News headlines

• Newton veteran returns to Apple... to market rumoured tablet?
  

  Tchao’s new title at Apple is Vice President of Product Marketing

• Facebook warns members about rise in '419' scam
  

  Fraudsters pose as Facebook members and ask their friends for money

• Storage site Dropbox releases iPhone app
  

  You can also access your files through an online Web interface

• iTunes LIVE from Glasgow with Echo & the Bunnymen announced
  

  Free live set, tickets available to competition winners, will feature tracks from their forthcoming album

• Jiggler 1.4 adds Snow Leopard compatibility, keeps Mac from falling asleep
  

  Jiggler runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC Macs.

• Autodesk suit could affect secondary software sales
  

  A dispute over secondhand sales of Autocad continues

• Wi-Fi group launches full 11n certification
  

  The Wi-Fi Alliance is also working on a device-to-device specification for next year

• Boris FX updates Boris Continuum Complete 6
  

  The update also improves integration with Apple's Motion

• Apple's iPhone on O2, Orange or Vodafone: Which operator has the best 3G coverage?
  

  3G coverage maps coverage maps could be a deciding factor for many

• TeamViewer offers new collaboration tools for Mac
  

  TeamViewer V4 is also available free for private, non-commercial use

• 'Shameful': BPI hits out at BT over inaction over filesharers
  

  BPI claims BT is slow to act on 100,000 suspected illegal filesharers

• Pirate Bay lay judge deemed to be biased
  

  The judge's involvement in the streaming music service Spotify is not acceptable

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Blogs

>> Tue, 29 Sep 2009

Sennheiser gets creative with headphone design contest

Leading Hi-fi specialist Sennheiser has introduced a competition to celebrate the worldwide release of the new HD 400 headphone range. Rather than simply pluck names from a digital hat or think of a catchy phrase to sum up the new models, Sennheiser wants you to design your very own HD 418 closed-back circumaural stereo headphones.

>> Mon, 28 Sep 2009

Apple, Wacom: How not to recycle packaging

Earlier today, on a trip to pay some bills and make a doctor's appointment, I somehow ended up spending £100 on a James Bond 'The Ultimate Editions 007 Attache Case.' It wasn't the 22 films across 44 discs that sprung it, but having a rather nice case to keep them all in. While I'd probably happily make do with just the Roger Moore films of my youth, packaging can still be persuasive and enticing even in a sometimes throw away world.

>> Fri, 25 Sep 2009

0870 iPhone app finally available after 429 day approval process

An 0870 iPhone application, which could save canny callers money on premium phone calls, has been made available on the iTunes App Store after a staggering 429 day approval process.

>> Thu, 24 Sep 2009

Designer Zune at least looks cool

If you must buy a Zune, Microsoft's answer to Apple's phenomenal iPod, and let's face it that might be difficult outside the US, how about this stylish model from character design/illustration guru Junichi Tsuneoka, aka Stubborn Sideburn.

>> Wed, 23 Sep 2009

Monster tackles in-ear headphone shortcomings with Turbine Pro speakers

Are in-ear headphones, like the ones bundled with iPods, always a compromise in sound? Having worked my way through several dozen pairs over the years, from no frills pound shop 'bargains' to over-priced but sonically seducing big brands, I'm still drawn to traditional over-the-ear headphones. While you might look a bit of a prat wearing them on the bus, and the open-back design of choice bleeds sound, nothing compares to the clarity and listener focus of big headphones.

>> Tue, 22 Sep 2009

Creative Profiles - Middle Boop - Why Macs matter to designers

As Middle Boop, Gordon Reid is both a designer and blogger with a love for music. With record labels 4AD, Bella Union and Mille Plateaux, and bands Deerhunter, 65daysofstatic, Of Montreal and Dan Deacon as clients, Reid is also a keen Mac user and enthusiast. Macworld caught up with the man behind Middle Boop to discover why Macs are, in the main, the choice of creatives.

>> Mon, 21 Sep 2009

Lakeside Apple Store iPod showed porn claims mother

A mother was reportedly left furious when her young daughter picked up an iPod in an Apple Store showing a video of a couple having sex.

My OS X shameful secret

If “Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread”, as Alexander Pope purported 300 years ago in his poem An Essay on Criticism, then many Mac users are surely idiots and most Windows users are the blessed.

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