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Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook today participated in a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference, and while he did not offer any major revelations, some of his comments off…

While this shouldn’t be much of a surprise to most, Apple has confirmed that the iPad uses the same family of graphics chip as the iPhone and iPod Touch. According to reports, Apple’s latest iPad SDK Beta 3 documentation…

Apple today released an update to its iPhone SDK 3.2 for developers looking to create applications for the company’s forthcoming iPad tablet device. The new update is the third beta version of the SDK, and there is no word yet on changes inc…

Apple today released an update to its iPhone SDK 3.2 for developers looking to create applications for the company’s forthcoming iPad tablet device. The new update is the third beta version of the SDK, and there is no word yet on changes inc…

PCWorld reports on the results of its recent 13-city performance tests of wireless carriers in the United States, and Apple’s iPhone partner AT&T came out well ahead of the pack in both upload and download speeds while also fairing well in reliabilit…

Collins Research Inc. today announces Custom Hangman for iPhone and iPod touch. The Custom Hangman game is truly habit-forming that allows players to select a category of their interest from which the app will generate an animated hangman game with a fun pirate-themed background. Several word lists are already pre-loaded into the app so players can challenge themselves from subjects ranging from SAT vocabulary words to Twilight terms.

Earlier this month, research firm IDC released sales figures for 2009 showing Apple holding 14.4% of the smartphone market for the year on nearly 82% sales growth over 2008, with the company grabbing third place among smartphone vendors behind Nokia …

In my recent Thunderbird 3 usage, I’ve come to rely on search almost exclusively. I leave messages in my inbox until they are dealt with, and when they are dealt with, I just hit the ‘A’ key to archive them. Now I can do that with Mail.app, too.

When you hit ‘A’ in Thunderbird, it archives each message in a folder based on the date of the message, e.g. INBOX/Archives/2010 for messages from this year. The following AppleScript also does this in Mail. (The script will also mark archived messages as read — Thunderbird’s ‘A’ key does not do that.)

Copy and paste the following into AppleScript Editor:

on run

  tell application "Mail"

    set selectedMessages to selection

    repeat with selectedMessage in selectedMessages

      set msgDate to date sent of selectedMessage

      set msgYear to...