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Striking it rich with iPhone
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...

Quick Tip of the Week: Help Pointers
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, H...

iMac delivers MRI analysis in less than 10 minutes
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 ...

Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk): Musical Macs
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 ...

App Store Pick of the Week: Nine Inch Nails Revenge
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 ...

iPhone and iPod touch vying with game leaders
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...

Get organized for the holidays
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.

iPhone now top handset in the U.S.
“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 functiona...

iPhone passes RAZR in sales
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 winnin...

Logic and The Killers
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 “rec...

Quick Tip of the Week: Granting guests access
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 ...

iPhone second among smartphones worldwide
“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...

iPhone earns highest satisfaction score among businesspeople
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 iPho...

iPhone “performed well in exceeding customer expectations”
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 ‘...

“iPhone ranks first — for business customers”
“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...


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