As we mentioned in a previous post, StarCraft 2 : Wings of Liberty is one of the most anticipated PC games of this year. According to various reviews floating around the net and from my own experience after playing the game for several hours, it looks like Blizzard had delivered yet another great Real Time Strategy (RTS) title. No matter how great the game was, it did not escape the eyes of pirates – SC2 was leaked on scene topsites and various file sharing sites on the street date itself (the...

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Looking for even more productivity on your iPad? MindMeister has released an iPad version of their collaborative mind mapping application, allowing iPad users to mind map locally and sync with the web version to share ideas with others. We've mentioned MindMeister before, and they were part of our suggestions for mind mapping on the iPhone, but ever since the dawn of the iPad, I've been waiting for it to come to the big screen!

MindMeister on the iPad may not be the most complete mind mapping application available for the iPad, at least as far as bells and whistles. It does its job well, though, and the synchronization with the web version is a huge selling point, at least for me. The web version is my favorite online mind mapping tool, with its real-time collaboration features and very useful integration with external web services. Being able to update and edit my online maps from my iPad is very exciting, indeed.

If you're a mind mapper, or someone who's looking for a new way to share ideas and collaborate with friends and co-workers, definitely check this app out ($7.99US on the App Store). There's a version for the iPhone ($6.99US), and a companion iPhone app for sending quick notes to your maps instantly, called Geistesblitz (free), too. The app functions fine on its own, but really shines when combined with the web version. The Basic plan for the web app is free with 3 maps at a time, and you can get unlimited maps for $59US a year. Check out the pricing plans at the MindMeister website.

TUAWMindMeister comes to the iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It was earlier this week that Jeff Bezos, father of the Kindle and CEO of Amazon was saying that "A color screen doesn't make an Ernest Hemingway novel any better."

True enough -- the Kindle has a beautiful sharp screen that is a pleasure to gaze at. Not all books, however, are Hemingways, and we're starting to see so-called multimedia titles showing up in the Apple iBooks Store.

One example is the 'Enhanced Edition' of Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein, a chronicle of our 37th President. The book contains the full text of the book first published in 2008. It also includes 27 videos of the former President and newsreels that put those turbulent years into perspective.

TUAWiBooks Store adding increasing number of multimedia titles originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nowadays with the rise and more widespread of Internet usage, the people trying to create a web site have also increased substantially. Microsoft have released a free, lightweight web development solution called WebMatrix to help users in building the web site. WebMatrix is a web development tool which includes features that streamline web site development. [...]

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If you're a card-carrying iOS developer, trot on over to the developer page and grab the latest beta of iOS 4.1. As everyone is reporting, it's been about two weeks since 4.1 Beta 1 crash-landed, so maybe we're just a couple of weeks away from a release for the rest of us? That'd be nice, considering some iOS 4 woes on older iPhones, among other outstanding issues. If anything notable turns up, we'll let you know.

[thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

TUAWDevelopers: iOS 4.1 Beta 2 is now available originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The wire services and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that the Citi Mobile app that Citibank offered to customers has a security flaw, and that it saved personal account information in a hidden file on users' iPhones. Our own Mike Rose reports that he got one of Citi's letters to customers warning them about the security issue.

The information saved on the iPhones included account numbers, bill payment information, and even security access codes. If customers synced their phones to a Mac or PC that information would also be on those computers and could theoretically be accessible by hackers.

"We have no reason to believe that our customers' personal information has been accessed or used inappropriately by anyone," Citi said.

The newest version of the Citi app is online and is listed as a 'mandatory' update for customers.

TUAWCitibank says iPhone app has security flaw originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The global leader in digital media and digital convergence technology, Samsung Electronics has unveiled two new DualView cameras which are named as ST600 and ST100. The two stylish design DualView cameras have been featured with full-range of smart and easy-to-use features as well as Samsung’s revolutionary dual LCD technology. As compared to its predecessors, the [...]

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AT&T has announced the upcoming launch of new Sharp FX, which the corporation claims as the first Sharp-branded quick messaging phone in AT&T portfolio, featuring AT&T Mobile TV support, 3.0″ full touchscreen display, Bluetooth 2.1, and slide-out full QWERTY keyboard for quicker typing experience, seems perfect for teenagers who put text messaging as the central [...]

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Blackcats-Games (or BCG), is without a doubt one of the most talked about torrent sites in the BitTorrent community. It’s probably the most popular specialized games tracker on the planet, with more than 12500 games torrent in its index. Additionally, BCG is set to celebrate its 7th birthday this August making it one of the oldest private trackers in existence. Blackcats is a private tracker and it hasn’t had an open signup in more than two years – the only way into the site has been through...

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Have I mentioned how much I adore Xcode 4? I would marry it, bear its children and clean up after it -- that's how much I love it. But Xcode 4 hasn't been readily available for general use. Until now.

As of this evening, you can download Xcode 4 Preview 2 and throw yourself into it's exuberant yum. At least you can if you're a member of one of the paid developer programs. Yes, all that Xcode 4 goodness is now yours to enjoy, whether you went to WWDC or not.

So point your browser over to Apple's developer site, log in with your Mac or iPhone paid developer credentials, and download yourself a big hot steaming pile of IDE yum. It's like the chocolate lava volcano cake of development tools.

Thanks, Luke Rhodes

TUAWXcode 4 Preview 2 available for download originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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