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iPhone 3GS on left, claimed fourth-generation iPhone on right
iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it claims are parts for the fourth-generation iPhone presumably due for launch later this year. Among the most notable fe…

Florida based ObjectDev today is pleased to announce their immediately available iPad app development services. For businesses and entrepreneurs who want to capitalize on Apple’s new tablet device and take advantage of this new platform for content distribution and custom apps, tapping into a team of experienced mobile app developers can be a crucial key to success, and ObjectDev’s team has the experience.

The Wall Street Journal reports on a research note from Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope based on meetings with Apple executives revealing that the company has apparently left the door open to future price cuts on the iPad should customer demand not …

TamsIJungle reports (via Engadget) that it received word from wireless carrier Hutchison Austria that the company is planning to offer subsidized iPads for users willing to commit to a two-year data contract with the company. According to Hutchison …

If you’ve ever explored the possible actions offered by Mail’s rules, you’ve probably wished that you could apply some of them to any message on command. For example, you might want to move the selected messages to one mailbox or another at the press of a hotkey, or to replicate Eudora’s labels by changing the text color of messages in their mailboxes (Mail’s GUI only allows changing their background color, which I dislike as much as OS X’s Finder labels).

The problem is that Mail’s rules are intended to run automatically on incoming or outgoing emails, so such “manual” rules cannot easily coexist with automatic rules. The good news is that it’s very easy to work around that conflict using AppleScript and Keyboard Maestro.

The trick is to group the “manual” rules at the top of the list, end each of them with with ‘Stop evaluating rules,’ and to keep them disabled so they won’t interfere with automatic rules. To ru…

I had always thought that Chrome’s method of private browsing, which allows you to intermingle private and normal browsing in separate windows/tabs, was better than Safari or Firefox, which are an all-or-nothing proposition. Now Firefox, at least, can emulate Chrome’s behavior.

With the Firefox add-on Private Browsing Window, the user can have private and normal browsing windows simultaneously. This can be used for things other than simply secure browsing, too. You could, for instance, log into two Gmail accounts simultaneously, or test a web app using two different accounts in one browser.

This isn’t really Mac-specific, but it’s very useful. There are a lot of reasons people like/want to create RSS feeds for Google searches (e.g. for their name, so they see when something new comes up). However, most of the ways out there for making feeds are very unreliable, available for Windows only, quickly out-of-date, and/or cumbersome. So here’s a foolproof way using Google’s own services.

This is very simple — in fact, it involves using Google Alerts. All you have to do is create a new alert for the search you wish to create a feed for, then edit it. Click the Deliver To pop-up and select Feed instead of Email. This gives you an RSS feed that can be either directly added to Google Reader, or viewed in any RSS reader you wish to use.

[robg adds: This works; just make sure you save and verify the alert first, then you can edit it to turn it into an RSS feed.]

Xcode now has gesture support to quickly switch between files. For instance, you can switch between the .h and .m file with a three-finger upward swipe. A three-finger side-to-side swipe puts you back or forward in the file history.

California based Bowers Technologies, Inc. today announced iPastor 1.0, their latest iPhone app for the Christian marketplace. iPastor is a valuable tool for pastors, ministers, missionaries, church staff, and even volunteers to effectively and efficiently serve the church members. iPastor allows people to record an unlimited number of ministry needs, including the ability to assign multiple categories to a particular person’s needs, assign multiple care strategies, and much much more.

Toughturtle LLC has recently released Winter 2010 for iPhone and iPod Touch App. Winter 2010 has up-to-the-minute news and information from an extensive list of providers, so you know that you have everything you need to stay on top of the Vancouver Games. Already touted as the go-to App for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Winter 2010 has all the features that an Olympic App should have, and so much more.