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A pair of reports today from Scott Moritz of TheStreet share claims from Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar that Qualcomm has struck a deal with Apple to provide a 3G EV-DO chip for a CDMA-based iPhone scheduled for launch later this year and t…

iSkysoft Software Co., Ltd. has released an important product upgrade that its products support High Definition media, including iMedia Converter for Mac, DVD Creator for Mac, Video Converter for Mac and more. HD technology can help users make their videos more impressive with clearer pictures, superior sound quality, progressive scanning and a wider viewing screen.

Chicago based WaveMachine Labs announces Voice Band 1.0 for the iPhone. Voice Band turns your voice into a musical instrument, allowing you to create complete songs by simply singing a melody into your iPhone. A built-in recorder lets you create songs one instrument at a time. Voice Band works in real time as you sing, and includes ten instruments: two electric guitars, bass, saxophone, two synthesizers, organ and drums.

Apple has reportedly begun seeding Build 10D522 of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to a limited set of developers, marking the first official beta version of the third maintenance release for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. According to those familiar with the release, Appl…

Things are picking up at the Las Vegas Convention Center
CES kicks off today in Las Vegas with multiple press events and the conference’s first keynote speech, given by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, who may or may not introduce a tablet d…

Former Apple Senior Marketing Manager John Martellaro today penned an interesting piece describing the company’s strategy for issuing controlled leaks, pointing to Monday’s Wall Street Journal article on Apple’s tablet device as a likely instance of …

Indiana based Second Gear is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Today 2.0, the latest version of its popular calendaring application. Today makes it easy to get a one day snapshot view of your upcoming events and tasks in a compact window. No iCal required. Version 2.0 adds “Tomorrow’s” events plus global event and task creation capabilities. Today also features usability improvements, completely revamped UI, 64-bit Support.

Many people who are fanatical about Apple, are also fans of Star Trek. The Digital Lifestyle is bringing both Apple and Star Trek fans together in a weekly event called Star Trek Saturdays. Beginning January 16th, each Saturday the site will post a full-length episode of Star Trek, starting with the first episode of the original series. The intent is to bring these two groups together and to give the more casual Star Trek viewer a chance to learn more about the show.

It is often distracting for a software developer to have the Problem Reporter application pop up each time an application under development crashes.

Also, in Snow Leopard, there is no longer an option to not submit the report to Apple, which raises security and privacy concerns.

Here’s one way to disable Problem Reporter: simply run the following command in Terminal:

sudo chmod 000 /System/Library/CoreServices/Problem\ Reporter.app

To re-enable Problem Reporter, do the following:

sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/CoreServices/Problem\ Reporter.app

I have read several forums which discuss the “Could not set indexing status for volume” error message from mdutil, but none of the responses explain why this happens. There are several reasons for getting this error message from mdutil, the tool for changing Spotlight settings. Here are a few of the reasons, and the remedies…
If Spotlight is already Disabled, attempting to do sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/your_vol will result in this error message. There are at least two reasons for mdutil to believe that Spotlight is disabled.

The first is that the volume was mounted and had a .metadata_never_index file at its base. The remedy is to remove that file in Terminal:

sudo rm -f /Volumes/Your Volume/.metadata_never_index

Then dismount and remount your_vol. If it is on your internal hard drive, do a restart instead.

The second reason is that Spotlight actually is disabled! To find out, do the f…