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Here’s a nice AppleScript to send the selected headline to your Instapaper account to read later.

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iPhone Atlas warns that the 1.1.3 jailbreak may prevent official third party apps from working.
iPhone firmware 1.1.3 includes a mechanism for approving signed applications. Signed apps use private keys to authorize themselves for installation on the iPhone/iPod Touch. This gets damaged by the jailbreak, although it’s reversable. It does mean that official and unofficial [...]

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Someone came up with a jailbreak for iPhone 1.1.3. I don’t understand why they even bother, when Apple will be releasing an official SDK very soon, which will provide the same capabilities.

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I’ve made a few changes at MacMegasite and there will be more coming in the next few weeks.
First of all, Daniel Brusilovsky is officially a staff member! Hopefully we’ll add more staff this year. Look for a staff bio page to be added soon.
I’ve also added the mysite module, which lets users set up their [...]

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I picked up an Eye-Fi card at Macworld, but I didn’t really get a chance to try it out until now thanks to the crappy WiFi connection and not having my D40x. It works exactly as advertised. I can take a photo and have it uploaded immediately to Flickr without using my computer, and also [...]

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The last day of the show is crazy even though the crowd is smaller. I got a lot more swag today since everyone wanted to get rid of stuff. I spent most of the afternoon in Moscone West, where the smaller and more fun booths were. One company was selling headphones half price. I got [...]

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The only place I could find good connectivity in Moscone South is the corridor outside the exhibit hall. My hotel’s Wifi sucked even worse than usual - I couldn’t obtain an IP address at all.
Instead of buying the overpriced food in Moscone, I took a walk to Metreon for lunch. They have a really cool [...]

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Connectivity was a lot better today. Today I discovered that they have a “hidden” network (no SSID broadcast) outside the exhibit hall, so I was able to get online at Moscone South. I took advantage of it to update my iPhone to 1.1.3. The upgrade went smoothly and my iPhone didn’t get bricked.
I went to [...]

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I was up at 4:30 AM and on line before 5:30, yet I only got into the overflow room. I was very disappointed with the lack of internet access and power. I was able to plug in my MacBook Pro a few times to charge it, but I wasn’t able to get online for more [...]

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I got to San Francisco on time, and even more amazing, my luggage arrived with me. I only had 25 minutes for the connection in Salt Lake City because my first flight arrived about 15 minutes late. When I got to the gate (which was in the next concourse from where my first flight landed), [...]

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I bought the MacHeist bundle yesterday. Only $17,337 needs to be raised for charity before Pixelmator gets unlocked! Since Pixelmator sells for $59, even without any of the other applications it makes the $49 bundle worthwhile.

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I finally decided to try FlickrFan, Dave Winer’s application that downloads photos from your Flickr RSS feeds. A few days ago I bought PhotoPresenter when MacZOT offered it. The two work great together - simply add FlickrFan’s download folder as a source and you can make a stylish animated slideshow of your photos or your [...]

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Daniel Brusilovsky will be recording the 100th episode of Apple Universe live during Macworld Expo next week. I’ll be there and I’ll be blogging live. I talked to Daniel a few times today and he has some very exciting news.
The live recording will take place on Tuesday, January 15 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. [...]

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Apple watchers are trying to guess the meaning of “There’s something in the air” on Apple’s tantalizing Macworld banners. Here are some possibilities.

Apple is buying Adobe and adding AIR to the iPhone and building it into OS X

Wireless syncing of iPod & iPhone with Macs

Rent movies wirelessly directly from the Apple TV

Bluetooth headphones for iPod [...]

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ars technica posted this shot of the first banner for Macworld. I wonder what it could be… wireless movie rentals directly from the AppleTV?

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I noticed today that MacMegasite now has 34526 subscribers to the newsfeed, a sudden jump from the usual 18000-19000.
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FeedBurner’s statistics page confirms the sudden jump.
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This happened just after NewsGator announced that NetNewsWire is now free, and MacMegasite happens to be one of the default feeds. Thanks Brent! I owe [...]

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I’ve used NetNewsWire for a long time, but I recently started using Google Reader instead for the sharing & suggestion features. Unfortunately the two don’t sync, so switching between them is a bother.
In light of today’s announcement, and because I always found NetNewsWire faster & more convenient than reading news online, I switched back to [...]

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Macworld Expo starts one week from today, so the anticipation & rumors have reached a fever pitch. Apple’s announcement of new Mac Pro & Xserve models today certainly means they have something much bigger to announce in the keynote.
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Apple will introduce a subnotebook, possibly with a touchscreen.
I’m [...]

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One of our customers was having a strange installation problem after upgrading their Mac from 10.4 to 10.5. It turns out they reformatted the drive as a case-sensitive file system. During the installation, a utility gets downloaded from the server. The installation process specifies a pathname to execute that utility, which doesn’t match the case [...]

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For a long time I was unable to view ustream.tv on my MacBook Pro, even though I have the latest version of Flash player and other sites work OK.
I noticed that I had local storage disabled in the Flash Player settings. Enabling it fixed the problem.
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