Ommwriter word processor offers Zen-like
meditative focus

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Herraiz Soto, an independent creative agency, has launched Ommwriter, a new word processor with a "Z...

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AKVIS Sketch 10 update adds Snow Leopard support

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 November 2009 05:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

AKVIS has introduced a new version of one of its photo effects apps, Sketch 10. The software convert...

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Briefly: Firefox 3.6 enters 3rd beta, new Eye-Fi
features

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 20 November 2009 04:45:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

In Brief: Mozilla has already released a third beta of the upcoming Firefox 3.6 update, bringing a v...

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Amazon.com Has the Droid for $150

post from Daring Fireball on 20 November 2009 04:36:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Requires a two-year service contract with Verizon, of course, but that’s $50 lower than Verizon’s price.

And Dell is selling it for just $120 (again, with a contract), at least in certain areas.

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The Geography of the U.S. Recession

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Animated time-lapse map of county-by-county unemployment rates in the U.S. since January 2007. Jarring.

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Apple's App Store API screening flawed, says
developer

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A new automatic screening technique Apple is using for the App Store appears to be backfiring, claim...

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Microsoft fights claims of NSA backdoor in Win 7

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Microsoft in a response late Thursday rejected assertions that it has put in a security "backdoor" a...

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Juicy Bits App Incorrectly Flagged as Using
Private APIs

This one seems to be a genuine incorrect rejection for private API use: Juicy Bits has a camera-based app that uses OS 3.1-only camera features, but still runs on OS 3.0 by disabling those features when the app runs on OS 3.0. This particular feature — customizing UIImagePickerController — was frequently abused by private API users in the past, prior to Apple’s introduction of official support for this stuff in OS 3.1.

According to Juicy Bits, they’re not doing that, but their app was rejected anyway:

We?re now wondering if the static analysis tool sees the 3.1.x API call in our app, notices that it runs on 3.0.x devices (that don?t support the new APIs), and flags or rejects it as a result. This would actually make sense! The only problem is that the tool appears to be ignoring the code where we check the device version before making that call, and that may be the nuance that?s causing all of our delays.

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Aqua Connect intros hosted Mac terminal services

Aqua Connect and Ashbourne Technology Group have announced a new partnership designed to provide hos...

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Battery Infocenter + Alarm for iPhone updated
with customizable Alarm

BroadbentApps has released Battery Infocenter + Alarm 1.2, an update to their battery utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. Version 1.2 of Battery Infocenter + Alarm adds the ability to customize the Charge Alarm, which allows the user to get notified when their devices battery has reached a desired charge-level. The added options include the ability to set at what charge-level the alarm should be played and unique to any battery application currently available on the App Store.

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