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An analysis of Apple’s Q4 guidance by BTIG’s Walter Piecyk suggests that the company will launch new products in Q4, which ends on 28 September.

We don’t think that Apple can hit its newly issued revenue guidance for the September quarter unless it launches new products. After delivering $35 billion in revenue in the June quarter, management guided to $34-$37 billion next quarter. Revenue would more typically drop multiple billions if the company had no new products planned.

Piecyk says that the guidance on margins suggests that the product will be an iPhone … 

The margin...

If you need to dial an extension to reach one of your contacts, how do you handle that? Do you type the information into that person's card so that you can remember it? Well, remember no more—the iPhone's got a built-in way to dial extensions either automatically or with the press of a button. This tip's all about it, so come on in.

SnapGene Viewer is a versatile tool for creating and sharing richly annotated sequence files. It opens many common file formats.

Free! Because there should be no barriers to seeing your data.

Version 2.0.0:

New Functionality

• Substantially improved alignment algorithm (better alignments, faster, supports sequences up to 1Mb)
• Multiple sequence alignments with automatic trimming of aligned sequences
• Added a "Clear All" button to the "Edit References" dialog.
• You can now view chromatogram data by clicking the associated button while viewing a sequence trace.
• Moved the "Add" button and added a "Remove" button to quickly adding/remove enzymes from Enzymes View.

Enhancements

• Improved predicted sequence trace quality
• Substantially sped up scrolling...

Sprint has announced a new partnership with Raketu to bring their Wireless CapTel service to iOS devices on the network. The app allows users to read conversations in real time with word-for-word captions that appear on their wireless phone. For people who live with hearing loss the move will open up new options for using mobile phones.

Calls are placed the same way they always are, but when the number is dialed the app connects the device to CapTel's service. They can then listen along with the phone or read the captions of their conversation on their iOS screen. More information about the service, including rules and regulations, can be found at www.SprintCapTel.com. Sprint subscribers will need a Everything Data plan for the service to work.

Sprint to offer Caption Calling for iOS devices originally appeared on...

JPEGmini is a patent-pending photo recompression technology, which significantly reduces the size of photographs without affecting their perceptual quality. The technology works in the domain of baseline JPEG, resulting in files that are fully compatible with any browser, photo software or device that support the standard JPEG format.

Put your photos on a diet with JPEGmini!

JPEGmini reduces the file size of your photos by up to 5X, while keeping their original resolution, quality and JPEG format. With JPEGmini you can optimize all your photos to free up valuable hard drive space, and share full-resolution photos with your friends much faster. JPEGmini supports personal photos with a resolution of 2 to 17 Megapixels.

Popular Photography: "The best part is that resulting files are completely JPEG compatible"

TechCrunch: "JPEGmini reduces photos'...

The digitization of critical infrastructures has provided substantial benefits in terms of socio-economic developments -- improved productivity, better connectivity, greater efficiencies. Yet some of these attributes also carry significant risks.

Always-on Internet connectivity has ushered in a new cyber-age where the stakes are higher. Disruption and destruction through malicious online activities are the new reality: cyber-espionage, cyber-crime, and cyber-terrorism. Despite the seemingly virtual nature of these threats, the physical consequences can be quite tangible.

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Ergonis Software (http://www.ergonis.com) has released Typinator 5.6, the latest version of its tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos systemwide across all Mac OS X applications. Introducing many behind-the-scenes enhancements, the upgrade can now insert pictures in plain text expansions and gets ready for running smoothly on Mavericks (OS X 10.9).

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Zevrix Solutions (www.zevrix.com) says all its products are now compatible with the Adobe Creative Cloud software.

Zevrix products include solutions for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, such as Output Factory, LinkOptimizer and InPreflight. The Zevrix products allow to automate printing, exporting and file delivery from InDesign; save disk space and production time through image optimization and automated file packaging; and eliminate errors with thorough preflighting.

Art from JoyBits’ Doodle God 2, slated for release in summer 2014.

It hasn’t (yet) reached the scale of mobile-first sensations like Angry Birds or Temple Run, but JoyBits, the creator of the puzzle games in the Doodle God series, says keeping a loose focus on platforms has served it well.

Today, JoyBits is announcing that its series has crossed “100 million downloads worldwide,” but that number means something slightly different than it does for app franchises like Infinity Blade, with close to 50 million app downloads; Temple Run, with at least 340 million; and Angry Birds, with well over a billion. For starters, JoyBits’ announced milestone includes 20 million iOS downloads, 10 million Google Play downloads, and 1.5 million Windows 8 downloads.

But how did they get to 100 million? In addition to nearly 10 other,...

Incredible Bee has announced Archiver 2.1 (http://archiverapp.com/), an update to its archive tool for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds the ability to create archives in the RAR format.

Designed by Apple Design Award Winner Dietmar Kerschner, Archiver lets users open, create and convert archives, as well as split and combine files. With version 2.1, users can also take a sneak peak and preview, as well as split archives.

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AstroGrav is a software program that allows you to study how astronomical objects move and interact under the force of gravity. It features superb interactive 3D graphics which allow you to move around within an astronomical system that you are viewing, while watching how it evolves with the passage of time.

A wide variety of sample files are provided, including Solar System, space mission, and abstract systems, and these enable you to experiment with AstroGrav without having to go to the trouble of entering your own data. The comprehensive editing facilities allow you to either create your own astronomical systems, or to modify existing ones, and provide you with an almost endless scope for experimentation and investigation.

AstroGrav can be used to visualize and understand the following aspects of gravitational and astronomical systems.

• Basic concepts of...

If the lucrative high-end of the smartphone market is nearing saturation as some observers have recently argued, Apple isn’t seeing it.

Reporting third quarter earnings Tuesday after market close, Apple said it shipped 31.2 million iPhones during the period. And while that number was down from the 37.4 million the company shipped in the second quarter of this year, it was up significantly from the
26 million it shipped in the year-ago quarter.

Indeed, according to CFO Peter Oppenheimer that 20 percent increase in iPhone sales from a year earlier beat Apple’s own internal expectations. And that’s a metric that belies — to some extent — concerns about just how much room for growth...

DesktopUtility is a tiny menubar application that allows you to hide your Desktop, toggle file visibility, show your user library (OS X 10.7 or later), force-empty the trash, or restart the Finder/Dock/MenuBar easily and conveniently from the system menu bar.

Version 1.3.7:

• Removed unrelated tooltips

OS X 10.6.6 or later


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Graphic Inspector provides extensive info on entire folders of images and vector graphic files and helps locate potential problems according to user-defined rules. Graphic Inspector is a professional checkup tool which is designed to help users of any trade, whether it's print, Web design, or digital photography.

"With its combination of price, utility, and thoughtful design, Graphic Inspector is a rare gem" - Jay Nelson, Layers Magazine

The program will go through batches of files and display extensive info on their attributes:

• kind, size, dimensions, type and creator
• color mode (including Photoshop mode variations)
• resolution
• ICC profile
• spot colors in images and vector files
• fonts in vector files
• complete image metadata (including EXIF, IPTC and GPS)
• TIFF / EPS compression

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CoverStory allows you to easily view the code coverage of your unit tests. It's a GUI interface for gcov.

Version 4.4.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

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Dash is an API-documentation browser and code-snippet manager. Just one keyboard shortcut away, Dash helps you store snippets of code, as well as search iOS, Mac, Android, Java, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, jQuery, Django, Cocos2D, and a lot more docsets.

Snippet Manager Features:

• Collect snippets of code that you reuse often.
• Snippet detection. Dash will suggest a snippet if it detects that you copied and pasted the same thing several times.
• Sync by saving your library in Dropbox.
• Over 80 syntaxes for code highlighting.
• Variable placeholders can be edited before pasting.
• Abbreviations are expanded wherever you type them.

Special Snippet Placeholders:

• @clipboard expands into the contents of the clipboard.
• @cursor repositions the cursor after expansion....

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world.

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Daily Update for July 23, 2013 originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:50:00 EST. Please see our...

Most new cars have an in-dash computer that displays all sorts of pertinent information about your car's location, speed and other similar parameters. For those who have an older car and an iPad, you can duplicate this dashboard display with the new Drive Assist app from Woo.do.

Drive Assist is a multi-function app that lets you map your trip, monitor your speed, watch the weather and listen to music while you drive. The biggest part of the app is the navigation and Google mapping feature that updates your location and provides driving directions as you travel along your route. You need a wireless connection to pull down the map data as you drive, but you can shut off the mapping function and replace it with a music player if you have a WiFi-only iPad.

Besides navigation, Drive Assist also monitors your speed and lets you know how long you have driven and how long you have been idle during a trip. The app can save your route...

MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin).

Version 2.2.0:

• Fixed ports sometimes being incorrectly cleaned after the unarchive target is run with newer archives. (jmr in r106717)
• When rebuilding an installed port, fixed the old copy being removed before the new copy has been built. (jmr in r106668)
• Support deleting selected files and directories before creating a pkg. (blair in r105575)
• Remove unsupported xpkg package type, xar-based format with XML. (afb in r105002)
• Support pattern matching in compiler.blacklist. (larryv in r104174, r104178)
• Workaround for some OS commands hanging on 10.8 when started from a root login shell. (#34221, jeremyhu in r104118)
• TMPDIR is now set to ${workpath}/.tmp...

Archiver makes reducing file size, extracting archives, and splitting files fun and easy!

Archives as Easy as Pie
Archiver made working with archives easy. But we knew there was room for improvement, so we stepped up our efforts a gear to make working with archives even easier for you. Archiver 2 brings you a fresh interface, a blazing fast workflow and a quick preview.

Take a Quick Look
Say goodbye to extracting all files in an archive just to see what's inside! With Archiver 2 you can take a sneak peak and preview archives. And it gets better: Archiver lets you extract only the files you really need. It's all just a drag and a drop away.

Drag and Drop Delight
Never worry about archive formats again -- Archiver's drag-and-drop capability is back and smarter than ever! Just drag your files into...

Corel Painter helps you create astonishing art in a variety of media.

Paint with vivid oil paints, fluid water colors, and earthy charcoals. Corel Painter flawlessly recreates the tones and textures of each medium.

Your studio awaits

• Choose your brush. Corel Painter includes hundreds of built-in brushes. You can even create your own brush by fine-tuning bristle type, behavior, and settings.
• Pick a paper style. Corel Painter lets you tweak your paper texture, effecting the way your brush strokes interact with the grain. More textures, more possibilities.
• Customize every detail. Tweak the wetness of your paint, or alter the drying time. Corel Painter's options are as boundless as your artistic imagination.

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Typinator turbo-charges your typing productivity.

Type a little. Typinator does the rest.

We've all faced projects that require repetitive typing tasks. With Typinator, you can store commonly used text and images in quick keywords and abbreviations. From email templates to code snippets to website URLs, there's no easier way to recreate repetitive text at a moment's notice.

Workflow-friendly features

• Uncomplicated configuration. Quickly and easily create abbreviations and assign replacement text and pictures.
• Simplified migration. If you already use TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, or a similar app, you can migrate to the highly praised Typinator using simple drag-and-drop importation methods.
• Conversion options. Instantly convert currency values,...

OpenOffice.org is both an Open Source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

Version 4.0.0:

• Features an innovative new Sidebar user interface, additional language support for 22 languages (including 3 new languages), 500 bug fixes, improvements in Microsoft Office interoperability, enhancements to drawing/graphics, performance improvements, etc.
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Ember is your digital scrapbook of things that inspire you: websites, photos, apps or other things. Just drag in images that you want to keep, organise them into relevant collections, annotate the images you need to give feedback on, and share your images to your favourite web services.

Ember is built exclusively for the Mac for creatives like you, and we're just getting started. We hope you enjoy it.

Organise your ideas and design inspiration
Drag in images from your Mac and around the web, and organise them into Collections. Apply tags to images, and build Smart Collections based on the tags and other metadata in your library.

Subscribe to your favourite websites
Subscriptions allow you to visually browse the web. Images can be saved to your Ember library, and shared with friends and co-workers.

Build...

CM TIFF 2 PDF is the application for you if you've ever needed to convert multipage TIFF files to PDF or JPG, or PNG Files to PDF. As the same suggests, CM TIFF 2 PDF eases the job of creating PDF files by automating the entire process in a few quick steps. If you do not need to combine the files, it allows you to convert JPG, PNG, and TIFF files to PDF.

Features:

• Convert multipage TIFF and single-page TIFF to PDF files
• Convert groups of JPG, PNG, or TIFF to PDF files
• Combine all the above to a single PDF file.
• Allows you to set author name, subject and title to the PDF files.
• Allows you to set it to launch the converted PDF files in Preview after they are created.

Version 1.1.9:

• Improved Performance
• Updated Processing Engine

OS X 10.6.8...

iPack is a full-featured compressed archives manager.

Highlights:

• Compress 7z, zip, jar, and rar archives
• Decompress 7z, zip, jar, rar, cab, iso, arj, gz and bz2 archives
• NEW! Integration with Finder: compress files in Finder directly
• Quick preview files without extracting them
• Conversion from 7z/zip/rar/gz/bz2 to 7z/zip/rar formats
• Quick archive decompression by dragging files to the drop basket
• NEW! Take advantage of the power of multicore CPU: iPack works at least 100% faster when you have 2011 Macs.
• Superb speed benefited by 64-bit computing power
• Full support of international file names (especially Chinese, Japanese and Korean file names created by old archivers)
• Full support of password-protected archives
• Full support of drag and drop
• Multi-...

Apple released its Q3 2013 earnings report today, and yet Bryan Chaffin still has a new Apple Death Knell for you, #63. Writing for CBS News, one Dave Logan penned a piece titled, "Why Apple is a dead company walking." It should have been tited, "Why I don't understand Apple."

iTravelGo is a US$0.99 app that is limited in cities, but very deep in the information it provides about them. The app has been released today in the App Store.

The 36 cities include U.S. destinations Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, plus other popular places like Vienna, Madrid, Hong Kong, Rome, Beijing and many more. Information includes maps with driving directions, the best attractions, restaurants and hotels. Hotel rooms can be booked through Booking.com directly from the app.

I found the app quite complete. Almost all of the information you want is built into the app, except for map details and web links to hotels, and other ancillary web-based information. That's a handy feature if you are out of the country and don't want to rack up data costs.

I liked the handy phrases and a brief history of the cities, and detailed...

Today, Apple was awarded a patent for a dual-sensor imaging system that could find its way into new iterations of the iPhone, iPod, or even Macbook sometime down the road. As AppleInsider reports, the patent, titled "Dual image sensor image processing system and method," details a system consisting of two separate image sensors which capture and then compare two different versions of a photo.

The images are then scrubbed for flaws on a pixel-by-pixel basis. If an unacceptable level of corruption is found in an area of one of the sensor's images, it will be replaced by content captured by the second sensor. The patent notes that this technology would also apply to video capture.

Of course, the patent goes into a great amount of detail regarding the logic behind the replacement of each corrupt pixel, but the bottom line is your photos will...

In the last decade content sharing has become a major part of modern life. Our daily interactions are largely built upon recommending articles, pictures, songs, videos, and other digital artifacts. But what device do people do most of their sharing? Thanks to a study by ShareThis we know. iPhone users are the most active when it comes to social sharing of links across both mobile and desktop devices.

ShareThis should know. The company is a publisher platform that provides social sharing buttons for websites. According to their findings users are twice as likely to share content on a social network when they are using their mobile devices. Of those using mobile devices 12.4% of iPhone users, 7.4% of Android, and 6.3% of Blackberry users are more likely to share on their devices.

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Apple's chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer detailed Apple's leading position in the enterprise and among government agencies, noting custom corporate app development, mass device deployments and a recent new security clearance.  ...

Apple has pushed out a small update to its Apple Store app, which lets users shop Apple's online store comfortably on their iPhone's screen.

There had been rumors that the Apple Store app update was going to see free giveaways via the app in order to entice people to buy more through the app, but as yet no free giveaways have surfaced in the app.

All the release notes say for the latest update is that there are "Various performance enhancements, including improved product search capabilities" that have been added.

Apple Store is a free download.

Apple Store iOS app updated originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:35:00 EST. Please see our...

Apple was awarded a U.S. patent on Tuesday that appears to covers a way for iPhone users to share content with each other when phone calls are placed on hold.

The patent, number 8,494,123, is for an "on-hold visual menu from a user's communication device" and describes a system that shares a variety of content like pictures, music, videos, upcoming calendar events, and location information to the person that is being put on hold. For example, someone put on hold could look through the other caller's public Photo Stream.

The device determines that the...

Apple announced its quarterly earnings for Q3 2013. iPhone sales were strong, while iPad and Mac sales declined slightly. During the earnings conference call, Peter Oppenheimer, along with Tim Cook, summed up some stats and commented about the state of Apple ecosystem as follows

• iPhone sales up 66 percent in japan, 51 percent in US, 50 percent in the UK, 400% in India, and 140% in the Philippines
• 1.1m iPad sales to US schools
• iTunes revenue for Apple was $2.4 billion, up 29 percent from a year ago
• 60,000 movies and 230,000 tv episodes available in iTunes
• More than one billion TV episodes and 390 million movies downloaded at a rate of 800,000 TV episodes and 300k movies per day
• 900k iPhone apps created to date
• App Store developers have made over $11 billion since it started
• $4.1 billion in revenue from Apple retail...

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook is still upbeat on the his company's outlook in the world's most populous nation, saying that he isn't discouraged by this past quarter's somewhat disappointing numbers in China.  ...

Apple's results for its fiscal third quarter came in with revenue of $35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $35 billion and net profit of $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.9 percent compared to 42.8 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 57 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

In somewhat of a surprise from Tuesday's quarterly conference call, it was announced that iTunes Software and Services generated $3.9 billion, which represents a whopping 25 percent increase compared to the year-ago period.   ...

AT&T today reported continued earnings gains for the second quarter, with increasing revenue growth driven by strong mobile data growth, solid postpaid net adds and continued strong gains in wireline consumer and U-verse services. AT&T's consolidated revenues totaled $32.1 billion, up 1.6 percent versus the year-earlier quarter. Second-quarter 2013 net income attributable to AT&T totaled $3.8 billion compared to $3.9 billion in the year-earlier quarter, down 7.6 percent....  ...

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Apple drew down its iPad channel inventory by 1.9 million units during the June quarter, accounting for the lion's share of the year-over-year decrease the company saw in iPad shipments.  ...

When large companies with millions of users discontinue a site or service (called “sunsetting”), they hope to avoid any negative consequences, like yanking away a tablecloth without disturbing the dishes. That works when the site is long past its day and mostly forgotten, as with AltaVista, recently extinguished by parent company Yahoo.

But when the service is active and trafficked, the consequence of sunsetting is more like pulling a rug out from under the feet of users. Case study: Google Reader, which closed its doors on July 1. Google’s surprise announcement in March of Reader’s demise generated outrage and feelings of betrayal among RSS loyalists. Yahoo has been an active sunsetter lately, making three multi-product closure announcements in the last four months. And last week, Microsoft announced that it would shut down MSN TV (formerly WebTV), a relatively ancient service still used and loved by a population numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

The logic of...

During Apple's quarterly conference call for the third quarter of 2013, CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed the recently refreshed MacBook Air saw its strongest launch since the model was introduced in 2008.  ...

Apple is ready to follow-up its quarterly earnings report with an investor conference call, including executive comments and a Q&A session with analysts. Check our live page for continuous updates from the event, which is scheduled to begin at 2PM Pacific, 5PM Eastern....   ...

Today, Apple announced its quarterly earnings for Q3 2013. In this latest quarter, Apple recorded revenue of $35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion. International sales accounted for more than half (57 percent) of the quarter's revenue.

In all, Apple sold 31.2 million iPhones, up 20% year over year. The company also sold 14.6 million iPads and 3.8 million Macs in the quarter. These two numbers are down from the same quarter last year when Apple sold 17 million iPads and 4 million Macs.

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Sales of 31 Million iPhones Set New June Quarter Record

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apple(R) today announced financial results for its fiscal 2013...

Senior vice president and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer is on first today for Apple’s Q3 2013 earnings report and just provided some updates on the company’s iTunes sales, retail stores and much, much more. Not only did the App Store have its best week and best month last quarter, Apple added a ton of content to the iTunes store thanks to new additions to the Apple TV with HBO and WatchESPN. It also confirmed that it’s now at 320 million iCloud accounts, up around 20 million since WWDC in June.

Head below for a roundup of the updated numbers:

• Best month and best week ever for App Store billings. 2.4B for App Store.. total quarterly revenue of 4B from iTunes software and services.
• 60K movies, 230k tv episodes available
• customers downloaded more than 1B TV episodes, 390 million movies (800k tv episodes, 300k movies per day)
• 11 billion paid to developers, half in the last four quarters
• 320 million iCloud accounts...

Though executives with Apple said they are pleased by sales of the legacy iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, they also noted that the iPhone 5 remains "by far the most popular iPhone" they sell.   ...

Originally published by Games Workshop and designed by Stephen Hand, Chainsaw Warrior was released as a one-player action/adventure board game back in 1987.

And now, Auroch Digital is bringing the game to the Mac and iOS later this year. Auroch Digital hopes to have the iOS version completed by the end of summer with a Mac version slated for completion sometime after that. Pricing has yet to be determined.

The game puts the player into the combat-boots of the eponymous Chainsaw Warrior - a former special-forces solider who has been cybernetically modified by the military to undertake the most dangerous covert missions. Having quit black-ops missions some time ago he has now received emergency call-up request as the last hope for a city on the brink of destruction. In the game, New York...

If you keep a text or Word file on your system that contains all of your passwords, then you might consider options to better secure it.

Investors looking to get inside details on Apple’s business and enthusiasts hoping for a hint of future products are set to get their quarterly dose of frustration Tuesday.

Following its earnings report, Apple is set to kick off a conference call with analysts at 2 pm PT. AllThingsD will have live coverage.

1:59 pm: Just waiting for the call to get going. Worth noting that 31 million iPhones was well ahead of expectations while 14 million iPads was less than most were expecting.

Overall sales and earnings were ahead of expectations.

2:01 pm: And, we’re off…

2:02 pm: CFO Peter Oppenheimer kicks things off noting...

Rovio’s Bad Piggies ($1) — both the standard and iPad HD versions — have been updated to version 1.4. Bad Piggies now features 30 new Rise & Swine levels for players. Also included in the update are new power-ups including super glue, magnets, and turbo charges, plus the new…

Apple announced earnings for the June quarter (Apple's fiscal Q3) of US$6.9 billion on revenue of $35.3 billion. Apple's earnings per share (EPS) of $7.47 beat consensus estimates of $7.30 per share, while revenue beat estimates of $35 billion.

Apple investors steeling themselves for a disappointing quarter received a nice surprise instead — a slight beat.

Posting its fiscal third-quarter financials after market close Tuesday, Apple reported earnings per share of $7.47 on revenue of $35.3 billion. Both numbers beat Wall Street estimates. Analysts had been expecting Apple to post earnings per share of $7.34 on revenue of $35.18 billion.

Apple said it shipped 31 million iPhones for the quarter. That’s less than the 37.4 million is shipped in the quarter prior, but significantly more than the 26 million it shipped in the year-ago quarter, and well above the street’s expectations for 26 million. But it shipped only 14.6 million iPads. That’s down from the 17 million it sold in the year prior, and well below the 18 million analysts had been predicting. Mac sales also came in a bit low; Apple shipped 3.8 million units, slightly less...

Sprint has ported its Wireless CapTel service to iOS devices, according to an announcement. The service is built for the hearing impaired, adding captions to otherwise voice-only calls. Previously the option was limited to a handful of Android devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC Evo 4G....   ...

Apple today announced financial results for the second calendar and third fiscal quarter of 2013. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $35.3 billion and net quarterly profit of $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $35 billion and net quarterly profit of $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per diluted share in the year-ago quarter.

Gross margin for the quarter was 36.9 percent compared to 42.8 percent in the year-ago quarter, with international sales accounting for 57 percent of revenue. Apple also declared a dividend payment of $3.05 per share, payable on August 15 to shareholders as of the close of trading on August 12. The company currently holds $146.6 billion in cash and marketable securities.

The company generated $7.8...

Apple on Tuesday reported a profit of $6.9 billion for its fiscal third quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $35.3 billion, according to Apple. These results compare to revenue of $35 billion and net profit of $8.8 billion in the year-ago quarter.

This article discusses how to use the NetBoot service across network subnets.

AT&T said on Tuesday that it sold a record number of Android smartphones last quarter, helping fuel adjusted earnings of 67 cents per share on revenue of just more than $32 billion.

This was a solid quarter for revenue and customer additions across our key growth platforms,” CEO Randall Stephenson said in a statement, adding that the company’s LTE network deployment is ahead of schedule.

Among other data points offered up by AT&T:

- The company added 551,000 postpaid subscribers and 632,000 total subscribers for the quarter. That included nearly 400,000 wireless-enabled tablets.

- Total wireless revenues, including device sales totaled $17.3 billion, up 5.7 percent. Service revenue accounted for $15.4 billion of that, with data service totaling $5.4 billion, up nearly 20 percent from a year earlier.

- More than a third of customers are on LTE...

Apple and Motorola are set to appear in the U.S. Court of Appeals on September 11 to jointly attempt to get their patent infringement cases against each other reinstated after they were dismissed by Judge Richard Posner. The companies have been fighting over mobile device patent infringement claims, and other companies have an interest in outcome of this case since it could set a precedent for future SEP and FRAND patent cases.

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VoIP/messaging service Viber has been hacked by a group called the Syrian Electronic Army, known to support Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, reports say. During the attack, the SEA managed to obtain tracking information stored in Viber's database, namely the UDIDs and IPs associated with calls. Since-removed vandalism of the Viber support page suggests that Viber was targeted because it's an Israeli company allegedly spying on the public....  ...

Apple has released an updated version of its Apple Store app for the iPhone, which is said to include both performance enhancements and improved product search capabilities. The Apple Store app allows users to purchase Apple products quickly and efficiently on their iPhones.

News of an upgrade first came to light last week, with a report that suggested Apple would begin offering free downloads within the App, including content from Apple’s iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore.

While the app appears to be the same on the surface, it is entirely possible that Apple has included the framework that will support the addition of new deals and offerings within the app in the near future. 9to5Mac suggests the possibility...

This week in the MacNN forums, Moderator "andi*pandi" started a thread with some interesting helpful tips for using Siri, adding that anyone else with interesting tips should join in. One concerned forum-goer is trying to figure out why their MacBook is freezing, but thinks it might have something to do with a loose hinge on the lid....   ...

Following the introduction of T-Mobile's "Jump" and AT&T's "Next" early upgrade programs, T-Mobile has launched a new anti-AT&T ad campaign that calls the company's Next policies "calculating, sneaky, and underhanded," reports AllThingsD.

First introduced last week, Next is AT&T's answer to Jump, a T-Mobile program that allows users to upgrade their phones at regular intervals with a $10 monthly fee. Like Jump, Next provides AT&T users with an option to upgrade their phones more frequently, but its $32.50 monthly charge is on top of standard monthly fees, ultimately causing customers to pay double for their...

Sticky Notifications ... Sometimes you need to step away from your Mac for a moment (or to quickly deal with another task), and it can be handy to leave yourself a quick reminder of what you were doing. Many of us use sticky notes or scraps of paper, but there's a better way!

Sticky Notifications lets you leave yourself quick sticky reminders, using Notification Center (on Mountain Lion) or Growl.

Version 1.0.5:

• New option to show the full content of clicked notifications in a window for registered users
• Now compatible with OS X 10.9
• Added usage counter in the Preferences window
• Alfred integration now works with Alfred 2
• Fixed a bug where URLs would always be auto-launched, even if that functionality was switched off

• OS X 10.7 or later

...

4LightData Base is a utility database with integrated word processor, spreadsheet, and drawing. The program can handle large amounts of data using the 4D database engine. It gives access to the engine's Import, Export, Quick Report, Graph, Query, and Formula editors which allow manipulation and reporting of the records. A very good introduction to the editors can be found in the 4D QuickStart Guide. Additionally, word processor, SVG drawing, and spreadsheet features have been added to the database. It is now possible to merge form letters, drawings, and spreadsheets with the database records.

Version 4.20130722:

• Applies a 4D update

OS X 10.6.8 or later


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Hammer is a great way of building out html websites. With features including html includes, sass and coffeescript parsing and clever paths, Hammer is an indispensable tool! Hammer has some built in features that happen automatically, and some clever functions you use with special hammer tags.

• HTML Includes - Front-end developers shouldn't have to run local server environments, or use PHP just to put one HTML file inside another. With Hammer, you don't have to.
• Clever Paths - Wouldn't it be great if you could just reference an asset by name? Hammer will search your project for the file you reference, and write the file-path for you automagically.
• Variables + Helpers - Set and use variables in your template files and bend your templates to your will. Hammer also adds helpful classes to your HTML link tags, making menu logic a thing of the past.
• Auto...

Two TMO Appearances for you today: Dave Hamilton will be on Bloomberg TV at 5pm EDT (and again at 9pm EDT) today as a guest on, "Taking Stock With Pimm Fox." John Martellaro recently chatted with the Tech Night Owl's Gene Steinberg and talked about Microsoft's poor earnings report and a $900 Million write down of Surface tablets.

Sprint announced today that it will now be offering its Wireless CapTel service to iOS device users, enabling the hearing impaired to read “real-time word-for-word captions” of conversations on their iPhone, iPod, or iPad.

Wireless CapTel by Sprint users place a call in the same way they would when using a traditional phone – by dialing the number directly on the device. The revolutionary application then connects callers directly to the CapTel service when the phone is dialed. When the receiving party answers, callers can listen to what the other person is saying and also read captions on the phone’s display screen.

Incoming calls will be routed through the service as well for users with a CapTel by Sprint number, allowing customers to receive the real-time captions for every conversation. Previously, the service was only available on select Android...

Everpix is the smart photo platform that gives you an effortless way to enjoy your life photo collection. Snap all the photos you want, and we’ll organize them for you. Browse your entire collection on-the-go, give it a glance with Highlights, or remember with Flashback. Everpix dusts off your memories and lets you see them in a brand new light.

Try Everpix today and get your last 12 months of photos free. Receive an additional 12-month bonus when you sign up through Daring Fireball.

Corel has released Painter X3, a major update of its Mac and Windows illustration software. X3 focuses mainly on tool improvements, for instance adding Jitter brushes, used to make strokes appear less rigid. 25 special Jitter brushes are included, but the effect can be applied to other brushes as well....   ...

TikiToki Desktop is timeline maker software that allows you to create an unlimited number of beautiful interactive timelines on your Mac computer. The timelines can include images, videos and audio from your local hard drive.

Version 1.0:

Note: The downloadable version is 1.0. The Mac App Store version is currently 1.1.

• Number pad keys now work in number fields
• Deleting of feeds work better
• Dragging issue with newly added images fixed

• OS X 10.6.8 or later

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In May we reported that Apple's iPad lead in web traffic had increased in May to an all-year high of 82.4%. Today, Chitika's newly published tablet web traffic statistics for June have Apple leaping to 84.3% despite Samsung launching their new Galaxy Tablets products in May.

Amir Efrati, who has covered Google for The Wall Street Journal for the past three years, plans to head to a new technology journalism startup founded by former colleague Jessica Lessin.

Lessin, the Journal’s former Apple reporter, recently left the paper after eight years as a reporter and editor, in order to found a new technology news venture.

While she has not revealed its name or the details of the site as yet, sources said she will be funding the effort herself for now. In addition to Efrati, Lessin has also hired Eric Newcomer, who most recently worked for the Washington Examiner.

Efrati’s last day at the...

Apple has won rights to a pair of patents via the US Patent and Trademark Office, says AppleInsider. One is Dual image sensor image processing system and method, which documents a camera concept that would use multiple sensors to help identify and correct various visual problems, such as dead pixels and chromatic aberrations. Supporting the camera would be complex image processing architecture, used to compare images and fix the final output if one of the two sensors received better input.... ...

F-Secure

Researchers have uncovered a family of malware that targets computers running both the Microsoft Windows and OS X platforms. Janicab.A, as the trojan is known, is also unusual because it uses a YouTube page to direct infected machines to command-and-control (C&C) servers and follows a clever trick to conceal itself.

The threat first came to light last week, when researchers from F-Secure and Webroot documented a new trojan threatening Mac users. Like other recently discovered OS X malware, Janicab was digitally signed with a valid Apple Developer ID. It also used a special unicode character known as a ...

Together helps you organize your Mac, giving you the ability to store, edit and preview your files in a single clean, uncluttered interface.

Smart storage. With simple drag-and-drop functionality, Together lets you gather up images, text, bookmarks, and files for safekeeping. With built-in note-taking capabilities and easy inter-app file transfers, take control of cluttered, disorganized groups of files and restore them to a state of order and manageability.

Previewing & editing. Together can edit and preview a wide range of filetypes, and seamlessly incorporates QuickView for everything else. File editing is always a double-click away, and your changes are automatically synchronized.

Organization, optimized. If you are tired of dealing with scatterbrained systems of files and folders, Together's refreshing, iTunes-like interface will help you breathe easy. Organize items into groups and...

The Adobe Extension Manager CS6 provides an easy and convenient way to install and delete extensions in many Adobe applications, and to find information about extensions you've installed. It also provides a convenient way to navigate to the Adobe Exchange site, where you can find more extensions, get information about extensions, and rate extensions that you've used.

An extension is a piece of software that can be added to an Adobe application to enhance the application's capabilities. You can add extensions to Adobe® Dreamweaver®, Adobe Flash®, and Adobe Fireworks®.

The Extension Manager is automatically installed when you install Dreamweaver, Flash, or Fireworks.

Note: The Extension Manager only displays extensions that are installed using the Extension Manager. Extensions that are installed using a third-party installer or local changes made to your configuration files will not automatically appear in the Extension Manager...

Opera Mediaworks, the “world’s leading mobile advertising platform”, is out today with its report covering the state of mobile advertising for Q2 2013. Using data from the over 35 billion mobile ad impressions its platform handles each month, Opera Mediaworks gives some insight into Apple’s dominance with iOS and its huge lead over Android when it comes to revenue & impressions from tablets. Apple continued to lead as the top platform in terms of monetization, with 44% of all ad impressions and close to half of total revenue (49.36%). Its lead over Android is largely due to the success of the iPad, however, as removing tablets from the equation puts Android smartphones and the iPhone neck and neck:

However, when comparing mobile phones using iOS and Android the two OS are in a virtual tie for share of ad impressions, with just over 30% each. Late last year, Android inched ahead of iPhone with a...

Smartphone thefts have been on the rise over the last several years, particularly in big cities such as New York, London, and San Francisco. Last week San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that they were going to test new anti-theft smart phone measures unveiled by Apple at WWDC.

Called "Activation Lock," the feature will allow devices running iOS 7 will prevent thieves from turning off the Find My iPhone feature or wiping the device clear without first entering the user's iCloud password.

The San Francisco Examiner has followed up on the District Attorneys' testing and reports that District Attorney George Gascón has said that...

Poker Copilot is poker hand history analysis software for Mac OS X, including a Head-up Display. It works with Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, UltimateBet, Absolute Poker, and Ongame Network. Cash games and tournaments are supported.

Features:

• Easy to use, easy to understand: Even though Poker Copilot is a powerful application, it is easy to use. The most significant statistics are always viewable. Charts and tables are logically grouped and always within quick reach.
• Currently supporting Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars: Hand history files are automatically located and processed. There's no need to tell Poker Copilot where your hand history files are located. Nor do you have to perform a manual import.
• Analyze your hands and your opponents while you play: Poker Copilot continually monitors your hand history for updates. Updates are immediately...

It's time to save some of that hard-earned cash with our Daily Deals, featuring a handy list from Dealnews and our own hand-picked selections that include some sweet deals on iOS and OS X software (all prices are USD and subject to change).

Deals from Dealnews

• Best Buy: [MacBook] Apple MacBook Laptops at Best Buy: Up to $200 off + extra $100 off for students
• Adorama: [Notebook Carrying Case] Built Bowery 13" Laptop Messenger Bag for $20 + free shipping
• MacUpdate Promo: [Mac Software] HueShifter for Mac downloads for $15
• ...

Podcast subscriptions have topped the one billion mark at the iTunes Store, To celebrate the milestone Apple highlighting popular shows dating back to 2005 when the podcasting section was first added to iTunes, notes "The MacObserver" (http://tinyurl.com/laglj3m).

Featured content in the classics category includes NPR shows "This American Life" and "All Songs Considered," Mondo Media's "Happy Tree Friends" and HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," among others. The one billion subscriptions podcast list is also available through Apple's own Podcasts app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Corel Painter helps you create astonishing art in a variety of media.

Paint with vivid oil paints, fluid water colors, and earthy charcoals. Corel Painter flawlessly recreates the tones and textures of each medium.

Your studio awaits

• Choose your brush. Corel Painter includes hundreds of built-in brushes. You can even create your own brush by fine-tuning bristle type, behavior, and settings.
• Pick a paper style. Corel Painter lets you tweak your paper texture, effecting the way your brush strokes interact with the grain. More textures, more possibilities.
• Customize every detail. Tweak the wetness of your paint, or alter the drying time. Corel Painter's options are as boundless as your artistic imagination.

Version 13.0.0.704:

New:

• Brush Search engine. Find and select the...

Very nice looking Les Paul. I still want one of the Slash Appetite Les Pauls.

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Plantronics has launched its BackBeat Go 2 stereo earbuds ($80). The lightweight, wireless Bluetooth earbuds feature listening time up to 4.5 hours or talk time of up to 5 hours with the included microphone. Plantronics’ DeepSleep hibernation mode keeps the BackBeat Go 2 earbuds charged and ready for use…

Best Buy is reinstating an iPad trade-in program, having briefly piloted one earlier this month. The current deal gets shoppers a "minimum" $200 Best Buy gift card -- meant to go towards the purchase of a fourth-generation iPad -- if they trade in an undamaged iPad 2 or third-gen iPad. The promotion runs today through August 3rd at the company's retail outlets....   ...

When Apple announces its third fiscal quarter earnings later on Tuesday, Wells Fargo analyst Maynard Um expects we're in for a pleasant surprise in the form of better than expected gross margins. Mr. Um has been expecting the Mac, iPhone and iPad maker to report a gross margin of 36.7 percent, but now thinks the company could do even better.

Both an iPad mini with Retina display and an even more affordable iPad mini are said to be in the works at Apple, though the products are not expected to debut until next year.   ...

ReadKit (http://www.readkitapp.com) is an RSS reader that synchronizes with multiple RSS services. It supports sending articles to read-later services such as Instapaper, Readability and Pocket. However, out of the box there is no way to send an article to Safari's Reading List (aside from manually copy-and-pasting the URL into Safari).

Reading List (RL) is very handy if you have multiple iOS devices, since articles in RL are automatically synchronized and downloaded on each devices. Below, I will describe a simple service that import the currently selected article in ReadKit into RL.

• Open Automator and create a new Service. Call the Service "Add to Reading List"
• Select Service receives: "no input"
• Click on the next drop-down box, select "Other..." and find ReadKit in the Applications folder
• On the left-hand side sidebar, select "Utilities" and then double-click the action "Run AppleScript"
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The New York Post claims that Ashton Kutcher, who plays Steve Jobs in the biopic Jobs, is close to signing a $10M deal to appear in a series of ads for … Windows PC maker Lenovo.

Jobs, which will apparently be promoted by a rather psychedelic poster, is due to open on August 16th.

For more news on AAPL Company,...

These guys already got funded, but there’s still a couple of days to get in on it.

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RIH-co-lah! Maybe it’s just us, but that’s the first reaction we had upon seeing the $190 Volta Sound Block, a “passive amplifier” for your iPhone. Just dock the phone in a block of Northwest Alder, and it pipes your mobile’s music through a bison horn (!!!) to produce much louder volume levels. Each Sound Block is custom crafted, which means no two will look exactly alike.

After news that government officials would be testing the efficiency of iOS 7’s Activation Lock against thieves, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón has come out in support of the feature, saying that “clear improvements” have been made to stop criminals, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

Last week, Gascón and New York Attorney General Eric Schinderman brought in security experts from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center to test out Apple’s Activation Lock feature as well as Absolute Software’s...

It's a huge day for Apple in respect to newly granted patents. The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 49 granted patents for Apple this morning. The patents cover a wide array of technologies such as Apple's lightning connector, the Mac mini, five camera patents and a few patents relating to the iPhone. We also provide you with two graphics from a recent European patent illustrating ...

There’s image editing and then there’s fine art—and Corel has always positioned Painter, its flagship professional painting program, on the creative end of the spectrum. With the release of Painter X3 (the 13th version of the famed natural-media software) for Mac and Windows, Corel seeks to augment Painter’s position as a leading inspirational tool for creatives working in photographic and traditional art, illustration, Manga and comic art, conceptual art, and design. Even though it emerged roughly around the same time as its image-editing contemporary, Adobe Photoshop,...

Apple has seeded OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 4 to developers. The latest build offers the usual bug fixes, but there's a couple of new small goodies tucked away inside as well. As 9to5Mac notes, so far four changes have been spotted. These include a new installation screen for OS X 10.9 Mavericks, a new Time Machine icon while performing backups, the ability to scroll through pages and windows in Mission Control, and finally, the ability to quickly post something to LinkedIn via notification Center.

OS X 10.9 Mavericks will ship this fall.

Apple releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 4 originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:00:00 EST. Please see our...

Apple's 2013 third fiscal quarter earnings report is scheduled to start at about 5PM eastern time, or 2pm pacific time, after the market closes. The Mac Observer will be here with our usual coverage and analysis for the conference call.

With Apple’s Q3 earnings call starting at 2pm PT/5pm ET today (which we’ll be covering live, of course), Fortune has posted the results of its usual quarterly survey of analyst predictions.

The executive summary is that the analysts are pessimistic, though in line with Apple’s guidance.

Earnings [per share] estimates are down across the board — anywhere from -7% year over year  (according to independent Patrick Smellie from the Braeburn Group) to -29% (Susquehanna’s Chris Caso) … 

There is consensus that year-on-year revenues will be...

By 2017, over 820 million households worldwide will have Internet service, and more than 94% will have broadband, according to international research firm Parks Associates (www.parkassociates.com). The firm also reports over 610 million households will have a data network, including over 100 million in North America and 133 million in Western Europe.

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