Daily Archives: April 9, 2012

Remains of the Day: Mongering rumors

It’s time once again to return to the wonderful world of iPhone rumors. Will it have a faster processor? Will it come out in October? Will it come in mauve? Meanwhile, Universal makes its movies more…well, universal. Continue reading

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AT&T to spend $150M on Lumia launch, more than it did with iPhone

In order to help bolster launch sales for Nokia’s new Lumia 900 handset, exclusive U.S. carrier AT&T is willing to spend up to $150 million in ad money, more than it spent on Apple’s iPhone. Continue reading

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Free Flashback Checker finds out if your Mac is infected

Still not sure whether your Mac got infected by the Flashback Trojan horse? A new free app can tell you definitively whether you’re a victim of the malware or not. Continue reading

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Consumer group: E-book price fixing costs big bucks

Contending that e-book price fixing will cost consumers more than $200 million this year, the Consumer Federation of America called on U.S. antitrust authorities to take action against Apple and a group of publishers. The U.S. Department of Justice is in the midst of a probe of potential e-book price fixing. Continue reading

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OpenStreetMap posing surprise threat to Google Maps

The announcement last week that the Wikimedia Foundation will switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap for its cartographic needs marks the latest in an an increasingly long line of high-profile defections. Continue reading

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As ‘iPad’ becomes synonymous with ‘tablet,’ Apple must protect brand

The success of the iPad has made it the go-to tablet for consumers, leaving Apple in a position to defend its brand and ensure it doesn’t become generic. Continue reading

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Updated Marked improves document previewing

Marked is a great tool for previewing your web writing, whether in Markdown or HTML format. A big update adds new preview styles, change markers, syntax highlighting, Scrivener and Leanpub project support, and more. Continue reading

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Panasonic preps USB battery pack for phones and tablets

Panasonic took an unusual step into mobile accessories Monday through the unveiling of a new external battery pack. The flagship QE-QL301 can share its maximum 10,260mAh of power between two USB devices at once. At four times the power of even a well-equipped smartphone, it has both the power to give meaningful extra battery life to two devices, including to tablets like the iPad…. Continue reading

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Quickly print files from within the Finder

If you find trips to the Print dialog box tedious, you can skirt that dialog box by printing from within the Finder. Chris Breen explains how. Continue reading

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Search for messages by domain in Lion

In earlier versions of Mail, you could easily search for all messages from a given domain (macworld.com, for example). In Lion, such searches became a lot harder. Here’s how one Hints reader does it. Continue reading

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