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MacUpdate Promo – Big discounts on Mac software every day.

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MacUpdate Promo – Big discounts on Mac software every day.:
Passwd is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti- Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in one secure place provided by Apple’s OS X Keychain.

Replug breakaway cable protects your 3.5mm jack

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Replug breakaway cable protects your 3.5mm jack:
Replug’s clever breakaway concoction essentially does for 3.5-millimeter audio jacks what MagSafe does for Apple’s power connection, as it simply snaps away when excess pressure is applied to “protect your audio jack from the rigors of daily use.” The device works in any 3.5-millimeter auxiliary input, be it on your laptop, PMP or desktop, and should be available sometime this fall for a currently undisclosed price.

NetNewsWire 3.1b18 – RSS/Atom newsreader. (Shareware)

NetNewsWire 3.1b18 – RSS/Atom newsreader. (Shareware):


NetNewsWire 3.1b18

NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface — similar to Apple Mail — can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news. Features include:

  • A tabbed browser lets you read web pages with the convenience of staying in the same window.
  • Search your news items with a standard Apple search widget — as in Mail and other applications.
  • Downloads podcasts and enclosures, and sends podcasts to iTunes with with your choice of genre and playlist.
  • The flagged items feature lets you mark items that you want to keep — they stay forever or until you mark them as unflagged.
  • Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) compatible, and includes Automator actions to control functions in NetNewsWire.
  • Other features include syncing, smart lists, search subscriptions, built-in styles, and AppleScript support.
  • Includes a built-in categorized list of feeds that can be easily subscribed to.
  • If NetNewsWire Lite is already running, quit it before running NetNewsWire.

Apple event tomorrow at 10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT, set your alarms

Apple event tomorrow at 10:00AM PDT / 1:00PM EDT, set your alarms:

It’s been a solid two months since our last run-in with Apple: WWDC 2007, the last big press gathering before the iPhone launch. So here we are, late summer heading quickly into fall, ready to take on whatever new Mac products Apple’s prepping to announce tomorrow at its intimate Town Hall meeting in Cupertino. Turn on and tune in at your local time (see listings below) for our usual wall to wall live event coverage. See you there!

Go here and bookmark this page, it’s where the action happens Tuesday morning.

7:00AM – Hawaii
10:00AM – Pacific
11:00AM – Mountain
12:00PM – Central
1:00PM – Eastern
5:00PM – GMT
6:00PM – London
7:00PM – Paris
2:00AM – Tokyo (August 8th)

MacNN | Wozniak first in line at Valley Fair [photos]

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MacNN | Wozniak first in line at Valley Fair [photos]:
Wozniak first in line at Valley Fair [photos]
Apple co-founder Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak arrived at San Jose’s Valley Fair Apple Store before 3:30 a.m. this morning to be the first in line to purchase iPhones. Woz himself — who is wearing a FastMac “I was there” t-shirt, was reportedly promised an iPhone by Steve Jobs on Saturday, but is waiting in line anyway to purchase more devices for his children and to experience the iPhone launch atmosphere. Whispers suggest that the first 50 people at each Apple Store will receive a special gift, and that the flagship stores have 580 iPhones in stock while smaller outlets are likely stowing lower numbers of devices. A Woodstock-like atmosphere reportedly surrounds those standing in line at the Valley Fair store, and sightings of Digg.com founder Kevin Rose as well as the Mac Quicken team

Philadelphia mayor caught camping for an iPhone

Philadelphia mayor caught camping for an iPhone:

If we ran the world Philadelphia, it’s highly unlikely that we’d camp out in the dismal rain for an iPhone like all those “normal citizens,” but we’ve got to give props to John F. Street for roughin’ like the rest of us. Apparently, Mr. Street set up shop earlier this morning and made up his mind to brave the inclement weather in order to be one of the first to snag an iPhone. Currently, he’s waiting patiently along Ranstead St. at 16th St. in Center City to be third in line to purchase an iPhone from the AT&T store, and while we’re sure such an influential character could have just paid someone off to do the waiting for him, the reward will be that much sweeter when 6:01PM rolls around.

Update: Looks like the media descended on the mayor and the dude took off about an hour ago! Looks like someone else has his spot in line (now word on whether he’s waiting for the mayor), but we’ll have an update in our lineblog shortly.

Macenstein » Macenstein Archive » Martin Scorsese used iChat to direct “The Departed”

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Macenstein » Macenstein Archive » Martin Scorsese used iChat to direct “The Departed”:
iChat’s video capabilities certainly are tops in their class, however who knew they’d be Hollywood quality?!

Faithful Macenstein reader Sean pointed us to a profile piece on Black Magic Design that we think both budding filmmakers and iChat users alike may find interesting.

According to the interview with visual effects supervisor Rob Legato, (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and The Aviator), Martin Scorsese actually used Apple’s iChat to direct the final “rat shot” from The Departed (which was shot in L.A.) from a Mac in New York.

Talkiphone posts iPhone FAQ – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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Talkiphone posts iPhone FAQ – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
Talkiphone posts iPhone FAQ
TalkiPhone has posted their 101-question-long iPhone FAQ. The FAQ, which runs the gamut from “Are AT&T stores really going to open at 6PM on June 29th” to “Will the iPhone support Adobe PDF documents?” collects information from around the Internet and combines it into a single easy-to-search document. The FAQ is clearly a work in progress and some of their answers differ from what I have been led to understand, so take the information there with a wee grain of salt. You can always review our iPhone posts for more tidbits on the greatest gadget since the sliced-bread slicer.

1Passwd Update for Safari 3 Beta

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1Passwd Update for Safari 3 Beta:
Wow those guys work fast! No sooner did Steve announce the availability of Safari 3 beta, and there’s an update for 1Passwd to work with it! Awesome response guys!
1Passwd is a fantastic utility that saves all your passwords and unifies them across your many OS X browsers. It even manages your identities (aliases?) so you can fill out webforms with a single click. Until youve used it, it might not sound like something you need – thats how I felt anyway. But after getting it through MacHeist, I couldnt deny it any longer, and I paid for the upgrade.

Launch: Parallels v. 3.0 now available

Launch: Parallels v. 3.0 now available:
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We don’t often profess our love for commercial software around these parts, but Parallels Desktop for Mac – the application that runs Windows XP and Vista on your Mactel in a virtual machine – has just released version 3.0, and despite the price tag, we’re drooling over the new feature set. The NY Times David Pogue breaks down the good stuff:

You can drag and drop files from the Windows desktop to the Mac desktop, or vice versa. You can also right-click a document in either universe (a Word file, JPEG, PDF or whatever); the Open With pop-up menu, which lists programs that can open it, now lists both Mac and Windows programs. So if you’re working on the Mac, you can right-click a Word document and have it open in Word for Windows.
A Mac program called Parallels Explorer lets you manipulate the contents of your virtual Windows “hard drive” even when Parallels isn’t running.
If you sometimes use Apple’s Boot Camp program, Parallels can use the same copy of Windows, so you don’t have to install Windows twice. In 3.0, this great, space-saving feature also applies to installed copies of Windows Vista, not just XP.

You can now set up shared folders in either direction. That is, you can plunk the icon of a Macintosh-world folder right there in your Windows world, for easy opening, or vice-versa.

Shared Networking. I love this one a lot. In Parallels 3.0, Windows “hides” behind the Mac’s networking; it’s completely invisible to hacks, pings and bots on the Internet looking to infect you. Your “Windows PC” is therefore much less likely to wind up becoming a “zombie” or “bot” that does the bidding of spammers behind your back.
3-D graphics. This is a huge one for gamers. People used to say that Parallels was great — but that it couldn’t handle the 3-D games. The new version, however, works with both DirectX and OpenGL 3D, underlying technologies that drive games like World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2, and Unreal Tournament. All of these are now playable on the Mac running Windows. (I haven’t tested them, though.)
Transporter. This utility can bring over your entire world — programs, documents, settings, and all — from a real Windows PC, or from an old Mac running Microsoft Virtual PC, either over the network or using a FireWire cable.
USB 2. Parallels 3.0 does much better with high-speed connections to printers, scanners, flash drives, external hard drives, BlackBerrys and other smartphones — and headsets.

Sound good? The upgrade costs existing Parallels users $40; new licenses are 80 bucks. See more on running Windows and Mac OS X side by side with Parallels Desktop for Mac.

Breaking Down the Walls Between Mac OS X and Windows [Pogue’s Posts]