A handy iPhone app that helps keep you organized is the inTouch Contacts. It promises to bring order to your expanding Contacts database.

While developer Objects Etc offers a sophisticated vision of how to achieve that goal in this $5 app, a number of limitations and cumbersome features mark inTouch Contacts as merely an interesting first effort.

inTouch Contacts links to your existing Contacts database, providing a view of—and the option to edit—existing individuals and companies. Inconveniently, you can’t create new records, so adding a person or company requires the native Contacts application. inTouch Contacts provides better support for Contacts’ Group records. You can import existing records into inTouch, create new Groups, and then export them back to the native database.

inTouch Views provide dynamic lists of contacts, including useful breakdowns by organization and city. Retrieving a list of everyone you know who works at a particular company, or tracking down friends while visiting a city are nearly effortless with inTouch Contacts. The application also offers search capabilities.

inTouch Contacts is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.2.1 software update.

(Source) MacWorld

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If I was to choose between Macworld and CES I would probably go to CES. I’d have plenty more to see there, not that Macworld is a bad place to be. But next year even Apple is not going to go to Macworld. Instead it looks like the Cupertino-based company will join CES 2010. Is Apple going to challenge Microsoft’s supremacy right at CES? I am sure that’s what they want. And they will have lots of other big names in this business to fight against.

CES 2010 should be even hotter than this year’s exposition. At least if the economy doesn’t completely crush by that time. In the mean time we have a whole year to watch Apple and Microsoft compete.

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While I write this post the Macworld is under way at Moscone West. After introducing some of Apple’s new software solutions for 2009 the last product was finally launched. And it’s not the Mac Mini we’ve been talking about but it’s the brand new 17 inch MacBook Pro.

It has the same great aluminum design and it will feature a 17 inch 1920 x 1200 display, 700:1 contrast ratio, 60% greater color gamut. The backlit display has also a $50 anti-glare option available. As for ports we have the usual DisplayPort, USB, FireWire 800 and we’re also going to have a battery meter. Inside you will find a new generation Core 2 Duo Processor, support for 8GB of RAM and a new NVIDIA graphics card.

The battery is outstanding. It will get you 8 hours of juice as the battery has been redesigned to meet your power needs. It’s bigger but it’s not removable. Who cares about that anyway. Having a 17 inch MacBook Pro able to run for 8 whole hours is already a great thing.

All that costs $2,799. Is it worth it I ask you? It probably is. Check out the picture above for a full specs rundown.

via Engadget

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If you ask me it was only a matter of time until Eye-Fi and iPhone were joined together by a tiny piece of software. The application was announced at Macworld and it works quite easy. All you need is an iPhone and an Eye-Fi card to upload images straight from your iPhone to your computer or the web. Of course the application would be even more welcomed if that iPhone had a much better camera and actual card support.

The application will let you gather all your pictures from your iPhone and a digital camera and have them organized neatly into folders on a computer and to one of 25 online photo sharing and social networking websites. Geotagging is also said to be supported. All we have to do now is wait for the application to come out. And we’d really appreciate a name for it too!

via Engadget

Tags: Apple, camera, Eye-Fi, iPhone, macworld, Mobile News, Other Brands, Portable Devices, social networking

We’ve talked about iPhone tethering for so many times so far that it should only be fair for AT&T and Apple to officially settle the deal so far. We’ve seen both legal and illegal tethering version so we should only be waiting for the officially official version.

Is Tuesday’s Macworld keynote going to reveal an AT&T iPhone tethering plan? The plan has been rumored cost $30 per month for 5GB. Sounds familiar? Well that’s what AT&T BlackBerry users are paying so far. Will we be disappointed this Tuesday or will we be excited? We’ll answer that question soon.

via tuaw

Tags: Apple, Apple, At&T, At&T, iPhone, macworld, Mobile News, Mobile Software, tethering

For those of you waiting for the latest Mac Mini from Apple, you might be in for a nice surprise. The new Mini will feature dual display suport which means that you will get both the Mini DisplayPort connector and the Mini DVI connector. Previous versions lacked dual display support but it was just a matter of time until Apple decided to include it.

We heard that the Minis will be using the GeForce 9400M chipset which will allow the support for that DisplayPort. Such a thing wasn’t possible with the current Intel GMA 950. But enough with the suppositions! Macworld is near and it will reveal both the new Mini and the new iMacs.

Tags: Apple, Desktop PCs, macworld, Mini

The future of our smartphone’s and laptop’s screen might have glass-free 3D written all over it. Think about it for a second. Wouldn’t you love to have your smartphone displaying some virtual 3D images?

Well Wazabee is going to bring its autostereoscopic overlays to MacWorld 2009. And the company has three products to show off. The Wazabee 3DeeShell is “a special protective skin with an integrated removable lens that can display 3D content on the Apple iPhone.” The 3DeeFlector is a “autostereoscopic overlay for the MacBook Air and other 13.3-inch notebooks” and last, but not least the Wazabee 19-inch Gaming Display which should be really fun to see in action. When will be such products commercially available? We’re going to find out soon.

via Engadget

Tags: 3D, Apple, Autostereoscopic, iPhone, macworld, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Wazabee

I am sure you were not expecting this at all. Apple has announced that the next Macworld Expo would be the last one to be held in San Francisco. Furthermore the company announced that Steve Jobs won’t be holding it’s usual keynote this year. That’s odd wouldn’t you say?

It’s Philip Schiller the designated person to give us the opening keynote. The event will take place at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009, at 9:00AM. The Macworld Conference & Expo will end on January 9.

Adobe and Belkin won’t make it to next year’s show and we expect other companies to do the same. Harsh economic conditions? That might be it for these companies. But what about Apple? What’s the real reason for these sudden changes?

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We’ve heard before how the Mini will definitely get refreshed and that hasn’t happen. The rumor mill goes wild once again and now people everywhere are saying that the new Mac Mini will arrive in January at Macworld Expo.

Here’s what a tipster says about the new Mac Mini:

Similar to the MacBooks, the Mac Mini will sport a silver enclosure composed of a block of aluminum. Some internal parts will be PVC-free, and combined with its size and low power requirements, Apple will tout this as the “greenest Mac ever.” For video output, the Mac Mini will use the DRM-crippled DisplayPort for connectivity, which Apple is offering to manufacturers for a no-fee license. It’ll have a CD-DVD slot loader (i.e. Super Drive). There will be no Blu-ray player, because Steve Jobs believes the format is a “bag of hurt.”

We’re just going to have to wait a little longer to have all this confirmed.

via Wired

Tags: Apple, desktop, Desktop PCs, Mac Mini, macworld, Portable Devices

XtremeMac has announced the Luna X2 alarm clock and audio system at the MacWorld Expo. The latest iteration of its award-winning iLounge hopes to recreate the same high-end performance and audio experience that made the iLounge a instant hit.

The Luna X2 with its dual alarms can be set to wake you up from your iPod, buzzer, or even with the built-in AM/FM radio with volume control, display brightness, and snooze time settings. The crystal-clear display can be altered to be completely off at night and brighten when the alarm sounds. Additionally, volume can be set to increase in increments for sleep and nap functions. The two full-range precision speakers and hi-dynamic power amplifier deliver soothing tunes to wake up to in the morning. The AM/FM tuner supports up to eight station presets and an auxiliary line ensures that your other MP3 players are not left out.

The smooth and lustrous black outer shell combined with its powerful features make this alarm clock a perfect match for your iPod and an accessory you would love to have in your bedroom.

The Luna X2 is priced at $119.95 and can be preordered online from Xtreme Mac’s website, or you could wait a few more weeks to hit the local store.

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Tags: ilounge, luna x2, macworld, Uncategorized

“There’s something in the air,” was Macworld’s tagline which has sparked numerous assumptions and speculations. Well, the ultra-thin MacBook is speculation no more. In his keynote earlier in Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs presented the world’s thinnest notebook — MacBook Air. Said notebook is so thin, it can fit inside a manila envelope (and it looks like a silver cracker).

It seems like going green is the theme this year what with Apple taking pains to ensure MacBook Air is environmentally friendly. The casing is made of aluminum with a 13.3-in. mercury-free glass display. The notebook, which is a whopping 56% thinner than MacBook Pro, has a tapering width which ranges from 0.76-0.16 inches — the largest end of the measure still being thinner than the thinnest part of ordinary laptops.

MacBook Air has black full-sized keyboard, LED backlit screen, built-in iSight camera and a trackpad which has multi-touch gesture support. By that it means you can set different gestures to correspond to different commands (scroll, zoom, delete, etc.). The Air uses Intel Core 2 Duo processors which has been shrinked down to 60% from its original size to fit inside the MacBook Air. According Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, “The CPU is the width of a dime, the thickness of a nickel, and we didn’t think we could do it.” They did.

The Air sports 1.8-in hard drives, USD 2.0, microDVI port and headphone jacks. It has Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 802.11n WiFi connectivity. What’s missing with the MacBook Air? An optical drive. BUT, you can buy a separate bus-powered drive worth US$99. Apple also has a new software called “Remote Disc” which lets you connect to others computers’ drives, even PCs. You get 5 hours of battery life when you’re actively surfing the internet with the MacBook Air.

It will start shipping in two weeks’ time and is available now for preorder for US$1799. Would you buy a MacBook Air? Oh, I definitely would.

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Tags: Laptops, MacBook, macworld

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