Stefan Magdalinski is well-known in British geek circles, having made a name for himself building websites like They Work For You, Up My Street and moo.com before moving to South Africa to work for mobile business directory Mocality.
Stef wanted to surprise his wife, who loves chocolate and Apple in almost equal measure. So he made the best possible gift: a chocolate-coated iPad.
Apple your idea about iPad file syncing using the manual file-sharing capabilities of iTunes is disappointing. Especially in my case — I sync my media content with my iMac, which by the way isn’t very easy to carry around, and I cannot sync that same content on my Macbook Pro. If I try to sync using iTunes on another computer my syncing options are to Cancel, Transfer Purchases, or Erase and Sync. None of these options are useful, but if I click Cancel eventually I can manually access the files shared on my iPad even on my Macbook Pro.
It isn’t clear why Apple didn’t add a simple thing like automatic file syncing, but that doesn’t matter now after I discovered Ecamm Network’s new Mac application, PadSync, which adds automatic syncing capabilities to the file sharing feature of the iPad.
We close out the week with three hardware choices for our top deals. First up is anothe MacBook Pro from ExperCom. This time it is a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo with 17-inch screen for $2,147. There is also a deal on a number of Macs, including an iBook G3 running at 500MHz for $189.99. Finally, we have a deal on a 2GB iPod shuffle for $35.
Along the way, we’ll check out several cases and skins for iPads, as well as the latest batch of App Store freebies. And, if you are into this year’s World Cup, there is a deal on a FIFA World Cup 2010 app for the iPhone or iPod touch.
As always, details on these and many other items are available at CoM’s “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.
U.S. federal investigators are now looking into the breach of 114,000 e-mail addresses of iPad owners using AT&T’s website. The FBI said Thursday it was aware of a breach in AT&T’s online security and has begun an investigation.
Wednesday, carrier AT&T acknowledged the email addresses of iPad owners were compromised after a security group announced they had discovered a flaw in AT&T security allowing email identities to be gathered.
People are making a big deal about this report from Chinese news site ON.CC, in which they assert that the financial impact of Foxconn’s recent pay raises (a direct response to the dozen-odd suicides of workers this year) will cause the Taiwan-based contract manufacture to shutter its mainland China factories and lay-off up to 800,000 Chinese workers.
Uh, guys. Maybe we’re wrong, but didn’t we already talk about this? The ON.CC piece seems to be clearly referring to the recent shareholder meeting in which Foxconn announced plans to open a new automated facility in either Taiwan or Vietnam, and to offload some of the immediate work from its Chinese facilities to Vietnam as a counter-measure against the very worker stress that is prompting the Foxconn suicide problem.
Foxconn was explicit at that meeting that this was just workload lightening to give their Chinese workers a room to breathe. They’re not shuttering Shenzhen! They’re not laying off anyone… at least, in the immediate future. It’s just a badly translated Google page with a factually incorrect interpretation of what was discussed at the meeting. Or am I missing something here?
We start off the day with another deal on MacBook Pros. ExperCom is offering a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo with 17-inch screen for $2,147. Next is a number of iPods, including a 4GB iPod nano for $69.99. Our last top deal is the latest batch of freebies from the iPad App Store, including “Air Guitar HD,” which simulates an actual instrument.
Along the way, we check out some new case for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3 and iPhone 3GS. Also up is the latest App Store price reductions for iPhone and iPod touch users. As always, details on these and many more items are available on CoM’s “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.
A few days after Tweetie for Mac was named a winner in Ars Technica’s design awards for best Mac OS X software, Tweetie and Twitter for iPhone developer Loren Brichter has said that an iPad version is in the works… and he soon plans to get back into the update cycle for Tweetie for Mac as well.
With Motorola behind one of the main challengers to the iPhone (at least, the current ones, anyway — the emerging iPhone 4, for now, seems fairly peerless), one doesn’t get much chance to observe the iPhone and the Motorola M in close proximity outside, perhaps, some smartphone cage match, or on the bedside table of two star-crossed lovers.
Are you looking for a new laptop; maybe a Mac mini or a leather jacket for your iPad? You’ve come to the right place, because those are our top picks of the day. First up is another round of MacBook Pro offers, this time starting at $1,099 for a 2.4GHz 13-inch model. There is also a deal on Mac minis, starting at $679 for a 2.53GHz version of the desktop computer. Finally, get a leather book jacket for your iPad. This cover-all also converts to a stand – all for less than $20.
Details on these and many other items can be found at CoM’s “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.
Apple has set up the most astounding wall we’ve ever seen. It is filled with 30 24-inch Apple Cinema displays that are synchronized and powered by 30 Apple Mac Pro workstations is a Matrix movie like waterfall that displays the top 50,000 apps in the iTunes App Store.
