Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , iPhone When the latest G-Map app covering navigation in the U.S. and Canada it had text to speech, which didn’t make owners of the older East and West [iTunes store links for each] versions too happy

Remember the ‘There’s a map for that’ ad from Verizon where the carrier claims that they have five times more 3G coverage than AT&T? AT&T is not happy with the way their network coverage has been portrayed in the ad and has now filed a lawsuit against Verizon for what…

Sure, I could write a whole How-To on rolling your own “Back To My Mac.” It involves port forwarding, obtaining a Dynamic DNS, blah blah blah. Or you could use the iPhone app LogMeIn Ignition [iTunes Link] to remotely access to your Mac or PC in three steps. First, sign up for LogMeIn free and download the

Filed under: Multimedia , Software QuickTime was one of the few apps which changed significantly in Snow Leopard. We’ve heard from some readers who missed the initial reports about it, so we’re repeating it here, with some additional QuickTime information

This app, which provides a quick, easy way to share audio recordings on the Internet, shows a lot of potential. Recording and publishing is a snap, but more robust in-app browsing is needed

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Steve Jobs Forbes Fortune bestowed a significant honor on Steve Jobs today, naming him their CEO of the Decade . Fortune outlines the incredible leaps in business, technology and industry Apple has made since Steve’s return. For anyone who might not remember, the 90’s were not kind to Apple and nearly everyone thought the company was finished

In September when iPhone OS 3.1 was released, Apple also introduced an App management feature for iTunes, which let you manage iPhone apps on your iPhone Home Screens directly from iTunes. One of the issues with this iPhone app management feature was that it only displayed the 180 iPhone apps…

If you liked Wednesday’s interview with Apple ad man Ken Segall, just wait until you see what we’ve got coming next week. We have an exclusive interview with one of the top people in the Apple story. I’d say they were number 3: the third most influential person in Apple’s history

Filed under: OS , Software , Odds and ends From time to time we have shared hidden settings in applications which can be used to “tweak” an app’s behavior, such as forcing Snow Leopard’s dictionary to reuse the same window or make the print dialog expanded by default . These settings are normally changed using the Terminal.app which can be daunting to some. Secrets is a (free!) preference panel which has collected a bunch of these settings and made changing them as simple as checking a box or choosing from a drop-down panel of possible choices

After a tumultuous few months, Apple and Orange have finally decided to break their exclusive partnership in France. This follows a December 2008 ruling by France’s competition authority that the exclusive partnership was against healthy competition in the segment

In the last ten years, Steve Jobs has revolutionized several industries, including music and cell phones—so it’s easy to understand why Fortune has named him CEO of the decade.

Apple today opened the first of a series of stores planned for Paris. The first, located near the famous Louvre art museum, coincided with the release of the Musee du Louvre iPhone app showcasing among other exhibits, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. The Paris store, first reported in 2008, includes a 7,700-square foot two-story layout with

Filed under: Multimedia , Software Just in case you were waiting for the stop-motion app on your hard drive to be compatible before switching to Snow Leopard , you can stop waiting — even if you’re using some other program to do stop motion, iStopMotion is the best and brightest, and with the brand new update to version 2.1, it’s completely compatible with the newest version of OS X. OK, you probably weren’t waiting for this upgrade to bring the OS up to date, but hey, Snow Leopard compatibility is a nice selling point with any app. This upgrade also includes the ability to put markers (with their own name, color, and description) in the timeline of your video, as well as a full Japanese localization, to go along with the English, German, and French already in there