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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, this summer has been HOT. Blazing hot, steaming, scorching, and that’s before we even get into the weather. Yes, friends, Apple as a company has had just a tremendous year and a killer of a summer. All of which is winding up for what? If you said a dynamite fall, you are on the money, honey. And if you don’t even know what I’m talking about, here’s a few clues, because there’s no “in case” about it, you definitely missed it.

Features:

- The Perfect Apple Dorm Setup for Under $1,000 – File this one under: you’ll love us for it. Getting that dorm room ready for fall semester can sometimes seem like a tedious process. Yes, you really do need a clothes iron and a laundry basket and hangers. But you know what else you can do? Hook up the sweetest Apple-centric dorm room for under a grand. Now you’re cookin!

- Plugged In: A Guide to Mini DisplayPort Connections – Oh yeah, we went there: the sexy, sexy world of Mini DisplayPort connections in all their sensuous cabley hawtness. Okay, okay, maybe it’s not Apple’s most sizzling development, but the Mini DisplayPort is the unsung hero of many things Mac, and you should respect, people. Respect.

Reviews:

- 2.3GHz Core i5 Mac Mini & 1.6GHz Core i5 MacBook Air Review – So, Apple likes killing off old stuff, and this year was no exception as the faithful friend, the MacBook, took a dive. Don’t worry, you still have your MacBook Pros and your MacBook Airs. Apple just decided, as always, that it was time to put the laptops on a diet and start slimming things down. And it looks like they did the same with the latest Mac Mini, as the ongoing push against physical media kicks it up a  notch.

- Notesy for Dropbox Review – The iPad is great for sitting down and dashing off a few ideas that you’ll want to really work over on your desktop, but ah nuts, ya left it at home and now what? Well, Pages might be pretty sweet, but if you forget to email yourself your copies, well, you’re still out of luck. While Notesy for Dropbox gives you easy access to your documents wherever you go.

How-Tos:

- How To Fix a Mac That Won’t Wake Up – Turns out a few of these new Lions are a bit on the lazy side. As in, they get themselves a good night’s rest, but then they don’t want to wake back up again. At all. Fear not, it’s just a few little things you need to tweak to get your big cat back up and purring again.

- How To Manage Address Groups in iOS – Boy, wouldn’t it be nice if there were contract grouping of email addresses in iOS? That’d definitely make our lives a little easier than all the sitting there, typing part of the name, tapping the right name, typing part of the second person’s name, tapping the right choice there, typing part of the third person’s name — and oh my god make it stop! Luckily, There’s an App for That rides to the rescue again.

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If you lived under a rock, then you didn’t hear about Google Wallet, which was everywhere online and you can just tell it’s one of those Google offerings that isn’t going to Buzz or Wave itself away. But what the heck else happened this week? Well, we’ll tell you all the questions you’ve been too embarrassed to ask about HTML5, we’ll teach you how to get your mitts on some Spotify love, and we’ll show you the strangest game you never knew you needed, like yesterday.

Features:

- What is HTML5? – Savvy computer users have been hearing much about HTML5 bandied about whether from Steve Jobs or in conversations about Flash. Sure, we get that HTML and its cousin XML pretty much power the whole entire web, but what exactly do they do — and how is HTML5 all that different from previous generations?

- Google Wallet Leaps Into Mobile Payments, Offers – We read a lot of tech journals and social media sites, and there was no story we saw so consistently across the board quite like that of Google Wallet. It was everywhere, videos of people buying Cokes from vending machines, lawsuits, NFC chips and on and on. Even Apple’s supposedly getting into this game. Looks like their former BFF beat them to it.

How-Tos:

- How to Minimize Windows to an Application’s Dock Icon – One thing it took time to adjust to switching from a PC to a Mac was minimizing programs to a handy stack. Apple just kept piling them up and pretty soon our dock got crowded. We missed the stack of windows of all the Word documents we had open. With Snow Leopard, all that changed.

- How To Access Spotify From the US – So bad it’s good. There’s really no reason we shouldn’t share this work around with you. Intransigent record labels will cut their noses off to spite their faces as their Business Model before they’ll embrace anything new online. And so, Spotify, one of the most popular music streaming services on the planet, remains unavailable stateside. Unless you know how to set up a proxy server — and guess who does? Your good friends at Mac|Life, and soon, you too.

Reviews:

- 20 Killer Mac Apps Under $20 – The iOS App Store has changed everything, even how you will buy software on your desktop. And you know how sometimes you Google articles to find the best Twitter client or other software? Consider this your starter for the best choices on the Mac App Store.

- Pulse: Volume One Review – We love a good mystery here at Mac|Life and if you can marry it to an addictive app that doesn’t even really come with instructions, well, then you’ve got our attention. Pulse is just such an app, a game so simple, so different, so curiously not in the realm of other games that we can only say “go get it. Now.”

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It was a big week for app sales and for a few chairs being shuffled around on the tech deck. What’d you think of Microsoft buying up Skype? Did you sign up for Google Music Beta yet? We possibly end the backpack versus messenger bag debate for all time, and other juicy little tidbits, in case you missed it.

Features:

- Microsoft to Fork Over $8.5 Billion for Skype Acquisition – Of course, the biggest news of the week was that Microsoft picked up Skype for a cool $8.5 billion, so if you’re dead set against ever having anything to do with Redmond, than may we suggest a few alternatives to MicroSkype.

- 10 Coolest Keyboard Shortcuts You Never Knew About – We think this just might be one of our most shared stories in the history of ever, proving that Macnerds are keyboard shortcut cuh-razy. Who doesn’t love a quick CTRL + quickie to keep themselves on task and moving the ball forward? We can’t name anyone.

- How To Plan and Enhance Your Vacation with the iPhone – Summer’s coming up. Whatcha doing, huh? Huh? Huh? Gotta plan? Know where you’re going? Know where you’re staying? Know what you’re going to do when you get there? These are all basic vacation questions, and guess what? They’re all ones your iPhone can answer for you.

How-Tos:

- How to Stop Annoying Auto Corrections on the iPhone – Oh, how users love the autocorrect feature on their iOS devices. So much so, they even went and made a website dedicated to their love. Unfortunately, you can’t please everyone, so into the breach we step with a handy tip that will stop you forever from typing “he will yeah” on your device.

- How to Remove Facebook Comments, Block Posts, and Remove Game Requests – Don’t you just love all those Farmville announcements that started turning up in your Facebook feed ever since your mom got on it? No? Well, what about all those “commented on” miniposts on your own particular page on Facebook? Don’t love those either? What? What the heck’s wrong with you? Okay, okay,we hear you. You like a nice clean, practical Facebook life sans distractions. Well, have we ever got the set up for you.

Reviews:

- Booq Cobra Courier M Bag Review – The debate continues to rage on. Which seals the deal? A backpack or a messenger bag? Some go one route, some the other. We’re of two minds. Sometimes we really love our messenger bags, and sometimes we want something with the pockets and storage of our backpack. Booq tries to settle the debate at last with this amazing messenger bag and we’re loving it.

- iWow 3D Audio Enhancer Review – Is it your speakers, your bit rate, or is it just the sound quality that the iPod puts out? Another debate for the ages, much like the messenger bag versus backpack one. Well, if you’re a lossless devotee and feel the problem’s got to be in the device, have we got a hot tip for you. SRS Labs hopes to prove you right with iWow 3D, a sound boosting dongle that kicks butt. Usually.

News:

Kinda big news for jailbreakers, sure to change the way tethering apps run. If you’re like some of us, you’ve jailbroken your iPhone to tether your iPad or laptop or other device to it. For a while AT&T has been texting heavy illicit tetherers, but no one knew how. Now we do…another reason people jailbreak? The customizability options. And while Apple won’t let you go whole hog like some jailbreaks do, they at least let you add wallpapers now, and here’s a gallery of beauts…of course, you can get a lot more customization action were you on an Android phone, something we’re sure the groom brings up all the time, possibly even at this Android Marries iOS royal wedding…they probably even mentioned it at the Google I/O event…and while in the real world there’s not much love lost between Apple and Google, the old BFFs were up to Capitol Hill this past week to talk a little about some tracking data issues you may have heard something about…speaking of your personal data and security, did you know Facebook’s had a huge glaring flaw that’s given advertisers an in to your personal data? Well, now you do…on the flawed security risk tip, we now have Adobe’s latest Flash Player…and from the legal side of things, it appears that a judge found Kodak’s case against Apple somewhat compelling, ruling in favor of the company that Apple’s digital camera technology is a wee bit too much like their own.

Apps were pretty busy this week as EA let users vote on which of their games they’d like to see go on sale…and sales are everywhere this weekend, so jump on these discounted apps while the getting’s good…always free, always open to the public, PBS KIDS Video for the iPad showed up this week, brining more Elmo than you can shake a stick at to your tablet…also free? These five weather apps that help you stay dry and upwind….and since saving you Benjamins is what we’re all about, here’s one that can pay off in just a couple weeks; that’s right, we’re talking apps that get you the best deal on gas and help boost your fuel economy…and bringing us full circle, Google plans to open up their beta music cloud to all users for free, letting you store and play 20,000 songs from the could.

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Apple iPad Smart Cover: A New Kind of Case
Apple’s iPad Smart Cover, announced alongside the iPad 2, might just be the device’s best new feature.

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We got our hands on a Verizon iPhone this week, boy did we, and we put it through its paces, but good. And that’s not all that happened this week and you know what else we did? Yes, you do. We rounded up all the news you’re just dying to know about just in case you missed it.

Features:

- Palm Strikes Back: HP Unveils a Trio of New webOS devices – At last. We knew that there was something going to come out of HP snapping up Palm and their webOS, and good for them too. The more players we have on the field, the likelier we are to foster competition and ideas. Sure, Palm failed to deliver, hardware-wise, on the promise that the software imagined, but we’re sure HP is up to the task. And with three devices arriving soon, we expect smart new thinking.

- Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: The PlayStation Arrives on a Phone – Playstation on a phone? Well, what did you expect? It was only a matter of time. Convergence is where it’s at and if you like mobile devices, you want to carry just one, one device to bind them. Sony decided to see if they could snare some of that lucrative mobile market by getting a little chocolate — we mean phone — in their PS3 peanut butter. Will it work? Hmmm.

How-Tos:

- How to Secure Flash Drive Files with Disk Utility – While optical drives are slowly dying, flash drives, thumb drives, jump drives, call them what you will, are here for a while yet — dash the cloud! And yes, you have a lot of important data there on your bite sized bit of computing. Any tips on securing it Mac-style? Why, yes, yes there is.

- How To Set Up a Cross-Platform To-Do List with Google Tasks – If you’re a power user, skip this, because you want all kinds of tweaks and settings and availability and so on. If you just want a list you jot on a post-it and stick to your iPhone’s screen, this is clearly not for you either. But if you want something that’s going to hook you up with mobile and desktop and gadget based to-do action, Google Tasks has that kind of flexibility.

Reviews:

- Time Geeks Review – It looks like a game from yesteryear but plays like a game from tomorrow. Time Geeks has the chops to keep you at it for weeks and weeks, but when you first get started it’ll remind you of classic Donkey Kong, when Mario was nothing but a blocky blob climbing a ladder.

- The Daily Review – It’s been hyped and discussed out the ying-yang, the iPad’s very first periodical with subscription model and so forth, and that’s all fine and good. How does it look and feel? Well, in a word, gorgeous, but we’re talking about the first in the next generation of digital magazines. What’s inside? That’s what matters. Well, we are talking about Rupert Murdoch here…

News:

We don’t know. After the Verizon iPhone dropped and a certain double-hockey-sticks kinda place froze over, did anything else happen? Well, let’s see… Sony decided that they’d try to play tough guy after their ebook reader got dumped by the App Store by threatening to pull all their music from iTunes but we’ll believe it when it happens…meanwhile, we’re far more stoked about was is coming the App Store, meaning Double Dragon, the NES classic butt-kicking times two…what we’d like to see coming to the iPhone itself is what tons of people want, some kind of management the notification system with its gazillion pop ups and piled stack…while we wait on that, let’s hope we can beat your scores on the literal scores of games out there on sale today and not just from bedroom developers but from gamimg giants….you know what is coming to stores, and we mean brick’n'mortar? More Apple laptops and fewer of most other guys’…meanwhile, what we don’t ever want to see in any stores? this particular jailbreak that coughs up all your iPhone’s passwords…and remember what we said about Sony getting more into phones? Well, this where it’s going, folks…speaking of bringing it to the App Store, how ’bout the 90’s classic, Marathon? Yeah, we thought you’d dig that.

And the adventures of our own Nic Vargus started with live updates and you were on the edge of your seats….then we went to the amazing unboxing adventure….then it was time to test that baby out and we went straight to the speed action with an AT&T v. Verizon showdown…then we were right up in the mobile hotspot action because we’ve had a serious case of lust for this feature since day one…and even though we sent our intrepid Nic and Ray tag team duo to wait in line, the Verizon launch didn’t quite have the same fan appreciation as does the usual new handset launch; we’ll see what happens come June when the iPhone 5 drops — on  both networks.

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In this video I review the PDAir leather case and compare it to the Apple iPad case.

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• Perfect for Carrying to Work or Traveling
• Secure flap to ensure ipad is safe when loaded into the pouch

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Leather Carrying Case Cover/Folio With Built-in Stand for Apple iPad 3G tablet / Wifi model 16GB, 32GB, 64GB

• Soft microfiber interior
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