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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, September 1, 2013
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "How Steve Jobs and Apple turned technology into a religion" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 5:20 PM
  • "Low-quality photos claim to show 'iPhone 5C' packaging, color-matched wallpapers" 9 to 5 Mac 5:17 PM
  • "Could This Be Apple's iPhone 5C In The Wild?" AppAdvice 5:17 PM
  • "Apple iPhone 5S To Come In Black, White And Gold Colors: Barclays" ValueWalk 5:06 PM
  • "Leaked: New iPhone Color Options" Forbes 8:36 AM
  • "Did Apple just raise the value of used iPhones? The company's trade-in program may force rivals to improve deals" MarketWatch 8:31 AM
  • "Apple's iPhone Trade-In Program... Desperate Or Brilliant?" Seeking Alpha 8:27 AM
  • "Retailers Slash iPhone 5 Price Prepping For Next Iphone" Digital Trends 8:22 AM
  • "Apple's iPhone trade-in program to add consumer choice" CNBC 8/31
  • "Apple to pay up to $280 for used iPhones" FOXNews 8/31
  • "iPhone 5C priced at $649 through Walmart's Straight Talk alongside mysterious iPhone 4C" iSource 8/31
  • "Apple's rumored champaign gold iPhone 5S sends Samsung execs scurrying" MacDailyNews 8/31
  • "Apple Officially Granted Trademark For 'Passbook'" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "AppleCare+ Launch In Europe 'Imminent,' Here Are The Details" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "EA reports SimCity Mac installation issues have been resolved" TUAW 8/31
  • "Apple's Late Entry to Music Streaming Could Still Outplay the Field"  The Exchange 8/30
  • "Apple blocking support personnel vacations from Sept. 15-28 for launch of new iPhones & iOS 7" AppleInsider 8/30
  • "Apple support personnel vacations blocked Sept. 15-28: Apple's new iPhones and iOS 7 are expected to be announced September 10 in San Francisco, with shipments of the products beginning around September 20." CNET News 8/30
  • "Why Apple And Google Can't Sync Right—And Don't Care If You Suffer: In the Apple-Google war for the hearts and wallets of consumers, you are collateral damage."  ReadWrite 8/30
  • "Apple's iPhone 5S: What to Expect" TheStreet 8/30
  • "Apple Inc. Sued For Patent Breach Over 'Find My iPhone'"  ValueWalk 8/30
  • "Judge throws out case involving faulty iPhone power button" TUAW 8/30
  • "Spreading democracy, one iPad at a time: Apple may like to tout its global customer base in those gauzy TV commercials, but not every country has access to the company's gleaming miracle machines. Until recently, Apple products, along with a wide array of communications technologies, were subject to U.S. sanctions and could not be sold, or even brought into, Iran." Slate 8/30
OS X
News
  • "Bug allows for use of 'sudo' in OS X without a password: A small workaround exists in OS X for the use of the 'sudo' command requiring authentication after 10 minutes of nonuse." CNET Reviews 8/30
  • "CoreText bug may crash OS X and iOS apps: A flaw in Apple's text-handling routines may cause a number of OS X and iOS programs and services to crash and could be used for potential nefarious purposes." MacFixIt 8/30
  • "Bug in OS X, iOS can cause crashes, fixed in next releases" MacNN 8/30
  • "Apple Blocks Mac Java Plug-ins Over Security Threats Yet Again" The Mac Observer 8/30
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
  • "Options for checking free hard-drive space in OS X: Running low on disk space can greatly slow down your computer. Here are several ways to look this up on your system." MacFixIt 8/30
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "How to master Safari for iOS: Top 5 tips for better, faster browsing" iMore 5:16 PM
  • "How-to: Make accessible iBooks with iBooks Author" 9 to 5 Mac 5:09 PM
  • "How to sell your iPhone for the most money (Infographic)" GigaOM 10:34 AM
  • "Migrating files from a Windows PC to a Mac" Macworld UK 8:04 AM
  • "7 good places to sell or trade in your old iPhone and how much each will pay" Examiner 8/31
  • "Refreshing Finder Windows in Mac OS X" OS X Daily 8/31
  • "Options for checking free hard-drive space in OS X" CNET Reviews 8/31
  • "Firefox 23 review: Cheerful, cluttered, and a bit too eager to please" Macworld 8/31
  • "Users poke around OS X 'Mavericks'" SD Times 8/30
  • "This Is The Mac Backup And Sync App To Have If You Could Have Only One Backup App" Mac 360 8/30
  • "How To Stream Movies From A Mac To Apple TV" Mac 360 8/30
  • "Free: How To Manage Login IDs, Passwords Online" Mac 360 8/30
Op/Ed
  • "Mac Users Report SimCity Installation Issues" PC Magazine 8/30
  • "Sim City for Mac release sees multiple issues, lessons not learned from Windows launch" iMore 8/30
Press Releases
  • "EA accused of botching SimCity for Mac launch" BGR 8/30
  • "Peter Molyneux's Godus scheduled to land on Mac on September 13" TUAW 8/30
  • "Electric Image Animation System updated to version 9.1" Architosh 8/30
  • "BioShock Infinite is the Mac game of the year" TUAW 8/30
  • "Shade 3D 14 adds Retina and 3D printing support, new tools" MacNN 8/30
  • "Take a memo; Daedalic's Memoria now available for Mac and PC" TechnologyTell 8/30
  • "Alex4D Circle Tunnel: Circle Tunnel is a free Final Cut Pro X generator that draws a series concentric circles to form a tunnel" Alex4D 8/30
  • "Alex4D Blurred Coloured Glass: Blurred Coloured Glass is a Final Cut Pro X effect that blurs, colours and changes the contrast of a rectangular part of a clip." Alex4D 8/30
  • "Theme Inn Presents an Upgrade to Templates for MS PowerPoint" prMac 8/30
  • "Shade 3D ver 14 for 3D Modeling, Animation and 3D Printing Released" prMac 8/30
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "The annual iTunes Festival is underway, start watching it live now!" iMore 5:21 PM
  • "Apple Files for Nine iOS 7 Icon Trademarks in China" Patently Apple 5:20 PM
  • "History of iPhone 4: Changing everything - again" iMore 5:12 PM
  • "Apple & Verizon Reportedly Prepare for Busy iPhone 5S Release Date" GottaBeMobile 5:09 PM
  • "Apple Could Send Out Press Invites For September 10 Media Event, This Week" RazorianFly 8:32 AM
  • "France Warns Apple Over 'Champagne' iPhone: Says use of name for color meant only to 'attract all the benefits that surround [the label]'" WND 8:18 AM
  • "Apple ups its odds of gaining on Samsung in China" CNET News 8/31
  • "A glimpse at Apple's new Bug Reporter [Update: It's back!] iMore 8/31
  • "Apple's bug reporting tool redesign goes live (again)" 9 to 5 Mac 8/31
  • "Apple's Very Clever Trick With The iPhone Trade-In Program" Forbes 8/31
  • "Apple inadvertently asking developers for iOS 7-optimized app icons" 9 to 5 Mac 8/31
  • "Construction Of Brisbane Apple Store Now Back On Track Following Delay" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "AppleCare Staff Vacation Restricted Between Sept. 15-28: iPhones, iOS 7 Expected" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "Text-Based Exploit in OS X, iOS Causing App Crashes" PC Magazine 8/31
  • "Now your iPhone apps can be FAT losers: Apple gobbles data diet upstart" The Register 8/30
Non-Apple News
  • "The Steve Jobs Movie: Controversy and Nostalgia" Examiner 8:18 AM
  • "Google Confirms Acquisition of Smartwatch Maker WIMM Labs" iClarified 8/31
  • "Surprise! It looks like Google's been planning a smartwatch for quite a while: Google quietly brought WIMM Labs, an Android smartwatch company, a year ago." Ars Technica 8/30
  • "Scoop: Google acquired WIMM Labs to bolster its own smartwatch plans" GigaOM 8/30
  • "LG unveils a cinematic all-in-one PC with an ultra-wide screen" The Verge 8/30
  • "Sony's first post-Chromecast Google TV device is a dongle, not a set-top box" Engadget 8/30
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Coming August 31: Gene Steinberg meets Josh Centers, from TidBITS, and Bryan Chaffin, from The Mac Observer, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 8/30
  • "Joe Kissell Takes Control of Your Online Privacy" MacVoices 8/30
  • "How To Sell Your iPhone For Max Cash And... iToilets? Don't Miss Our Newest CultCast" Cult of Mac 8/30
Hardware/Software
  • "McTube: Play YouTube in Background on iPhone, iPad" FairerPlatform 8/31
  • "iOS, Android-compatible Sony lens cameras pics, specs leak to net" Electronista 8/31
  • "Videos show off Apple's new iPhone 5S color options" iSource 8/31
  • "This Is How Apple's New iPhone Trade-In Program Works" Wired 8/30
  • "Hate iOS 7? Give it a month: iOS 7, Apple's latest mobile operating system for iPhone and iPad, has a radical new look that will take some getting used to" Macworld UK 8/30
  • "New Mac Pro release date, rumours and images: updated with Apple's cinema ad" Macworld UK 8/30
  • "Apple's 'Passbook' is now a Registered Trademark" Patently Apple 8/30
  • "Apple plans to make it easier for your iDevice to capture Video" AppleDailyReport 8/30
  • "Apple files patent for automatic configuration of peripherals" AppleDailyReport 8/30
AppleCare/Helps
  • "A possible fix for your Mac's lost audio alerts" TUAW 8/30
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "Tug The Table For iPhone And iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)" Apple Sliced 8/30
  • "Zombie Highway For iPhone And iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8/30
  • "An Alien With A Magnet For iPhone And iPad Is Free Today (Was $2.99)" Apple Sliced 8/30
  • "Keep Your Mac at Peak Performance for Free with BitDefender Mechanic" Mac|Life 8/31
  • "15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8/30
  • "13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8/30
  • "MacBook Air Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8/30
  • "Refurbished Mac mini, $509; MacBook Air, $749; MacBook Pro, $999" FairerPlatform 8/30

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "Bioshock Infinite Mac Reviews: Game of the Year?" FairerPlatform 4:37 PM
  • "Beautune is a capable OS X editor for making portraits" TUAW 8/31
  • "Google Docs vs. Apple iWork vs. Office" USA Today 8/31
  • "These two accessories enhance the top-of-the-line V-MODA M-100 headphones" AppleDailyReport 8/30
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
  • "Save the Snail HD iPhone Game Review: Slow and Steady Wins This Race" Tapscape 8/31
  • "OnPage iPhone App Review: Virtual 2-Way Pager Application" Tapscape 8/31
  • "Photoristic HD for iPad is a great canvas for basic to semi-advanced photo editing" iMore 8/31
  • "Review: MailMate for OSX: a Powerhouse Email Client not for the Feint of Heart" Run Around Tech 8/31
  • "Day One review - A personal diary for your life" Macworld UK 8/31
  • "Wake Up On Time Or Be Publicly Shamed By The Newly Updated Carrot Alarm" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "Acclaimed iA Writer App Updated With New Features On Both iOS And Mac" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "Resume Designer Pro 2.0 Features New Styles, iCloud Syncing And More" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "Wordify review: Create typographic images with a few mouse clicks" Macworld 8/31
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "iOS Share of Mobile Web Usage Hits All Time Low" iClarified 5:16 PM
  • "How Much You'll Get From That Apple E-book Settlement" Forbes 5:06 PM
  • "Apple's mobile Web share fell to 55% from 66% last August" Fortune 8:32 AM
  • "An iPhablet Would Be Popular But Would Very Likely Reduce Apple's Profits" Seeking Alpha 8:29 AM
  • "How Google and Apple's contrasting styles affect IT" by Ron Miller 8/31
  • "3 Things Apple Must Do at Its Sept. 10 iPhone Unveiling" The Motley Fool 8/31
  • "Apple's eBooks Tragedy Reads Like Shakespeare" Cult of Mac 8/31
  • "9 smart and useful features of Apple's iPhone ecosystem that make it hard to switch" NewsPress 8/31
  • "6 Overlooked New Features of iOS 7" PC Magazine 8/31
  • "The iPhone 5S and Beyond: What Apple Needs to Do to Catch Up With Android" PC Magazine 8/31
  • "The Macalope Weekly: The Axis of Dumb" Macworld 8/31
  • "Why FaceTime quality might have dropped, why Apple still hasn't released it as an open standard, and patent trolls" iMore 8/31
Non-Apple
  • "Last Year, Google Made An Acquisition That Could Help It Rival Apple's iWatch" AppAdvice 8/31
  • "Why are virtual assistant apps so shy?" Macworld UK 8/31
  • "Samsung says Apple's damages claim has increased by 'hundreds of millions of dollars'" Foss Patents 8/31
  • "Video: How Firefox OS will avoid the app discovery problems that plague iOS, Android" BGR 8/30
  • "What Google Glass aspires to be: Making smart glasses isn't Google's primary goal. Glass is a vehicle for its software platform, turning contextual data for each user into digital assistants that are as beloved as a favorite pet and as essential as food." CNET News 8/30
Humor/Cartoons
  • "A Look Inside Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Retirement Party" The Joy of Tech 5:18 PM
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "Bretford Ships New Cart and Rollers for iOS Devices" Business Wire 8:41 AM
  • "Brutal Deluxe Software Introduces Apple IIgs Bechmark Tool" Call APPLE 8:36 AM
  • "MapCalculator - Measure Distance and Area on the map - iPhone/iPad App" prMac 8/31
  • "Advanced Regular Expression Editor Gets Update" prMac 8/31
  • "Starmap Media, Free for iOS-Dramatic, Multimedia Stories About the Stars" prMac 8/31
  • "1Password 4 for iPhone and iPad half price in back to school sale!" iMore 8/30
  • "Parallels Access Ipad App Lets You Control Your Pc Or Mac, Is Hard Cheese For Microsoft" Digital Trends 8/30
  • "Mophie joins colorful iPhone trend with Spectrum Collection battery-cases" 9 to 5 Mac 8/30
  • "Doctape Launches Standalone File Viewer App For iOS With Support For 80+ File Types" TechCrunch 8/30
  • "Thinglist 'Want To-Do' App Now Lets You Easily Share Your Things With Others" AppAdvice 8/30
  • "Calling Card Pal - The best mobile dialer for your calling cards" prMac 8/30
Computer Industry
  • "With Ballmer leaving Microsoft, Bill Gates' reputation has a comeback" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 8/31
  • "Microsoft, Google to sue US government over user data request restrictions" Digital Spy 8/31
  • "Next Microsoft CEO faces rocky road in easing NSA-fueled privacy worries" Hisplanic Business 8/31
  • "Microsoft Greenlights Gag Order Lawsuit: Citing free speech, Microsoft and Google proceed with lawsuits against government to allow the companies to publicly divulge more information about FISA requests for user data." InformationWeek 8/30
  • "Microsoft: Talks with U.S. government on surveillance transparency break down" IDG News Service 8/30
  • "Microsoft moves forward with NSA surveillance lawsuit after government negotiations stall" The Verge 8/30
  • "Web snooping talks fail, say tech groups" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8/30
  • "You're fired! Why Gates dismissed Ballmer from Microsoft Corporation and where he might find a successor" The Motley Fool 8/30
  • "Steve Ballmer is a casualty of the personal computer's rapid decline" The Economist 8/30
  • "Big, brash and bullish: how Ballmer's personality kept him at Microsoft's helm" TechRadar UK 8/30
  • "Replacing Steve Ballmer won't fix Microsoft" The Inquirer 8/30
  • "A vote for Bill Gates as interim Microsoft CEO" CNET News 8/30
  • "Nokia CEO Elop bookies favourite to take on Microsoft top spot: Chair thrower to be replaced by iPhone thrower" The Inquirer 8/30
  • "As Ballmer Exits, Microsoft Inks Deal With ValueAct That May Lead To Board Seat" TechCrunch 8/30
  • "Microsoft lets shareholder activist ValueAct into the tent" GigaOM 8/30
  • "Activist Storms Microsoft's Board" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/30
  • "Dell Inc.: Dell Eyeing Windows 8.1 Release" Avauncer 8/30
  • "IBM discovers its inner Kickstarter via enterprise crowdfunding" Network World 8/30
  • "New Intel Processors + New Microsoft CEO = Wintel Rising?" Seeking Alpha 8/30
  • "Intel Rumored To Unveil New Haswell Processors Labor Day Weekend" Benzinga 8/30
  • "Intel Plans 'Overclocking' Capability On SSDs" Slashdot 8/30
  • "Intel Unhinged: Has The Elusive Double Finally Arrived?" Seeking Alpha 8/30
  • "Why Intel Is A Chip Stock To Take Note Of" Seeking Alpha 8/30
  • "Time To Buy Intel As Big 3 Asian PC OEMs To Start Shipping Bay Trail Tablets By October" Seeking Alpha 8/30
  • "AMD updates roadmap, more delays expected" CPU World 8/30
  • "AMD partners for real-time capture and facial animation" bit-tech 8/30
  • "The importance of AMD APU as a category" Hexus 8/30
  • "AMD On PS4/Xbox One, Graphics Technologies, PC Gaming And More" Gamingbolt 8/30
  • "VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco" Network World 8/30
  • "VM WARE's NSX, partners aim to surround Cisco Systems, Inc." Financials Trend 8/30
  • "Cisco UCS in an application centric world" Sys Con Media 8/30
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "Apple zigs as Dow zags" Fortune 8/31
  • "Make $377,000 trading Apple in one day: A Berkeley professor finds out just how much a certain type of high frequency trading costs the average investor." Fortune 8/30
  • "Apple is 'dead money' says porn-loving bond king: DoubleLine Capital's Jeffrey Gundlach is bad-mouthing Apple. Again." Fortune 8/30
Industry News
  • "Tech Stocks: Salesforce soars, but H-P, Microsoft slip/Salesforce.com shares jumped Friday, a day after the business software company blew past Wall Street estimates, but the tech sector was weighed down by sliding shares of Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard." MarketWatch 8/30
  • "Investors say good riddance to August" CNNMoney 8/30
  • "U.S. Stocks Drop in August" TheStreet 8/30
  • "August Loss Deepens as Stocks Slump" FOXBusiness 8/30
  • "Dow Falls 4.4% in Turbulent Month" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/30
  • "Asia Markets: Japan stocks retreat, as Australia, Korea advance" MarketWatch 8/30
  • "Europe Markets: Europe stocks erase monthly gain on Syria, data" MarketWatch 8/30
  • "Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 8/30
  • "Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 8/30

 
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