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As sort of a weepy footnote to follow yesterday’s announcement in which HP let us know that there would be no more development of WebOS, a report now claims that WebOS runs literally twice as fast on the iPad… suggesting that the hardware, not the software was the weak link in the TouchPad’s chain. An interesting article at TheNextWeb talks about how the TouchPad hardware was so bad that the development team didn’t even bother to refine past a certain point.

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An interesting shift in the iPhone userbase is starting to emerge through ad analytics: Verizon users are tossing Android aside in favor of iOS, whereas AT&T users are doing the opposite. The data comes from Chitika, a company that monitors online advertising and user trends, and they report that the Verizon swing from Android to iOS has been substantial.

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So we are all waiting on the realease of the next iPhone and iOS 5.  We know it will be this fall, but just when this fall was a little bit of a mystery.  But thanks to AT&T we might have a 2 week window when we might see it all.

An AT&T executive has reportedly stated that:

“Expect things to get really, really busy in the next 35-50 days, so prepare your teams accordingly.”

So we might have a window on when iOS 5 and possibly a new iPhone will be revealed. What makes this rumour different?  Boy Genius Report has a pretty good track record and when well known “connected” guy, Jim Dalrymple from The Loop  tends to agree:

“Yep.”

It’s a pretty good bet that we have something happening in early October.  I know that my 3GS is on its death march right now.

Source: MacRumors, Boy Genius Report, The Loop

When I think of products that have changed my digital life, I think of the iPhone, iPad, Dropbox and Google Reader. But one app that I use almost everyday in both my personal and business life is Evernote. For those of you not familiar with Evernote, a quick one paragraph tour.

Lets say you come across something on your voyage through the inter webs and you think to your self, “hey, I could really use that later.” Now you have a couple of choices:

1. Bookmark the site and pray they don’t remove or delete the post.
2. Print it on a piece of paper and get it lost in your filling system.
3. Print a PDF of the page and then proceed to lose it on your hard drive.

None of these have ever worked for me. I have folders and folders of PDFs that I still need to go through to figure out what the heck I saved that page for. Then along comes Evernote. Evernote lets you store any document, tag it and access it from anywhere with the help of the web or native apps. I use it for everything from photos to recipes to technical documents I might need later.  It is a truly useful service.

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Something great happened this week. People reached out to us on our Facebook page for help, and we were able to help them. As the community manager for Macgasm it has been my goal to help Joshua create an environment of geeks helping geeks. We do it quite a bit on Twitter already, but there’s just a time where 140 characters is not enough to explain things properly. Don’t just think of our Facebook page as another way for us to push you our posts — it’s a community. While we love it when you click on our links, we are here to give back. Come on. Don’t ignore my pleas. Join us!

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The Wall Street Journal has a new tipper, and apparently the iPad 3 won’t be available until next year, unlike all of those rumors circulating the Internet suggest. According to the source the next iPad will have a 9.7-inch screen, and come complete with a 2048×1536 resolution display, putting it right in the Retina display sweet spot.

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Have you ever realized how unique Reader’s Digest is? First, it’s been around F O R E V E R. Second, I’m pretty sure that subscriptions were mandatory for every household in the ’70s and quite possibly the ’80s. Finally, it’s not unusual at all to get as excited about old issues (whether you’ve read them or not) as it is new issues. Why? Because you are practically guaranteed to find something new.

If you’re a fan of Reader’s Digest, and you like reading magazines on your iPad, then you’ll love this little nugget. According to The Apple Blog, Reader’s Digest has signed up for Apple’s in-app subscriptions! You can buy individual magazines for $1.99 each, or sign up for a one-year subscription for a paltry $14.99. As an added bonus, if you’re already getting the magazine in your home, you can now receive the digital version at no extra cost for the next six months.

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In what seems to be becoming a daily occurrence, someone is suing Apple for something they have been doing for quite some time, in this case, managing the very storage that you use everyday. [...]