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Seattle-based eBook publisher 25ThingZ today announced they have released “25 ThingZ iPhone Developers Need To Know About The iPad”, a new eBook enabling iPhone developers to ensure their apps are ready for the iPad on day one. Version 1.0 contains information based only on public, documented, non-NDA sources. When the NDA surrounding the iPad SDK is lifted, owners of version 1.0 will receive free access to version 2.0 including sample code and specific design guidelines.

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently traveled to New York City in recent days to meet with executives at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for discussions about bringing their content to the iPad.<p class="q…

Silicon Alley Insider reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs apparently traveled to New York City in recent days to meet with executives at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for discussions about bringing their content to the iPad.<p class="q…

As Apple struggles with flickering and yellow-tinting issues on the displays of its 27-inch iMac models, Gizmodo has been continuing to closely follow the situation and has learned that Apple has been offering refunds of 15% of the machine’s purchase…

BKeeney Software Inc. today announces File Sheriff 2.0.6, an update of their Mac OS X file management tool. File Sheriff allows you to easily generate icon previews, rename your MP3 files based on meta data information, batch search and apply file attributes, edit hidden file options, and more. One of the most powerful features File Sheriff offers is its Batch module. Version 2.0.6 is a maintenance update that fixes a number of minor bugs and adds a number of speed optimizations.

Research firm IDC today issued a report highlighting fourth quarter and full year worldwide sales numbers of “converged mobile devices”, more commonly known as smartphones, revealing continuing outstanding growth for Apple’s iPhone above the overall …

Digital Rebellion LLC today announces the availability of FCS Maintenance Pack 1.2, a significant update to its popular suite of software tools to maintain and optimize Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Express systems. FCS Maintenance Pack contains tools to repair corrupt QuickTime movies, locate corrupt clips within Final Cut Pro projects, diagnose crash logs, manage plugins, repair Final Cut Pro projects, manage autosaves, salvage movie data from corrupt files, and much more.

AT&T today announced that it has decided to allow Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone application to stream video content over its 3G network. SlingPlayer Mobile allows users of Sling Media’s “Slingbox” hardware to control and stream live and re…

Here are two problems that have frustrated me with iTunes for the longest time:

1. My iTunes library contains a few entries that are not really music (e.g., comedy or spoken word), and I don’t like them cluttering up my “Music” library.
2. I have a few streaming radio stations that I listen to often and are listed in my Music library as well. Unfortunately, each radio station has its own special genre (e.g. “Eclectic, Alternative, NPR, Public, News”) that doesn’t correspond with my own classification scheme. True, you can change the meta-information of a stream, but it reverts back the next time you play it. I’ve seen this problem described in numerous Mac forums, but without a satisfactory resolution.

My solution (and it’s a bit of a hack) is to select these items (streams, comedy, etc.) in iTunes and classify them as Audiobooks (by selecting the items, choosing File » Get Info, selecting the Options tab, and changing Media Kind to Audiobook).

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I use the following method to automatically clean, at shut down time, the entries in the Finder’s Go » Recent Folders menu entry. It cost me some work, but eventually it worked. Open Terminal and do the following:

$ cd /etc/
$ sudo nano rc.shutdown.local

When prompted, enter your admin password. In the nano editor, add the following lines (assuming the file doesn’t yet exist):

#!/bin/bash

cd /Users/your_user/Library/Preferences/
defaults delete /Users/your_user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder FXRecentFolders
chown your_user:your_group com.apple.finder.plist

And now some explanation. your_user is obviously the short nam…