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SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone and iPod touch has been updated to version 2.0. The guide is improved, matching the iPad version, and video streaming quality is improved if you have a Slingbox SOLO or Pro-HD model.

Happily, older Slingboxes will still work with this update, but you won’t get the highest level of picture quality. The update is free if you already bought the stratospherically priced (US $29.99) app previously. To get customers on the newer hardware, the Sling people are offering upgrades of $50.00 off on a Slingbox PRO-HD or SOLO or $150.00 off of a refurbished PRO-HD.

Sling tech support notes that users with the Solo or HD-PRO will have to update the software on their desktop machines as well. Users should also be reminded that if they have both an iPhone and iPad and are buying the apps for the first time they each sell for $29.99. Ouch.

Slingplayer Mobile for iPhone updated with better quality video and a new guide originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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First mentioned back in October, Electronic Arts has finally released SimCity Deluxe for iPad, and oh my, how far we have come from the original SimCity game which came out in 1989. Available for the first time on the iPad, SimCity Deluxe allows players to act as Mayor and City Planner to build and control their very own cityscape. Using multitouch controls optimized for the iPad, players can build, destroy, rebuild, and manage cities inspired by famous locations around the globe.

Having played SimCity Deluxe for iPhone, I can imagine that the iPad version would be a more immersive experience with the much bigger screen. Available in the App Store now for US $6.99, SimCity Deluxe for iPad certainly makes me wish I had an iPad to take with me on my long trip coming up later this week.

Also out today from EA and available in the App Store is RISK for iPad ($6.99), the popular game of strategic conquest and world domination. With the ability for up to 6 players to play simultaneously and head-to-head against others via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, RISK fans with an iPad may want to check it out. You’ve probably already got plenty to play this holiday season, but in case not, there’s two more good titles to try.

SimCity Deluxe for iPad, Risk for iPad out today from EA originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve gotten a few reports that Apple has released a minor build update for the new Apple TV. Users aren’t reporting any obvious new features or specific performance upgrades with the brand new 4.2.1 update, so it’s likely that this latest Apple TV update is just for bug fixes. Not all users are seeing the update quite yet, but it should propagate to everybody before long.

MacRumors notes that the Apple TV iOS 4.2.1 update is labeled Build 8C154. The previous Apple TV iOS 4.2 was Build 8C150. If you Apple TV owners see any differences, let us know in the comments.

Apple updates iOS 4.2.1 for Apple TV originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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David Newman is an accomplished painter who’s been using Apple computers since 1984. The above video shows him painting a portrait of none other than Steve Wozniak, which the Apple founder has started using as his Facebook orofile picture. Newman sat with Woz for three hours creating the portrait entirely on an iPad, and Wozniak reportedly thinks this is the best portrait of him ever created.

The movie shares Newman’s process as he created the portrait. You can see that the very first brush strokes were actually the artist spelling out “Woz” over and over. After that, Newman sketched in huge patches of color and shape. As the process continued, he layered additional touches of color, refined the shapes, and added details. We especially like the box of Dots candy to Wozniak’s left — nice touch. Newman’s got a great idea for detail, and a project like this really shows off the creative possibilities of Apple’s magical and revolutionary device.

[Via Razorianfly]

Found Footage: iPad portrait of Woz originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Picture, if you will, the following. It’s a hot summer day. You’re hanging out doing some yard work with your iPod nano strapped to your wrist when you reach for a cold bottled beverage. That’s when the moment of horror strikes: you have no bottle opener. You have nothing which with to pop open that wonderful refreshment. All you have is your iPod nano wristwatch.

Okay, that’s probably not a common scene for most of us, but apparently the creators of the Richard Tracy nano watch strap have been there. This wristband for the iPod nano features a leather strap and laser-cut anodized steel adapter to hold the nano firmly in place. But since the steel adapter could be in any shape, really, they tooled it into the shame of a bottle opener. I guess if you’re going to wear an iPod nano watch strap, a little extra versatility is a good thing.

[Via ThinkGeek]

Nano watchband includes bottle opener originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sometime in January Apple will hold their FY2011 Q1 earnings call and you will be sure to hear these words: “The quarter that just ended was the best quarter in Apple’s history.” It’s something many of us have gotten used to hearing as Apple has said it (or a derivative of it, adding “non-holiday” between “best” and “quarter”) every quarter for at least the last seven years.

That familiar catchphrase shows no sign of stopping as NPD says Apple is on track to sell between 4.1 million and 4.3 million Macs in the December quarter. As AllThingsD points out, Apple’s U.S. Mac sales are up 20 percent year-over-year for the first two months of the current quarter. International sales are even growing faster than domestic sales with 22 to 28 percent year-over-year growth for the first two months of the current quarter.

Still haven’t picked up Apple stock? There’s still time as many think there’s a 30ish-percent 12-month upswing coming.

Apple could sell record-breaking 4.3 million Macs this holiday originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CNN released its first app for the iPad today and the tablet version is an excellent companion to its iPhone counterpart, just as we predicted. The iPad version duplicates the media-rich experience of the website by including full-length articles, commenting, slideshow support, and on-demand audio and video. Ads will be present in the app and Lexus will be a featured advertiser, so prepare yourself to be distracted by slick images of luxury cars.

The app takes advantage of the iPad’s screen real estate by offering three different viewing options – broadsheet, list view, and slide show. The broadsheet view is for those that prefer to scan the top 350 headlines presented in a simple grid view. List view is self-explanatory and the slide show view emphasizes the visual side of the news by letting you swipe through the top stories as you would a photo gallery.

You will never miss the breaking news as the app supports push notifications and will alert you when a new story is published. Similar to the iPhone app, the iPad version is socially aware and lets you share articles via email, Twitter, and Facebook. The iPad lacks a camera so the iPad app does not include the iReporting features available on the iPhone and current generation iPod touch. Would-be reporters should use their iPad for reading and their iPhone for filming when out and about.

The CNN app for the iPad is available for free in the App Store. With this launch, CNN has also dropped the price on its iPhone version, which is now available for free as well.

[Via macstories]

CNN releases official iPad app originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AirPlay is a very, very cool technology. Unfortunately, if you don’t own an Apple TV 2 or other capable receiving device, it’s not going to do you much good. (If you have the cash on-hand, for $99 Apple TV mark 2 is a pretty sweet purchase. Just saying.) So I decided to figure out a way that people who didn’t own Apple TV or who were on the road with their iPhone and a laptop could actually use AirPlay streaming ‘backwards’ — from their iDevice to their Mac.

Behold the development build of AirPlayer — click Read More to see the video. What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate with each other over local area networks. When Apple created AirPlay, it basically set up a new way for Apple TV to interact with iOS using Bonjour communications.

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Hacksugar: Mac-based AirPlay service allows device-to-Mac playback originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Millenial Media has released its monthly report about mobile advertising, and while things haven’t changed too much from the last time they released this kind of data, the usual trends are still in place. Apple is the biggest mobile device manufacturer around, representing 25% of mobile impressions across its iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad platforms. The iPod touch saw some growth in impressions, jumping up over the Motorola Droid and the Blackberry Curve to take the number two spot on Millenial’s network. And the Samsung Acclaim Android phone release gave that manufacturer a nice boost in impressions, pushing Samsung up to the number two spot behind Apple on the list of top mobile manufacturers.

In terms of apps, the Android platform holds the top spot in the network for most ads (54% to Apple’s 39%), and has seen 10% month-over-month growth for the past four months. According to a developer survey, Android is also the platform that most developers expect to release apps for in 2011 (29% of developers plan to release apps on Android, while 20% say they plan to release apps on the iPad, and another 20% on the Windows Phone 7 platform). And games remain the leading app category across the network, with 28% of app impressions provided by gaming apps.

Interesting data. Of course, this is only a portrait of what’s happening on this specific network, so these numbers may differ from the entire platforms as a whole. But it’s clear that Apple is still the most major manufacturer in the mobile space, and Android is definitely seeing lots of action in terms of app releases. That trend will probably continue right on in to 2011, as more and more developers expand into Android app sales as well as iOS.

Millenial Media: Apple still top manufacturer, devs heading to Android in 2011 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of the more awe-inspiring iPad apps of 2010 was Flipboard. The free app is a beautiful way to read RSS feeds, see and respond to updates from friends on Twitter and Facebook and more, displayed in a format that looks more like a well-designed magazine than a reader app. It’s so good that Apple named it the iPad App of the Year.

Now The Next Web is reporting that Flipboard may be coming to a much larger audience as a web app. The company has reportedly posted a job opening for a “Designer – Web Developer” for the purpose of designing a way to read content online. This move makes sense for Flipboard, particularly if they plan on offering the app in Google Chrome’s Web Store.

A web app that is readable from a variety of devices would give Flipboard an advantage in development, since all upgrades and changes could be made to one code base instead of requiring rewrites for many platforms. There’s no word on when the web app may launch, although it’s a sure bet that it will be sometime in 2011.

[via MacStories]

Flipboard rumored to launch web app originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just a couple more weeks until we roll the clock over to a shiny new year! In the meanwhile, enjoy these fresh deals from our friends at dealnews.com. Or don’t — scroll on by if you and Santa have completed your yearly shopping habit.

Note that Duke Nukem 3D is free… and that’s about what it is worth. Crummy controls for the app mar what could have been a pleasant trip down memory lane. Here’s our take on it when it launched.

• iTunes Music Store: iPhone App Store Freebies: A Christmas Santa, Duke Nukem 3D, more
• Apple Store: Refurbished Apple iPod touch MP3 Players from $149 + free shipping
• MidnightBox: Refurbished Altec Lansing 2.1-Channel Speaker System $30 + $4 s&h
• HandHeldItems: IGg Bumper Holster for iPhone 4 w/ $2 credit for $3 + free shipping
• Crutchfield: Canon VIXIA HF-R10 8GB Flash HD Digital Camcorder for $280 + free shipping
• Shnoop.com: Olympus PEN E-P1 12MP Digital Micro 4/3 Camera, lens for $400 + free shipping
• SuperBiiz: Super Talent 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive for $24 + free shipping
• HandHeldItems: HHI iPad Flip Faux Leather Case for Apple iPad w/ $2 HHI credit for $15 + $3 s&h
• TigerDirect: Samsung 46″ 240Hz 1080p 3D LED LCD HDTV Bundle for $1,600 + $36 s&h
• Meritline: Portable 2.5″ USB SATA Hard Drive Enclosure for $3 + free shipping
• IHaveToHaveThat.com: Sumdex Impact Guard Laptop Sleeve for $8 + $5 s&h

Daily Deals for December 14, 2010 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s December, and that means “Best Of” lists. Business Insider has published their “Biggest Tech Winners of 2010,” and the “magical” iPad is sitting atop the heap, while the iPhone 4 is listed at number ten.

What’s interesting is the number of other winners that wouldn’t exist without the iOS. Flipboard is listed at number 15, Kleiner Perkins’ iFund is number 8 and that bird game is number 3. It’s incredible to consider how significantly the iPad and iPhone have influenced the industry during their relatively short existence (especially the iPad, which has yet to celebrate its first birthday). Here’s to 2011.

Business Insider names iPad “Biggest Tech Winner” of 2010 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple has released an “iTunes 12 Days of Christmas” iOS app and companion site in the UK, all meant to treat their customers to seasonal goodies. Between December 26 and January 6, Apple will give away free apps, songs, books, movies and episodes of TV shows, one per day, via the app and the website. The app can be configured to send a push notification when each giveaway is ready, for those who just can’t wait.

The app isn’t available in the U.S. App Store, so you’ll need a UK account to download it here.

[Via MacStories]

Apple releases “iTunes 12 Days of Christmas” app in UK originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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