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Connecting People Software Co. has released Domestic Violence Info 1.0, a free application for the iPhone or iPod Touch. The application was designed to work like a book allowing the app to be as user friendly as possible and allowing the user to obtain information quickly. It includes topics such as what Domestic Violence is, how to stay safe in that type of situation, important telephone numbers to the National Domestic Violence hotline, and much more.

Nasarre Consultores SL has released Evaluacion de Riesgos 1.0 for iPhone devices. Evaluacion de Riesgos is intuitive, open, practical, with no manual needed and can be used by anyone without expert knowledge of prevention of occupational hazards. Identify hazards from a list of 24, assigning probability and severity and risk assessment get it automatically. The audio and photo files are named after the job automatically evaluated. In the event that more than one file, it automatically numbered.

Ars Technica reports on growing complaints from users of Apple’s Nehalem (“Early 2009″) Mac Pro models regarding heat and performance issues when performing audio processing tasks.

The problem manifests as what has been described as e…

Earlier this week, a report briefly mentioned that Clayton Morris of FOXNews.com, who offered several reports about the iPad coming to Verizon in the weeks leading up to the device’s introduction, had spoken to a Verizon source who claimed that Apple…

Google yesterday announced that it had begun to deliver over-the-air software updates to users of its Android-based Nexus One smartphone, offering a number of enhancements. Most notably, the update enables pinch-to-zoom multi-touch functionality in …

Patently Apple reported yesterday that Apple has been granted a patent regarding the use of touch-sensitive bezels in electronic devices, primarily focused on portable devices. While the content of the patent is not new, having been previous…

UK based Cute Logic today released Lexo and Lexo LE, fun and addictive word games for iPhone and iPod touch. Lexo features simple, yet challenging gameplay in which players unscramble mixed-up letters to reveal a hidden word. Players can choose between four different game modes, each designed to appeal in different situations, and can opt to play with words from 3 difficulty levels. Lexo and Lexo LE are available now on the App Store.

On my Mac, Time Machine backups sometimes slow to a crawl, and stay like that for hours on end. After some digging, I discovered that Finder is often the culprit, and quitting Finder seems not to have any adverse impact on the backup — but it does speed it up by an order of magnitude. Here’s what happened in my case…

I had been making an initial Time Machine backup over a network. Initial write speeds were over 5mbps, but an hour later, it was down to 100kbps — and CPU usage went up to almost 90%. I left it this way for four hours and there was no improvement — at this rate, the backup would take a week.

A look at Activity Monitor showed almost all the CPU usage due to Finder, and a look at the ‘Open Files and Ports’ by Finder showed it accessing the Applications folder in the backup, crawling through all the application packages over a…

Mail’s View » Organize by Thread option is a great way of seeing one side of an email conversation. Until recently, however, I didn’t realize that I could see both sides of that discussion. By selecting multiple mailboxes in the left panel (as described in this hint), Organize by thread will interleave all messages in all selected mailboxes.

So, for instance, with both Inbox and Sent selected, I can see the organized messages from both sources. If I add Drafts to the selection, I can see what I wanted to say in the its full context. It’s a great way of seeing both sides of a long-running discussion in Mail.

If you’re like me and have no use for the Stocks application, I’m sure you’ve wished of a method to remove it so it doesn’t take up home screen real estate. A few months back, I searched for a method but I found none that suited my needs. I wanted something that would not require a jailbreak, and I wanted the change to be permanent. I remembered that disabling an application through the Restrictions panel removes it from the home screen, so I figured adding Stocks to the list of restricted apps should have the same result.

Note that this hint requires connecting your iPhone to a Windows machine, either directly or through a virtualization application such as Fusion or Parallels.
This could be done lots of ways, but I’ll describe a couple. Keep in mind this is an iPhone hint more than a Mac hint, so unfortuanely it requires some Windos-only software. Unfortunately, I’ve found no comparable Mac version — if anyo…