Category: I-phone

iPad wrap manufacturers SlickWraps celebrated American Independence day in the most traditional manner. Blowing things up in order to sell their product. Cool pyrotechnics meeting capitalism, all in the pursuit of fun.

Their video, which follows, shows the iPad (although not so much the Apple logo) walking away almost unscratched from a bag of splodey Black Cats.

And to that, we say, “No Comment” — although we do say “Again! Again! More boom!” Thanks to all the TUAW tipsters who passed this one on to us.

No Comment: iPad vs 300 Black Cats originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The eject key sits in the upper right corner of most modern Apple keyboards. On my big iMac with its SuperDrive, it occasionally gets pressed when I need to kick out a backup DVD, but the rest of the time it sits alone. It’s even worse on a MacBook Air. With no SuperDrive to speak of, the eject key was replaced with a tiny power button and the eject function moved to the F12 key next door. What do you do with a key that has outlived its usefulness? Give it another reason to live!

This all got started when one of the employees at Other World Computing, the folks who make all of those fast internal SSDs for MacBook Pros and other devices, had the optical drive on his 2011 MacBook Pro removed and replaced with an OWC Data Doubler + 750 GB hard disk drive. OWC’s Erik was already enjoying a speedy 480 GB SSD as his startup drive in the MacBook Pro, but wanted the luxury of more storage.

With his eject key now taking up space and not paying the rent, Erik looked around and found a free app called KeyRemap4MacBook. The app remaps most of the non-alphanumeric keys on the Macbook keyboard to a set of different functions. Not only can you assign duplicate keys (Option and Command keys, for example) to perform different functions, but KeyRemap4MacBook makes keys do different things depending on what app you’re currently using (note that you can already do this to a point using Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences).

Erik used the app to remap his eject key to be a forward delete key (Fn + Delete), and noted that if he does happen to have an external optical drive connected to the MBP, KeyRemap4MacBook thoughtfully provides a way to use the eject key as, well, an eject key.

One thing that KeyRemap4MacBook doesn’t do is use a standard delay when pressed, so there’s a companion app called NoEjectDelay by the same developer that clears the eject key delay.

The inquiring minds at TUAW want to know what function you’d remap your eject key to perform, or if you’d just turn the eject key into one-half of a pair of cufflinks. Leave us a note in the comments below.

On re-purposing the increasingly useless eject key originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPad wrap manufacturers SlickWraps celebrated American Independence day in the most traditional manner. Blowing things up in order to sell their product. Cool pyrotechnics meeting capitalism, all in the pursuit of fun.

Their video, which follows, shows the iPad (although not so much the Apple logo) walking away almost unscratched from a bag of splodey Black Cats.

And to that, we say, “No Comment” — although we do say “Again! Again! More boom!” Thanks to all the TUAW tipsters who passed this one on to us.

No Comment: iPad vs 300 Black Cats originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The eject key sits in the upper right corner of most modern Apple keyboards. On my big iMac with its SuperDrive, it occasionally gets pressed when I need to kick out a backup DVD, but the rest of the time it sits alone. It’s even worse on a MacBook Air. With no SuperDrive to speak of, the eject key was replaced with a tiny power button and the eject function moved to the F12 key next door. What do you do with a key that has outlived its usefulness? Give it another reason to live!

This all got started when one of the employees at Other World Computing, the folks who make all of those fast internal SSDs for MacBook Pros and other devices, had the optical drive on his 2011 MacBook Pro removed and replaced with an OWC Data Doubler + 750 GB hard disk drive. OWC’s Erik was already enjoying a speedy 480 GB SSD as his startup drive in the MacBook Pro, but wanted the luxury of more storage.

With his eject key now taking up space and not paying the rent, Erik looked around and found a free app called KeyRemap4MacBook. The app remaps most of the non-alphanumeric keys on the Macbook keyboard to a set of different functions. Not only can you assign duplicate keys (Option and Command keys, for example) to perform different functions, but KeyRemap4MacBook makes keys do different things depending on what app you’re currently using (note that you can already do this to a point using Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences).

Erik used the app to remap his eject key to be a forward delete key (Fn + Delete), and noted that if he does happen to have an external optical drive connected to the MBP, KeyRemap4MacBook thoughtfully provides a way to use the eject key as, well, an eject key.

One thing that KeyRemap4MacBook doesn’t do is use a standard delay when pressed, so there’s a companion app called NoEjectDelay by the same developer that clears the eject key delay.

The inquiring minds at TUAW want to know what function you’d remap your eject key to perform, or if you’d just turn the eject key into one-half of a pair of cufflinks. Leave us a note in the comments below.

On re-purposing the increasingly useless eject key originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The eject key sits in the upper right corner of most modern Apple keyboards. On my big iMac with its SuperDrive, it occasionally gets pressed when I need to kick out a backup DVD, but the rest of the time it sits alone. It’s even worse on a MacBook Air. With no SuperDrive to speak of, the eject key was replaced with a tiny power button and the eject function moved to the F12 key next door. What do you do with a key that has outlived its usefulness? Give it another reason to live!

This all got started when one of the employees at Other World Computing, the folks who make all of those fast internal SSDs for MacBook Pros and other devices, had the optical drive on his 2011 MacBook Pro removed and replaced with an OWC Data Doubler + 750 GB hard disk drive. OWC’s Erik was already enjoying a speedy 480 GB SSD as his startup drive in the MacBook Pro, but wanted the luxury of more storage.

With his eject key now taking up space and not paying the rent, Erik looked around and found a free app called KeyRemap4MacBook. The app remaps most of the non-alphanumeric keys on the Macbook keyboard to a set of different functions. Not only can you assign duplicate keys (Option and Command keys, for example) to perform different functions, but KeyRemap4MacBook makes keys do different things depending on what app you’re currently using (note that you can already do this to a point using Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences).

Erik used the app to remap his eject key to be a forward delete key (Fn + Delete), and noted that if he does happen to have an external optical drive connected to the MBP, KeyRemap4MacBook thoughtfully provides a way to use the eject key as, well, an eject key.

One thing that KeyRemap4MacBook doesn’t do is use a standard delay when pressed, so there’s a companion app called NoEjectDelay by the same developer that clears the eject key delay.

The inquiring minds at TUAW want to know what function you’d remap your eject key to perform, or if you’d just turn the eject key into one-half of a pair of cufflinks. Leave us a note in the comments below.

On re-purposing the increasingly useless eject key originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Controlling iTunes with the keyboard is easy enough, but what if you want a little more information without having to resort to the full iTunes window? Music Commander is here to help.

Sitting in the menu bar, Music Commander allows you to control iTunes with an extensive drop-down menu. You’ve got the usual play controls for quick access with your mouse, but you’ve also got some of iTunes more advanced music controls.

You can rate the current song, switch shuffle and repeat on and off, as well as change the current playlist. Volume control is right there too, as well as the album art and metadata of the current track including album, artist and song name.

If you want to get a bit social with your iTunes listening experience (no I’m not talking about Ping), Music Commander has Twitter, Facebook and last.fm built in, letting you tweet, post or scrobble the current song. When you’ve had enough you can even quit iTunes right from Music Commander.

If you’ve been looking for a decent iTunes controller for your menu bar, Music Commander might just be the ticket. While you can accomplish quite a lot of the functionality using Apple keyboard media controls and Growl, Music Commander puts it all there, in one nice and tidy package.

Music Commander is available for US$0.99 from the Mac App Store.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The eject key sits in the upper right corner of most modern Apple keyboards. On my big iMac with its SuperDrive, it occasionally gets pressed when I need to kick out a backup DVD, but the rest of the time it sits alone. It’s even worse on a MacBook Air. With no SuperDrive to speak of, the eject key was replaced with a tiny power button and the eject function moved to the F12 key next door. What do you do with a key that has outlived its usefulness? Give it another reason to live!

This all got started when one of the employees at Other World Computing, the folks who make all of those fast internal SSDs for MacBook Pros and other devices, had the optical drive on his 2011 MacBook Pro removed and replaced with an OWC Data Doubler + 750 GB hard disk drive. OWC’s Erik was already enjoying a speedy 480 GB SSD as his startup drive in the MacBook Pro, but wanted the luxury of more storage.

With his eject key now taking up space and not paying the rent, Erik looked around and found a free app called KeyRemap4MacBook. The app remaps most of the non-alphanumeric keys on the Macbook keyboard to a set of different functions. Not only can you assign duplicate keys (Option and Command keys, for example) to perform different functions, but KeyRemap4MacBook makes keys do different things depending on what app you’re currently using (note that you can already do this to a point using Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences).

Erik used the app to remap his eject key to be a forward delete key (Fn + Delete), and noted that if he does happen to have an external optical drive connected to the MBP, KeyRemap4MacBook thoughtfully provides a way to use the eject key as, well, an eject key.

One thing that KeyRemap4MacBook doesn’t do is use a standard delay when pressed, so there’s a companion app called NoEjectDelay by the same developer that clears the eject key delay.

The inquiring minds at TUAW want to know what function you’d remap your eject key to perform, or if you’d just turn the eject key into one-half of a pair of cufflinks. Leave us a note in the comments below.

On re-purposing the increasingly useless eject key originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Controlling iTunes with the keyboard is easy enough, but what if you want a little more information without having to resort to the full iTunes window? Music Commander is here to help.

Sitting in the menu bar, Music Commander allows you to control iTunes with an extensive drop-down menu. You’ve got the usual play controls for quick access with your mouse, but you’ve also got some of iTunes more advanced music controls.

You can rate the current song, switch shuffle and repeat on and off, as well as change the current playlist. Volume control is right there too, as well as the album art and metadata of the current track including album, artist and song name.

If you want to get a bit social with your iTunes listening experience (no I’m not talking about Ping), Music Commander has Twitter, Facebook and last.fm built in, letting you tweet, post or scrobble the current song. When you’ve had enough you can even quit iTunes right from Music Commander.

If you’ve been looking for a decent iTunes controller for your menu bar, Music Commander might just be the ticket. While you can accomplish quite a lot of the functionality using Apple keyboard media controls and Growl, Music Commander puts it all there, in one nice and tidy package.

Music Commander is available for US$0.99 from the Mac App Store.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe didn’t waste anytime trying to capitalize on customer dissatisfaction with Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X. Professional users are unhappy with the lack of Pro features like multiple camera support in the latest version of Apple’s video editing software.

In response, Adobe has kicked off a new “switcher” campaign that highlights ten reasons why the professional video editor should switch to Adobe Premiere Pro CS. It’s also offering a whopping 50% off on Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium or Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 for those who own Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer. The media software giant is throwing down the gauntlet and aiming straight for those unhappy Apple customers. Anyone out there going to give in and switch to Adobe?

Adobe’s new “switcher” campaign targets frustrated Final Cut Pro users with 50% off originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Controlling iTunes with the keyboard is easy enough, but what if you want a little more information without having to resort to the full iTunes window? Music Commander is here to help.

Sitting in the menu bar, Music Commander allows you to control iTunes with an extensive drop-down menu. You’ve got the usual play controls for quick access with your mouse, but you’ve also got some of iTunes more advanced music controls.

You can rate the current song, switch shuffle and repeat on and off, as well as change the current playlist. Volume control is right there too, as well as the album art and metadata of the current track including album, artist and song name.

If you want to get a bit social with your iTunes listening experience (no I’m not talking about Ping), Music Commander has Twitter, Facebook and last.fm built in, letting you tweet, post or scrobble the current song. When you’ve had enough you can even quit iTunes right from Music Commander.

If you’ve been looking for a decent iTunes controller for your menu bar, Music Commander might just be the ticket. While you can accomplish quite a lot of the functionality using Apple keyboard media controls and Growl, Music Commander puts it all there, in one nice and tidy package.

Music Commander is available for US$0.99 from the Mac App Store.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Controlling iTunes with the keyboard is easy enough, but what if you want a little more information without having to resort to the full iTunes window? Music Commander is here to help.

Sitting in the menu bar, Music Commander allows you to control iTunes with an extensive drop-down menu. You’ve got the usual play controls for quick access with your mouse, but you’ve also got some of iTunes more advanced music controls.

You can rate the current song, switch shuffle and repeat on and off, as well as change the current playlist. Volume control is right there too, as well as the album art and metadata of the current track including album, artist and song name.

If you want to get a bit social with your iTunes listening experience (no I’m not talking about Ping), Music Commander has Twitter, Facebook and last.fm built in, letting you tweet, post or scrobble the current song. When you’ve had enough you can even quit iTunes right from Music Commander.

If you’ve been looking for a decent iTunes controller for your menu bar, Music Commander might just be the ticket. While you can accomplish quite a lot of the functionality using Apple keyboard media controls and Growl, Music Commander puts it all there, in one nice and tidy package.

Music Commander is available for US$0.99 from the Mac App Store.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Music Commander originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The day is nearly here — Apple released the first GM Seed of Mac OS X Lion to developers just minutes ago. Developers and those running the beta must log into the Dev Center to get their Mac App Store redemption code and download the latest version. The build number of the GM seed is 11A511.

In addition to the main OS seed, Lion Server GM Seed and Xcode 4.1 DP 7 are both out as well. Developers who need to use Xcode should update to the latest build after installing the GM seed of the OS.

We will update this post as more information is received.

Lion GM Seed released to developers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe didn’t waste anytime trying to capitalize on customer dissatisfaction with Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X. Professional users are unhappy with the lack of Pro features like multiple camera support in the latest version of Apple’s video editing software.

In response, Adobe has kicked off a new “switcher” campaign that highlights ten reasons why the professional video editor should switch to Adobe Premiere Pro CS. It’s also offering a whopping 50% off on Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium or Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 for those who own Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer. The media software giant is throwing down the gauntlet and aiming straight for those unhappy Apple customers. Anyone out there going to give in and switch to Adobe?

Adobe’s new “switcher” campaign targets frustrated Final Cut Pro users with 50% off originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe didn’t waste anytime trying to capitalize on customer dissatisfaction with Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X. Professional users are unhappy with the lack of Pro features like multiple camera support in the latest version of Apple’s video editing software.

In response, Adobe has kicked off a new “switcher” campaign that highlights ten reasons why the professional video editor should switch to Adobe Premiere Pro CS. It’s also offering a whopping 50% off on Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium or Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 for those who own Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer. The media software giant is throwing down the gauntlet and aiming straight for those unhappy Apple customers. Anyone out there going to give in and switch to Adobe?

Adobe’s new “switcher” campaign targets frustrated Final Cut Pro users with 50% off originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe didn’t waste anytime trying to capitalize on customer dissatisfaction with Apple’s new Final Cut Pro X. Professional users are unhappy with the lack of Pro features like multiple camera support in the latest version of Apple’s video editing software.

In response, Adobe has kicked off a new “switcher” campaign that highlights ten reasons why the professional video editor should switch to Adobe Premiere Pro CS. It’s also offering a whopping 50% off on Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Production Premium or Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 for those who own Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer. The media software giant is throwing down the gauntlet and aiming straight for those unhappy Apple customers. Anyone out there going to give in and switch to Adobe?

Adobe’s new “switcher” campaign targets frustrated Final Cut Pro users with 50% off originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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