photos by Scott Beale

Yesterday I stopped by the new Apple retail store in New York City’s Upper West Side. The building features a beautiful glass facade and glass spiral staircase that descends to the lower level.

Photo Gallery: Upper West Side Apple Store

See Previously: 24 Hour Apple Store in New York

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Glyph did an unboxing of his job offer letter from Apple.

via Daring Fireball

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Like many people, I often find myself in situations where my MacBook Pro battery runs out much sooner than I would like. The newer MacBook Pro’s have a built-in battery with extended life, but I don’t have any immediate plans to upgrade. That’s were HyperMac comes in. It’s an external battery in a aluminum enclosure that can both power and charge a MacBook as well as a iPhone (via USB). It comes in four sizes, the larger the HyperMac, the longer the batter life. It also automatically determines which model you are using and charges at the appropriate voltage.

Available in 4 different capacities of 60Wh, 100Wh, 150Wh and 222Wh (compared to MacBook Air 37Wh only internal battery), the external battery is capable of powering the MacBook for up to 32 hours – allowing for long haul flights, extended outdoor shoots, expeditions to remote locations or any situation where electricity is simply not an option. When on the road, there is also the HyperMac car charger which powers and recharges the MacBook directly from the automobile cigarette slot.

I ordered a MBP-100 which I’ll be putting to the test the next few months as I travel.

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A gang of thieves broke into the Sagemore Apple store in Marlton, New Jersey, stealing 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod Touches in 31 seconds.

via TUAW

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Apple’s refined upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will be available this Friday, August 28th. Pre-orders can now be made through the online store with a price of $29 to upgrade from Leopard.

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Ice T shows how he ripped apart his old Apple PowerBook with a claw hammer.

via Cult of Mac

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Acrossair has developed an amazing augmented reality app for the iPhone 3GS, New York Nearest Subway which helps you find the nearest subway lines as you move and tilt your iPhone.

When you load the app, holding it flat, all 33 lines of the New York Subway are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many miles away they are and what lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons

It is based on the Nearest Tube app that they developed for London underground.

via Daring Fireball

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DearSteve –

Over on The Huffington Post Ryan Grim has posted an unpublished letter from LSD inventor Albert Hofmann that he sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs in 2007, asking him to support a proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy.

Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I’m interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.

Thanks to Jon Alloway for the tip!

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Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone that uses push notifications from applications on your Mac.

As soon as a Growl notification pops up on your Mac, Prowl will forward it to your iPhone or iPod Touch over the push notification service found in iPhone OS 3.0. Which notifications are pushed is configurable, allowing only the important messages to be delivered.

via Frank Escamilla

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Mike Giepert started a wonderful series featuring Mac Dock Icon Spelling.

via swissmiss

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For a while I’ve been looking for a good way to simultaneously post photos from my iPhone to multiple services. Mobypicture looks like it might be a really good solution.

It has a native iPhone app that you can use to shoot a photo, set the title, add description, tag and even publish GPS location. I’ve been using it to post to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr (several other services are available as well). All the services are cross-referenced to the original photo uploaded to Mobypicture.

Mobypictures also supports several video services, but it doesn’t look like it works yet with video shot on the new iPhone 3G S, but hopefully they will be able to add that feature in the future.

Here’s my account on Mobypicture.

Here’s the Mobypicture “Shoot n Share” animated promo video.

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I agree with John Gruber, the quality of low light and macro photos shot with the new iPhone 3G S has greatly improved over the previous generation of iPhones.

Here’s an example I shot of a can of Tiki Cat Food.

UPDATE: More iPhone 3G S photos from Dave Shea (via Daring Fireball).

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The new iPhone “Find My Phone” feature rocks! It’s part of the OS 3.0 update.

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TomTom for iPhone was announced at WWDC 2009

The TomTom solution combines two new TomTom products to provide users with state of the art in-car navigation on their iPhone 3G:

• The TomTom navigation application for iPhone; an Apple version of TomTom’s award-winning turn-by-turn navigation software, including IQ Routes and latest maps from Tele Atlas;
• The TomTom car kit for iPhone; a specially developed car kit for secure docking, enhanced GPS performance, clear voice instructions, hands-free calling and in-car charging.

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“Break In”, directed David Fincher, is the first television commercial for the new Apple iPhone 3G S.

via /Film

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Here are the major announcements Apple made at this morning’s WWDC 2009 keynote:

- Snow Leopard, the refined version of the Mac OS Leopard, is scheduled to be released in September for $29 ($49 for a family license). Here what’s new in Snow Leopard.

- iPhone 3G S, the 3rd generation iPhone, is faster than ever and includes support for shooting video. It will be available June 19th for $199 (16GB) or $299 (32GB). They also dropped the price of the original iPhone 3G to $99.

- iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update, which introduces many new features and includes the long awaited cut-and-paste, will be released on June 17th.

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The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2009) takes place this week (June 8-12) at Moscone West in San Francisco. Things kick off with the keynote by Phillip Schiller at 10am on Monday, June 8th. Here are a few websites providing live updates of the keynote:

- gdgt

- MacRumors

- Engadget

- Gizmodo

- Ars Technica

- Macworld

- VentureBeat

- The Mac Observer

- Tweetmeme

This year’s rumors include a new iPhone and the possibility of the long awaited Apple tablet. John Gruber has posted his WWDC 2009 predictions on Daring Fireball.

If you are in town for the conference, Adam Jackson has compiled an extensive list of WWDC 2009 parties.

UPDATE: Here are some of the announcements made during the keynote.

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ExpanDrive 2.0 for the Mac has just been released. One of the best FTP/SFTP programs just got better. It’s super easy to setup, remote servers are mounted as a local drives and it’s excellent at keeping an active connection. There is also an ExpanDrive for Windows.

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Loren Brichter has just released Tweetie For Mac, the highly anticipated desktop version of the popular Twitter iPhone app Tweetie.

I’ve been using it since the pre-release alpha and it simply rocks!

More Coverage: TechCrunch, Macworld MacUser & Louis Gray.

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Adam Lisagor and Cameron Hunt have just released Birdhouse, an iPhone app that acts as a notepad for Twitter, where you can draft, publish and even unpublish Twitter posts.

Ever think of something for your Twitter that you don’t want to post right away? Birdhouse is the perfect place to put it.

Birdhouse won’t replace your favorite iPhone Twitter client, it’ll add to it. Put Birdhouse right next to your Twitter client and use them together.

It’s an awesome app with an equally awesome intro video.

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