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Paris based Coladia today announced Secret of the Lost Cavern Episode 2 for iPhone and iPod touch. Secret of the Lost Cavern is an episodic adventure game that plunges the player into an inspiring journey that takes place during the Paleolithic period in prehistoric time, 15,000 years B.C. The gameplay and each puzzle were redesigned to take unique advantage of the touch capabilities of the iPhone. 3D graphics and videos were also optimized for an unparalleled visual quality on mobile devices.

California based Bowers Technologies, Inc. today announced that they will be giving away 10 free copies of their upcoming iPhone app, iPastor. iPastor is a valuable tool for pastors, ministers, missionaries, church staff, and even volunteers to effectively and efficiently serve the church members. Entries can be pastors, ministers, missionaries, church staff, or volunteers who have an iPhone or iPod Touch. People wishing to submit entries to the contest can visit Bowers Technologies online.

Yesterday, Valleywag received considerable attention for its questionably legal offer of up to $100,000 for legitimate information on Apple’s much-anticipated tablet device. It didn’t take long for Apple’s lawyers to respond to the offer, with Micha…

Being Manan notes (via Redmond Pie) a newly-published patent application from Apple describing the ability to add users’ contacts directly to the iPhone’s home screen, offering one-touch access to various functions related to that contact.<p …

UK based Arten Science have announced that their new online store developed in conjunction with FastSpring, is now open. To celebrate the opening of the new store they are making available a Coupon Code that gives 25% discount on any and all products, throughout the remainder of January. Eligible products for the discount incllude ContaX CRM, R10Office, R10Cipher, R10BatchMail, R10Clean, macVCR, ooSooM Pro and MonitorMyMac.

Kodak today announced that it has filed suit against both Apple and Research in Motion for infringement of patents related to digital camera technology.

The Kodak complaint, filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), sp…

Spanish site faq-mac.com, which was first to note an Intel promotion yesterday apparently revealing at least one forthcoming MacBook Pro based on the company’s new Core i5 processors, now reports [Google translation] that Intel has revised the promot…

In Leopard, for Quick Look to display the contents of a text file, its extension had to be ‘registered’ with its UTI in the Info.plist file of the application associated with the file extension (see this hint). For most file endings associated with applications, this already works out of the box (in short, for all files with a Finder icon). This still seems to apply to Snow Leopard, but there is another option which might be new to Snow Leopard.

To make the file Quick Look-able, one simply has to set an extended attribute identifying the file as a text file. The necessary attribute is com.apple.FinderInfo with the value TEXT!Rch. Setting extended attributes can be done via with the xattr command in the Terminal. Note that xattr is technic…

I’ve seen similar hints for this before, but none worked when a message was open in a window, rather than when using the Preview pane. I hate working with the Preview pane, so this was preventing me from using those hints.

However, by modifying others’ AppleScripts, I came up with the following, which closes the current message window, then opens the next unread message:

tell application "Mail" to try
  tell window 1 to close
  tell message viewer 1 to set selected messages to {first message of beginning of (get selected mailboxes) whose read status is false}
  tell message viewer 1 to open selected messages
on error
  beep
end try

To make this work via the keyboard, you’ll need to use something like …

One of the major annoyances about Mac OS X 10.6 is that screen savers now have to be compiled as 64-bit to work. This means that any old screen savers that you may have collected will now appear in gray in the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel. If you try to select these grayed-out entries, the system will tell you that the screen saver is incompatible, and ask you if you want to move it to the Trash.

Many screen savers are no longer in development, but worked just fine in 10.5. If you have a screen saver that you liked in Leopard but that no longer works in Snow Leopard, first see if the developer has released a Snow Leopard version, or is working on one. If the developer seems to have abandoned the project, as so many do, see if he has made these screen saver open source.

For example, …