Filed under: Video , Cool tools , How-tos , Mac mini , iPhone What do you get when you combine a new parent on maternity leave with a love of gadgets and Apple products? Why, you get “baby monitor overkill!” In response to Dave Caolo ’s recent ode to the Mac mini , I figured it was time to step up. I had two things gathering dust: my old standalone iSight , a gorgeous example of Apple design sadly idle since the advent of built-in iSights, and a lovely new Intel Mac Mini that was recently scored on sale at MicroCenter with plans to set it up for my older two kids once I could get my hands on a small LCD monitor. I figured in the meantime it would serve nicely as a baby monitor, since I couldn’t find a matching transmitter/receiver pair among the various baby monitors I had accumulated over the years. My idea was that it would live discreetly, headless and tailless (monitor, keyboard, and mouse-free) in the baby’s room, and broadcast both locally on my network and also wide-area so grandparents could tune in remotely. For the initial setup, I needed a monitor, but fortunately my TV has a PC (VGA) port, which I used to configure the mini
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The chip company purchased last year by Apple has been split into two teams, one focusing on a touch-screen tablet.
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Filed under: Cool tools , WWDC , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch We’re winding down the last of our WWDC video demos this week, and today we’re looking at Flogger, a simple but powerful flight logger for iPhones and iPod touch handhelds (despite a name that might make you look twice). I’m not a pilot, but some of the features sounded pretty nifty, including a method for exporting your logs to Google Docs, right in the app. Other nice options include a huge database of airport codes, the ability to flag entries as simulator flights, and a fast method for adding crew members from your Address Book. Flogger (iTunes link) is currently $9.99 in the App Store. TUAW WWDC Demo: Flogger, a flight logger for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .
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Do you use Safari, Mail, iTunes, or other Mac applications every day? Did you know that Mac OS X Leopard can automatically open your favorite applications for you when you start up your Mac? To find out how, watch the latest Mac OS X Tip in the Business Theater.
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After a report by the Mandarin-language publication Chinese Times, rumors accelerate about the potential release of an Apple Netbook this fall.
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Vital Info: Contact: Brendan McKenna. Telephone: 415-843-1622. Address: 660 Alabama Street 2nd Floor San Francisco CA 94110.
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Apple will be hosting its June quarter earnings report on July 21, and AmTech’s Brian Marshall expects the Mac and iPhone maker will come to the table with numbers above analyst expectations.
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Apple Stock Watch: Analyst: Apple to Show Strong Quarter (The Mac Observer)
To access Force Quit, you can either go to the Apple menu in the top left corner of your screen, and choose Force Quit… Alternately, you can press three keys at once: Control + Option + Esc. It’s sort of the Mac version of …
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Image courtesy of Gizmodo With new rumors about the much anticipated Apple tablet hitting Monday, it seems fair to ask how one is supposed to decode the storms of speculation that have long whirled around the company and its products. Some thrive on rumor and innuendo about Apple - the largely well-regarded Macrumors attracts over 6 million unique visitors per month, AppleInsider nearly a million - and with Apple’s penchant for absolute secrecy over its design department and product development it’s no surprise whispers and baseless fantasy comprise much of what passes for “news” about Apple. If Apple really is coming out with a tablet in October, or AT&T really is going to open tethering to the US iPhone market in September (a persistent rumor AT&T continues to deny with respect to both price and timing), does it benefit anyone to know about it now? And if it turns out there is (again) no tablet, or that tethering comes tomorrow for free (you wish ), how does that affect the way one is supposed to receive the next rumored news item about what they’re up to in Cupertino? These questions are one small aspect of the larger debate about the ways news and journalism are changing in the Internet age. Traditional news organizations have been cutting resources for true investigative journalism for years, in favor of selling ads and eyeballs with cheap sensationalism, in part because it often seems that’s what the public wants , but also because it’s easier to publish a rumor than it is to get at the truth or to take time to think about and craft a well-reasoned opinion piece.
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