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right arrow key and ObjectDev Corporation today are proud to announce S’mores 1.0, their new app for iPhone and iPod touch users. Enjoy a virtual S’more with S’mores iPhone App. S’mores, a novelty entertainment application simulating the ever-popular campfire snack treat, its creation, it’s problems, and its triumph, roasting a marshmallow to perfection, stacking it in between graham crackers and chocolate, and squishing it.

Silicon Alley Insider reports that it has received information from Clayton Morris of FOXNews.com claiming that Apple and Verizon are still in talks to bring the iPad to Verizon’s wireless network. An Apple-Verizon partnership for the iPad had been …

Betanews reports on data from market research firm NPD showing that, of computers priced at $1,000 or more sold in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2009, 90% were Macs. The data demonstrates Apple’s continued strong performance among the high-end p…

Intuitive Innovations today is pleased to announce Sum Buddy 1.0, their brand new app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Sum Buddy is designed to make you smile every time you open it. Kids love it, while adults find it useful and fun. Sum Buddy is not just a counter, nor is it merely another ridiculous calculator with a whole bunch of those so called buttons. It is revolutionizing the general publics’ perception of what counting should be.

QuickerTek today announced the new nCard for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacMini’s. This new nCard installs into the internal AirPort card slot. The installation itself is no more complex than upgrading the memory. The new nCard has more power for the same price. The wireless benefits of higher transmit power and higher receiver sensitivity means greater networking performance.

Hardmac reports that Apple has halted production of 27-inch iMac models pending a fix for several display issues that have been affecting the machines.

According to one of our sources, the company completely stopped the iMac 27″ assem…

I have been building up a number of commands that I can use in GeekTool. One that I wanted but couldn’t find in other lists was the current battery capacity. This works for me:

ioreg -l | grep -i capacity | tr '\n' ' | ' | awk '{printf("%.2f%%", $10/$5 * 100)}'

[robg adds: This worked as shown on my 10.6.2 on my MacBook Pro. To get it work in 10.5, though, I had to modify the command a bit; I found that this version works in 10.5:

ioreg -l | grep -i capacity | grep -v Legacy| tr '\n' ' | ' | awk '{printf("%.2f%%", $14/$7 * 100)}'

Note that the output above is set up for GeekTool, where you don’t want a newline. If you want to run this in Terminal, you can change the printf bit (in eithe…

I have a need (like for Mutt’s query_command) to search for email addresses from OS X’s Address Book.app, but from the command line. After trying various hints, code, etc., and getting frustrated, I found that it’s just stored in sqlite3. Everything is already built into OS X, you just have to figure out the SQL structure. I’ve only tested this on 10.6, but I imagine it will either work as is, or be easily adapted to work, on 10.5.

I created a shell script called abook.sh in /usr/local/bin with these contents:

#!/bin/sh

sqlite3 -separator '    ' ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb "select e.ZADDRESSNORMALIZED,p.ZFIRSTNAME,p.ZLASTNAME,p.ZORGANIZATION from ZABCDRECORD as p,ZABCDEMAILADDRESS as e...