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• Apple stores having 'gravitational pull' on mall shoppers - report - Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray spent six hours this past weekend monitoring traffic at mall-based Apple retail stores and found that the shops exerted a gravitational pull on shoppers who came within 25 feet of the entranceways. AppleInsider
• 'Why Apple Stores won't work' - This easily ranks with Michael Dell's 1997 prognostication Insanely Great Mac
• Piper Jaffray finds ‘gravitational pull’ at Apple Retail Stores - Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray spent six hours this past weekend monitoring traffic... MacDailyNews
• Apple gets ‘Cyber Monday’ boost as Deutsche Bank sees strong demand for Macs, iPods, iPhones - Apple Inc. was trading up 2% after the opening bell. A report from Deutsche Bank noted strong demand... MacDailyNews
• Crowds greet Apple Store Princesshay (Exeter, Devon, UK) grand opening - Apple launched its thirteenth Apple retail store in the UK on Saturday 24 November... MacDailyNews
• Yared: Last chance to buy Apple shares under $175 - Apple Inc. [AAPL] shares have been a home run for investors in this difficult and challenging year... MacDailyNews
• $10M Says Apple Can Use Burst Patents - Apple and Burst finally settled their two-year long patent infringement battle. Apple got a non-exclusive license for Burst's patent portfolio, and Burst got a check for US$10 million. Mac Observer
• Investment bank: Apple stores luring in mall customers - The Piper Jaffray investment bank says Apple retail stores are luring in mall customers. In a note to client Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that, based on the investment bank’s investigations, 27 percent of people walking within 25 feet of an Apple store entrance would enter the store. MacimumNews
• The year in review - As the year draws to a close, it’s time to look back on all that’s happened in the Apple world. John Moltz, of the Crazy Apple Rumors site, examines 2007 and finds that it was pretty much like any other year. Macworld
• Crowds greet Exeter Apple Store opening - Apple opens new store in Exeter, gives away 1,000 T-shirts in under three hours as crowds brave freezing temperatures to visit new temple of the Mac. Macworld UK
  

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Mac Hardware

• THIS DAY IN APPLE HISTORY November 26, 1993: Apple II Finally Discontinued - Apple’s most successful computer wasn’t a Mac, wasn’t even a mouse based machine. It was the Apple II.
  The Apple II was designed by Woz because he simply wanted a (read more) Applematters
• Fuzzy picture for Apple TV - The Internet still isn't the delivery vehicle for TV shows and movies, and that doesn't bode well for a box that Steve Jobs has called a "hobby." C|Net News
• PC Mag: iMac One of "Worst PCs of '07" - A parallel what? Insanely Great Mac
• Should Apple buy AMD? - Everyone benefits or so the story goes... Insanely Great Mac
• What’s wrong with Apple TV? - This has been quite a year for Apple, but Steve Jobs' magic wand doesn't always work... MacDailyNews
• Should Apple buy AMD? - SeekingAlpha blogger "Tech101" gives 10 reasons why Apple should buy AMD... MacDailyNews
• Apple Mac grabs 20% market share of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) education market - Apple continues to build marketshare in the UK education market... MacDailyNews
•  MacOSG: MacBook Seagate hard drives catastrophically failing - If you own a MacBook and all of a sudden it freezes, and/or get a flashing question mark when booting, you may have just lost your hard drive. The drive fails so catastrophically, that even a data recovery service can not retrieve your data. MacimumNews
• Broadcom continues Qualcomm pursuit - A court ruling clears the way for wireless chip maker Broadcom to pursue an injunction against rival Qualcomm over a long-running patent dispute. Macworld UK
• Intel to debut GPU-in-CPU chips in 2009 - PCI Express 2.0 to become the system bus The Register

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OS X & Software

• 10 Ways to Get More Out of Leopard - Apple’s latest and greatest OS, Leopard, is barely a month old, and while the 300 new features may be too much to handle, these 10 tips and tricks will allow (read more) Applematters
• Apple QuickTime exploit published - Exploit code that takes advantage of a security flaw in an Apple QuickTime protocol has been published, putting QuickTime users and installations of iTunes at risk, say security researchers. C|Net News
• Does Leopard reduce a portable's battery-powered working time? - Some users of Mac portables are discovering problems when running the computer on battery power. MacFixIt
• app4mac intros CheckUp for Mac OS X - CheckUp is a new way to monitor the activity of your Apple Macintosh... MacDailyNews
• Unpatched Apple QuickTime bug opens Windows XP, Vista to attack - "Security researchers warn that attack code targeting an unpatched bug in Apple Inc.'s QuickTime... MacDailyNews
• Getting iWork and AppleWorks to Work Together - A reader writes: I recently bought a new iMac, system 10.4, and installed a copy of iWork '08, which contains Apple's current word-processing program, called "Pages." However, it seems that iWork will not open any document written using AppleWorks, the word-processing program which runs on iMac. MacNewsWorld
• Mac OS and Windows Through the Years - The clever gang at Gizmodo set their Wayback Machine so they could compare Apple's Mac OS and Microsoft's Windows interfaces over the years. The visual history starts with Mac OS 7 and Windows 95 and ends with Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows Vista, and shows how both have gone from boxy and basic to translucent eye candy adventures -- and also shows Microsoft's penchant for OS-based advertising. Mac Observer
• EPSQuickLookPlugin Adds EPS Support to Leopard's Quick Look - Eternal Storms Software announced the immediate availability of EPSQuickLookPlugin on Monday. EPSQuickLookPlugin is a plug-in for Mac OS X 10.5 that adds the ability to view EPS images with Quick Look. The plug-in requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, and is available as a free download at the Eternal Storms Software Web site. Mac Observer
• WWAN Network Security - Hot Forum Topic - Today TMO readers are discussing how secure WWAN-based wireless Internet connections are. Mac Observer
  
• HoudahSpot 2 Adds Mac OS X 10.5 Support - Houdah Software's search utility for Mac OS X, HoudahSpot 2.0, is available now and adds support for Apple's new Leopard operating system. In addition to support for Mac OS X 10.5, the new version sports a redesigned interface, unlimited search customization, and Quick Look support. Mac Observer
• Symantec: QuickTime Flaw Poses Security Threat - The security and virus protection software company Symantec is warning that Apple's QuickTime Player application may be open to malicious attacks. According to the company, both QuickTime 7.2 and QuickTime 7.3 are vulnerable to attacks that could lead to denial of service conditions or the execution of unauthorized code on the user's PC. Mac Observer
• app4mac Announces CheckUp Public Beta - app4mac announced on Monday that it is preparing to release a public beta of the new system activity monitoring application CheckUp in December. The utility will let users monitor their Mac's processor activity, memory usage, disk activity, network usage, applications, remote system monitoring and more in real time. Mac Observer
• African Americans will make up 11.8 percent of US Internet users by 2011 - Research and Markets estimates that African Americans will make up 11.8 percent of all US Internet users in 2011, up from 10.8 percent in 2006. MacimumNews
• Christmas countdown widget - Macsimizers, tell Santa now, have you been naughty or nice this year? You know, Dennis has been telling you to ‘be good’ at the end of all his ‘Macsimum News On Demand’ daily (M-F) YouTube videos. Haven’t you been listening? MacimumNews
• Group Logic releases Leopard compatible ExtremeZ-IP products - Group Logic has released ExtremeZ-IP File and Print Server 5.1.1, a product update that delivers compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). MacimumNews
• Tomb Raider Anniversary coming to the Mac - Feral Interactive is bringing Tomb Raider Anniversary to the Mac. It’s a a new action adventure inspired by the original Tomb Raider video game. According to the folks at Feral, the adventure begins when Lara is hired by a powerful syndicate to retrieve a mythical object called the Scion. MacimumNews
• Pangea releases X Pack game bundle - Pangea Software has released The X Pack to celebrate its 20th anniversary. MacimumNews
  
• 36 new countries added to launch2net - nova media has unveiled launch2net 1.6.25, which includes connection settings for additional 36 countries and 84 mobile networks around the globe. MacimumNews
• Eternal Storms releases EPSQuickLookPlugin - Eternal Storms Software today announced the availability of EPSQuickLookPlugin, a free plug-in for the Quick Look in Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) to make previews available for EPS files. MacimumNews
• First Look: Final Cut Express 4 - The newly released Final Cut Express 4 addresses two big events directly: the shift to camcorders that record to high-capacity memory cards, mini-DVDs, or built-in hard disks, and this summer’s release of iMovie ’08. Jeff Carlson takes a first look at the video-editing app and finds more than just an alternative to iMovie ’08 but a missing next step that restores the control enjoyed by iMovie HD users. Macworld
• Macworld Video: More Leopard tips - Another Thanksgiving is in the books, but Rob Griffiths still finds something to be thankful for—10 little tricks that can help you get more out of Leopard. In the latest Macworld Video, Rob shows you how to drag and drop file uploads in Safari, zoom into PDFs and images in Quick Look, set Dock printers to auto-quit, and much more. Still hungry for Leopard tips? Check out Kirk McElhearn’s advice on setting Parental Controls in OS X 10.5. Macworld
• OS X 10.4.11 update harms some Boot Camp systems - Some Mac users claim big problems with most recent Tiger update when installing software on Boot Camp-enabled systems. Macworld UK
• Facebook app unites bands and fans - New music gets a look-in on world's growing social network, as Slicethepie service opens for business. Macworld UK
• French ban pirates from the net - French government plans to extend measures to deal with digital piracy, cutting off the internet connections of those suspected of illegal filesharing. Macworld UK
• UK children warned MySpace isn't private - Beware online, warns UK data watchdog on website developed to teach young people to remain careful and security conscious online. Macworld UK
• How to Turn Your PC into a Mac - An anonymous reader writes "CNet is running a Mac fanboy's idea of a nightmare feature entitled 'Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac'. While the idea of turning my PC into a Mac-like machine does get my juices flowing, I'm not sure the user experience would be exactly the same but I'm going to spend this afternoon trying it out anyway. "To borrow a metaphor from Spartacus, some people like oysters and some people like snails. Except what if there was a way to make your snail do some of the cool things oysters can do, like make pearls? And what if you could make your PC do some of the cool stuff that Macs do so well?"" Seems to me that this would be a lot easier if step one was install linux... Slashdot
• QuickTime streaming media exploit targets unpatched bug - Don't RSVP to dodgy RTSP invites The Register
• Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10 - InfoWorld - San Francisco - No one is unhappy with Mac OS X Version 10.4, known as Tiger. Yahoo! NEWS

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iPods & iTunes

• Why Zune Has Failed - Three reasons why the MS music player is wrong, wrong, wrong. Insanely Great Mac
• Supermarket slices iPod shuffle - Finding a cut-price iPod in a normal store isn't easy - presumably because the margins are reputedly very slim. itwire
• PRODUCT PROFILE iPod Out Loud: Which Speakers Speak to You? - Dock it, charge it and play it. That's the idea behind the endless number of iPod speaker systems on the market today. Who can say which is best? It depends on where you use it, how loud you want it and the kind of sound you like. Is it for the home or office? The iCube, for example, is a good choice for solo listening, though it wouldn't cut it at a party. Much larger speakers can be found at mStation, just make sure you have room. Then there are always the various iPod alarm clock selections, which will wake you to the song of your choice. MacNewsWorld
• iPod touch: Fixing Inaudible Alarms - iPO Quick Tip - Apple's iPod touch is a great iPod and a good personal organizer. Relying in it for alarms, however, is a hit-and-miss endeavor thanks to an annoying little bug that can kill the audio for every alarm you set. That doesn't mean you can't use the alarm feature on the iPod touch, it just means that you need to know how to work around the problem until Apple releases a fix. Mac Observer
• Greg Joswiak talks the iPod advantage - 'Our competitors tend to put the cross hairs on where we are now, and by the time they come up with a product that tries to match where we are now, we’re beyond them,' Apple VP Greg Joswiak says. Macworld UK
• Can Kindle Be iPod of E-Book World? - NewsFactor - For all the pundit opinions about the Kindle, Amazon.com's just-introduced e-book reader, MarketIntelNow is offering up the voices of consumers in a new report that drills down into reasons why these devices might or might not take off. Yahoo! NEWS

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iPhone

• Reports: UK consumers slow to adopt Apple's iPhone - While Apple hasn't released official numbers on early sales of its iPhone in the UK, new reports suggest the company may face difficulty replicating the level of success it experienced with the US launch of the handset back in June. AppleInsider
• View free magazines on your iPhone - A no-cost, no-brainer, but it might not last... Insanely Great Mac
• Joswiak Talks iPod, iPhone - Touch not cannibalizing iPhone. Insanely Great Mac
• iTunes used to unlocked iPhone - Process takes 'a few seconds,' hackers will likely crack it just as fast Insanely Great Mac
• iPhone: Too Pricey in the Old Dart? - Apple will need to work "much harder" to sell iPhone, says analyst. Insanely Great Mac
• Survey: UK Customers Like iPhone, Balk at Price - iPodObserver - A survey by GfK NOP of 500 UK customers showed that while they are well aware of the iPhone and like its looks, most feel that at £269, it is just too expensive. Mac Observer
• Greg Joswiak on the iPhone SDK, iPod - Fortune interviews Apple's Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, about the iPod and the iPhone. MacRumors.com
• German iPhones Unlocked by iTunes - MacNotes.de (German) provides early notes and experiences from customers who have bought unlocked iPhones in Germany. MacRumors.com
• Study: UK consumers view iPhone as too expensive - New research from GfK NOP shows that UK consumers perceive the iPhone as being too expensive. MacimumNews
• Apple touchscreen yields high - Apple's partners seem to get a better yield rate when manufacturing screens for the iPod touch and iPhone than others achieve for other devices. Macworld UK
• On iPhone unlocking and signal strength woe - Are UK users suffering an implementation problem in iPhone power management which affects iPhone signal strength? Macworld UK
• Gear4 offers iPhone, touch cases - Available in black or brown, snug new cases for the iPhone and iPod touch ship. Macworld UK
• Mobile: iPhone Signal Strength Problems In the UK - An anonymous reader writes "British iPhone users, who bought the Apple phones when they went on sale in England on Nov. 9, are reporting persistent problems with signal strength on O2, the UK's only iPhone service provider. The complaints started only 2 days later. InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe says there's a debate as to whether O2 or the iPhone is at fault; it appears to be the handset, which is unusual since US users haven't reported similar problems. Some 02 customers report that getting a replacement phone fixes things; others have had to do a software restore back to version 1.1.2 of the iPhone software." Slashdot
• T-Mobile iPhones unlocked post-purchase by iTunes - Easy way to SIM-independence for everyone else? The Register
• LG Voyager UI vs iPhone: Spot The Difference - Like the iPhone much, guys? The cellular industry's answers to Apple's little wonder were the ones we dared not assumed it would be stupid enough to make: just copy it and hope for the best. And this one is from... Wired
• T-Mobile Bows to Pressure, Unlocks iPhone in Germany - PC World - Rival Vidafone challenges Apple's policy of an exclusive deal, as the iPhone spreads through Europe. Yahoo! NEWS

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