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I'm not sure how to really view this announcement from AT&T? Given the day that they announced their new offer.
Mac|Life has the story. They start it out like this, "Thursday is Verizon iPhone day, and AT&T is celebrating with a tempting offer that may keep many of their iPhone customers out of Big Red’s clutches — a new, free calling feature called AT&T Messaging Unlimited with Mobile to Any Mobile Calling. The only catch? You need to have (or add) unlimited text messaging."
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It doesn't appear that bad weather kept customers from lining up outside stores to get their hands on the new iPhone 4 that Verizon will provide service for.
"The day is upon us when U.S. iPhone owners get a choice in which carrier to put up with." That's how David Chartier over at Macworld puts it.
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I always enjoy learning how to use the software that I have on my Mac to its fullest potential. That includes Pages '09 from Apple.
Even though Pages doesn't include any built in label templates, you can easily create a template and use standard labels for printing. Macworld has posted a step by step tutorial on just how to do it.
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Say hello to Alfred. Everything we do on our Mac revolves around a personal "workflow", or how we get things done. Alfred is a productivity application for the Mac.
Alfred was created by Running with Crayons and you can find information about the application here.
For an overview of what Alfred can do for you and your workflow, visit our friends at Macgasm. Susan Pigott has written a post that just about covers it all, from the base application to the additional "power pack" that you can purchase.
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Tech fans and geeks aren't the only people who love the Apple iPad. There's at least one Georgia Senator who wants to replace textbooks with them.
Over at Mac|Life they share the news as reported by The Atlanta Journal – Constitution. Senator Tommie Williams is at the head of the charge. A quote from the Senator in the report, “We’re currently spending about $40 million a year on books,” the senator revealed. “And they last about seven years. We have books that don’t even have 9/11. This is the way kids are learning, and we need to be willing to move in that direction.”
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So you want that DVD on your iPhone or iPod Touch? How about on your AppleTV? Need to know how to do it?
Well, the "how-to" team over at Cult of Mac shows us how. Using Handbrake, and open source application, you can go through the process of converting video for your various, compatible, iDevices. Did I mention that Handbrake is free?
Check out the step by step video they've posted at their blog.
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Now here is something I didn't know I could do on my Mac. The Stationery Pad is an often overlooked feature of Mac OS X.
In their on going series "100 Tips", Cult of Mac posts up Tip #47. In this "how-to" you will learn the 4 steps you need to create template files with stationery pad. The templates are also easy to edit once you've created one.
It's always fun to learn something new.
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Gaining ground? It may not look like it but Net Applications puts iOS at over 2 percent of web traffic. That kind of pales in comparison to Chrome at 10 percent.
Electronista reports it this way, "Apple hardware reached a milestone today as new findings showed iOS cracking two percent share of the web for the first time." Their report has the breakdown how things size up when it comes to web traffic by the various platforms and browsers.
Congratulations to Apple.
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Now here's some good news for everyone! Apple has a history of being incredibly strict when it comes to water damage. Now it seems we are about to see a change.
Mac|Life has a short post over at their blog with the news. They also point to an article over at The Atlantic that provides a bit of history on the subject.
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Apple TV unseats the iPad for Netflix viewing hours.
9 to 5 Mac has a short post about the news from Netflix along with a press release. In the post 9 to 5 Mac says, "That’s noteworthy because while Apple has sold millions of iPads it has only shifted a million Netflix-happy Apple TVs, and with a substantial slice of those sold outside of the US of A".
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