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In a companion piece to its report on Apple and record labels planning to launch interactive album booklets for iTunes Store music, The Financial Times provides additional details regarding Apple’s planned launch of a tablet computer. Concurring wit…

Apple today seeded iPhone developers with iPhone OS 3.1 Beta 3, termed Build 7C116a. Apple also released a new version of the iPhone SDK 3.1, Beta 3 (Build 9M2808). Both downloads are available to registered developers through Apple’s iPhone Dev Ce…

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DigiTimes reports that Toshiba is planning to ramp up its NAND flash memory production in August, with claims that the production is tied to contracted orders leading to speculation that Apple has begun preparations for launching new iPods soon after…

Sunset Lake Software today released a free version of their Pi Cubed visual math application for iPhone and iPod touch. Pi Cubed Lite shares the same animated equation typesetting and evaluation engine as the full version of the application. Students, scientists, and engineers can use this application to perform calculations just as they would on a chalkboard. The free Lite version lacks the advanced equation storage, organization, and export features of the full version.

The Branchr Advertising Network today announced the immediate availability of its new services and metrics available in the network. The Branchr Advertising Network now allows advertisers access to the usual statistics, such as Impressions, Clicks, Click Through Rate and eCPM, all in real time. Branchr offers complete referral information, where the most clicks are coming from, the top domains and pages. Branchr also now supports click tracking and click geo-location, in partnership with Google.

I just read the handy QuickTime Player ‘JKL’ hint (fast rewind, stop, fast forward), and thought I’d run through the keys to see what else might be there.

I found another shortcut that doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere: Tab will move you through the hour, minutes, and seconds fields, allowing you to jump directly to any time in the movie.

[robg adds: If you have 'All controls' set in the Keyboard Shortcuts panel of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel, you'll also tab through the playhead controls, as well as the individual controls at the bottom of the interface. If you have this feature set to 'Text boxes and lists only,' then Tab will just highlight the time fields, followed by the playback position cursor. I've only tested this in the Pro version of QuickTime, but I assume it works with the free version as well.]

The Arabic keyboard is supported natively in iPhone OS 3.0. However, there are some missing characters like ‘hamza’ (ء), and different shapes for some, such as ‘alef’ (أ ,آ), etc. To see these characters, you have to press and hold on the on the plain ‘alef’ (ا), then you will see a list of similar shapes. You can also do the same thing for ‘Ya`’ (ي) to get (ى).

Urdu and Perian can also see their extended characters for ‘v’ — press and hold (ف) and, for ‘ch’, press and hold (ج), etc.

If you use iPhoto, but keep the original images external to the iPhoto Library package, this hint explains how to move those externally-referenced files to a new location and update the iPhoto library so that iPhoto knows about the move.

This hint is for iPhoto 6 and higher.

To update your Library with the new location of your files, you need to go into the Package Contents of you iPhoto Library (Control-click on iPhoto and pick Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu]). Once the new folder opens, navigate into the Originals directory. There you will have a directory for each year of which you have photos.

If you have externally-referenced images, then the images inside of the Originals directory structure will be symbolic links to original files. Update these directories with symbolic links that point to the new location of your files. For instance, for my 2008 library, I renamed the 2008 directory in Originals to 2008_, then made a symbo…

BBC News reports that Swedish music subscription service Spotify has submitted its iPhone application to Apple for App Store approval. The free application would allow users of Spotify’s premium service, which currently costs £9.99 per month in the …