Apple to Rate Your Karaoke Singing on Your iPhone?

Apple has published a very interesting patent application in which they explore how to provide a Karaoke experience on the iPhone. Not only would users be able to sing along with their favorite songs, but Apple wants to give real-time feedba...

iPhone to support Micro-USB Charger in Europe

Ask TUAW: iTunes libraries, Mac data recovery, Snow Leopard on older Macs and more

Filed under: Accessories, Gaming, Hardware, Ask TUAW, iPhone, Snow Leopard

We're back with another edition of Ask TUAW. This time around we've answering questions about iTunes libraries, Mac data recovery, Snow Leopard on older Macs and more.

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of Mac OS X (we'll assume you're running Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions.

Daneel asks:

I'm running OS X 10.5.7 and Windows Vista (via Bootcamp) on my iMac 24". I was wondering if there was any way in which I could make the iTunes apps in both Windows and Mac use the same iTunes library. File access is not a problem as I've got the ntfs-3g driver on the mac side and mac drive on the PC side.

I have my iTunes library on an external hard drive. To make iTunes use this particular folder, I create an alias of the folder on the external drive and replace my iTunes folder located in Users> "User Name" > Music with the alias. iTunes has no problem with this setup.

You should be able to do the same thing in both the Mac and Windows versions of iTunes. Just set an alias of the iTunes folder you want to use in Windows pointing to your Mac iTunes library and you should be good to go.

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Apple Dropping NVIDIA for Future Macs?

SemiAccurate claims that Apple will be dropping NVIDIA-based designs in their next iMacs and laptops for at least the next few years. They claim the reason is due to the recent NVIDIA manufacturing defects which affected a number of MacBook Pros.<br...

iPhone Live! 3.1 Beta! Tonight 8pm EDT/5pm PDT

iPhone Live! comes to you tonight (Wednesday, July 1) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

As always, pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early and reserve a space in our all new, all roomier chat room. See you then!

Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live

Chat with you soon!

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iPhone Live! 3.1 Beta! Tonight 8pm EDT/5pm PDT

Review: PhotoMarkr for iPhone

This watermarking utility simple, effective and easy to use. If you like to share photos and are concerned about their proper attribution, then you shouldn’t do without PhotoMarkr.

Apple Updates MobileMe WebApps… A Little

Apple has once again made some service improvements to MobileMe:

We recently updated the web applications at me.com. In Mail, you can now see your unread message count in your Inbox and in each of your Mail folders, and forwarding or replying to HTML (rich text) messages now maintains the messages’ original formatting. In addition, there is a direct link to Help in the toolbar. See this support article for more details and a summary of other improvements.

Coming on the heels of WWDC 2009 related improvements, like Find my iPhone, MobileMe updates continue to more closely resemble the steady, iterative process that best suits the web applications model, rather than the big splashy event releases of classic hardware and software. Kudos to Apple for that.

Now how about that iDisk App?

[via MobileMe News and TUAW]

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Apple Updates MobileMe WebApps… A Little

Apple’s New iPhone 3GS Commercials Focus on New Features

Two new iPhone 3GS commercials are now being aired by Apple, the first one focusing on cut, copy, and paste and the second on Voice Control.

While it’s interesting that the original iPhone 2G commercials were targeted at “the internet in your pocket” and the iPhone 3G commercials at “there’s an app for that”, new features aside, we’re not sure what overarching theme Apple’s going for this time — if any.

Some internet coverage has been less than kind about the new direction, however, welcoming Apple to cut, copy, and paste about a decade too late. That’s a little “inside baseball”, however. While many tech-savvy users — and bloggers — upgraded to the iPhone from Treos, BlackBerrys, or other smartphones, arguably most of the iPhone’s growth has come from consumer adaption — people who upgraded from Motorola RAZRs.

For them, and many of the close to 20 million iPhone users (2G, 3G, and 3GS alike) now able to run iPhone 3.0, copy, cut, and paste will be a decidedly new experience and one whose ease-of-use they’ll likely enjoy.

[Via Apple.com]

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Apple’s New iPhone 3GS Commercials Focus on New Features

User friendliness, new features highlight Nike+ site redesign

Filed under: Peripherals, iPhone, iPod nano, iPod touch

Since its introduction in May 2006, the look, feel and features of the Nike+ website have undergone relatively minor changes. Which makes the redesign (still in beta) of the site all the more noteworthy. By putting familiar faces in different places, as well as adding some new faces, Nike has added some polish on an already great and revolutionary fitness motivational tool.

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New iPhone 3GS ads promote the power of the new device, with new music

The opening copy in Apple’s two brand new TV commercials starts with what has become its summer blockbuster theme for the third consecutive year, “This is the new iPhone”. A profound sentence that’s forever changed the mobile phone industry. In the latest adverts, the company focuses all of the attention on one long overdue feature [...]

Original David Hockney iPhone art being given away for 48 hours

To coincide with Imagine’s Premiere of David Hockney - A Bigger Picture on BBC, the artist is giving away as downloads three of his recent original iPhone art images available for 48 hours only. You can put these digital images onto your phone or computer. Image © David Hockney Renowned British artist David Hockney has discovered creating [...]

Report: Apple seeding iPhone 3.1 beta

Apple has reputedly started distributing the beta version of iPhone 3.1 to developers, along with the updated version of the Software Development Kit.

Apple iPhone 3GS sold out in UK

O2, the exclusive carrier for Apple's iPhone in the UK, reports that the iPhone 3GS is currently "out of stock".

Step-by-Step Guide to Unlock iPhone 3G running on iPhone OS 3.0 using UltraSn0w

Review: Wheel of Fortune for iPhone

This faithful and fun recreation of the long-running TV game show has a few imperfections, but they won't spoil your puzzle-solving fun.

Wednesday Fun Video: iPhone 3GS Real Racing Tech Demo

Firemint has put up the above video tech demo of their Real Racing game running optimized for an iPhone 3GS and…. wow.

“Since the game uses a high fidelity physics engine, adding cars is a good test for pushing the hardware. We started our tech demo with 8 cars on the track, then 10, 12, 16 and 20, and the 3GS still didn’t break a sweat,” wrote Firemint’s Alexandra Peters. “We finally stopped when we got to 40 cars on the track at the same time, still with no perceptible drop in frame rate. We think the results are mind blowing.”

No plans to release an iPhone 3GS version yet but again, that’s a switch that some developer will no doubt throw at some point.

[Via Macworld via Firemint]

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Wednesday Fun Video: iPhone 3GS Real Racing Tech Demo

China iPhone deal faces trademark conflict

A Chinese company that owns the trademark 'i-phone' says it is not in talks with Apple, though Apple may need its permission to sell the iPhone in China.

New video shows iPhone 3GS gaming potential

Firemint has posted a YouTube video showing off a tech demo on the iPhone 3GS that stretches the device's gameplaying potential.

Ultrasn0w to get iPhone 3GS unlock thanks to old hack

Thanks to an unaddressed security flaw, the iPhone Dev Team have announced that they will soon update their ultrasn0w unlocking tool to work on the iPhone 3GS.  The exploit, known as 24Kpwn, was first discovered in the iPod touch 2G, and used in the redsn0w tool to jailbreak that PMP. Now, ...

Chillingo’s Toki Tori Review

Toki Tori  is an unique puzzle plaformer published by Chillingo...If I'm not mistaken it is a port of a game that was originally introduced on Nintendo's Game Boy Color. In any case, Toki Tori features 4 distinctly different worlds spread across 80 brain-pushing levels.The game concept itself is simple, navigate ...