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Apple today released iPhone OS 3.0.1, addressing an SMS security vulnerability disclosed at yesterday’s Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The release of iPhone OS 3.0.1 has been expected since a spokesperson for UK iPhone carrier O2 c…

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple is unlikely to create its own “iTunes for e-books” and will instead rely on third parties to deliver e-book content through the existing App Store. An e-book industry source has reportedly indicated that whil…

Engadget reports that a China-specific iPhone carrying model number A1324 received a five-year approval from China’s State Radio Regulatory Commission on May 7th, opening the door for the company to launch the iPhone there. Separately, PC World note…

Today, An Event Apart posts an interview with two An Event Apart Boston 2009 attendees, Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl, who designed and developed an application during the two-day conference and took it live during the event. The application, A Feed Apart, was created using Django, django-syncr, and the Twitter and Flickr APIs in order to aggregate all attendee-posted information in one place.

Vela Design Group announces VelaClock Deluxe 2.1.14 and VelaClock 2.1.14, Dashboard widgets. VelaClock is a world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, moonrise, moonset, phase of moon, time zone information and more. It can easily be configured to use a minimum amount of screen space or if the user wishes, more detailed information about the currently selected city can be displayed.

I was quite annoyed with the sound quality of my Santa Rosa MacBook, i.e. a MacBook3,1. I had upgraded to this machine via a hard drive swap from the first generation Macbook, and now there was much noise on the headphones.

Today I found out that I can get perfectly fine audio by starting Audio MIDI Setup (in Applications » Utilities) and selecting 2Ch-20bit (or 24bit) for the headphones, instead of the previous 16bit setting.

This is a fairly simple hint, and a variation on this previous hint, that gives you quick access to the contents of a Finder’s folder (eg: Downloads) from Safari via a bookmark.

Simply add a new Bookmark entry (Bar or Menu, your choice), with the desired file:///-type folder path as described in the prior hint, but then append .DS_Store to the path like so:

file:///Users/your_username/Downloads/.DS_Store

Clicking this bookmark will open the linked folder in Finder, displaying its contents. The reason we’ve linked to .DS_Store file here and not the folder itself is to force Safari to open the destination folder. Without the hidden invisible file at the end, Safari will reveal the location of the specified folder within its containing folder. When you link to a file within the folder, Safari will actually open the folder.

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When working on a recent design in Pages that included lots of thumbnail photos of faces in a grid, I noticed Pages invoking the spinning beach ball of slowness. Every adjustment, every move would invoke the beach ball.

The simple solution was to turn off Pages’ Thumbnail side-column view. Select View -> Page Thumbnails to remove the checkmark and close the side column. The slow down was due to the fact that each adjustment to my grid of photos needed to be updated in the tiny Page Thumbnail view.

According to BBC News, an O2 spokesperson has revealed that Apple will be delivering an update on Saturday to address an iPhone SMS security vulnerability disclosed yesterday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.

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ZTak Software has released Fart Match 1.12, an update to their hilarious card matching game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Fart Match puts a humorous twist on the traditional card matching game. Instead of matching card faces you will be matching farting sounds. With the release of version 1.12 a new timed game called Fart Match Speed has been added. With it you will play against the clock while tying to complete the 56 levels of the game.