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Apple’s iCloud is a CalDAV server, and iCal — even in Snow Leopard — is a CalDAV client, so it turns out that you can make iCal in Snow Leopard play nicely with iCloud with a simple export/import trick. Address Book is, for unknown reasons, another story.
Apple has updated the iBooks iOS app with a white-on-black theme, new fonts, a full-screen mode, and a few other tweaks. Tonya Engst goes beyond Apple’s release notes to show off the new features.
A few months after Twitter’s acquisition of the popular and powerful TweetDeck client software, the company has released a new version that leaves behind the program’s Adobe AIR roots in favor of a sleek and fast client for Mac, Windows, and even the Web.
Rogue Amoeba’s latest effort — the audio recording app Piezo — makes recording audio from nearly any source on the Mac extremely easy, though the app has a few tradeoffs necessary for both simplicity and to get past Apple’s Mac App Store guard dogs.
Notable software releases this week include SOHO Labels 6, Aperture 3.2.2, TextExpander 3.4, and Keynote 5.1.1.
Outlining is a topic near and dear to some of us, and Jeff Carlson reviews OmniOutliner for iPad over at Macworld, where Glenn Fleishman also writes about a tool that prevents DNS poisoning. Plus, might libraries turn into hackerspaces in the future?