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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 15:00 |
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Idyllic Sunset Valley gets a significant neighborhood upgrade in The Sims 3, which introduces endless creative possibilities to the enormously popular game — including the ability to create more than a million unique Sims. |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 20:27 |
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In its 5-star (out of 5) review, Stuff.tv calls Apple TV a “hot buy.” “The whole interface is stunningly slick and pretty,” and Stuff.tv found “loads of movies to buy and rent.” You can start watching the “brilliant on-demand content” almost immediately, and the HD movies “look superb” and offer “excellent” sound quality “with near-CD dynamics, detail and punch.” |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 17:52 |
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Opening in US theaters on June 5, My Life in Ruins stars Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Richard Dreyfuss, Harland Williams, and Rachel Dratch. In the film directed by Donald Petrie, Vardalos plays Georgia, a Greek American tour guide. While leading a group around Greece, Georgia begins to see things in new ways, finding her kefi — Greek for mojo — in the process. |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 18:00 |
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It zooms around the course at speeds up to 160mph, goes from 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds, and looks just like other Formula 3 race cars on the track. But WorldFirstF3 is fundamentally unlike other race cars. Environmentally friendly, it’s fueled by chocolate and includes plant-based components, such as a steering wheel made from carrots and body parts made from potatoes. See it in action on iTunes U. |
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Friday, 29 May 2009 00:17 |
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Electonic Arts hot new title, The Sims 3, doesn’t come out until June 2, but as Peter Cohen (macworld.com) tells us, “that shouldn’t stop you from trying it out” ahead of time. Just visit an Apple Retail Store. There, Cohen reports, “you can test the ‘Create A Sim‘ feature. You can also sample the ‘Create A Style’ feature that lets you edit your Sim’s attire and hair.” |
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:57 |
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With its pounding soundtrack, non-stop action, superb graphics, and intuitive tilt-control steering, Need for Speed Undercover is one of the best racing games on the App Store. It features 24 challenging ventures and 8 race modes that will keep you busy and entertained for a long time. And you can pick your ride from any of 20 high-performance vehicles. Ready for the action? |
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 23:48 |
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A friend or colleague sends you a link to a training video or other movie she thinks you may want to see. You could click the link and watch it online in Safari. But what if you don’t have time to watch it right away or you’d prefer to watch it on the train ride home? Mac OS X Leopard has a simple solution. Find out what it is by viewing the latest tip from the Business Theater. |
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Friday, 22 May 2009 19:52 |
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In his Commencement Address at Arizona State University, President Barack Obama challenged graduates not to “chase after the usual brass rings” but “to dig deeper,” “find the greatness that lies within each of us,” and follow their “passions, regardless of whether they lead to fortune and fame.” Enjoy the entire commencement address on iTunes U. |
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Friday, 22 May 2009 16:43 |
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Ready for an UPisode? You’ll find quite a few — as well as a trailer or two — on the Apple Movie Trailers site. Pixar’s tenth film and first 3D movie, UP features the voices of Ed Asner and Jordan Nagai and tells the story of 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen (Asner), his 8-year-old stowaway Russell (Nagai), and their “adventure of a lifetime.” UP opens in theaters on May 29. Enjoy. |
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:15 |
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If you like the idea of eating fresher, locally grown produce, it helps to know what fruits and vegetables are in season and where you can get them. And that’s how Locavore can help. It lets you see at a glance what’s currently in season where you live and what will be in season soon. And to help you purchase the veggies you crave, Locavore helps you locate local farmers’ markets. |
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Monday, 18 May 2009 23:39 |
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If you’re ready to take advantage of the advanced features of Aperture 2, professional photographer Derrick Story is here to help. In “iPhoto to Aperture: Going Pro,” he offers an informative training course designed to smooth your transition. Before signing up for his Lynda.com course, you can even sample several course sessions, including “Ten reasons to move to Aperture.” |
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 23:11 |
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They may have battled hypothermia, endured altitude sickness, and dodged an avalanche or two, but Ed Viesturs and Peter Whittaker were determined to take you along on their successful ascent of Mt. Everest. The two shot footage as they climbed; then used Final Cut Pro and a MacBook Pro to produce daily, three-minute “video dispatches” they shared courtesy of National Geographic Adventure Magazine. |
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Monday, 18 May 2009 23:32 |
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“We’re looking at how to get news and information to people in the way they want it, when they want it,” says Mark Morneau, Gannet’s Vice President of Information Technology. Determined to transform its 900-plus print publications into interactive, always-on digital media, the media giant has already developed an iPhone app for its flagship USA TODAY. But how else is iPhone helping Gannett cross the digital divide? |
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Monday, 18 May 2009 23:39 |
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If you’re ready to make the move from iPhoto to Aperture 2, professional photographer Derrick Story is here to help. In “iPhoto to Aperture: Going Pro,” he offers an informative training course designed to smooth your transition. Before signing up for his Lynda.com course, you can even sample several course sessions, including “Ten reasons to move to Aperture.” |
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:20 |
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The recently released Bento for the iPhone and iPod touch, reports Jeffery Battersby (macworld.com), “is an amazing, versatile, and powerful application, making it possible for you to create databases and manage a variety of information, all from your mobile device.” And when its combined with the desktop version, “the Bento app is the best, easiest to use database application you’ll find on the iPhone or any other similar device.” |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 20:14 |
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If you’d like to win a chance to shoot with pro photographers, learn Aperture, and take a free photo workshop in Mount Rainier National Park, you’ll want to participate in the Aperture Nature Photography Workshop contest. To do so, simply submit one of your best photographs. If selected, you’ll learn how to use Aperture 2 to process, perfect, and publish the great photographs you take at Mount Rainier. |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 22:20 |
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The season finale for 30 Rock “featured a We Are The World–type music video called He Needs a Kidney,” reports Matt Sayles (usatoday.com). The music video, which includes a message from Tina Fey, is now on iTunes, and if you download the $0.99 video, “NBC, Universal Media Studios and Apple will donate 100% of the proceeds to the National Kidney Foundation.” |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 16:54 |
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It’s back. Next week, the fourth film in the Terminator series opens in U.S. theaters. Set in 2018, Terminator Salvation stars Christian Bale as John Connor and introduces both a young Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) and a new character, Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), instrumental to the resistance. In his effort to destroy Skynet Connor grows to depend on Wright even as his doubts about him grow. |
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Friday, 15 May 2009 17:10 |
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From the big ones that we keep chilled in the office to the small ones that we carry in our fanny packs, we thirsty humans empty more than 155 billion bottles of water a year. Convenient though bottled water may be, what effect, ask the researchers at Open University, does our growing infatuation with bottled water have on the environment? Indulge in Bottled Water and find out. |
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:21 |
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You may already know that in addition to dragging unwanted items to the Trash, you actually have to select Empty Trash from the Finder menu in order to delete those items from your Mac. But do you know why Mac OS X Leopard offers another option, Secure Empty Trash, in the Finder menu? Read the latest tip to find out. |
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 17:38 |
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Übermind has released a new version of its geotagging plug-in for Aperture 2. Called Maperture Pro, the plug-in adds a variety of new features. These include support for importing Tracklog data from GPS devices, altitude (Z-axis) tagging, reverse geocoding, adding or updating the GPS data in images, adding custom keywords, and other options. Get a free demo of the $39.95 plug-in from Apple Downloads. |
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:30 |
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Apple today announced that the 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference will begin on Monday, June 8, with a keynote address delivered by a team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. The sold-out conference will offer developers in-depth sessions on both iPhone OS 3.0 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. |
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:29 |
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While there are a number of enjoyable crossword puzzle apps available for iPhone and iPod touch, most puzzlers love being challenged by the New York Times daily crossword. That you can do the puzzle on the go while listening to your own personal soundtrack makes the experience even more of a pleasure. And the app offers numerous options for working the puzzle and sharing solve times. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 18:08 |
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Fueled by the success of the App Store — which recently reached an amazing milestone, exceeding 1 billion app downloads — Microsoft, Nokia, and other vendors apparently hope that if they “build a mobile app store, cellphone customers will come,” reports Jenna Wortham (nytimes.com). But, Wortham wonders, “the real question is, will any of it help these companies grow market share?“ |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 19:58 |
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As Gerry Moffatt and his high-climbing team prepare the ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, Final Cut Pro and MacBook Pro allow them to create and post video dispatches on the team’s First Ascent website. The “trusty MacBook Pro” has “been functioning superbly all the way up — we’re at about 21,000 feet.” And when they’re not enjoying the view, the team get a lift from their iPod “entertainment kits.” |
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