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There have been stories floating around the web claiming that Apple is not going to release anymore products this year. With the new 27” iMac, Magic Mouse, and unibody MacBook being released last week, this shouldn’t really surprise anyone. However, of interest in this story is how Apple has called the tech website Gizmodo and stated, “The holiday lineup is set.” Now, isn’t this basically what no more products in 2009 means?
The unboxing of an Apple employee T-Shirt
A couple weeks ago a story floated around the internet about the appearance of a job application from our favorite secretive company, Apple. This week, more unboxing photos from the company have surfaced. These show what it’s like to unbox an Apple Retail Store employee shirt instead of a formal Cupertino job offer. It appears Apple puts just as much attention into this part of their hiring process as they do in their products.
Google Chrome for Mac now official, here’s a first look
This week, Google announced an official version of Google Chrome, a result of the Chromium project, at the Web 2.0 Summit in California. What that means is that outside of nightly developer builds, this version—build 4.0.223.8—is the first official release build of the software. While the Windows version has been official and crushing it for quite some time now, Google certainly took their time on the Mac side.
iFixIt reveals inner workings of Apple’s new Magic Mouse
iFixIt is a widely known company that immediately gets their hands on Apple’s newest products solely to take them apart for our gratification. It’s no surprise, then, that they have already managed to do the same for the Magic Mouse just days after it hit the market. In their disassembly, the iFixIt team found the hardware to be held together by large amounts of glue versus screws. More interesting, though, was that they found the entire surface to be covered with touch sensors.
$50 Wolfram Alpha app appears on App Store, appears to be worth it
Wolfram Alpa, a “long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone,” recently had their iPhone app accepted by Apple into the App Store. The application—which costs a nicely sized $50—is the first native Wolfram Alpha application available through download in the App Store, although the company has had an iPhone dedicated website for a while. It uses the new API the team has recently opened to allow developers to use the knowledge engine in their own applications and software.
Apple embraces Twitter as a way to advertise iTunes content
Whether you like or use Twitter, it is certainly clear the service has had some value when it comes to promoting brands. Until recently, Apple has solely had iTunesTrailer, an account with around 1.2 million followers, as part of their social media band wagon. However, Apple has recently created a few more Twitter accounts to help promote various types of media in the iTunes store. Get the links after the break.
Apple releases new aluminum remote
In the slew of Apple product updates released yesterday, the company also quietly introduced a new remote to be used with their new iMacs. This remote, which takes on the aluminum enclosure of many of Apple’s other products, has a small interface change but the same amount of buttons. For some reason, Apple decided to move the Play/Pause button from in the middle of the circle to the bottom right and pushed the Menu button a tad to the left.
Verizon pulls a Microsoft, runs attack ads against Apple
Droid, a new phone emerging in the mobile marketplace through a cooperative effort with Verizon and Motorola, is turning out to cause quite a ruckus as the first true iPhone competitor. At least that’s what the companies are trying to get at through their clever new commercial that flat out attacks the weak points of Apple’s iPhone. The ad, which is 30 seconds in length, starts off with an Apple-esque song and black text that drops down on a white background reading “iDon’t run widgets,” “iDon’t allow open development,” and “iDon’t have a real keyboard,” and such.
Appletell reviews Bullet Candy Perfect game for Mac OS X
Bullet Candy Perfect is a 2D based shooter game with 3D graphics involved in the gameplay. The developer is only asking that you donate anything greater than $1 to help support it, which is pretty generous considering the amount of time I’m sure was put into it. And while the gameplay certainly has a lot of facets to it, it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting.
UPDATED: iPhone home screen Exposé mock up seems interesting
UPDATE: The type of feature talked about in this post has, in fact, been implemented by an iPhone developer. Unfortunately, it is only available through jailbroken iPhones on the Cydia App Store, as there is no way Apple would allow this in the actual App Store. However, if you do have a jailbroken phone or touch, be sure to check it out. You can purchase it through Cydia for $1.99 and find more information about it on Steven Troughton-Smith’s website.
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