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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Apple patents Fitness Center App for iPhone

Patently Apple's got another USPTO-sponsored bulletin from the R&D Department in Cupertino, and this time it's for a brand new app designed to help you stay in touch with your local gym. A recently published patent details a Fitness Center App that will do things like track your workouts from exercise machines, mark down when and where you visit the gym, and even find a workout partner with social networking or set up appointments for personal trainers straight from the app. [Maybe they'll call it "QuadsSquare." -Ed.]

In short, Apple's idea is that one app would govern all facets of an exercise program, with a heavy back-end system to work with different gyms all over the country. You'd be able to get news and information straight from your local gym, as well as custom reminders when you miss a workout or haven't been in a while.

It all sounds good to us. While most of Apple's patents are usually just the company covering its bases, this one seems awfully in-depth -- everything from concepts to layouts is covered here. That doesn't mean this idea is any more likely to actually be implemented, but it does mean that Apple has put lots of thought and effort into an app like this. Maybe we will see it implemented as an actual release.

Apple patents Fitness Center App for iPhone originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dear Aunt TUAW: Why does iTunes hate me?

Dear Aunt TUAW,

There's nothing I love better than to put on a nice long multi-hour playlist while I'm working, but sometimes reality intrudes. I get a call, and I need to pause the tunes.

If I'm visiting the iTunes store on my Macintosh, then the iTunes application totally loses my place in my playlist. I have to restart my shuffled playlist, and I end up hearing song after song that I've already listened to repeat in a way that ticks off my subconscious.

Help me Auntie! How do I pause my playlist to take a call and be sure that I don't lose my place?

Why does iTunes hate me?

Thanks a bunch,

Vittorio F.

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Ask TUAW: AppleScripting coolness

It's ~~Tuesday~~ Wednesday, which means it's time for Ask TUAW Video Edition. We've gotten great comments and questions coming in, and we have been trying to get to them all. Some of them are just too hard to show in a video format such as Ask TUAW, so today I have decided to do a little AppleScript "tutorial."

Here are 4 scripts that I use:

iTunes - this script will automatically play/pause my music
I'm back - will automatically make Adium go available, and start my music
Mail Announce - will announce who incoming mail is from (works with mail.app only)
Tell me a joke - tells a random joke

You can download the scripts here. Updated the download link at 5:30pm EST

As always leave us comments below or email us here.

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Ask TUAW: AppleScripting coolness originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Our Choice: The First in a Wave of Truly Enhanced E-Books?

Our Choice, a new app penned by Al Gore and developed by Push Pop Press went live in the App Store Wednesday, bringing a unique take on the e-book experience to iOS. If this is what's in store for the future of e-books, count me in.

Source: http://gigaom.com/apple/our-choice-the-first-in-a-wave-of-truly-enhanced-e-books/

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Apple is the World?s Most Admired Company

For the fourth straight year, Apple has been named the world?s most admired company by Fortune Magazine. ?The company?s blistering pace of new product releases has continued to set the bar high for tech companies across the board,? writes Fortune. Apple also ranked #1 for Innovation and led computer companies in eight of nine categories, including Quality of Products and Social Responsibility.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2011/snapshots/670.html

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Play iTunes Music Videos as sound only

I was trying to play a music video in iTunes and it started playing only the sound from it. I looked around for a few seconds trying to find the video window, and I restarted the video a few times to see if it would open.

Finally I realized that I had my AirPort Express selected as an additional set of speakers. I unchecked the AirPort Express and, sure enough, the video started playing.

I don't know if anyone out there wants to know how to stop the video from playing in music videos, but perhaps this might someday help someone who is wondering why only the music part of their music videos is playing.

[crarko adds: The evolution of AirPlay will probably change this.]