Seth Weintraub

The download links are still propagating but they are live on the dev site now.
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Here’s where you can find it.
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Interesting note from the changes to OS X today. Apple is ridding itself of the “Mac” moniker. A tipster explains:

Seems like Apple is dropping “Mac” from “Mac OS X.”Everything is now “OS X Lion”…even Snow Leopard is now being called “OS X Snow Leopard”

What does it mean?
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iTunes 10.3 is out. Time to try the iCloud on for size.

Update: We’re seeing10.3! (screenshot below).  However, the download is 10.2.2

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Well, we don’t really know about the livestream (though it has the tech to do it).  Taptic Toys uses a 4G Mifi to let you go to work in your PJs.  The Robot is designed around an iPad 2 and a Segway-like base that is controlled from the iPod touch you see below.  Pretty nice.

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Jay Freeman had a few seconds to explain something that had intrigued us since last night.

We don’t have to tell you we’ll be on hand covering tomorrow’s WWDC Keynote live. We are also hoping to find a video feed of the event – or at least audio to share in the event that Apple doesn’t do a live broadcast (which seems unlikely at this late hour).

Until then, we took a bit of the video of the line which is growing pretty quickly as of midnight Pacific (above).

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From 9to5toys.com:

Amazon offers the Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, model no. WDBACW0030HBK-NESN, for $139.99 with free shipping ($0.05/GB). That’s tied with our mention from two weeks ago as the lowest total price we’ve seen for any 3TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. (It’s also a current price low for this model by $10.) This drive is purported to run 3x faster than a similar USB 2.0 device when connected to a USB 3.0 port. It also features password protection with hardware encryption.
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By completing the game in 30 seconds win coupons for free food in the nearest McDonald’s restaurant.

What is especially interesting about this technology is that you don’t actually have to download an app, which normally causes quite a big barrier to entry. Instead the phone picks up your location and you can join the game via a website address.

Via the Next Web

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Amazon today lists the Walter Issacson authorized Biography of Steve Jobs, the one commissioned by the Apple CEO last year.  Issacson will have had three years of access to the normally reclusive Steve Jobs.  Listed at 448 pages, the book will be published by Simon & Schuster.

Product Description

From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, iSteve is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

About the Author

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and ofKissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.

Before you get too excited however, the book doesn’t ship for nine months (March 2012). But even so, it will likely be a big hit and as you know with iPads, it is good to get in early.

The iBookstore has a placeholder as well:

Full Res book cover below:

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For those who don’t need all of the bells and whistles (and overhead) of Adobe’s Photoshop for photo editing, another product has taken off in the Mac platform.  Pixelmator is a $30 Mac App, now in the App Store which gives you 80+% of what Photoshop offers.

The good news is that Pixelmator 2.0 is on the way with additional tools which may be able to take care of the needs of light Illustrator uses as well the inclusion of Vector Drawing tools:

Enjoy perfectly precise, full-featured drawing tools that allow you to easily create and edit any vector shapes, whether simple or advanced.

..and some more sophisticated Photoshop tools like content aware fill and a more advanced type tool.

Interestingly, TUAW notes that eventually it will cost $59 but users who buy the current $29 version will be upgraded for free so that would mean now is a time to get in.

All the new features after the break.

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The humanity.

Via iFun & Edible Apple

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iOS software head and frequent Apple Keynote presenter Scott Forstall got his Twitter account verified in July of last year.  That was right after the Apple-Ping-Facebook breakup (iOS Facebook integration was planned in late betas) and, with the benefit of hindsight, about the time Apple may have started getting the idea of Twitter integration.

He follows one account: Conan O’Brien’s, but has yet to send out his first tweet.

Two recent reports say that Apple will integrate Twitter into its iOS 5 as a low level, integrated service with “mediastream” integration.

Forstall will likely be on stage presenting what this Twitter integration will allow iOS users to do.  He may even send out his first Tweet.

Maybe SJobs gets a twitter account as well?  Nah.

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From 9to5toys.com

This weekend MUPromo is offering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for only $23.99. CoD 4 is one of the best and most widely played first-person shooters in recent history and this is one of the best prices for it in recent history. Amazon has it for a dollar more.
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The Wall St. Journal reports on a research note by Asia-based CLSA which says that Apple is working on an LTE-iPad in time for the holiday shopping season.

“While most vendors appear fixated on matching the specs and features of iPad2, our checks suggest Apple will release iPad3 in time for the holiday season, sporting a better display and LTE capabilities.”

AT&T’s LTE rollout begins later this year, while Verizon’s is already giving users eye-popping download speeds around the country.

Yesterday, Samsung announced that its thinner, lighter Galaxy Tab 10.1 would be running on Verizon’s network in the coming weeks.

The report also states that iPhones won’t get LTE until next year.

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According to Ars, the Time Capsule/Airport Extreme refreshes we’ve been hearing about are getting some iOS/A4-5 love.

Our own source tells Ars that the revised hardware is believed to be built around Apple’s own A4 or A5 processor, and will run iOS much like the most recent Apple TV model.

Makes sense to us.
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Probably not but here it is anyway:

Not likely says the screenshot below

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From 9to5toys.com:

Today only, Amazon offers the Canon PowerShot A490 10-Megapixel Digital Camera in Silver, model no. 4258B001, for $49.99 with free shipping. That’s $19 under our mention from ten days ago (which also included a case) and the lowest total price we could find by $34. It features a 2.5″ LCD, 3.3x optical zoom, face detection, video capture, SDHC card slot, USB connectivity, and more.
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Simply add a few bucks (to the Mac App Store) to get the “Server.app”.  Apparently that’s all you need according to this screenshot from Lion Help. (via Hardmac).  No word on exactly how much the server.app costs (we’re thinking a few hundred?) or how much Lion itself will cost for that matter.  We’ll know soon, though.

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http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf

First, Adobe’s CEO got a Mossbomb dropped on him. Now AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega gets some well-deserved criticism for its failure to deliver good service to its NY customers.  (Flashless)  Today has been a very entertaining day at D9. (Full video below)
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