Apple retail stores are looking to move away from Windows Mobile-based handheld checkout devices in favor of iPod touches with custom accessory add-ons, with a transition expected to follow the release of iPhone 3.0 later this year.
Apple Begins Countdown to 1 Billion IPhone Apps Downloaded
The countdown has begun. Apple posted a Web page on Friday counting down (or actually counting up) to the one billion app downloaded milestone on the App Store.
Microsoft Readying iPod Touch Rival: Zune HD?
Engadget posts evidence that Microsoft is further positioning itself directly against Apple's product line. Marketing images of a so-called "Zune HD" whos an iPod touch-like media player.
We present what might possibly be y...
100 tips and tricks to speed up OS X
A ton of useful ways to optimise the way you use your Mac
Apple continues to tighten up the rules concerning battery replacement
Since the release of Mac Intel (but already during the time of the iBook), Apple had to face many problems with the batteries on its portables. Between those that started to inflate, those that did not hold the charge, and those which broke down and displayed an X. These vexations were very expensive and created precedents that made it was relatively easy to exchange a used battery under guarantee.
Since March, they have started to tighten up. This started with the arrival of test software only available for the CMAA. This is now used to test the battery and decides if it must be exchanged or not. The after sales service department is forced to follow this guidance, since the software delivers a code for the return. In the absence of this code, the CMAA have to cover cost of the battery.
Also Apple has since then defined especially strict rules and even a very long-winded speech that the technicians must give you.
- To start, in the event of loss of battery life, if your battery has done its time, (more than 300 cycles of charge/discharge), the software will not deliver a code of guarantee. Apple considers indeed; beyond this number of cycles the wear is normal and advises to use the analogy of batteries of remote control that need replacing too.
- Previously any battery which inflated being exchanged immediately. Now, it will be the case only under guarantee or extended guarantee in certain cases.
We will finish by an important reminder. If you have several batteries, take care well to store them charged and especially not to let them discharge completely by using them regularly. If they go below a minimum threshold of charge, it will definitively be impossible for you to recharge them again.
TUAW giveaway: WeightBot and ConvertBot
Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touch
TUAW would like to help take away a bit of the sting of tax week by giving away something for free. That's why we've teamed with Tapbots to give ten lucky US readers licenses for WeightBot and ConvertBot.Although you'll probably be a lot lighter after the IRS empties your wallet, you may want to lose some weight. That's where WeightBot comes in handy. It's a great-looking and very functional weight tracking app for iPhone that has been featured on TUAW in the past.
Should you decide to skip the country in order to avoid paying taxes [which we do not recommend --Ed.], you might find ConvertBot's ability to convert units of measure and currency to be a big help! If you're not one of the giveaway winners, these apps are available for US$0.99 (ConvertBot) and US$1.99 (WeightBot) respectively.
Tapbots has won accolades for their innovative design of iPhone apps, and we'd like to help them come out with another really cool app. To enter the giveaway, write a comment with your idea for the next Tapbots app.
Here are the rules and a link to the obligatory legal statement:
- Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
- To enter leave a comment with an idea for a new Tapbot iPhone app.
- The comment must be left before Monday, April 13, 05:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
- You may enter only once.
- Ten winners will be selected in a random drawing.
- Prize: One license each for ConvertBot and WeightBot (US$3 value)
- Click Here for complete Official Rules.
TUAWTUAW giveaway: WeightBot and ConvertBot originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple will not offer its patents
Here a news which will make the ink run, and not to the benefit of Apple.
The World Wide Web Consortium which defines the standards of the Web has announced to its members that Apple (which is in fact a member) considered that the next standard of widgets in progress of development would violate one of its patents at the level of the automatic update. This claim will waste a lot of time in the making of this standard, those who taking part in it not wanting to see it attacked once it is set up. They will have to check with what comes from Apple, and to find a way around any problem.
Of course, this notification by Apple disappoints the other who see in this claim as a means of blocking them.
Apple stores to ditch Windows EasyPay systems for iPhone tech
Apple retail stores are looking to move away from Windows Mobile-based handheld checkout devices in favor of iPod touches with custom accessory add-ons, with a transition expected to follow the release of iPhone 3.0 later this year.
Apple Begins Countdown to 1 Billion IPhone Apps Downloaded
The countdown has begun. Apple posted a Web page on Friday counting down (or actually counting up) to the one billion app downloaded milestone on the App Store.
Microsoft Readying iPod Touch Rival: Zune HD?
Engadget posts evidence that Microsoft is further positioning itself directly against Apple's product line. Marketing images of a so-called "Zune HD" whos an iPod touch-like media player.
We present what might possibly be y...
100 tips and tricks to speed up OS X
A ton of useful ways to optimise the way you use your Mac
Apple continues to tighten up the rules concerning battery replacement
Since the release of Mac Intel (but already during the time of the iBook), Apple had to face many problems with the batteries on its portables. Between those that started to inflate, those that did not hold the charge, and those which broke down and displayed an X. These vexations were very expensive and created precedents that made it was relatively easy to exchange a used battery under guarantee.
Since March, they have started to tighten up. This started with the arrival of test software only available for the CMAA. This is now used to test the battery and decides if it must be exchanged or not. The after sales service department is forced to follow this guidance, since the software delivers a code for the return. In the absence of this code, the CMAA have to cover cost of the battery.
Also Apple has since then defined especially strict rules and even a very long-winded speech that the technicians must give you.
- To start, in the event of loss of battery life, if your battery has done its time, (more than 300 cycles of charge/discharge), the software will not deliver a code of guarantee. Apple considers indeed; beyond this number of cycles the wear is normal and advises to use the analogy of batteries of remote control that need replacing too.
- Previously any battery which inflated being exchanged immediately. Now, it will be the case only under guarantee or extended guarantee in certain cases.
We will finish by an important reminder. If you have several batteries, take care well to store them charged and especially not to let them discharge completely by using them regularly. If they go below a minimum threshold of charge, it will definitively be impossible for you to recharge them again.
TUAW giveaway: WeightBot and ConvertBot
Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touch
TUAW would like to help take away a bit of the sting of tax week by giving away something for free. That's why we've teamed with Tapbots to give ten lucky US readers licenses for WeightBot and ConvertBot.Although you'll probably be a lot lighter after the IRS empties your wallet, you may want to lose some weight. That's where WeightBot comes in handy. It's a great-looking and very functional weight tracking app for iPhone that has been featured on TUAW in the past.
Should you decide to skip the country in order to avoid paying taxes [which we do not recommend --Ed.], you might find ConvertBot's ability to convert units of measure and currency to be a big help! If you're not one of the giveaway winners, these apps are available for US$0.99 (ConvertBot) and US$1.99 (WeightBot) respectively.
Tapbots has won accolades for their innovative design of iPhone apps, and we'd like to help them come out with another really cool app. To enter the giveaway, write a comment with your idea for the next Tapbots app.
Here are the rules and a link to the obligatory legal statement:
- Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
- To enter leave a comment with an idea for a new Tapbot iPhone app.
- The comment must be left before Monday, April 13, 05:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
- You may enter only once.
- Ten winners will be selected in a random drawing.
- Prize: One license each for ConvertBot and WeightBot (US$3 value)
- Click Here for complete Official Rules.
TUAWTUAW giveaway: WeightBot and ConvertBot originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple will not offer its patents
Here a news which will make the ink run, and not to the benefit of Apple.
The World Wide Web Consortium which defines the standards of the Web has announced to its members that Apple (which is in fact a member) considered that the next standard of widgets in progress of development would violate one of its patents at the level of the automatic update. This claim will waste a lot of time in the making of this standard, those who taking part in it not wanting to see it attacked once it is set up. They will have to check with what comes from Apple, and to find a way around any problem.
Of course, this notification by Apple disappoints the other who see in this claim as a means of blocking them.
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