OS X and its technologies offer a dizzying amount of ways to get productive. Organized is a new Dashboard widget that combines a world clock with Leopard’s events, to-dos, and notes in a handy little package.
We also ran into bugs when creating tasks. Clicking the plus sign would present a calendar selection dialog, but clicking "add" to create the task and provide details never worked for us. Canceling out of the dialog did work,…
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Verizon has quietly submitted a proposal to the FCC that could quell a couple of consumers’ most significant complaints. In exchange, however, the major wireless providers would be exempt from future lawsuits over high fees and constricting policies.
Beyond letting carriers off the hook from class actions, Verizon's proposal is interesting in that it doesn't do much more than round up established practices and rules the carriers have already implemented. After the Cell Phone…
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Apple snags a much larger share of the market when you focus on brick-and-mortar sales of “premium” PCs; desktops and notebooks that cost $1,000 or more.
According to NPD's numbers recounted by Apple Watch, Apple snags a much larger share of the market when you focus on brick-and-mortar sales of "premium" PCs; desktops and notebooks that cost $1,000 or more. It is…
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Mobile phones are steadily becoming the only phone in American households, according to a new study. The trend, however, signifies both positive and negative changes on the horizon.
A number of demographic statistics shed light on exactly who is leaving traditional landlines behind. The largest percentage (56.9) are adults living with unrelated roommates, though adults renting their home (30.9 percent) were…
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Rumors are flying across both the Mac and non-Mac web like it’s June 28, 2007 all over again. While a rumor just last week brought rumblings of GPS and a thicker body, new details may offer more solid insight into what the next-gen iPhone looks like.
iLounge has come across some fairly believable images that reveal design changes and possibly even a new feature of the next iPhone. Of course, those details could also be hot air or even disinformation to throw off the early birds, but still:…
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As perhaps one of the company’s largest moves toward distinguishing itself from Microsoft’s culture and acquisition intentions, Yahoo today outlined a long-expected plan to turn its empire of web services into a massive social network.
Another key aspect to Yahoo's new social networking strategy will be user-generated applications. Like Facebook's application platform, Yahoo plans to leverage Google's OpenSocial and even its own forthcoming Yahoo…
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As a file syncing and collaboration platform, Live Mesh is a big step towards getting your PC to shake hands with the cloud. Microsoft is offering a technology preview of the new service to spark developer interest.
To manage all this, the Live Mesh desktop client provides a couple of components for viewing activity in each Live Mesh folder, as well as the overall activity on a user's account. First, any Live Mesh folder will be accompanied by a new…
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Sony BMG has been caught using pirated Windows administration software. It’s an embarrassing development for a company that has fought so hard to keep its own content from being pirated.
PointDev, a French software company that makes Windows administration tools, received a call from a Sony BMG IT employee for support. After Sony BMG supplied a pirated license code for Ideal Migration, one of PointDev's products, the…
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While Adobe has already stated that it is rewriting the terms in question, it has still joined the growing list of major software shops who aren’t paying attention to their own EULAs.
Ultimately, Adobe's adventures with the Photoshop Express EULA sound like they'll have a happy ending, but we don't have to tell you twice that the EULA is becoming all the more important in a world where even more of our…
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