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Welcome to the latest installment of TUAW's best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts for your easy clicking enjoyment.

Mac Mix Promo gives you deals on Mac apps, starts today
The software bundle biz has a new player! Mac Mix Promo allows you to make your own software bundle and receive a discount based on how many applications you choose, the more you add, the bigger the discount!

Mystery Apple box
This week wasn't just about reviewing iPhone software, we also did some detective work to figure out the origins of a mysterious Apple box. The consensus in the comments is that it's a wine box given to Apple resellers in the 1980s.

Thoughts on iPhone Apps Management
Erica takes a look at what you can do to shorten the sync times on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Turn your iPhone into a wireless drive with DataCase
The ultimate phone, iPod, application, and development platform is also a cool way to carry around your files? When Apple squeezes a 200 GB drive in there, I'm totally ditching my notebook!

Resurrecting Apple I BASIC
Ever wondered what Apple I BASIC sounded like? Sure you did! ... no? The BASIC cassette for the Apple I has been digitized and made available on MP3. Even better, that audio has been converted to 1s and 0s so you can examine the 6502 assembly language for yourself!

iPod touch 1.1.5 software also available
For users uninterested in the 2.0 firmware (or paying for it, anyway), Apple has released a 1.1.5 update to keep you secure. See, Apple still loves you!

Apple prepping iPhone 2.1 software
BGR reports that Apple is prepping iPhone 2.1 software. Let's hope this includes the laundry list of features that everyone wants ... salt and pepper shaker anyone?

Apple sues Psystar for license violations, copyright infringement
First Apple sues Psystar for license violations and copyright infringemen, now Apple wants Psystar to recall all of its Mac clones from users. Good luck guys, good luck!

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Get some free tunes.

This time in Ask TUAW we're looking at DJ software, catenated RAIDs, Spaces, Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection Client, tab options in Safari, Spaces, and more.

As always, your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of Mac OS X, as certain answers will vary between different Macs and Tiger vs. Leopard, etc. (we'll assume you're running Leopard if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions!

Once again, TUAW is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won't be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don't forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync.

Follow the jump for all the iTune freebie goodness -- and don't forget. It's Dr. Horrible time! (Thanks Eric G.) Not free -- but it's Whedon!

Welcome to the latest installment of TUAW's best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts for your easy clicking enjoyment. Apparently, there was some phone released this week, but we didn't get the memo on it.

Apple and Rogers falling out?
Apparently Apple is a little mad after the charges Rogers would be putting on the iPhone customers. So what does Apple do? They divert shipments of iPhones. Brilliant! Now all of Canada is mad about not getting a 3G, eh?

Apple, Amazon offer boxed versions of MobileMe
Both Apple and Amazon started selling/shipping boxed version of MobileMe this week. Even though you probably weren't able to use MobileMe until after the 48 hour maintenance was cleared up. However, Amazon is giving MobileMe hopefuls a small discount.

WWDC '08: Charlie Wood (Spanning Sync)
Brett finished up his latest awesome interview video from WWDC. In this video, he talks with Charlie Wood from Spanning Sync about the newest version.

Why you shouldn't buy the iPhone 3G on Friday
In the midst of everyone hurrying to by the latest iPhone, Erica would like to take a moment to share this public service message with you.

Saying "goodbye" to .Mac
This week ushered in the .Mac replacement we had all been waiting for. Too bad we had to wait even longer once the maintenance had started.

Five ways the App Store will change the world
Mike gives us five reasons of how the App Store will change the world. Not mentioned? World domination -- I was always hoping for this one for some reason.

iPod touch 2.0 update now for sale, for real
If you've heard about the iPhone 2.0 firmware and have an iPod touch, chances are you totally wanted it! Well, iPod touch users, your dream has finally come true.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Get some free tunes.

Once again, TUAW is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won't be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don't forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync.

Follow the jump for this week's free iTunes offerings.

Last week, Dave mentioned that you can change the file type used system-wide for screenshots. However, some people are afraid of using Terminal.app to muck around with their Mac. In this week's AppleScript article, I am going to show you how to take screenshots and change their file type using an AppleScript.

The AppleScript
property N : 0
set N to N + 1
set picPath to ((POSIX path of (path to desktop)) & "Picture_" & N & ".png") as string
do shell script "screencapture -tjpg " & quoted form of picPath


Using the AppleScript
Open the ScriptEditor (/Applications/AppleScript/ScriptEditor.app). Copy/paste the AppleScript into the script edtitor and click the run button at the top. You will hear the camera shutter sound and a picture will be taken and saved to your desktop.

This script comes in handy when you want to take a screenshot in a different format. To do this, just change the ".png" file type to whatever you might want (say, .jpg, .tiff, etc.). When you re-run the script, the new file type will be associated with the capture image.


Continue reading to learn how to save this script.

In this edition of Ask TUAW we've got questions about using an iPod without iTunes, hotkey managers, iTunes locking up, getting rid of persistent iCal calendars, Open Firmware passwords and much more.

As always, your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of Mac OS X, as certain answers will vary between different Macs and Tiger vs. Leopard, etc. (we'll assume you're running Leopard if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions!

Welcome to the latest installment of TUAW's best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts for your easy clicking enjoyment. Next week will undoubtedly be a big week for Apple fans as the iPhone 3G will be released in the US and other countries on July 11th.

Me.com email addresses online?
Most .Mac users received a big surprise this week as their username@me.com addresses suddenly started forwarding to their username@mac.com address. We can safely bet that MobileMe will be released in the very near future. Here's to hoping it's a little more stable than .Mac.

Apple Notebook Shipments Skyrocket 61%
We can only guess that this is due to recent Mac sightings in movies.

Happy Birthday, iPhone
Join us in singing a round of "Happy Birthday." Oh wait, that's copyrighted?Oh well, I guess we can sing it TUAW style ... "Happy Happy Birthday, it's all the same to you, Happy Happy Birthday, get over it there's a new one coming soon."

10.5.4 is in Software Update Now!
Early this week, the much awaited 10.5.4 update became available for download. Oddly enough, it did not boast any new "visible features." It also didn't boast any mention of MobileMe.

AT&T posts iPhone 3G information
Join Christina as she tries to go insane with all of the iPhone information that Apple/AT&T gave us this week.

.Mac Bookmark webaccess going away July 6th
Be sure to backup by July 6th, or the bookmarks get it!

Mac market share nears 8%; Safari tops 6.3%
Are we finally on the map? Oh well, at least we still have the iPhone launch to look forward to.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Get some free tunes.

Once again, TUAW is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won't be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don't forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync.

Follow the jump for all the iTunes freebie goodness.

Welcome to the latest installment of TUAW's best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts for your easy clicking enjoyment. If you're using either Microsoft Office 2004 or Office 2008, you might want to check auto update sometime in the near future.

TV shows added to Australia iTunes Store
First the land down under gets the iPhone and Apple Store, now they're getting iTunes TV shows. This is no doubt something that Apple should have done a long time ago, but I'm sure there are many rejoicing Australians!

Mod: use your MacBook Air Superdrive on any machine
Ever since the MacBook Air Superdrives have been out, we've all been asking ourselves the same question: how can we use this on any Mac? Well, some creative individual found out a sure-fire way to do this.

Take back your iWeb galleries in Firefox 3
Have you been lonely without your iWeb galleries? Well, be lonely no more because someone found a way to fix Firefox's? ... erm ... Apple's? ... erm ... someone's problem with iWeb galleries in Firefox 3.

Last day to buy MacHeist Bundle
The MacHeist retail bundle is finally over, but you can now find MacHeist's new summer bundle that features Parallels and other nice applications for a very low price.

Keep your iPhone from losing its cookies
Has the cookie monster been lurking in your iPhone? Join Brett as he tries to find a way to rid the loss of cookies from your iPhone.

Original iPhone warranties about to expire
Did you buy a first generation iPhone? If you're reading this today, chances are your iPhone's warranty will be up tomorrow.

iTunes: Free Thursday
Get some free tunes.

Ask TUAW: 5.1 surround sound, bookmark syncing, MobileMe, MDI files, and more
Get some free Mac help.

This time around in Ask TUAW we'll be fielding questions related to bookmark syncing, MobileMe, 5.1 surround sound, MDI files, batch audio conversion, multiple iPods and more.

As always, your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you're running and which version of Mac OS X, as certain answers will vary between different Macs and Tiger vs. Leopard, etc. (we'll assume you're running Leopard if you don't specify). And now, on to the questions!

Once again, TUAW is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won't be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don't forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync.

Follow the jump for all the free iTunes goodies.

Continue reading to learn how to integrate shell scripts into AppleScripts.

Welcome to the latest installment of TUAW's best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts for your easy clicking enjoyment. This week was definitely not as big as last week, but a tiny browser did received a ton of downloads.

iPhone vs. the world
Christina tries to tackle the fan boy question that we've had since June 2007: when will the iPhone prevail as the best smart phone in the market? Apparently the phone wars will begin when the iPhone 3G is released.

Rumor: Intel preparing 3.2 GHz quad-core processors
Rumors are surfacing that Intel could be prepping quad-core 3.2 Ghz processors. These processors could definitely make a machine, like the MacPro, become even more of a screamer. While these are still rumors, it would be nice to see these fast processors come to new Macs.

AT&T to limit iPhone 3G speeds to 1.4 Mbps?
MacRumors discovered this week that the iPhone 3G might be limited to a 1.4 Mbps 3G connection. This is slower than the much touted Motorola Q smart phone which runs almost tripple that speed.

Get your Firefox on: Firefox Download Day
Our favorite little multi-platform browser, Firefox turned 3.0 this week. This new version brought about many changes, specifically for the Mac platform. Two very important changes: stability and speed. Oh yeah, they also tried to set a world record for most downloads in a 24-hour period.

Parallels Server for Mac available now
Parallels Server for Mac started shipping this week. This new product allows Xserves to run (in a virtual machine) many different server operating systems including: Mac OS server, your favorite flavor of Linux server and Windows server.

Survey: 91% of Japanese don't want an iPhone
Before the iPhone 3G was announced, a survey was conducted in Japan. Almost 91% of those surveyed said that they would not buy the iPhone.

iTunes: Free Wednesday
Get some free tunes.