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Application bundles may not be new but they are a tried and tested way of helping developers get their creations out to a greater number of users. Although they do exist on other platforms, many of the popular promotions (including MacHeist and others) will be targeted specifically at Mac users. With the introduction of the Mac App Store, you may have thought that many of the Mac App bundles’ days were numbered, especially when users can purchase, download apps and be notified when they are updated....

Today,Apple’s Steve Jobs announcedhis resignation as CEO of the company in the following letter to Apple’s Board of Directors. To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple....

Yuri Vishnevsky, a computer science and linguistics student, has created an interactive generative art experiment that allows users to generate art in real-time on the screen. Silk, is aKickerStarterproject that currently enables users to create art on its site however Vishnesvsky hopes to bring it to iOS devices soon. On the site, users can drag their mouse within the interactive interface to whirl and transform the beautiful designs on the screen....

Ireviewa lot ofspeakershere at TNW, and — if may toot my own horn for a bit — I do so in a more technical manner than you’ll find in most other mainstream tech publications. My reviews are full of measurements and graphs that I genuinely believe provide powerful insights into not only a speaker’s technical prowess, but also how likely you are to actuallyenjoythat speaker in your own home. It’s not a perfect system, but I nonetheless believe in the power of this data to such an extent that I’d be totally happy if readers skim my actual listening impressions — collected over weeks or months of careful critical listening — just to get to the measurements and my interpretation thereof....

The very first Apple TV was shipped in March of 2007 right? Well, perhaps the first Apple product to bear that name, but not the first Apple set-top box that aimed to do what the Apple TV does today. That honor goes to this device which Rob Gould of AOL says was called the ‘Pippen’. Gould came in contact with the device when he was back at Bell Atlantic, now Verizon, and they were looking to partner with Apple on a set-top box offering....