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August  7

Piper Jaffray analyst predicts Sept. MacBook updates
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is speculating that Apple will hold a special event in early September to announce new iPods and MacBooks,…

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August  6

August 22: Big day for iPhone abroad
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Mark your calendars for August 22, when many countries will start offering the iPhone 3G for sale. Here’s a list of the countries that are expecting launches that…

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Bible: 19 biblical translations on your iPhone
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When I was going through a minor existential crisis a few years ago, I read the Bible from cover to cover. The copy I had was the rattiest, oldest paperback version…

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August  5

'I Am Rich' makes author exactly that, does little else
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Got a cool grand to burn? Before you consider buying the brand-new app I Am Rich, there are a few charities I’d hope you consider. But if you truly…

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Consumer Reports pans Safari's lack of phishing protection
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Consumer Reports, in its annual internet security survey, recommended that Mac users avoid Safari because of its lack of phishing…

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Freeway 5.2 available with new MobileSafari support
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Softpress Systems has released Freeway 5.2, which includes new tools for building web pages for iPhone and iPod touch. Freeway is WYSIWYG…

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August  4

Daily Mail claims iPhone nano ready for Christmas, the rest of us laugh
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The Daily Mail (of London) is citing “an industry source” that says Apple will release a £150 (≈$295) “iPhone nano” for O2 pay-as-you-go customers.

The 8GB…

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Apple pulls Box Office from App Store
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Gizmodo is reporting that Box Office, an app that gives showtimes for your area, along with movie synopses and images from RottenTomatoes.com and other online…

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August  2

Bubble Level: surprisingly useful
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With my girlfriend in the process of refurbishing her kitchen, I found myself in need of (and without) a carpenter’s level yesterday…

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August  1

Quark releases QuarkXPress 8
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Love it or hate it (with the burning fire of a million angry suns), Quark yesterday released QuarkXPress 8, which features new tools for…

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July  31

iPhone Push Notification API released to select developers
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CrunchGear notes that a version of the iPhone Push Notification Service API has been released to “a handful” of developers, and, according to them, will…

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App roundup: Timekeeping and billing (Part II: The Quickening)
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I got a lot of feedback from commenters yesterday about the app roundup of timekeeping and billing software. Turns out that little part about not having a…

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Mac 101: Folder shortcuts in the Finder
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Another quick tip in our Mac 101 series for beginners: Some special folders on your computer have keyboard shortcuts that you can press to instantly navigate to…

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July  30

Noted without comment
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Noted without comment
To Walker, TUAW commenter
 
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First of all, Walker, allow me to personally apologize to you for not including Billings in this — what is now horrifically, inaccurately named — app roundup. I am finding it hard to cope, personally, understanding your deep disappointment not only in me, but in TUAW as a whole.

It’s clear so many people wanted to see Billings included in — Lord, I can’t even say it anymore — the roundup, but I just feel so despondent over not including it in the first place that I started to drink at about 10 this morning.

I’ve been drinking ever since. Frankly, I don’t understand how my typing is this good. It may be hard for you to understand, but deep disappointment about — sorry, I just threw up in my mouth a little — this so-called app roundup without including Billings is making me just want to end it all.

Arrayed in front of me are a variety of devices: stacks of paper, butter knives, large rocks upon which to stub my toe. I plan to methodically begin injuring myself: slowly, consistently. If only then that would atone for this horrible, mind-bending disappointment you feel in TUAW. If only then I could return to writing.

But the drink, thankfully: Lo, the drink has numbed the pain of your stinging rebuke, and indeed the sanguine burn of thousand cuts I have begun to administer with 80-pound card stock: cream, with a linen finish.

O, how I hope in time that — that is, if I don’t expire before the morn — I can come to perhaps blog more about other topics that may not so ballistically disappoint you. My omissions are only reflections of my unfathomable self-loathing, and I hope you can, in time, come to forgive me for this crime against humanity.

I humbly and only seek respite from this cold and dark that is my mind, and refuge from the horrors of my own mistakes.

Also — you can read more about Billings at Macworld: http://www.macworld.com/article/56798/2007/03/billings2.html. It sounds pretty nifty.

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