Majestyk Apps announces iTraxs version 3.0
release June 1st

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Majestyk Apps is proud to announce that iTraxs version 3.0 will be released on June 1st 2012. iTraxs version 3.0 will allow users to continue to trim songs and export them back to their iTunes library to listen to at their choosing. iTraxs version 3.0 will also allow users to use their trimmed songs as ringtones on their iPhone. Majestyk Apps welcomes all user feedback, both positive and negative, in order to create Apps that are visually appealing and also simple and effective.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 AVCHD Lite MTS to
QuickTime from HD Converter

post from prMac on 16 May 2012 10:25:00 PM. © prMac

iLifeSoft announces HD Video Converter for Mac to convert Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 AVCHD Lite MTS to Mov for playing with QuickTime on Mac. Mac Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 to QuickTime Converter is your best choice to help you play Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 AVCHD Lite MTS videos with QuickTime on Mac, which can convert AVCHD Lite to QuickTime easily and quickly. It also provides editing functions that can help you edit your video, such as crop video, trim video, adjust video effect and so on.

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Sheep Up! - a puzzle platform game for
iPhone/iPad

post from prMac on 16 May 2012 08:00:00 PM. © prMac

Sheep Up! is an original and humorous puzzle platform complete with 20 addictive levels, a multi-directional tilt control gameplay, a huge variety of gameplay elements, 2 different game modes, colorful and enjoyable settings, an original soundtrack, and much more. One simple input - multi-directional tilt control gameplay - and one simple goal - help the jumping toy sheep escape and reach the top of the box, make of Sheep Up! the perfect pastime game.

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High Fives All Around

post from Daring Fireball on 16 May 2012 06:02:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Arik Hesseldahl, reporting on a document drop by Oracle in its ongoing Itanium lawsuit with HP:

In the emails, Intel, for its part, certainly looks like it wantsout of the business of making the chip, but is willing to acceptHP?s money to keep churning them out. Asked at one point whatwould happen if HP didn?t pay a certain amount to Intel, Intelwould — in the words of Martin Fink, then-head of HP?s BusinessCritical Server business — shut down the teams producing certainchips that were in the process of being designed, and slap ?highfives all around.?

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The OS X Naming Problem

post from Daring Fireball on 16 May 2012 06:02:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Pretty convincing argument that Mountain Lion will be the last of the big-cat names for major OS X releases.

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Samsung Loses $10 Billion in Market Value After
DigiTimes Reports Apple Is Ordering DRAM From a Competitor

post from Daring Fireball on 16 May 2012 06:02:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Reuters:

Shares in Samsung Electronics Co slumped more than 6 percent onWednesday, wiping $10 billion off the electronics giant’s marketvalue, on a report that Apple placed huge chip orders withtroubled Japanese chip rival Elpida.
Taiwan’s DigiTimes, an online trade news site, reported that Applerecently placed large mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM)orders with Elpida’s 12-inch plant in Hiroshima, Japan, securingaround half the facilities total chip production. It cited unnamedindustry sources in its report, which hit shares of major chipsuppliers to Apple.

This highlights the bizarre relationship between Apple and Samsung, where in the consumer space they’re direct competitors (arguably even arch rivals — they’re the only two companies turning a significant profit in the handset industry), but behind the scenes in Samsung’s component supplier business, Apple is their most important customer. I suspect this is what investors are reacting to. It’s not about one order of DRAM; it’s about concern that Samsung is going to lose Apple as a component customer across the board.

Funny, too, that this would happen the day after Harry McCracken’s epic DigiTimes fact-checking piece. I question anything DigiTimes reports. I’d double-check if they told me today is Wednesday. But regardless of whether the report is actually true, it is true that Samsung’s stock price took a dive because of it.

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Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone

post from Apple on 16 May 2012 04:02:22 PM. © Apple

Google?s social team has had a lot of love for iOS lately: Just days after rolling out a revamped iPhone app for Google+, the company now released an iOS app for its social activity service Schemer. The app mimics Schemer’s Android app in form and functionality, allowing users to tell the world what they?re plans are – and then join with friends for group activities.

Schemer has been an interesting initiative for Google. The service launched under the radar a few months back, then opened up to the public in April. Schemer is using a separate branding, but it?s tied closely to Google+, using your Google+ contacts to devise collective schemes. One has to wonder if Schemer could eventually become one of many apps running on top of Google+.

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Android Fragmentation: One Developer Encounters
3,997 Devices

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Casey Johnston, reporting for Ars Technica:

One developer can do business with nearly 4,000 distinct AndroidROMs, according to data posted by the creators of OpenSignalMapson Tuesday. [?]
The developers logged 3,997 distinct devices, the most popular ofwhich was the Samsung Galaxy S II. This figure was inflated quitea bit by custom ROMs, which overwrite the android.build.MODELvariable and cause those phones to be logged as separate devices.1,363 types were logged only once, and while some were custom ROMsbucking the numbers, a good few were just massively unpopulardevices — for example, the Hungarian 10.1-inch Concorde Tab.

The Hungarian 10.1-Inch Concorde Tab is my new favorite Android device name.

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Steve Jobs to get the Sorkin treatment, plus 4
other Apple stories to read today

With so many people writing about Apple, finding the best stories and reports isn’t easy. Here’s our daily pick of stories about the company from around the Web that you shouldn’t miss:

Get ready for snappy, overlapping dialogue and fast-paced walk and talks with Steve Jobs: The movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography will officially be penned by The West Wing and The Social Network writer Aaron Sorkin, reports Slash Film. (This is virtually guaranteed to be less awful than the competing Jobs project starring Ashton Kutcher.)
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse did his best Honey Badger impression during Sprint’s earnings call this morning. Despite shareholder concern about the large investment necessary to sell the iPhone and knowing that it won’t be profitable until 2015, Hesse isn’t worried. According to AllThingsD, he said, ?We believe in the long term. And over time we will make more money on iPhone customers than we will on other customers.?
You know how Apple and China Mobile have been in talks for years about offering the iPhone on China’s largest mobile carrier? Well, those talks are continuing, according to the carrier’s new chairman, Xi Guohua. “China Mobile and Apple both have the will to strengthen cooperation,” he said at a company meeting Wednesday, without offering any more specific details, Bloomberg reports.
Greenpeace tries to get Apple’s attention on coal-powered server farms with protestors dressed as iPhones and a pod-like capsule that projected protest messages onto Apple’s Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday. Gizmodo has the (bizarre) pictures.
Washington insiders may be miffed that Apple doesn’t follow standard D.C. practice in lining politicians’ pockets with donations, but the company isn’t a stranger to high-ranking officials. Here’s the latest proof: this photo, posted by Fortune, shows Apple CEO Tim Cook meeting with John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Tuesday.

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Walt Mossberg on Microsofts Signature PCs

Mossberg:

Microsoft also offers a program that, for $99, will turn users’Windows 7 PCs into Signature versions, if the owner brings thecomputer into one of its 16 stores, due to grow to 21 outlets incoming months.

In other words, you pay $100 to get the crap removed from your new computer. Nice.

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