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Rundown of new changes in Lion Developer Preview 3

In addition to the discovery of Nuance voices in Lion Developer Preview 3, other new features found in the latest Lion release have begun to leak out. As compiled by It’s All Tech, here is a list of all the other known changes Lion Developer Preview 3 offers over previous versions.

  • New options in Mission Control System Preferences
  • There is a new animation when logging into the computer and displaying the desktop
  • New Reminders menu in iCal
  • New “next desktop” button in Dashboard space
  • New options when right-clicking (“Show Inspector,” “Clean up,” and “Sort” commands)
  • Compatibility to external displays has been improved (especially in Mission Control)
  • There is now a Mission Control app
  • Finder’s toolbar has been slightly updated
  • Desktop wallpapers have been updated (and new ones have been added — the lion image above is one of them)
  • Reading List has been enabled in Safari
  • New changes in Mission Control: Users can add “desktops” right from Mission Control by clicking “+” button. Users can close spaces from Mission Control. Mission Control no longer displays text “Desktop 1,″ etc. When hovering over desktop thumbnails, magnification of thumbnails are seen
  • Scrollbars now change color depending on the background (black background=light scrollbar and vice versa)

In addition to the above changes, TUAW reader Koobi wrote to tell us of another change he found: “In Lion, on Safari, using the Magic Mouse, if you use one finger and flick left to right, it will reveal (underneath) your previously viewed page history. You can flick back and forth to browse your Safari history, without having to press the back/forward buttons at the tool bar.”

In the comments below, feel free to let us know of any other changes you find!

Rundown of new changes in Lion Developer Preview 3 originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nuance voices found in Lion Developer Preview 3

Nuances in Lion OS X

Yesterday, we told you that Apple had seeded Lion Developer Preview 3 to developers. We noted at the time that among the new features in Developer Preview 3 were a new boot animation, new graphical elements in the Finder’s toolbar, new desktop wallpapers and that Reading List is now enabled in Safari. Other details of the latest Lion preview have emerged, but perhaps the most important is that Nuance voices, shown in the image above, have been discovered in the OS itself.

Nuance is, of course, rumored to have entered into a major partnership with Apple for its speech recognition technology being incorporated into iOS 5. But now it appears Apple is going to be pushing speech recognition as a feature across all of its operating systems. As discovered by NetPuting, a quick check of Lion’s speech preferences finds that a number of voices from Nuance’s RealSpeak Solo software are now integrated directly into Mac OS X Lion.

Earlier today an Apple patent emerged describing a way Nuance-like speech recognition software could be used in iOS to help make it easier for iPhone users to communicate in loud or quiet environments.

Nuance voices found in Lion Developer Preview 3 originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Purported ‘iPhone 5’ case reveals minor changes in next iPhone

On Friday, a rumor broke that the next iPhone will be called the iPhone 4S and it will primarily retain the same form factor with a few minor cosmetic changes and some new interior parts. Now today, GadgetsDNA posted a photo of a case purportedly for the iPhone 5, which shows a re-located camera flash.

Besides the camera flash, the case also shows a much thinner bezel. However as MacRumors points out, the manufacturers matching current case for the iPhone 4 also has a thin bezel, so that can’t necessarily be taken as sign that the “iPhone 5” will have a thinner bezel. If this case is correct, its “iPhone 5” attribution is likely nothing more than a guess or easy identifier by the manufacturer. Jeffries & Co. analyst Peter Misek claimed Friday that the fifth-generation iPhone that will debut this fall will be called the iPhone 4S.

The image of the “iPhone 5” case showed up on Asian parts supplier site Alibaba. Other cases from manufacturers have shown up on the site purporting to be for future models of iOS devices and they have ended up being correct. Usually when a manufacturer is able to build proper cases for unannounced Apple products, they have gotten the dimensions and specs of the upcoming products from people at Asian manufacturers such as Foxconn. As always, there is no way of telling if this case represents the next iPhone Apple will launch, but it wouldn’t be the first time case manufacturers stole a bit of Apple’s thunder.

Purported ‘iPhone 5’ case reveals minor changes in next iPhone originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Top 3 iPhone apps: Gedeon Maheux

This week’s top 3 apps features Gedeon Maheux, a designer (and one of the founders) at Iconfactory, the company behind App Store hits like Ramp Champ, Astronaut and Twitterrific among other applications for iOS and your Mac. We asked him his top iPhone apps (aside from those awesome Iconfactory apps) and he told us:

PhotoPad – a free photo editor for iPhone and iPad

Gowalla – A location-based check in service like FourSquare. Iconfactory did some work for Gowalla and if you compare the design of that app versus FourSquare it shows.

Last Temple – a puzzle game

Top 3 iPhone apps: Gedeon Maheux originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nuance-like Apple speech recognition patent emerges

Rumors have been flying that Apple has entered into some kind of agreement with speech recognition company Nuance. Now Patently Apple has published an Apple patent that shows a possible use for Nuance’s technology in the iPhone.

The patent covers text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion. In the patent, Apple lists two ways it might be hard for someone to answer their phone in the usual way: communicating in noisy environments and being unable to communicate during a meeting. In the first situation Apple says the user might try shouting to overcome the noise, but shouting frequently renders the voice signal unintelligible. Likewise in a quiet environment, such as a meeting where the user doesn’t want to disrupt what’s going on around him, he might try whispering into his phone, but again whispering frequently renders the voice signal unintelligible.

Apple proposes to get around these limitations by running text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion on the fly. Instead of shouting or whispering into the phone in a noise or quiet environment, respectively, the user could type a text message while live on the call and it would be read aloud to the person on the other end of the line.

Nuance-like Apple speech recognition patent emerges originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me move my iOS devices to a new computer

Dear Aunt TUAW,

I just bought a brand spanking new iMac. Since I want a clean slate, I am moving everything over manually from my old MacBook. So far so good, except for my iPhone, iPod touch, iPad etc. How do I switch my iOS devices over without the loss of my apps and their saved data. (I have put many many hours into Infinity Blade on long flights.) Thanks!

Your loving nephew,

Henry

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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me move my iOS devices to a new computer originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Malware, Macs, and crying wolf: Doing the math

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW’s Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science that lie behind the hardware.

The contentious subject of Mac security has been back in the news in recent weeks following the emergence of a fake antivirus package called MacDefender (also known as Mac Security and Mac Protector) that managed to steal a number of users’ credit card details, and a new piece of “crimeware” called Weyland-Yutani BOT which allows non-technical hackers to easily create password grabbing webpages that specifically target Mac browsers.

This prompted a fresh round of “the Mac is under attack! Malware will drown us all! Exclamation!” blog posts, followed by the usual backlash against them. On the alarmist side, Ed Bott wrote “Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware“, predicting doom, gloom, and dogs and cats living together.

The case for the defence was eloquently made in an article entitled “Wolf!” by Mac uber-blogger John Gruber where he simply collected assorted “Mac malware is inevitable” quotes from prominent analysts… going back to 2004, and all clearly unfulfilled in the sense of widespread attacks or exploits in the wild. Bott responded with a thoughtful post where he made a more reasoned case that malware for Macs really is inevitable in the long run, regardless of how inaccurate previous predictions have been.

So who’s right, and who’s wrong? Is it time to run to the hills or are people just sounding the gong of panic unnecessarily? In this post I’m going to try and dive a little deeper into the issues surrounding Mac malware, hypothetical and real, and separate the headlines from the facts.

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Malware, Macs, and crying wolf: Doing the math originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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RoadAhead is a different and clever nav app

One of the joys of writing for TUAW is being able to devote some time to finding apps that are unique and make life easier for our readers. I especially like to find free apps, so here’s my latest contribution.

RoadAhead is a free iOS app that looks up highway exits in your travel and lets you know what services are coming up. You can get everything or narrow your search down to categories such as coffee, ATMs, rest areas, or even ice cream and pharmacies. The app will also find service stations and will usually list gas prices so you can compare.

When you are at the exit, you can select your destination on a Google-sourced map. Tap again you’ll get transferred to the Google Maps app with your route highlighted. The app also provides a contact phone number for your destination, and where appropriate, reviews from Yelp.

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RoadAhead is a different and clever nav app originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Flash Player for Mac updated to 10.3, adds preference pane and auto-updates

The beta version of Flash Player 10.3 gave way Thursday to the release version, downloadable freely from Adobe for installation on your Mac. The new build finally restores auto-update capability, which was unstable or unsupported on Mac OS X for quite a while. Now you’ll be prompted to patch Flash when necessary (unless you’re running the Chrome browser, which packs its own version of Flash).

Up until now, adjusting Flash’s preferences and settings was done inside a Flash movie in the browser, which was quirky and a bit confusing for novice users. Now there’s an honest-to-goodness System Preferences pane for controlling local data storage, peer-to-peer playback, camera/audio settings, purchased content and updating — much more convenient. Flash Player now respects your private browsing settings (since 10.1) and will avoid saving any local content if your browser is set to private mode, but now you have a convenient button to clear the cache of all Flash content or block specific sites from storing local data.

Other new features include audio improvements for echo cancellation, video analytics tied to Adobe’s SiteCatalyst product, bug fixes and security features. The full change list is here.

Of course, some would prefer to have no truck with Flash Player; we’ve got your back.

[hat tip MacStories]

Flash Player for Mac updated to 10.3, adds preference pane and auto-updates originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Engadget app updated with landscape mode, save for later options

Our good friends at Engadget have posted an update to their iOS app. The new version introduces a landscape viewing mode for all of the included content and new “save for later” options that will send your favorite Engadget posts off to reading services like Evernote, Instapaper, and Read It Later. The app is still free, and the new version is available right now in the App Store.

We’ve got our own app on the App Store, and you may recall that it was updated for Retina Display compatibility a few months ago. It still doesn’t run natively on the iPad just yet, but we’re told an update for that is still in the works. Presumably we’ll see some of these Engadget updates on our app as well. As grandma always said, patience is a virtue… so don’t worry, the updated (and free) TUAW app is still coming soon.

Engadget app updated with landscape mode, save for later options originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 14 May 2011 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to AdMob integrate in your application in iPhone

This is the AdMob example. In this example we will see how to integrate AdMob in the application. I will show you the easiest way to integrate AdMob in the application.

Step 1: Open the Xcode, Create a new project using View base application. Give the application “AdmobiPhone”.

Step 2: Xcode automatically creates the directory structure and adds essential frameworks to it. You can explore the directory structure to check out the content of the directory.

Step 3: Xpand classes and notice Interface Builder created the AdmobiPhoneViewController class for you and generated a separate nib, AdmobiPhoneViewController.xib for the “AdmobiPhone”.

Step 4: First go to www.admob.com site, we need to register in this site for AdMob. After login, goto Sites &Apps –> Add site/App –> Select a site or app type –> Select iPhone App (See figure 1)

Next we need to full fill details (See figure 2)

Now you can download the AbMob SDK, it is required for publishing Ads and drag drop into the Xcode project.

Step 5: We need to add framework in project, so select the framework -> add New Framework -> Select AudioTollbox.framework, MediaPlayer.framework,MessageUI.framework and SystemConfiguration.framework add in the Framework folder.

Step 6: We need to add one background image in the project.

Step 7: Open the AdmobiPhoneViewController.h file, in this file we need to import GADBannerView.h file and create a instance of GADBannerView class. So make the following changes:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "GADBannerView.h"

@interface AdmobiPhoneViewController : UIViewController {
         GADBannerView *AbMob;
}
@end

Step 8:  Now open the AdmobiPhoneViewController.m file and make the following changes in the file.

#import "AdmobiPhoneViewController.h"
#define AdMob_ID @"a14dccd0fb24d45" // You can get this id from www.admob.com. This is Publisher ID

@implementation AdmobiPhoneViewController

– (void)dealloc
{
    AbMob.delegate = nil;
    [AbMob release];
    [super dealloc];
}

– (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    // Releases the view if it doesn’t have a superview.
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
   
    // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren’t in use.
}

#pragma mark – View lifecycle

// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
– (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
      AbMob = [[GADBannerView alloc]
                   initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0,
                                            self.view.frame.size.height –
                                            GAD_SIZE_320×70.height,
                                            GAD_SIZE_320×70.width,
                                            GAD_SIZE_320×70.height)];
   
     AbMob.adUnitID = AdMob_ID;
     AbMob.rootViewController = self;
    [self.view addSubview:AbMob];
   
     
       GADRequest *r = [[GADRequest alloc] init];
    r.testing = YES;
    [AbMob loadRequest:r];
   
}

– (void)viewDidUnload
{
    [super viewDidUnload];
    // Release any retained subviews of the main view.
    // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}

   – (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:
(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
    // Return YES for supported orientations
    return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

@end

Step 9: Now compile and run the application on the device.

You can Download SourceCode from here AdmobiPhone

Book publishers fight the one-screen problem

Publishers of ebooks are meeting this week at the World e-Reading Congress, and a site called the Bookseller has an interesting writeup of one of the issues being discussed there: Whether the book market can compete with, of all things, Angry Birds. Apple’s iPad has become, publishers say, a “one-screen” device, and that’s led to a one-screen problem. Ebooks and other traditional media are now competing, on a 1:1 ratio, for time that could also be spent using apps and games. Book publishing, one of the panelists says, finds itself “competing vertically and horizontally against all other media.”

That’s an interesting take on the subject, and sure, you could argue that since your books and video games are now basically running on the same devices, the competition could be a little more direct than it’s been before. But to some extent, this is much ado over little to nothing — books have always “competed” with other forms of entertainment, and in many cases they’ve not only survived but come out on top. Just because opening a book now consists of launching iBooks, the Kindle app or another ebook reading app doesn’t mean the rules have changed all that much.

Sara Lloyd from Pan Macmillan, puts a good final word on the subject: “We have just been constrained by book covers, but we can now evolve further. The only difference now is that we won’t always make things that look like books.” That’s the key here — instead of viewing other apps on the iPad as competition for the old forms of book sales, it’s probably time to start looking at how that form of media can evolve as well.

Book publishers fight the one-screen problem originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 13 May 2011 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple offering free repairs for iPod touches, iPhones, and Macs damaged in the Japan quake and tsunami

Apple is offering free service and repair to those Mac users who were affected by the Japan tsunami and earthquake in March. As stated in a Support & Information Services note [Japanese version/ Google-translated English version] on Apple’s Japanese website, the company is offering free repairs to any Macs, Cinema Displays, iPhones, iPads or iPod touches damaged in the disaster. Apple’s offer applies to those directly affected by the earthquake who primarily live in municipalities covered by the Disaster Relief Act of 2011.

This isn’t the first time Apple has offered to help those who suffered in the Japan disaster earlier this year. Local Apple Retail managers opened up Apple Stores as sorts of communication centers that allowed people to use the Internet on the store’s machines to email, FaceTime and Skype their loved ones. Additionally, several Mac developers came to the aid of the disaster victims offering donations from the proceeds of their apps. Apple and all member of the Mac community who have helped and continue to help those in need deserve props and recognition for their support and humanity.

[Thanks to Peter for the tip.]

Apple offering free repairs for iPod touches, iPhones, and Macs damaged in the Japan quake and tsunami originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 13 May 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Releases Lion Developer Preview 3

Hot on the heels of the Mac OS X 10.6.8 build Apple seeded to developers earlier today, Lion Developer Preview 3 was seeded to all developers. Though the update shows up in Lion’s Software Update as “Lion Developer Preview Update” it is not a fourth update of Lion Developer Preview 2, but is a completely new version 3 build.

All Software Update says about the new 1.07 GB build is that “The Lion Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 2.” However, MacStories has confirmed that some of the new features in Developer Preview 3 include a new boot animation, new graphical elements in the Finder’s toolbar, new desktop wallpapers and that Reading List is now enabled in Safari.

Apple Releases Lion Developer Preview 3 originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 13 May 2011 19:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple App Store, iPhone 4 awarded Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records has awarded Apple several world records today for the App Store and the iPhone 4. Additionally, several iOS developers were also awarded world records. Here’s the breakdown from the Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition:

Fastest-Selling Portable Gaming System — iPhone 4: Guinness states that the iPhone 4’s first-day sales estimates of 1.5 million make it the fastest selling game system in history. By comparison the PSP only sold 200,000 units its first day and the Nintendo DS sold 600,000 units in its first week.

Most Popular Application Marketplace; Largest Downloadable Video Game Store; and Largest Launch Line-up of Any Gaming System — Apple App Store: As of the time Guinness made its records decision, the App Store had over 6.5 billion downloads and 259,470 apps for purchase or free download making it the most popular downloadable app store in the world. Of those apps, 37,362 were games, making the App Store the largest video game download store in the world. Finally, when the App Store launched on July 10, 2008, the App Store featured over 500 apps, including 145 games, making it the “Largest Launch Line-up of Any Gaming System.”

Apple wasn’t the only one to receive app accolades, however. iOS developers were also awarded titles by Guinness: Angry Birds got Top Paid-For App Store Game in Most Countries with more than 6.5 million downloads; Plants vs. Zombies was awarded Fastest-Selling iPhone/iPod Strategy Game with 300,000 paid downloads in its first nine days on sale; and Tap Tap Revenge was awarded the Most Popular iPhone Game Series with a combined 15 million downloads for all the Tap Tap games.

Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition is available on Amazon.

[via LA Times]

Apple App Store, iPhone 4 awarded Guinness World Records originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 13 May 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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