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MacNews review: FolderGlance for Mac OS X will speed up your workflow

Once you’ve used Yellow Lemon Software’s FolderGlance (http://www.scsc.no/products/folderglance/), a utility for browsing files and folders, you may wonder how you lived — or at least used your Mac — without it. The app lets you preview files directly from the contextual menus, as well as move, copy and make aliases of selected files at locations you browse to.

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iPad helping to create jobs

It hasn’t been released yet, but the iPad is already helping create jobs it seems. Elance (http://www.elance.com) — a site where companies find, hire, manage and pay contractors online — says that, within 24 hours of the iPad announcement, 20 iPad application development jobs were immediately posted on their site.

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iPhone/iPod apps for Feb. 18

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

Calf Trail Software has released Photon Star 1.0 (http://calftrail.com/photonstar/), an US$7 helper application for iPhoto that lets a user rate pictures. It’s designed for use with an Apple remote or keyboard. You may choose an iPhoto album containing unrated photos, and Photon Star presents the photos in an uncluttered rating interface that may even be made full screen.

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Apple adds ability to browse iPhone/iPod touch app categories to iTunes Preview

Earlier this month Apple added the ability to preview iPhone/iPod touch apps via iTunes Preview. Now it’s added the ability to browse application categories.

Last November Apple launched iTunes Preview, a web site that gives customers the option to view content without launching the application. Now Apple lets you preview iPhone apps in your browser, as well.

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Apple blocks iPad import records from public access

With the March delivery date of the new iPad approaching, Apple has blocked its bills of lading and other import records from public access, according to a report by Trade Privacy (https://tradeprivacy.com/import-trade-data-protection/index.php), a trade data protection company based in Reston, Virginia.

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