| Write for TheAppleBlog | |
3/12/2010 4:15:03 AM TheAppleBlog
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Interested in writing for TheAppleBlog? We’re looking for a few new folks to bring on board and would love to talk to you.
A few notes about writing for TAB:
You MUST have previous Apple-related writing experience. No exceptions.
We’re looking for people who are great at writing either how-to/tutorial articles or more in-depth, analytical, commentary-based writing than [...] |
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| Street Fighter IV Arrives on the iPhone | |
3/12/2010 4:05:52 AM TheAppleBlog
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Square-Enix recently brought its popular Final Fantasy series to the iPhone, and now another heavy-hitter, Capcom, is bringing yet another marquee title to the platform. That title is Street Fighter — and Street Fighter IV, a port of the latest installment in the series, is now available for purchase in the App Store for $9.99.
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3/12/2010 4:00:34 AM TheAppleBlog
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| Revisiting Fluid | |
3/12/2010 2:45:11 AM TheAppleBlog
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I first used Fluid, the site-specific browser creation tool for Mac OS X, a long time ago. But I didn’t find it compelling enough to integrate it into my daily life, in part because virtually all of my digital life still lived on the desktop. As I personally moved more and more to the cloud, it [...] |
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| App Store SEO: The Impact of iTunes Web Preview | |
3/11/2010 8:00:00 AM TheAppleBlog
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When iTunes web preview pages first appeared for songs and albums the industry was abuzz with the possibility that iTunes could be migrating to the cloud. iTunes preview has so far had little impact on how we use purchased media content, but it has had a huge impact on how we find iTunes media content [...] |
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| Analyst: iPhone to Overtake BlackBerry in 2011 | |
3/11/2010 2:33:46 AM TheAppleBlog
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A few years ago it would’ve been only the insane and the insanely prescient who were predicting that Apple would replace RIM in terms of world mobile phone market share. Now it doesn’t seem that outlandish, but the question of how soon we’ll actually see it happen remains up in the air.
According to a new [...] |
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| You Look Ridiculous: The Other Augmented Reality Issue | |
3/11/2010 2:27:09 AM TheAppleBlog
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Augmented Reality (AR) is a hot topic in the app stores these days. So, what’s AR? It’s multiple technologies being used simultaneously to provide you with data relevant to your location. This includes your phone’s compass to determine the direction you are facing, GPS to determine your exact location, an Internet connection to gather information [...] |
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| Why Apple Should Buy Adobe | |
3/10/2010 9:00:16 AM TheAppleBlog
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The rumors of Adobe being bought by Apple come up every so often. Apple could easily afford such a purchase and the results would be interesting. I would love to see Adobe restructured by a company like Apple. Adobe has many applications that are the gold standard but it seems to lack focus. These are [...] |
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| First Look: FileMaker Pro 11 | |
3/10/2010 7:00:36 AM TheAppleBlog
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A year after the launch of FileMaker Pro 10, the Apple-owned database company is back to debut the latest version of its franchise product. FileMaker Pro 11 introduces long-awaited features and builds on the interface and engine improvements to create new capabilities. I have been taking the product through its paces for the last few [...] |
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| Analyst: Apple “Disrupting” iPhone Competitors With Legal Threats | |
3/10/2010 5:30:55 AM TheAppleBlog
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Via Apple 2.0, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner asserts in a research note that Apple’s lawsuit with HTC over the iPhone interface was the culmination of “blunt talks” with other phone manufacturers.
According to Reiner, starting in January Apple began closed-door discussions with OEMs regarding the company’s “growing displeasure” with the theft of Apple’s intellectual property.
That displeasure [...] |
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| Not Every iPhone Apple App to Get the iPad Treatment | |
3/10/2010 3:58:47 AM TheAppleBlog
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Like the iPhone, the iPad will have a default set of applications, but it won't necessarily include all the familiar apps you know and possibly love. Apparently, Cupertino couldn't come up with iPad-complementary large-format designs for the user interfaces on many apps. |
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| Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? | |
3/10/2010 3:45:54 AM TheAppleBlog
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When it was first unveiled, Apple’s new iTunes LP format -– codenamed “Cocktail” and introduced at a “rock and roll event” in San Francisco -– promised to give consumers a new reason to buy albums instead of individual songs. Offering expanded cover art, lyrics, videos, animation and other digital goodies, iTunes LP was intended to [...] |
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| My iPad Wish List: 10 App Requests | |
3/10/2010 2:00:47 AM TheAppleBlog
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Watching the iPad’s first television spot on the Oscars Sunday night, I got giddy all over again in anticipation of getting my hands on this hot new product. Though it’s still a few weeks away, I’m even more excited for the applications that will be coming to the platform. Here’s my top 10 list of [...] |
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| Microsoft Courier Shaping Up as a Truly Novel iPad Competitor | |
3/9/2010 10:00:22 AM TheAppleBlog
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It may be a little early to say this, but to me it seems like Microsoft took all the disappointment and fear resulting from Apple’s dominance of the mobile devices category over its own products through the years and used that energy to create the Courier. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen another company’s [...] |
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| Apple at the Oscars | |
3/9/2010 9:25:37 AM TheAppleBlog
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Swapping turtleneck for tuxedo, Steve Jobs made a rare public appearance when he took to the red carpet at the Academy Awards last night, spotted first by eagle-eyed social media maven Wayne Sutton who posted to his blog; OMG it’s Steve Jobs! I’m the only one yelling at him! #oscars #kodakredcarpet
Sutton doesn’t mention whether his yells [...] |
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| Snow Leopard’s Been Out for Six Months, Why Are So Many of Us Still Using Leopard? | |
3/9/2010 4:30:02 AM TheAppleBlog
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So here we are, just past the six month mark since Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard was sprung last August 28, and I’m still using OS 10.5 Leopard.
I have lots of company. The NetApplications HitsLink Market Share data for February 2010 shows that Leopard is still the most widely-used OS X version, with a 2.21 [...] |
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| Mac Developer Program Invites iPhone SDK Halo Effect | |
3/9/2010 3:00:31 AM TheAppleBlog
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This past Thursday Apple announced sweeping changes to the Developer Program. The old Select and Premiere programs have been replaced by a $99/year Mac Developer Program that is similar to the iPhone Developer Program. The old ADC programs were substantially more expensive ($499 and $3,499) and the program benefits have been simplified to match the [...] |
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| Social CRM on the Cheap | |
3/9/2010 2:42:42 AM TheAppleBlog
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Mac users are missing out on cheap (read: free), social customer relationship management. Windows users have xobni, a simple tool that integrates with Outlook, and Microsoft will also be releasing a solution in Office 2010 called Outlook Social Connector. But what if you have a Mac? Xobni doesn’t support Entourage or Mail.app, and who knows [...] |
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| Android Rising, Sony Poised to Join the Smartphone Fight | |
3/7/2010 2:35:33 AM TheAppleBlog
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Yesterday Apple announced the arrival date of its much-ballyhooed tablet, the iPad. It will have a staggered release throughout April, beginning on the 3rd in the U.S. Once it does arrive, we’ll see what effect it has on the mobile landscape. But right now, Apple has other things to worry about if it wants to [...] |
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| Lingering iPad Question: Who Gets to Sell It? | |
3/6/2010 10:37:31 AM TheAppleBlog
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Woo hoo! Now we know when we get to buy the iPad. However, we haven’t been told where we get to buy it. Of course the Apple Stores (both online and off) will carry it, but the end of the press release has a cryptic statement that the iPad will be sold at [...] |
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