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SF Bay Area biggest US market for Apple products

SF Bay Area biggest US market for Apple products

Posted by | Apr 17, 2010 | , |

The San Francisco Bay Area is the biggest U.S. market for Apple products, according to the results of a survey conducted by research firm Experian Simmons.

As reported by “CNET” (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20002715-36.html?tag=mncol), the study found that 32.3% of adult residents of the region own at least one Apple product — an iPod, iPhone, or Mac computer — compared to 21.6% in the nation as a whole, which makes Bay Area residents 49% more likely to buy Apple products.

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Screencast looks at installing, using PDFPen

Posted by | Apr 17, 2010 | |

A new screencast (http://screencasts.smileonmymac.com/SCO170-pdfpen-Module01-832×468-h264_best.mov) offers an introduction and installation guide for PDFPen from SmileOnMyMac.

PDFPen is a PDF editing and form-filling tool for Mac OS X. PDFpen costs US$49.95, and PDFpenPro is $99.95. Family pack licenses, which cover up to five computers in one household, are $74.95 for PDFpen and $129.95 for PDFpenPro. Upgrades from earlier versions of either application are $25, and free to users who purchased after June 1, 2008. Upgrades from any version of PDFpen to PDFpenPro 4.0 are $50.

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for April 16

Posted by | Apr 16, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Soccer fans heading to South Africa this summer will be able to find their way around, thanks to the newly available US$54.99 CoPilot Live South Africa GPS navigation app. Available for iPhones, Android smartphones or Windows Mobile Phones, CoPilot Live provides full turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation in-car or on foot. The app stores detailed street maps of South Africa on the phones.

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Apple looking to adopt AMD chips?

Apple looking to adopt AMD chips?

Posted by | Apr 16, 2010 | , |

Apple and AMD are in “advanced discussions” to bring the chipmaker’s processors to upcoming Macs, reports “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com). If that’s true, it would end the exclusive Apple-Intel relationship that’s been around since 2006.

According to “AppleInsider,” Apple and AMD execs have been meeting to allow Apple to begin working with AMD processors in its labs as part of an initiative to position the chips inside some upcoming products. Apple seems to be mainly interested in AMD’s workstation and notebook class CPUs, the article says.

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