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Verizon already has a formal name and a release date for the BlackBerry Thunder in its system, a leak of an inventory screen at BGR shows. The touchscreen rival to the iPhone is now formally referred to as the BlackBerry 9530 and is …

Fujitsu today used Singapore as the venue for its next most recent update to the LifeBook U series. Already previewed in basic form, the 5.6-inch convertible tablet switches from the A110 processor to a faster and more efficient 1.6GHz …

The past quarters have been very good for Apple. A lot of focus has been directed at the iPhone 3G, but we cannot overlook the popularity in Apple’ Mac computers. Apple’s Mac sales have outpacing the entire PC market by a large margin. …

Jobs said the early results point to the success of Apple’s strategy to invest in the AppStore as a means of differentiating the iPhone among competitors in the smartphone handset market. He speculated on a potential $1 billion …

AlleyInsider publishes an unconfirmed rumor that Apple will be incorporating QuickTime encoding/decoding chips into their products in the coming months. AlleyInsider’s Dan Frommer describes it as “pure speculation” but felt it plausible enough to pu…

One of the most annoying things about the Apple TV is using its on-screen keyboard — for instance, when entering WiFi information, usernames, or searching for YouTube videos. The process of moving character-by-character and row-by-row is slow and tedious. If you’ve got an iPhone or iPod touch and Apple’s free Remote application, however, you’re holding the solution to this problem in your hand: just fire up Remote any time you see a keyboard input screen on your Apple TV, and the keyboard will appear on your iPhone (or iPod touch).

While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this one feature justifies the cost of an iPhone or iPod touch, if you use your Apple TV a lot, it is an amazing timesaver to be able to use a “real” (real virtual?) keyboard instead of the Apple TV’s onscreen version.

I first heard about this from an anonymous Macworld reader via email, as well as in …

As noted in this post on the Google Code Blog, the Google Calendar now features support for the CalDV protocol:

What this means is that you can now do two-way synchronization between Google Calendars and iCal version 3.x (standard in Leopard). G…

The zoom tool (Control and mouse wheel scroll) is normally set to follow the mouse, but sometimes I want both a zoomed-in Flash window and no cursor in the way. In addition to the methods noted this hint that basically hide the cursor, I came across one probably bug-borne trick which allows one to move the cursor without shifting the screen.

First, you zoom in just a little bit, then wait. After a brief delay, the zoom feature will give up and pop back to regular full-screen mode. (The keyboard zoom shortcut, Command-Option-plus, zooms too coarsely to do this — you must use Control and the mouse wheel.)

After that, zoom back in heartily, and the screen will not doggedly track the mouse anymore! Zooming in and out is still biased by the mouse position, so you can walk the screen a little bit, if need be. Zooming fully back out returns you to normal behavior.
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Sometimes, when copying/pasting text on a file or folder name field, you get the error message: “The name. [filename] cannot be used. Try using another name”. Yet, the name seems fine; there aren’t any obvious illegal characters in it. The problem is that the pasted text may contain some invisible characters, in the spaces between words, that are not accepted by Mac OS X. Yet no clue is given as to where such characters may be located in the filename.

The fix is to delete and retype every single space between the words of such a name. A much faster and convenient solution is to use an application like SmartWrap (I am not affiliated with them; their product just works well for this sort of thing).

The first version of Delicious Library was a Pick of the Week way back in 2004. At the time, Delicious Library let you easily catalog your books, movies, music, and video games — it could read bar codes using an iSight camera, and then look up data for those bar codes on the web, greatly simplifying the task of creating a digital version of your collection. Your collection is then displayed with virtual representations of the books, movies, etc., using images that are also downloaded from the web.

Version 2 picks up where version one left off,…