Apple trumps Nokia for smartphone share on Nokia's home turf

Apple produced a symbolic win late Thursday after an IDC study revealed that it had beaten Nokia for smartphone market share in Nokia's core market of Western Europe. The iPhone slipped from 24.6 percent share a year ago to 20.8 percent, but Nokia's market share collapsed from 40.6 percent to just 19.6 percent in one year, giving Apple the top spot. Apple shipped 49 percent more iPhones to the region to hit 4.4 million where Nokia saw its shipments drop from 4.9 million to 4.2 million....

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Temporarily disable automatic login

This hint is for programs like Undercover and others.

If your Mac is stolen, you need to provide a way for the thief to login in your computer, so those programs can track your Mac, otherwise you are in trouble.

Perhaps you didn't put a password in your account to allow autologin. But this isn't secure enough. Or you need to create a guest account to allow the login, so you can put a password in your main account.

The problem is that every time your machine boots, you need to choose your user. It would be handy if your guest account would login by itself. But then you would need to logout first and after that login in your main account.

You just need to press and hold the Shift key during the boot ONLY when the Blue screen appears. It will disable autologin and you can choose between your accounts.

So you can put a password in your account, and enable the automatic login for the guest acc ...

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Recovering from a catastrophic drive failure.

I can't say it enough. Back up your hard drive. I'm going to talk here about what I recommend as the best way to protect yourself from a catastrophic hard drive failure. Keep in mind that what follows is just one of many ways to protect your Mac.

This will cost you. You need to purchase an external hard drive to use with Time Machine. When your internal hard drive fails, you will then need another external hard drive to restore to from Time Machine. You will be using that new external hard drive to work from until you're ready to repair your Mac.

The Time Machine basics:

The size needed for this hard drive depends on how much space you expect to use on your internal hard drive. If you're currently using only about 30GB of your 500GB hard drive and you don't expect to be adding a lot of videos or photos in the future, then you can safely use a 120GB hard drive. In other words, your Time Machine backup drive should be about three times the size of wh ...

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TUAW's Daily iOS App: Enduro

Enduro is an old Atari game that's now on the App Store, and it's available as a universal version for iPhone or iPad. Personally, I don't really remember this one (it's a racing game that's similar to Pole Position, though the big innovation was that you could race through different environments like fog or snow), but bigger Atari fans than myself might be excited to see that it's now playable on iOS.

The reason why Enduro is interesting, however, is that, as Touch Arcade reports, it's an unsanctioned port. Atari has already released several games for the iPhone, and those are all officially sponsored, presumably giving a little bit of money back to the original creators (or in most cases, whoever owns the rights to them). But for Enduro, developer Nemo has strangely been able to publish the app without the official rights to the software -- it's a completely unofficial port.

At any rate, the game's currently available on the App Store for US$0.99. If you want to play it, you better pick it up fast. Nemo could actually go get the rights to the game to publish it -- that's exactly what the folks behind the Commodore 64 app did, and that app is now official and approved. But there may be some rough waters ahead for this one if the original Enduro IP owners get word of Nemo's app.

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The Daily burns $10m in cash, still said in 'early days'

News Corp. during its results call on Wednesday revealed that it had chewed through $10 million in losses for The Daily's first quarter on the iPad. COO Chase Carey explained the cash outlay as the result of early development, noting that it was "real early days" for the tablet publication. It had been somewhat over a month since it began charging for customers and was popular, but still a "work in progress," he explained....

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