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A day after reporting that Apple was prepared to launch smaller versions of the iPad during this year’s holiday season, Digitimes is now predicting that a smaller version of the MacBook Air is coming. Apparently, Apple attempted to purchase Palm before HP did. TechEye is suing Apple, anyone shocked? Boy Genius is reporting that FaceTime is coming to the iPod touch and iPad. Yeah, neither of those devices have camera currently.

As we all brace for tomorrow’s press conference, Apple 2.0 is predicting a 50/50 chance regarding an in-store fix. Apple released iOS 4.0.1 and iOS SDK 3.2.1. Woz had some comments regarding the latest iPhone.Bloomberg reported that Apple may have known about the iPhone’s antenna issues. For the second time in a couple weeks, Apple called B.S.

Amongst all that excitement that was the time before WWDC, someone leaked pictures of a magical trackpad… yeah it didn’t happen. In addition to that rumor that didn’t come true, Nike and Polar decided to announce a heart rate monitor… in the middle of WWDC. Apple changed the language within its developer agreement to allow for third-party advertising, just not from Google or Adobe. Another final note from the keynote, seems Apple forgot to announce iWork for iPhone? HP is now offering printers that will allow you to print directly from your iPhone. Just hours after iOS 4 went GM, it was jailbroken. We should see iTunes 9.2 when iOS 4 goes public on June 21st. On the 28th, you will be able to pick up the next iPhone at Radio Shack. Microsoft was not so impressed with Safari 5. They also announced that they won’t be offering a 64-bit rendition of the next version of Office for Mac (2011) due out later this year. Finally, embattled Apple supplier Foxconn is giving amount even more raises and paying the families of suicide victims.

And… If you’d like to be the next Mrs. Daniel Feeney (or the first) – Mac dating site Cupidtino has gone beta.

Back to School season might seem far away to most, but the reality is that in the tech world it’s just begun. Given that the EDU market is… a huge one, it seems only appropriate that we at TheMacFeed give you our thoughts and tips regarding the hardware and software to make your life at school a tad bit easier. Hit the jump for our suggestions…

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Over the years, there have been a lot of applications to help users maintain their Macs.  There has also been growing debate over whether or not regular maintenance of a Mac is even necessary.  While I will not settle that debate today, I will provide some thoughts directed towards those who do feel that doing maintenance is am important aspect of owning and operating a Macintosh.  With that in mind, allow me to introduce a fairly new addition to mac maintenance programs: MacKeeper by ZeoBIT LLC. Read the rest of this entry »

Earlier we told you about Steve’s thoughts on Flash. Adobe responded. (Shocking, we know) Adobe’s CEO called BS on Steve. Additionally, Adobe released Flash for Mac beta. Apple earned itself a third place ranking amongst strongest global brands… Side-note: HP & Blackberry were ranked #5 & #6. Steve is #5 on the Time 100, Congrats Mr. Jobs. Oh and he still cares about the Mac, you are so nice…

Quite a few rumors regarding the next iPhone and none of them have to do with Gizmodo. Everyone seems to think it will be released during WWDC. Chosun is reporting that LG will be supplying a 5-megapixel camera for the next iPhone. Maybe the new one will be different, but the current iPhone can’t handle 9Gs. We at TheMacFeed were thinking about advertising on iAd, until the Wall Street Journal told us about the million dollar price tag. Apple has surpassed Motorola as America’s largest mobile phone supplier. Seems the iPad 3G has shown up a tad bit early.

Another busy day for patents. It started with multi-touch. Then there was some invisible light tricks. Then there was the flood of trademarks:

• Photos
  
• MobileMe iDisk
  
• MobileMe Gallery
• Safari
  
• Numbers
  
• Pages
  
• YouTube
  
• Contacts
  
• Voice Memos
  
• iBooks

Finally, if you haven’t seen this video, it’s time.

Still busy figuring out how you never heard of the Hurt Locker? Steve was in Disney capacity last night and in his Disney clothes, not his normal Apple garb. For those of you not in attendance, Apple showed off their iPad ad (three times) last night during the Oscars. (Yes, it’s smaller big brother the iPhone did the same thing) Apple has a new idea, it’s called the iKey. All Things Digital believes we might see some ridiculous numbers regarding Mac sales for February. Portal 2, Steam and other games from Valve are now officially coming to the Mac. Patently Apple found some more information regarding the changes to Apple Remote. Apple and a bunch of other companies got yelled at by Richard Durbin for not testifying before the Senate Human Rights Committee.

9 to 5 Mac (and everyone else) examined the aforementioned iPad ad and found that books are available from $7.99-$14.99, as well as some other stuff. A team of executives are heading from Cupertino to the UK to negotiate iPad pricing. IDC believes that the iPad won’t be helping Windows tablets. HP and Adobe decided to show off Flash working on the (HP) Slate. TUAW finally asked the logical question: will all the iPhone apps find their way to the iPad?

O2 decided to correct their mistake from last week regarding video calls on the iPhone. Gizmodo explained how Time Warner is going to make AT&T’s network “suck less.” The never-ending saga of the China Unicom Wi-Fi iPhone continues. AT&T tried an Android phone, the universal opinion on it: try again. Regarding the HTC lawsuit, Apple has 3,013 patents? Fact check, Patently Apple, anyone?

Quite frankly it doesn’t matter what you were doing – you’ve missed some Apple news, because this is the most we believe we have ever had. Research and Markets (that’s a research group, in case you were confused) believes that Apple’s revenue will exceed $100 billion in five years. Apple has laid off forty members of the Final Cut team. Apple has posted a work-around for some of the problems regarding Aperture 3. At least one person thinks IDG’s Macworld Expo won’t be happening again. Hardmac took a look at the Intel family tree in regards to the iMac, as well as Sandy Bridge (what is replacing Nehalem – that’s Intel’s chips for those that are lost) MacRumors reports that the 27? iMac is shipping faster. Gizmodo took down their story of Best Buy’s SKUs for the new Apple products, so Cult of Mac put them back up. Computerworld summed up the rumors regarding the future of the MacBook.

You want a whole section on patents and trademarks, here it comes: Patently Apple discovered Apple’s newest patent regarding the Magic Mouse and some crazy functions. PatentlyApple also believes that Apple is getting serious about Near Field Communications for the iPhone (this is way beyond us…) Apple also has panted the-based slideshows according to Macsimum News. AppleInsider commented on one of the other patents of the day which shows a device with a front-facing camera. Speaking of cameras, iLounge believes that Apple is working on something that would help users when using the built-in cameras on their devices.

Since we haven’t had any Adobe news yet, Adobe’s CEO Shantan Narayen decided to bash Apple’s business model. (We can’t we be friends…) iSuppli is reporting that the iPhone and iPad will create a shortage for flash memory. Electronista is reporting that the next iPhone might use Samsung’s Super AMOLED display. (We think that it should be the Super-Duper…) iLounge found that Apple secretly bumped the download limit on the iPhone up from 10MB to 20MB (or something like that…) Google has a new strategy regarding competitors: buy and kill. According to Electronista their other strategy involves buying up start-ups in response to Cupertino’s purchase of Lala. Speaking of which the first effects of Lala can be seen online. Dan Frakes gave his opinion regarding the future of Opera Mini on the iPhone. Hopefully it can get approved as fast as Rob Jonson’s most recent app.

In addition to beating up Reuters reporters in China, the secrecy of Apple continues to expand. CNN’s Apple 2.0 Blog is reporting that Apple has attempted to hide the iPad freight records – and apparently has done a good job doing it. Gawker did play-by-play of Steve’s meeting with the Wall Street Journal and the kind things he had to say about Adobe. Gizmodo thought that it would be good to clarify: an iPad is not a laptop. AppleInsider found some (more) interesting things hiding in the iPad SDK. Electronista believes that HP’s slate will be priced below the iPad. Gizmodo thinks that Apple will actually have significant control over the pricing of the iPad.

And in the not really related to Apple, but just bizarre section of the news (since we had a patent section and all): students at Lower Merion High School (yes, that’s the school Kobe Bryant graduated from before going straight to the NBA) are suing the district because they spied on them via the cameras on their school-given MacBooks. More here.