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iPhone 3.0 Is Re-Allowing You to Re-Download Apps for Free

According to a lead developer at Apple—and a few tests run on the iPhone 3.0 to confirm—the inability to re-download previously purchased apps on iPhone 3.0 was just a “bug”. [Appadvice – Thanks Mahmoud!] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-iphone-3-0-to-stop-allowing-you-to-re-download-a-5273822

Tech News Andi Wang Jun 12

Flame War: Snow Leopard vs Windows 7, FIGHT!

The cat is out of the bag—literally. You saw Matt’s Snow Leopard vs Windows 7, and it’s Friday, so I think it’s time for part deux of our classic flamefest. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-snow-leopard-vs-windows-7-the-final-countdown-5285452 To get things rolling, let me start: Fuck Windows 7, a Vista on a diet which is really just the same stuff as before…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 12

Apple Building 100 New Stores With An Updated Design This Year

Apple’s been tweaking the design of its stores and plan to open up to 100 of the new retail spaces this year. Apparently, the new Scottsdale, Arizona store shows what the slightly new look will be like. For one, the Genius Bar is far larger than before, so that’s good for people sick of waiting…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 12

The Week In iPhone Apps: Too Drunk to Play Brain Age

All those apps at WWDC were pretty cool, right? Of course, they’ll be a lot cooler when they actually come out. Get your head out of clouds, and into some of this week’s iPhone apps. https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-2009-iphone-3-0-app-roundup-5283376/ KCRW Radio: It’s no secret that we love KCRW, but it seems to have been pulled from the free…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 12

Whoever Steals Your iPhone Can Just Turn Off Find My iPhone Location Tracking

Find My iPhone was one of the best things Apple showed off on Monday at WWDC—track your phone, send harassing messages, etc. It works, but whoever pinched your iPhone can just turn off tracking right from the phone. https://gizmodo.com/find-my-iphone-lets-you-ping-remotely-erase-your-lost-5283371 So, if you wanna steal your friend’s iPhone and not have them know where you absconded…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 12

This May Not Be the Most Believable Steve Jobs Rumor

We all love rumors, but this one, well, let’s just say it’s not the most trustworthy rumor we’ve ever seen. Let’s consider the source. It’s from a scummy site called Palluxo Media that, when investigated by Fortune, seems to have its sights set on lowering Apple’s stock prices: “You fell for Palluxo?,” wrote “cynyc” –…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 12

Smartphone Buyers Guide: The Best of the Best

As the dust settles from the last two weeks of mobile madness, one question remains unanswered: Which of the new generation of smartphones should you actually buy? We’ve collected everything you need to know. We’ve selected the five phones that most feel like modern handsets to us—the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, the Palm Pre,…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 12

Apple Hardware, If It Were Designed By Michel Gondry

No, Apple hasn’t replaced Jonathan—in reality, this is just a clever little stop motion pitch for the iPhone app accompaniment to the fantastic Delicious Library 2.0. [Delicious Monster via BBG] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-delicious-library-2-0-it-tracks-gadgets-393966

Tech News John Herrman Jun 12

Leopard 10.5 Getting One Last Update To Fix Bugs, Placate Sad PowerPC Users

As OS X moves forward, so must Mac users; luckily, this time it’ll be painless. But for broke people and PowerPC holdouts, regular Leopard is rumored to be due one more stabilizing update, to version 10.5.8. [AppleInsider via Ars] https://gizmodo.com/os-x-snow-leopard-vs-windows-7-the-final-countdown-5285452

Tech News John Herrman Jun 12

Fake Band Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music and Collect Royalties

In what probably seemed like a two-birds-with-one-stone situation (before the arrest, we mean), a 9-member British gang used stolen credit cards to purchase their own music on iTunes and Amazon, then collected the royalties—an estimated $300,000 total. The gang, made up of six men and three women, included one DJ who created the music. They…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 11

Why MacBook Is About to Mean Something Else Entirely

Historically, Apple loves cleanly delineated product lines, so the “MacBook Pro” re-shuffling seems strange even if the socialist element is a fun side effect. Unless they’re clearing out the MacBook for something else entirely. https://gizmodo.com/macbook-pro-2009-review-5287179 Think about it: Right now a single, lonely model bears the name MacBook. A model that’s been around forever, too.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 11

The iPhone Is a Pretty Damn Big Platform to Develop Games For

This is how the 40 million iPhones and iPod touches, a figure given by Apple at the WWDC Keynote, stack up against actual consoles. https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-09-liveblog-archive-5285110 Even though the iPhone has the distinct disadvantage of being a platform that’s not purchased just for gaming—pretty much every person who buys a PSP buys it to play games,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 11

Psystar Owes Apple $75k For Some Reason

As part of their bankruptcy filings, Hackintosh maker Psystar declared that they owed Apple $75,000 for something or other. https://gizmodo.com/psystar-files-for-bankruptcy-5270448 Computerworld guesses that it’s for 581 copies of Leopard that Psytar ordered but didn’t get a chance to install on machines, but my guess is that it’s one giant copy of Leopard that they custom…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 11

Apple’s WWDC iPhone App Wall Gets the Full Photosynth Treatment

And with that, Microsoft’s powerful, underappreciated photo visualizer resigned itself to an inevitable fate, as a promotional tool for iPhone fart apps. https://gizmodo.com/apples-huge-throbbing-wall-of-iphone-apps-5284198 The neatest thing about the Cinema Display iPhone app wall, which Apple stationed in the Moscone Center lobby during WWDC, was how it was animated, sending little shockwaves from each app’s icon…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 11

OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: The Final Countdown

It’s easier than ever to pit Windows 7 and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard head-to-head: They’re launching soon, both within a month of each other—and both are basically glorified service packs of the current OS. In way, they’re opposites: Windows 7 uses the same core foundation as Vista while fixing issues and prettying up the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 11

Design Your Ultimate iPhone 3.0 App Using MS Paint

Instead of a Photoshop Contest, this week we’re holding an MS Paint Contest. And I want you to use everyone’s favorite rudimentary image editor to design your dream iPhone apps. Work up your masterpieces and send them to me at [email protected] with “MS Paint iPhone Apps” as the subject. Don’t send me BMP files! Instead,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 11

MacBook Pro 2009 Review

You know those Microsoft laptop hunter spots? Apple may already have responded with TV spots of their own, but these MacBook Pros strike back at Microsoft better than any ad can: by doing. https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-ad-mocks-microsoft-laptop-hunters-in-usual-sm-5251676 Apple did two things simultaneously that are usually contradictory; they lowered the price of their entire MacBook Pro line while at…

Reviews Jason Chen Jun 11

iPhone 3GS: Just How Awesome Are the Graphics Gonna Get, Really?

Hubert at Ubergizmo walks us through how much more powerful the iPhone 3GS can be for graphics over the previous iPhones—he used to program for Nvidia—and it’s potentially mindblowingly better. https://gizmodo.com/will-future-iphone-games-run-on-your-iphone-3g-5286263 It’s not just that the new graphics chip is more powerful, it’s the jump from a fixed-pipeline graphics architecture to an OpenGL ES 2.0…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 11

Apple Stores Knock Hundreds Off Leftover MacBooks to Clear Inventory

What do you do when you’ve instituted a bottom-to-top refresh in your product line, your new shipments are imminent, but you still have hundreds of stores with leftover inventory? FIRE SALE, is what. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3gs-and-more-everything-at-wwdc-2009-5283818 Apple stores have discounted nearly every MacBook in stock, and while the markdowns aren’t huge, they’re worth a look: MacBook Airs…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 11

Palm Pre and iPod Daddy Jon Rubinstein Officially Palm’s CEO

Jon Rubinstein has been the de facto leader of Palm since he came aboard to save it as Executive Chairman with the Pre—a shadow CEO. Now he’s officially CEO, taking over from outgoing honcho Ed Colligan. [Palm] https://gizmodo.com/the-next-gadget-gods-5135076

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 10

iPhone 3.0 Is Re-Allowing You to Re-Download Apps for Free

Flame War: Snow Leopard vs Windows 7, FIGHT!

Apple Building 100 New Stores With An Updated Design This Year

The Week In iPhone Apps: Too Drunk to Play Brain Age

Whoever Steals Your iPhone Can Just Turn Off Find My iPhone Location Tracking

This May Not Be the Most Believable Steve Jobs Rumor

Smartphone Buyers Guide: The Best of the Best

Apple Hardware, If It Were Designed By Michel Gondry

Leopard 10.5 Getting One Last Update To Fix Bugs, Placate Sad PowerPC Users

Fake Band Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music and Collect Royalties

Why MacBook Is About to Mean Something Else Entirely

The iPhone Is a Pretty Damn Big Platform to Develop Games For

Psystar Owes Apple $75k For Some Reason

Apple’s WWDC iPhone App Wall Gets the Full Photosynth Treatment

OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: The Final Countdown

Design Your Ultimate iPhone 3.0 App Using MS Paint

MacBook Pro 2009 Review

iPhone 3GS: Just How Awesome Are the Graphics Gonna Get, Really?

Apple Stores Knock Hundreds Off Leftover MacBooks to Clear Inventory

Palm Pre and iPod Daddy Jon Rubinstein Officially Palm’s CEO

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