Foxconn's Brazilian factory begins iPad assembly

Brazil's minister of science and technology, Aloizio Mercadante, has announced that a new Foxconn factory in Jundiaí is complete and already producing iPads, reports note. The information was revealed at a hearing of the country's Commission of Economic Affairs. Although production is currently in progress, Brazilian-made iPads are not expected to ship until December....

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HTC Sensation XE steps up fight with 1.5GHz dual-core, Beats

HTC unveiled a rare early revamp of a core smartphone on Wednesday in anticipation of a heated battle with the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S II LTE. The Sensation XE upgrades in raw speed, from a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon to 1.5GHz, bit is also the first phone to take advantage of the HTC stake in Beats Audio. Its software has been tuned to improve the audio experience, and it ships with a pair of custom-designed Beats in-ear headphones and microphone remote that automatically switch to a unique audio profile when plugged in....

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A Showpiece E-Book for iPad

Blogging in The New York Times, technology columnist David Pogue calls Our Choice ? Al Gore?s new e-book app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch ? ?one of the most elegant, fluid, immersive apps you?ve ever seen.? Pogue notes that the Our Choice app updates Gore?s 2009 best-selling book about solving Earth?s climate crisis and that ?the real magic? is in the visual elements, which include more than 400 pages of interactive photos, graphics, and video. Pogue concludes: ?For once, here?s an e-book that really does redefine the net effect of an e-book.?

Source: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/al-gore-invents-a-showpiece-e-book/

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VMware Fusion 4 now available with Lion-specific features

Not one to be left behind for long, VMware has introduced the new version of its Fusion virtualization software. Fusion 4 lets you install and run a second OS, including Windows, Lion or Snow Leopard in a virtual machine that integrates completely with your desktop.

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Cycle between bases in Programming Calculator mode

I use the Programming mode in Calculator.app and often find myself moving to the mouse to switch between octal, hex, and decimal modes. I wrote the two following Applescripts to cycle forward and backward between bases and use Butler to bind them to Command+D and Command+Shift+D.

Cycle forwards:

tell application "System Events"   tell application process "Calculator"     repeat with i from 1 to 3       if the value of radio button i of radio group 1 of group 2 of window "Calculator" is 1 then         click radio button ((i mod 3) + 1) of radio group 1 of group 2 of window "Calculator"         exit repeat       end if     end repeat   end tell end tell
Cycle backwards: ...

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El Paso, Hamburg Apple Stores tapped for weekend openings

At least two new Apple Stores are set to open this Saturday, checks confirm. The first is a Jungfernstieg location in Hamburg, Germany, which will represent the first time Apple has built more than one outlet per city in the country. Reports originally called for the shop to debut on the 10th, but the opening may simply have been delayed a week, for whatever reason....

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