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Back in May, an image of an “Apple iPhone 3Gen 2009″ bezel appeared on Chinese parts supplier websites. This led many to believe that the new iPhone would adopt a slightly different design with a higher earpiece. As it turns out, it appears…

MacUser received word from the Consumer Electronics Association’s Jason Oxman that Apple is not exhibiting at CES 2010, confirming a report by Engadget debunking the original Wall Street Journal report.

“Apple is a member of the trad…

360Works announced today the launch of 360Works SafetyNet, the first automated offsite backup plugin designed specifically for FileMaker Server solutions. SafetyNet makes it easy to set up remote backup routines for FileMaker Server administrators. Files are stored on Amazon’s cloud-based online file storage service, which runs on the same reliable and fast infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network. Easy to use, low cost remote backup solution for FileMaker files.

Alongside today’s introduction of updated Time Capsule models, Apple appears to have finally discontinued Shake, its long-standing high-end digital compositing and visual effects software package. While Shake’s product pages remain available on Appl…

DEVONtechnologies, LLC today releases the sixth public beta of version 2.0 of all editions of its information manager DEVONthink as well as of the smart note-keeper DEVONnote. The sixth public beta of DEVONthink 2.0 and DEVONnote 2.0 adds a first bunch of PDF annotation functions to DEVONthink, a further enhanced interactive web interface and many further enhancements.

Forbes reports that cybersecurity researchers plan to publicize today at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas a security vulnerability in the iPhone SMS messaging system that reportedly would allow hackers to in theory “take over every iPhone in the…

When photos are exported from iPhoto using the Export function, all the photos will get the current date/time stamp. But if you use any of these photos in an app that organizes them by date/time, then the organization will be lost. For example, I export a set of images from iPhoto to view in my Wii’s photo tool, but those images are organized by date.

To fix this problem, I took advantage of the EXIF data in the JPEG images from my digital camera. To batch change a large set of images, I use the open source command-line tool jhead, which is available as a pre-compiled Intel binary (source code is also available from the website, or via Fink).

I copied the jhead binary into an Applications folder in my home directory, and made it executable with the following command:

chmod 750 jhead

Then I wrote a simple shell script to batch update …

While it may not run too well, it is possible to get Final Cut Studio 3 to install with less than the ‘required’ 128MB VRAM.

Control-click on the installer package alias and choose Show Original from the pop-up menu. Control-click the original installer and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into the Contents » Resources folder. Control-click on the Requirements Checker and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into the Contents » Resources folder, and then open minsys.plist with Property List Editor, the default (requires Xcode).

Change the value of AELMinimumVRAM from 128 to 64 (or less if you have even less VRAM). The installer will now run normally.

After installing, Control-click on the Final Cut Pro.app in /Applications and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into Contents » Resources folder. Open the mimsys.plist file found there, a…

My Wamu accounts are now accessible at Chase.com, and I needed to change the Financial Institution setting in Quicken, but I couldn’t because Quicken was giving me all sorts of weird behavior (telling me that Chase requires exactly a four-digit PIN, errors during download, etc.) Just a lot of weird stuff.

I was finally able to do this while testing out whether a new account would work. To change the Financial Institution, click New in the Quicken account list to set up a new account. Choose Chase as the Financial Institution, then Online to set up the account. Put in your Chase.com credentials, and it will look for your accounts from Chase.

Here’s the cool part: when you are shown the list of accounts Quicken has found, you can choose to skip the account, create a new account in Quicken, or use an existing account. This effectively allows you to change the Financial Institution without all the problems you get using the Edit account dialog.

Obviously, this…

Hog Bay Software today releases WriteRoom.iPhone 2.0. For people who want to write and take notes on their iPhone. WriteRoom is a distraction free writing environment. Unlike Notes, WriteRoom provides a clean interface and tether free syncing. Full-screen editing is a new WriteRoom.iPhone 2.0 feature. In full-screen mode toolbars and the status bar fade away, leaving you with a distraction free view of your text.