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… an overview of their iPhone/iPod Touch application. Not only does this release feature Wi-Fi syncing with your Mac, but these guys are giving it away free, for a limited time. Yes — FREE! While they note in their post READ MORE »

Apple (AAPL) shipped 1.4 million computers in the US during Q2, representing 8.5% market share and 38% year-over-year growth. Mac shipments grew 9 times faster than the overall US PC market (4.2%) in Q2. Q2 US Mac sales grew by 386000 …

With RAM prices dropping so fast, it seems a shame that I can’t really use more than 3GB of memory for Photoshop. As a 32 bit application, Photoshop CS3 can only “use” 4GB of real memory — a 1GB chunk for the application, leaving a potential 3GB of real RAM available for Photoshop to use for my images. For anyone with 8GB or more of memory, here’s an old concept that tricks Photoshop into using as much memory as you want.

Remember RAM disks from OS9? The feature is available in the command line in OS X. By creating a RAM disk, and having Photoshop use that as the first scratch disk, you’ll speed up Photoshop as long as you have enough real memory to do it. For my test, I allocated 3GB to Photoshop in its prefernces (real memory usage), and then created a 2GB RAM disk.
The Terminal command to create a 2GB drive is:

hdid -nomount ram://4194304

The number is the number of 512 byte blocks in your RAM disk. The example above creates a 2GB disk…

I’ve seen a few requests around the internets for an app store RSS feed. Until Apple releases their own, I have stumbled upon a useful one:

feed://webobjects.mdimension.com/iPhoneApps.rss

Enjoy!

[robg adds: I discovered (thanks to TUAW) a number of App Store feeds provided by Pinch Media:

• Recently added apps
• Recently added free apps
• Updated apps
• Top 100 free apps
• …

  

  

On the new iPhone software, you can search for a contact using the first and last name. For instance, if you want to search for Pedro Fernandes, you would write P F (that’s P, then a space, then an F). The iPhone will filter out all the contacts with first and last name starting with P and F, and vice-versa. You can further refine the search by typing more letters. This is a great time-saving feature; thanks, Apple!

Bonus hint… on a standard phone (none-Apple) I always stored the names in such a way that you can do this search. So for instance I would have: Pedro Fernandes stored as PFernandes Pedro, Tania Silva stored as TSilva Tania, Daniel Fidalgo stored as DFidalgo Daniel, etc. This enables a quick search through first and last names. So if you are stuck (or by choice) have an old (classic) phone, maybe you find this usefull as well.

If you’re trying to configure the iPhone 2.0’s built-in Cisco VPN client, you may be stymied by the lack of a place to type your group password.

It’s there, but labeled “Secret.” Put your group password there, and you should be good to go.

Signs are starting to appear that Apple may be prepping for a revision of their Mac laptops in the near future. Following up a previous Commercial Times report that pointed to a Q3 (July-September) order for MacBook displays, the paper now reports t…

from WSJ’s China Journal
On July 19th, Apple is opening its first retail store in China in Beijing’s Sanlitun entertainment district. The store opens at 10 a.m. local time.

“This is the first of many stores we will ope…

iPhoneAlley notes that AT&T has once again posted information on their website indicating that all iPhone customers have free access to their more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots access across the U.S., including Starbucks locations:

AT&T …