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In an interview with CNBC, McGraw-Hill’s CEO confirms that their textbooks will be on the Apple Tablet and it will be an iPhone OS based machine. When as…

A previous hint suggested a hack for disabling the Keyboard Setup Assistant which has an annoying habit of popping up when using a KVM switch (whether a hardware switch such as the excellent Belkin Flip, or a software one such as teleport with a headless Mac). However, there is a less drastic solution that takes just one click and works with both 10.4 and 10.5 (it may also work on 10.6, but I can’t test that myself).

Just click the red close button on the Keyboard Setup Assistant window, as per this Apple Support Document, and it shouldn’t pop up again for that (virtual) keyboard. If you do need the Setup Assistant again, you can summon it using the Keyboard System Preferences pane.

Note that you may need to plug a mouse directly …

To make it easier to retrieve accidentally-deleted items from the trash, you can use an Automator workflow and the third-party Automator action Touch Files to create a “date deleted” time stamp on files placed in the trash. Here’s how:

1. Download the Automator action and unzip it.
2. Open Automator and import this action (File » Import Actions and navigate into the Touch Files folder to find the Action).
3. Create a new Folder Action workflow in Automator.
4. Click the Choose Folder pop-up at the top of the workflow, and select Other. When the file choice dialog appears, type Shift-Command-G, then type ~/.Trash/ and click Choose.
5. Drag the Touch Files action (you can find it under Files & Folders) into your workflow. I…

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Over the years, there have always been those rumored Apple products and announcements that seem to take on a life of their own. Products that have been rumored for so long that you never actually think they will ever arrive, and when they finally do…

With Apple’s major media event scheduled for tomorrow, the company’s plans for wireless carrier arrangements in the U.S. for the iPhone and tablet device remain unclear, with reports coming down on all sides of the issue.

Regarding the…

Chicago-based Renkara Media Group has announced that their popular iPhone application Translate Now! has been chosen as an Apple Staff Favorite in the German and Austrian App Stores and has become the #1 Top Free Education application in both stores. Translate Now! is powered by Google Translate and enables users to translate between 36 languages in a beautifully animated interface.

Sydney based Lilliput Labs Pty Ltd today announces WebPresenter 1.1, an update to their mobile web presentation tool for iPhone and iPod touch. WebPresenter allows web developers and designers to demo their iPhone optimized websites running on an actual iPhone or iPod touch. Wirelessly connect your iPhone or iPod touch to a computer and stream the rendered website using the iPhone’s built in WebKit browser to that computer. Version 1.1 includes performance improvements, and more.

I like to create slideshow screen savers, and I do so using OS X’s .slideSaver package format. The advantage of using this format is that you can redistribute your slideshow among friends or family — that’s why I tried my hand at it. Now, making a screen saver is a bit less easy in 10.6 because you have to add the LANG.lproj folders, but here’s the rundown for creating these packages.

To make a slideshow screen saver, you do not need a separate application to compile. All you need will be right here. (You might want Property List Editor from the XCode developer tools to build the .plist files, but you can use TextEdit to do that.)

First, create a folder in any convenient place. Title it the name of the screen saver (Car Pictures, for example) and press Return.

To understand the package contents, you must have three files in that folder: an Info.plist file to identify it, a version.plist file to identify the version, and a folder…

Seattle-based RogueSheep today announces RoseGlobe 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. RoseGlobe turns an iPhone into an elegant, love-themed snow globe. Users can decorate the globe with photos of their sweetheart, which is filled with dancing hearts that react to movement and gravity just like a real snow globe. The elegant globe in the simulation can be decorated with any photo from the user’s library, or a new photo can be taken directly in the application.

Financial Times reports that Apple has been pressuring TV networks to lower their prices for iTunes content, hoping to pass along the savings to customers in order to spur sales. According to the report, Apple has been unhappy with the sales of tele…