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1) Meerkat 1.5 automatically reconnects your SSH Tunnels
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/meerkat-1-5-automatically-reconnects-your-ssh-tunnels/
Filed under: UNIX / BSDMeerkat turns SSH tunnels -- a fairly obscure and complicated concept -- into a feature anyone should be able to use, and does so in a very Mac-like way.
I've known about SSH tunnels for a long time, but I've never been able to get them working. The concept is simple enough: a SSH connection is formed between two computers, allowing for secure access between them. (For more, see SSH: Tunneling Explained.)
What would you use a SSH tunnel for? Here are a couple possibilities: you can stream your iTunes library across the web for free. Our local library has a terribly onerous "web filter" which even blocks Delicious and a bunch of other useful sites. By setting up a SSH tunnel and SOCKS proxy I can avoid that filter. If I want to access my webhosting management panel, I have to do so from a "known" IP address or go through a multi-step process to register another IP. [...]
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2) Apple seeds another build of 10.6.3 to devs
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/apple-seeds-another-build-of-10-6-3-to-devs/
Filed under: OS, Software UpdateApple seeded another build of OS X 10.6.3 today. This latest build number is 10D558. This is just nine days after Apple seeded build 10D552. iPhoneinCanada is reporting that the current build focuses on Apple Filing Protocol, AirPort, Graphics Drivers, and QuickTime, as well as the following:
Performance improvements for 64-bit Logic
Addresses compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
Includes changes to QuickTime X that increase reliability and enhance security
Improves printing reliability and compatibility with 3rd party printers
Addresses issues that cause background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
Issues that caused machines using BTMM and Bonjour Sleep Proxy to wake unexpectedly
Issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to Exchange servers
This is the fifth build of 10.6.3 Apple has released since January. [...]
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3) NAND flash memory supplies constrained (again)
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/nand-flash-memory-supplies-constrained-again/
Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Portables, iPadTwo things happen like clockwork every year: Apple raises the capacities on its NAND flash-based iPods and the iPhone, and analysts like iSuppli release a report saying that worldwide supplies of NAND flash are likely to be constrained as a result. The supply constraints aren't likely to affect Apple, which signed a supply deal with Toshiba last year, but other companies that depend on flash memory for their consumer electronics products may find themselves scrambling to find enough memory to keep production going ... just like last year, and the year before that, when analysts said almost exactly the same thing.
iSuppli predicts Apple will ship in excess of 33 million iPhones this year with an average capacity of 35.2 GB of NAND flash memory -- consistent with a doubling of capacities across the line. 2010 sales estimates for the iPad [...]
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4) Noby Noby Boy out now on iPhone, and it's awesome
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/noby-noby-boy-out-now-on-iphone-and-its-awesome/
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, Music
Keita Takahashi is a strange guy. He's most known for delivering the brilliant Katamari Damacy to us on the Playstation 2, a game in which you rolled around a ball that stuck to everything in the world, growing bigger and bigger as more and more stuff collected on it. But after that early success, he's gotten weirder, at one point saying that he didn't want to make games at all, and then releasing Noby Noby Boy for the PS3, an "experience" in which you stretch a tubelike creature named BOY, which in turn stretches another creature named GIRL, out into the solar system with all of other players in the world. It's the kind of thing that has to be played to be understood, and even then, you don't understand it so much as experience it.
Noby Noby Boy on the iPhone is a similar release: while it's an [...]
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5) Macworld 2010: TUAW's Best in Show
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/macworld-2010-tuaws-best-in-show/
Filed under: Macworld, Peripherals, Developer, iPad
Our videos are almost all posted, the interviews are all transcribed, and the impressions are all done and published -- we're finally bringing our Macworld 2010 coverage to conclusion. It was a heck of a show -- while there wasn't a lot of attention outside the conference floor from folks expecting more about Apple, on the show floor itself there was clearly an excitement and a sense of opportunity for lots of companies who might have been overshadowed by Apple's presence in the past. It was a smaller show, for sure, but in some ways it was also a better show. We're still not completely sure what will happen next year, but Macworld 2010 was a success -- not as big a success as it was when Apple was putting wind in the sails, but a success nevertheless.
We saw a lot of stuff at the show, from dozens of accessories, to the wild Parrot [...]
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6) TUAW review and giveaway: Bill Atkinson PhotoCard for iPhone
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/tuaw-review-and-giveaway-bill-atkinson-photocard-for-iphone/
Filed under: Software, Developer, iPhone, Apple History, App Store, App Review
When it comes to famous names in the Apple pantheon, Bill Atkinson ranks very high in the list. The brains behind MacPaint, HyperCard, the Mac OS menu bar, and a host of other innovative software applications has been a professional nature photographer since 1996, but now he's melded his development mojo with photography and released his very first iPhone app, Bill Atkinson PhotoCard for iPhone.
At first glance, the US$4.99 app looks like yet another postcard app for the iPhone. But when you actually start looking at the details of PhotoCard, you realize that it's much, much more. To start with, the app comes with 150 of Atkinson's fabulous nature photographs that can be used in the creation of postcards. That takes care of the front of the postcard, but what about the back?
Like many of the apps of this [...]
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7) Ngmoco cancels Rolando 3, says it can't fit into a free-to-play model
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/ngmoco-cancels-rolando-3-says-it-cant-fit-into-a-free-to-play/
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store
Here's some unfortunate news out of Ngmoco: The company tells IGN that while there was a Rolando 3 (the second sequel to the very popular and excellent rolling iPhone platformer) in progress, the game has been essentially canceled, and will never see release in its current form. Why? The second game wasn't exactly a sales success (though Ngmoco's Neil Young admits "it's done fine"), and it was that lack of a big splash that made Ngmoco turn the corner into "freemium," or the model of releasing free games that offer in-app purchases for premium content. They've had a lot of success with their Eliminate Pro shooter, and they want to adapt that model for all games: get a few hits for free, spend some real money on in-app purchases for the rest.
And apparently when they couldn't bring that model over to Rolando 3, they scrapped [...]
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8) Keep your eyes on the Sun safely with free 3D Sun app
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/keep-your-eyes-on-the-sun-safely-with-free-3d-sun-app/
Filed under: Freeware, iPhone, iPod touch, App ReviewI really love to find cool, free apps, and I have a good one for you. 3D Sun, developed in collaboration with NASA scientists, will alert you to solar flares and storms which can disrupt communications on earth and trigger spectacular northern lights.
Activating the push feature provides instant notification of major solar activity.. Clicking on the app will give you detailed information, as well as a current picture of the surface of the sun provided by the NASA 'Stereo' satellites. You can rotate the view of the sun with your fingers, and pinch in and out to zoom. The 2 satellites don't have a 360 degree view, so there will be a dark sliver where the cameras can't see. Using this app is a lot safer than trying to see these phenomena with the naked eye or even using some of the not-so-safe solar filters that are around.
In [...]
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9) Patent application hints at future of Magic Mouse
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/patent-application-hints-at-future-of-magic-mouse/
Filed under: Accessories, HardwareThe US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application that hints at the future of Apple's Magic Mouse. It describes three new sensors and a triple-axis gyroscope to detect the roll, pitch, and yaw of the mouse. This means that a user could tilt the mouse from side to side to produce a horizontal scroll, a vertical scroll or to tilt a graphic. Additionally, the mouse described in the patent has a convex underside to make all that tilting easier.
You can see the full application and even more images here. Of course, Apple patents many technologies that never see production.
The Magic Mouse became the first multi-touch mouse when it was released last year, replacing the Mighty Mouse and its temperamental scroll wheel. We'll have to wait and see if this even more magical mouse gets produced.
[Via MacDailyNews]TUAWPatent application hints at [...]
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10) Confirmed: Apple upped its App Store over-the-air download limits
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/apple-may-have-upped-its-over-the-air-download-limits-for-app-st/
Filed under: Apple, iPhone, App StoreAlthough Apple's just-released iTunes Connect guide for App Store developers (version 5.3) reminds them that over-the-air downloads for app purchases are still limited to 10MB, users are reporting that Apple may have quietly changed this policy. As the screen shot here (sourced from Italian website AllMobileWorld) shows, the standard 10MB complaint appears to be updated to a 20MB limit.
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This is, as yet, the first TUAW has heard (or, more literally, seen) of the matter, but the screen shot does not appear faked. Given that Apple updated the iTunes Connect material on Tuesday, this could have simply been an oversight in the developer documentation that does not reflect the new policy.
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11) iPhone devsugar: App Store approval in...one hour?
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/iphone-devsugar-app-store-approval-in-one-hour/
Filed under: AppleApproximately one hour after uploading his new application update to iTunes Connect, Bristol-based iPhone developer Rob Jonson of Hobbyist software got the surprise of his week: an official Apple green light. His latest update to his VLC Remote application had been approved and was ready for sale. VLC Remote allows you to control a Mac- or Windows-based VideoLAN playback client from your iPhone, basically duplicating many of the features you'd get from a standard Apple Remote.
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His update wasn't complicated. "It was a simple problem," he told me over the phone this morning. "One of the buttons stopped working because of a stupid error. I missed a break in a case statement." So he uploaded his bugfix at about 11 PM local United Kingdom time. [...]
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12) Panic's free ShrinkIt turns humongous Illustrator PDFs into tiny ones
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/panics-free-shrinkit-turns-humongous-illustrator-pdfs-into-tiny/
Filed under: Software, Cool tools, DeveloperThe brilliant minds at Panic noticed that something interesting was happening with PDF files created by Adobe Illustrator. Like many developers, Panic uses Adobe Illustrator to create icons and other image resources for their applications. The resulting PDF files, which were relatively "big-boned" (a politically-correct way of saying "fat"), would magically shrink in size when they were run through Apple's Mac OS X PDF processing. Apple's method is used when you save a PDF from Preview, which explains why most of the time those files are fairly small in size.
Being the intelligent chaps that they are, the Panic engineers decided to look into the cause of this. What did they find? "Will started digging into the files and brother, you won't believe what he found. Swatches, patterns, preview bitmaps, all sort of metadata; even though we'd [...]
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13) Macworld 2010: Steve Shepard of Storyist
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/macworld-2010-steve-shepard-of-storyist/
Filed under: Macworld, Software, Video
Last year we reviewed Storyist, the software for writers. It's a great app that lets you manage all aspects of a writing project, like plot points, research, characters and more. Once you're done writing, you can export to many popular file formats, as well as prepare your document for an editor, for use as a screenplay or even digital distribution.
I sat down with Steve Shepard at our Macworld booth to discuss the app, how to get the most out of it, his experiences at the show and finally whether or not he's got any plans for the iPad. Check out the video above to see our conversation.TUAWMacworld 2010: Steve Shepard of Storyist originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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14) Apple's obsessive secrecy hurting relations with overseas suppliers
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/apples-obsessive-secrecy-hurting-relations-with-overseas-suppli/
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors, Bad AppleApple's obsession with secrecy is legendary. For all the rumors and leaks that stoke media attention, very rarely do we have a clear picture of a new product until Steve Jobs comes out on stage and shows it to us. Even people who work for Apple often have very little idea what the company is up to; retail employees at Apple Stores usually don't know any more about upcoming products than anyone else, and retail managers have told me the first clear picture they get of new products is when they arrive on a truck. Even people who work in Apple R&D on products like the iPad operate in a "cone of silence," with security measures in place at Cupertino's labs that sound like something out of a James Bond film. And last year, an employee of Chinese supplier Foxconn allegedly leapt to his death to avoid further interrogation after he "lost" an [...]
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