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In the past I”ve mentioned some excellent tutorials on how to use Core Text to display great looking text such as this tutorial on formatting text magazine style using Core Text.

I’ve also mentioned some libraries in the past such like this library allowing you to split up your text into multiple columns easily using core text.

With this library you can customize the fonts and coloring, and then use html style tags to very quickly format your text.  Included is a demo project that you can follow to see exactly how this is done.

Here’s a screenshot showing a segment from the demo proejct:

The  library is FTCoreText from Fuerte International.  You can find the Github repository here.

A great library to spruce up a page of text quickly and easily.

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In these pics over at the Hollywood Reporter, you can clearly see Peter Vesterbacka, the CEO of Rovio, who you may remember from his speech earlier this year at GDC 2011. The woman he’s pictured with is none other than his wife, Teija Vesterbacka, who, according to the pictures, looks like a very lovely and elegant woman.

The two look like they’re about to have a very good time at a very fancy dinner, which is called the Castle Ball at the Finnish Presidential Palace, a formal event to celebrate Finland’s Independence Day.

The dress that she’s wearing, however, clearly modeled after the big red Angry Bird? Well — no comment.

No Comment: Rovio exec’s wife dresses up Angry Birds style originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple previewed its latest retail development for the press today. The Grand Central Terminal store in New York City, opening Friday, will be among the largest Apple stores in the world; it overlooks the Main Concourse from the East and North East balconies of Grand Central Terminal.

Check out the gallery of inside shots above, courtesy of NPD’s Ross Rubin. He reports that the store includes an “express checkout” area (“like an Apple Store inside the Apple Store”) and dual Genius Bars.

Business Insider posted some nice shots of what the store looks like on the inside and Fortune has a video walkthrough, embedded below.

As an extra bonus to commuters, Apple is providing free Wi-Fi throughout the terminal. Also, the store will be the first to offer 15-minute Express Workshops of “tips and tricks in a streamlined format to serve customers on a tight schedule,” according to a press release issued by Apple this morning.

The Grand Central Terminal store opens to the public this Friday, December 9, at 10 AM. Over three hundred Apple employees will be on hand to help the expected rush of holiday shoppers. Normal business hours will be from 7 AM to 9 PM, Monday through Friday; Saturday 10 AM to 7 PM, and Sunday 11 AM to 6 PM. Our own Mike Rose will be scoping out the opening; if you see him on Friday, say hello (he’ll be the guy in the TUAW t-shirt).

Grand Central Terminal Apple Store previewed for media, opens Friday originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Xbox owners with iPhones or iPads, rejoice! Microsoft has added a brand new app called My Xbox Live to the App Store today. The free app takes your Xbox Live experience portable, letting you connect with friends, update your Avatar, and even browse through the games hub all directly from the App.

The app is a 17 MB download and is universal for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It requires iOS 4.3 or later. It also needs (of course) an Xbox LIVE membership, and you’ll have to know the Windows Live ID associated with your Xbox account.

If you’ve updated your Xbox this week already with the new dashboard, you’ll know that you have to approve some brand new Terms of Service to sign in to Xbox Live, so you’ll have to approve those to use this app as well. Our friends at Joystiq have found that the ToS might prevent class action lawsuits, so click at your own risk.

Although the app works over 3G, Microsoft suggests a Wi-Fi connection for best performance. Check out some screen grabs of the app in action in the gallery below.

My Xbox Live available on the App Store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome to another episode of TUAW TV Live! On today’s show, I have a prerecorded interview with Paul Kent of IDG World Expo, the man behind next January’s Macworld | iWorld: The Ultimate Fan Event. In the interview, Paul gives TUAW TV Live viewers the word on what is going to make Macworld | iWorld so different from all those many years of Macworld Expo.

I’ll also be demonstrating a few new Mac apps for viewers today. It seems like there has been a sudden surge in rollouts of innovative new Mac apps, so there are a few I wanted to demonstrate on TUAW TV Live today.

Below, you’ll find a Ustream livestream viewer and a chat tool. The chat tool allows you to participate by asking questions or making comments.

If you’re driving somewhere and would like to watch TUAW TV Live while you’re stuck in traffic, please don’t — keep your eyes on the road! However, if someone else is doing the driving, you can watch the show on your iPhone and join the chat by downloading the free Ustream App. It’s a universal app and is wonderful on an iPad, both for viewing and participating in the chat.

We’ll start at about 5 PM ET, so if you’re seeing a prerecorded show, be sure to refresh your browser until you see the live stream. For those of you who are not able to join us for the live edition, you’ll be able to view it later this evening on our TUAW Video YouTube channel and as part of the TUAW TV Live podcast viewable in iTunes or on any of your Apple devices.

TUAW TV Live: Paul Kent interview, a few cool Mac apps originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple is hiring more engineers for the Siri team, with at least two postings open for iOS software engineers dedicated to the project. “You will primarily be responsible for implementing the content that appears within the conversational view. This is a broad-ranging task — we take every application that Siri interacts with, distill it down to fundamentals, and implement that application’s UI in a theme fitting with Siri,” one posting notes. “Consider it an entire miniature OS within the OS, and you get a good idea of the scope!”

These positions have been open since early November, but they were brought into the spotlight recently when Siri UI manager Dan Keen posted them on Twitter. AppleInsider subsequently pointed out that three postings also exist for Language Technologies Engineers dedicated to bringing Siri support to languages beyond those it currently supports.

Siri’s functionality is already quite impressive — despite a few wildly overpublicized hiccups — but it’s clear that Apple isn’t content to let the service stay as it is for too long.

Apple recruiting engineers for Siri team originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You’re a high-end audio equipment manufacturer, and you want to finally make a splash in the iPod touch/iPhone world. So what do you do to get the attention of customers who are bored with traditional iPhone docks? You create a huge 4-foot tall by 8-foot wide, 10,000-Watt iPhone/iPad dock called the iNuke Boom. Then you sell it for US$29,999.99.

Behringer has been making pro audio equipment for 20 years, ever since founder Uli Behringer started the company on his kitchen table. The company has decided to enter the consumer audio market with 50 new products under the Eurosound brand, and to celebrate they’re going to show off the huge iPhone/iPad dock at CES 2012.

In case you’re thinking about putting one of these in your house, note that you’ll probably need special electrical wiring and a floor that will support a 700 pound speaker. You may also want to clear this with your neighbors before you decide to turn the volume to 11 and hit the shuffle button on the Music app.

There’s no word in the press release about whether Behringer will provide free shipping for the iNuke Boom or not, or if the monstrous dock will be available on Amazon.com in time for Christmas.

Behringer iNuke Boom: The $30K 10,000-Watt iPhone dock you know you want originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Thanks to the success of the iPhone 4S, AT&T announced today that it expects to have its best quarter ever for sales of smartphones. In the press release from AT&T, the company noted that its network is the place where iPhone 4S users can “download three times faster and talk and surf at the same time.”

Over 1 million iPhone 4S smartphones were activated by AT&T in the first five days of availability, although the cellular carrier declined to note how many devices out of 6 million sold in October and November were iPhones. Since December is usually a strong month for smartphone sales, AT&T should beat its previous quarterly smartphone sales record of 6.1 million units.

AT&T senior VP and CFO, John Stephens, revealed the information at a conference in New York. Stephens also told attendees that it plans on having its 4G LTE network available to 70 million people by the end of 2011. Apple has not yet announced plans to launch an LTE iPhone in 2012, although that move is widely expected.

AT&T expects record quarter on iPhone 4S sales originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite the occasional report of issues with new models, most Macs tend to be quite reliable. Most Mac users intuitively feel that they’re getting a quality machine for their money, and now the PCWorld 2011 Reliability and Service Survey validates that feeling.

Apple desktop computers (iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro) topped the survey, which compiled results from 63,000 PCWorld readers. The survey ranked manufacturers on five criteria — problem on arrival, any significant problem, any failed component replaced, dead PC, and overall satisfaction with reliability. Apple got a better than average rating from respondents in four of the five categories, trouncing second and third place Asus and Dell business PCs that both captured that rating in only two categories.

In terms of reliability, what are the desktop PCs you want to stay away from? At the bottom of the list were CyberPower, Dell (for home), and HP (for home). The CyberPower PCs (which I’ve personally never even heard of) received worse than average ratings across the board.

Mac owners were also ecstatic about the features of their computers, with Apple getting a better than average rating in six out of seven categories. The sole category in which Apple got slapped with a worse than average rating was expandability. That’s not surprising, since the majority of Apple desktop owners have either purchased the iMac or Mac mini, both of which are pretty well closed to any expansion except for RAM.

The third area in which Apple kicked butt and took names was in desktop support and maintenance. Apple received better than average scores in four out of four categories, with no other manufacturer receiving a better than average score.

Apple sweeps PCWorld satisfaction survey originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Although it’s not yet live in the US Store as of this writing, Warner Brothers has released Batman: Arkham City Lockdown in the NZ App Store, and it will be rolling out in other countries over the day. “Scour the rooftops and the seedy underbelly of Gotham City through a series of one-on-one battles with the Joker, Two-Face and more, as well as the Batman: Arkham City Lockdown exclusive — Deathstroke,” the game’s description notes.

While the gameplay and graphics aren’t likely to be as intense as the full Arkham City game on consoles and PCs, the game does use the same Unreal Engine as Infinity Blade 2, which makes for some very impressive-looking screenshots of the app in action.

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown is a universal app for both iPhone and iPad, compatible with iPhone 3GS and above, 3rd generation iPod touch and above, and all models of iPad. Like other graphically-intensive iOS games, however, you’ll probably only get the best visuals on the iPhone 4S or iPad 2.

The game is available in the New Zealand App Store for NZ$8.29, and it should be available in the US Store later today at a price of US$5.99.

Warner Brothers releases Batman: Arkham City Lockdown for iOS originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A report at VR-Zone has the details on Intel’s next generation Core i7 and Core i5 processors. As the successor to Sandy Bridge, these Ivy Bridge processors will likely land in the 2012 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Looking closely at the CPU specs, we can get a sneak peek at Apple’s future notebook refresh.

Intel will boost the processor speeds across its Core i5 and i7 lineup. The quad-core Core i7 models will start at 2.6 GHz and top out at 2.9 GHz, a step up from the 2.2 GHz to 2.5 GHZ quad-core Core i7 found in the 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro models. There’s also a new dual-core Core i7 CPU running at 2.9 GHz, which is a small bump from the 2.8 GHz dual-core Core i7 found in the 13-inch MBP.

There will be new dual-core Core i5 CPUs clocked at 2.8 and 2.6 GHz. This will be a nice bump from the 2.4 GHz Core i5 found in the base 13-inch MBP. All dual-core models will now support the faster 1600MHz DDR3 memory, and there’s a new graphics processor, the Intel HD Graphics 4000 which will support up to three independent displays (including the laptop display).

For the MacBook Air, Intel will introduce two processors — a 2 GHz Core i7 and a 1.8 GHz Core i5. This pair will be a nice upgrade from the 1.6/1.7 GHz Core i5 and the 1.8 GHz Core i7 in the 2011 MacBook Air.

The Ivy Bridge processors have a Thermal Design Power (TDP) ranging from 17 W to 55 W. Apple currently uses 17 W processors in the MacBook Air and 35 W-45 W processors in the Pro. New to the Ivy Bridge processors is a programmable TDP, which will give Apple greater flexibility in its case design and CPU choice. Apple could possibly choose a processor and tweak the TDP to produce a notebook with the power of a MacBook Pro and the design of the MacBook Air. These Ivy Bridge processors should land in May 2012 which gives us an approximate time frame for the debut of new MacBook Air and Pro models.

[Via MacRumors]

Ivy Bridge Mobile CPUs supposedly ready for MacBook Pro, Air originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Batch-processing files is a great way to save time. Automator scripts work will for simple jobs, but if you’re trying to do something complex like remove or alter the filename of a great many files, a free tool like NameChanger could be a useful addition to your armory.

NameChanger takes on file renaming with aplomb. It’ll allow you to replace parts of a file name, append or prepend characters to existing file names, as well as add dates, sequences or any other regular expression. It’s a little more complex than the likes of Quick File Renamer; but once you get to grips with it, it’s a rapid way to process files.

One thing that’s not that obvious when you first start out, is that to get NameChanger to ignore file extensions in it’s processing of your file name, you have to reach into the Options menu and tick the “Hide Extensions” box. That way you can maintain the original file extensions of the files you’re processing.

Once you’ve got that down pat, it’s just a case dragging and dropping the files you want modified onto the app. You use the drop-down box to select the type of processing you want, type in the characters or select the sequence or date string and hit “Rename.” Alternatively, if you want to do it all within the program you can use the “Add,” “Remove” and “Clear” buttons on the toolbar.

While it’s true you can perform all these functions with Automator’s file actions, NameChanger brings swift flexibility to your batch-renaming tasks. It’s free, so if you’re after a file renamer, it’s well worth checking out.

Thanks for the suggestion Brandon.

Daily Mac App: NameChanger originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world.

You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) or the non-Flash link below. To subscribe to the podcast for daily listening through iTunes, click here.

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Daily Update for December 7, 2011 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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