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As we told you earlier the Skyfire flash-video playing app for iPhone is extremely popular and today Skyfire’s CEO sat down with CNN to discuss the app as well as the Flash war between Apple and Adobe. You may want some popcorn for the almost four minute interview.

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Apple has let their iOS developers know via iTunes Connect that iTunes Connect will in fact be closed December 23-28. Apple’s App Store app managment service will become available again on December 29th. This does not affect app consumers in anyway but will not allow developers to make changes to or submit any new apps during that time frame.

iTunes Connect will be temporarily unavailable from Thursday, December 23 through Tuesday, December 28 for the winter holidays. iTunes Connect access will be back online for use on December 29. If you choose to set an available date for your app to go live during the scheduled holiday shutdown, your app will not go live on the App Store until iTunes Connect resumes for business on December 29. Please plan your releases accordingly.

Apple notes that developers should be sure to plan their releases accordingly and we recommend that you developers shouldn’t try anything funny on December 22nd or something like that.

Skyfire has announced that their popular “flash-video” playing web browser will soon be coming to the iPad. Ah, the joys of flash video on a 9.7 inch touch screen.

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Epic Games has released its latest game trailer, a new trailer for its high-end iPhone game, Infinity Blade. The game — demonstrated at an event earlier in the year — promises powerful graphics on the Apple handset.

Hi Adobe. I know I’ve said some critical things about Flash, and I sure do miss the days when you and Macromedia seemed more focused on creative applications, but I do like this demonstration of a version of Photoshop running on an iPad.
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The App Store’s full of apps, thousands of them, but its still a little tricky sorting through them all, now Apple’s put together a new element to guide you to the most popular ones, the “App Store Hall of Fame”.

The Hall of Fame features the top fifty apps of all time, Apple says, describing these as the ‘best of the best’. The list includes both free and paid apps.
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Yeah, developers get your apps ready…
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Apple’s plans for the iPhone 5 extend beyond the iWallet and straight into a more mobile computing experience than you’ve seen before using an iPhone, at least that’s what Cult of Mac is claiming.
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COMPUTERWORLD: Sorry about this. Perhaps I should have posted this earlier, but I slept in. I really didn’t expect Europe’s iPhone users would fail to wake up this morning because a bug in Apple’s iOS alarm software didn’t recognise the change in clocks here over the weekend…

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We already know Parallels has their own iPad remote desktop app and today RazorianFly reports that VMWare has one of their own in the works. The iPad app is called ‘VMWare View Client’ and will be available sometime in early 2011. Above is a hands-on video of the application by VMWare’s CTO.

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Earlier this week we told you about some of the issues iPhoto ’11 users are experiencing. Perhaps the most detrimental is an issue resulting in the loss of your iPhoto library when upgrading. Well today, Apple has fixed this with iPhoto 9.0.1.:

This update addresses issues that, in extremely rare cases, could result in data loss when upgrading a library from an earlier version of iPhoto.

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Since the release of Apple’s new MacBook Air we’ve heard countless reports of Skype users not being able to login to their Skype accounts.

After doing some more research, it turns out this issue was not-only for new MacBook Air users but on all new Skype for Mac installs.

Well today Skype pushed out an update to Skype for Mac and it resolves the issue. It’s version 2.8.0.863 and you can download it here.

Yahoo has just updated their Messenger app to enable video calling on the iPod touch 4. Yahoo Messenger video calling was released for iPhone 4 a few weeks back and enables video calls over 3G between computers and smartphones. The update is free of course and includes bug fixes as an added treat.

Apple’s iPad is seeing the same widescale deployment as any previous tablet device, turning up in people’s homes, the enterprise, in medical and education and — now — also in the US Army, where Textron Systems has developed a troop movement tracking app for iPad.
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Apple continues to test its streaming media systems, this time promising Australian iOS users free streaming access to five performances at this year’s ARIA music Awards.

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Mac Stories is reporting that Apple’s Apple Store iPhone/iPod touch application will be receiving a minor update in the near future. This update will include a feature that recognizes when you enter an Apple Store you have a reservation at, and will ask you if you want to confirm your reservation. You’ll also get a popup with the picture of the Apple employee helping you so you can find them more easily.

On the customer end, it appears the Apple Store application will be updated to integrate with Apple’s ecosystem. As the ability to make reservations is already in place, you’ll receive a push notification as you enter the store asking if you’d like to check-in. You’ll then be notified of your waiting time (your position in the queue), and who you’ll be meeting up with via a photo of the employee. You also may receive helpful hints as you enter the store, so that you can request services via your iPhone. It’s a very streamlined process.

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Many hoped and speculated that Apple’s latest media-suite, iLife ’11, would be re-written to work in 64 bit. As Gear Live notes, this is sadly not the case. If you look at the screenshot of the Mac Activity Monitor above, you will notice that the ’64 bit’ marker is not present next to both iMovie ’11 and iPhoto ’11. The same apparently goes for Garageband ’11. We are not really sure why Apple chose not to go 64 bit with iLife ’11 seeing that Snow Leopard is fully 64 bit compatible. On the other hand they need something besides new slideshows and video effects for iLife ’12 or ’13, right?

The Apple TV has gotten its first unofficial app: NitoTV. It’s a media player that does RSS feeds and weather too:

We’ve discovered that you can run both a FaceTime and an iChat video chat on your Mac at the same time. Full audio and video for both chats. Video:

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COMPUTERWORLD: Facebook and Android users should be warned that an open model to security places them at risk. In an age of identity theft, billing checks are no protection at all, so perhaps there’s something good to say about Apple’s so-called ‘walled garden’ after all…

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7digital has developed its own iPhone app and is engaged in “positive discussions” with Apple, and expects its app — which enables music purchase and playback — will be made available via the App Store.

The UK-based digital music firm introduced its app for Android devices last month. The app lets users:
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