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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 17:30 |
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If you’d like to try something both delicious and healthy this holiday weekend, think about serving your guests Barbecue Glazed Alaska Salmon with Tomatillo Salsa Verde. That’s just one of the many tempting meals you can find in Whole Foods Market Recipes, a new, free app available on the App Store. The app, which requires iPhone OS 3.0, provides ingredients, directions, a store locator, and other handy features. |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 17:30 |
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If you’d like to try something both delicious and healthy this holiday weekend, think about serving your guests Barbecue Glazed Alaska Salmon with Tomatillo Salsa Verde. That’s just one of the many tempting meals you can find in Whole Foods Market Recipes, a new, free app available on the App Store. The app, which requires iPhone OS 3.0, provides ingredients, directions, a store locator, and other handy features. |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 01:32 |
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Ever forget your hotel room number? Then Steve Casimiro (adventure.nationalgeographic.com) wants to tell you about Room. It’s one of the iPhone travel apps Casimiro has come to rely on as he roams the world for National Geographic Adventure magazine. He’s also found apps that help him pack a better suitcase, phone home for less, find Wi-Fi hot spots, and lots more. Is your favorite travel app among his picks? |
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Monday, 29 June 2009 18:49 |
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Its “fetching high-resolution screen and its portability make this an attractive notebook for professional designers,” reports Jonathan Rougeot (computershopper.com) of the new 17-inch MacBook Pro. In addition, Rougeot concludes, the new model’s “sleek design, impressive battery life, and reduced price will make this attractive even to less-demanding users who want a stylish laptop with a bit of muscle.” |
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Monday, 29 June 2009 18:49 |
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Its “fetching high-resolution screen and its portability make this an attractive notebook for professional designers,” reports Jonathan Rougeot (computershopper.com) of the new 17-inch MacBook Pro. In addition, Rougeot concludes, the new model’s “sleek design, impressive battery life, and reduced price will make this attractive even to less-demanding users who want a stylish laptop with a bit of muscle.” |
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Saturday, 27 June 2009 01:40 |
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How do the batteries in the new MacBook Pro laptops measure up? Walt Mossberg (ptech.allthingsd.com) wanted to know, so “using my own harsh battery test,” he assessed the performance of new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro models. “The results,” he reports, ”were excellent. These two new Apple laptops scored among the highest battery lives between charges of any laptop I have ever tested.” |
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Friday, 26 June 2009 16:30 |
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The crime drama Public Enemies, which opens in theaters on July 3, pits the FBI’s Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) against the most notorious criminals of the Depression era: John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum), and Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham). Based on a book by Bryan Burrough, Public Enemies, was produced and directed by Michael Mann (The Aviator, Hancock). Enjoy. |
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Friday, 26 June 2009 16:45 |
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You receive a Word document from a friend. And while you have Office for Mac on your MacBook, you’d rather open that document in Pages. Thanks to Mac OS X Leopard, you have a number of ways — right-clicking on the document, Get Info, and others — to temporarily change the application used to open it. But what if you always want Pages to open Word documents? Find out how in today’s tip. |
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Friday, 26 June 2009 17:55 |
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Love Jazz? So does Don Wolff, who brings us the “I Love Jazz!” program on Higher Education Channel Television. HEC-TV, “the leading producer of education, arts, and cultural” TV programming in St. Louis, produces award-winning programming that “makes you think.” And, in the case of “I Love Jazz!” encourages a greater appreciation of a uniquely American art form. |
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:26 |
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It was already a great app. And, now, it’s even better. Taking advantage of new features enabled by iPhone OS 3.0, At Bat 2009 now offers live streaming of up to two major league baseball games a day. That’s right, you can watch two live baseball games a day on your iPhone or iPod touch — at no extra cost. And that’s in addition to Gameday Audio, MLB.com Gameday, and other great features from MLB.com. |
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 17:48 |
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“With its lower price, the return of FireWire (woo-hoo!), longer battery life, better looking display and a new built-in SD Card slot that you can boot from, the newest member of the MacBook Pro makes an impressive debut,” concludes James Galbraith (macworld.com) in his 4.5-mouse (out of 5) review of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. |
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 00:47 |
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“Video recording? Voice dialing? Better battery life? Zippier performance? Multimedia messaging? Check on all of them,” says Ryan Kim (sfgate.com) in his review of the new iPhone 3GS. From its built-in video editing to its digital compass, support for Voice Commands, increased RAM, and greatly increased speed, Kim explains how iPhone 3GS “cements Apple’s place at the top” of the smartphone market. |
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 00:47 |
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In his 4.5 (out of 5) mouse review, Jason Snell (macworld.com) points out that the iPhone 3GS offers “a major step forward in terms of the iPhone’s technological underpinnings,” one that results in “indisputably faster device, not just at some tasks, but at every task.” And in detailing the many new features it introduces, Snell concludes that iPhone 3GS “is still leading the pack, in most cases by a wide margin.” |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 20:17 |
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The new iPhone 3GS “proved dramatically snappier in every way than my iPhone 3G,” says Walt Mossberg (wsg.com). “Applications opened much more quickly. Web pages loaded far faster. The camera was ready to use almost instantly.” And Mossberg commends its battery life, video recording, and new voice control features, saying that the “new iPhone and iPhone OS are packed with features that make a great product even better.” |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 22:36 |
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Use the new iPhone 3GS, and the “speed boost hits you between the eyes,” reports David Pogue (nytimes.com). And Pogue ticks off all the other new features that make the “substantially improved, still elegant iPhone 3GS” even harder to resist: a 3-megapixel camera, voice-control features, “sharp, smooth, 30-frames-a-second” video recording, a built-in Compass, an oleophobic screen, and a “better, beefier battery.” |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 22:57 |
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In his review of iPhone 3GS, analyst Michael Gartenberg (gartenblog.net) says that the latest iPhone model “raises the bar for smartphone features and performance,” calling it the “best performing phone I have ever used.” From its “greater memory capacity” to its improved battery life, the iPhone 3GS takes “the platform to the next level,” he says, “delivering a powerful updated experience” that “once again sets the standard for the competition.” |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 23:16 |
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“Everything works flawlessly,” says Bob LeVitus (chon.com) of the new iPhone 3GS. “The camera takes better pictures. The video quality is amazing for a phone and the editing and sharing features are superb.” And iPhone OS 3.0 delivers “more than 100 new features“ — such as global Cut, Copy, and Paste, global search, a landscape keyboard, and Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe — that are available to all existing iPhone customers. |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 18:53 |
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“Once you start using it,” Jason Chen (gizmodo.com) reports, “the speed of the iPhone 3GS will amaze you.” He notes that “Safari, Email, Camera all load noticeably faster than on the iPhone 3G.” In fact, “even “booting the phone takes about half the time.” And “apps with long load times, like Sims 3, Oregon Trail or Metal Gear Touch all show how much faster you get up and running on the new” iPhone 3GS. |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:11 |
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“The new phone,“ reports Steven Levy (wired.com, “introduces a long list of improvements, big and small,” that “keep iPhone 3GS at the front of the mobile race.” Levy notes that “Apple has indeed ramped up the speed with which the new phone performs tasks like launching apps, loading web pages, and displaying graphics.“ And he takes us through many of the new features and improvements in iPhone 3GS. |
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Monday, 22 June 2009 14:40 |
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In its first three days of availability, Apple sold more than a million iPhone 3GS models. The company also announced that six million customers downloaded iPhone OS 3.0 software in the five days since its release on June 17. “Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.” |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 16:57 |
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Richard Corliss (time.com) called it “a near-perfect movie about men in war” when he reviewed The Hurt Locker at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which tells a riveting tale about the men who disarm roadside bombs in Iraq, boasts an excellent cast, including Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. It opens in select theaters next Friday. |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 16:59 |
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More than 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid plummeted to Earth, destroying nearly all life on the planet. Astronomers now know that large asteroids collide with the Earth every 500 years or so. They’ve even identified one that’s likely to come close to Earth on April 13, 2029, and may return to hit us 7 years later. What can we do to prevent this calamity? Watch Asteroid Hunters on iTunes U and find out. |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 17:05 |
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With iPhone OS 3.0 installed on your iPhone or iPod touch, you can now download any of the 150,000 free educational programs available on iTunes U over either cellular or Wi-Fi networks. Then, wherever you are, you can enjoy such programs as the “Asteroid Hunters,” “A Night in the Coral Reef,” “Piano Puzzler,” and others. To find out how easily you can learn on the go with iPhone and iTunes U, watch the short video primer on our Education site. |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 18:53 |
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“Once you start using it,” Jason Chen (gizmodo.com) reports, “the speed of the iPhone 3G S will amaze you.” He notes that “Safari, Email, Camera all load noticeably faster than on the iPhone 3G.” In fact, “even “booting the phone takes about half the time.” And “apps with long load times, like Sims 3, Oregon Trail or Metal Gear Touch all show how much faster you get up and running on the new” iPhone 3G S. |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:11 |
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“The new phone,“ reports Steven Levy (wired.com, “introduces a long list of improvements, big and small,” that “keep iPhone 3G S at the front of the mobile race.” Levy notes that “Apple has indeed ramped up the speed with which the new phone performs tasks like launching apps, loading web pages, and displaying graphics.“ And he takes us through many of the new features and improvements in iPhone 3G S. |
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