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Building on comments reportedly made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at a town hall meeting for company employees last month, Valleywag claims that Jobs focused a significant amount of effort during his recent visit to The Wall Street Journal on selling news…

iOlivia has announced iGrenaded 1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. iGrenaded is a fun and entertaining application that perpetuates the famous wingman scenario of having to jump on the grenade and sacrifice yourself for your friends. Have you ever been put into a situation where a friend wants to meet someone but they have a friend that needs to be kept busy as well? Sometimes that friend is not all that desirable or just not your type so you have to make a sacrifice.

MacRumors has received reports from several readers noting that the download cap for iPhone applications installed via 3G has been increased to 20 MB, a change that also appears to apply to iTunes Store content. Previously, users attempting t…

A pair of Apple patent applications published today have been generating a bit of attention for their disclosure of Apple’s behind-the-scenes work on its products. The first application covers methods for addressing variations in individual digital …

SeedCode today is proud to introduce our new calendar extension for FileMaker Pro 10. Our fastest calendar yet, this is also our most portable and is easily pasted into your own FileMaker file. Our popular calendar is now completely rewritten to take advantage of FileMaker 10. The calendar’s graph and layouts are now simple enough under the hood to paste into your own file, while adding the sophisticated behaviors that users expect in a professional scheduling solution.

Several MacRumors readers have reported that Apple’s shipping lead times for its 27-inch iMac models in its online stores have improved today, with the U.S. and Canada now seeing lead times of 5-7 business days instead of 2 weeks and European…

Aperture 3 includes a neat font called HopperScript, which you can install for use on your Mac. The hidden font is located within the Resources folder of Aperture.

To get it, go to wherever Aperture 3 is installed, Control-click on Aperture, then select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into Contents » Resources » Fonts, and there’s the font! For faster access within the Resources folder, tap the F key, or if Aperture 3 is in your Applications folder, paste this in the Go To window in Finder: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts

[robg adds: I can confirm the font is there after installing Aperture 3.]

HP’s printer software and utilities were replaced with built-in items in OS X Snow Leopard, after a few tense days where HP initially declined to support the new operating system. Many of us remember our outrage when some HP spokesdrone actually stated that users should buy new printers if they wanted Snow Leopard support. Those of us who didn’t run screaming to Canon or some other brand have made do with a reduced feature-set for our HP printers. In particular, OCR functionality is no longer supported by HP.

I tried the following, and not only did it work for me, but it was a really sweet solution. At its heart is Tesseract, an open-source OCR engine that originated at HP (how’s that for irony) and is currently maintained (and used) by Google.

I found that some of the online instructions…

I have multiple mail accounts and folders set up in Mail, including the Junk folder. I found that after deleting mail from the Junk folder, and from multiple different accounts’ inboxes, that when I went to the Trash and selected all items and pressed the Delete key, only some of the items would be deleted — I would have to “select all” a second time and press Delete to delete the rest.

I have found that if I hold down the Option key when pressing delete after selecting all in the Trash folder, I only have to press Delete once. Just thought someone else might find this trick useful…

The New York Times reports that recent shifts in the eBook publishing industry, spurred by Apple’s entrance into the market, to allow for higher prices and greater publisher control over their content may offer more flexibility in pricing than previo…