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Sitting ?in a class by itself,? the new iPod touch receives a perfect 5 stars from Cliff Edwards (businessweek.com). ?Apple has managed to make the touch look better, work better, and deliver more features,? Edwards points out. ?No longer simply a high-end iPod, it has become the foundation of what?s sure to be an increasingly important handheld computing platform for Apple.?
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Available only on iPhone, Google Mobile features Voice Search. Simply speak your query and let Google do what it does best. The free application also offers My Location searches (finding businesses based on your current location), performs contact and history searches, and includes a new Apps tab for rearranging Google Apps. Give it a try. It works, and it?s fun.
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When Trism hit the App Store, life changed for 29-year-old Steve Demeter, relates Brandon Griggs (cnn.com). In just two months, Trism netted the former ATM software designer a cool $250,000, encouraging him to found his own iPhone game development company, Trismology. ?It?s done phenomenal business,? says Demeter of the game. And he already has five more titles in development.
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Need help with an application? In Mac OS X Leopard, you?ll find Help in the menu bar of every application. Help points the way to tutorials, user guides, keyboard shortcuts, and other valuable resources. Specific to the application you?re using, Help offers Numbers help when you?re running Numbers and Pages help when you?re using Pages. Learn more about Help in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.
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By comparing the hippocampus of a patient suffering from episodic memory to that of a healthy person of the same age, Professor James Brewer can determine whether the patient is suffering from Alzheimer?s Disease. Trouble is, to manually assemble the 256 hippocampi MRI images, it can take an entire week. Or he can run NeuroQuant on his iMac and get a statistical report in about 8.5 minutes.
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Interviewing guitarist Dave Keuning prior to the release of The Killers? new album, Ben Rogerson (musicradar.com) learned that ? the band?s hotly-anticipated third album Day & Age was demoed in Apple?s Logic.? In fact, each member of the band ?recorded demos separately in Logic, which allowed us to email our ideas to each other and to Stuart Price, the producer.?
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An ensemble of student computer scientists and musicians, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra uses 20 MacBook computers to compose and perform new music. ?We tilt the notebook and use its built-in accelerometer to expressively control sound. We use the trackpad as a kind of violin bow,? explains Ge Wang, SLOrk?s founder. ?You can make some wild, diverse music with the MacBook.?
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Tapulous has brought a new rhythm section to its highly popular Tap Tap Revenge. The first special edition of the music game ? Nine Inch Nails Revenge ($4.99)? lets you tap and shake to the beats of 13 Nine Inch Nails tracks. Play solo or against a friend in head-to-head two-player mode.
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iPhone and iPod touch have become ?serious competitors to Nintendo?s DS handheld and Sony?s PlayStation Portable,? report Nick Wingfield and Christopher Lawton (online.wsj.com). And for good reason. Says one gamer who ?sold his PSP and may get rid of his DS soon?: ??I can listen to my iPod and play games at the same time, and when I?m done I can just put it in my pocket.??
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By downloading the Bento 2 Holiday Pack. In addition to a free, 30-day trial of Bento 2, the Holiday Pack comes with pre-designed templates you can use to organize contacts and keep track of the cards you send and the gifts and donations you make.
