This week in Apple: Gambling, DRM, and App Store drama
As winter trudges on for most of us in the US, the world of Apple keeps on keepin’ on, with news about the new 17″ unibody MacBook Pros, Apple’s iPhone DRM, iPhone Bluetooth communicating with the Mac, and more. If you haven’t kept up, here’s a summary of the top Apple stories from the week.
The case of the App Store ripoff: When is a coincidence a blatant copy, or even an all-out heist? Welcome to the case of the App Store ripoff.
Casino regulators issue alert over iPhone card-counting app: A new iPhone application has Nevada gaming regulators on alert. It counts cards and can give you a felony conviction if used in the state.
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This week in Apple: Gambling, DRM, and App Store drama
As winter trudges on for most of us in the US, the world of Apple keeps on keepin’ on, with news about the new 17″ unibody MacBook Pros, Apple’s iPhone DRM, iPhone Bluetooth communicating with the Mac, and more. If you haven’t kept up, here’s a summary of the top Apple stories from the week.
The case of the App Store ripoff: When is a coincidence a blatant copy, or even an all-out heist? Welcome to the case of the App Store ripoff.
Casino regulators issue alert over iPhone card-counting app: A new iPhone application has Nevada gaming regulators on alert. It counts cards and can give you a felony conviction if used in the state.
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Ars exclusive: Review of Papers for iPhone
A couple of years ago, a Mac OS X application came along and
blew my socks off. I raved about it at the time, and continue to do so just
about every chance I get. That app was Papers, which has done for scientific literature what iTunes did for music files. Now, the company behind Papers, Mekentosj, has
done it again, this time by bringing its killer app to the iPhone in a timely
manner. It doesn’t disappoint.
What made the desktop app so great was the way it took all
the hard parts of maintaining an electronic literature database and hid them,
while at the same time providing a great-looking interface from which to read
papers, search for new ones, and even export them to bibliographic apps. The
iPhone app works in pretty much the same way as the desktop version, bringing
some or all of your desktop library over to your iPhone or iPod touch, along
with the option to search for new articles and so on.
Click here to read the rest of this article
Ars exclusive: Review of Papers for iPhone
A couple of years ago, a Mac OS X application came along and
blew my socks off. I raved about it at the time, and continue to do so just
about every chance I get. That app was Papers, which has done for scientific literature what iTunes did for music files. Now, the company behind Papers, Mekentosj, has
done it again, this time by bringing its killer app to the iPhone in a timely
manner. It doesn’t disappoint.
What made the desktop app so great was the way it took all
the hard parts of maintaining an electronic literature database and hid them,
while at the same time providing a great-looking interface from which to read
papers, search for new ones, and even export them to bibliographic apps. The
iPhone app works in pretty much the same way as the desktop version, bringing
some or all of your desktop library over to your iPhone or iPod touch, along
with the option to search for new articles and so on.
Click here to read the rest of this article
Back to School: Papers updated for the new term
Filed under: Software
TUAW’s going Back to School! We’ll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for a timely app update useful for students.
PDF management app Papers has been bumped to version 1.8.5, bringing what the developers claim are 100 improvements. Top on the list is a new sharing feature called Papers Archives, which lets you share a PDF file and its associated metadata with a colleague.
Papers isn’t for everyone. Instead, it’s specifically designed for students and academics, particularly those who deal with a lot of scientific periodicals in the course of their research. It lets you search them, sort them (manually or using Smart Folders), find them on any one of 14 different online repositories, rate them, browse your library in tabs, and much more.
Papers costs $42 for a single-user license, but students qualify for a 40 per cent discount.
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Back to School: Papers updated for the new term
Filed under: Software
TUAW’s going Back to School! We’ll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for a timely app update useful for students.
PDF management app Papers has been bumped to version 1.8.5, bringing what the developers claim are 100 improvements. Top on the list is a new sharing feature called Papers Archives, which lets you share a PDF file and its associated metadata with a colleague.
Papers isn’t for everyone. Instead, it’s specifically designed for students and academics, particularly those who deal with a lot of scientific periodicals in the course of their research. It lets you search them, sort them (manually or using Smart Folders), find them on any one of 14 different online repositories, rate them, browse your library in tabs, and much more.
Papers costs $42 for a single-user license, but students qualify for a 40 per cent discount.
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