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USA Today has published an article highlighting AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson’s contributions to the Apple-AT&T relationship. Of particular note, the article cites unnamed sources who claim that in exchange for offering Apple subsidies o…

LG today said it has struck an agreement with Dolby Labs to build Dolby Mobile audio into its media phones. The recently-developed technique gives listeners virtual surround from plugged-in earphones despite the relatively small size …

Motorola has announced that, exclusively through its online store, it will soon sell its quad-band U9 clamshell phone for the first time in the US. The phone allows users to easily sync music from their PCs via Windows Media Player and …

After an unusual sequence of events, Nullriver, Inc.’s NetShare app has reappeared on the iTunes App Store.

The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone’s network connection with your computer.

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After an unusual sequence of events, Nullriver, Inc.’s NetShare app has reappeared on the iTunes App Store.

The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone’s network connection with your computer.

Share…

Apple released Security Update 2008-005 yesterday, fixing a DNS exploit others began work on nearly a month ago. With an increase in reported instances of malware and trojan horses targeting OS X systems, Apple has lately been widely …

Apple abruptly disabled NullRiver’s NetShare in iTunes yesterday without explanation to the developer or its customers. The application, developed by the team behind Installer.app, allowed iPhone users to share their phone’s EDGE or 3G …

On Thursday, Apple provided iPhone developers with their first look at daily sales numbers. One developer generously shared her sales numbers with 9to5Mac.

Eliza Block is the author of a well reviewed crossword puzzle game called 2 …

QuickTime 7.5 finally added feature that all Final Cut Pro (FCP) users will enjoy: JKL transport controls. Just like in FCP, the J, K, and L keys control the playback of your video: J is backward, K is stop, and L is forward.

Tapping the J or L keys multiple times increases the speed of playback. Holding J+K or K+L plays back in slow motion.

I had a large folder of fonts. They were not organized in any way; some had been renamed, and there were a lot of duplicates. I created a new library in Font Book (File » New Library) and dropped the folder into the new library. Using a Library leaves the fonts in place instead of copying them to one of the fonts folders.

Now that I had them in Font Book, I could remove all the duplicates by selecting all the fonts with dots by their name and choosing, File » Remove “Font name.” Things were looking better, but I wanted to install these fonts on another computer. So I exported them by using Edit » Select All, then File » Export.

To my surprise, Font Book created subfolders by font name for every font. Nice and organized, free from duplicates. As a final check, I ran File » Validate File and chose my new ‘Exported Fonts’ folder. That found a couple more issues with some suitcases that I fixed by following …