Look out, Square! Erply releases credit card reader for iPhone, iPad

Retail management software company Erply is planning a new mobile credit card reader for iOS devices, the company announced today.

Much like competitors Square and Intuit, Erply’s mobile card reader attachment will connect to iPads and iPhones and transmit a person’s credit card data to its own point of sale software for processing payments. It also connects to Erply’s inventory management software, which should cut down on record keeping for any of the company’s 20,000 clients.

Businesses can purchase an Erply card reader attachment for $50. The company charges a 1.9 percent transaction fee, which is considerably less than the 2.75 percent fee Square charges. However, while Square’s software is free to merchants, Erply’s software has a monthly cost ranging from $100 to $1,000.

But Erply’s credit card reader offers a few other advantages over its competitors. One of the most notable is probably that it brings NFC (a short-range communication technology used for mobile payments and information transfer) to iOS devices — putting the iPhone on par with Google’s Nexus S phone.

As VentureBeat’s Devindra Hardawar reported in March, Apple chose not to include the technology in the iPhone 5 because it was worried about the lack of a clear industry NFC standard.

Another notable advantage: Erply’s card reader connects through an iOS device’s charging port, meaning transactions might be more secure. By comparison, Square’s device connects through the audio port, which is susceptible to hacking, as demonstrated at this year’s Black Hat security conference.

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Flickr releases new real-time developer tools in time for Photo Hack Day

Just in time for the August 20-21 Photo Hack Day, Flickr has unleashed some new tools for providing real-time photo data to web apps.

That means you can soon look forward to apps that make more extensive — and immediate — use of what’s going on in your Flickr photo stream and those of your friends.

Back in June, the photo-sharing service allowed developers to access photos and favorites from a user’s contacts in their applications using some of Flickr’s nifty PuSH API methods.

As Flickr’s “nils” noted in the Flickr developer blog, those methods were “pretty neat, but that barely scratches the surface of stuff that happens on Flickr that people might be interested in. So we added some more stuff to subscribe to.”

The new APIs make use of Pubsubhubbub (for instant notifications when something is published — say, a new photo) and allow developers to grab a lot more interesting data for their users, including:

Photos of youPhotos of your contactsYour photos and favoritesPhotos from a specific area (using geodata)Photos with a certain tag or tagsImages from the Flickr CommonsAnd, of course, photos and favorites from your contacts

When grabbing photos from the Commons, you can specify a particular institution or institutions to pull from — for example, you could just get pics from the Smithsonian and the White House. Or, you could scrape all photos and updates from the Flickr Commons in real time.

As for geodata, you can specify an area using a point and radius or a set of WOE IDs, the subscribe to images from that area. This would be handy for getting a real-time stream of photos of tourists “holding up” the Leaning Tower of Pisa, to name a terrible example that should never be implemented by anyone.

Etsy developer Kellan Elliot-McCrea was kind enough to post about how to get started with the new APIs, including some lovely PHP snippets.

Flickr will be at Photo Hack Day (or, more accurately, Photo Hack Weekend) in New York City this weekend. Flickr dev Paul Mison will be on hand to talk about the Flickr APIs and answer questions.

Image courtesy of Flickr, gagilas.

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Flickr releases new real-time developer tools in time for Photo Hack Day

Just in time for the August 20-21 Photo Hack Day, Flickr has unleashed some new tools for providing real-time photo data to web apps.

That means you can soon look forward to apps that make more extensive — and immediate — use of what’s going on in your Flickr photo stream and those of your friends.

Back in June, the photo-sharing service allowed developers to access photos and favorites from a user’s contacts in their applications using some of Flickr’s nifty PuSH API methods.

As Flickr’s “nils” noted in the Flickr developer blog, those methods were “pretty neat, but that barely scratches the surface of stuff that happens on Flickr that people might be interested in. So we added some more stuff to subscribe to.”

The new APIs make use of Pubsubhubbub (for instant notifications when something is published — say, a new photo) and allow developers to grab a lot more interesting data for their users, including:

Photos of youPhotos of your contactsYour photos and favoritesPhotos from a specific area (using geodata)Photos with a certain tag or tagsImages from the Flickr CommonsAnd, of course, photos and favorites from your contacts

When grabbing photos from the Commons, you can specify a particular institution or institutions to pull from — for example, you could just get pics from the Smithsonian and the White House. Or, you could scrape all photos and updates from the Flickr Commons in real time.

As for geodata, you can specify an area using a point and radius or a set of WOE IDs, the subscribe to images from that area. This would be handy for getting a real-time stream of photos of tourists “holding up” the Leaning Tower of Pisa, to name a terrible example that should never be implemented by anyone.

Etsy developer Kellan Elliot-McCrea was kind enough to post about how to get started with the new APIs, including some lovely PHP snippets.

Flickr will be at Photo Hack Day (or, more accurately, Photo Hack Weekend) in New York City this weekend. Flickr dev Paul Mison will be on hand to talk about the Flickr APIs and answer questions.

Image courtesy of Flickr, gagilas.

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Apple releases utility to create the USB of Lion recovery key

Apple today released Lion recovery disk wizard, a utility that allows users to create a partition for recovery of Lion on an external drive or a USB key. Lion recovery allows users to "repair the disk or reinstall OS X Lion without the need for a physical disk.".

To create a collection of external Lion, download the Lion recovery disk wizard application. Insert an external drive, start the recovery Lion Disk Wizard, select the drive where you want to install and follow the screen instructions on.

When the Lion recovery disk wizard completes, the new partition is not visible in the Finder or disk utility. To access the recovery of Lion, restart the computer while pressing the Option. Select recovery HD the Boot Manager.

Lion recovery disk wizard can be downloaded from the Apple support Web site.

The knowledge base of Apple on the utility article notes that in the partition, it creates the same capabilities as the recovery of Lion which is installed during an installation of Lion. However, this partition could be used where a user cannot start the computer from the recovery partition or if the hard disk is replaced. [Users] reinstalls Lion, repair disk using the disk utility, restore a backup Time Machine or browse the web with Safari. This drive can be used when you cannot start your computer with HD integrated recovery, or you replaced the hard disk with a new is not Mac OS X installed.

The document has two final notes:-If the computer shipped with the Lion, the external recovery drive can only be used with the system that created.

-If the system has been improved for Mac OS X Snow Leopard Lion v10.6, the external drive recovery can be used in other systems were upgraded to Leopard Snow Lion.

We already reported that to do a clean install of Lion, Leopard and snow must be installed first. With the creator of partition recovery, there is now an official way to perform an installation without Snow Leopard. Also, this appears to be unnecessary unofficial Lion boot disk creator.

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Apple releases iOS 5 Beta 5 for developers

In a gesture of surprise, Apple has released iOS 5 Beta 5 (build 9A5288d) developers to Saturday. Apple publishes generally new seeds of developer week. Alongside the iOS Beta 5 version 5 is Xcode 4.2 Developer Preview 5, iTunes 10.5 Beta 5 and Apple TV software Beta 4.

iOS 5 Beta 5 is available as an update of the air, but according to the release notes, users must first erase all content and settings by selecting settings > General > reset > erase all content and settings. Apple recommends that backup of your device with iTunes 10.5 Beta 4 or iCloud before installing iOS 5 beta 5 and restore later. That said, some users have upgrade fine without going through this process.

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BGR records release notes, which details some fixes, but no major new features. We are looking for in what other changes may have occurred.

Hearing aid mode is said to be new in iOS Beta 5 5:

Over the air Update Beta 4 Beta 5 is 128 MB.

NatesTechUpdate offers this video to some of the new iOS conclusions 5:

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Apple releases Xcode 4.1.1 Mac App Store Installation Alert question

Users seeking to install Xcode 4.1 for OS X Lion published last month free development tools have been running in a matter that caused problems with the installation process. During the installation process, users are asked to leave iTunes, if it is running, but the alert does not disappear even after iTunes was quit and installation are still deadlock.

In the supporting document to Apple on the issue, the notes of the society that users must also leave the iTunesHelper process, which can be found in and out of the Activity Monitor utility. Once iTunesHelper has been quit, the installation continues normally.

Apple today addressed the behavior creates confusion with the release of Xcode 4.1.1 by the Mac App Store, a small delta update which removes the alert facility which has caused problems for users. Users who have already installed Xcode 4.1 are not required to install the updated version. What's new in Version 4.1.1

This is an update from the delta to install a Xcode.app which fixes the "Installation Alert" stop iTunes. You do not need to rerun the Setup program if you have Xcode 4.1 for Lion installed successfully, as the included tools are unchanged in this update.

4.1.1 Xcode is a free download in the Mac App Store, but requires the OS X lion.

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Apple QuickTime releases security update for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows 7.7

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Apple Releases QuickTime 7.7 Security Update for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows - MacRumors.com window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : '263507923666566', status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML }); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); Front Page Mac Blog iOS Blog Buyer's Guide ForumsGot a tip for us? Share it...Twitter ? Facebook ? RSSa. Send us an emailb. Anonymous formclose (x)Apple Releases QuickTime 7.7 Security Update for Mac OS X Leopard and WindowsThursday August 4, 2011 8:37 am PDT by Eric SlivkaApple yesterday released a pair of QuickTime 7.7 updates for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows XP/Vista/7 users. According to an associated support document, the updates bring fixes for fourteen separate issues related to security.QuickTime 7.7 improves security and is recommended for all Mac OS X Leopard users.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

The update weighs in at 68.85 MB for Mac OS X Leopard and 37.15 MB for Windows.[ 17 comments ]Tweet Top Rated Comments(View all)

Mr. Retrofire4 days ago at 12:36 pmQuick Time 7 was tossed into the Utilities folder when you updated to 10.6.

I did not update to 10.6, kid. My newest MBP (17", Early-2011) came already with 10.6.7. What now!? :D

Quick Time X replaced QT7.

No, QuickTime X in 10.6 uses still the old QT7 API, "under the hood". I know this, because i write QuickTime-based software.

AVFoundation is a new technology that first appeared in iOS and has just been included in OS X with the 10.7 release.

The AV Foundation framework appeared first in iMovie for iOS. Final Cut Pro X included it first on the desktop OS platform (one month before Lion). That is the reason why FCPX runs also on Snow Leopard (not just Lion).Rating: 2 Positives / 0 Negativesmunkees3 days ago at 02:26 pm
I guess it's time for Apple to drop QuickTime for Windows as a separate product, fold it into iTunes and remove all extra features like QT Player, control panel and internet plugins. And especially get rid of the absurdity that is QuickTime Pro.

The thing about QT7 Pro, that QTX does not do is sequence of images into a movie, it very fast and efficient, that is why I still use QT 7 pro. Wish :apple: would of added the pro features to QT XRating: 1 Positives / 0 NegativesxStep4 days ago at 12:00 pmThey replaced it in OS X 10.7 (with AV Foundation), not 10.6.

Quick Time 7 was tossed into the Utilities folder when you updated to 10.6. Quick Time X replaced QT7.

AVFoundation is a new technology that first appeared in iOS and has just been included in OS X with the 10.7 release. Apple expects developers to use it instead of the older QT technology for new development.Rating: 2 Positives / 1 Negativesppc_michael4 days ago at 11:43 amlooks like a pretty big update security wise but, I'm guessing i've already got it for Lion then?

Quicktime 7 is absent from Lion unless you specifically download it.Rating: 1 Positives / 0 NegativesAriX4 days ago at 12:01 pmThey replaced it in OS X 10.7 (with AV Foundation), not 10.6.

That's not true. Quicktime 7 was replaced with Quicktime X in 10.6, although both are still supported in both 10.6 and 10.7. What you linked to is just a new framework.

It's nice to see that Apple still provides security updates for Leopard. A lot of people still use it, and Apple's recent decisions regarding backwards compatibility have bothered me a bit. (Rosetta's demise, as well as Xcode 4's inability to develop for anything before 10.6, and Apple's removal of Carbon tools from Xcode 3).Rating: 1 Positives / 1 NegativesArtOfWarfare4 days ago at 09:26 amQuickTime X isn't on Windows?Rating: 0 Positives / 0 NegativesKing Flamez14 days ago at 09:26 amlooks like a pretty big update security wise but, I'm guessing i've already got it for Lion then?Rating: 0 Positives / 0 NegativesKing Flamez14 days ago at 09:27 amQuickTime X isn't on Windows?

i think u can pay extra and get itRating: 0 Positives / 0 Negativesgumblecosby4 days ago at 10:21 amQuickTime X isn't on Windows?

Quicktime X is not Quicktime 7. Quicktime 7 is Apple's old video foundation which was replaced by Quicktime X in 10.6.

Its nice to see leopard get updates still.Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negativesblackboxxx4 days ago at 12:29 pmWhile about a decade ago QuickTime tried to be the video standard of the web and competed against Windows Media and Real (remember Real? :D), it has lost to Flash long ago, and now HTML5 is the new contender. I haven't seen any website that uses QT (except apple.com) in the past five years. Windows 7 now even plays most .mov files natively. The only remaining reason to have QuickTime on your PC is to run iTunes.

They stopped updating QuickTime 7 with new features long ago, and continue pushing out updates just to fix security bugs, of which there are plenty (I'm serious – it's worse than Flash).

I guess it's time for Apple to drop QuickTime for Windows as a separate product, fold it into iTunes and remove all extra features like QT Player, control panel and internet plugins. And especially get rid of the absurdity that is QuickTime Pro.Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
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