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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, August 15, 2014
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "Apple Flexes Muscles in Health Field: Apple is building up for a major move in the health industry, based on unconfirmed reports that it has engaged in deep discussions with major healthcare and electronic health records providers. Hopes: and perhaps fears: that Apple soon will unveil an amazing, stylish must-have wearable gadget that does all the things you'd want a smartwatch or fitness band to do are on the rise."  TechNewsWorld 3:59 PM
  • "Apple, Samsung Face Rising Challenges in China Market" Bloomberg 2:43 PM
  • "Will China Mobile Subsidy Cut Hurt Apple, Samsung?" Bloomberg TV 2:44 PM
  • "Assessments Of Apple Supplier Factories Operated By Quanta In Shanghai And Changshu" Fair Labor Association 1:06 PM
  • "The Fair Labor Association Delivers Its Findings On Two Apple Supplier Facilities" ["Apple has pointed out in a statement provided to TechCrunch that it has already taken action to address some of the issues contained therein."]  TechCrunch 1:06 PM
  • "IDC: Apple skimmed the smartphone cream in Q2"  Fortune 7:42 AM
  • "Ugly Market Data For Apple Shows How Desperately It Needs iPhone 6 To Be A Hit" Business Insider 8:12 AM
  • "3 reasons why Apple needs a big iPhone" USA Today 4:02 PM
  • "Will iWatch Add $9 Billion To Apple's Top Line?" Forbes 8:47 AM
  • "Apple's shiny new jewel: sapphire"  CBS News 12:38 PM
  • "Apple begins storing users' personal data on servers in China"  Reuters 7:58 AM
  • "Apple admits storing users' personal data in China" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 8:11 AM
  • "Apple Taps China Telecom As iCloud Storage Provider For Customers In China" TechCrunch 7:41 AM
  • "Apple now storing local China iCloud data in China Telecom datacenters" AppleInsider 7:35 AM
  • "Apple Adds China Telecom to Host User Data Amid Security Concern" Bloomberg 2:44 PM
  • "Apple shareholders file lawsuit over anti-poaching agreements, claim gross mismanagement and more" 9to5Mac 7:34 AM
  • "Lawsuit claims Steve Jobs, senior Apple directors hurt company with anti-poaching row" AppleInsider 7:34 AM
  • "Apple Shareholders Are Suing The Company After Judge Finds 'Ample Evidence' Of A Conspiracy Against Employees" Business Insider 8:19 AM
OS X
News
  • "Apple plugs Safari vulnerabilities that left users open to attack" V3 9:34 AM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
  • "Ask: Why Won't My Mac Sleep Properly?" Mac|Life 1:07 PM
  • "Bugs & Fixes: Phony Photozoom malware adds ads" Macworld 8:15 AM
  • "Mavericks - Finder problems and questions; SSD upgrades; laptop batteries" MacInTouch 2:20 PM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "OS X Yosemite: Get to Know Notification Center's New Features" Wired 8:11 AM
  • "Notebook 4 review: Notetaking Mac app gets an updated, streamlined interface" Macworld 7:37 AM
  • "Recipes review: A digital cookbook for your Mac" Macworld 7:36 AM
  • "Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2 Tips and Tricks 06" ["To import media into an External storage location, you have to set up your Library before you open the Import Window."] FCPXtv 7:23 AM
  • "How to enable and disable notification badges on the Mac" iMore 8:48 AM
  • "iStat Menus serves up all the Stats you could want (and more) about your Mac" Apple Daily Report 7:45 AM
  • "Add Items to the Mac Finder Window Toolbar with a Drag & Drop Trick" OS X Daily 3:58 PM
  • "Best Mac apps for photo editing" iMore 8:48 AM
  • "How to create OS X Calendar events with multiple URLs" TUAW 10:28 AM
  • "I Dare You To Try The Mac Drawing App For Rich Kids" TeraTalks 7:25 AM
  • "Cheap: How To Monitor Your Network's Traffic In Real Time From Your Mac" NoodleMac 7:25 AM
  • "StockMarketEye: Not Cheap, But A Good Way To Track Stocks On A Mac" Mac 360 7:30 AM
  • "Free Email From The Mac's Menubar" Mac 360 7:25 AM
  • "A Text Editor For The Confused Writer Who Loves Buzzwords" BohemianBoomer 7:24 AM
  • "How To Track And Recover A Lost Or Stolen Mac Like It's 1999" Mac 360 7:24 AM
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple celebrating diversity in Cupertino with several employee events this week" 9to5Mac 12:11 PM
  • "Apple adds key Vice Presidents, more diversity to executive leadership page" 9to5Mac 12:11 PM
  • "Apple profiles the Vice Presidents that report directly to Tim Cook" iMore 12:52 PM
  • "Ever Wonder Why Ron Johnson Left Apple for J.C. Penney?"  FOXBusiness 8:19 AM
  • "Fair Labor Association publishes data from audits of two Apple suppliers, Apple responds" 9to5Mac 3:44 PM
  • "Apple Working to Remedy Labor Violations Found at Quanta Factories" MacRumors 3:43 PM
  • "Job Listings Reveal Future Middle East Store" ifoAppleStore 7:50 AM
  • "Hiring underway for first Apple Store(s) in the oil-rich nations of the Middle East" 9to5Mac 7:34 AM
  • "NPD DisplaySearch: In a Maturing Tablet PC Market, Apple and Samsung Face Growth Declines" PRWeb 11:23 AM
  • "In a maturing tablet market, Apple and Samsung face growth declines, says NPD" DigiTimes 7:50 AM
  • "Android and iOS Devices Account For 96.4% of 300M+ Global Smartphone Market Shipments In Q414 – IDC" MacPrices 9:53 AM
  • "Back to School Guide 2014: Laptops" Engadget 11:32 AM
  • "Bill Gates just topped Tim Cook's ice bucket challenge" Cult of Mac 3:51 PM
  • "Watch Apple's boss Tim Cook getting ice bath to benefit ALS research" iDownload Blog 7:49 AM
  • "Teenager who fell asleep on his iPhone 5 is scarred for life after gadget burns a 2ins hole on his arm" Daily Mail (UK) 10:30 AM
  • "Gay Apple customer outraged after he 'received receipt from store employee with homophobic slur printed on it in place of email address'" Daily Mail (UK) 7:42 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "For Its New Shows, Amazon Adds Art to Its Data" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:55 PM
  • "Facebook Messenger users gripe and grumble in online reviews" CNET 2:18 PM
  • "The Future of Oculus Rift, According to the Man Who Invented It" Kotaku 12:10 PM
  • "The Cable Guys Have Become the Internet Guys" ["Not by much. The top cable guys now have 49,915,000 Internet subscribers, compared to 49,910,000 TV subscribers. And to be sure, most cable customers are getting both services."] Re/code 11:19 AM
  • "Samsung gets Serious about Home Automation with SmartThings Purchase" The Mac Observer 10:48 AM
  • "Sprint to Unveil New Pricing Plans: Carrier Tested $50-A-Month Unlimited Offer" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 11:32 AM
  • "New Sprint CEO Promises Price Cuts And Better Plans" Digital Trends 10:01 AM
  • "Here's How Google Motivates One Of Its Most Innovative Teams To Move Faster" Business Insider 9:34 AM
  • "Watch Samsung try to get you excited for its doomed Nook tablet | Business | by Harrison Weber" VentureBeat 9:34 AM
  • "Premier League tells fans to stop posting GIFs and Vines of goals" Engadget 7:50 AM
  • "'I'm Sorry,' Says The Man Who Invented Pop-Up Ads" Gizmodo 7:45 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Coming August 16: Gene Steinberg meets Braydon Moreno, of ROBO 3D, Bryan Chaffin from The Mac Observer, and tech columnist Rob Pegoraro, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 8:08 PM
  • "iMore show 415: Overcompensation, Extremes, and conspiracies" iMore 12:10 PM
  • "Podcast: Looftlighter, Sapphire Glass, Robin Williams, Google Customer Service, plus more" Insanely Great Mac 7:33 AM
Hardware/Software
  • "Purported photos of 5.5-inch 'iPhone 6L' show 2915mAh battery, wider display panel" 9to5Mac 9:15 PM
  • "iPhone 6: leaked photos show plans to facilitate one-handed use/Need to boost screen size but retain user-friendliness? Here's how." USwitch 3:46 PM
  • "Will a larger-screened iPhone 6 still fit comfortably in one hand? Leaked photos examined by blog site uSwitch imply Apple may enlarge of screen of its next iPhone but keep the device small enough to use with one hand." CNET 3:47 PM
  • "Apple iPhone 6: Drool, Geeks!"  TMZ 7:39 AM
  • "TMZ gets a little over-enthusiastic about yet another Android clone of the iPhone 6" 9to5Mac 9:36 AM
  • "The best iPhone 6 photo leak yet ... from TMZ?" CNBC 8:00 AM
  • "Report: New iPhone to Have Sapphire Screen, Higher Price" Mashable 8:12 AM
  • "Photos Claiming to Be of New Lightning Cable with Reversible USB Connector Surface" MacRumors 7:55 AM
  • "Rumor suggests Apple is working on its own reversible USB cable" Ars Technica 10:02 AM
  • "Another Leaked Photo Supposedly Shows What's Inside The iPhone 6" Business Insider 8:18 AM
  • "New Intel 'Grantley' processors may herald Mac Pro update" Electronista 7:50 AM
  • "Apple bans hazardous materials from iPhone and iPad construction" V3 8:12 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "Paint FX: Photo Effects Editor For iPhone And iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $2.99)" Apple Sliced 8:40 AM
  • "ProTracker Plus -Nutrition Value Diary, Database Scanner And Points Calculator For Weight And Exercise Watchers For iPhone And iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $1.99)" Apple Sliced 8:40 AM
  • "inStatus -Making Your Photos Gorgeous For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)" Apple Sliced 8:40 AM
  • "15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:44 AM
  • "13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:44 AM
  • "MacBook Air Prices & Sales" MacPrices 7:44 AM

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro (mid-2014) review" MSN Tech 11:22 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
  • "Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You." TechCrunch 3:47 PM
  • "Macworld Video: Master the Weather app" Macworld 7:36 AM
  • "The 85 best iPad & iPhone games: Great gaming apps for iOS tablets and smartphones" Macworld UK 12:12 PM
  • "Appidemic: Don't you know that you are a TourStar" TechnologyTell 8:48 AM
  • "Airheads Jump Review: Simple and kind of shallow, that doesn't stop Airheads Jump from being a quite fun jumping game." 148Apps 8:15 AM
  • "'Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies' Review - No Objections To This Port's Quality" Touch Arcade 11:19 AM
  • "Melissa K. and the Heart of Gold HD Review: A casual adventuring, hidden object game with style, Melissa K. and the Heart of Gold is sure to satisfy fans of the genre." 148Apps 11:33 AM
  • "Word Hack Review: Much like Wheel of Fortune, Word Hack is a fun word game that tests your deduction skills as well as your vocabulary." 148Apps 12:55 PM
  • "InnerList Review: InnerList can assist in creating a bit of order out of your personal chaos, provided it's not TOO chaotic." 148Apps 3:51 PM
  • "Red Johnson's Chronicles Review: Red Johnson's Chronicles is an enjoyable, if campy, detective puzzler. With good visuals and engaging puzzles, its only real failing is its cheeseball dialogue." 148Apps 9:36 AM
How-To/Tutorial
  • "How to delete multiple contacts at once from your iPhone" iMore 8:19 AM
  • "The Novice's Complete Guide to Setting Up and Using an Apple TV - Part 2" Tuts+ 7:55 AM
  • "How to delete or report a comment on Instagram for iPhone" iMore 7:49 AM
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "The G5 and Mac OS X: Less 64-bit Than You'd Think" Low End Mac 9:14 PM
  • "No Sooner do we Secure Our iPhones Than the Home Invasion Begins"  The Mac Observer 2:20 PM
  • "How to get the perfect iPhone home screen: Try this app arrangement theory" AppAdvice 12:58 PM
  • "Why Apple Is The Only Company Able to Successfully Deliver New Product Categories" Three Guys And A Podcast 12:49 PM
  • "Apple should look into Adaptive Video Acceleration for the Apple TV (and an iTV)" Apple Daily Report 12:07 PM
  • "Revised music royalty rules could hurt Apple's Beats Music, iTunes Radio" AppleInsider 11:20 AM
  • "Still Don't Believe Android Is For The Poor? This Chart Proves It" Business Insider 11:17 AM
  • "Why Apple's Weather App for iOS Sucks" Kirkville 8:47 AM
  • "Crystal Baller: iPad Air gets anti-reflection coating and iPhone 6 rumors galore" Cult of Mac 8:19 AM
  • "TMZ Thinks This Is the iPhone 6, Bless Its Heart" Gizmodo 9:36 AM
  • "iPhone 6 anticipation so high even tabloids want to 'leak' it" iMore 9:35 AM
  • "TMZ runs 'exclusive photos' of iPhone 6 clone thinking it's the real thing" BGR 8:15 AM
  • "Friday Poll: Which iPhone 6 rumor do you most want to be true?" CNET 7:35 AM
  • "Samsung And Microsoft Mock Apple" Mac 360 7:24 AM
  • "How Chromebooks Top PCs And Macs" Mac 360 7:24 AM
Non-Apple
  • "In 2025, our lovers will be robots: A new Pew Report examines the world in the near future. It'll be one in which robots aren't confined to machine-like tasks." CNET 9:12 PM
  • "Amazon, Its Friends and Critics" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5:25 PM
  • "Google Now just got much better thanks to a killer Google app you've never heard of" BGR 11:20 AM
Humor/Cartoons
  • "Some fun with iOS keyboard shortcuts" TUAW 11:18 AM
  • "Drone-vertising will have a spin-off." The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 7:25 AM
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "Hanx Writer: Updated -Minor fixes" eXtensions 9:18 PM
  • "Pokemon is coming to the iPad, just not in the way you were probably hoping" 9to5Mac 9:15 PM
  • "Kickstarter of The Week: SETA Tablet Stand for iPad" MacTrast 3:58 PM
  • "Beats Music app added to 'Made by Apple' list in iOS App Store" AppleInsider 3:47 PM
  • "Apple adds Beats Music to 'Apps Made by Apple' list following addition to App Store prompt" 9to5Mac 3:47 PM
  • "Best wedding planning apps for iPhone: Organize your big day from start to finish!" iMore 1:04 PM
  • "Final Cut Pro X Virtual User Group -August Meeting" Alex4D 12:02 PM
  • "Worldwide Personal & Entry Level Storage Market Sees Moderate Shipment Growth in the Second Quarter of 2014, According to IDC" IDC 11:25 AM
  • "TunesGo Breaks the Barrier Between iTunes and Android: Apple doesn't allow iTunes to work with Androids - TunesGo breaks down the wall between iTunes and Android allowing them to work together, just like iTunes and an iOS device." PRNewswire 11:24 AM
  • "Yahoo Fantasy Sports gains news stream on iPad and other enhancements" iDownload Blog 11:19 AM
  • "Give Your Phone Super Powers — It's Easy!" Mashable 11:18 AM
  • "PadGadget's Flashback Friday: Mega Man X" PadGadget 10:28 AM
  • "Weather Mate | Live Current Conditions, Hyperlocal Forecast, Radar Maps, Severe Weather Alerts, Weather History, and Travel Planner" DynamoLogic Solutions 10:09 AM
  • "SwipeExpander Assigns A Shortcut To Each Key On The Keyboard [Jailbreak] AddictiveTips 10:01 AM
  • "Vimeo app updated with new uploading, private sharing options" iDownload Blog 7:48 AM
  • "Units Convert goes 3.0 with universal support, iCloud integration and new name" AppAdvice 7:40 AM
  • "Day Zero 2.0 - Countdown to events" prMac 11:33 AM
  • "MoviePro 3.0 becomes super powerful video recording app for iOS" prMac 10:01 AM
  • "Visual to-do App Orderly undergoes major update" prMac 7:36 AM
  • "Keep the Ball in the Air with Virtual Tennis - Hit the Ball! 1.0 for iOS" prMac 7:36 AM
  • "Five Colors pickup and play iOS" prMac 7:36 AM
  • "Sweetest Sin Asks the Eternal Question What Happens When You Find Love?" prMac 7:36 AM
Computer Industry
  • "Big Fixes Are Coming To Windows As Soon As Next Month" Business Insider 12:19 PM
  • "Microsoft and Sony's Twitch Accounts Were Hacked And Vandalized" Forbes 12:17 PM
  • "Will 'the new TechEd' be called Microsoft GO or Microsoft Tomorrow?" Neowin 12:21 PM
  • "Microsoft weighs new names for its TechEd conference successor" ZDNet 9:52 AM
  • "Alienware's First Steam Machine Now Ships With Windows 8" TheSixthAxis 12:20 PM
  • "Microsoft to deliver Windows 'Threshold' tech preview around late September" ZDNet 9:52 AM
  • "Microsoft mulled Internet Explorer rebrand to combat 'negative perceptions'" Marketing Magazine 12:21 PM
  • "IE on Android or iOS? Not in Microsoft's current vision" CNET 12:18 PM
  • "Microsoft considering rebranding Internet Explorer" BetaNews 7:46 AM
  • "IBM's Korean office shakes up workforce in difficult times/Summary: IBM's Korean office is realigning its business to stay relevant in the country amid mounting difficulties, reports ZDNet Korea's Jaehwan Cho." ZDNet 7:41 AM
  • "IBM Says Sale of Low-End Server Business Gets Regulator Approval" Re/code 6:22 PM
  • "Intel's Acquisition Of LSI's Networking Business To Boost Its Presence In IoT" Seeking Alpha 4:36 PM
  • "Avago to Divest LSI's Axxia Networking Business to Intel" Zacks 9:05 AM
  • "Branded headphone maker SMS Audio plugs Intel optical sensor tech into a pair of earbuds" Gigaom 9:03 AM
  • "Rimini Street did steal Oracle's intellectual property, judge says" InfoWorld 7:53 AM
  • "Oracle bests Rimini Street in latest lawsuit ruling" ZDNet 7:38 AM
  • "Cisco's Cuts Aren't the Deepest" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 6:45 AM
  • "The internet is so big that it's breaking routers" The Verge 1:07 PM
  • "Nvidia refreshes Quadro workstation GPU lineup" ZDNet 9:53 AM
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "Apple's stock price signals 'a big move is coming'"  Yahoo Finance 10:27 AM
  • "Tudor Investment Took Stake in Apple" Bloomberg TV 10:01 AM
Industry News
  • "Market Snapshot: Stocks Trim Ukraine-inspired Fall, Post Weekly Gain" MarketWatch 4:01 PM
  • "Stock Market Today: Correction? What Correction? Stocks Post Weekly Gain" TheStreet 4:01 PM
  • "Reports of renewed conflict in Ukraine wipe out US stock market gain" Associated Press 11:45 AM
  • "U.S. Stocks Finish Rocky Session Mixed: Fresh Tensions in Ukraine Jolt Global Markets" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:43 PM
  • "Asia Markets: China Mobile leads Hong Kong to highest close in years/Hong Kong stocks rose Friday, leaving the Hang Seng Index at its highest level in more than three years, with China Mobile leading the way on strong subscriber growth and 4G expansion plan." MarketWatch 6:31 AM
  • "Europe Markets: Europe stocks swept lower as Ukraine tensions heat up/European stocks dropped Friday, with German equities turning sharply lower, following reports of a flare-up in tensions between Ukraine and Russia." MarketWatch 11:44 AM
  • "Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks: Nasdaq's 10 most active stocks at 1 p.m." Associated Press 12:35 PM
  • "Midday Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares down at 1 p.m" Associated Press 12:35 PM
  • "Final Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at the close of trading" Associated Press 6:23 PM

 
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