Apple reportedly readying Replay service for streaming iTunes purchase history

According to AppAdvice, Apple may be prepping a new re-downloading and streaming service called iTunes Replay. The service would let you re-download select movies and TV shows from iTunes and stream that content to a variety of iOS devices.

The Replay service will supposedly let you access shows that you purchased as for back as 2009 and will stream them to your Apple TV and iOS devices. Similar to Amazon Unbox, the number of downloads may vary from clip to clip and may be limited in number.

This isn't the first time we've encountered this rumor; bits and pieces of it have been floating around since 2009. The only difference now is that with iCloud, Apple may have the underlying infrastructure in place to host such a streaming service.

Apple reportedly readying Replay service for streaming iTunes purchase history originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google complains of patent attacks upon Android from Apple, Microsoft

Google's chief legal officer has posted a public blog entry complaining that Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and others are waging an "organized campaign" against its Android operating system "waged through bogus patents."

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Baffling inconsistencies in OS X Lion Multi-Touch

OS X Lion's new Multi-Touch gestures have switched things up more than any previous version of OS X, and they're brought a lot of confusion with them. While "natural" scrolling is the most obvious change and the one that takes the most getting used to (unless you disable it), other inconsistencies in the way Lion handles Multi-Touch gestures are both more subtle and potentially more baffling. The one that's been tripping me up even after almost two weeks of using Lion is the gestures for going forward and back in Safari and other applications.

In Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, a three-finger swipe would take you backward and forward in any app that supported that gesture, like Apple's Safari, Finder, Preview, iPhoto, Aperture, and even the iTunes Store. Eventually, third-party browsers like Firefox baked in support for these three-finger gestures, and the whole system worked pretty well.

OS X Lion introduced a new gesture for forward/back navigation: a two-finger swipe. I actually like this gesture better, because when you're using Safari you get a preview of the next/previous page as you swipe, something that three-finger swiping doesn't provide. It's a very neat trick, but there's a problem: the gesture only works in Safari. No other programs react to this gesture at all. So if you have "Swipe between pages" set to "Scroll left or right with two fingers" in System Preferences, you lose the ability to use gestures to go back and forward in Finder, iPhoto, Aperture, and other apps.

Things get even more confusing if you enable "Swipe with two or three fingers" and have natural scrolling enabled. I'll try to explain why with the outline below:

Two-finger swipe: natural scrolling disabled

  • Swipe from left to right: Go forward
  • Swipe from right to left: Go back

Two-finger swipe: natural scrolling enabled

  • Swipe from left to right: Go back
  • Swipe from right to left: Go forward

Three-finger swipe: natural scrolling enabled/disabled makes no difference

  • Swipe from left to right: Go forward
  • Swipe from right to left: Go back

You might have already caught on to the inconsistency, but I'll spell it out anyway: If you have natural scrolling enabled and have also enabled swiping with either two or three fingers, the gesture direction is completely reversed depending on the number of fingers you use. The result: brain meltdown.

Right now, the only ways around this inconsistency are:

  1. Disable natural scrolling
  2. Leave three-finger gestures disabled and lose the ability to swipe forward/back in any app other than Safari
  3. Set swiping to three fingers only and lose Safari's ability to preview pages as you swipe
  4. Reverse the three-finger swipe gesture directions with a third-party app like BetterTouchTool (my personal choice)
  5. Live with it, while your muscle memory quietly rebels and plots to overthrow you

I'd like to think this inconsistency is something that Apple will address in a future update to Lion, but as it's likely Apple considers three-finger swiping a "legacy" gesture from earlier versions of OS X and only kept it around to placate users who upgraded from Snow Leopard, the company may not bother. A better solution might be to expand the new two-finger gestures to apps other than Safari. In the meantime, using BetterTouchTool to work around the problem has at least stopped my muscle memory from cursing Apple's UI design team fifty times a day.

Baffling inconsistencies in OS X Lion Multi-Touch originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft Build sells out, trails Apple's WWDC

Microsoft's Windows 8 developer conference known as Build and planned for mid-September is now sold out, the website reveals. The four-day event also includes a pre-conference day and was first announced on June 1, taking about two months to sell out. In comparison, Apple's similar-focused WWDC 2011 event sold out in just hours....

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