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French Apple reseller eBizcuss is a little bit annoyed that Apple prefers to stock its own shelves with their products before they pass on products to third party, certified resellers. eBizcuss has filed a lawsuit against Apple.

According to eBizcuss CEO François Prudent:

eBizcuss isn’t the first reseller to sue Apple, and they probably won’t be the last. However, this is a pretty obvious danger of selling third party products as a primary business model. We’re not exactly sure how a company selling its own products and directing its supply where needed is anti-competitive, but those are the claims.

One thing is for certain, eBizcuss is about to be a former certified Apple reseller.

There has been a large number of resellers that have struggled to maintain profitability once an Apple Store opens in the neighbourhood. It sucks, but a good business person can see the writing on the wall once an Apple Store opens up shop. People prefer buying products from the source, especially if they feel like they’re getting better service. But, it’s kind of hard to compete with the Apple Store experience as an independent reseller if you can’t line up an appropriate amount of products to sell your customers.

Source: Le Figaro

GridLens by Bucketlabs.net is a new photography iPhone app. Currently on sale for $0.99, this is one iPhoneography app you don’t want to miss. What makes yet another photography app so special? GridLens allows you to do things with your iPhone camera that you can’t do with other apps. At first, I thought it was another app for importing pictures into a frame. But that’s not at all the idea behind GridLens. Instead, the app allows you to take multiple shots from within a frame, either manually or automatically.

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We’ve spent a lot of time over the last couple of episodes talking about some peripherals and camera gear. Just so you know, we’re pretty obsessed with applications too.

In this week’s episode the guys talk about two apps that they’ve been absolutely obsessed with these last few weeks:

• Instacast HD
• Path

You can follow the links below to download the apps from the App Store.

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They say when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Well, as a corollary, I say: If you mess with the Internet, you get Penny Arcade’s Gabe and Tycho. And you don’t want that, as Paul Christoforo will tell you.

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Though the public’s reception of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Apple’s iPad is pretty enthusiastic, we may not be giving credit to their best achievement: Making tablets that are little more than marketing tools.

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Apple fans will be quick to tell you that most Macs don’t ever have to worry about malware or viruses, but good old-fashioned phishing has raised its ugly head again recently… and anyone can fall prey to that.

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Have you ever accidentally closed a tab in Safari and cursed yourself, wondering how to get back to the content that you closed?

Until recently, I figured that I would have to either re-search for the article using a search engine, or even worse, dig through my history to find the recently opened website. It turns out, however, that Apple has your back. Did you know that you can tap and hold the new tab icon (looks like a plus symbol) in Safari on the iPad and a list of recently closed tabs will appear?

Now all you have to do is tap the listing you want, and the tab will re-appear in your browser, just like it did before you let your sausage fingers accidentally close the tab.

Bell Canada has had its talons pried off the practice of throttling traffic, thanks to a decision by the Canadian Radio Television and Communications Commission (CRTC) that could potentially make it illegal. Don’t worry, minions of evil: Bell isn’t going to give up that easy.

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