Analyst: iTunes to boost Apple revenue by $13B in 2013
Apple's iTunes products are on track to contribute approximately $13 billion to the company's revenue by 2013, according to Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry. Although Amazon's Kindle platform may have an edge against iBooks in the current market, the analyst suggests many publishers are beginning to favor ePub format, used by Apple, rather than the Kindle format. The iPad is also said to be the preferred e-book reader among students.... Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=8b8993a1c60d8754538da9016488b829
Microsoft has announced an update to its Bing app for the iPad. The latest version adds a new feature, referred to as Lasso, that enables users to quickly select text to use as a search. Rather than relying on the traditional copy-and-paste process, Lasso automatically begins a search after touch gestures are used to encircle a group of words.... 
Here is another Exposé keyboard trick, this one available when doing Application Switching. When Tab Switching between applications, besides Command+Tab, and Command+Shift+Tab (or Command+~); if you select the desired application, continue holding the Command key, and press 1, the selected application's windows are spread out Exposé style (from all Spaces). [crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. Like this 




Twitter's engineering team has introduced an open-source framework that aims to help developers build interfaces for Mac OS X. The standard, labeled TwUI, is said to take inspiration from UIKit for iOS devices, enabling developers to take advantage of GPU acceleration for interactive interfaces. The company built TwUI using Core Animation, with interaction ideas taken from AppKit....