Apple Ships Magic Mouse Software Update — But Still No Magic Mouse

Apple has made Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0 available for both OS X 10.5 Leopard and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users eager to add the new multi-touch Magic Mouse to their existing system — when they become available. That’s right, outside of buying one of the brand new iMacs Apple released last week (which [...]

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Apple Ships Magic Mouse Software Update — But Still No Magic Mouse

Apple Releases Magic Mouse Software Updates

Apple today released a pair of software updates to allow Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard users take advantage of the advanced mouse features of the company's new multi-touch Magic Mouse.

- Wireless Mouse Software Update 1.0 for Snow ...

Metallica Revenge: Tapulous takes revenge to the next level

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review, Music

The Tap Tap Revenge empire just became more credible... at least to the Metallica fans out there. Metallica Revenge [iTunes Link] sells for $4.99, but it is not out to make lots of money -- not according to the Associated Press interview with the band's drummer, Lars Ulrich. Ulrich explains that the application itself is really just for fun and that "it's one more thing that'll keep me semi-cool in my kids' eyes for another six months until the next thing comes out."

But we think that this is a little bit more than just a cool marketing scheme... it actually has some brand new features never before seen in a Tap Tap Revenge game. It's the first game in the archive to include a Bluetooth Battle mode. In this mode, two devices connect over Bluetooth to play note for note against each other while obtaining power ups that you can toss at your opponent to distract them and move ahead in points.

Tapulous touts this game as the most difficult Tap Tap Revenge yet. It has a Hard mode with four rails in landscape and an Extreme mode with five rails in landscape. There has never been a Tap Tap Revenge game with five rails. I'm scared to even try it.

The band has also created a contest for those of us who purchase this application. You can win everything from cool Metallica gear to the grand prize of a trip to meet and greet Metallica at a show in Vegas on December 5th.

Here's the track list:

• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Fuel
• King Nothing
• Sad But True
• Some Kind of Monster
• Enter Sandman
• One
• Seek & Destroy
• All Nightmare Long
• Master of Puppets

Metallica Revenge: Tapulous takes revenge to the next level originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Survey puts iPhone at close second in market share

ChangeWave Research's quarterly survey of cell phone owners shows the iPhone gaining market share and continuing to lead the pack in satisfaction.

Apple Closing Quickly on Research in Motion in Smart Phone Market Share

Market research firm ChangeWave today released its latest quarterly Consumer Smart Phone survey, which includes survey data taken in mid-September highlighting market share trends for Research in Motion, Apple, and Palm.

In the horser...

Use your own number with some Google Voice features

Google Voice now offers an option to let users take advantage of some of its features with their existing phone numbers.

Google releases Android 2.0 SDK, spills on features

Google has rolled out support in its SDK for Android 2.0, the latest version of its mobile operating system.

Unofficial iPhone and iPod touch Sync Coming to Linux

While Apple made a Windows version of iTunes years ago, they still haven’t seen fit to roll out any official syncing solution for our Linx friends. That leaves unofficial solutions, which according to Marcan’s Abort, Retry, Hack? blog, are finally on their way: libusb-1.0 provides an advanced API to access USB devices under Linux, replacing the [...]

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Unofficial iPhone and iPod touch Sync Coming to Linux

To Partner Or Not To Partner - Verizon CEO Throws Ball Into Apple’s Court

iPhone 3GS manufacturing boosted 20%, according to sources

Several blogs have published claims indicating that Apple has pushed up its manufacturing orders for the iPhone 3GS by up to 20%, definitely suggesting people are not tired of the device, and demand and sales continue to be very strong. According to one article from DigiTimes (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091027PD219.html): “Apple has increased fourth-quarter orders for the iPhone 3GS to [...]

Historic Earth: Another actually useful app for the iPhone

Historic Earth is a mapping app that permits you to overlay historic maps on modern maps, which can make for fascinating study and underscores one of the ways the iPhone can be a great research tool and school aid. It claims one of the largest collections of geo-coded maps of any app anywhere. Historic Earth allows [...]

iPhone 3GS bested by Android Archos 5 tablet in browsing benchmarks

We've already seen the iPhone 3GS handily win an ARM Cortex A8-powered browsing bakeoff against the Palm Pre, but now that a few more devices have hit the scene with the processor it's time for another round, don't you think? Pocketables certainly does, and they've pitted the 3GS against a pretty eclectic group of devices, including the Sharp NetWalker Android "smartbook," the Archos 5 IMT, and the Archos 5 Android PMP. That's two Android devices, one funky proprietary OS, and the iPhone, all running different browsers on different variants of the same chip design, so there are obviously a lot of variables at play here, but the results are still interesting: the 800MHz Android Archos 5's WebKit browser was just a tick faster than the 600MHz iPhone 3GS, turning in an average page-load time of 9.0 seconds as opposed to 9.6, while the 800MHz NetWalker and 600MHz Archos 5 IMT trailed at 10.3 and 11.6 seconds. All we're taking away from that is that WebKit-based mobile browsers still seem to be the speed champs, but we're sure you have a different opinion.

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

iPhone 3GS bested by Android Archos 5 tablet in browsing benchmarks originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NASA app released to the App Store

NASA, the US spec agency dedicated to the exploration of space, has announced the release of an iPhone application available for free download right now. The app enables people to be updated to the very latest in NASA happenings, including real-time updates of orbit locations of NASA spacecraft in real-time (sounds like something a spy [...]

Motorola Droid Specs Revealed - Is This Actually An iPhone Killer?

Android 2.0 Platform Officially Unveiled

The Android 2.0 platform was officially unveiled today, introducing a number of enhancements to the open source smartphone operating system. Among the notable new features:

- Enhanced contact synchronization options and a "Quick Conta...

Roundup: Recent iPhone app reviews

Filed under: iPhone

Roundup: Recent iPhone app reviews originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Competition: Google Unveils Android 2.0 Eclair — Target Set on Windows Mobile?

Google has just posted the above video tour of Android 2.0 Eclair, but does it look as yummy to you as its namesake? Android Central has already dished the specs, but it’s nice to see them in motion and all official. Meanwhile, talk sure seems to be shifting from the initial Droid ad’s “iPhone killer” aura [...]

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The Competition: Google Unveils Android 2.0 Eclair — Target Set on Windows Mobile?

Holiday Lineup Set, No More New Apple Products — iTablet, iPod touch with Camera, Red iPhone, etc. — This Year

Apple SVP of Marketing, Phil Schiller mentioned to Gizmodo’s Brian Lam that, with last week’s offerings, Apple’s holiday product lineup was now complete. Translation: stop watching the Apple Online Store for down’age, take Tuesdays off, and cancel the campouts — no more new Apple products this year. No iTablet, no iPod touch with camera, no [...]

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Holiday Lineup Set, No More New Apple Products — iTablet, iPod touch with Camera, Red iPhone, etc. — This Year

Apple Renovating Chicago Subway Station

Apple has come to an agreement with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) in which they will spend 4 million dollars to renovate the run-down Red Line subway station on North and Clybourn in the city. This particular site just so happens to be across the street from the future Apple retail store on Halsted Street. [...]

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Digital Chocolate: We’re owning single-digit search on the App Store

Filed under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store

We've mentioned Digital Chocolate and their App Store releases before, of course, and we've even mentioned just how prevalent they are -- they've been extremely prolific in releasing new titles, and as a result, they've posted on their website that they are more or less ubiquitous in search results. They say on their official blog that any search of a "single digit" on the App Store search window has about a 20% chance of pulling up a Digital Chocolate release. If you search for "D," "H" or "3," they're the number one hit. I don't actually know anyone that searches "D" anywhere ("You know what I really want to play tonight? A 'D' related game!"), but it just shows how many releases they've got out there.

That does get them plenty of downloads -- they also say that they're number one in downloads on the platform as a whole, with 40 million downloads already of their software, with 1.5 million reviews (!) total -- but I think it says more about the App Store in general, and that we're not quite as far along as it might seem. If one company could so easily own, say, Amazon's search, you'd just say that Amazon needed a bigger catalog, no? 85,000 is certainly a lot of apps (especially in the realm of mobile software), but in terms of the platform's progress as a whole, it's still in its infancy.

So we're definitely in for more growth. Even Digital Chocolate sounds a little surprised that they're so prevalent, and I think as the App Store ecosystem grows and we get more and more companies with popular titles in different areas, we'll see the search results become more diverse.

Digital Chocolate: We're owning single-digit search on the App Store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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