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Google's worst fears about greedy H.264 patent holders and "bogus patent" warfare involving Android are coming true, albeit at the hands of Motorola, a company it seeks to acquire. Google is now promising to continue this same behavior itself after it buys the increasingly unreasonable and (outside of patent claims) unprofitable Android licensee.

Another day, another iOS developer in hot water for playing fast and loose with user data. This time it’s Path, a favorite of the MacLife.com team -- but fear not, the sky isn’t falling, as you’ll discover from reading onward. It’s otherwise been a moderately quiet day on the Apple home front, so we’ve collected a few related tidbits from competitors like Google Android and Research in Motion to keep you entertained for this Tuesday, February 7, 2012.

Privacy Gaffe Exposed in Path for iOS App

We’re big fans of Path here at MacLife.com, which is why it’s disheartening to find out that the iOS app quietly uploads your address book to its servers -- including names, emails and phone numbers. The privacy gaffe was first discovered by Arun Thampi and detailed on his Mclov.in blog, which explains how the Path app pushes your address book data as a plist file, without your express permission to do so. “I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new ‘Path’ and repeated the experiment and I got the same result -- my address book was in Path’s hands,” Thampi explains. Now, before you rush to delete the otherwise excellent Path app from your iOS device, the developer isn’t using this information for anything nefarious -- in fact, Path co-founder and CEO Dave Morin rushed to explain the company’s decision “in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and efficiently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more.” That said, Path is changing the behavior with a forthcoming 2.0.6 update pending App Store approval, which allows users to opt-in (the Android client has already been updated for this).

Google Introduces Chrome for Android

Rocking an Android device with Ice Cream Sandwich (otherwise known as 4.0)? If so, the Google mothership has a bonus treat for you today: Chrome for Android, the search giant’s latest effort to beef up the web browser on its mobile platform. According to the Google Chrome Blog, a beta of Chrome for Android brings a number of desktop browser features to the palm of your hand, with lightning fast speed, a slick new user interface for tabs and the ability to easily sign into your Google account for syncing open tabs, autocomplete suggestions and bookmarks from the desktop version. The only bad news -- aside from the absence of Adobe Flash Player -- is that you’ll need an Android 4.0 device in order to grab it from the Android Market, which narrows it down to maybe one percent of the folks running the mobile OS (such as owners of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus). But hey, that will change in time… right?

iTunes Connect Now Requires Retina Display Images from Developers

MacRumors is reporting that Apple has notified iOS developers of a new requirement for submitting iPhone and iPod touch apps. Effective immediately, developers will be required to submit screenshots in Retina Display resolution, which are 960x640. The change also affects existing apps, whose screenshots must be upgraded before updates will be approved. “The requirements for high-resolution images are 960 x 640, 960 x 600, 640 x 960, or 640 x 920 pixels,” Apple’s email to developers notes. “Images must be at least 72 dpi, in the RGB color space, and the file must be .jpeg, .jpg, .tif, .tiff, or .png. You can update your screenshot files at any time in iTunes Connect.” Considering that Retina Display was introduced a year and a half ago with the iPhone 4, the new requirement should come as a surprise to no one -- especially considering that the iPad 3 is widely expected to arrive with its own form of Retina Display which effectively doubles the current display resolution.

Roxio Weds Corel, Makes Easy VHS to DVD 3 Plus Baby

Ottawa, Canada-based Corel today announced the completion of its acquisition of Mac and PC software maker Roxio, which includes the popular Toast disc-burning solution. Roxio has been acquired from former owner Rovi Corporation, and the deal includes its entire portfolio of Mac and PC software. Best of all, the newlyweds already have an offspring to call their very own in the form of Roxio VHS to DVD 3 Plus, a new hardware and software product that makes it easy to transfer existing VHS, Hi8 and Video 8 tapes to digital formats, save them to DVD or share via YouTube, Facebook and mobile devices like the iPhone. The new product carries a $69.99 price tag and upgrades are available for owners of previous versions.

BlackBerry App World Claims 60k Apps, More Profitable Than Android

Research in Motion is having a tough time of it these days, but the BlackBerry maker is fighting back with some facts and figures intended to make their platform more appealing to developers -- especially those who currently hone their craft on the Android platform. According to PaidContent.org, RIM is kicking off their developer’s conference in Amsterdam with the bold exclamation that its BlackBerry App World is now home to 60,000 apps -- up from only 17,000 this time last year -- with six million downloads per day and two billion last month alone. While those numbers pale in comparison to Apple’s own App Store -- let alone Google’s Android Market -- RIM is also claiming that App World is more profitable than Android, with more paid downloads than Android Market. According to RIM VP of developer relations Alec Saunders, 13 percent of their developers have pocketed $100,000 or more, with carrier billing now active in 34 countries. Wake us when RIM releases that new BlackBerry 10 operating system, won’t you?

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Apple on Tuesday notified members of its iOS Developer Program that they will be required to provide high-resolution, Retina Display compatible screenshots when initially submitting or updating an app through iTunes Connect.

Apple sent out an interesting message to third-party developers today. iOS devs are now required to submit Retina display screenshots for their iPhone and iPod touch apps to the App Store. All updates to existing apps must also meet the 960×640 resolution requirement.

Not only does this new policy signal the death of 480×320 resolution apps, but it also indicates that the iPhone 3GS may not be around much longer.

Required iPhone & iPod touch Screenshot Upgrade for Retina Display

When you create or update your apps in iTunes Connect, you must upload screenshots that are high-resolution. We require your screenshots as high-resolution images so that your app is optimized for the Retina display.

The requirements for high-resolution images are 960 x 640, 960 x 600, 640 x 960, or 640 x 920 pixels. Images must be at least 72 dpi, in the RGB color space, and the file must be .jpeg, .jpg, .tif, .tiff, or .png. You can update your screenshot files at any time in iTunes Connect.

Since the introduction of the Retina display-equipped iPhone 4 and iPod touch in 2010, lower-resolution apps have simply scaled up on Apple’s fourth and fifth (iPhone 4S) generation devices. The result has been a semi-fragmented experience in the App Store. We all know how much Steve Jobs hated fragmentation, and there was nothing worse than downloading an app on your iPhone 4 that hadn’t been updated for the Retina Display. The screen looked pixelated and the whole experience was very un-Apple like.

Most of the apps that people actually use in the App Store have been updated for the Retina display over the last couple years, and then there’s the thousands upon thousands of worthless titles that haven’t hopped on the bandwagon. Now Apple is saying that it’s Retina display or the highway.

The iPhone 3GS came out in June of 2009. During the iPhone 4S announcement last October, Apple announced that it would begin offering the 3GS for free with a two-year carrier contract. That was a brilliant move that has helped Apple saturate itself into the low-end smartphone market. But it’s time to move on.

After nearly 3 years, Apple could finally be ready to put the 3GS to bed. There’s no reason to keep selling an outdated phone that can’t even display App Store apps in their full resolution.

Here’s what I see happening in 2012: The 3GS gets the boot. The iPhone 5 (technically the sixth-generation version) takes the 4S’s place as Apple’s flagship smartphone. The iPhone 4S gets put in the sub-$100 price range and the iPhone 4 takes the place of the 3GS. Considering that the iPhone 4 is still one of the best handsets on the market, and the fact that Apple is leading the pack in market share growth and profits, I see no reason why the iPhone 4 couldn’t be offered for free with a carrier contract this year. Apple would have its most impressive lineup ever: the upcoming iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 4.

Adios, 3GS. Don’t let you door hit you on your way out.

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When Apple launched the App Store alongside the iPhone 3G in July, 2008, it offered both a platform and distribution hub for developers to easily write and monetize software, and effectively created a new economy that a study estimates has generated about 466,000 jobs.

During the past few weeks, one quote from Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography has bounced around the tech and mainstream media. It’s the quote where President Obama asked Jobs about Apple manufacturing jobs that had been shipped oversees and Jobs responds “those jobs aren’t coming back” – words the President decided to ignore during his State of the Union speech last month. Instead, Obama called on tech companies to bring those jobs back.

With all due respect to the White House, it seems pretty likely that those jobs aren’t coming back. Anyone that doubts that needs to reread the first New York Times piece on Apple’s manufacturing partners. The U.S. simply cannot match the manufacturing capacity in China and elsewhere. Get over it. Those jobs are gone but that doesn’t mean Apple and other tech companies aren’t creating new jobs right here at home. In fact, Apple and other tech company have create an entire to category of jobs and filled half a million of them with American workers.

For years, there’s been questions and speculation about how many jobs Apple’s App Store and similar marketplaces for other mobile and web platforms have created. Today, a study sponsored by bipartisan coalition TechNet and carried out by Dr. Michael Mandel of South Mountain Economics has answered that question. The emerging “app economy” has created 466,000 jobs in the U.S. – no small feat given the current economic climate and considering there was no such thing as an App Economy five years ago.

This so-called app economy includes mobile platform app markets like Apple’s App Store as well as app creators like Zynga that focus on social media and web platforms like Facebook. The companies thriving in this new market expected powerhouses like Zynga and Electronic Arts as well as smaller independent app shops. They also include jobs at the companies running the various app stores and services like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon. Increasingly, an app-focused culture will also create a swath of under-the-radar jobs at enterprise companies to create inter all apps for the staff of those companies.

While these jobs are focused on app development, they aren’t all development jobs. Other critical job titles for the app economy include graphic and interface designers, marketing specialists, project managers and support staff. There is also some spillover into traditional fields for industry-specific apps – healthcare professionals for medical apps being one example.

In a global society, the truth is that not all of these app-related jobs will be created in the U.S. and even those that are will tend to be located in tech-centric locales. California, for example, houses about a quarter of U.S. app economy jobs. A separate study found that 232,000 Facebook app-related jobs have been created in Europe.

Still, the study proves that tech companies are created hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs for Americans. They aren’t the jobs that the country has lost, but they are good ones and they are forward-looking 21st century jobs.

Quite frankly, these are jobs that American politicians should be partnering with American tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook to create and encourage instead of castigating and punishing them for jobs that the U.S. simply cannot create in a global marketplace.

These are the kinds of jobs that are ideal for a new generation of Americans – and these are the jobs that are America’s to lose  if its leaders remain stuck in the past rather the looking at the world realistically so that they can be a partner in 21st century American job creation.

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In what can only be considered the very definition of irony, it has been discovered that Path 2 for iPhone secretly uploads and stores your entire address book to its servers. In case you didn’t know, Path is a hot iOS app that offers an exclusive, confined social network experience with a limited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Path only lets you accept 150 friends, indicating the intimate, safe environment that the app creators want users to feel at home in.

Developer Arun Thampi has uncovered that Path’s current iPhone app sends all of your contacts to its servers without notifying you. Oops.

I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path. Now I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new “Path” and repeated the experiment and I got the same result – my address book was in Path’s hands.

The co-founder of Path, Dave Morin, responded to Thampi’s discovery:

Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and effeciently as well as to notify them when friends and family join Path. Nothing more.

We believe that this type of friend finding & matching is important to the industry and that it is important that users clearly understand it, so we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval.

Developer Matt Gemmell asked Morin if Path was violating Apple’s Terms and Conditions by not asking users to opt into uploading their address book. Morin said, “This is currently the industry best practice and the App Store guidelines do not specifically discuss contact information. However, as mentioned, we believe users need further transparency on how this works, so we’ve been proactively addressing this.” Path 2.0.6 will hit the App Store soon with the ability to remove this contact information off the app’s servers. 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The Android version of Path lets users opt into sharing their address books with the app’s servers already. Morin said, “We hope that the proactive steps we’ve been taking over the last couple of weeks on our Android client show we care deeply. We’re hoping to have iOS 2.0.6 into the App Store process by the end of the week.”

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Video takes up a lot of space – so what do you do if you run out of room?

High-definition video is everywhere. Every modern camcorder records at that resolution and even phones possess amazing lenses, such as the iPhone 4S. This means you’re never really without a camera – so you can end up recording even more footage. But there is a downside to this amazing quality: storage. Even the highly compressed videos taken with an iPhone take up more space than you’d think: 30 seconds from an iPhone 4 uses up a little over 40MB, whereas the same length on an iPhone 4S requires around 96MB due to its better resolution. Cameras shooting in AVCHD usually rake up 500MB for the same duration. At that rate, you don’t need to take a lot of video before you run out of room.

Thankfully, external storage is readily available, but you can’t just expand your iMovie collection onto multiple drives. Each event must be on a single drive. If you run out of room, you could create another event on a new drive and carry on from there, but this isn’t very elegant and can make it harder to find the shot you want. Thankfully, Apple’s engineers have thought of that and it’s possible to transfer both your events and your projects onto new drives from within iMovie, as we’ll show you in this tutorial.

There’s also an added advantage to storing your footage on a separate drive: with both your events and projects saved outside of your main computer, you’re actually free to edit anywhere. You could start cutting on a MacBook Air for instance, then sit at a more powerful Mac to work on the final touches. Alternatively, you could take your external drive with you and connect to your friend’s Mac to show them your progress.
 
You definitely have a lot more freedom when working with external media when your files aren’t locked into a single computer. If you decide to go down that path, there’s just one matter you need to be aware of: any music or photos you add to your project would usually come from either iTunes or iPhoto. Instead, you’ll have to add a copy of the relevant file to your external drive and drag them onto your project from there, in order to not be faced with missing media when you do connect to another Mac.

Media Managing in iMovie

Forgetting a password to any service is frustrating, especially if you’re itching to download the latest Angry Birds update. But when it comes to your Apple ID, it’s actually very simple to change or reset your password on your iOS device.

Here’s how to do it.First, open up the App Store and tap on the ‘Featured’ tab (if you’re not already in the Featured section). Now scroll to the bottom of the page and tap on your Apple ID, or the ‘Sign In’ button.

Now tap ‘iForgot’. You will be taken to the mobile Safari app and the password retrieval page of Apple’s website. Here you can choose how you’d like to reset your password. Simply tap on the ‘Enter Your Apple ID’ tab.

(If you’re an AOL member, or you you’ve forgotten your Apple ID email address as well as your password, you can choose one of the other tabs and follow the instructions that you are given. For this tip, we’re just going to focus on resetting your password.)

Enter your Apple ID email address and then tap the ‘Next’ button. Now select the ‘Reset By Email’ button. You can choose to answer the security questions if you’d prefer, but I find that using email is the quickest and easiest option.

Apple will now send you an email which includes a link to reset your password. Tap on this link and you will be taken back to Safari to enter your new password. Once you’ve done this, tap the ‘Next’ button.

Your password will now be reset and Apple will email you with confirmation. You can now use your new password to login to the App Store or iTunes apps.

And yes, I really did just reset my password to help you out.

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A report claims that in an effort to expand their US retail presence, Apple is in talks with Walmart subsidiary Sam’s Club to open new Apple stores inside the company’s warehouse retail locations. Both Walmart and Sam’s Club currently sell a number of Apple products, including iPhones, iPads, and iPods, but the retail giants are looking to combine forces with Apple to capitalize on the company’s astronomical success.

9t05mac’s sources claimed Apple is looking to expand its current retail programs beyond their partnerships with Best Buy and Target in the United States. Apple already has a prominent display inside most Walmart retail locations, so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to extend that into Walmart’s warehouse chain Sam’s Club, by implementing something similar to the Apple-store-in-store’s found at Best Buy. The new partnership would put an Apple store inside Sam’s Club’s 47 warehouse retail locations that are currently open in the United States. A backup plan is also being discussed that would have Sam’s Club “simply selling Apple’s Macs, but without the Apple Store features.”

Many detractors claim Apple is a luxury brand whose products are priced beyond the financial means of the average American, however we view this news as another example of how Apple cares more about getting their products into as many hands as possible with little regard for the mystique of maintaining the appearance of an overpriced luxury brand. Discussions for the retail expansion are still early. so a timeframe was not given, but it is believed the store-in-stores will not be coming soon.

[via 9to5Mac]

 

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Oh, sure. The idea of being able to reach out from across the room and dramatically direct your mighty will to zap stuff on, off, up, down, or cause the very Air to shimmer with Play is intoxicating — that is, until those nine remotes you’ve been using to control all your magical devices become horribly unruly; perhaps they no longer bow to your commands, or maybe they’re off chasing hobbits under a couch somewhere. Whatever the reason, it’s time to harness the VooMote Zapper ($70), and make them all submit to your will!

(WARNING: Tossing the Zapper into a giant pit of lava under a mountain is not advised and will undoubtedly void the warranty, ‘mkay?)

The Good:

Plug the attractive, unassuming key into any iDevice, download the free VooMote Zapper app and that iDevice transforms into a universal remote. The key to this powerful little guy is in how flexible the software is — besides the standard complement of preloaded remotes, the Zapper can learn a remote’s commands simply by pointing the remote at the Voomote and moving through a few steps on the app — a process that worked, for the most part.

Still not happy with the way things are laid out? Customize to your heart’s content: add, delete and re-arrange buttons, make custom commands for those buttons and even change their colors. If you have the time to sit through the whole process, the editing functions are a powerful tool.

Swiping between remotes was easy. There’s even a really cool swipe-controlled screen that, as you’ve guessed, allows you to control functions like volume and channel simply by swiping. Bummer: It’s not customizable.

Range wasn’t bad — powerful enough to more or less reach across a medium-sized livingroom, and about the same strength as the Apple TV’s remote. But my Sharp flatscreen’s original remote bested it from the far corners of the room.

The Bad:

Really, VooMote? The number of models available for selection under the brand my TV belongs to (Sharp, not a small manufacturer) was exactly: one. Needless to say, it wasn’t my model. Luckily, as noted above, creating a remote from scratch is a straightforward, if laborious, process.

I was unable to get the Zapper to learn certain buttons, like the power and mute commands from a remote belonging to a set of Monster speakers.

One of the Zapper’s star features allow the user to control viewing from within a TV Guide-like app — but that app hasn’t arrived yet.

Surely the pool of starving English majors out there is large enough the German company behind the Zapper can hire one to edit the damn copy in the manual and app. It’s not quite the level of Japanese photocopier instructions from the ’70s, but it isn’t pretty, either.

Verdict:

Ambitious features in search of a badly needed software update; when that update comes, it should transform this gadget into the powerful ruler it wants to be.

Rating: ★★★½☆ 

 

                    

                    

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