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Apple has updated iTunes to version 7.4.1 and in addition to the ringtones they have also added auto-complete to the iTunes Store search. Now when you search the iTunes Store you will be given a drop down of possible matches. A great way to search for that song or artist when you are not really sure of the spelling.

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A great tip that I found over on Lifehacker shows us how to get calendar updates from iCal via SMS.

As you know, text message inboxes have email addresses—for instance, 7125550000@vtext.com (for Verizon users). If you add your phone’s email address as an emailing option in your Address Book vCard, you can choose it as an option to email a reminder. Set the date, time and reminder and, Bam—you have a cell phone reminder.

Now you have another option to get those daily reminders that we all need sometimes. It could serve as a reminder for yourself or a way to help that forgetful significant other.

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• It’s no surprise Apple considered purchasing AdMob
• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?
• Konami selling its iPhone, iPod Touch games for 99 cents each

TypePad has released an updated mobile client designed for the iPhone. Currently there are also clients for Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian. The new TypePad mobile client for iPhone can be accessed at http://i.typepad.com and should make mobile blogging that much easier.

With TypePad mobile on the iPhone you are not able to direct upload images, but you can email an image to a TypePad server to then use. Its been a while since I last checked out TypePad but this may make a nice blog service to use for a personal blog, with easy mobile and desktop updates possible I would be able to keep it updated and fresh as well as capture those spur of the moment thoughts.

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• It’s no surprise Apple considered purchasing AdMob
• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?
• Konami selling its iPhone, iPod Touch games for 99 cents each

Growl is a utility that I just would not to live without, it is a notification system for Mac OS X. Once installed it is added to your System Preferences and will display messages for other applications such as Mail, iTunes and Adium. Version 1.1 adds “global positioning system” which keeps messages from overlapping on your monitor and a close button as well as various bug fixes.

Read [TUAW]

• It’s no surprise Apple considered purchasing AdMob
• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?
• Konami selling its iPhone, iPod Touch games for 99 cents each

Apple has announced that they have sold 1 million iPhones in just 74 days. This will mark the completion for one of their two public goals dealing with the iPhone, Apple had wanted to sell 1 million before the end of September 2007, and also sell 10 million iPhones in 2008. Apple managed to beat the first by 21 days, lets see just how quickly they will be able to hit the 10 million mark in 2008.

“One million iPhones in 74 days-it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season.”

With the holiday season quickly approaching and the sudden and dramatic price drop for the iPhone, it would be safe to think that sales will be steady and high through the end of 2007, lets see just how well it will do once the holiday rush settles down.

Read [MacDailyNews]

• It’s no surprise Apple considered purchasing AdMob
• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?
• Konami selling its iPhone, iPod Touch games for 99 cents each

You still cannot get The Beatles in iTunes, but slowly all four members are all showing up. You can now find music from Paul McCartney, John Lennon and now Ringo Starr. The iTunes Store have made Ringo’s post-Bealtes EMI catalog available including the new digital greatest hits collection “Photograph” which is an iTunes Plus album. Possibly the upcoming Apple special event on September 5th will give everyone the Beatles catalog also, in the mean time 3 out of 4 is a good start.

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• It’s no surprise Apple considered purchasing AdMob
• Apple’s Black Friday to be surprisingly bright?
• Konami selling its iPhone, iPod Touch games for 99 cents each

As someone who works from a home office I often am looking for a change in scenery and find myself up at the local Starbucks, that way I can get a great cup of coffee and get some work done at the same time. Using the T-Mobile HotSpot service I am easily able to connect and get to work, except with the HotSpot connection my internet traffic has always been unsecured and therefor open for snooping. It turns out that T-Mobile offers a Connection Manager software for Windows but nothing for Mac.

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The Apple special event has been confirmed for September 5th and the rumors are now out in full force. We are seeing reports of everything from new touchscreen iPods running OS X to Product (RED) Shuffles to The Beatles finally coming to iTunes.

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Its been just about a week and sadly we have a third report of a burglary relating to Apple. First the Apple Store in University Village Washington

Apple Campus and now the Saddle Creek Store in Memphis Tennessee has been broken into.

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German magazine Capital is reporting that Apple and Volkswagen are working together on an “iCar”, or more specifically car integration systems. In an earlier interview with CNET a strategy manager for Volkswagen said they have been working on “the development of its navigation and human interface” and that its customers will see “some interesting things in this space in the near to long-term future”.

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