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TidBITS#1042/30-Aug-2010
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  Issue link: <http://db.tidbits.com/issue/1042>

  No trends this week - just a lot of interesting news, starting off
  with Lex Friedman's coverage of the Netflix iPad app's newfound
  capability to stream Watch Instantly movies to the iPhone and iPod
  touch too. Glenn Fleishman looks at how you can now place calls
  using Google Voice in Gmail and how Virgin Mobile has upped the
  mobile broadband ante with an unlimited cellular data plan that
  works with the popular MiFi portable Wi-Fi gateway. Glenn also gives
  the blow-by-blow description of how we were forced to move all our
  Web services to a Rackspace Cloud Server last week. Then Adam
  examines the iWork 9.0.4 update, which isn't interesting other than
  the way it adds EPUB export to Pages, and Tonya runs through all the
  things you can try doing to speed up an iPhone 3G under iOS 4.
  Notable software releases this week include MacBook Pro EFI Firmware
  Update 1.9, Camino 2.0.4, Security Update 2010-005, GraphicConverter
  6.7.4, and Freeway 5.5.

Articles
    Netflix App Now Available for iPhone and iPod touch
    Place Calls using Google Voice - in Gmail!
    Virgin Mobile Offers Unlimited Cellular Data Plan
    TidBITS's Emergency Brain Transplant
    iWork 9.0.4 Gives Pages EPUB Support
    Speed Up Your iOS 4-Based iPhone 3G
    TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 30 August 2010
    ExtraBITS for 30 August 2010


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