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Smudge Apps today is proud to announce Scratchies, a fun new iPhone Application to put Scratch and Win on the iPhone. Your goal is to help Tim earn money to pay back Fang by scratching as many instant win cards as you can. With an all original soundtrack and stunning bright graphics, users will want to show off this app to their friends. With Facebook Integration, you can tell your friends just how good you are at Scratchies without ever having to leave the app.

In a statement made to Digital Daily yesterday, Palm acknowledges firing yet another salvo in the ongoing dispute between Apple and Palm over the Palm Pre’s ability to sync iTunes media by emulating an iPod, claiming that it has reported Apple to the…

Artist’s rendition of Apple tablet computer
AppleInsider reports that Apple is putting the finishing touches on its much-rumored tablet computer and is looking to launch the device, depicted in an artist’s rendition, in early 2010. Th…

The symptoms: Mail refuses to accept any new RSS feeds. Not by clicking the link "subscribe in Mail" when Safari displays an RSS feed. Nor by taking the URL and copy/pasting it into the address box when manually adding an RSS feed in Mail.

I went through all the usual motions, the most radical being to quit Mail and Safari, delete everything that smells like PubSub and RSS in my ~/Library folder, then log out and reboot. To no avail.

At last I deleted Mail’s "Envelope Index" in ~/Library/Mail. As expected, Mail asked to rebuild mailboxes upon the next start-up. Once that was done, RSS feeds worked again in Mail.

Due to the history of how I tackled the problem, I cannot tell whether deleting Envelope Index alone would have solved the issue, or whether the combination of previously deleting RSS and PubSub prefs, cache, … is required to restore Mail’s RSS capabilities.

Generally I have found that added keyboard shortcuts for the drop-down menu in the Print dialog (such as in this hint) only work only for the items above the dividing line. As Apple notes, “you can create keyboard shortcuts only for existing menu commands.” And all the commands below the dividing line are transient menu items, as they are there only because they are in the PDF Services folder, in the Library folder of the user or the system. If you take them out of there, they will disappear from the Print dialog drop-down. Hence it seems that they are not considered available for keyboard access by the system.

Except there is one way that I have just now discovered to get this to work.

You can use the Tab key to cycle through to the drop-down menu. Now you can use the down arrow to open the menu. At this point, you can use your shortcuts for items below the line. Two things to note when usin…

There have been past hints (in 10.5; from 2001) about how to force the initial Setup Assistant to run again, but these methods were both very manual and required booting in Single User mode.

I’ve created an AppleScript app — Clean Install.app — that will allow you to ‘clean’ any attached OS X volume (other than the current startup volume). The script removes all the home folders, and the netinfo database (Tiger) or user info plist’s (Leopard+), then forces the initial Setup Assistant the next time the ‘cleaned’ volume is booted. The application is completely written in AppleScript and can be edited, so feel free to make whatever customizations and modifications you want.

This allows you to take a fresh OS X install, add any software and run any updates you’d like, and then give it to …

Ontario based RapidWeaver theme developer seyDoggy is excited to release the last five THEME WEAVER themes in their ten theme series. RapidWeaver templates TW006, TW007, TW008, TW009, and TW010 are now exclusively sold and fully supported by seyDesign. This move completes the transition of all THEME WEAVER themes to seyDesign for distribution. TW009 has been completely rebuilt to include many of the highly sought after features that have come to define the seyDesign brand.

Advertising Age reports that Microsoft has quietly altered at least one of its “Laptop Hunters” television commercials to remove reference to the price of a MacBook Pro after recent price cuts to Apple’s notebook line rendered the reference inaccurat…

Kansas City based Apple Consulting firm MetroMacs today announces the release of their updated website which includes the addition of a new help desk ticketing system, expanded services and content refinements. MetroMacs offers an expert team of Apple Certified Technicians and experienced IT professionals. Whether you want to schedule a time to drop off your computer, have us pick it up or come out to work on-site.

TimeStream Software today announces the first ever release of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” for the iPod Classic and iPod nano’s Notes feature. Now iPod owners can read this classic tale of Alice’s journey down the rabbit hole on their iPods. Free downloads for a limited time at the Notescast web site.