Daring Fireball links to a translation of a Swedish MacWorld rumor (Google translation) that quotes Telia Italia as saying as MMS app would soon be available for the iPhone. Phew! Broken telephone much? Tries to clarify Gruber:
Not sure if this means Telia is writing their own MMS iPhone app, or if they’re suggesting that Apple [...]
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Skype always irritated me with its automatic microphone volume changes. The Windows version has the ability to disable this option in the preferences pane, but the Mac version does not. Today, I spent some time trying to solve this problem. After some searching on net, I found a solution for the Windows version which also works on the Mac.
Quit Skype and open the folloving file with TextEdit: ~/Library » Application Support » Skype » shared.xml. At the end of the document, you’ll see this section:
<VoiceEng> <MicVolume>77</MicVolume></VoiceEng>Simply change this section to look like this (adding one new line):
<VoiceEng> <AGC>0</AGC> <MicVolume>100</MicVolume></VoiceEng>AGC means Automatic Gain Control, and setting it to 0 disables this feature. Set it to 1 if you want to enable it again. The MicVolume can range from 0 (mute) to …
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There’s a certain amount of cleverness in rotating the Zune image and, as far as I know, all that credit should go to MacDailyNews. Funny image aside it turns out that the Zune (no surprise here) isn’t selling too well. What’s the…
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One of the things that makes Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) so useful it that it can integrate, to varying degrees, with all broswers via its JavaScript bookmarklets. Many other sites also use these — for example, I have bookmarklets for Digg, FaceBook, and more. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to activate these from a keyboard shortcut? You can!
Now I can post to Delicious by pressing the same keyboard shortcut everywhere. Yay!
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I’ll admit it, I’m an iPhone addict. I’m more likely to walk out of the house without my keys than the iPhone so I’m not an objective judge of what makes an legit iPhone killer. There are a lot subtle things that are great on the iPhone that you can’t…
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It’s Wednesday and I bet you’re a little bored. Not enough of the week left to start a new project and not quite enough time left to feel pressured to meet a Friday deadline. So what should you do? Suggestion: Sue Apple over the…
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, Freeware, iPhone
But I don’t want to be seen as lazy (any more than I already am), and so I’ll also say that Adventure basically pioneered the action-adventure genre of games, and that though its art is spare and its noises are little more than bleeps and bloops, both are classic and coated with pure nostalgia. While Adventure is currently controlled on the iPhone with tilt controls, its designer will add touch controls as well in the future.
Other than that: go get it. It’s free.
TUAWAdventure released for the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Apple Financial
Yesterday brought about a bit of disappointing news for Mac-clone maker Psystar. Ars Technica is reporting that Psystar’s countersuit, which alleged that Apple violated an anti-trust act by tying their operating system to hardware, was thrown out of court. US District Judge William Alsup made the decision, stating that Apple did not, in fact, violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton Act, or Cartwright Act.
AppleInsider notes that crucial to Psystar’s claim was the definition of the “Mac OS Market.” Judge Alsup agreed with Apple’s right to sell their OS to their customers with the understanding that it may only be used with their hardware.
Last month, Apple and Psystar were ordered to undergo “private arbitration and mediation” by the court. As far as we know, Apple still has a case against Psystar for violating shrink wrap license and trademarks. Apple has also alleged copyright infringement.
It would appear that Apple has the upper hand at the present time, but it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out the final verdict.
[via Ars Technia]
TUAWPsystar gets countersuit dismissed, case heats up originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, MacBook Air
This is probably old news for most classic Mac collectors, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it: a member of the forums at MacRumors.com bought a MacBook Air “as is” on eBay, and when it showed up, he got something even more valuable than the envelope-filler: a prototype version. As you can see above, there’s no “MacBook Air” nameplate under the monitor, and hardware inside is dated to May of 2007, which is way before Apple officially announced the machine.
Apparently someone given an early working version of the notebook has already moved on to the new [REDACTED] that Apple is working on, and has sold off their old prototype of the Air. Very cool — as I said, collectors know that there are prototypes floating around out there still, but this is the first I’ve heard of the phenomenon. And I like that it’s almost a time capsule back into the beginnings of the product we know now as the Air — the model name given in the software just says “Mac,” so this predates the name we associate with the machine. You wonder what would have happened to a system like this if it hadn’t actually gone into production and been released.
TUAWPrototype MacBook Air found on eBay originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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