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Bright Side of News claims to have information on Apple’s “A4″ chip unveiled as the brains behind the company’s new iPad tablet device. Unsurprisingly, the CPU included in the chip is said to be based on the ARM Cortex A9 licensed by Apple a…

Get In Spring Ltd. recently released RSS Beacon 1.0, the first stand-alone, all-inclusive, socially-enhanced RSS Reader for the iPhone and iPod touch. It provides users with a complete RSS management and sharing solution at their fingertips and helps them become feed providers of their own. RSS Beacon allows users to create personalized feeds, invite contacts in their address book to follow them and makes it really easy to add articles as they read them.

XChange UK and ThePowerXChange, the sources for extended technology worldwide are pleased to announce PDF2Office Professional version 5.0 offering users over 100 new features and enhancements. One major new element of PDF2Office Professional 5.0 for Macintosh is the capability to convert PDF documents to Microsoft(R) Excel(R) formats. Additionally, PDF2Office Professional v5.0 has been designed for optimal operation with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Last week, we uncovered evidence of Apple seeking to trademark the “iPad” name in a number of countries, foreshadowing the name of Apple’s tablet device announced yesterday. At the time, we noted that Apple had not applied for an “iPad” trademark in…

On Tuesday, less than 24 hours before Apple’s media event to introduce the iPad, publishing giant McGraw-Hill’s CEO Terry McGraw confirmed that Apple would be introducing a tablet at the event. McGraw also confirmed earlier reports that Apple and Mc…

AT&T today released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2009, revealing that the company activated 3.1 million iPhones on its network during the quarter, just shy of the record 3.2 million iPhone activated in the previous quarter. The iPho…

This workaround, using Thunderbird, allowed me to successfully remove 30,000 duplicate emails (from a collection of about 80,000 emails) in OS X’s Mail.app. I spent a lot of time searching this question, and this is the only solution I found that worked.

My mail.app emails got rather out of hand; I won’t bore you with how. I had most emails at least twice, and some up to five times. I tried Andreas Amann’s Mail Script for this, but, even though it was working OK, it only found about 200 duplicates in three hours, and was cooking my CPU at about 95%. There was no way that this could go on, so I cancelled the process. (Thanks anyway, AA.)

I looked at importing into Entourage, because there are some scripts to eliminate duplicates from there, but for reasons I shall not bore you with here, this proved a dead end.

The solution turned out to be the amazing add-on for Mozilla’s Thunderbird called …

This hint allow you to modify the default printing preset, that is, the preset selected by default for an already-installed printer. It all happens (in 10.5) in the file named com.apple.print.custompresets.plist in your user’s Library/Preferences folder. In 10.6, the file name is more complex:

com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.YOUR_PRINTER_MODEL.plist

To edit these files, you can use your favorite binary-capable text editor (TextWrangler, BBEdit, etc.), or the Property List Editor that comes with the free XCode development environment. Start by saving your favorite printer’s printing preset through the GUI the usual way, then edit the plist mentioned earlier.

What you are looking for is the com.apple.print.lastPresetPref key, which has a class of string, and a default value of Standard. Just replace Standard with the exact name of your saved preset, then save the edited file. If you’re run…

One of the major surprises for many people with yesterday’s iPad launch was the lack of a camera anywhere on the device. As noted by CrunchGear, however, the iPad simulator included as part of the newly-released iPhone SDK 3.2 contains refer…

Vitaliy Pronkin today announces WikiPlaces 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. WikiPlaces provides access to Wikimapia, the great community project with the aim to describe every location in the world. It currently has over 11,000,000 places marked. You will be amazed how much interesting and surprising information you will find about places near you and all over the world. We listened to users’ suggestions and updated WikiPlaces to be the best application to find out more about places around you.