Tweetie 2 for iPhone (iTunes Link)

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Trust me, the bar has been raised.

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FxFactory Pro Wins Award Of Superiority For
Visual Effects Workflow

post from prMac on 09 October 2009 05:01:00 PM. © prMac

Noise Industries announced that their flagship plug-in solution FxFactory Pro has won Microfilmmaker's prestigious Award of Superiority. FxFactory Pro offers 150 visual effects plug-ins optimized for real-time performance on the Macintosh platform. With the latest version of FxFactory Pro, Noise Industries introduced four new plug-ins as well as enhancements to 60 existing FxFactory effects.

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Ecamm Network intros BTX Bluetooth Range Extender

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 October 2009 05:00:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Ecamm Network has launched a new accessory to go with its BT-1 Wireless Webcam, the BTX Bluetooth Ra...

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iDFX app enhances audio playback on iPods

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 October 2009 04:55:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Power Technology has launched iDFX, a new app claimed to improve playback quality of MP3 and AAC fil...

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Tweetie for iPhone updates to version 2

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 October 2009 04:55:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

atebits has released Tweetie 2, an update to the company's Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod to...

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Microsoft to try free, ad-based Office

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 09 October 2009 04:35:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Microsoft this week said that it would venture into free productivity apps with a Starter Edition of...

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iPhone Ranks First Again in J.D. Power Survey

post from TheAppleBlog on 09 October 2009 04:00:00 PM. © TheAppleBlog

For the second year in a row, Apple’s iPhone is at the top of the global marketing firm’s satisfaction survey for business users of smartphones, and the iPhone also wins among consumers, too.

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Based on a thousand-point scale, 1,148 business users were asked to rate smartphones on five weighted criteria: ease of use (29 percent); OS (23 percent); physical design (21 percent); features (16 percent); and battery life (11 percent). The iPhone scored 803, up from 778 last year, and far above the industry average of 724 for the 2009 survey. That number, 724, was also the score of the second place finisher, RIM’s BlackBerry. The rest of the survey, Samsung, HTC, and Palm all scored below 700.

Interestingly, Apple’s efforts to sell the iPhone in the workplace with enterprise features like Exchange support may not be the driving factor in the iPhone’s increasingly popularity among business users. While nearly half of smartphone users report downloading business utility applications to increase productivity, more than half download third-party games. As the App Store utterly dominates that software genre, it can only mean good news for the iPhone in business in the future. As for the general consumer, the iPhone scored even better in the survey.

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Some 3,221 smartphone owners rated their devices as follows: ease of use (30 percent); OS (22 percent); features (21 percent); physical design (18 percent); and battery life (9 percent). Apple scored 811, above average in every area except battery life. No other competitor managed to score above 800, with second-place LG being the only other manufacturer to score above the industry average. Third place went to the RIM BlackBerry, but more interesting was the lackluster performance of Palm.

It appears the Pre and webOS have yet to impact positively for Palm in the survey. Further, 22 percent of smartphone owners want Wi-Fi in their next handset, something the forthcoming Palm Pixi curiously lacks. Consumers are also looking for a touch-screen interface, 21 percent, and GPS, 17 percent. The iPhone has all those features, but those features all require something the iPhone needs more of: battery life, battery life, battery life. Let’s hope Apple is paying attention to that part of this survey, too.

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Sirius XM debuts companion iPhone app for XM
SkyDock

Although its companion hardware has yet to be released, Sirius XM has released a dedicated XM SkyDoc...

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FCC will investigate Google Voice over rural
calls

The FCC today told Google that it will investigate the company's policies regarding its Google Voice...

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Eat Salad: Pay for Steak: Never Again - Tip
Calculator 1.2

Boston based Raizlabs has released Tip Calculator 1.2, their top selling tip calculator application for iPhone and iPod touch. Tip Calculator allows people to split the bill any way they want. Using a simple slider you can adjust how much each person will pay on any bill. The application automatically computes and splits the remainder. The application does this and calculates a tip in one step. It can even subtract out tax if you don't like to tip on the tax portion of a meal.

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