http://www.cultofmac.com Apple News, Reviews and How Tos Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:42:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/zoomit-allows-you-to-read-sd-cards-on-your-iphone/29526 http://www.cultofmac.com/zoomit-allows-you-to-read-sd-cards-on-your-iphone/29526#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:42:01 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29526 Apple’s refusal to spec their devices with memory card readers continues to irritate. My assumption has always been that the lack of an SD card reader on the iPhone has to do with two things: discouraging customers from buying the lowest priced iPhones and cheaply supplementing the storage with an SD card instead of shelling [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/zoomit-allows-you-to-read-sd-cards-on-your-iphone/29526/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-releases-aperture-3-with-200-new-features/29513 http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-releases-aperture-3-with-200-new-features/29513#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:24:02 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29513 The Apple Store went down for a little bit today, and while we all got hopeful for a Core iX MacBook update, most of what Apple ended up delivering was the usual assortment of Valentine’s Day deals (and why not? An iPod gifted to a loved one usually lets you steal a base). But [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-releases-aperture-3-with-200-new-features/29513/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/are-new-macbook-pros-imminent/29494 http://www.cultofmac.com/are-new-macbook-pros-imminent/29494#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:14:39 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29494 Will Apple unveil a new line of MacBook Pros today? Some signs point to the possibility the Cupertino, Calif. may announce new laptops with faster chips to coincide with this week’s Macworld Expo 2010. The first tea leaf isa French gadget blog which quotes an anonymous source. The source “who works for Apple just tell me [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/are-new-macbook-pros-imminent/29494/feed 3 http://www.cultofmac.com/university-plans-ipad-student-paper/29500 http://www.cultofmac.com/university-plans-ipad-student-paper/29500#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:05:15 +0000 Nicole Martinelli http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29500 Perhaps in a bid to become the world’s leading iCollege, Abilene Christian University will publish an edition of the school paper designed for iPad. The Texas institution — where the IT studies department was rechristened iSchool — started equipping freshmen with iPhones and iPod Touches back in 2008. The iSchool also started prepping iPhone devs of [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/university-plans-ipad-student-paper/29500/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/report-apple-flexible-on-ipad-pricing/29488 http://www.cultofmac.com/report-apple-flexible-on-ipad-pricing/29488#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:52:55 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29488 Apple says it will stay “nimble” on pricing for its newly-released iPad, dropping the price to attract more customers. This comes as a new survey indicates a doubling of consumers not interested in buying the device once the tablet shifted from rumor to reality. “Apple seemed to indicate it would respond with price cuts if demand [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/report-apple-flexible-on-ipad-pricing/29488/feed 2 http://www.cultofmac.com/macworld-2010-parties-are-way-down/29454 http://www.cultofmac.com/macworld-2010-parties-are-way-down/29454#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Leander Kahney http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29454 The best thing about Macworld was always the parties. MacWeek’s annual Mac The Knife Party was a drunken bacchanal for the ages; Peachpit and O’Reily put on nice literary soirees with cash bars; and Microsoft’s events always had fancy hors d’oeuvres. Even Apple, a stranger to shows of public hospitality, once threw parties with generous helpings [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/macworld-2010-parties-are-way-down/29454/feed 5 http://www.cultofmac.com/developer-mobile-safari-is-todays-ie6/29481 http://www.cultofmac.com/developer-mobile-safari-is-todays-ie6/29481#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:45:09 +0000 Giles Turnbull http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29481 Peter-Paul Koch is a man with opinions about the mobile web. And his latest opinion is a trifle controversial: Mobile Safari, he says, is this generation’s Internet Explorer 6. All the rage now, but destined to be hated by webdevs of the future. Why so? Because, says Peter-Paul: “The iPhone has become an obsession. If we don’t pay [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/developer-mobile-safari-is-todays-ie6/29481/feed 8 http://www.cultofmac.com/top-5-things-to-check-out-at-macworld-2010/28979 http://www.cultofmac.com/top-5-things-to-check-out-at-macworld-2010/28979#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:18 +0000 Leander Kahney http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=28979 Macworld 2010 opens today. It is the 25th annual gathering of Mac users. That’s right, 25 years! But thanks to the absence of Apple this year, this “Mecca for Mac Heads” may be the last. So check it out while you can. The show runs for 5 days. The Expo showfloor opens on Thursday at noon. For the [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/top-5-things-to-check-out-at-macworld-2010/28979/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/review-lynxlet-is-an-easy-internet-nostalgiafest/29479 http://www.cultofmac.com/review-lynxlet-is-an-easy-internet-nostalgiafest/29479#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:18:42 +0000 Giles Turnbull http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29479 So this is the web that you don’t see; the web in text-only form. Ugly, isn’t it? Yeah, ugly. But fast. By disregarding everything that isn’t text, browsers like Lynx display web pages at lightning speed. If all you want to do is read stuff, Lynx is useful to have around. And if you don’t want [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/review-lynxlet-is-an-easy-internet-nostalgiafest/29479/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/craigslist-ad-wanted-steve-jobs-look-alike/29466 http://www.cultofmac.com/craigslist-ad-wanted-steve-jobs-look-alike/29466#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:00:39 +0000 Leander Kahney http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29466 Someone is looking for a Steve Jobs look-alike for an “impersonator event” on Friday and Saturday in San Francisco’s SOMA — the area around Macworld. The actual job isn’t specified, but looking like Steve is important, of course, but so is “punctuality.” “If necessary, we can provide a black turtleneck and glasses,” the Craigslist ad says. Pay is [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/craigslist-ad-wanted-steve-jobs-look-alike/29466/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/anti-drm-protest-against-the-ipad-grows/29423 http://www.cultofmac.com/anti-drm-protest-against-the-ipad-grows/29423#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:09:44 +0000 Eli Milchman http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29423 Last month, we wondered how many people would care about the iPad’s restrictive DRM shackles, which makes Apple the only available supplier of software for the iPad through the fact that users can only download software onto the gadget from Apple’s App Store (unless someone figures out a way to jailbreak it — which’ll probably [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/anti-drm-protest-against-the-ipad-grows/29423/feed 53 http://www.cultofmac.com/amazon-to-hike-ebook-pricing-as-ipad-ships/29328 http://www.cultofmac.com/amazon-to-hike-ebook-pricing-as-ipad-ships/29328#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:16:47 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29328 At the time, Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ remark about ebook pricing being the same whether sold by Cupertino or Amazon seemed rather optimistic. At the time, Amazon controlled ebook pricing and the ebook market, while Apple had just released the iPad. However, just weeks after the tablet was unveiled, Amazon will now adopt Apple’s price [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/amazon-to-hike-ebook-pricing-as-ipad-ships/29328/feed 9 http://www.cultofmac.com/daily-deals-iphone-acces-bundle-external-superdrive-app-store-freebies/29376 http://www.cultofmac.com/daily-deals-iphone-acces-bundle-external-superdrive-app-store-freebies/29376#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:16:25 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29376 We start off the week with a number of Apple-related deals. First up is an iPhone accessory bundle that could serve as an emergency kit for those road trips. The $10 kit includes windshield mount, wired headset, travel and car chargers and USB sync cable. Has your internal Superdrive died or you need an extra [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/daily-deals-iphone-acces-bundle-external-superdrive-app-store-freebies/29376/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/mock-up-your-ipad-ideas-with-ias-omnigraffle-template/29386 http://www.cultofmac.com/mock-up-your-ipad-ideas-with-ias-omnigraffle-template/29386#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:06:37 +0000 Giles Turnbull http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29386 The clever people at Information Architects have released a free Omnigraffle template for iPad app design. For those of you who’ve never used it, Omnigraffle is a wonderful visual design tool that can be turned to all sorts of tasks. It can create any manner of diagram, but works even better when enhanced with template themes [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/mock-up-your-ipad-ideas-with-ias-omnigraffle-template/29386/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/the-inevitable-diy-ipad-papercraft-mockup/29361 http://www.cultofmac.com/the-inevitable-diy-ipad-papercraft-mockup/29361#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:10:40 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29361 The Internet can always be counted on to promptly deliver simulacrums of the latest announced Apple product created in two distinct geek mediums: LEGO and papercraft. Last week, we had the inevitable LEGO iPad, so it was only a matter of time we got the origami version. Here it is, courtesy of Obamapacman: a DIY [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/the-inevitable-diy-ipad-papercraft-mockup/29361/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-to-app-devs-dont-use-core-location-primarily-for-advertising/29334 http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-to-app-devs-dont-use-core-location-primarily-for-advertising/29334#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:50:28 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29334 Late last week, a word of warning to iPhone and iPod Touch app developers was posted on Apple’s official developer site: “If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user’s location, your app will be returned to you by the App Store Review Team for [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/apple-to-app-devs-dont-use-core-location-primarily-for-advertising/29334/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/report-carriers-to-subsidized-ipads-for-2-year-3g-contracts/29324 http://www.cultofmac.com/report-carriers-to-subsidized-ipads-for-2-year-3g-contracts/29324#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:37:16 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29324 The first signs of how the iPad will be handled internationally are appearing, including talk of carrier subsidies. Months before Apple said it will announce international deals for the tablet, one carrier is already planning to sell subsidized iPads requiring two-year 3G contracts. Hutchison Australia reportedly will begin offering the iPad with a $455 (333 Euro) [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/report-carriers-to-subsidized-ipads-for-2-year-3g-contracts/29324/feed 5 http://www.cultofmac.com/ibook-g4-clock-with-pendulous-apple-mouse/29346 http://www.cultofmac.com/ibook-g4-clock-with-pendulous-apple-mouse/29346#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:30:42 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29346 After Super Bowl Sunday… Monday morning. A single artery slightly to the left of my pineal gland pumps gin-infused headache into my frontal lobe in simultaneity with the overhead clock’s incessant tick. How to write about Apple products when the aftermath of last night’s alcohol-soaked football madness makes me incapable of doing anything but watch [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/ibook-g4-clock-with-pendulous-apple-mouse/29346/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/geekbench-spots-core-i7-macbook-pro-in-the-wild/29333 http://www.cultofmac.com/geekbench-spots-core-i7-macbook-pro-in-the-wild/29333#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:05:50 +0000 John Brownlee http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29333 Primate Labs’ Geekbench is a tiny little benchmarking application with one really neat funcitonality: run it on your system and it’ll upload the results to their servers, allowing users to easily compare benchmark scores across computers to inform their next purchasing decision. That’s swell, but hardly news in and of itself… except that over the weekend, [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/geekbench-spots-core-i7-macbook-pro-in-the-wild/29333/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/was-the-ipad-supposed-to-be-a-tv/29322 http://www.cultofmac.com/was-the-ipad-supposed-to-be-a-tv/29322#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:57 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29322 Was the iPad originally meant to be a killer TV platform? An analyst speculates the iPad would be the perfect platform for Apple to launch its vision for anywhere television, tying Apple TV, iTunes and network programming into one sleek and stylish portable DVR. “Imagine a portable set top box, but with its own killer screen,” [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/was-the-ipad-supposed-to-be-a-tv/29322/feed 4 http://www.cultofmac.com/macworld-2010-sans-apple-what-can-you-expect/29320 http://www.cultofmac.com/macworld-2010-sans-apple-what-can-you-expect/29320#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:20:59 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29320 What will Macworld 2010 look like without Steve Jobs? For starters, the annual gathering of Mac fans will see less than half as many exhibitors Feb. 9-13: 220 this year versus 500 in 2009, the last year Apple said it would officially support the San Francisco event. Without as many exhibitors (particularly Apple) what will Macworld [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/macworld-2010-sans-apple-what-can-you-expect/29320/feed 4 http://www.cultofmac.com/monday-twitter-giveaway-syncmate/29312 http://www.cultofmac.com/monday-twitter-giveaway-syncmate/29312#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:00:17 +0000 Tim Cox http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29312 Eltima Software has graciously given Cult of Mac 10 SyncMate licenses to give away. We’ll post an official contest tweet on @cultofmac at 11am PST (2pm EST, 7pm GMT). The first 10 non-bot retweets of the official contest tweet will get their very own SyncMate license. Of course, if you don’t win, you can pick up a [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/monday-twitter-giveaway-syncmate/29312/feed 3 http://www.cultofmac.com/opinion-macbook-or-imac-ipad/29316 http://www.cultofmac.com/opinion-macbook-or-imac-ipad/29316#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:10:15 +0000 Giles Turnbull http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29316 The announcement of the iPad has done a lot of things: it’s stoked up excitement in the Mac using community, it’s got a bunch of developers feverishly coding exciting new stuff, and it’s got retailers and cell phone companies the world over drooling over the money they can make from it. And it’s also somewhat upset [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/opinion-macbook-or-imac-ipad/29316/feed 53 http://www.cultofmac.com/review-eas-madden-nfl-10-on-sale-for-the-superbowl/29287 http://www.cultofmac.com/review-eas-madden-nfl-10-on-sale-for-the-superbowl/29287#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:29:21 +0000 Eli Milchman http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29287 There aren’t many games on the iPhone platform that can match games on the big 64-bit boxes for production value — but Electronic Arts Mobile’s Madden NFL 10 can, and does, fantastically. Unfortunately, it also has one gaping hole. All the gorgeous bells and whistles from EA’s Playstation or Xbox version are there (even if the eye-candy [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/review-eas-madden-nfl-10-on-sale-for-the-superbowl/29287/feed 1 http://www.cultofmac.com/in-depth-30-days-with-the-nexus-one/29277 http://www.cultofmac.com/in-depth-30-days-with-the-nexus-one/29277#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:30:20 +0000 Leigh McMullen http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29277 It’s been a month since my review of Google’s “SuperPhone”, the Nexus One. Since that time, we’ve surfed, updated facebook, navigated, called, played endless hands of cribbage and even tried to freeze it to death on a trip to Dayton Ohio. Follow me after the jump to find out does the “SuperPhone” stand the [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/in-depth-30-days-with-the-nexus-one/29277/feed 21 http://www.cultofmac.com/five-fun-games-a-sim-that-will-get-you-rich-a-twist-on-gem-games-close-shaves-and-more/29271 http://www.cultofmac.com/five-fun-games-a-sim-that-will-get-you-rich-a-twist-on-gem-games-close-shaves-and-more/29271#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:16:47 +0000 Cate Defrise http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29271 Is it Friday already? Well, Happy Friday! Mac Games and More has picked out a collection of fun casual games you might not have heard of, to play into the weekend. The games include a powerful twist on jewel games,  two of the world’s most popular card games, getting rich and more. 4 Elements – A [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/five-fun-games-a-sim-that-will-get-you-rich-a-twist-on-gem-games-close-shaves-and-more/29271/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/iphone-weekly-digest-clipboard-management-retro-drumming-and-galcon-in-tanks/29264 http://www.cultofmac.com/iphone-weekly-digest-clipboard-management-retro-drumming-and-galcon-in-tanks/29264#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:16:46 +0000 Craig Grannell http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29264 It’s time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac. This time, we review Pastebot, 007: Top Agent, Jackson Pollock, Rhythm Racer, Judgement Day War, and TweakyBeat. APP OF THE WEEK Pastebot: First-rate clipboard manager w/ built-in image filters & text editing + free sync app [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/iphone-weekly-digest-clipboard-management-retro-drumming-and-galcon-in-tanks/29264/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/daily-deals-749-macbook-985-2-53ghz-mac-mini-app-store-freebies/29252 http://www.cultofmac.com/daily-deals-749-macbook-985-2-53ghz-mac-mini-app-store-freebies/29252#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:28:06 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29252 We close the week featuring two hardware and one software deal. Several MacBooks are being offered, starting at $749 for a 2.13GHz white model. Also, a Mac mini (2.53GHz Core 2) with 4GB of RAM and two 500GB drives for $985. The App Store has a new batch of freebies, including “Paradise Monkeys,” a version [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/daily-deals-749-macbook-985-2-53ghz-mac-mini-app-store-freebies/29252/feed 0 http://www.cultofmac.com/video-of-the-day-woz-on-how-macs-got-color/29253 http://www.cultofmac.com/video-of-the-day-woz-on-how-macs-got-color/29253#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:10:17 +0000 Nicole Martinelli http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29253 Steve Wozniak recounts a nice bit of Silicon Valley folk lore in this excerpt from the Discovery Forum interview where he talks about how he got the idea of bringing color to the Mac after staying up four nights in a row to meet a deadline for Atari. Wish sleepless nights brought me that kind of [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/video-of-the-day-woz-on-how-macs-got-color/29253/feed 8 http://www.cultofmac.com/idc-iphone-no-3-smartphone-with-14-4-percent-of-market/29173 http://www.cultofmac.com/idc-iphone-no-3-smartphone-with-14-4-percent-of-market/29173#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:58:22 +0000 Ed Sutherland http://www.cultofmac.com/?p=29173 Apple’s iPhone nearly doubled its shipments in the fourth quarter, earning it 3rd place among smartphone makers. The handset had 14.4 percent of the market, making further inroads on No. 2 Research in Motion, according to researchers at IDC. The new data show Apple had a nearly 82 percent year-over-year growth rate, jumping to 14.4 percent [...]]]> http://www.cultofmac.com/idc-iphone-no-3-smartphone-with-14-4-percent-of-market/29173/feed 4