigger anticipatory drooling here at TUAW (Sling Mobile! Sling Mobile!), among them the program guide and movie finder i. TV ; we first saw it a few weeks ago and I've been checking every day to see if it's shipped. Now you can download this free tool from the App Store and see for yourself what's...

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TUAW reviews WunderRadio: location-aware AM, FM, NOAA Weather, Internet radio for iPhone, iPod touch

The geniuses at Weather Underground have done it again! Now they've capitalized on their insight...

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Jason's Favorite Windows apps: Evernote

Filed under: Business , Internet , Text , E-mail , Productivity , Web services , Commercial , Freeware , Search Recently our sister publication, TUAW, did a series of posts about each blogger's favorite iPhone and iPod Touch apps. We thought here at Download Squad that we'd take that same approach and apply it to our favourite Windows applications. This first post is my first of three in this vein...

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TUAW Review: WunderRadio

Filed under: Audio , Software , iPhone , App Store The geniuses at Weather Underground have done it again! Now they've capitalized on their insight into weather radio to bring the iPhone world WunderRadio. Available in the App Store (click opens iTunes) for US$5.99, WunderRadio provides NOAA Weather streams based on your current location. But there's a lot more to WunderRadio than NOAA Weather. Weather...