Facebar – Mozilla toolbar for FaceBook

Facebar 1.5.1 for Mac – Facebar – Mozilla toolbar for FaceBook.
Besides sounding like a bad crash I had on my bike 20 years ago, facebar is a Firefox toolbar for Facebook. To change your settings for autologin, checking for updates, etc., click on the big Facebook button (left side of the toolbar), then Preferences. According to Softpedia, it is FREE and for Mac OS X.

(Via Softpedia .)

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Could Apple and NBC make up?

Could Apple, NBC be patching up differences?
Apple and NBC were embroiled in a feud last year over iTunes pricing. But signs point to a thaw in the frosty relations between the two companies, as NBC shows have appeared on the U.K. version of the iTunes Store.

(Via Macworld.)

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No more excuses for being late to work when your little friend Clocky is out there looking after you. Set the alarm and you’re sure to be woken as he beeps, jumps, then runs away and hides as you’re searching for the snooze button. Yes, he can be a bit annoying, but he certainly gets the job done.

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Amazing iPhone Wallpaper!

Amazing iPhone Wallpapers

Hey If you have an iPhone or an iTouch you know the how cool the design is. Thats why you bough it. What you need next is a really cool wallpaper to really show it off. Although you could use on of you kids, or friends, thats a bit boring. What you need is a well designed wallpaper to really show it off. Although there is hundreds of sites that offer iPhone “Wallpapers” these are really just resized images from other sources. What you need it a all paper designed for the screen size of an iPhone.

One of the best sites is Poolga. Its a random name but has some of the best wallpapers, ever. A lot better than the crud you get is you search through for sites in Google. Although the selection isn’t massive, they make it up in quality. I just wish some of the wallpapers with desktop size.

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iPhone Firmware 2.0 suggest 3G?

Newsflash! Firmware 2.0 hints suggest Apple might be working on a 3G iPhone

Schmap (city guides) for iPhone & iPod Touch

TUAW preview: Schmap for iPhone & iPod Touch

Planning some activities out on the town this weekend, or searching for a Mother’s Day dining option? The fine folks at Schmap have a treat for you — they’d like TUAW readers to have the first whack at their new iPhone City Guides and Local Search before the Mobile Safari-optimized site goes into official beta on Monday, May 12.

Point Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch to www.schmap.com, then enter the pre-launch preview access code: 724627. Once you’re in the site, pull up a Schmap Guide for your favorite city for info, maps, and more. Some of the search features aren’t wired in yet, but they should be done soon.

Schmap’s website has several Flash demos of the features of the Schmap Guides for iPhone. Check it out!

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How AT&T spilled the Starbucks beans!

How AT&T spilled the Starbucks beans

Here’s one thing the folks at Apple could teach their friends at AT&T: how to parcel out the good news.

Case in point: the Starbucks-iPhone-Wi-Fi deal that’s been on and off all week and generating all the wrong kind of headlines (see for example, here).

If Steve Jobs were running AT&T, he would have kept it simple. And a surprise. The first we would have heard about it would be when he announced it, with a flourish, as a fait accompli. Starting today, free unlimited Wi-Fi for every iPhone owner at all 7,000 Starbucks coffee shops and every other AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot — 17,000 in the U.S., 70,000 around the world.

Boom.

What we got instead was the public relations equivalent of second-day coffee, starting with the press release AT&T (T) issued back in February. The 13-paragraph document talks about free Wi-Fi for “AT&T broadband, AT&T U-verse^SM Internet [and] AT&T’s remote access services business customers” but never mentions Apple (AAPL) or the iPhone — two hot-button words that would have given the news some real buzz.

Instead reporters focused on the fact that Starbucks (SBUK) was pulling the plug on T-Mobile, which had been providing it with wireless service since 2001.

Then, last week, without warning, AT&T turned the service on. I spotted it on April 30 when I tried to log on to my T-Mobile account and discovered an AT&T link that wasn’t there the day before. I was already thinking about how many extra shots of espresso I could buy with the $39 a month I would save.

And I was not alone. Apple rumor sites that day were flooded with tips from both coasts alerting them that iPhone owners were getting free Wi-Fi at Starbucks by just by typing in their 10-digit AT&T phone number. AT&T had apparently launched a nationwide test without telling anyone.

Then, four days later, the service stopped, as abruptly and mysteriously as it started, setting off waves of confusion and speculation about what the company’s on-again, off-again behavior might mean. (see here)

You might think that AT&T would have learned their lesson. But no. On Thursday, the text on its website was changed to add language about the new service — “access to AT&T’s more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks* all for use (sic) in the U.S.” — that iPhone owners took as a signal that the game was on for good.

Then the language disappeared, along with the Wi-Fi service, triggering another round of second-guessing. (see here)

Apparently the habit of firing before aiming — not to mention clearing it with publicity — had spread from AT&T’s networking guys to its marketing staff.

Officially, both AT&T and Apple have no comment, but the folks in Cupertino are clearly miffed. They saw the Starbucks deal as big news for iPhone owners, and they had hoped to work with AT&T to package it for high-profile release, probably in a matter of weeks.

They would have done it right.

(Via FORTUNE: Apple 2.0.)

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