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Growl Notification from Mail.app with Sender Photos

MacOSXHints.com — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000

You can use an AppleScript to send a notification to Growl whenever new messages arrive in Mail.app. The script also includes the image of the sender from your Address Book as the icon of the Growl notification. Works in Snow Leopard and Lion. I adapt...

App usage doesn’t drop during Super Bowl — except during halftime

Mike Schramm — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Mobile advertiser Flurry's latest report, on app usage during the Super Bowl, is fascinating for those of us who have been following the "second screen" phenomenon: The tendency of mobile device users to use their devices while also watching televisi...

TUAW TV Live: Looking at what’s new in the Appleverse

Steven Sande — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:55:00 +0000

Today on TUAW TV Live I have a lot of hot new products to demonstrate, both in terms of hardware and software. Most of these items haven't been reviewed yet on TUAW, so you'll be getting a first glimpse at what's coming up soon. Below, you'll find a U...

Creating An App Store For Your Company Just Got Easier… And Free

Ryan Faas — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:09 +0000

Apple’s concept of the App Store works well for consumers. Search for whatever apps you want or need and buy or download them with one-click shopping in iTunes of the App Store app on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. That system starts to break down when it comes to iOS devices in the workplace, [...]

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Path Apologizes, Issues Update Making Accessing Your Address Book Opt-In

John Brownlee — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:34:35 +0000

Caught up in a maelstrom of controversy over revelations that Path has been uploading iOS users’ address books to their own servers, Path CEO David Morin has spoken out about what’s going to happen now. It’s all good news. Not only is Path taking full responsibility, and apologizing whole-heartedly for the violation, they’ve also pushed [...]

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Like Path, Hipster Also Uploads Your Address Book To Its Servers Without Telling Users

John Brownlee — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:37 +0000

Social networking app Path hit the headlines yesterday after it turned out the company was taking users’ entire address books and uploading them to their servers. It’s a big privacy violation, but Path’s hardly the only one doing this. In fact, computer engineering professor Mark Chang has just discovered that Hipster, the popular photo-filter postcards [...]

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Use Your iPhone As An Augmented Reality HUD In Your Next Game Of Lazer Tag

John Brownlee — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:29:17 +0000

My parents never let me play with them as a kid because they were afraid I’d get shot by a trigger-happy cop, which is perhaps why, to this day, I get a little giddy when I hear or read the words “LAZER TAG,” and feel myself ethereally tugged away — John Carter like — to [...]

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Your Kids Will Probably Enjoy This Cute iOS Platformer [Review]

Giles Turnbull — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:48:28 +0000

Meet Niko, star of a cute-character platformer for iOS that involves the usual amount of bouncing, running, hopping and collecting things. The flick-to-jump UI is quite entertaining and not difficult to get to grips with. The pace is slowed down slightly, giving you time to take aim carefully between one leap and the next. If [...]

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Keep That Spinning Beach Ball Deflated With FreeMemory [Daily Freebie]

Eli Milchman — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:31:34 +0000

Yeah, that spinning beach ball looks all happy and fun, but the diabolical critter’ll make your system slower than the line at the central Los Angeles DMV on a late Friday afternoon. Not to worry — FreeMemory is here to help. No, the free app won’t kick the little swine out to sea — but [...]

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App Economy has created almost half a million jobs

Ryan Kim — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:18:29 +0000

Could the app economy be the cure for United States' employment doldrums? A new report suggests that the nascent app economy spurred on by iOS, Android and Facebook apps has generated 466,000 jobs in the U.S. economy since 2007.

FYI: Path uploads your iPhone’s entire address book to their servers

Jake Smith — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:35:35 +0000

Blogger Arun Thampi discovered something that may or may not sit right about the free social media app Path while packet sniffing the app last night. Upon first installing the app and registering for an account, Path sends each one of your contacts in your address book to their server via a. plist. The [...]

First Enyo app makes the iOS leap

Kelly Hodgkins — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Enyo is an application development platform created by HP for webOS. It's open source and based on web standards like JavaScript. Best of all, it can be used to create apps for other platforms like Android and iOS. The first Enyo-based app for iOS, F...

Study: iOS apps crash more than Android apps do

Mike Schramm — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Mobile OS crash analysis firm Crittercism (Really? Who's naming this stuff?) has posted the chart above, which shows that as a percentage of crashes overall, the latest version of iOS claims the highest total. In fact, many versions of iOS show a lar...

Apple modifies EULA for iBooks: Lays no claim to content, allows authors to distribute elsewhere

Elyse Betters — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:17:55 +0000

Apple just updated its End User License Agreement for the iBooks Author application, and the changes clearly outline the Cupertino, Calif.-based Company only requires .iBooks formatted products created in iBooks Author to sell through the iBookstore. With that said, Apple aims to sell the packaged format without claiming the content nor restricting where else authors [...]

Five apps for Super Bowl Sunday

Kelly Hodgkins — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000

The Super Bowl is just around the corner which means it's time to get ready for the big game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. Rather than our usual five apps, I couldn't contain myself and, instead, put together five categorie...