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Computerworld reveals that Apple quietly acquired mapping company Placebase back in July. Placebase is similar to Google Maps in that it is a mapping service and has the world mapped out
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30 Sep 2009“Cambridge, Mass.-based car-sharing service Zipcar this week launched an app that lets you locate and reserve one of its vehicles, unlock it using the iPhone touch-screen and drive it off the lot,” reports Jefferson Graham (usatoday.com). Graham notes that while there are many iPhone apps for autos “Zipcar’s app is the first to control the operation of a car.”
Citing significant upgrades to the Podcast Producer, Wiki, and Mobile Access components of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, reviewer Cameron Sturdevant (eweek.com) recommends that IT managers “put Snow Leopard Server on their short-term evaluation list when considering system updates in creative departments where Mac systems predominate” or in any enterprise “where high-value content is produced.”
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30 Sep 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , Odds and ends , Internet Tools Last night when the Apple store went down, I got tired of hitting refresh in Safari every few minutes while waiting for it to come back up, and went searching for something that would do the job for free . Now, this is not for coders who will laugh hysterically at my incompetence, but for those of you that are either lazy or don’t program at all. I fit both categories. Back in 2005 someone going by the moniker of Biovizier posted the solution on Macosxhints.com . It’s a little html snippet that will refresh any web page as frequently as you’d like, and its easily customizable for any page at all.
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30 Sep 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks , iPhone , App Store Is the cell coverage in your area not up to par? Whether you happen to have steel walls or live where there are no cell phone towers or trees cleverly disguised as cell phone towers , some of us must deal with the reality that, while we own arguably the most innovative gadget in recent years in the iPhone, we may not have had the best carrier to accompany it. One way to address this “bag of hurt” is through the Skype iTunes link app. If you don’t already have the Skype app, download it — it’s a free download in the App Store . Next, you’ll need to make sure that Skype stays online when the screen is locked
In its August 2009 Mobile Metrics Report released today, advertising firm AdMob highlights the fact that Apple’s iPhone OS commanded a 40% share of ad requests on the company’s network during the month, up from 33% six months earlier. The increase, …
A reader shares his tips on how to transform a nighttime city shot with starbursts.
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30 Sep 2009Microsoft Windows Vista clients may be unable to join a PDC hosted on Mac OSXServer v10.5 or later. Windows Vista may be configured with a local security policy which does not include an authentication protocol that is required by Mac OSXServer v10.5 and later. Windows Vista clients may receive an alert similar to this when trying to bind to the Mac OSXServer PDC: “Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error has occurred: Logon failure:unknown user name or bad password.”
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.
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