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The Korea Herald reports that Apple has agreed to recall first-generation iPod nanos sold in South Korea following four reports of the device’s batteries overheating or exploding. The recall comes several weeks after a request from the Korean govern…

The Korea Herald reports that Apple has agreed to recall first-generation iPod nanos sold in South Korea following four reports of the device’s batteries overheating or exploding. The recall comes several weeks after a request from the Korean govern…

Creaceed today releases an iPhone speech recognition SDK for all developers who want to release original and distinctive applications on the App Store. CeedVocal SDK is a multi-locator Automatic Speech Recognition SDK, and based on the acoustic models developed by Creaceed in English, French, and German. It Provides a phonetizer which is sufficient for common words, and provided in the form of a static library with header files. The programming language of the SDK is Objective-C.

Tropical Software today announces the release of TopXNotes 1.4.1, a minor update to its popular note manager for Macintosh. TopXNotes allows people to create, collect, store, and retrieve all the bits and pieces of information they find themselves inundated with on a daily basis. Version 1.4.1 introduces a new QuickStart for first-time users and fixes a rare problem encountered by a small number of users when exporting notes to some Classic iPods.

The iPhone (and iPod touch) automatically switch the screen between landscape and portrait mode when you tilt the device. This can be annoying if you want to read a web page or mail message when reclining in a horizontal posture on your side (while, say, lying in bed).

But you can ‘lock’ the iPhone/iPod touch in landscape mode by turning it upside down slowly. This is perfect for reading while lying down.

Hold the device in an upright position (default portrait mode). Tilt the device ninety degrees in either direction (switches to landscape mode). Tilt the device another ninety degrees in the same direction, so that it’s now upside down. The screen orientation stays in landscape mode, and the text is now aligned for reading on your side in a horizontal position.

The new Macbook Unibody has about five ports. In my case, all of them are full all the time. Unless you buy a hub, why not use that defunct G5 for additional ports and devices? You may save some energy by not relying on a large number of external devices (keyboard, monitor, hard drives, etc.) or AC power. I was also tired of the issues with a USB powered Oxygen 8 keyboard from M-Audio. Using my G5, the VNC access is actually somewhat tolerable for light operations at reasonable resolutions. If you have your Mac configured with a SATA II card and an internal drive mounting system, you can have access to more drives at decent speeds.

These instructions cover setting up a FireWire 800 link, a MIDI Network Link, VNC access using Vine Server, which is much faster than ARD. Also, you can easily use your G5 as a bridge to connect to two-pin devices (most video-cameras). Latency is minimal and the data path is more than sufficient, if all other interfaces are disabled it is also some…

Here’s one way to move contact from a Verizon phone to an iPhone. First back up your Verizon contacts using Backup Assistant (a small app you download using GetItNow). After running the app to back up, log onto your Verizon account, click the My Services tab, then click the My Contacts link.

This will show you all your contacts. Click the Print Address Book. This exports them into a single window ready for printing. But rather than print (or after printing as a backup), choose Save As and save the file as text. Open this in a text editor (it wouldn’t open in Pages, so I opened first in TextEdit, then copied and pasted).

From there, you can do some replacing and deleting until you have a tab-delimited list which, voila, can be imported into Address Book and synced with your iPhone.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published several dozen Apple patent applications this morning, and Unwired View highlights one group of them primarily related to iPhone software. The patents cover object and facial recognition, messaging, and …

Fanurio Time Tracking SRL today released Fanurio version 2.1, a time tracking and billing software application, highly appreciated by freelancers for its intuitive interface, flexible timer and ability to produce detailed invoices. Fanurio has lots of features for billing contracted work. It can record services and expenses, round time, apply discounts, handle subcontracted work, use multiple currencies, apply taxes, record partial payments and many more.

Retina-X Studios, LLC announced today the immediate availability of Mobile Spy version 3.0 for the Apple iPhone 3GS. No other spy software is currently compatible with the iPhone 3GS, Users can silently track GPS locations, SMS messages and calls of children or employees inside a secure online control panel. Mobile Spy runs in total stealth mode and no mentions of the program are shown on the iPhone 3GS.