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Tip: Add Reload button to Safari 4 Bookmarks Bar

Many people love the redesigned and ‘cleaned-up’ UI of Apple’s Safari 4, which had its Beta tag removed during Phil Schiller’s WWDC Keynote. I, for one however, just hate two things: the unnecessary “Add Bookmark” plus button attached to the left of the URL bar, and the relocation of the stop/reload button to the left [...]

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Tip: Get rid of the “Add Bookmark” button on the Safari 4 toolbar

Here’s a nifty little tip for those who simply despise the new UI of the final build of Safari 4 (now 4.0.1) released several weeks ago at WWDC. We know that Apple has been playing around with the interface of its web browser since the first Public Beta of Safari 4, and somehow it has [...]

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What’s with HTC Hero’s keyboard?; Apple’s influence on the market

HTC just released its highly-anticipated Google Android-based Hero phone to the public early this week. It features a tweaked version of the Android operating system, with a user experience dubbed “Sense UI” by HTC. After looking through a few videos, I find that the Hero comes in no comparison to the Apple iPhone and the [...]

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New MacBook Pro teardown reveals flaw in Apple engineering

iFixit posted a full dissection review of the new MacBook Pros, both 13″ and 15″, as it always does with new Apple computers. The teardown revealed that Apple, an undisputed master of industrial design, may have ran into a bit of an engineering flaw. The teardown pictures showed that the placement of the new SD [...]

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Apple Removes Space from “iPhone 3G S”

Apple has just done something very unconventional in its history, and quietly changed the legal name of the “iPhone 3G S” by removing that cumbersome space. The ‘new’ product is now called “iPhone 3GS”, as it should have been called in the very first place. Since Apple did it as discreetly as they could, we [...]

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Apple Sells 1 Million iPhone 3G S Units over Weekend, and Welcome Back, Steve!

Well not really yet, but Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has been quoted for the very first time after months of complete silence. Apple today announced that it has sold over a million iPhone 3G S units over the weekend after it was released on the 19th June. This evidently perked Jobs up from a 6-month [...]

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Tip: View YouTube video in full browser screen

This is slightly hard to describe, but I just randomly stumbled across a nifty little ‘hack’, for lack of a better word, involving the viewing of YouTube videos. Of course, YouTube natively supports full-screen viewing of videos, but I personally do not like this as I am completely immersed in the video and can no [...]

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Snow Leopard QuickTime X Adds Screen Recording

Something that Apple did not really reveal to the public yet is a cool little feature in QuickTime X in Snow Leopard: Screen Recording. Gina Trapani over at Lifehacker.com captured some screens of QuickTime X in action in the WWDC Developer’s Build of Snow Leopard, and discovered that this is a neat new feature that [...]

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Apple Releases iPhone 3.0 Software Update

After much fanfare, Apple has finally released its long-awaited iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 Software Update. Note, that this release of the firmware, Build 7A341, is exactly the same as the pirate 3.0 Gold Master build. If you previously downloaded the pirated GM build, you’ve had the real 3.0 a week before everyone else, and [...]

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Apple to Release iPhone 3.0 Firmware 10 am PT / 1 pm ET, Terminal Checking

Some time-triangulation (which I shall not go into) has shown that Apple is expected to release its heavily anticipated iPhone 3.0 firmware at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. For those waiting at the edge of their chairs, here’s a cool little way of checking whether the firmware has been updated on Apple’s servers. 1) Fire up [...]

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