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Review: Perfectly Clear for iPhone
This image-correction app is best for photos that you want to look as clean and clear as possible. In most cases, a quick run through Perfectly Clear should leave you pleased with the result.
Apple's Schiller talks App Store, approval process
In an interview with BusinessWeek, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller discusses the App Store, its controversy-laden approval process, and what it's doing to improve matters.
Skip the crowds: Online shopping tips for Black Friday
PC World talks to three bargain-hunting experts about how online shoppers can score great deals on the day after Thanksgiving.
Report: Microsoft may pay News Corp. to delist from Google
Microsoft has held talks with News Corp. about paying the company to remove its news Web sites from Google's search listings.
Third iPhone worm targets jailbroken iPhones in Europe, Australia
Another iPhone worm is targeting jailbroken iPhones throughout Europe and elsewhere. Like its predecessors, it takes advantage of default passwords.
Twitter turns on geolocation functionality
Twitter has turned on its geotagging functionality for external applications.
Cloud Engines updates Pogoplug media sharing device
On Friday, Cloud Engines introduced the second generation of its Pogoplug multimedia sharing device. The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home or small office network and let you access and share content of USB hard drives over the Internet using a standard Web browser.
Google's Chrome OS stands to make waves
Google's Chrome OS may be a year away from shipping, but the potent mixture of one of tech's most prominent companies and the mostly stagnant OS market is worth watching.
Review: Photo geotagging apps for iPhone
Geotagging -- adding data to a photo that reveals the location it was taken -- brings a new dimension to enjoying and sharing photography. Several apps let you start tagging your photos with GPS data. We'll help you find the one that's right for your needs.
Yahoo's search news shortcuts gain 'tweets,' videos, photos
Yahoo has enhanced the news "shortcuts" it displays in Web search result pages.
Agile Web Solutions releases 1Password 3
After two private betas and a public beta, the well-received Mac OS X password manager 1Password 3 has been officially released.
Review: Quip for iPhone
This app aims to let you send pictures with text messages to your friends' cell phones a la MMS, only without the texting charges. But Quip doesn't offer iPod touch support, and it has a number of flaws that make it a poor choice for most iPhone users.
Slideshow: CatPaint got your iPhone?
The newly-released CatPaint iPhone app makes a simple promise: to let you insert cats in your photos. But does it deliver? Macworld editors put the application to the test.
CatPaint iPhone app adds cats to any photo
CatPaint lets you add cats to your photos. For some reason.
Red Giant Software releases Holomatrix
New After Effects plug-in gives your footage that sci-fi look.
Copy music off your iPod
There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools.
Photo Essentials 3 plug-in released for Photoshop Elements
The new suite adds easy-to-use tools for correcting images, removing backgrounds, and applying artistic effects to your photos.
SSL flaw could have been used to hack Twitter
A researcher has shown how to hack Twitter using a previously disclosed bug in SSL.
Open minimized windows in current space in Snow Leopard
Learn a simple keyboard shortcut to release minimized windows into the active Space, instead of back into their original Space.
Review: WritePad Pro for iPhone
Apart from some quibbles and a few trade-offs, the feature-rich WritePad Pro is a very fine personal organizational tool.
Palm updates WebOS -- without iTunes sync
iTunes syncing is conspicuously absent from the latest update to Palm's WebOS, signaling a possible end to the back-and-forth between Palm and Apple.
Google Voice acquires VoIP purveyor Gizmo5
Google Voice moves to provide full phone service with the acquisition of Internet phone provider Gizmo5.
YouTube adds 1080p HD
YouTube announced that it will allow users to upload and view video in full HD. The company plans to re-encode previously uploaded 1080p material so that viewers will be able to take advantage of its original resolution.
Enable global text replacements in Snow Leopard
In Snow Leopard, text replacement must be enabled on a program by program basis. Use this hint to enable text replacements globally, at least in all programs that support them.
Bugs & Fixes: LaunchBar causes an unexpected surprise
LaunchBar is an application (plus much more) par excellence. But a new feature in LaunchBar 5 has caused a headache for bug-finder Ted Landau.
A look at two Internet-connected printers
Roman Loyola takes a quick look at the Internet features in the HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web and the Lexmark Interact S605 printers.
Storm8 says phone-number lawsuit lacks merit
The company claims legacy code meant to identify iPhones mistakenly used phone numbers instead of device codes.
A practical approach to protecting trade secrets
When you think about security, you probably think about computer viruses and worms. But what about your trade secrets? Here how your company's IT department and lawyers can work together.
Flash flaw puts most sites, users at risk, say researchers
Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe's Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google's Gmail, then launch ilent attacks on visitors to those sites, according to security researchers.
SimplyDisk simplifies custom disk-image creation
SimplyDisk is an easy-to-use utility for creating custom disk images and discs for distributing software and other content.