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I’ve been using this app ever since it was released, and I love it. Not only is it well conceived and beautifully laid out, but it also displays, at least in the weather section, both English and metric values. The first thing of interest is the easiest to find, snow totals for the last 24,…

Macworld Expo runs from February 9 through February 13, 2009, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. For additional information about the Expo and events, visit the Macworld Expo Web site. iMacworld 2.0 is free and available for download at Apple’s App Store.

Doing its part to add to the iPad camera rumors, Mission:Repair, a company that specializes in repairing Apple products, claims it has iPad frames in stock, and they include a place for the same iSight camera used in Apple’s laptop computers.”Upon opening them up and getting our hands on some of these rare items, we…

When asked about Google’s Nexus One smartphone, Mr. Jobs replied “We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”He added that Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto is “a load of crap,” according to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber.Google’s…

On Thursday, Microsoft turned in results that were better than expected for the December quarter, with revenue of US$19.02 billion, a 14% increase over the year-ago quarter. Net income was $6.66 billion – seriously – which was up 60% year-over-year. The company attributed the growth to a successful Windows 7 launch – the operating system…

Note that the difference between the retail price and the cost, divided by the retail price is the Gross Margin. For example, for the base iPad model, ($509 – $290.50)/$509 is 42.9 percent. Here is the Broadpoint AmTech BOM, published January 28th. iPad BOM – Published with permissionNote that Apple charges an extra $100 over…

Mr. Watson sees Apple’s reliance on Objective C instead of Microsoft’s .NET platform as a drawback for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch because he thinks it limits the applications developers can create and shuts them out of coding for some devices.”It is a humorous world in how Microsoft is much more open than Apple,”…

Mr. Marshall was one of those who actually got to handle an iPad after the introduction, and that experience can go a long way towards building insight and wisdom about the product. In sense, once you’ve handled the iPad, you’ve been “Ived.” As in Jonathan. Scott Forstall also explained the experience in the video Mr.…

Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank said the device could create a “fourth leg” in Apple’s product lines, and Charlie Wolf of Needham & Co. said the device should be a success out of the gate. Despite these endorsements, however, shares in Apple fell Thursday to close at US$199.29, a loss of $8.594 (-4.13%), on heavy…

So what were those pictures of, anyway? We think we have an answer. Or, more accurately, TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid does. Check out the video below.Apple’s mystery glass: In-store displaysNice to know the glass was of something being used, even if it wasn’t the iPad. That’s, OK, though, because we know you had as much fun…

The book and the movie are very different, but the basic premise is the same: after some devastating apocalypse pockets of people try to rebuild. In what’s left of the midwestern United States an army led by a mad copy machine salesman turn general harasses the populace. A drifter, cold, hungry, and desperate stumbles on…

PRS for Music managing director Broadcast, Online & Recorded Media, Andrew Shaw commented, “In our view the deal demonstrates that PRS for Music provides a compelling pan-European offering and leads the market in enabling digital music growth, whilst delivering vital royalties to our members.”The deal apparently also creates a licensing framework for performance rights from…

“Given the change in accounting, the key questionis how conservative this guidance is given the difficulty of using historical outperformance to judge future potential performance,” Mr. Um said.Apple previously used subscription accounting to report iPhone and Apple TV sales, which spread the per-unit revenue out over 24 months to account for major software upgrades. The…

The installer will update the USB version of the keyboard to 0.69 and the Bluetooth version to 321. You can check to see if your Apple Aluminum Keyboard already has the new firmware installed by doing this: Make sure your keyboard is connected to your Mac. Choose Apple menu > About this Mac Click More…

Apple COO Tim Cook replied “AT&T is a great partner.”He added ” I think it is important to remember they had more mobile broadband usage than any other carrier in the world. And in the vast majority of locations we think that iPhone customers are having a great experience from the research that we have…

Apple announced Monday revenues of more than $15 billion for the December quarter, the company’s first fiscal quarter of 2010. while traditionally the biggest quarter of the year (as illustrated in the graph below), Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted in a statement that, “If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now…

How can you not love an iPhone app that costs less than $2 but can save you a lot more than that every time you use it? That app is called RedLaser and it uses your iPhone camera to scan barcodes and get you prices for the item from Google Product Search and TheFind.  Here’s…

I should start by stating that my home and office setup is not entirely common. My office is a completely separate building, with separate power and cable (TV/Internet) feeds from the pole on the street. Between the house and office the previous owner then buried two Category 5e (Ethernet) and two coaxial (cable TV) cables.…

Award winners will receive notification during the expo, and will also be highlighted in our Editors Choice Awards round up. Our 2009 Award winners included products from Cultured Code, FileMaker, SmileOnMyMac, Google, Roxio, Softpress, The Omni Group, HP, and Ambrosia Software.”I am so pleased with how well our TMO 2009 Editors Choice awards were received…

This scenario is not the stuff of SciFi or a drug induced daydream, it’s a real possibility. In fact we are so close to that possibility that spitting in the right wind could bring this dream to fruition, or not. The technology that can bring that scene to life is called femtocell, technology that’s been…

TMO: Mr. Swasey, Nick Wingfield of the Wall Street Journal and Daniel Sorid writing for Wired painted a rather austere picture of the resources and competitive posture of Netflix. What are your thoughts? SS: Well, the Wall Street Journal article was posted about 7 months ago. Up until then, and since that time, we’ve been…

Wintek has been claiming that the strike didn’t impact production despite reports that some machinery was damaged during the multi-day incident.Some reports claimed workers were striking because they had been told promised bonuses had been cancelled, but others said factory workers were reacting to a government investigation that found no wrong doing on the part…

But Apple didn’t ask for my input, which is frankly something else to annoy me. Seriously, folks, there are so many other things that Apple has gotten right that it (usually) more than makes up for the gaffes and missteps. In my never-humble opinion, of course. For instance, Apple more or less saved the established…

The Kindle developer program will include the Kindle Development Kit, or KDK, developer support, sample code, documentation, and a software-based Kindle simulator for Mac, windows and Linux. Amazon will support free, one-time purchase and monthly subscription options for active content.Until now, the Kindle was off limits to developers, but that could be changing thanks to…