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      view feed content Quick Tip of the Week: Special Characters (Apple Official hot news)   4 h, 35 min and 41 secs ago
Trademark and copyright symbols, registration marks, arrows, currency, braille patterns, math symbols, and many more — they’re special characters you can add to documents in virtually any Mac application. Find out how you can access them — even mark frequently used characters as favorites — by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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      view feed content Mac OS X Pro Tip: All about Audio Chats (Apple Official hot news)   4 d and 22 h ago
Sure, you can text someone with iChat. But did you know that iChat also lets you conduct audio chats — with up to nine buddies at the same time. You can use the built-in microphone on your Mac or connect an external mic. It’s a great way to get a far-flung family together for the holiday. And it’s really easy. Find out how by reading our latest Creative Pro tip.

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      view feed content Celebrating Science on iTunes U (Apple Official hot news)   5 d and 3 h ago
As you’ll discover by watching “In the Blink of an Eye,” there are many things occurring in the natural world every day that take place too quickly for us to see. What takes place in a third of a second that you’re missing? Watch “In the Blink of an Eye” and the other Science Festival videos brought to us by the University of Cambridge on iTunes U.

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      view feed content Coming Attractions: Cadillac Records (Apple Official hot news)   5 d and 4 h ago
Written and directed by Darnell Martin, Cadillac Records tells the story of Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) who founded Chess Records. The Chicago-based label represented such blues and R&B legends as Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles), Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), and Chuck Berry (Mos Def). It opens in theaters December 5.

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      view feed content App Store Pick of the Week: BigOven (Apple Official hot news)   5 d and 5 h ago
Looking for a great Apple Pie recipe for Thanksgiving dessert? You’ll find one on your iPhone. In fact, thanks to BigOven, you can find more than 160,000 recipes on iPhone (including more than 200 recipes for Apple Pie). The free application lets you search the massive online recipe database, browse its food glossary, and mark recipes as favorites. Enjoy.

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      view feed content New MacBook Air bound for “a lot of holiday wish lists” (Apple Official hot news)   6 d and 5 h ago
Faster DDR3 RAM, “a faster 1,066-MHz front-side bus, and a notably faster Nvidia 9400M graphics processor,” lead Ken Mingis (computerworld.com) to exclaim that “I really like Apple Inc.’s newly revamped MacBook Air.” And, he adds, “ I really, really like the apparent speed boost offered by the larger solid-state drive (SSD),” which, he thinks, “really stands for Speedy Sweet Delight.”

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      view feed content Quick Tip of the Week: Controlling Volume Adjustments (Apple Official hot news)   7 d and 4 h ago
In addition to using the volume slider in the menu bar and the volume keys on your keyboard, you have a number of additional ways to adjust the volume of your Mac. To find out how, watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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      view feed content Take a free holiday workshop at your local Apple Retail Store (Apple Official hot news)   10 d and 1 h ago
Did you know that you can create beautiful holiday gifts and cards using the photos in your iPhoto library? Make a 2009 calendar. Design your own holiday cards. Create keepsake photo books complete with customized dust jackets. Learn how by taking the free Holiday Workshop: Creating Memorable Gifts with your Photos. The workshops begin at Apple Retail Stores this weekend.

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      view feed content Now Available: iPhone 2.2 Software Update (Apple Official hot news)   10 d and 3 h ago
Install the free iPhone 2.2 Software Update on your iPhone or iPhone 3G, and you can go on a virtual walking tour with Google Street View. Find public transit schedules and check fares. Enjoy access to millions of free podcasts on the iTunes Store via Wi-Fi or your cell network. Or take advantage of a new search-friendly user interface in Safari. What else is new in the iPhone 2.2 Software Update?

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      view feed content Emory University presents readings from Alice Walker (Apple Official hot news)   10 d and 6 h ago
To celebrate the placement of the archive of her life’s work at Emory, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker visited the university in March 2008 to explain her decision and grace those gathered with selected readings from her prose and poetry. A consummate storyteller, Alice Walker has written more than 23 books, including The Color Purple, one of the works she reads from in these episodes on iTunes U.

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      view feed content Coming Attractions: Australia (Apple Official hot news)   10 d and 6 h ago
On November 26, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman bring Australia to theaters in the U.S. Directed by Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), Australia tells a sweeping story of war and romance set against the backdrop of the extraordinary Australian landscape.

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      view feed content Games “come of age on the iPhone 3G” (Apple Official hot news)   11 d and 1 h ago
“Watch out, Nintendo. This game is just getting started,” warns Dean Takahashi (venturebeat.com). “Thanks to the multi-touch display, great sound, good graphics, and the accelerometer-based tilt feature,” iPhone 3G offers serious competition as a prime gaming device. To wit: Apple has “had more than 200 million downloads from its App Store since the store debuted in July.”

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      view feed content New iPod touch earns “a rare perfect score” (Apple Official hot news)   11 d and 1 h ago
Sitting “in a class by itself,” the new iPod touch receives a perfect 5 stars from Cliff Edwards (businessweek.com). “Apple has managed to make the touch look better, work better, and deliver more features,” Edwards points out. “No longer simply a high-end iPod, it has become the foundation of what’s sure to be an increasingly important handheld computing platform for Apple.”

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      view feed content App Store Pick of the Week: Google Mobile (Apple Official hot news)   12 d and 6 h ago
Available only on iPhone, Google Mobile features Voice Search. Simply speak your query and let Google do what it does best. The free application also offers My Location searches (finding businesses based on your current location), performs contact and history searches, and includes a new Apps tab for rearranging Google Apps. Give it a try. It works, and it’s fun.

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      view feed content Striking it rich with iPhone (Apple Official hot news)   12 d and 22 h ago
When Trism hit the App Store, life changed for 29-year-old Steve Demeter, relates Brandon Griggs (cnn.com). In just two months, Trism netted the former ATM software designer a cool $250,000, encouraging him to found his own iPhone game development company, Trismology. “It’s done phenomenal business,” says Demeter of the game. And he already has five more titles in development.

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      view feed content Quick Tip of the Week: Help Pointers (Apple Official hot news)   14 d and 5 h ago
Need help with an application? In Mac OS X Leopard, you’ll find Help in the menu bar of every application. Help points the way to tutorials, user guides, keyboard shortcuts, and other valuable resources. Specific to the application you’re using, Help offers Numbers help when you’re running Numbers and Pages help when you’re using Pages. Learn more about Help in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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      view feed content iMac delivers MRI analysis in less than 10 minutes (Apple Official hot news)   [1 views] 14 d and 5 h ago
By comparing the hippocampus of a patient suffering from episodic memory to that of a healthy person of the same age, Professor James Brewer can determine whether the patient is suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Trouble is, to manually assemble the 256 hippocampi MRI images, it can take an entire week. Or he can run NeuroQuant on his iMac and get a statistical report in about 8.5 minutes.

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      view feed content Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs (Apple Official hot news)   17 d and 0 h ago
An ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra uses 20 MacBook computers to compose and perform new music. “We tilt the notebook and use its built-in accelerometer to expressively control sound. We use the trackpad as a kind of violin bow,” explains Ge Wang, SLOrk’s founder. ”You can make some wild, diverse music with the MacBook.”

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      view feed content App Store Pick of the Week: Nine Inch Nails Revenge (Apple Official hot news)   19 d and 5 h ago
Tapulous has brought a new rhythm section to its highly popular Tap Tap Revenge. The first special edition of the music game — Nine Inch Nails Revenge ($4.99)— lets you tap and shake to the beats of 13 Nine Inch Nails tracks. Play solo or against a friend in head-to-head two-player mode.

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      view feed content iPhone and iPod touch vying with game leaders (Apple Official hot news)   19 d and 6 h ago
iPhone and iPod touch have become “serious competitors to Nintendo’s DS handheld and Sony’s PlayStation Portable,” report Nick Wingfield and Christopher Lawton (online.wsj.com). And for good reason. Says one gamer who “sold his PSP and may get rid of his DS soon”: “‘I can listen to my iPod and play games at the same time, and when I’m done I can just put it in my pocket.’”

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      view feed content Get organized for the holidays (Apple Official hot news)   20 d and 4 h ago
By downloading the Bento 2 Holiday Pack. In addition to a free, 30-day trial of Bento 2, the Holiday Pack comes with pre-designed templates you can use to organize contacts and keep track of the cards you send and the gifts and donations you make.

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      view feed content iPhone now top handset in the U.S. (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 1 h ago
“Move over, Motorola,” says Alana Semuels (latimes.com) iPhone has become the top selling handset in the U.S. “Consumers are buying more iPhones than RAZRs because there is a ‘watershed shift in handset design from fashion to fashionable functionality,’ said Ross Rubin, NPD’s director of industry analysis.”

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      view feed content iPhone passes RAZR in sales (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 1 h ago
NPD announced today that iPhone 3G “surpassed Motorola’s RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers” last quarter, reports Jim Goldman (cnbc.com). “That’d be a big deal no matter when it happened, but it ends RAZR’s 12-quarter winning streak as the nation’s top handset.”

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      view feed content Logic and The Killers (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 1 h ago
Interviewing guitarist Dave Keuning prior to the release of The Killers’ new album, Ben Rogerson (musicradar.com) learned that “ the band’s hotly-anticipated third album Day & Age was demoed in Apple’s Logic.” In fact, each member of the band “recorded demos separately in Logic, which allowed us to email our ideas to each other and to Stuart Price, the producer.”

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      view feed content Quick Tip of the Week: Granting guests access (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 4 h ago
When friends or relatives come to visit this holiday season, you can easily grant them guest access on your Mac. With a guest account, they can get email, surf the web, or download a file. You can even set parental controls for younger guests. To find out how you can grant guest access to visitors in a few simple steps, watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

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      view feed content iPhone second among smartphones worldwide (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 4 h ago
“Apple’s blowout quarter for iPhone 3G sales lifted it into second place among all smartphone vendors worldwide,” says cnet.com’s Tom Krazit. Trailing only market leader Nokia, iPhone vaulted “over Research In Motion to take second place, with 6.9 million shipments, or 17.3 percent of the market.” Apple also shipped more iPhones “than all the Windows Mobile devices shipped worldwide by Microsoft’s partners.”

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      view feed content iPhone earns highest satisfaction score among businesspeople (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 4 h ago
In its survey of business customers, J.D. Power and Associates “asked respondents to rate the smartphones for ease of operation, operating system, physical design, handset features, and battery aspects,” reports Tom Krazit (cnet.com). And the iPhone, “which generated the highest amount of customer satisfaction among smartphone-using businesspeople,” earned perfect rankings in four of the five categories.”

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      view feed content iPhone “performed well in exceeding customer expectations” (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 4 h ago
In leading the J.D. Power survey, “iPhone did particularly well in ease of operation, physical design and handset feature factors,” explains Shawn Brown (slashgear.com). Brown quotes Kirk Parsons, Senior Director of for J.D. Power, who said that ‘by making basic applications and features easy to use and providing functionality in a thin, lightweight device, Apple has performed well in exceeding customer expectations.”

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      view feed content “iPhone ranks first — for business customers” (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 4 h ago
“This is a stunner for Apple and its iPhone,” declares Jim Goldman (cnbc.com). “JD Power and Associates,” he explains, “ranked the iPhone highest in customer satisfaction, not for everyday consumers as you might expect. But for ‘business wireless smartphone users.’” It led the survey “with a score of 778 out of 1,000, ‘performing particularly well in the ease of operation, physical design and handset factors.’“

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      view feed content iPhone tops all other smartphones in J.D. Power customer sat survey (Apple Official hot news)   21 d and 6 h ago
Although the lack of a physical keyboard “was supposed to be a deal breaker for hardcore smartphone users in the business world,” suggests Philip Elmer-DeWitt (fortune.cnn.com), iPhone “ranks highest in customer satisfaction among business types, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ second annual survey of smartphone users. Apple’s device easily outscored phones with physical keys made by RIM, Samsung, HTC, and Motorola.”

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