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After weeks of speculation, Apple has finally confirmed former IBM Vice President, Mark Papermaster, has taken over the iPod and iPhone division. Not only has. … Submit News. news@macblogz.com …

Following our previous post on the rumors that we are to see an updated iMac and Mac Mini next week, Apple have confirmed that this will not happen before the.

Forbes reports on Apple’s “secret weapon” that has helped keep its earnings well above expectations: falling NAND-flash memory prices. And according to Forbes, there are no signs that this trend will abate anytime soon.

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Coladia today released Secret of the Lost Cavern, its prehistoric adventure game for Mac OS X.

Given the title, you might think that this either isn’t a hint, or it’s a “give-me-a-break-mike” hint at that. But hang with me.

I’ve always been frustrated that my wife’s iBook way outshined my MacBook when I played iTunes — even with iTunes and internal volumes set to max. Then Leopard comes, and I did a Quick Look on a music file in the Finder (select the file and hit the Space Bar). I noticed that the Finder played the song much louder than did iTunes.

Eventually, I figured out that if in iTunes you enable the equalizer (Window » Equalizer then click the On button), and set the Preamp to its max, the volume now matches the volume of Quick Look in the Finder, less any adjusting on the equalizer. I already had the equalizer on, but the Preamp was set to 0.

Just like music and podcasts in the iTunes Store, you can use Browse mode in the iPhone/iPod touch App Store. You’ll find a Browse link in the box at the top right of the App Store home page. Click it, and you’ll see the typical iTunes Store three-pane browser. Click on App Store in the first column, then choose a Category in the second column to see a list of all apps within that category.

Because this view is list-based, without the fancy web interface, it’s much faster (plus you see all entries in one long list, instead of 21 per page). The really nice thing, though, is that you can add your own columns to the list are. Control-click on the list header row, and select Release Date from the pop-up menu. You can then click on the Release Date header, and you’ve got a list of every app within the category, sorted by release date. Repeat the process and add Popularity, and you can sort by popularity instead.

This way you can sort the apps the way you l…

Against Photoshop’s advice, I’ve set an external hard drive as my primary Photoshop scratch disk. But when I recently left my external drive at home, Photoshop refused to start — it displayed an error message that read “Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available,” without an option to change scratch disk. Clicking OK closed Photoshop.

Thankfully, as it is with many things Mac, keyboard shortcuts work wonders. Holding down Command and Option while opening Photoshop allowed me to change the scratch disk’s storage location.

Published 45 hours ago by Aviv at MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News Tony Fadell is the Senior Vice President of the iPod Division at Apple Inc., having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. According to the Wall Street Journal Fadell is …

Today not only marks Election Day in the United States (vote early, vote often!), but also the eighth anniversary of the launch of macosxhints.com. Obviously, a lot has changed in eight years, and the pace of hints here lately has slowed — but that’s not surprising, given the continuing maturation of OS X itself. But with roughly 12,000 hints in the database, we’ve covered a lot of OS X-related ground during those eight years.

One thing that hasn’t changed is the mission of the site: to share OS X tips and tricks with anyone interested in reading them. After all, it’s the community that really makes the site work — only about 1,400 of those 12,000 hints have my name on them. That’s why every hint ever published is still available to anyone who wants to read them; what the community helps to build should always be freely accessible to that community.

Thanks to all of you for making this site …