achinoam01: June 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Opinion: iCloud breaks through at WWDC

Apple may have discussed three major topics at last week's WWDC keynote, but Dan Moren thinks that iCloud is unquestionably the farthest-reaching, and potentially the most important, of any of them.

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New York Times, OpinionLab sue Lodsys in preemptive strikes

Lodsys faced the consequences of its actions again Monday after the New York Times Company and OpinionLab both sued Lodsys (below) to invalidate its patents. Similar to the lawsuit from ForeSee, both of the plaintiffs are seeking a declaratory judgment that would at least absolve them of guilt and also nullify the patents themselves. OpinionLab's complaint alleged that Lodsys was violating Illinois fair competition laws and was committing tortious interference by scaring investors away....

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Unix mail notifications via Growl

This tip lets you get a notification through Growl whenever new Unix mail arrives, with the subject of the mail. I get Unix mail as a result of run cron-jobs. I use cron because whether you have lingon or not; it is far easier to schedule a job with cron.

When there is something that I really want to watch from a process run by cron I do:

echo "the very interesting stuff" |mail -s "IMPORTANT" myusername

or some other Unix command to send the same mail message.

The problem is that I have to manually go into Unix mail and manually check if there is any new mail or not, and sometimes I just forget to do that.

Therefor I have made a notification in Growl via a launchd job and an AppleScript.

Prerequisites: You need to have installed Growl and Growl helper.

The lanchd process checks if your /var/mail/You mail file has changed, and if it has, the launchd process will run the ...

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Bungie releases free iOS app

Game developer Bungie (the folks behind the Halo series, originally scheduled for release on Mac but also the game that eventually became the keystone of Microsoft's game console) has released an official iPhone app, just in time for the company's 20th anniversary. Bungie Mobile is available for free on the App Store, and allows you to browse through your and other players' Halo information, see official Bungie news and just generally enjoy the heck out of one of the best gaming developers around.

Additionally, when you sign in to the app with a Bungie account, you can get blue flames for your helmet in Halo: Reach, a special graphical effect previously reserved only for Bungie employees. Good deal.

Bungie is doing all of this to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary on July 7, so happy anniversary to them. And now that they're out from under the thumb of a Microsoft partnership, hopefully we'll see even more Apple-related releases in the future.

Bungie releases free iOS app originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Garmin acquires navigation rival Navigon

GPS maker Garmin has acquired Germany-based competitor Navigon for an undisclosed amount. The company will operate as a subsidiary of Garmin.

Source: http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=11d3947e90646f7708b29370a17b4bd6

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Apple Store employee moves to create a union

The employee who formed the Apple Retail Workers Union in May has revealed himself to be Cory Moll, a part-time employee at a San Francisco Apple store. Moll told Reuters that he decided to go public with his union stance in order to encourage other like-minded employees to come forward.

In order to unionize, a majority of workers need to support the idea before a union can be formed. Moll says there's currently less than 50 percent interest in most of Apple's stores, "...but as people talk about it, we could get close in a couple of stores."

Apple confirmed to Reuters that Moll has been an employee for four years. He makes US$14 an hour at the San Francisco store where he works. The San Francisco minimum wage is $9.92 per hour. In addition to a website, Moll has set up a Twitter account and Facebook page to rally others to his cause.

Apple Store employee moves to create a union originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPad 2 Arrives in 25 More Countries This Friday

Apple today announced that iPad 2, the second-generation of its third post-PC device, will go on sale in 25 additional countries this Friday, March 25. iPad 2 will be available at Apple Retail Stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers at 5 p.m. local time, and through the Apple Online Store beginning at 1 a.m. Apple today also announced that all models of iPad 2 will be available in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and additional countries in April.

Source: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/22ipad.html?sr=hotnews.rss

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Poor-man's AppleScript vocalizer

A bad cold has temporarily robbed me of my voice, so I decided to pay homage to Stephen Hawking and whip up a poor-man's vocalizer. More fun than function here, but it did let me order my latte at Starbucks without pain, and with a great many laughs all around.

Run this from the AppleScript Editor, save it to the Scripts Menu, or save it as an Application; whatever method works best for you.

 property currentVoice : "Vicki" set systemVoices to {"Agnes", "Albert", "Alex", "BadNews", "Bahh", "Bells", "Boing", "Bruce", �  "Bubbles", "Cellos", "Deranged", "Fred", "GoodNews", "Hysterical", "Junior", "Kathy", �  "Organ", "Princess", "Ralph", "Trinoids", "Vicki", "Victoria", "Whisper", "Zarvox"}  repeat  activate me  set theResult to display dialog "Say What?" default answer �   "" buttons {"Quit", "Sp ...

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HP may beat Apple, others to NFC in new tablets, phones

HP may be planning a quick follow-up on its webOS devices that would add NFC wireless, a pair of sources purported on Monday. Both phones and tablets were supposedly on the docket and could ship as early as this year, just months after the TouchPad and the first wave of post-takeover devices ship. Technical details weren't given out but presumably would involve new phones beyond the Veer and Pre3....