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Apple’s iTunes Store today reached 10 billion music downloads since its inception in 2003, and along with the milestone comes the end of the company’s “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs” promotion. The winner of the promotion, who is yet to be a…

Apple yesterday began promoting on its home page the release of its annual Supplier Responsibility progress report, describing the company’s commitment to responsible business practices on the part of its suppliers and other partners around t…

Just days after Apple removed over 5000 “overtly sexual” applications from the App Store, the company appears to have taken a curious turn that could result in the reinstatement of many of these applications.

Cult of Mac reports and Ma…

Just days after Apple removed over 5000 “overtly sexual” applications from the App Store, the company appears to have taken a curious turn that could result in the reinstatement of many of these applications.

Cult of Mac reports and Ma…

After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) from Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), I found that the Tahoma font was not displayed by any Office 2004 or Office 2008 application.

Surprisingly, the Tahoma font (and many others) were found in my user’s Library/Fonts Disabled folder, instead of in my user’s active fonts folder (Library/Fonts).

Thankfully, simply moving all the fonts from the Fonts Disabled folder to the Fonts folder fixed the issue. After that, I used Font Book to resolve duplicates, and FontDoctor and Font Finagler to fix any remaining font issues. So far, so good!

I do a lot of podcast listening and I hate the long sync times in iTunes to get the freshest content on my iPhone. As a result, I do most of my podcast downloading directly on my iPhone. When you have old episodes in your Podcast section, you can touch the Get More Episodes button to get thrown to the iTunes app and download a new one.

But if you always delete shows when you’re done (to save precious space), the quick link is gone — instead, you have to type the relevant podcast name into the iTunes app’s Search bar. What a pain! So here’s a way to make podcast links list in Mobile Safari that toss you right to the show’s page in iTunes:

1. Go to iTunes on your Mac/PC, look up the podcast you want to bookmark in the store.
2. Right next to the Subscribe button is a down arrow; click that and choose Copy Link.
3. Paste this link into an email addressed to the account you access on your iPhone (or any other method for getting text snippets from your compute…

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Four years ago, I wrote a hint about how to remove a PDF password using ColorSync from those PDF files than you can view, but not copy or change. It did not apply to files that were encrypted with a password and could not be opened.

To my surprise, it has been one of the more popular hints, with over 112,000 hits. However, since Tiger, Apple has progressively tightened the PDF DRM, so that the hint does not work in Snow Leopard any more. There are several third party programs that will do it, but here’s how to do it in Snow Leopard for free.

Note that this hint will not decrypt PDF files that cannot be opened without a password.
The following do not work: copying the old ColorSync from Tiger, …

Today marks MacRumors.com’s 10 year anniversary. It’s a shocking realization that I’ve been doing this now for a decade. For those unfamiliar with the history of the site, I started it as a hobby back in early 2000 as a place to consolidate interes…

Small Wonders S.L. today announces Battle of Puppets 1.2, an update to their fascinatingly odd and original, linear strategy game for iPhone and iPod touch. Touting a vibrant artistic style, Battle of Puppets combines beautiful graphics, the hallowed art of puppetry, and ruthless combat. Its players are cast as silent puppeteers, who must strategically control their hordes of marionette minions as they battle across the show stage. Version features Open Feint support and a lot of new features.

App Inspire, LLC today released PawTrotter 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users who love animals. This brand new, easy to use app is a directory of over 130,000 businesses catering to all aspects of pets and their care, as well as a source of user ratings and reviews. As animal lovers themselves, the developers are donating 5% of all profits to the American Humane Association. It’s the perfect tool for pet parents, whether at home or traveling with their best friend on four legs.