Apple and clone maker Psystar have reached an Alternative Dispute Resolution process to discuss in privacy in order to avoid higher legal cost of their legal disputes. Apple suited Psystar for distribution of Mac OS X in mac clones computers without Apple expressed permission and Psystar hit back with a Monopoly Suit claiming Apple is trying to have a Monopoly selling Mac OS X.

This new chapter is evolving too fast and as we know Apple will try to force out Psystar’s Open PC loaded with Mac OS X, Apple is known for its ferocious legal team and the expertise accumulated along these years.

A recent study said that the rise of violent crime in the United States could be due to the ownership and spread of iPods.

Experts from the Urban Institute gathered data that implied the rise of violent crime, as compared to vehicular and house-related crimes, rose at the same time as the availability of the iPod.

Noting that the iPod entered the market from 2004-2006, the scientists have identified that during 2005 and 2006, there was a 6 percent decrease in theft, 5 percent in auto theft, and a 0.3 percent increase in burglary. However, robbery rose by 9 percent.

Analyzing the ages of robbers, 2005 showed an 11.4 percent increase in under-18 robbers, and only 1.1 percent for adults – a trend that the study pointed out as a reversal of the primarily-decreasing juvenile crime.

Also, according to a study copy provided by Urban.org, the robbery rise coincided with the time of the iPod sales. An increase of 3.9 percent in robberies occurred in 2005, when the iPod sold 32 million units. The following year, a 6 percent increase in robberies occurred, during the time when the iPod had sold 46.6 million units.

Read the complete article at www.allheadlinenews.com

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The five-page complaint by Romek Figa, who does business in the eastern US state as Abraham & Son, claims that “certain Apple telephones” use technology at the heart of a 1990 patent that describes a system which displays both the phone number of an inbound call. The technique matches up phone numbers with a contact list stored on the phone, allowing the device to associate a name with any incoming calls.

At least superficially, Apple’s iPhone recalls the patent through its software database of contacts. Inbound calls to an iPhone from a number associated with a contact display the caller’s name. However, the patent also references 1990s-era technologies, including a two-line LCD as well as a separate receiver.

Read the complete article at Appleinsider.com

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THE release of Apple’s iPhone in Australia could be illegal under current trade practices laws, according to a group of Queensland law researchers.

The legal hiccup in Australia could delay the arrival of the must-have gadget phone

The legal hiccup could delay the arrival of the must-have gadget phone, which is expected in Asia and Australia some time this year.
However, some are concerned that the phone’s exclusivity deals with mobile carriers is anti-competitive.

“The iPhone is breaking new ground in using technology to restrict customer’s choice in technology markets,” Queensland University of Technology (QUT) law researcher Dale Clapperton said.

The finding comes from an analysis of the Apple iPhone under Australia’s competition laws by Dr Clapperton and fellow QUT law expert Professor Stephen Corones, which was published in the QUT Law and Justice Journal.

In the United States iPhone buyers are required to sign a two-year mobile contract with AT&T before the iPhone will operate. Similar agreements in the United Kingdom, France and Germany tie iPhone owners to one network.

However, if Apple employ a similar strategy in Australia it could fall foul of the Trade Practices Act provision dealing with third-line forcing.

“This law will greatly simplify the task of seeking redress for such behaviour through the courts and could prove a deterrent for exclusive release of the iPhone with one carrier,” Mr Clapperton said.

Continue reading this article a Australina IT

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Apple has fired a cease and desist order against the developers behind the open-source Hymn Project.

Hymn develops software that strips Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology from user’s iTunes purchases, allowing music fans to play their music on devices other than those from Apple.

iTunes customers can legitimately lose FairPlay DRM in order to play their music on other devices by burning a CD of their songs, and ripping that CD into a different format.

Hymn has complied with Apple’s legal letter, removing download links to its software from its website and warning forum users not to post links to alternate download sources within its forums, or risk a ban.

Read the whole Article at Macworld.com

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As many as 400,000 unlocked iPhones were running on China Mobile’s cellular network at the end of last year, according to market research firm In-Stat.

Apple sold 3.7 million iPhones in 2007, and more than 10 percent of them are in China, In-Stat said, attributing that information to China Mobile. That helps explain part of the “iPhone gap” created by the difference between Apple’s shipping totals for 2007 and the activations reported by its carrier partners in the U.S. and Europe.

Somewhere around 1 million iPhones are thought to have been unlocked, and 400,000 are in China.

Despite Apple’s attempts to keep iPhone unlocking under wraps with new software and changes to the iPhone’s bootloader, enterprising entrepreneurs are apparently giving the people what they want. This is a bit of an opportunity lost for Apple, since the company has signed lucrative revenue-sharing deals with its carrier partners that don’t apply if an iPhone is unlocked from its respective network.

Via news.com

Here the first 100 tips and tricks of the 1000 list, I have collected them from all over the internet to my own usage, but found it interesting to let you master them while I upload the next 100. Some of them work fine on the ipod touch, but not all tips are guaranteed to do so.

Read the complete post with the complete first 100 Tips and Tricks at iphonenews.desinformado.com

1.- How To Create A WebClip Icon For Your Site

This is a good tip for those of you who design web sites and applications geared toward the iPhone. Dan Dickinson posted instructions for creating the icon for your site that shows up on the springboard when someone creates a web clip for it.

Create a 57×57 PNG.
Name it “apple-touch-icon.png”

Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server ,the root of your web documents.)
You can also place the image in a link tag in the head of your document, like so:

You can get more info at the iPhone Dev Center under “Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon”.

2.- What to do if your iPhone gets wet

Whether the culprit is a sink, toilet or rainstorm, getting your iPhone soaked in water or any other liquid is bad news. If the unthinkable happens, and you don’t have insurance, your best bet is to make sure the iPhone is off, swap it down with a dry cloth, then do one of the following immediately:

Put your iPhone in a tub or bag of uncooked rice and let it sit for several hours (up to 2 days).
Place your iPhone in a plastic bag with a few silica packets.
Put your iPhone in a hearing aid dryer for several hours.
The point with all of these methods is to draw all moisture out of the phone as quickly as possible. Just air-drying the unit is an option, but won’t act as quickly as the aforementioned methods.

If none of these tactics prove effective, and your iPhone loses significant or all functionality, an Apple FAQ states that if you own an iPhone and it requires service for any reason other than the battery (which costs $86 total to replace), Apple will repair your iPhone for the service fee listed below, plus $6.95 for shipping and handling:

4GB: $199
8GB: $249
Presumably this includes liquid damage, though Apple states “Service may not be available if your iPhone has been damaged due to accident or abuse.”

We’ve received reports from some readers who had success having their liquid-damaged iPhones replaced free of charge by geniuses at the Apple Store, but don’t count on it. This type of replacement is likely only if it can be proven that the device was damaged during routine use.

3.- Set up Hotmail on the iPhone via Gmail

I know a few people who have had Hotmail address for a long time and don’t want to change. They also have bought iPhones and now have no way to use the built-in client on the iPhone to read mail. This solutions lets them read Hotmail on their iPhone. (Actually, the same setup can apply for Apple Mail, too.) One catch here is that your Hotmail account must support Forwarding. You can see it is does under the Hotmail Options.

Basically these instructions help you set up forwarding in Hotmail so that incoming messages are forwarded from Hotmail to a Gmail account. This also sets up Gmail and the iPhone to make replies and new messages look like they come from Hotmail. When complete, you can read, reply, and send messages in Gmail and the iPhone as if you were on Hotmail.

With this solution in place:

Email people send to your Hotmail address will be visible on your iPhone in the built-in iPhone Mail software.
If you reply to a message on the iPhone or in Gmail, to your recipients it will look like it came from your Hotmail address.
You can still check mail using Hotmail on the web if you like.
You can also log into Gmail and see your Hotmail messages there.
An added bonus is that you will benefit from Gmail’s junk mail filter, which is excellent.
Since Gmail supports IMAP, the iPhone and the Gmail mailbox is synced nicely as you read, delete and filter messages.
Note: While you can still read email on the Hotmail website as you currently do, there is an advantage to reading your Hotmail in your new Gmail account. The iPhone and the Gmail account will be synced — so for example, Gmail and the iPhone will keep track of which messages you have read on either device. If you get a message and read it on the iPhone, when you check your Gmail account it will also show as read. Were you to check your mail on Hotmail.com, messages you have already read on the iPhone will show as new.

The same goes for deleting messages. If you delete a message on the Gmail site, these will be deleted from the iPhone, too. The same is true for filters. You can set up filters on the Gmail site, and this filtering will by synced to the iPhone. None of this is synced with the mail you see on Hotmail.com. So basically, if you implement this, you are better off just checking and reading your Hotmail messages in Gmail, but its up to you.

In addition to these steps, you may need to do work to bring your Hotmail address book to Gmail. Gmail has some instructions to help with that.

Start with Gmail. Create a new Gmail account. Note that you could use an existing Gmail account for this solution. This has some tradeoffs, one being that messages you send from the iPhone appear to come from that Gmail account instead of your existing Hotmail account. If you just want to keep your Hotmail account intact and use that as your main account, I think it’s better for to create a new Gmail account and just use that for handling Hotmail.

Under Settings, go to Forwarding and POP/IMAP » Enable IMAP. Save the changes. Under Settings and then Accounts, add another email address — add your existing Hotmail account.

Now go to Hotmail. In your inbox, there should be a message from Gmail; you need to click on a link in that message. Next go to Options and set up forwarding to your new Gmail account. It’s up to you whether messages are retained in Hotmail. (If you don’t have an option for forwarding, you may be out of luck. Perhaps others have advice on how to get Hotmail to allow this.)

Back to Gmail: There should be a message from Hotmail; you need to click on a link in that message. Now back into Gmail settings, under Accounts, you should see your Hotmail email address listed. Click on the link that says Make Default. From here on, you can use Gmail as your way to check Hotmail. You actually do not need to login to Hotmail any more to read mail, you can use your Gmail account as the web-based way to check Hotmail.

Now how to access from iPhone: On the iPhone, go to Settings and then Mail. Delete any previous attempts you’ve made to make a Hotmail account — these can cause problems with the new account you create. Create a new email account by clicking Add Account. On the next screen, choose Other (don’t pick Gmail). Here are the settings:

Name: Your Name
Address: Your current hotmail.com email address
Description: (can be anything) “hotmail”
Incoming Mail Server:
HostName: imap.gmail.com
UserName: yournewaddress@gmail.com
Password: the password for this gmail account
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com
UserName: yournewaddress@gmail.com
Password: the password for this gmail account
All other settings should match the defaults.
Send yourself a test message to your Hotmail account from another account. Give it a few minutes, and it should then show on your iPhone.

4.- Double-Tapping
Double-tapping is actually pretty rare on the iPhone. It’s not like the Mac or Windows, where double-clicking the mouse means “open.” On the iPhone, you open something with one tap.

A double tap, therefore, is reserved for three functions:
In Photos, Google Maps, and Safari (the Web browser), double-tapping zooms in on whatever you tap, magnifying it by a factor of two.
In the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, “restore to original size” after you’ve zoomed in. (Weirdly, in Google Maps, you use a different gesture to zoom out: tap once with two fingers. That gesture appears nowhere else on the iPhone.)

When you’re watching a video, double-tapping eliminates or restores letterbox bars.
See, the iPhone’s screen is bright, vibrant, and stunningly sharp. It’s not, however, the right shape for videos.
Standard TV shows are squarish, not rectangular. So when you watch TV shows, you get black letterbox columns on either side of the picture.
Movies have the opposite problem. They’re too wide for the iPhone screen. So when you watch movies, you wind up with letterbox bars above and below the picture.

Some people are fine with that. At least when letterbox bars are onscreen, you know you’re seeing the complete composition of the scene the director intended.

Other people can’t stand letterbox bars. You’re already watching on a pretty small screen; why sacrifice some of that precious area to black bars?
That’s why the iPhone gives you a choice. If you double-tap the video as it plays, you zoom in, magnifying the image so that it fills the entire screen.
Part of the image is now off the screen; now you’re not seeing the entire composition originally broadcast. You lose the top and bottom of TV scenes, or the left and right edges of movie scenes.

If this effect winds up chopping off something important—some text on the screen, for example—restoring the original letterbox view is just another double-tap away.

5.- Secrets of the Sensors
The iPhone has three cool sensors. First, it has an accelerometer that detects when you’ve rotated the iPhone into landscape orientation. In programs like Photos, Safari, and iPod, it triggers the screen image to rotate as well.

Camouflaged behind the black glass where you can’t see them except with a bright flashlight are two more sensors: a proximity sensor that shuts off the screen illumination and touch sensitivity when the phone is against your head (it works only in the Phone application), and an ambient-light sensor that brightens the display when you’re in sunlight and dims it in darker places.

Apple says that it experimented with having the light sensor active all the time, but it was weird to have the screen get brighter and darker all the time. So the sensor now samples the ambient light, and adjusts the brightness; it does this only once—each time you unlock the phone after waking it.

You can use that tip to your advantage. By covering up the sensor (just above the earpiece) as you unlock the phone, you force it to a low-power, dim screen-brightness setting (because the phone believes that it’s in a dark room). Or by holding it up to a light as you wake it, you get full brightness. In both cases, you’ve saved all the taps and navigation it would have taken you to find the manual brightness slider in Settings.

6.- Earbud Cord Switch
Without close inspection, you’d have a hard time telling the iPhone’s white stereo earbuds apart from a regular iPod’s—but don’t get them mixed up. The iPhone’s earbuds have a tiny, embedded clicker/microphone partway down the right earbud cord.

That’s right, “clicker/microphone.” The tiny bulge is the microphone for phone calls. But if you pinch the bulge, you’ll find that it clicks.
Pinch once to answer an incoming phone call. Pinch twice to dump the call to voicemail. (You can also tap or double-tap the Sleep/Wake switch on top of the iPhone for the same functions.)

During music or video playback, pinch once to pause the music; pinch again to resume playback.
During music playback, double-pinch to skip to the next song.

7.- Customizing the iPod Buttons
The iPod module on the iPhone starts out with buttons along the bottom for summoning four lists: Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.

But what about Albums? Genres? Composers?
They’re there, all right, but hidden; you have to tap More to see them.

But what if you use those lists more often than Artists or Songs? No problem: you can replace one of those starter buttons with a list of your own.
Tap More, and then tap the Edit button (upper-left corner). You arrive at the Configure screen. Here’s the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists: Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.

To replace one of the four starter icons, use a finger to drag an icon from the top half of the screen downward, directly onto the existing icon you want to replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag.

When you release your finger, you’ll see that the new icon has replaced the old one. Tap Done in the upper-right corner.

8.- Keyboard Speedups
Don’t bother using the Shift key to capitalize a new sentence. The iPhone does that capitalizing automatically.
Don’t put apostrophes in contractions, either; the iPhone will put those in for you, too.

9.- Force Quit, Hard Reset
The iPhone is pretty darned simple and stable, but it’s still a computer. In times of troubleshooting, these tips may come in handy:
Force quit a program. Press and hold the Home button for six seconds to force-quit a program that seems to be stuck.
Hard reset. If the entire iPhone locks up—it can happen—press and hold both the Home button and the Sleep/Wake switch for eight seconds. You’ll see the screen go black, and then the Apple logo appears as the iPhone reboots.

10.- How to Create Custom Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 or QuickTime for Free
Here a couple of ways to create and use your own custom ringtones on the iPhone for free:
GarageBand (require: iLife)
For GarageBand users Apple’s latest update; 4.1.1 allows iPhone users to easily create their own Ringtones.
If the song you want is in your iTunes library; simply drag and drop the song from iTunes to Garageband into a new track.
Turn the cycle region on.
Adjust the cycle region of the song to accommodate what part of the song you want the ringtone to be; it can be any part of the song but must be 40 seconds or less.
Choose Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes
Sync with your iPhone, change your ringtone and have a friend phone you.
Via LifeHacker.However this expects you to own iLife which some users don’t so here’s another way which everyone can do with QuickTime that comes with every installation of Mac OSX.
QuickTime
Open the Song in QuickTime
Adjust the Selection Indicators to where want the ringtone to start and end (>40secs)

Copy the selection (?C)
Open new QuickTime Window
Paste the selection (?V)
Export (?E) the file as “INSERT_NAME_HERE”.m4r

Double click on the newly created Ringtone (in the Finder)
Sync with your iPhone, change your ringtone and have a friend phone you.
Unfortunately there are a few more steps but it just as simple, will work on both Macs and Windows and it is 100% free.Update: Apparently the regular version of QuickTime doesn’t have Selection Indicators so doing it that way will cost you $29.95. However you can accomplish this with any Audio Mixer/Editor; for example use Fission’s trial to edit the song into the ring tone you want and save it as .m4r. Or as Brad’s comment below shows you can also do this with the open source Audacity.

11.- Access all of your Mac Media directly from your iPhone with iPhone Remote
Features:
Stream music and videos from your computer learn how
Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support
Simple iTunes Remote control
Browse your files
Run applescript remotely
iSight image capture
Basic Spotlight search
Easily create and add more apps
Security Considerations

This is still a developer prototype and is intended only as a demo to get people started.
It will have the same access privileges as your user account
The login and password you specify will be stored on disk, so should be different, but as strong as your account password.
Don’t leave it running if you aren’t using it

Usage
Run iPhone Remote (Requires OS X 10.4)
Choose a web login/password
Open to https://:5010 from your iPhone
If you want to access your computer from outside of your local network, you may need to configure your router or firewall to support it.

Grab a copy of iPhone Remote here

12.- Keyboard shortcut
If you alternate between the 2 keyboards (AZ and 123) a lot then you can save some typing by keeping the 123 pressed when you select that keyboard and dragging your finger to the chosen number or punctuation mark. Then lot go and you will be returned to the AZ keyboard.

13.- Loudest speaker volume ever?
I think I’ve found a way to get the loudest speaker volume on an iPhone or have stupidly messed up my tiny speaker on my iPhone. But the honest true, it works NICE & CLEAR…