iCloud Web Beta

post from Daring Fireball on 01 August 2011 08:03:49 PM. © Daring Fireball

Told you so.

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https://www.icloud.com/

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Apple Outlines iCloud Storage Pricing

post from Daring Fireball on 01 August 2011 08:03:49 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jim Dalrymple:

According to Apple, three storage plans are available: 10 GB willcost $20 per year; 20 GB will cost $40 per year; and 50GB willcost $100 per year.

That’s if you go over the 5 GB you start with for free.

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http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/08/01/apple-outlines-icloud-storage-pricing/

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Sometimes Theres a Man

post from Daring Fireball on 01 August 2011 06:03:58 PM. © Daring Fireball

Five-song rock opera by Merlin Mann, commissioned by MailChimp. Nice web design, too.

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http://mailchimp.com/sometimes-theres-a-man/

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New Iphone App Gives Every Soccer Fan a Run Up!
Worldcup-U20

post from prMac on 01 August 2011 05:52:00 PM. © prMac

1Tucan has introduced FutbolGol: Mundial Sub 20 1.7, the perfect assist to this year's World Sub20. Offering second-by-second updates on matches, news, and teams. Soccer fans can 'volley' to find rosters, calendars, videos and more at the tap of a fingertip. FutBolGol is available on iTunes. It has an attractive, easy-to-use interface. The calendar shows times in each country and positions of the teams. You can watch live news of the matches and videos of the latest goals.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-28762.htm

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My Momentz available on the App Store

post from prMac on 01 August 2011 05:44:00 PM. © prMac

Preet Kamal Singh Minhas has introduced My Momentz 1.0, for iPhone on the App Store. My Momentz is a fully featured journal-diary app designed keeping ease of use in mind. My Momentz is designed to make the process of jotting down thoughts, writing notes or maintaining a personal diary-journal easier and aesthetically pleasing. It is password protected to keep your entries safe from prying eyes. You can attach an image to your entries. Bookmark the entry or personalize it with moods.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-28761.htm

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Why Ben Duchacs Mom Bought an Android, Returned
It, and Got an iPhone

post from Daring Fireball on 01 August 2011 02:04:25 PM. © Daring Fireball

Of course I’m going to link to this, a story from an Android fan (and happy user of an HTC Incredible) who helped his mom buy a new Samsung Charge from Verizon, and, well, it didn’t go well at all:

Seeing the basically useless state of the phone on initial boot, Itold my mother that I?d take the phone for an hour or so andgive it back to her ?cleaned up.? I deleted apps. I configurednotifications. I set up accounts. None of it was easy, and everystep of the way I ran into really bizarre problems. The elegantGoogle widgets that come with stock Android were stripped out ofthe phone. The camera app, besides looking like it had beendesigned in 1995, just wouldn?t rotate when I turned the phoneon its side. Apps that worked on my Droid Incredible crashed assoon as I opened them on the Charge. After about an hour of pokingand prodding the battery had dropped from 95% to 50%. Completelyfrustrated, I turned to the internet, where confused users wereposting questions with titles like ?Should my battery last morethan 6 hours?? and ?I think my phone is broken??

(Duchac, by the way, is a talented photographer.)

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http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/29/why-my-mom-bought-an-android-returned-it-and-g
ot-an-iphone/

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Penny Arcade on the Problem Facing Nintendos 3DS

post from Daring Fireball on 01 August 2011 02:04:25 PM. © Daring Fireball

More fun indeed.

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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/8/1/fire/

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John Paczkowski: New iPhone in October, Not
September

post from Daring Fireball on 01 August 2011 02:04:25 PM. © Daring Fireball

John Paczkowski:

So those rumors claiming the iPhone 5 will debut in lateSeptember? They?re wrong.
Instead, it?s going to be an October surprise — the month inwhich Apple plans to launch its next-gen iPhone.

That’s a scoop. All signs pointed to September, prior to this report from Paczkowski.

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http://allthingsd.com/20110801/new-iphone-in-october-not-september/

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Forbes Profiles Nicholas Allegra, a.k.a. Comex,
Jailbreak Hacker Extraordinaire

Andy Greenberg unmasks Comex, the heretofore pseudonymous hacker behind JailBreakMe:

Dino Dai Zovi, co-author of the Mac Hacker?s Handbook, saysJailbreakMe?s sophistication is on par with that of Stuxnet, aworm thought to have been designed by the Israeli or U.S.government to infect Iran?s nuclear facilities. He comparesAllegra?s skills to the state-sponsored intruders that plaguecorporations and governments, what the cybersecurity industrycalls ?advanced-persistent threat? hackers: ?He?s probablyfive years ahead of them,? says Dai Zovi.

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http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/08/01/meet-comex-the-iphone-uber-hacke
r-who-keeps-outsmarting-apple/

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Facebook Mobile Usage

Re: today’s aforelinked piece on Gogo inflight Wi-Fi usage, which showed Android being dwarfed by iOS, here are some real-world usage numbers where Android has nearly drawn even with iOS: Facebook mobile usage.

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http://www.ben-evans.com/post/8172772245/facebooks-mobile-users

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