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iSkySoft’s ‘DVD To iPhone Converter’ Currently Free For Limited Time

31 July 2010, 12:05 pm by: Killian Bell
DVD to iPhone Converter for both Mac and PC is a handy application that allows you to transfer your DVD movies in to MP4 files optimized for your iPhone 3G, 3GS or 4. It’s incredibly simple to use: just stick your favorite DVD in to your comput...

Canadian Readers: We Need Your Help On iPhone 4 Story

31 July 2010, 4:00 am by: Leander Kahney
We’d like to ask our Canadian readers for help with a story we’re working on about the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 just launched in Canada on Friday, and Canadian buyers are able to buy the device unlocked (if it’s bought from Apple rath...

Five Fun Games: A Diamond Digging Ant, Jewel Quests in Ancient Egypt, Fending Off a Femme Fatale and...

30 July 2010, 11:04 am by: Cate Defrise
Happy Friday! Here’s this week’s selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include a diamond hungry ant, a femme fatale, sacred keys that will save the world and more. Doulber...

Daily Deals: iMac 2.15″, iPad Accessory Kit, iPad Freebies

30 July 2010, 10:19 am by: Ed Sutherland
We close out another week of great deals with a bargain on previous generation iMacs, as well as a couple deals on iPad items. First up, following the recent introduction of a refreshed line of iMacs, the Apple Store is offering price cuts on older i...

Slap An iPad On Your Fridge

30 July 2010, 9:27 am by: John Brownlee
The iPad is a fantastic kitchen computer, no question, but consider me skeptical of the FridgePad, a £49 magnet-backed aluminum iPad case meant to allow you to easily slap your Apple tablet to the side of your Fridgidaire. You know how sometimes yo...

GEAR4 UnityRemote Gives Any iOS Device 360 Degree Universal Remote Capability

30 July 2010, 9:06 am by: John Brownlee
The iPhone and iPod Touch would make great universal remotes, except for their sad lack of built-in infrared functionality. There’s more than a few third-parties who will add the functionality to your iOS device for a price, but these usually i...

Ballmer: ‘Apple Sold More iPads Than I’d Like Them to Sell’

30 July 2010, 8:58 am by: Ed Sutherland
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave Apple a left-handed compliment Thursday, telling analysts the Cupertino, Calif company has “sold more than I’d like them to sell. We think about that.” But Ballmer, who in 2009 infamously described...

Obama Uses A MacBook Pro To Show Off Healthcare.gov

30 July 2010, 8:52 am by: John Brownlee
[] Although he’s still a Blackberry man on the mobile front, President Obama is a MacBook Pro user when it comes to his day-to-day work, as this video demonstrating the new healthcare.gov site makes abundantly clear. I particularly like the sit...

MacWorld Cover Shot With iPhone 4

30 July 2010, 8:40 am by: John Brownlee
MacWorld’s latest cover isn’t really special in that it features an iPhone 4 recursively shot by photographer Peter Belanger on another iPhone 4. Although that wouldn’t have been possible on previous iPhones due to resolution issues...

French Knock iOS 4 Upgrade while Aussies Deny Antenna Troubles

30 July 2010, 8:17 am by: Ed Sutherland
We scan the globe for news about the iPhone 4. Today we visit Australia and France, two countries bringing Cupertino a mixed message about its latest handset. In the land down under, a large newspaper gives the iPhone 4 a big ‘thumbs-up’...

Apple Now Controls Location Services on iOS 3.2 And Above

30 July 2010, 8:14 am by: John Brownlee
Wisely, Apple has always been adverse to using other people’s technology to drive its business, so with competitor Google supplying the tech for so many Apple services, it’s only common sense that Cupertino’s interested in taking th...

Awesome iPhone Post-it Notes Not Just for Designers & Devs

30 July 2010, 6:48 am by: Nicole Martinelli
Apps-on are Post-its that look like the iPhone 4, made to help people who design and develop apps plan out the various stages quickly and easily. The paper stickies match the exact specs of an iPhone 4 — width, height, display area — and...

Report: WWDC 2011 May Highlight OS X 10.7

30 July 2010, 6:40 am by: Ed Sutherland
If the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference was centered on the iPhone and iPad, could next year’s gathering by Apple focus on the Mac? That’s the implication made Friday by one report. Apple is now seeking help to build “a revoluti...

Top 5 Free iPad Travel Apps

29 July 2010, 5:56 pm by: Nicole Martinelli
The iPad can be a handy to have on your next vacation, whether you need to research flights for a quick escape from your cousin’s wedding, keep the kids entertained on the plane or figure out which road is the least congested in a strange city....

Introducing the Apple Magic Trackpad [First Look]

29 July 2010, 4:47 pm by: Jose Gutierrez
It only makes sense that the company who brought us the first mouse would try to re-invent the way desktop computers are used. Apple is attempting to bring multi-touch to the masses with its new Magic Trackpad. While this might seem like just a track...

‘World’s Lightest’ HD Camcorder Launched By Panasonic Doubles As Webcam, Also Supports iFrame

29 July 2010, 1:16 pm by: Eli Milchman
In the wake of the flood of Apple toys launched earlier this week, we missed the launch yesterday of the The $500 HDC-SDX1 by Panasonic, which they’re calling the world’s lightest 1080i HD camcorder. Besides a dry weight of 185 grams —...

Check out Cult of Mac’s Jailbreak Superguide

29 July 2010, 1:09 pm by: Nicole Martinelli
iPhone and iPod owners have been jailbreaking — or unlocking the operating system to run applications not approved by Apple — since at least 2007. Why bother? There are a number of reasons to consider jailbreaking your iDevice, whether it...

Another Reason To Buy An iPhone 4: Making Panographs Is Easy

29 July 2010, 12:34 pm by: Eli Milchman
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJyA4vvnmZE Here’s one more trick exclusive to the iPhone 4: Launch new app You Gotta See This, pan the camera over a large subject and the app will create a panograph — a collage of still photographs that together for...

iMovie a Mobile Video Studio in Your Pocket [Review]

29 July 2010, 11:00 am by: David W. Martin
Apple’s iMovie is an app designed to run exclusively on the iPhone 4, but it will actually run on an iPhone 3GS by applying a hack. The app puts a mobile video studio in your pocket and gives you another creative way to use your iPhone by offer...

Daily Deals: iMac Core i7 Bundle, iMac Core 2 Duo, 24″ Cinema LCD Display

29 July 2010, 10:50 am by: Ed Sutherland
We start the day off with deals on two of Apple recently refreshed hardware. First up is the iMac Core i7 Quad. The 2.93GHz machine with a 27-inch screen is bundled with 8GB of RAM for $2,329. Next is an iMac Core 2 Duo running at 3.06GHz with a 27-i...

Never Underestimate a Mom with an iPhone

29 July 2010, 8:30 am by: Adam Rosen
Mothers possess skills varied and wide, and recent research shows Moms are particularly adept at using their iPhones.  The Huffington Post has developed a list of Top iPhone Apps for Moms, By Moms: Never underestimate a mom with an iPhone.  Researc...

Apple iPhone Shipments Surpass Motorola

29 July 2010, 8:02 am by: Ed Sutherland
Oh, the days when mobile phone veteran Motorola was hawking the slim Razr while competitors had bricks. Darn these young whipper-snappers like Apple and their iPhone doo-hickeys. Motorola, maker of the Verizon Droid, now finds itself being outsold by...

Android App Sends Personal Data to China

29 July 2010, 7:19 am by: Ed Sutherland
Is your voice mail password now the property of some Chinese hacker? Millions of Android users who downloaded an innocuous wallpaper app from Google’s Android Market may be nodding their heads ‘yes.’ Turns out, that wallpaper app wa...

iFixIt Performs A Magic Trackpad Teardown

29 July 2010, 7:03 am by: John Brownlee
Our favorite Mac vivisectors over at iFixit have torn down the Magic Trackpad, cutting it apart for access to its hidden hardware secrets. Unfortunately, there really weren’t many, short of the news that the Magic Trackpad uses the same touchsc...

Sprint Submits 3G-Capable iPod Touch Case To FCC

29 July 2010, 6:50 am by: John Brownlee
It was just yesterday that we saw an intriguing case for jailbroken iPod Touches that promised to give it the ability to make phone calls and send text messages. Who knew Sprint was planning something similar? It’s a case called the ZTE Peel 32...

Report: White iPhone 4 Delayed Because of Light Leakage

29 July 2010, 6:36 am by: John Brownlee
From the consumer end, the hold-up on the white iPhone 4 has been pretty inexplicable. Exactly how hard can it be for Apple to get the white iPhone 4 right? They release multi-colored gadgets all the time, with no problem whatsoever. What’s the...

Mossberg Reviews iPhone 4 Voice Calls

29 July 2010, 6:19 am by: Ed Sutherland
Listen up, iPhone 4 owners: get thee to a strong AT&T cell. That’s the advice of Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg on Apple’s latest handset. Mossberg said the iPhone 4 works best in areas with “average or strong...

Is Apple Finally Addressing iPhone 3G Performance under iOS4?

28 July 2010, 4:00 pm by: Adam Rosen
Hope for iPhone 3G users running iOS4: after weeks of suffering under the radar, the Wall Street Journal blog Digits reports today that Apple is aware of the performance issues plaguing 3G users running the latest update: Apple is investigating repor...

Add Twitter, Facebook to all Your iPhone Apps with qTweeter [Jailbreak Superguide]

28 July 2010, 3:45 pm by: Sayam Aggarwal
If you’re getting around now to jailbreaking your iPhone and love social media, think about adding qTweeter to your app arsenal. There are plenty of awesome Twitter and Facebook iPhone apps, but Cult of Mac finds qTweeter a must-have because yo...

Apple Bumper Program: Good Case of Underpromise and Overdeliver

28 July 2010, 1:09 pm by: Leander Kahney
We’ve received multiple reports from readers that their free iPhone 4 Bumper cases are already in the mail, despite initial delivery dates in August or September. I just got an email from Apple saying my own free Bumper case is winging its way...

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