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Wunderlist 2 goes native, adds many new features to beautiful, free app

by Mike Schramm (Dec 18th, 2012)

6Wunderkinder's Wunderlist 2 is now available on desktops (as a native app and a web app) and iOS devices to make personal productivity more connected, more social and more informative than ever before. To-do lists are probably the most commonly downloaded and then least-used apps across ...

Mac Game of the Week: Galaxy on Fire 2 HD brings iOS' best space adventure to the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Dec 6th, 2012)

While some developers have recently gone towards a philosophy of making a bunch of smaller releases and dropping them on the App Store quickly, German developer Fishlabs has done the opposite. It's focused on one huge game, Galaxy on Fire 2, and spent the last year expanding and perfecting it. ...

Samsung sales injunction won't kick in prior to patent validity check

by Mike Schramm (May 4th, 2012)

Stick with us here. A German court has ruled that Samsung will be able to fight to protect the sale of its products before an argument over the actual patent involved in those products is resolved in favor of either company. If that sounds confusing, it's because it is. Usually, in Germany, ...

Apple wins German photo gallery lawsuit against Motorola

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 1st, 2012)

Apple won a significant legal victory when a German court ruled that Motorola Mobility violates patent EP2059868, says a report at FOSS Patents. The patent details a "portable electronic device for photo management" and covers the photo gallery implementation used by Motorola on its mobile devices. ...

Apple wins temporary ruling on iPad, iPhone sales in Germany

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 27th, 2012)

Apple scored a legal victory against Motorola in a case involving a standards essential (FRAND) patent that Motorola must license to other companies on fair terms. The Mannheim court originally ruled in favor of Motorola and Apple was forced to remove select iPads and iPhone models from its German ...

Some German customers receive iPhone 4S handsets early

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 11th, 2011)

At least one iPhone 4S slipped through the hands of Apple and landed in the hands of a German customer a few days before the October 14th date. The lucky user promptly unboxed it and fired up Siri. You can check out the photos at Macerkopf.de. US customers are still sitting on the sidelines ...

Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction suspended in EU countries except Germany

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 16th, 2011)

The German district court that granted Apple an injunction against Samsung and halted the sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the EU has temporarily suspended this ban. This suspension applies to all the countries in the EU except Germany. The court decision comes hot on the heels of a report by ...

Samsung will formally address Apple-led Galaxy Tab ban on Aug 25

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 12th, 2011)

Samsung will have the opportunity to defend itself against Apple in a German court on August 25th. The Korean manufacturer will argue against the recent injunction that halted the sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all EU countries except the Netherlands. Until this date, the Apple-requested ...

Amazon freezes new Appstore submissions in Germany

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 1st, 2011)

Amazon is freezing new Android app submissions to its Appstore that originate from Germany. Amazon said new admissions would be accepted again soon, but did not provide an exact date. Until Amazon re-opens the floodgates, German developers must hold onto their apps or submit them to the Android ...

White iPhone 4 seen in German inventory system

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2011)

The good folks at Engadget have received pictures of what purports to be the inventory listing for Vodaphone in Germany, and in there you can see an entry for an iPhone 4 "weiß," which you don't have to have taken high school German to realize means white. That's right, the legendary white ...

Rumor: iLife '11 to be 64-bit, iOS compatible

by Steven Sande (Oct 4th, 2010)

iLife, the software suite that is included on every Mac and is made up of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD, hasn't been updated to a new version since January, 2009. That, of course, is making many of us in the Apple world curious about when the next version of the suite will appear on the ...

Official Settlers of Catan out now on App Store

by Mike Schramm (Oct 30th, 2009)

Just in case you missed it, I got my wish from a while back: there is an official version of the classic board game Settlers of Catan, called just Catan, on the App Store right now. I'm still playing Kolonists, the unofficial knockoff that got kicked off of the store for infringement, but if you've ...

�bersetzen Sie das, bitte (Translate this, please)

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 18th, 2008)

For German users and English-speaking users with German-language needs, Philipp Brauner has made available the dict.cc Dictionary Plugin for Leopard, which adds the dict.cc vocabulary compilation to the OS X Dictionary. dict.cc is a community generated and verified English-German dictionary. The ...

Macworld coverage in Second Life

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 9th, 2007)

There are a lot of ways to cover the keynote, but Mac-Essentials has a neat twist. They're using an island in Second Life shaped like the Apple logo to convene continuous coverage of the event in real time. I visited the island and found a cool mockup of the Apple glass cube store you find in ...

Camino 1.0.1 with security, Java, Keychain updates

by David Chartier (May 3rd, 2006)

Hot on the heels of Firefox releasing a 1.5.0.3 security update, Camino has been bumped to 1.0.1 with mostly security and bug fixes which include: Fixed several critical security issues, including those fixed in version 1.8.0.3 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. Upgraded the bundled Java ...