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Changing the Default Audio Quality for Bluetooth Headphones on a Mac : So, I grew tired of dealing with wires when listening to music at my desk and purchased these Sony bluetooth headphones . It turns out, however, that OS X defaults to low-quality audio for bluetooth headsets and headphones. But that’s simply a default, and it can be changed. To increase the quality, it’s as easy as entering this in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent “Apple Bitpool Min (editable)” 50 or defaults write com.apple.BluetoothAudioAgent “Apple Bitpool Min (editable)” 40 I entered the second of the two. Sound quality is excellent now. … Read the rest here

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Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of Today’s Event : I recall the last time we were able to watch a live-video Apple event. I believe it was for the launch of Newton back in 1994. On a serious note, this will be a first for everyone: The ability to watch it live with an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. /via Daring Fireball … Read the rest here

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jQuery Retina Display Plugin : Troy Mcilvena: The jQuery Retina Display plugin will substitute high resolution versions of your images (if they exist) for high resolution displays (such as iPhone 4) only. This plugins requires no client-side changes, other than the inclusion and initialisation of this plugin. If the 2x image doesn’t exist, the standard resolution image is displayed. Try the demo on your iPhone 4 and switch between the hi-res and low-res images. Here’s the shortened URL: http://drp.ly/1BNu3R … Read the rest here

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‘The Big Picture’ App for iPad and iPhone : My favorite photoblog, The Big Picture , now has universal app for iPad and iPhone. It’s version 2.0, which tells me the iPhone version has probably been out for some time and I didn’t even know it. The two elements that have made The Big Picture a success over other photoblogs are the supersized photos and the inline placement of those photos, forgoing the traditional paginated view (which usually makes advertisers happier). With the iPad app, you get big photos but you lose the inline placement and the ability to quickly scan through all images. Instead, you have to swipe to the next photo — a very conventional interaction on iPad, but an interaction that counters what has made The Big Picture such a hit. At the very least, I’d like to see an option that allows me to see all of the photos at once, e.g. … Read the rest here

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iPhone 4 GUI PSD (Retina Display) : Not sure how I missed this news (dated August 12). This is the Retina Display-ready update to the original iPhone GUI PSD by Teehan+Lax. The task was no small effort: It wasn’t a simple scale-up from the last file. It was clear as we created it that Apple has spent a lot of time considering how each element should be translated to such a dense resolution. What were single pixel elements are now two or three pixels thick and effects are exaggerated to become visible. For anyone designing for the retina display (640×960) it really is quite a different experience. … Read the rest here

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iPad Gripe Session : Khoi Vinh: As a gesture to invoke the Undo command, shaking a handheld device the size of an iPhone is clever and workable. Shaking a much larger device like the iPad is awkward at best and violates one infrequently violated but nevertheless important law of good user interface design: don’t force the user to look like a fool [original euphemism deleted in deference to British sensitivities] in order to use any given feature. … Read the rest here

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Vimeo Releases Embeddable HTML5 Video Player : Adrianne Jeffries, writing for ReadWriteWeb: Vimeo is releasing a ‘universal player’ today that allows user to watch embedded Vimeo videos on mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad using the video playback capability built into the new HTML5 standard. Vimeo will deliver the optimal player — Flash, HMTL5 or native — based on a user’s browser, as well as the appropriate video definition (HD, SD, mobile) and compression standard (H.264 or WebM, an open format developed for use with HTML5). Also announced is an Instapaper -style feature: Vimeo also announced a ‘watch later’ button today that will cue videos up in a playlist for users to catch up on when they get home from work. The ‘watch later’ feature is also cued up to be added to Vimeo’s Application Programming Interface, or API. … Read the rest here

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Tempus Fugit : Former office mate Rob Foster, describing a task management system he’s been proving for several years: Here’s where this system really diverges with the others. Those systems rely on review. You have to refer to them throughout the day as you do things. Some of them are time-based and have date-related features but still require you to go back to them to adjust the system, close things, etc. They require MANAGEMENT. … Read the rest here

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Angry Birds Sells 6.5 Million Units, Earns $4.5 Million in Revenue : I’ve contributed $5 to that pile of cash. Who knew a few birds, some pigs, and a slingshot could be so much fun? Clearly, the game’s developer, Helsinki-based Rovio, knew it could be. … Read the rest here

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Camera Phone Lenses : Detachable magnetic ring affixed to your phone accepts the macro/wide angle lens or fisheye lens. Brilliant. … Read the rest here

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Sieveking Headphone Stand : €99 for a wooden headphone stand? Totally. … Read the rest here

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The Incident : In their own words: “… a fast-paced, retro-style action game”. I can confirm this 8-bit iPhone game is fun, addictive, has great chiptunes, and is easy to play. … Read the rest here

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Phone Wallpaper by Kate Bingaman-Burt : For iPhone 4 and non-iPhone 4. Not your typical wallpaper. Originally created for the covers of Kate’s magazines , which contain “daily drawings of crud that I buy.” … Read the rest here

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Dunk - The Dribbble feed viewer : I’ll do my best not to make this website a repeat of Dribbble news, but… makers of one of my favorite apps for the iPhone ( Outside ) have just launched the first Dribbble iOS app. Dunk is a beautifully-designed feed viewer for Dribbble shots, tags and players. Really looking forward to seeing more from the Robocat folks (and other app crafters!) as our API matures.  … Read the rest here

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Penultimate : Giving this sketchbook app a spin on the iPad. Hoping it helps me use it more. I’m finding that having an iPhone and a Macbook Pro has me pretty well covered. Waiting for a breakthrough moment with the iPad that goes beyond having yet another device to check email, web, Twitter, etc. … Read the rest here

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On Publishing : Elliott Jay Stocks: Right now, in an age of print-on-demand for real-world publication and iPads / iPhones / Kindles for virtual publication, it would — on the face of it — seem unwise to launch a magazine like 8 Faces, especially as it’s targeted at such a niche audience. As I said in the introduction of the magazine, “everything about this project shouldn’t work.” But it has, and it’s done so in a bigger way than I ever would’ve imagined. I’m saddened I won’t see a physical copy of issue #1, as I was out of the office the day it was released. (The issue sold out within two hours that day.) Related, see my thoughts on self-publishing . … Read the rest here

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Sennheiser MKE 400 Mini Shotgun Microphone : I own the RODE VideoMic , but the Sennheiser looks like it’s literally half the size. The all-metal construction is a plus over the RODE’s (nearly) all-plastic construction. … Read the rest here

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Stanford University: iPhone Application Development (iTunes) : If you’re interested in teaching yourself how to develop for iPhone, this might be the ideal resource. Includes videos and presentation slides, all free of charge. And the “professors” are Apple employees Alan Cannistraro and Josh Shaffer. Don’t know Objective-C? Start following Dan Walker’s series of articles, the first titled “ Learn Objective-C: Day 1 ”. … Read the rest here

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Gramercy iPad Messenger Sling : Stylish, portable, all-in-one storage for iPad, iPhone, digital camera, shades, and more. … Read the rest here

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Camera+ for iPhone: $253,000 in First-Month Sales : tap tap tap’s Camera+ , which sells for $1.99 in the App Store, sold 217,000 copies in its first month. That’s a quarter-million dollars in one month of sales for an app that sells for two bucks. Is it surprising to anyone that, right now, any mobile platform other than iOS is “ largely out of the consciousness of your average developer ”? BTW, the article, written by founder John Casasanta, contains lots of good advice for those hoping to accomplish the same as tap tap tap. … Read the rest here