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Today, Apple announced its second quarters results. (Apple’s earnings call can be listened to online here.)

According to Jim Dalrymple at The Loop, the company has posted $5.99 billion in profit for the quarter. This is up from $3.07 billion in the year-ago quarter.

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Ecamm’s Printopia software has been bumped to version 2.0, making iOS printing better than ever.

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Hosts: Joshua Schnell and Stephen Hackett

• White iPhone 4 rears its unicorn head in public.
• SSD Drives, are they worth it or is it a waste of time?
• OmniFocus and GTD

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It’s a bit of a mishmash episode today, but the topics are things we’ve been focusing on for a while now. While rumors get old fast, it’s starting to look like the white iPhone 4 may be a reality. It could be here sooner rather than later.

We also chat a little bit about SSD drives and the massive increase in response time that they provide to older systems.  If you’re interested in picking up a new SSD drive, you might want to listen to Stephen’s thoughts on the switch. He’s rocking a data doubler and loves it.

Last but not least is GTD, and we talk specifically about OmniFocus and how it’s great at letting you customize the app to your specific needs.

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Apple has recently been awarded a patent outlining a process to embed RFID readers in displays, a technology that would allow users to swipe their devices over RFID tags to read them.

RFID allows devices to communicate information between them without contact or line-of-sight, as infrared does.

The patent, named “Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader,” outlines Apple’s plans to implement “the efficient incorporation of RFID circuitry within touch sensor panel circuitry.”

The patent also includes information regarding an iOS app that would be used to read and display the information contained in the RFID chip read by the device.

RFID has been rumored to be in the next iPhone, and currently ships in the Google Nexus S Android phone. Such technology can easily turn a smartphone into an “e-wallet” for applications such as payments, ordering coffee and more.

Article Via Apple Insider

We love iOS games here at Macgasm. And since we’re just a bunch of poor writers, we love free ones even more.

For the next few days, the Beyond Ynth and Beyond Ynth HD game titles are free on the App Store.

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AT&T has announced that during Q1 2011 it activated 3.6 million iPhones. This is up from roughly 2.6 million in Q1 2010. According to the carrier, 23 percent of these activations were customers new to AT&T.

This helped the company see 10.2 percent growth in wireless revenues, with an 8.6 percent increase in wireless service revenues. According to the company, the churn rate — the number that measures people upgrading their current plans — hasn’t changed from previous quarters, indicating there isn’t a mass exodus of iPhone customers to Verizon, as some had predicted.

Article Via Mac Rumors

With the iPad 2′s ability to mirror video to an external device via Apple’s new Digital AV Adapter, many developers have been working on ways to harness it for the good of their users.

Firemint has added 1080p graphics to its Real Racing 2 title, but with a twist.

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If you’re looking to quickly take credit card payments directly on your iPhone or iPad, but have no idea where to track down those nifty Square readers, you’re in luck. In addition to being available online, they’ll also be for sale at an Apple Store near you.

Starting this week you’ll be able to walk into an Apple store and pick up the Square reader for $9.95. Buying the reader will credit your account $10.00, so when it’s all said and done, Sqaure’s paying you a nifty $0.05 to try our their device.

Unfortunately, the Square reader is only available in the US, and only works with US-issued Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover cards.

Now you have no excuses to get out there and make some money!

Article Via Slashgear