App Store Pick of the Week: Google Mobile Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:09:13 PST
Available only on iPhone, Google Mobile features Voice Search. Simply speak your query and let Google do what it does best. The free application also offers My Location searches (finding businesses based on your current location), performs contact and history searches, and includes a new Apps tab for rearranging Google Apps. Give it a try. It works, and it?s fun.
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Striking it rich with iPhone Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:22:27 PST
When Trism hit the App Store, life changed for 29-year-old Steve Demeter, relates Brandon Griggs (cnn.com). In just two months, Trism netted the former ATM software designer a cool $250,000, encouraging him to found his own iPhone game development company, Trismology. ?It?s done phenomenal business,? says Demeter of the game. And he already has five more titles in development.
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Quick Tip of the Week: Help Pointers Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:11 PST
Need help with an application? In Mac OS X Leopard, you?ll find Help in the menu bar of every application. Help points the way to tutorials, user guides, keyboard shortcuts, and other valuable resources. Specific to the application you?re using, Help offers Numbers help when you?re running Numbers and Pages help when you?re using Pages. Learn more about Help in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
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iMac delivers MRI analysis in less than 10 minutes Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:18:47 PST
By comparing the hippocampus of a patient suffering from episodic memory to that of a healthy person of the same age, Professor James Brewer can determine whether the patient is suffering from Alzheimer?s Disease. Trouble is, to manually assemble the 256 hippocampi MRI images, it can take an entire week. Or he can run NeuroQuant on his iMac and get a statistical report in about 8.5 minutes.
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Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:33:39 PST
An ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra uses 20 MacBook computers to compose and perform new music. ?We tilt the notebook and use its built-in accelerometer to expressively control sound. We use the trackpad as a kind of violin bow,? explains Ge Wang, SLOrk?s founder. ?You can make some wild, diverse music with the MacBook.?
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iPhone and iPod touch vying with game leaders Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:31:14 PST
iPhone and iPod touch have become ?serious competitors to Nintendo?s DS handheld and Sony?s PlayStation Portable,? report Nick Wingfield and Christopher Lawton (online.wsj.com). And for good reason. Says one gamer who ?sold his PSP and may get rid of his DS soon?: ??I can listen to my iPod and play games at the same time, and when I?m done I can just put it in my pocket.??
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iPhone now top handset in the U.S. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:31:47 PST
?Move over, Motorola,? says Alana Semuels (latimes.com) iPhone has become the top selling handset in the U.S. ?Consumers are buying more iPhones than RAZRs because there is a ?watershed shift in handset design from fashion to fashionable functionality,? said Ross Rubin, NPD?s director of industry analysis.?
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iPhone passes RAZR in sales Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:23:26 PST
NPD announced today that iPhone 3G ?surpassed Motorola?s RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers? last quarter, reports Jim Goldman (cnbc.com). ?That?d be a big deal no matter when it happened, but it ends RAZR?s 12-quarter winning streak as the nation?s top handset.?
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