Apple Starts Field Testing Next Generation iPhone (3,1): “iPhone developer Pandav has informed MacRumors that they have spotted usage records for an unreleased iPhone in their app’s analytics. The app used was iBART [Free / Paid], a public transportation guide for the San Francisco train system.
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(Via MacRumors.)

1 Password is the one app that I will always have. It is well designed and extremely useful. From its inception the support that it has garnered is top notch and replies from the developers have always been prompt. Good old Canadian kindness!

The desktop app in version 3 and the iphone app work seamlessly together and I have had no crashes or freezing to date.

A must have app!

Agile Web Solutions releases 1Password 3: “Agile Web Solutions releases 1Password 3″

Password 3 has “over 50 new features,” we mean it. Here’s a quick run down on the many other improvements:
New Setup Screens

Improved Welcome screens to help new and existing users setup 1Password.
New introduction screens for categories with no items, as well as ability to import sample data to quickly see how 1Password works.
Main Window

New Activity view to display and manage background tasks.
Improved search in Snow Leopard, the found items can now be selected immediately using Up and Down arrow keys, without the need to leave the search field.
2 new window layouts: Widescreen and Shelves.
List View

Ability to customize which columns are shown in list views for each category
Navigate between items using three-finger multi-touch swiping.
New icons for wallet items and accounts.
Category item counts can now be shown or hidden.
Keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation between the categories and changing layout mode.
Improved password strength indicators to better display very low strength passwords.
Detail View

Configure iPhone security levels directly on your Mac.
Dynamically resizing single-line and multi-line edit fields.
Spell checking in Secure Notes
Search text inside Secure Notes as well as auto-scrolling to found text when using the find panel.
Ability to add and remove fields from Logins.
Easy way to configure Login username and password.
Better date field entry using popup calendar.
Improved copy-to-clipboard for the credit card numbers to not include spaces or dashes.
Passwords can be hidden even in edit mode to protect your privacy.
Hidden passwords can be quickly revealed by holding the Option key.
Can now quickly generate passwords for Wallet Items and Accounts.
New hover graphics for one-click copy of usernames, passwords, and all other fields for easy pasting into other applications.
Browser Extensions

Browser toolbar buttons are now completely customizable using the new ~/Library/Application Support/1Password/Custom/ToolbarButtons folder.
Added Help > Troubleshooting > Reset Folder Permissions to fix majority of the configuration problems.
Improved Go&Fill window in the browser. In Snow Leopard items can now be selected immediately using Up and Down arrow keys without needing to press Tab.
Better compatibility with Evernote and other Safari extensions.
1Password will now offer choice to enable the extensions in untested versions of most browsers. This will make it easier to use nightly Camino and WebKit builds.
Preferences

Added new Autosave preference for “Automatically include username in Login title”
The lock/unlock sounds are controlled by System Preferences > Sounds.
Improved security preferences.
New General Preferences pane to allow data file configuration even when 1Password is locked.
Internal

1Password application is now codesigned to ensure the integrity of code and provide better update experience.
Large number of internal code improvements and bug fixes.
Many performance improvements
Innumerable internal code optimizations to take advantage of new Leopard technologies
1Password now runs as a 64-bit application on supported Snow Leopard machines.
64-bit Safari extension.
Improved automatic update feature.
Improved browser extensions allow 1Password.app to be replaced even when browsers are running. This avoids the infamous “File in Use” problem as well as the need to restart the browser.

1Password

Enable Google Calendar in Apple’s iCal

Only Apple iCal 3.x (on Mac OS X v10.5+) supports CalDAV sync.
To set up CalDAV support for Google Calendar in Apple’s iCal, follow these steps:

Open Apple iCal, go to Preferences and then the Accounts tab.
Click on the + button to add an account.
Under Account Information, enter your Google Account username and password.
Under Server Options, add the following URL:

https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/YOUREMAIL@DOMAIN.COM/user

Replace ‘youremail@domain.com’ with the email address that you use to log in to Calendar. Make sure to include the ‘@domain.com’ portion (which is @gmail.com for Gmail users) in this section.
Click Add.
Under the Delegation tab, select the calendars you’d like to add to iCal by checking the boxes next to them. You may need to hit refresh to get the latest list of calendars.
Add your email address to your Address Book card by selecting Add Email. You’ll be prompted to add your email address only if your address is not already in your Address Book.
You won’t be able to invite or email guests to Google Calendar events within iCal if your address is not in your Address Book.

Your Google Calendar will now appear in iCal’s list of calendars, and changes you make to your Google Calendar in iCal will be reflected when you sign in to Google Calendar.

Event information will automatically refresh every five minutes. You can change this interval by opening the iCal > Preferences > Accounts menu and selecting a new refresh interval under the ‘Refresh calendars’ drop-down. Keep in mind you can also force a refresh by selecting a calendar and pressing the Apple and R keys at the same time.

Calendars that are checked but disabled have already been added to iCal – you can remove them from within iCal.

Download all Apple open source OS X files at once: “While it is well known that Mac OS X contains open source code, how to access and download that source code is perhaps less well known. Apple publishes all its open source code on their Apple Open Source site. However, this site makes you download each program individually, without an obvious option to download an entire OS X release at once (i.e., all public sources for 10.6.1).

So I wrote the following bash script to automate the download procedure. It downloads the individual tarballs for each program, expands them locally, and then rolls everything up into one big tarball for local storage. Some caveats are that this script does not build the code, and that you are bound by a variety of licenses which are not included here (because no Apple code is included here).

(Via MacOSXHints.com.)

PocketMac:

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That’s why we’re giving away a pyramid of prizes. The more copies of RingtoneStudio you and your friends help sell, the cooler the prizes get. At the first level, we’ll be giving away $15 iTunes gift cards to three lucky winners. When sales of RingtoneStudio reach 100 copies this month, we’ll give away $50 iTunes gift cards to two lucky winners. When 250 sales are reached, the grand prize, the legally unlocked iPhone, will be given away to one lucky winner!

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