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Boy Genius says, according to their trusted sources, iOS 5 beta 8 will be released this Friday, September 16, followed by the gold master (GM) on September 23, paving the way for an early October release just like TiPb heard a while back.

If September 28 is indeed the go date for the GM seed, will Apple hold their special fall event on or around that date? Apple has often used events to announce both first beta and GM seed releases in the past, and it would leave a week or two for developers to hammer on it before an iPhone 5 release on October 7 or October 14.

We’ll have to wait for Apple to send out invitations to know for sure.

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Take One is a new digital movie clapperboard for the iPad. It is designed to assist with keeping track of your footage and syncing audio with video.

Whether you're filming your awesome road trip or making the next big-budget blockbuster, Take One is the simplest and easiest digital movie slate to work with.

• Kill the cluster: Managing your slates is child's play. All the controls are straightforward and located at the top of each slate, for quick and easy access.
• Prepare yourself: Have as many slates as you want. Flick through them rapidly, slide to take a peek of the one behind, or find them from a single list in case you have a lot. As you choose from the list, the slates will automatically switch to your selection for faster viewing.
• Camera friendly: The Day Mode is perfect for outdoor and well-lit scenes; shooting inside in a dim room is a different story. Simply switch from Day to Night Mode and the slates will turn black with a white font, avoiding unwanted glare from the white screen.
• Single-tap editing: Modifying your slate is super easy. Simply tap on the scene, roll, or take numbers and Take One will automatically add +1 to the existing number. Double-tap to add lettering. If you need to reset the scene or enter a new name, just hit the edit button.
• **Audio:?* Choose between the traditional clap, or a loud 2 kHz beep.
• Frame rate: You can set the FPS (Frames Per Second) rate freely from 1 to 99.
• Color check: Making sure your camera is correctly color-balanced is just one tap away.
• Timecode: Set your timecode to the current time of the day, or start from zero.
• Automatic font styling: Type in your data and the text will set itself to all-caps for better clarity and readability.
• Safe zone: Swipe at the top or bottom of the slate to switch between projects. The center is less sensitive so you can avoid accidental swipes while holding the app.

Take One – Movie Clapperboard for iPad is available for $2.99.

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Hot on the heels of last month's Dolphin Browser for iPhone release, we now have Dolphin Browser HD. As is always the case with browser apps, Dolphin has to use the built-in iOS web view for rendering pages, so it has the same HTML, CSS, and JavaScript engine as Safari, but they do a good job of differentiating themselves via their interface and features.

• Simplify the way you navigate the mobile web. Open any of your favorite websites with just the touch of your fingertip in lightning speed.
• Bring out the beauty of the web and with Dolphin Webzine users can experience the web like never before.
• With Dolphin, you can access Windows you opened simply by swiping from the right edge of iPad screen to left. You can access Bookmarks simply by swiping from the left edge of iPhone screen to right.
• Enjoy desktop class web browsing experience. Create as many tabs as you need, quickly switch between opened web pages and open links in new tabs.
• Take advantage of the 100% of the iPad screen. Hide toolbars and tabs with one tap.
• Easily find a word on the web page. Work great for long articles.
• Dolphin excels bookmark management. Add bookmarks, create multiple nested folders
• You can set Dolphin to browse desktop versions of the web sites.
• Enabling private mode will stop the browser from remembering history.

Dolphin Browser is available on the iPad for free. Anyone saying goodbye to Safari?

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Martin Fichter, the acting president of HTC America has been talking at the Mobile Future Forward conference in Seattle. He claims that college kids no longer find the iPhone to be cool. The information that he shares is not exactly based on hard facts; he talked with a few of the kids on his daughter's floor and came to this rather strange conclusion!

"Apple is innovating. Samsung is innovating. We are innovating. Everybody is innovating. And everybody is doing different things for the end consumers. I brought my daughter back to college — she's down in Portland at Reed — and I talked to a few of the kids on her floor. And none of them has an iPhone because they told me: 'My dad has an iPhone.' There's an interesting thing that's going on in the market. The iPhone becomes a little less cool than it was. They were carrying HTCs. They were carrying Samsungs. They were even carrying some Chinese manufacture's devices. If you look at a college campus, Mac Book Airs are cool. iPhones are not that cool anymore. We here are using iPhones, but our kids don't find them that cool anymore."

I discussed this at length with my 12 year old daughter this morning and she sort of agreed with the points being made. Blackberry appears to be the chosen platform at her school although she did say that iPhones were still very  highly desired. The cost and delicate nature of an iPhone does appear to deter many parents from providing them to their kids!

What do you think? Is the iPhone losing the coolness factor with the younger generation?

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John Gruber of Daring Fireball has put up an interesting post debating marketshare vs. profit-share numbers in the good old Android vs. iPhone feud. He comes to the reasonable conclusion that the criteria for defining “winning” can vary, and that not all are equally valid. To wit — money is the way you keep score in business.

If we count all the money in Apple’s pockets from iOS devices vs. all the money in Google’s pockets from Android devices (and throw in ODMs like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola for good measure), Apple’s clearly winning. Heck, if we count the amount of customer satisfaction, the amount of iPhones sold vs. any other handset,, etc. you can find any number of reasons to rationalize the iPhone as winning.

And that’s fine. But I’d argue it’s wrong. Apple isn’t winning.

Apple’s already won.

Apple and the iPhone won years ago, when Google hit the brakes on their BlackBerry and Windows Mobile Standard competitor and began cloning the iPhone, when RIM and Microsoft stumbled their way towards Storm and QNX, and Windows Phone, when Palm went webOS, and Nokia burned their platform.

The smartphone now looks, feels, and acts nothing like it did before the iPhone, and that’s because of the iPhone. Reviews now compare, contrast, and dub “killer” every new hero phone on the market to only one thing, and that’s because the iPhone redefined the market.

And in tablets, the enormity of the victory is even more ridiculous. 18 months after launch it still has not a single rival. No one is breathing down the iPad’s neck. No one is even breathing in the same hemisphere.

Whatever happens in the future, whether Android becomes the Windows of mobile, whether Rim or Microsoft surge back to the top spot, whether Apple trips and falls and one day becomes a shadow of its current success, Apple has set the standard and shaped the industry.

Every time a finger pinches or swipes a big capacitive touch screen, every time the modern web is functionally rendered, every time an app is easily purchased from a built-in store on any device, it concedes that the battle now can only be fought for the next generation.

Because for this generation, Apple has already won.

Coda: We live in a world where the flagship front-facing QWERTY BlackBerry has a capacitive touch screen, where Microsoft has a functional mobile web browser, and where every platform has an app store — and Android has more than one. If you don’t think that’s because Apple won this generation, you’re nuts.

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Are you jailbreaker eager to test a theme or jailbreak app and need to know how to find your Cydia account number? Chances are if you’ve ever downloaded or purchased an app or tweak from Cydia, you have one. In case you ever need to know where it is and how to find it, we’ve got you covered!

1. Launch Cydia and go to the main Cydia tab.
2. Tap on Manage Account.

3. Cydia will ask you to log in if you aren’t already. Simply sign in with Facebook or Google.

4. Once signed in, you’ll see a screen that shows your Cydia account information. Underneath Installable Purchases you’ll see your Cydia account number in small font.

Simply make note of this number and give it to any developer you’re testing for. This will allow them to give you access to paid apps so you can simply install them without having to pay first. This is very similar to how official App Store developers utilize your UDID number. Once the developer adds your Cydia account number you’ll be all set to start testing their jailbreak apps. Just make sure you add their repository as well if you don’t already have it.

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