The easiest way to set up an Apple TV is with an iOS device. To use this easier setup mode, you’ll need a third-generation Apple TV, an iPhone 4s or newer, third generation iPad or newer,...

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Whether you're strolling down High Street or climbing the most forbidding of mountains, this week's iPad-case roundup has something for you.

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The Magnefix (iPad mini; £36) is made from hard polycarbonate and premium TPU for a great combination of protection and grip.

Available in black with blue, pink, yellow, or black accents, the case also features a foldable cover that is compatible with the iPad mini’s magnetic sleep/wake feature and doubles as a viewing and typing stand in landscape orientation.

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The Leather Portfolio G2 (all iPad models; $59) features a foldable cover with a magnetic closure that’s compatible with the iPad’s sleep/wake feature; the cover folds around to double as a convenient viewing or typing stand in landscape orientation....

Managing an Apple ID for any Mac OS X and iOS device user can be an exercise in frustration. A little understanding of how Apple ID works and how to manage one or more Apple ID accounts, goes a long way toward reducing the angst. Sandro Cuccia explains.

When you are at or near the top of a market, you become a target. Microsoft lived that life for many years. Now, the emergence of the mobile market has shifted the spotlight, as well as the security risk, over to iOS and Android. Though the rigor of Apple’s app inspection and certification process does keep the iOS app ecosystem significantly safer than Android, iOS devices are just as highly valued a target for hackers.

The point is, these attacks are going to keep coming. Apple’s job is to keep tweaking their processes to keep the bad guys at bay. So far, Apple has done their job well.

This new attack takes advantage of a flaw in the “Find my iPhone” process. The video below does an excellent job laying out the scenario. In a nutshell, the thief steals an iPhone and immediately turns on airplane mode to prevent the iPhone from being remotely wiped. This gives the thief enough time to break into your phone and use your credentials to reset your Apple ID password,...

The New York Times has published an amazingly detailed behind-the-scenes story of how Apple created the original iPhone. It includes tidbits from many of the engineers who worked on the project, and it has a wealth of information that was new to me. The story is based around the Macworld Expo (now Macworld/iWorld) keynote demo in January of 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the device. It describes in fascinating detail things like the "Golden Path" of tasks you could perform without crashing the device, which was still in a very early stage of development. It describes how Apple kept everything secret, how decisions were made, and much more. Go and read it and let me know what you think. (Image made with help from Shutterstock)

Apple has posted job notices seeking iTunes Radio programmers for Canada, a sign that the well-received free music-streaming service will be expanding into the US' closest ally as one of, if not the, first countries outside America to gain the service. The posting suggests that the launch of the service in Canada may occur as early as sometime later this month, presuming some strong candidates can be found....
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Four months after raising questions about Apple's foreign earnings and taxes, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its investigation without plans to take any further action.
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Got some photos you wanna share? Why not add a little something extra? Vern Seward points out 3 services that let you do just that on your iPhone or iPad in this week's Free on iTunes. Linea, Momentage, and Shuttersong.

I’ve had this song stuck in my head all day. Now it’s your turn.

Saturday, October 5th, will mark the second anniversary of the death of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. His successor, current CEO Tim Cook, sent an email to Apple employees on Friday remembering Steve Jobs and reflecting on his legacy.

After two fumbled launches -- one for Windows users and one for Mac -- that frustrated gamers with networking issues, SimCity might finally be getting an offline mode. A General Manager for developer Maxis confirmed in a blog post that the company is indeed exploring whether an offline mode would be possible.

"Right now we have a team specifically focused on exploring the possibility of an offline mode. I can't make any promises on when we will have more information, but we know this is something that many of our players have been asking for. While the server connectivity issues are behind us, we would like to give our players the ability to play even if they choose not to connect. An offline mode would have the additional benefit of providing room to the modding community to experiment without interfering or breaking...

Apple’s popular, free music streaming service iTunes Radio looks set for an imminent launch in Canada. Since launching last month in tandem with iOS 7, iTunes Radio has been exclusive to the United States. However, Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue has noted that he would like the service to launch in “more than 100 countries.” Even with this plan in place, there has been no indication of when iTunes Radio would arrive internationally and exactly where…

Today, we’ve discovered that Canada could be one of Apple’s first international countries to support iTunes Radio. Apple is...

Creating workarounds for unsupported text characters, and more covered in this week's Q&A.

While the purpose of smartphones is to let us receive verbal and written communications from others, there are certain times when you don't necessarily want your phone to beep, ring or otherwise make a noise or show a notification. Do Not Disturb is a handy setting that lets you choose when you want receive calls or notifications.

In this short video, which can be set to full-screen for looking at details, you'll see how to enable Do Not Disturb and how to use the app's settings.

iOS 7 video tip: Using Do Not Disturb on the iPhone originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple's latest billboard ad campaign focuses exclusively on iPhone 5c, highlighting one color at a time with zero attention given to the product's specifications or price.
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Not surprisingly, some analysts tried every which way to downplay the fact that Apple sold nine million iPhones in just three days. Some claimed, without no evidence to back it up, that the nine million figure included devices shipped to carriers but not yet purchased to consumers. Still others were quick to point out that the nine million figure encompassed iPhone 5c sales, while noting that Apple last year did not include weekend sales of the iPhone 4s in its iPhone 5 weekend launch tally.

While analysts can tinker with numbers and speculate all they want, it's damn near impossible to argue that Apple's most recent iPhone launch was anything but an overwhelming success.

All that said, a survey conducted by Canaccord Genuity reveals that the iPhone 5s is the top selling smartphone across all four major U.S. carriers. What's more, the iPhone 5c is the second...

Following a move by big box retailer Best Buy, RadioShack and Walmart have announced they too will be slashing prices on Apple's mid-range iPhone, the iPhone 5c, putting the on-contract price for the device at or below $50.
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jds91md writes "Today's NY Times delivers a great story of the development of the iPhone by Apple. It focuses on the events during the leadup to Steve Jobs taking the stage with shockingly buggy prototypes and pulling off the show that is now history. 'Only about a hundred iPhones even existed, all of them of varying quality. Some had noticeable gaps between the screen and the plastic edge; others had scuff marks on the screen. And the software that ran the phone was full of bugs. The iPhone could play a section of a song or a video, but it couldn’t play an entire clip reliably without crashing. It worked fine if you sent an e-mail and then surfed the Web. If you did those things in reverse, however, it might not. Hours of trial and error had helped the iPhone team develop what engineers called “the golden path,” a specific set of tasks, performed in a specific way and order, that made the phone look as if it worked.' One of the big problems was the phone's connectivity. The man in...

Meet Susan Bennett, the voice actor whose work became the original voice of Siri—for the record, my internal jury is still out on Siri's new voices in iOS 7. In the video below, you can hear elements of Siri's speech; at the same time, you get the tiniest glimpse of the monumental effort it takes to turn recordings of nonsense strings of words into a synthesized voice, because Susan Bennett and Siri are not exact matches. As a voice actor paid by the hour, Ms. Bennett didn't know what she was being hired for by Nuance (the Dragon Speech and Dragon Dictate folks) in 2005. She didn't find out until until 2011—when Apple released the iPhone 4S and Siri—when "a colleague e-mailed me [about Siri] and said, 'Hey, we've been playing around with this new Apple phone. Isn't this you?'" CNN's companion article also has some interesting info.

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This past summer, Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple had colluded with a range of publishing companies in an effort to raise the price of e-books. Now comes word that Apple has filed a motion appealing the ruling. The appeal was filed on Thursday but formal arguments on the matter may be submitted as late as early 2014.

Gigaom reports:

It's fair to assume, however, that Apple will bring up many of the same issues it raised in an August letter to Judge Cote, in which it outlined the arguments it planned to raise on appeal. For instance, it argued that the court excluded or disregarded crucial evidence from various witnesses, "disregarded serious credibility issues with the Google and Amazon witnesses" and excluded information about Amazon's "internal business deliberations" from...

You love Star Wars -- yes, you do, don't lie -- and if you're an iOS gaming fan, you probably also love Tiny Tower, the micromanagement game from developer NimbleBit. Now, the two have been combined in an all-new title called Star Wars: Tiny Death Star. The game tasks you with building an all-new Death Star, level by level, in the same adorable 8-bit style NimbleBit has been perfecting for years.

Not much else is known about the game at the moment, as Disney Interactive has held back all but the details above, but the game is slated to arrive "soon" for "mobile devices," which will undoubtedly include the iPhone and iPad.

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Apple continues to have the highest market share of smartphones, according to the latest comScore MobiLens report. While Android manages to top the list of smartphone platforms for the period, Apple managed to increase its lead on Samsung, HTC, Motorola, and LG from the start of the period by 1.5 percent, reaching a new market share total of 40.7 percent....
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OtterBox has been making protective cases since 1998, making the company the great-granddaddy of the entire huge smartphone/tablet case market. The company announced a new member of the family yesterday, introducing the Commuter Series Wallet (US$44.95) for the iPhone 5/5s.

We've been seeing a lot of different wallet cases lately, many of which are more wallet (think leather) than protective case. OtterBox has taken the protection of the Commuter Series cases and merged it with a slide-out drawer-like back that can hold up to three credit or ID cards and one folded bill.

Like the other members of the Commuter Series, the Wallet wraps your iPhone 5 or 5s in rubbery silicone that is then surrounded by a tough polycarbonate shell. The screen is covered with a stick-on screen protector (it leaves space for the Touch ID-enabled home button...

A variety of refurbished Mac minis are currently on sale at Apple's online store. The refurbished 2.5GHz dual-core Mac mini with 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive, and Intel Core i5 processor is available for only $549, which is $250 less than its original list price of $799. Priced slightly less at $509 is 2.5GHz Mac mini mini with the same 500GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM, but containing an Intel HD graphics 4000 memory card as opposed to the AMD Radeon HD 6630M with 1920 x 1200 supported resolution that's included in the $549 model....
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Today in the MacNN forums Grizzled Veteran "PeterParkerî was looking for a way to connect a display to a Mac Mini from 2009 via HDMI and he turned to the forums for some assistance. Also today Mac Elite "asxlessî was trying to determine where the photos are stored in iOS, because they ultimately want to find an iPad app that will allow them to store and show photos and movie clips without being included in the Camera Roll in iCloud....
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Apple plans to enter smaller India markets by opening a number of new stores, according to The Economic Times. The company is looking to enter the “top 50 tier II and tier III markets” by selling iPhones, iPads, and iPods in 100 exclusive standalone stores, and other stores-within-stores. Apple…

While Steve Jobs was on stage unveiling the first iPhone for the world, the engineers behind the device were in the audience halfway drunk, says a new report that takes a look behind-the-scenes of the development of the most popular smartphone in the world.
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Apple and Samsung Electronics will return to a Silicon Valley federal court on Nov. 12 for a retrial of their billion-dollar 2012 patent battle, and Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller may come back to testify.

Apple won $1.05 billion in damages in the case, but Judge Lucy Koh later cut about $450 million from that award because of errors by the jury. The retrial, again before Koh in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, could restore some of those damages.

The two sides Friday filed a joint pretrial statement and lists of potential witnesses they may call. Apple’s list includes Phil Schiller, the company’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, and Scott Forstall, the former senior vice president of iOS software. Forstall’s...

The addition of an easily accessible control panel for turning on features like Wi-Fi, Brightness, and Airplane mode from the iPhone's lock screen was a welcome addition to iOS 7. But, as a group of German security researchers have discovered, it may provide a backdoor for thieves to break into your phone.

You can see a demonstration of the work around, which uses the Control Center shortcut for Airplane mode, in the video below from the security SR Labs.

The work around, if executed quickly and correctly, gives the thief time to spoof your fingerprint to bypass the iPhone 5s TouchID reader. While spoofing a fingerprint might not be as easy as it might sounds, it's still a risk that 5s users should be aware of. The process still requires a high...

Throughout its long e-book battle with the Department of Justice, Apple vowed to appeal any injunction brought against it. Today it did just that, filing a notice with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York announcing its intent to appeal a July ruling by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote that found it had conspired with the major book publishers to raise e-book pricing, along with the sanctions that followed in a September 6 injunction. “Apple also hereby appeals from any and all orders and rulings that were adverse to it,” the company said in its notice.

Apple declined comment on the filing and the tack it will take as it ramps up for appeal, but if you’ve paid any attention to the case at all, you have a good idea...

Apple’s ready to turn the page on the ebook price-fixing case: Late this week, the company officially filed its appeal against the July 10 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote. News of the appeal, which also targets the injunction levied by Judge Cote on September 6, was first reported by GigaOm.

The September injunction put in place restrictions on the way Apple could conduct its ebook business over the next several years, including the use of so-called “most-favored nation” clauses, as well as laying out the need for internal and external compliance monitors. The company had made clear at the time of Judge Cote’s decision...

Apple on Thursday formally notified the court that they will appeal the guilty verdict and resulting injunctions handed down in July's e-book antitrust ruling.
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Yesterday, we noted that – through October 7th – Best Buy will offer a $50 gift card with the purchase of an iPhone 5c in-store. This gift card can be applied toward the purchase of the colorful iPhone. Today, Radio Shack has informed us that it will begin matching Best Buy’s deal in its stores tomorrow. The deal will run through November 2nd. Like with Best Buy, the card could be applied to the purchase of the 5c. This offer is also compatible with Radio Shack’s trade-in program, which offers between $100 and $250 depending on your iPhone model (iPhone 4s, 5, or 5s)

Update: Walmart says it will cut the price of the iPhone 5c to $45, which is a drop from their already discounted...

With Apple CEO Tim Cook’s endorsement, Anki, a company with artificial intelligence and robots-based products, debuted Anki Drive at WWDC earlier this year. Anki Drive is a car game for iOS that connects to physical cars. The app is currently available via the App Store while the cars and mat system will be available via retail channels…

The demo from Apple’s 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference can be seen above. At the event, the creators of the product said that it would ship this fall. Today, we’ve learned that the company plans to make Anki Drive available in both Apple Retail Stores and Apple’s Online Store as soon as this...

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Micro Drone [On sale for $49, down from $108]

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a flippin' quadrocopter! This crazy maneuvering remote-controlled Micro Drone can do it all! Fly up, down, laterally, diagonally, flip and perform all sorts of other agile mid-air stunts.

Quad-rotor helicopters have long been considered a luxury toy due to their pricey nature, but now you can grab this one for a fraction of the regular price.

Save 54% on the Micro Drone at TUAW Deals. Promotion is...

The Economic Times reports that Apple executives in India recently hosted executives from top retailers in the country and laid out plans to open store-in-store locations and 100 standalone stores in smaller Indian markets:

The new marketing vision for India was unveiled on Monday evening at a meeting with 20 CEOs and senior executives of the country’s top multi-brand telecom and electronic retail chains. Apple India’s senior executives spelt out plans to enter the top 50 tier II and III markets in India by selling its phones, tablets and portable music players at their outlets in an exclusive corner or a shop-in-shop, said three people who attended the meeting. They...

DPReview is well-known for its exhaustive camera reviews that analyze both the hardware and the resulting images produced by that hardware. Beside traditional point-and-shoots and DSLRs, DPReview also examines smartphone cameras with the same amount of detail it uses with its traditional camera reviews. The photography review site recently turned its attention towards the iPhone 5s in a 10-page review that features 78 sample images.

Not surprisingly, the reviewers found the iPhone 5s to be a very capable camera in the smartphone category. DPReview concludes,

The iPhone 5s features a very good camera that's easy to use and delivers strong results with little user intervention. It's a logical extension of the Apple design philosophy, with evolutionary performance increases and feature extensions. iPhone photographers looking to trade up will...

The move to mobile has been a problem for traditional Web publishers, who usually make less ad money from users on phones and tablets than they do from users on PCs.

And when Facebook went public last year, mobile became a glaring issue, when investors focused on the fact that Mark Zuckerberg had no mobile revenue at all.

Twitter isn’t supposed to have a mobile problem, since the company has been designed for phones from the start. Recall that in the company’s early days, it was built specifically for text messages. And last year, when Facebook was flailing at mobile, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo made a point of telling people he was making real money from phones.

But it turns out that Twitter still...

Forget iPhoto—Loom wants to be the place where you store and organize your images. After a few months in private beta, Loom has opened to the public with a new mobile interface for iOS 7 and support for Raw files.

Our earlier hands-on with the photo sharing service details most of its delights, but in short: Loom provides you with a central repository for your images that you can access from anywhere, upload to from any of your devices, and sort and organize with albums and sub-albums.

Loom offers a Web view, Mac app, and iOS app; it’s the iOS app that’s seen the biggest update, improving the interface for iOS 7 and adding new enlarged thumbnails for sub-albums. Also included are upload improvements, new controls for editing and deleting albums (including the upload of albums created on your...

You won’t attend MacTech Conference because of these opportunities, but if you’re on the fence about going to the conference for IT professionals and developers, the chance to test-drive a Tesla Model S and sit in Captain Picard’s chair on the restored bridge of the USS Enterprise-D might influence your decision.

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According to a memo from HBO CEO Richard Plepler, COO Eric Kessler will be departing the premium cable channel.

“After careful consideration we have decided that the COO position does not best serve the most effective management process at HBO,” wrote Plepler, without giving more info.

It’s not clear if Kessler has another job lined up — Hulu calling? — from the memo.

Among other things, Kessler is the guy behind the famous, “It’s Not TV. It’s HBO.” marketing motto. He had been at HBO for 27 years.

At the Time Warner-owned HBO — whose hits include “Game of Thrones” and “Boardwalk Empire” — Kessler was important to mapping out its digital strategy amidst the changes to the cable-TV cash cow business, while also dealing with pretty impressive assaults from new rivals like Netflix and Amazon.

Here’s the unusually nice departure memo from Plepler, about an unusually...

A new SRLabs video demonstrates one possible method of getting around both Touch ID and Activation Lock on a stolen iPhone 5s. The video points out that while Apple lets users locate and/or remotely wipe a device using the Find My iPhone app, a 5s can be set to Airplane Mode without unlocking if lockscreen access to Control Center is left enabled. Since Find My iPhone can only perform a wipe if a device is connected to the Internet, that may give a thief enough time to lift and mold a fingerprint to bypass TouchID, and begin hijacking Apple, Google, and other online accounts....
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Nokia and Google are rumored to be working on their own smart watch devices for release in the near future, while a representative from Samsung has reportedly admitted that his company's latest offering in that field could use some improvement.
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Samsung Mobile has announced the US-wide launch of its media centre platform, HomeSync. Consumers can use their Galaxy smartphone or tablet to control entertainment choices on their TV, as well as upload and download mobile content using its 1TB secure storage. Originally unveiled in February, the $300 device is set to be available across the US beginning October 6, 2013....
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Citigroup is learning the hard way that leaking unpublished research on iPhone production numbers to institutional investors ahead of other investors is wrong. The company has been fined US$30 million for sending that data to SAC Capital, T. Rowe Price, Citadel and GLC Partners ahead of official publication that would have been available to all investors.

All of the investment firms except GLC Partners used information gathered by Citigroup analyst Kevin Chang to sell off AAPL shares before the news hit the rest of the market. The day Chang's research was made public on December 14, 2012, Apple's share price fell 5.2 percent so the three institutional investors who acted on his research early saved themselves millions.

The fine was levied in a consent order from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, William Galvin, who noted "It seems that the...

Cupertino's flagship iPhone 5s was the best-selling smartphone for all four major U.S. carriers ??AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-mobile ??while the new iPhone 5c followed closely behind, according to new tracking data.
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