Megan Lavey-Heaton

Megan Lavey is a newspaper designer with the Patriot-News just outside Harrisburg, Pa. She is a bibliophile, and can't pass a bookstore without somehow making her way inside. Her journalism career has taken her from Alabama to the Tennessee/Virginia border, Maine, Arizona and finally Pennsylvania. She is also the co-creator of the webcomic Namesake. She currently resides just outside Enola, Pa. with her cats and is married lifelong to a lifelong Linux user who happens to be British, an astrophysicist and who constantly teases her about her deep love for Apple products. But, she's still madly in love with him anyhow. If you need to contact her for review purposes, please do so through this email.

Megan Lavey-Heaton's Latest Posts

Apple says Department of Justice "sides with monopoly"

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 25th 2012 8:00PM)

In Apple's eye, the U.S. government has cast its lot with monopolies. Apple's legal response to the Department of Justice lawsuit, which the company filed May 22, claims that the case against Apple and other publishers over ebook pricing is "is fundamentally flawed as a matter of fact and ...

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AirFloat removed from the App Store

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 25th 2012 6:35PM)

Airfoil Speakers Touch is not the only audio app to be removed from the App Store. Apple also removed AirFloat, the developer said on his blog. Like Airfoil Speakers Touch, AirFloat allowed people to send audio to the iPhone from a desktop machine. Cult of Mac said on Thursday that this might ...

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Tweetbot update adds location-based searching

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 24th 2012 2:30PM)

The 2.4 update to Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad adds a number of new features, but the biggest one is an updated search feature that gives users the chance to view tweets made nearby. You can change location to do searches in different areas. Other changes include: Improved search ...

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Apple pulls Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 24th 2012 1:55PM)

Update: CoM says a tipster tells them this is because Airfoil Speakers Touch may be duplicating functionality we're going to see in iOS 6. That was our guess as well. Apple has pulled Rogue Amoeba's Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store. The app, which made it possible to stream from a ...

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Judge refuses request to dismiss ebook class action suit

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 15th 2012 11:50PM)

Apple received a legal slap on Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Denise Cote rejected a request to dismiss a class action lawsuit against Apple and five publishers. Cote scoffed at the idea that Apple and the publishers acted independently in coming up with what's known as agency pricing, their ...

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Tim Cook meets with Speaker of US House of Representatives, John Boehner

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 15th 2012 11:30PM)

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner's office has released a picture of Boehner meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday. While Boehner's staff didn't go into details about the meeting, MacRumors theorizes that Cook was lobbying for a tax holiday, allowing Apple to bring some of its offshore ...

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Aaron Sorkin to pen Jobs' biopic, Variety reports

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 15th 2012 11:00PM)

Aaron Sorkin, fresh from winning an Oscar for writing "The Social Network," will move from covering Facebook to Apple. Sony has hired Sorkin to turn Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" biography into a feature film, Variety reports. Sony acquired the movie rights to Isaacson's biography a couple weeks ...

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Bloomberg: Apple will debut new laptop lineup at WWDC

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 14th 2012 6:15PM)

Bloomberg reports that Apple is preparing laptop upgrades with models that are thinner than the existing Pro units; the new machines are expected to run on Intel's Ivy Bridge processors. This follows on rumors from earlier today that a new MacBook Pro and iMac appeared on the Geekbench ...

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Protect your iPhone from prying eyes

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 14th 2012 3:00PM)

Ars Technica posts about the cautionary tale of how vengeful exes and others can use your iPhone to stalk your movements, then offers a great guide to getting your privacy back. The case in point comes from Reddit where someone admitted to using his girlfriend's iCloud account to track her via ...

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Sparrow for iPhone 1.2 adds new features, push will be subscription-based

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 14th 2012 1:30PM)

Sparrow for iPhone just received a nice update that marks several items off users' wish lists. Among that is the ability to compose in landscape mode, create/edit labels and swipe between messages, plus additional localization. Sparrow now is available in English, French, German, Spanish, ...

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