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Apple today announced financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2010, corresponding to the fourth calendar quarter of 2009. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $15.68 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per dilute…

The goal of the newly found game studio Sketch Games is to produce highly sophisticated and elaborated game projects whilst releasing them to the local public in Slovakia as to the worldwide gaming public as such. Consisting of seven creative individuals who worked on titles like Soldiers of Fortune – Payback, Civil War, Battle for the Pacific, Secret Service or UFO: Aftermath, Sketch Games is currently putting its effort into the iPhone game industry.

Colorado-based CleverMedia has released Gold Strike 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. The popular online game Gold Strike has come to the iPhone. Gold Strike is an action puzzle game where you play a miner trying to strike gold in a collapsing mine. You must throw your pick at groups of matching blocks as tremors push the blocks closer to you. The object of the game is to dig as deep as you can, scoring points for hitting gold blocks.

Apple has begun prepping the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and appears to be placing large banners on the side of the building to mimic the invitations sent out last week. MacRumors reader Samuel Powell sent in this photo of the Yerba Buen…

9 to 5 Mac summarizes information it has received from contacts in the publishing industry in recent days, revealing that Apple has been pushing aggressively forward in discussions with publishers about bringing their content to Apple’s tablet rumore…

dBelement today introduces Reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Fall in love with reading all over again. Reader is a revolutionary webapp that works completely offline. You can start adding and Reading books within minutes. Reader lets you set an auto-scroll speed to have your book scroll-up like movie credits. The auto-scroll feature challenges you to read faster, it also reduces outside distractions. You will find yourself finishing your books faster while retaining more.

I’ve always wanted to have a desktop image that was a live music visualizer. This is how I did it. As far as I can tell (by Googling the techniques that have been detailed elsewhere), this is the only start-to-finish instruction to accomplish responsive music visualization on the desktop.

Before you begin, note that the major issue with this hint is that it requires you have the visualizer running in iTunes in order for the desktop visualizer to work. I have a Quad dual-core, so I don’t notice a hit in performance, but I’d prefer this to work cleaner. Read on for the how-to if you’d like to see how I did it…
First, I copied a visualizer (for example, Lathe.qtz) from the Compositions folder in the /System » Library » Compositions folder, and modified it heavily in Quartz Composer (part of XCode) to make it unique.

Still in Quartz Composer, go to Editor » Edit Protocol Conformance, and click both Screen Saver and Music Visualizer. Then save the ed…

Many applications that relied on Java 1.4.2 and Java 1.5 stopped working in Snow Leopard, because Apple removed these Java versions from the system. Upgrading to the lastest versions of many applications usually will solve the problem. However, your favorite application may not have a Snow Leopard compatible upgrade. For these applications, re-installing Java 1.4.2 and/or Java 1.5 is necessary. Sometimes, even this is not enough. As an example, Apple also removed the Cocoa-Java bridge from Snow Leopard, which some Java applications such as PDFLab depended on. Reinstalling the Cocoa-Java bridge along with the proper version of Java is necessary to re-enable these applications on Snow Leopard. For example, getting PDFLab working again in Snow Leopard requires reinstalling Java 1.4.2 and the Coc…

On jailbroken iPhones where sbsettings is installed (nearly all of them) and the ‘autolock’ toggle is also installed, there is a chance of getting permanently stuck in a lock screen loop. When you slide to unlock the iPhone, it unlocks for a 10th of a second, then locks again.

The problem is that this unlock-lock loop stays through a restore. Try as you might: DFU mode, restarting, restoring from backup, etc., all will end with an iPhone in the same loop. This problem is caused by a bug in sbsettings’ autolock toggle.

This is how I fixed mine when it happened to my phone last night…
Now when I mean “fixed,” I mean getting all my photos, SMS, calendars, contacts, app settings, call log, etc. back, but the phone is left unjailbroken. Since we have to do a restore through iTunes, the phone will be unjailbroken when finished. A re-jailbreak is necessary from the get-go.

1. Plug in your locked iPhone and manually force a backup (command-click on its icon in iTu…

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

As part of a broad report in advance of Apple’s media event scheduled for Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times claims that a team of New York Times employees has been traveling to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California to work on a new version of …