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Mossberg weighs in on Apple’s app shortcomings of recent years

There’s a pretty interesting piece over on The Verge in which the mighty Walt Mossberg cites some apparent shortcomings in Apple’s apps in recent years. He points out that Apple’s products are often considered the best you can buy and that this is part of the Mac and iOS user experience. “In the last couple […]

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Apple confirms existence of “Applebot” web crawler, says program indexes the Web for Siri, Spotlight

Sometimes it’s the Web traffic logs that really let you know what Apple is up to. Last fall, a number of webmasters began seeing web crawler visits from IP addresses starting with 17, an IP address block owned entirely by Apple. Apple has now officially confirmed in a support document that it is operating its […]

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Fantastical 2 now available, offers redesigned interface, new features

A useful calendar application just got better. This week, Flexibits released Fantastical 2 for the Mac. The new version, which sports a redesigned user interface, also includes a full calendar window with day, week, month, and year views, an intuitive parsing engine, iCloud reminders support, light theme, time zone support, birthday reminders, Action and Share […]

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QuarkXPress updated to 10.0.0.1

The new QuarkXPress has arrived. And it is a hefty update. Late Friday, software developer Quark released version 10.0.0.1 of its QuarkXPress design application. The 293.5 megabyte update, which can be downloaded here, adds the following changes: – Xenon Graphics Engine The new state-of-the-art Xenon Graphics Engine takes full advantage of your computer’s processing power, […]

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Two new patents show how Apple would use iPhone, Bluetooth to interact with cars

One day, your iPhone WILL talk to and control your car. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office (1, 2) and AppleInsider, a pair of patent filings discovered on Thursday reveal Apple is actively investigating the possibilities afforded by the iOS mobile platform’s various wireless connectivity options, including the ability to interact with, and […]