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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, December 24, 2013
 

 

 
Apple/Macintosh
  • "Cook, Apple execs expected to visit Turkey in Feb. to talk $3-4B deal" Electronista 8:34 AM
  • "Apple eyeing $4 billion iPad deal in Turkey" BGR 6:45 PM
  • "Google sues to protect Android device makers from Apple-backed patent hell" Gigaom 4:50 PM
  • "Apple-backed Rockstar group reportedly hawking its patents" VentureBeat 9:39 AM
  • "Apple's 'Rockstar Consortium' considering Nortel patent sale" iDownload Blog 8:30 AM
  • "Apple acquires BroadMap and Catch" iSource 8:50 AM
  • "Note-jotting and mapapp firms vanish into Apple's maw" The Register 8:41 AM
  • "Apple bought mapping, note-taking technologies in 2013" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2:56 PM
  • "Apple's 2013: Acquisitions, free software and incremental product updates" The Next Web 1:39 PM
OS X
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
Reviews/How-To/Tips
  • "Give the Gift of Tech Support: Simple Tips to Fix Up the Family Mac While Visiting Home This Holiday" OS X Daily 1:37 PM
  • "SystemStats offers quick overview of Mavericks system activity: Apple's report-generating routines in OS X Mavericks give in-depth views of your system's activity, which may help if you need to troubleshoot problems with your system." MacFixIt 11:17 AM
  • "iResizer Mac App Review: Rescale Photos Without Rescaling the Subject!" Tapscape 8:46 AM
  • "Return to innocence: Classic Mac OS on a Mac Plus emulator in any web browser" TechnologyTell 8:23 AM
  • "Got New Holiday Photos On Your Mac? Make Them Better With This App" McSolo 8:11 AM
  • "AudioNote: A Good, Affordable Gift App For Students With A Mac" Mac 360 8:10 AM
Op/Ed
  • "Cassandra: Working for Apple in Thailand -Job Listings" eXtensions 9:33 PM
Press Releases
  • "Let.ter for Mac adds Markdown, removes the inbox from your email" iMore 2:56 PM
  • "Free OpenEmu 1.0 console emulator is now available to download for Mac" iDownload Blog 10:10 AM
General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple, Microsoft and others now regret spending $4.5 billion on patents" BGR 7:48 PM
  • "Briefly: Japanese Apple Stores likely to kick off 'lucky bag' sales on Jan. 2" AppleInsider 8:36 PM
  • "Smartphone growth slowing in China as Apple expands iPhone presence" AppleInsider 1:37 PM
  • "Analysts say Samsung Edges Apple for #1 Ranking" TG Daily 8:45 AM
  • "Google edges Apple as most talked about company of 2013" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 10:46 AM
  • "The best and worst of smartphones in 2013: Gearing up for the next big thing" VentureBeat 8:51 AM
  • "I Can Make Your Parking Tickets Disappear" ["Eventually, I boned up on LA parking law and saved a lot of money, but I kept hearing friends complain about getting tricked into tickets. So I decided I should stop my complaining and try to do something to help LA's bewildered parkers. First, I looked around for a mobile phone app that would help. I expected such a thing would already exist, since people have been complaining about parking and traffic in LA since the beginning of curbs, but it didn't. So I decided to make my own."] City Watch LA 8:40 AM
  • "Samsung Set to Attack the iPhone 5C Aggressively in China and India in 2014" Patently Apple 1:37 PM
  • "Apple Dragged into New Lawsuit in China over App Store Game" Patently Apple 8:56 AM
  • "A look back at some of Apple's old Christmas commercials" iDownload Blog 3:27 PM
  • "Three Christmas videos: Samsung, Apple and Nokia/One creepy, one poignant, one bizarre." Fortune 8:35 AM
  • "iPhone 5 Replaces Galaxy S3 as the Most Popular Smartphone In UAE" iClarified 4:49 PM
  • "Missouri football players react to getting free iPad Minis for playing in the Cotton Bowl [Video] Network World 2:50 PM
  • "Steve Wozniak trivia: 10 surprising facts about Woz/How well do you know Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak? Here, we bring you 10 fun facts about Apple's co-founder that may surprise you." Macworld UK 8:34 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Astronauts take Christmas Eve spacewalk, make critical repair: But now they're home for the holidays: home at the International Space Station, that is, after a high-stakes repair job clearing the way for reactivation of a critical coolant system." CNET News 8:08 PM
  • "Online Sales Jumped 37% During Weekend: Sales Through Mobile Devices Rose 53%" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:49 PM
  • "Rounded Rectangles' 8 Best Design Innovations of 2013" Mac|Life 1:31 PM
  • "This is what a $7.2 billion smartphone looks like" BGR 11:17 AM
  • "Chromebooks charge into business market, capture 20% of commercial notebooks: According to NPD, tablets continued their push to replace the PC market. But so did Chromebooks, with great effect." PC World 8:49 AM
  • "Porn firewalls and self-driving cars: How tech invaded culture in 2013" The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required] 8:41 AM
  • "2013: The year in numbers/How much is Evan Williams worth? What percentage of YouTube traffic is mobile? It's all right here" IDG News Service 8:30 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Let's Talk iOS 008: The MacBook derailment" iDownload Blog 8:34 AM
Hardware/Software
  • "First Mac Pros Begin Arriving Ahead of Christmas" MacRumors 3:27 PM
  • "Apple Begins Preparing First Mac Pro Orders for December 30 Delivery" MacRumors 8:17 AM
  • "First Mac Pro Orders Now Shipping From Apple, Reaching Customers Dec. 30" AppAdvice 8:17 AM
  • "Larger iPads and iPhones Coming In 2014 [Rumor] Cult of Mac 8:25 AM
  • "iOS 7.1 No Public Release Until March" Tapscape 8:10 AM
Granted Apple Patents
  • "Apple Granted 23 Patents Today Including an Embedded Heart Rate Monitor that could be integrated into a future iWatch" Patently Apple 8:12 AM
  • "Apple patents accurate touch and hover panel, embedded heart rate monitor" AppleInsider 8:16 AM
  • "Apple Patents Integrated Heart Rate Monitor For Smartphones, Hover Touch Sensors" TechCrunch 8:31 AM
  • "Apple patents a hover touch sensor and heart rate monitor for smartphones" VentureBeat 9:39 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
  • "15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:13 AM
  • "13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:13 AM
  • "MacBook Air Prices & Sales" MacPrices 8:13 AM

Reviews/How-To/Tutorials/Tips
Reviews
  • "Mac Pro (Late 2013) review: Apple's new Mac Pro really is for pros" Macworld 8:30 AM
  • "For Pros, a Sleek Computer With Power Inside/Review: Apple's New Mac Pro Computer" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 8:57 AM
  • "What Do you Call 6 Displays and a 2013 Mac Pro? Fun!" OWC Blog 8:29 PM
  • "Review: Moga Ace Power iOS game controller one-ups the competition" 9to5Mac 1:31 PM
  • "The MiniDrive Review" Mac|Life 10:45 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
  • "Heyday review: Document the day's events at your convenience" Macworld 9:40 AM
  • "Blacklight: Simple but Effective Free Effects App for iOS Devices" eXtensions 8:14 AM
How-To/Tutorial
  • "Save your power cables with a little help from twist-ties" Macworld 3:26 PM
  • "How to access Apple's secret internal SpringBoard settings menu on iOS 7" iDownload Blog 1:30 PM
  • "Create a digital Yule log on your HDTV" Macworld 8:29 AM
  • "iCloud Keychain: Removing Your Data from Apple's Servers" The Mac Observer 8:13 AM
Tips
  • "Last minute life savers: 2013 holiday gift guide" iMore 9:40 AM
  • "Five Mac games that make fantastic last minute gifts" TechnologyTell 9:39 AM
  • "How To Turn Off Flashlight In iOS 7 Without Using Control Center" Redmond Pie 8:46 AM
Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
  • "Picturing Apple's Biggest Failures" Zero Hedge 4:48 PM
  • "A Quick Intro To Jailbreaking... Should You?" Low End Mac 1:39 PM
  • "Op-Ed: Next Issue Needs To Show iOS And Mac Users More Love" AppAdvice 1:39 PM
  • "Why Apple Sends All iPhones And iPads By Air: It's Cheaper" Forbes 11:17 AM
  • "Everything you know about earbuds is wrong/Earbuds and in-ear headphones: what exactly is the difference? The Audiophiliac breaks it down." CNET News 10:10 AM
  • "The Macalope: Just do something, anything!" Macworld 10:10 AM
  • "Apple Has All The Pieces It Needs To Become A Powerful Force In Payments In 2014"  Business Insider 10:10 AM
  • "Missing The Point Of Apple's China Mobile Deal" Forbes 9:40 AM
  • "The Mac Pro and the 4K 'Retina' Question" ParisLemon 3:27 PM
  • "Reviews agree: the new Mac Pro is a dream desktop with some serious oomph for pros" iDownload Blog 1:37 PM
  • "Apple's new Mac Pro a better value than the sum of its parts" AppleInsider 11:17 AM
  • "4K Displays and the New Mac Pro: It's More Complicated than You Think" The Mac Observer 8:51 AM
  • "iPhone 6 release date, rumours and leaked images - May 2014 iPhone launch?" Macworld UK 8:34 AM
  • "Opinion: The new Mac Pro makes the iMac the power user's desktop" Macworld 8:30 AM
  • "'Small, fast and in a league of its own' – the early Mac Pro verdicts are in" 9to5Mac 8:22 AM
  • "If at First Apple Can't Succeed, Buy an Electric Car Company?" The Tech Night Owl 8:11 AM
  • "Erasability: The Fly In Google's Ointment, And Apple's Icing On The Cake" PixoBebo 8:11 AM
Non-Apple
  • "An Apple Geek's Week with Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX" The Mac Observer 1:30 PM
  • "Beware The Big Data Backlash" Forbes 8:41 AM
Humor/Cartoons
  • "Christmas Hours for OWC / The Other World – Episode 89" OWC Blog 5:47 PM
Press Releases/Products/Public Relations
  • "Want the absolute best apps for your iPhone, iPad, or Mac? Here they are!" iMore 3:27 PM
  • "Geohot: iOS 7 jailbreak has not been 'backdoored' by China" BGR 1:39 PM
  • "25 apps you should download right now" CNNMoney 1:37 PM
  • "Castro for iPhone gets URL subscriptions for your festive podcast feasting" iMore 1:37 PM
  • "99 Stamps App is a whole new approach to philately and self education for the curious minds. Each stamp is a reflection of different events and facts with text description." 8 Moons Media 9:20 AM
  • "IconLover gets updated to version 5.38. This new release receives the ability to import vector images, supports super-size Mac OS X and introduces masking support for raster images. New visual effects allow combining icons and objects, making it easier to create perfectly flat 2D icons." Aha-Soft 9:07 AM
  • "Helpingu2save now Stocking Water Damage Repair Kits for iPhone" PRNewswire 8:52 AM
  • "Dragonfly Small Business Analytics Now Available in the Apple App Store" PRNewswire 8:52 AM
  • "Myspace for iOS gets a redesigned stream, a better profile editor, event live streaming and more" The Next Web 8:47 AM
  • "Announcing Elixr for iPhone and Android: Discover Great Drinks" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "Parodizer app is like a camera-bot that makes parodies" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "Geo World Deluxe for iOS - Learn Countries and States with Fun" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "TENideas: The App for Anyone Who Has Ever Said, I Have a Great Idea!" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "Brainwaves - The Unexplainable Store 4.0 for iOS - Brainwave Entrainment" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "Parachuting Frog launches Solisqr for iOS" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "Playground 1 Lite - Free-to-Try Version of Award-Winning App Released" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "SwingSong - Musical Pendulums App Released for iPad" prMac 8:47 AM
  • "Alcohoot Adds A Portable Breathalyzer To Your Smartphone" Forbes 8:41 AM
  • "'Display Recorder' and other tweaks shown off with iOS 7 support" iDownload Blog 8:30 AM
  • "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for iPhone on sale" TechnologyTell 8:23 AM
  • "Headphone Splitter With Per-Person Volume Control" Cult of Mac 8:22 AM
  • "You Can Count On This: Counters• App Gains New Features And Improvements" AppAdvice 8:17 AM
  • "Global Video-Streaming App Viki Updated To Version 3.0 With iOS 7 Redesign And More" AppAdvice 8:17 AM
Computer Industry
  • "Microsoft grabs 200 acres for a new data center in Washington" SlashGear 7:12 AM
  • "Microsoft-Backed Rockstar Consortium Planning To Sell Patents" Microsoft News 7:10 AM
  • "Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sells private island for $8 million" The Economic Times 7:11 AM
  • "Asus teases new dual-booting Android and Windows tablet" Crave @ CNET 7:12 AM
  • "HP mounts channel attack on EMC: We're a Bugatti, they're a VW bug" Channel Register 7:27 AM
  • "2013 is almost over, but HP will reportedly launch new smartphones this year" BGR 8:23 AM
  • "HP's new tablets may be its way back into the smartphone world" Engadget 7:05 AM
  • "HP to launch low-cost phablets in India by year-end: Report" NDTV Gadgets 7:05 AM
  • "Dell Venture Fund Targets Big Data, Cloud, Next-Gen Technologies" The VAR Guy 7:05 AM
  • "AMD unveils graphics processor for Apple's Mac Pro: AMD's FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer exceptional compute power and reliability for creativity and productivity in a wide range of applications, the firm said in a release." PTI 7:08 AM
  • "Next Generation of AMD Professional GPU Detailed, FirePro D700 Leads the Pack with 3.5 Teraflops of Compute" WCCF Tech 7:08 AM
  • "AMD unveils new FirePro graphics processor for Apple's Mac Pro" The Economic Times 7:08 AM
  • "Football club FC Barcelona puts Intel inside" Tech2 7:14 AM
  • "Daily Report: Resurgent Game Console Market Keeps Supplies Sparse" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:17 AM
  • "What we want in 2014: Break the mold, tech companies/Heading into the new year, it wouldn't hurt for the high-tech powers that be to get a little more stupid and crazy. Seriously." CNET News 6:53 AM
  • "U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:22 AM
  • "Looming disasters, and other tech predictions, for 2014 and beyond: Predictions and miscellany, a reading list" Computerworld 7:46 AM
Finances (Click heading for current Apple Stock price.)
Apple News
  • "An Apple Bear Makes The Case For Apple At $1,000 By 2017"  Seeking Alpha 8:30 AM
  • "Analyst: Get Ready for AAPL Boost from China Mobile Deal" The Mac Observer 10:29 AM
Industry News
  • "Tech Stocks: Twitter rises, Apple off in shortened trading day/Activity was muted as stock market close early ahead of Christmas holiday" MarketWatch 1:00 PM
  • "Record rally continues on Wall Street" CNNMoney 10:26 AM
  • "Stock Futures Flat as Market Awaits Key Data Ahead of Christmas Break" TheStreet 7:18 AM
  • "Stock Futures Steady Ahead of Durable Goods Data" FOXBusiness 7:19 AM
  • "Stocks End Higher as Dow Sets Record: Treasurys Fall, Sending Benchmark 10-Year Yield Closer to 3%" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12:47 PM
  • "Asia Markets: Asia stocks mostly rise, as Tokyo hits six-year high/Japanese shares closed at a six-year high Tuesday, propelled steadily upward as investors looked to developed Asia for returns, indicating growing faith in Japan's reform agenda." MarketWatch 7:18 AM
  • "Europe Markets: European stocks poised for fifth positive day/European stock markets headed for a fifth straight day of gains in thin holiday trade on Tuesday, as investors waited for durable-goods orders data from the U.S." MarketWatch 7:19 AM
  • "Early Glance: Computer companies/Computer companies shares mixed at 10 a.m." Associated Press 10:25 AM

 
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