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TUAW Certification Series: Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:48:57 GMT

Filed under: Enterprise , Apple Professional , Apple , Leopard Last month, I wrote a post about Apple certifications in general . Today, I'll focus on Mac OS X certifications . If you're a Mac geek who wants to make a living troubleshooting Macs, these are the certifications to get because they are your ticket to becoming a member of the Apple Consultants Network (ACN). ACNs can build a relationship...

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5th Avenue Apple Store starts iPhone 3G line (Textually)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:44:45 GMT

GearDiary via tuaw is reporting that "a lineup of about 10 people started queuing up Friday for the iPhone 3G launch at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York. The first people in line are a man, his wife and their young child. According to GearDiary , the couple told security that they're trying to set a record for time waiting in line and possibly having a baby waiting with them. Police...

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5th Avenue Apple Store starts iPhone 3G line (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:38:57 GMT

Filed under: Retail , iPhone GearDiary is reporting that a lineup of about 10 people started queuing up Friday for the iPhone 3G launch at the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York. You may recall last year's 5th Avenue store queuing started about a week early as well. The iPhone 3G goes on sale at 8 a.m. on July 11th. The first people in line are a man, his wife and their young child. According to GearDiary,...

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Apple on how to replace an original iPhone with a new 3G iPhone (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:16:28 GMT

Filed under: iPhone Apple has posted a Support Document that explains exactly how to replace your original iPhone with a new 3G iPhone. Basically there are two tracks: 1) In the US you don't need your original SIM as your original " account information will be transferred to iPhone 3G's included SIM when you purchase iPhone 3G." 2) Outside the US, " you can use your original iPhone's SIM with iPhone...

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Tap Tap Revolution to be sold by Tapulous, called Tap Tap Revenge (迷客科技)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:30:00 GMT

... from any of them is when and if they'll be showing up on the App Store. That, it seems, is up to Apple. It doesn't matter how many games you've got ready to go -- if Apple doesn't have them set for download right away, both the devs and iPhone owners will miss a nice opportunity. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Tap Tap Revolution to be sold by Tapulous, called Tap Tap Revenge (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:10:40 GMT

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Gaming , Developer , iPhone , App Store Nate True, iPhone developer extraordinaire and friend of TUAW (but who isn't, really), has sold off his Tap Tap Revolution game to a company called Tapulous, and they're renaming it Tap Tap Revenge and are going to try selling it in the iPhone's (and iPod touch's) App Store. The game isn't much tweaked from its jailbroken incarnation...

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Yahoo! News: Apple Expo dates confirmed, events detailed (MacNN) (mac.ro)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:17:33 GMT

Apple Expo '08 ñ Europe's major Apple conference, akin to Macworld in the US ñ is set to occur from September 17th to the 20th in Paris, France, and the organization has detailed several of the planned events. The Unofficial Apple Weblog details that the conference will see two iPhone events among the 30 other currently planned occasions. Access to...

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Macintosh News Network: Apple Expo dates confirmed, events detailed (mac.ro)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:05:00 GMT

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Axel Springer AG moves to Mac (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:38:27 GMT

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Enterprise , Switchers Axel Springer AG , Germany's largest newspaper publisher, is moving its entire organization -- 12,000 computers -- to the Mac platform. Axel Springer will become Apple's largest corporate customer in Europe, and second largest customer worldwide. (Google is number one.) The article is only available in German so far. Axel Springer owns Bild and...

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TrailRunner 1.7 Released (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:39:43 GMT

Filed under: Software On this long weekend (for some of us), how about some outdoor activity? TrailRunner updated its route planning software for runners, bikers, and hikers that works with your iPod nano and Nike+ sport kit. TrailRunner 1.7 is the latest release of the software, which can now import workout data from the Garmin ForeRunner 50, and from nikeplus.com . It also improves the diary history...

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Apple Expo dates confirmed, events detailed (MacNN) (MacMike News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:26:40 GMT

Apple Expo ‘08 ñ Europe’s major Apple conference, akin to Macworld in the US ñ is set to occur from September 17th to the 20th in Paris, France, and the organization has detailed several of the planned events. The Unofficial Apple Weblog details that the conference will see two iPhone events among the 30 other [...]

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Minefield offers custom builds of Firefox 3 (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:40:54 GMT

Filed under: Software , Internet , Internet Tools If you think Firefox could run a little faster on your Mac, then you might want to download one of BeatnikPad's custom builds of Firefox 3. "Minefield" (previously known as BonEcho for pre-3.0 releases) is Neil Lee 's custom build of Firefox. He is currently offering custom builds for: Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for Intel Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for PowerPC...

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Mac 101: Capture sharp screenshots (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:18:52 GMT

Filed under: Tips and tricks , Terminal Tips , Mac 101 Earlier this week, we described several ways to create screenshots with your Mac. Using the keyboard shortcuts in the Finder is great, but you may have noticed that the results aren't very sharp. Ivan at creativebits noticed that, too, and figured out how you can correct the problem . He explains that a basic screenshot creates a JPEG with a resolution...

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Walt Mossberg on switching from Windows to Mac (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:38:44 GMT

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Switchers , Cult of Mac , Internet , Apple , Blogs " Some General Tips for Switch to Mac From Windows ," is Walt Mossberg's new post in which he tells users, well, how to switch from Windows to a Mac with ease. He covers the menu bar, task bar, Start menu, control panel, keyboard shortcuts, quitting programs, minimizing windows, switching programs, right-clicking,...

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Top 100 retail landmarks: Apple makes the list (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:40:56 GMT

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Retail , Apple RetailWeek recently compiled a list of the top 100 retail locations around the world. What did they find? Well, Apple holds two positions in their list: one for the 5th Avenue store (New York) and one for the Regent Street store (London). According to the list , the 5th Avenue store has all three key deciding factors: "excitement, education and ease."...

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Apple Store West Edmonton: Your reports (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:39:01 GMT

Filed under: Retail Apple opened a new retail store in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada this weekend , number six for The Great White North. As usual, we asked any TUAW readers who may have attended to share their reports and/or pictures. So, did you go, and if you did, how was it? Let us know in the comments. Here's hoping you scored a T-shirt! If you haven't gone down to the store yet, grab your camera...

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MacBook Air SSD prices drop (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Filed under: Deals , MacBook Air It looks like Apple has a nice little surprise for anybody in the market for the SSD equipped MacBook Air. The price on the Apple Store for the 64GB SSD upgrade on the 1.6GHz Air has dropped to $599 from $999. Similarly the price of the 1.8GHz Air (equipped with the SSD standard) has dropped to $2598 from $3098. Needless to say, the SSD is still a pretty penny and...

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International iPhone pricing guide (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:18:34 GMT

Filed under: iPhone On July 11, 2008, the iPhone 3G will be launching all over the world . As the release date draws near, we have been inundated with tips from readers about international 3G launch dates and prices. In an attempt to try to keep the information organized in one place, I (stupidly, perhaps) volunteered to create a table containing the data from every country that is releasing the iPhone...

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Firefox 3 Download Day a huge success (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:14:26 GMT

Filed under: Software , Freeware , Internet Tools , Open Source The graphic above says it all -- Firefox 3 Download Day was a success, with 8,002,530 downloads in 24 hours. Amazingly, this happened despite all of the initial download glitches that happened on Download Day. The Mozilla team is reporting that 29,116,621 copies of Firefox 3 have been downloaded as of 1:13 PM ET today. If you signed up...

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Finding Jobs 2.0 (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:17:30 GMT

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Apple Corporate , Steve Jobs , Apple Is it even possible? Forbes does a little bit of speculating on just who might take over when Jobs takes his leave from Apple, and candidates aren't exactly jumping out of the woodwork. Jobs is about as visionary as they come -- only a guy like Steve could lead Apple from the iMac to the iPod to the iPhone, breaking records and...

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