How Anyone can Install Fever in Ten Minutes

Perhaps you’re visiting this article because you’re strongly interested in applying Fever as your RSS client, or you’ve read our previous review of Fever and Ashes here on MacStories. We understand you may be a little weary of tackling such a project. Installing Fever can admittedly be intimidating for non-geeks, an audience Fever was clearly not intended for. But we have you covered. In ten minutes, you (anyone) can have Fever up and running, provided you’re prepared for the following:

1.) There is no trial of Fever available. It’s $30 with no refunds. Be ready to pay when prompted via Paypal.

2.) We’re suggesting a cheap hosting solution you’ll have to pay monthly for. At minimum, about a dollar a month. You will not need to purchase a domain name.

3.) You’ll need to have a SFTP client available so you can upload Fever to the host. We will use Forklift Beta 2, free to download (Mac only). However, you can use any client you want. You just need to use it once.

4.) These instructions should work as of July 14th, 2010. We can’t promise Fever or the host we choose will change the installation process - if they do we’ll gladly update this article when we can.

If you’re ready to tackle the tedious installation process, then let’s get started.

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A Daily Digg for iPad

Look, we get it that you use your iPad to read articles online. We’ve talked oh-so-many times before about it. You have Reeder, Ashes, Instapaper, Pulse and Blogshelf already installed and placed on your home screen.

Now, you have Digg, too.

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Ostrich: A Twitter Client for Safari

We’re still waiting for Tweetie 2.0 for Mac to be announced (though we’ve heard something new is going on this week) yet a lot of developers haven’t given up on developing and refining their own unofficial Twitter clients. And since Apple released Safari 5 with the possibility to install extensions on it, it was just a matter of time until someone developed a “full-featured” Twitter client for it.

Meet Ostrich.

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An iPhone 4 Recall Will Cost Apple $1.5 Billion

If Apple were to recall the iPhone 4 (it’s likely they won’t), how much would it cost America’s most expensive company? Estimated at 1.5 Billion dollars, a recall which would be an incredibly expensive venture that Cupertino isn’t interested in perusing. Though if Apple doesn’t act on the iPhone 4 issues, the company is prospected to lose $900 Million anyway, possibly losing up to $200 Million each week the issue isn’t resolved. A cost effective solution could be to distribute free bumpers to customers; Apple sells the bumpers at $30 a pop, but it would only cost Apple $1 per iPhone to distribute free bumpers to customers as a patch according to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi.

[via AppleInsider (Recall and Loss Estimates) and TUAW]

Apple Purchases Online Mapping Company, Poly9

The Android comes with free Google Maps Navigation. iPhone owners will often downplay this feature of Android handsets, but for me it’s the definitive feature that has kept me from using an iPhone handset for my daily needs. Google Maps Navigation is super convenient to have, and I’m looking forward to when Apple releases a similar, competitive product of its own (if they ever will that is). As Apple’s and Google’s relationship dissolves in the smart-phone market, they may be looking to absolve themselves of Google’s services at some point down the road. Mainly their Maps feature.

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Apple Confirms Their Attack on China

The next big market for Apple is Asia, specifically the Chinese market. We’ve already seen their brand new Shanghai store (it looks grand), and Apple has confirmed that a total of 25 outlets are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011. This is in line with earlier reports, and it’s just another drop in the bucket for the $40 Billion dollar company.

[via Macnn]

The iPod is Still Strong, Grips 76 Percent of Market

As I entered junior high, iPods were the big thing everybody had to have. I remember carrying around the fifth generation black iPod Video, the most awesome thing out at the time. When a repair accident left the LCD damaged, I shelved the aging unit and purchased the iPod touch once that landed in stores later in senior high. This was long before an App Store existed on the device, and after three years of owning the iPod touch, I’m looking forward to the next refresh later this year.

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