New Industry launches FormSpring for iPhone
New Industry has published FormSpring, an iPhone application that allows users to view, collect and search online form data whenever an Internet connection is available. Along with building complex searches that can be saved for repeated use, FormSpring can also be used to upload audio and images directly from the iPhone's microphone or camera to a form, or to tag each submission with GPS coordina...
published yesterday, 22 hours 15 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Nokia working on OLED, NFC-ready tablet?
Nokia could be developing a new, much larger portable device that sits above its Internet Tablets in features, a new research note by UBS analyst Maynard Um says. Where the existing N810 has just a 4.1-inch display, investigations by Um point to the existence of either a notebook or tablet with a 9- or 10-inch display and features that have never existed on an Nseries tablet, such as a touchpad f...
published on Monday, the 1. December 2008, macintosh-news-network
Script Debugger 4.5 adds Unicode Leopard support
Late Night Software has released Script Debugger 4.5, updating its AppleScript authoring environment with 28 major new features and improvements. The editor now fully supports Unicode on Leopard systems and there is a new scripts menu and inspector which supports OSA scripts, Unix scripts and Automator workflows. Script Debugger now auto-saves recovery information whenever a script is executed and...
published on Thursday, the 27. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
Google admits to violating App Store rules
Google has admitted to using undocumented APIs in the creation of its latest iPhone search app, according to a spokesman. The company is specifically said to be relying on an API connected to the motion sensor, which tells the app to engage voice detection whenever an iPhone is raised to a person's mouth. Users can thus speak a search term, instead of typing it in....
published on Wednesday, the 26. November 2008, macintosh-news-network
How to make sure Mail sends font info with messages
This is a heads-up for those who send rich text emails using Mail: The font set in Mail » Preferences » Fonts & Colors in the Message Font field is local to your Mac; it is never sent with an email message. As such, there is no way to specify a default font that is actually sent with each new message. You can prove this for yourself. Change the font and size in the Message Font box to something really weird. Now, look at your sent messages, and explain how can you change the font on a message that is already sent? By looking at the raw source view of a message, you can also see that no default font gets sent. Compare the raw source from a Mail message and that of an Outlook message -- check right after where it says . Also look at your received messages. You will notice that messages sent from non-Macs have not changed, or only the font face has changed, not the font size. Messages from other Macs, and messages you have sent, will change both font face and s...
published on Tuesday, the 25. November 2008, macosxhints
Apple releases iPhone OS 2.2 update
It's a bit strange for an Apple software update to land around midnight. Nevertheless, iPhone OS 2.2 is upon us, and it brought most of the changes we've heard about over the past couple months, as well as a handy new Home screen trick.Read More...
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, ars-technica
One possible cure for a flakey USB wireless mouse
If you're having a problem with a wireless USB mouse skipping, double-clicking instead of single-clicking, or otherwise acting weird, and you've tried fooling with the software and the dongle to no avail, consider whether the problem might be with the keyboard...even if the mouse dongle is plugged into the computer, not the keyboard. And even if the keyboard is wired. I had Logitech send me two mice which seemed totally flaky until I happened to unplug my keyboard, and found that the mouse worked like a champ. Now, whenever the mouse seems fritzy, I unplug and replug the keyboard's USB plug and it all gets better. Weird, but there you go....
published on Thursday, the 20. November 2008, macosxhints
iPhone Dev Team: Don't upgrade to 2.2 yet
The iPhone dev team says that jailbroken iPhone users shouldn't be too quick to upgrade to the next firmware release, whenever that may be.Read More...
published on Monday, the 17. November 2008, ars-technica
Google Launches Multiplatform, In-browser Voice and Video Chat
Groundbreaking web-based email was not sufficient. Embedded instant messaging was not enough. Google Talk voice chat was too “old-fashioned.” Never satisfied with the status quo, the wizards at Google have rolled out a new Voice and Video service and have made Mac users first-class citizens for the new feature. As with the majority of their shiny new toys, Google [...]
published on Wednesday, the 12. November 2008, apple-blog
App-related bug threatens iPhone security
A bug revealed within the handling of apps on the iPhone could represent a serious security threat, developers claim. The bug is specifically connected to an image file called "Default.png," which is displayed whenever any app is being loaded on an iPhone. While third-party software is limited to a static version of the graphic, Apple's own apps are able to change the file in order to display it...
published on Tuesday, the 11. November 2008, macintosh-news-network