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A Michael Jackson spoof featuring iPhone and iPad rival gangs who fight over Twitter and different devices?
Oh boy. I don’t know what bothers me the most, the fact that these people spent hours filming this or that I actually enjoyed the video below. Read more
Chocomoko has released version 2.0 of their SweetFM Mac application. SweetFM is a Last.fm client and player for Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4.
Version 2.0 has a completely redesigned UI that is more user-friendly and uses native Mac OS technologies. It also comes with Safari and Chrome browser extensions for Last.fm station control and can open the iTunes store pages from the current track. Other features: supports Media Keys, has an EQ, tagging and social network sharing, device scrobbling, multiple user accounts, hot keys and playlist management. Read more
It appears that the engineers over at Amazon Germany let a very brief detail slip though the lines of code: if you head over iLife’s product page and check on the “All Offers” box in the sidebar, it’ll tell you that iLife will be available on October 20th. Ring a bell?
As 9to5mac also notices, the US version seems to be less expensive. Hopefully we’ll know more on Wednesday.
N.O.V.A. is one of my favorite games for iPhone and iPad. I don’t usually talk about games here on MacStories, but N.O.V.A. 2 is a thing I’m excited about: a sequel to one of the most successful and critically acclaimed games in the App Store, which Gameloft has confirmed through its official podcast will be available “this fall on Apple devices worldwide”.
It’s likely that N.O.V.A.2 will come out before the holiday season in both iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad editions. Check out the screenshots and footage from the Gameloft podcast below. Read more
Two days ago iRamadah reported (Google Translation) that FaceTime in the Middle East was working fine using an iPod Touch 4th gen. It turns out that the units they used carried MC544FD, MC540FD and MC547FD model numbers, which are the ones Apple sell in Switzerland, SaudiMac reports. Read more
ShowPass is a new Safari extension by Canisbos (makers of extensions such as PopSearch, Placemaker, Moofmarks and TabKeys) that reveals your saved passwords when you move the cursor over the password input field. When you move your cursor out, your password is hidden again. Easy and simple! Read more
Later today starting at 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT) Apple will hold the Q4 earnings call during which the company will announce their financial results. An audio-only live streaming will be available at apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq410. As usual, we’ll offer a breakdown of the results and have a post in the homepage with continually updating notes from the earnings call.
Apple is expected to post blockbuster sales in this quarter, even after all the Antennagate issues this summer. Analysts have predicted roughly 6 million iPads sold during Q4 2010, 13 million iPhones and 4 million Macs. We’ll know the whole truth in 10 hours.
Apple is set to offer a preview of the next Mac operating system (allegedly called “Lion”) on Wednesday and Apple’s stock is currently trending at $314.
Ever wake up with an inbox full of Facebook emails? Annoyed by newsletters you’re not going to read anyway? Going through all of them just to get rid of the red badge just takes too much time. This is why we invented Mark Read, an easy way to mark either your entire inbox or just the emails you want as read/unread, right within Mail.app.
Exactly: Mark Read is a useful tweak available in Cydia which helps you getting rid of that damn red badge from Mail.app in a few taps. Admittedly, going through every email in the morning is annoying, especially if you do get a lot of emails. Why didn’t Apple think of this before? All you have to do to activate Mark Read is tap on the Edit button in your inbox, then you have two options: mark all messages as read/unread, or select some manually. That’s it. Simple and effective.
Mark Read is available at $1.99 on the Cydia Store. Read more
The new iPod Touch is good but it’s not an iPhone 4. In fact, it hasn’t got the same Retina Display (no IPS technology for iPod Touch users) and it can’t shoot photos as well as the iPhone 4 can. Particularly, iPod Touch users have been looking for a way to enable HDR photography, and now thanks to HDREnabler (version 1.1-1) available for free in Cydia they can. Read more
