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Review: CandyBar 3

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  • Written by: Daniel

Posted onJanuary 31st, 2010

Panic is a company that creates some seriously amazing software that excels in both performance and design. These are the people behind popular applications such as Coda, Transmit, and Unison. Panic’s developers are application geniuses, and they have not disappointed us with CandyBar. CandyBar is an application that allows you to customize your dock and application icons. Whether you are working to make every icon match a certain theme, or if you are just in the mood for a more lively dock, this application will surely meet your needs.

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The Weekend Update (January 31, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onJanuary 31st, 2010

Sorry for the late news update, Flash was giving us problems – more on that later. Spent the weekend anxiously waiting to see who would win Hyperspaces – nope, didn’t think so. Well, just in case you haven’t checked any of the Apple sites in the past two days, we shall get you caught up with all things Infinite Loop. DigiTimes suggests that other tablet manufacturers are having to adjust their strategies due to the unreasonably low price of the iPad. Wired explains why you can’t buy an iPad yet. Engadget has found a lot of interesting things in the iPhone 3.2 SDK. 9to5Mac took a guess on how much Steve makes on each iPad. Macsimum claims that more than 1,000 new developers emerged after the iPad. The first of the Amazon-Apple wars has started. Apple removed any signs of Flash from the iPad after many pointed out the obvious problems, but someone still complained to the FTC.

In other news, 9to5Mac found the incredibly populated Apple YouTube channel. The Apple 2.0 looked back at the history of Steve Jobs as Jesus. BoyGenuisReports has figured out that Apple can pretty much sell you anything as long as you have somewhere between $60 and $7000. Seth Weintraub points to the iPad as showing the existence of a Apple-Google relationship. Steve then called b.s. on Google’s motto (amongst a lot of other interesting revelations) at the Apple Town Hall meeting from Thursday. Finally, Engadget announced the launch of their Apple-free news site, we are trying to get their sister site Autoblog to do one that doesn’t cover Toyota (crosses fingers.)

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Hyperspaces Winners

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Posted onJanuary 31st, 2010

Thanks to all who participated in our Hyperspaces Giveaway. The winners are: Brendan, Shishir, Milan Dandukovic, Harrison Brown, & BigSuperHappy. You will receive an email shortly with your license.

Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and RSS (In sidebar) to learn about future giveaways!

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Daily News Recap (January 29, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onJanuary 29th, 2010

Sick of the iPad already? Well, Galen Gruman thinks that Google might be as well, Chrome OS Killer, really Galen? A bunch of accessories makers have come to the iPad party including: iLuv, Schosche, Timbuk2, Griffin and Booq. Compliments of Engadget, Steve reminds us that we aren’t going to read for 10 hours and Apple clarified who will get to read books via iBooks, at least for now. Macworld explains to us why the A4 chip is important and makes the logical conclusion it’s probably going in the iPhone. AT&T says they can handle the iPad’s additional traffic. Microsoft’s PR head logically claimed Apple screwed up the iPad to Technologizer, no comment about Vista or the Zune. Nokia also has some thoughts about the tablet. 9to5Mac clarified that at least one iPad has Flash. And CultofMac has a source claiming Flash is just “too buggy.” The iPad will start at €499 in Europe? Eliot Van Buskirk attempts to explain why you can’t your plane jane SIM card in the iPad. The National Federation of the Blind is at least one group of people that likes the iPad. And oh yeah, Giles Turnbull thinks the iPad will actually change the world.

In news not related to the iPad: The Magic Mouse visited Europe and got some patents. The Street thinks China is getting 4-5 million iPhones. Gizmodo has obtained an internal message from Apple acknowledging the yellowing iMac screens. Oh yeah, and Apple stock (AAPL) is doing awful.

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Review: Twelve South’s BassJump

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onJanuary 29th, 2010

We promise: no more Twelve South love stories, this time we are going to just review the product. If you don’t know why we love Twelve South, then look here, or here, or here. There are plenty of portable speakers on the market – some will fit in your pocket, some require batteries, some are powered by the sun, some are waterproof. They come in all shapes and sizes, yet for the most part – they all produce awful sound. If you are like us and have a 17″ MacBook Pro, you have pretty good built-in speakers as far as notebooks go, but this creates a problem. The MacBook Pro speakers aren’t great, but quite frankly – none of the portable options are any better. Twelve South decided to change this, well sort of. Rather then reinvent the market segment that is portable speakers, they just invented the first (to our knowledge) portable USB-powered subwoofer.

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Daily News Recap (January 28, 2010)

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Posted onJanuary 28th, 2010

You remember that dream I had yesterday, 59 days without the iPad? It ended rather quick thanks to some protestors, all six of them according to Ars Technica. iLounge pointed out that we are all going to be able to tell if you spent $130 more on your iPad. Engadget thinks the iPad might be able to make phone calls. Kirk McElhearn wants a Dvorak keyboard for the iPad, why Kirk? Netflix isn’t coming to the iPad, in the near term. Steve doesn’t like it when Walt Mossberg sits on the furniture according to John Gruber (who we still don’t believe.) And Brian Chen is unhappy that AT&T is still loved by Apple. After all that complaining, CNN decided to crack the obvious joke. In actual news, MacNN thinks that Apple could ship 4 million iPads in 2010, but don’t worry the Kindle, Nook and other e-book readers will outsell the iPad – according to the guy that makes the screens. Apple removed a VoIP restriction in the latest iPhone SDK (3.2) McGraw-Hill claims they didn’t get uninvited to the iPad event, Terry has some explaining to do. Adobe is still mad at Apple, like really mad. Fujitsu is debating whether to take on Apple in court. A developer claims that Apple stole his UI design for iBooks, perhaps he planned on giving iBooks to the world, not just the U.S. artechnica has learned that Apple held a town hall to discuss the iPad and proper furniture etiquette.

In things not related to the tablet… The iPod touch might get a camera (and LED screen) after all according to Patently Apple. AT&T activated 3.1 million iPhones in the fall, laughed at Verizon and made a lot of money this past quarter. Oh yeah, they are also fixing the dropped calls problem. Apple has filed for some crazy cryptographic system using chaotic dynamics patent, seriously what? Barclay’s has now rated AAPL at $285, but that seems a tad bit low to MacDailyNews. Sony is going to model Apple’s stores in Japan, I’m not sure anyone really cares though.

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The Hyperspaces Giveaway!

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Posted onJanuary 28th, 2010

The CocoaBots have been nice enough to send over 5 licenses for their application Hyperspaces. There are two ways to enter the giveaway and you can do both!

1. Follow us on Twitter @themacfeed and then tweet the following message: “@TheMacFeed TheMacFeed’s Hyperspaces Giveaway – Five licenses available http://bit.ly/dkwrRk” Then comment on this post.

2. Become a fan of the newly created TheMacFeed Facebook page and change your status to “TheMacFeed’s Hyperspaces Giveaway – Five licenses available http://bit.ly/dkwrRk” Then comment on this post.

You can do this once a day for both Twitter and Facebook, but please comment only once. The more times you enter, the better your chances are for winning.

Good luck everyone!

Be sure to post here or we will not have your email to send over your license (if you win).

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