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This article was written on April 19, 2010 by CyberNet.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.

–News–

Opera Mini for iPhone Tops App Store Charts
Once Apple gave Opera Mini the stamp of approval it didn’t take long for the free mobile browser to top the App Store in all 22 worldwide locations. I was one of those people who jumped on the chance to download the browser, but didn’t find much that was better than the built-in Safari browser. The loading times of sites were on par with Safari despite all traffic being passed through and optimized by Opera. Still, it hit over 1 million downloads in its first day of availability, which is pretty impressive.

Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Filling
Adobe will be releasing Creative Suite 5 in the next month, and one of the newly added features to Photoshop CS5 will be content-aware filling. This is like a healing brush on steroids, and is meant to remove and/or patch objects in photos. The video demonstrations shown off by Adobe are nothing short of impressive, and it will be interesting to see how this plays out when put up against some of our own photos.

–News in Brief–

Office 2010 Reaches RTM
Microsoft Office 2010 has been released to manufacturing, and will be available in retail stores this June.

Google Adjusts Search Recommendations
Recommendations shown on Google will now be tailored to the location that you’re searching from.

Google’s Cloud Approach to Printing
Google has released documentation that manufacturers can begin using to create “cloud aware” printers.

Server Quantity Comparison of Major Companies
This is a breakdown on how many servers key companies have in relationship to the estimated number that Google has.

Silverlight 4 Released
The new version of Silverlight brings a few business-focused features, some of which include enterprise networking and printing.

Drag and Drop Attachments in Gmail
Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6+ users can now experience another benefit of having a HTML5-compatible browser: drag-and-drop attachments in Gmail.

Evernote Premium Provides Note History
Premium users of Evernote will be able to review wiki-style changes made to notes overtime thanks to a new history feature found in the web interface.

Twitter Surpasses 100M Registered Users
Twitter has announced that they currently have 105 million registered users, and are getting 300K new users every day.

TeamViewer Goes Cross-Platform
TeamViewer crossed a big hurdle with the newly released Linux client, which means you can now share your desktop regardless of what platform you’re using.

Ubuntu One Music Store Now Available
Using Rhythmbox you can gain access to the Ubuntu One music store where you can purchase and sync music to your portable device (including the iPhone).

Canon 5D Mark II Used to Shoot House Season Finale
Director of the TV show House answers some questions on Twitter about shooting the entire finale using a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera.

Google Docs Gets Improvements
Google Docs gets a better document and spreadsheet editor, realtime collaboration, and more.

–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–

How to Play Wii Games from an External Drive
This guide explains how you can use an SD card and an external hard drive as a way to backup all of your existing Wii games. Not only does this let you keep the actual discs safely tucked away, but it also means that you don’t have to go fishing for the discs when you want to play a game.

Free App Move Windows Between Multiple Monitors
This program is something I’ve wanted for a little while now. In a nutshell it will let you move a window to another monitor in just a couple clicks. This is something that Ultramon has always done, but seeing that Ultramon isn’t free I’d much rather use an app like this. The only other thing that would make this better for me would be if it had assignable hotkeys so that switching was even faster!

–Tips in Brief–

Keep Your Mouse From Jumping Between Monitors
Dual Display Mouse Manager (DDMM) will prevent your mouse from unexpectedly jumping to another monitor when it gets close to the edge of the screen.  

Batch Convert Nearly Anything with This Mac App
Using a simple drag-and-drop operation you can convert images, music, documents, archives from one format to another.

Another Free File Sync Tool
This free file synchronization tool takes a slightly different approach to setting up jobs by using a tagging system to identify locations.

Customize Windows 7 with GigaTweaker
GigaTweaker makes it easy to adjust certain aspects of Windows 7 that would normally require you to, for example, make registry changes.

–Downloads–

• .Net Framework 4.0 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Adobe Reader 9.3.2 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• BurnAware Free 3.0 ^{Beta 8} [Homepage] [Mirror]
• CDBurnerXP 4.3.0.2054 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Evernote 3.5.3.1964 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Foobar2000 1.0.2.1 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• GOM Player 2.1.24.5013 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Miro 3.0.1 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• openSUSE 11.3 ^{Milestone 5} [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Opera 10.52.3353 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Paint.NET 3.55.3755 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• PDF-XChange Viewer 2.0.50 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Picasa 3.6.0.105.61 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Process Exporer 12.03 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Recuva 1.37.488 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Revo Uninstaller 1.87 [Homepage] [Mirror]
• Sandboxie 3.45.07 ^Beta [Homepage] [Mirror]
• VLC 1.1.0 ^{Pre 1} [Homepage] [Mirror]

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IntoNow app can tell what show you’re watching, won’t knock your Glee addiction (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been quite a while since Apple’s tight reins on the App Store were a subject worth discussing, but they’re back in the spotlight now following the company’s rejection of Sony’s Reader app for iOS. The reasons given to Sony were that Apple will not no longer accept applications that permit in-app purchases of content that don’t go through Apple itself, and, moreover, will not tolerate apps that access material purchased through external content stores. So the Sony Reader Store is out — but wait, doesn’t the Kindle app spend its time serving up Kindlebooks? No comment has been offered on the matter from either Apple or Amazon, while Sony’s Reader Store page describes the situation as “an impasse” and promises to seek “other avenues to bring the Reader experience to Apple mobile devices.” In the mean time, you can get the Reader app for Android or just read your ebooks on a device dedicated to that task.

Update: As noted by Harry McCracken over at Technologizer, it has actually been Apple’s longstanding policy to forbid in-app purchases — the Kindle and Nook apps send you to a browser — so Sony’s desire to do so will have been the major cause for the Reader application’s rejection. That doesn’t invalidate the second concern expressed in the New York Times article, that Apple will no longer tolerate content brought in from external stores, which is a displeasing development, if true.

Update 2: Looks like McCracken nailed it — Apple’s come out with a statement pointing out that the App Store guidelines require that apps that allow content purchases must also allow them in-app through Apple’s official iTunes-backed system. We can’t imagine that Sony is thrilled with the idea of cutting Apple in on Reader content, but if they want to play ball, they should be able to score an approval. Notably, Apple says that they are “now requiring” this even though the guidelines haven’t changed, suggesting they’re just now getting around to enforcing it; the effect on iOS’ Kindle and Nook apps isn’t yet known, but we wouldn’t be surprised if Apple started nudging them in the direction of pushing updates. More on this situation as we have it.

Apple rejects Sony Reader app, really doesn’t want you buying content from others (update: Apple says it needs official in-app purchases) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I guess this means war. App war. Apple is reportedly amping up control of its already fairly closely vetted App Store, blocking a number of companies from its wall-garden–namely those selling content through their offerings. The most high-profile offender? Sony. Apple sent a rejection letter to the consumer electronics giant over an iPhone app that let users but books from the Sony Reader Store.

The news, naturally, came out via Sony. Apple–at least for the moment–isn’t talking. “It’s the opposite of what we wanted to bring to the market,” Sony digital reading president Steve Haber told The New York Times. “We always wanted to bring the content to as many devices as possible, not one device to one store.”

According to Haber, Apple’s rejection letter informed Sony that all in-app purchases need to be approved directly by Apple. No word yet on how this will affect companies like Amazon, which already offer such content through the App Store.