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Sparrow Lite Now Available On The Mac App Store

We loved Sparrow for Mac when we reviewed it a couple of weeks ago for treating your inbox more like Twitter, describing it as “the equivalent of skipping stones, not piloting a submarine.” Much as we loved it, though, that approach to email isn’t for everyone, especially power ...

Dodocase Will Coat Your iPad In Moleskin With The Bookback

If you prefer a tactile sensation closer to leather than ice cold aluminum, Dodocase’s Bookback self-adhesive skins will allow you to coat the back of your iPhone or iPad in a Moleskine-like shell. The iPad version will cost you $20, while the iPhone version is just $9.

FaceTime for Mac Now Available On The Mac App Store In 720p

Although buyers of new MacBook Pros should have it come preinstalled on their machines, if you want FaceTime on your existing Mac, it’s going to cost you some bread, or beans, or shekels, or whatever your preferred pecuniary vernacular. It won’t cost you much, though. Coming out of pu...

Dell Plagiarizes Panic's Transmit Icon On Official Website

Panic, the makers of popular Mac FTP client Transmit, quip about Dell’s outright theft of their official logo: “If only Dell charged the Apple Tax, they could afford to draw their own truck.” But at least the Dell Tax was enough to cover Photoshopping in one of their monitors!

Check Out This Official Apple-Branded Deck Of OS7 Suited Cards

This one’s for the sharps: an official pack of playing cards featuring OS 7 icons instead of faces and suits is now available on eBay. It’s a real Apple product, originally sold only to Apple employees from the Apple campus store. Current bid is a respectable 51.00, although my guess ...

Turn The Web Into An 8-Bit Adventure With Pixelfari

For some fun adventures surfing the HTML5 web as through a vintage NES, download Pixelfari and give it a spin. Built upon Safari, it’s of questionable import or usefulness, but it isneat. Twitter and Facebook are especially fun.

Apple Explains The Calling Differences Between Verizon and AT&T iPhones

Just so there’s no misunderstandings, Apple has posted a support document explaining the differences in making calls on the GSM (AT&T) and CDMA (Verizon) iPhones, as well as listing a few shortcuts available to Verizon customers for turning on things like call forwarding without openin...

Rovio: 200 Million Minutes Of Angry Birds Played Every Day

Insane. According to Rovio’s Peter Besterbacka, gamers are now spending over two hundred million minutes every day playing their popular cross-platform title, Angry Birds, one of the most popular games on the iOS and Mac App Stores. Yeesh. Forget AAPL… it’s time to buy some Rovi...

Meet the iPhoue

I’m old enough that I’ve stopped giggling at Chinglish in most of its forms, but I hold a still hold a pecial place in my heart for the way the knock-off shops of Shenzhen will mutate and mutilate the iPhone’s branding when slapping a name upon their crappiest phones. Perhaps wh...

Elle and Popular Science Apps Already Update With In-App Subscriptions

Well, that didn’t take long: mere hours after Apple officially dropped their new App Store subscriptions service, the first magazine apps using the new billing system are hitting the App Store, courtesy of Popular Science and Elle Magazine. Both work roughly the same as The Daily: you are g...

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