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Google isn’t taking Apple’s rejection of their Google Voice app lying down. They’ll be developing a full featured web app for the iPhone.

From Google plans to bypass Apple’s App Store on the Web, on Appleinsider.

With its native Google Voice application rejected from the iPhone App Store, the software maker is planning a full-featured Web application in its place.

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Filed under: Apple Corporate

CNBC has reported this morning that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, right, has resigned from Apple’s board of directors after three years. This comes a week after Apple pulled GV Mobile and Voice Central from the App Store, along with the uproar and FCC letters that followed.

In a press release, Steve Jobs said the following: “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest. Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple’s Board.”

Do you think Schmidt stepping down had anything to do with the events of last week? Let us know in the comments!

TUAWCNBC: Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple’s board originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ever have a catchy tune stuck in your head but have no clue what the name of the song is, never mind who sings it? Enter web site LyricRat, who searches lyrics, finds the song, and then some.

Hit up the site, enter the lyrics you know (or think you know), and click search. LyricRat will return the result, as well as some possible alternatives, along with the album info and even a sample of the song (all linking to Amazon.com). The site does well with lyrics commonly mistaken, too; we tried the commonly misheard lyrics to the song in the screenshot and LyricRat still got it right.

What sets LyricRat apart from other search engines or even just a Google search is the ability to tweet your lyrics to @LyricRat and get almost-instant results with a link to the page on LyricRat for the full information.

So while Google is still probably your quickest and easiest option, LyricRat is a fair alternative, especially for quick results on your cellphone via Twitter.

Filed under: Cool tools, Productivity, Beta Beat

The BusyCal public beta is out! I got a preview of BusyCal while at WWDC this year, and have been anxiously awaiting the chance to put it into action. As the developers state on the homepage: “Think of it as iCal Pro.” The next step from the makers of BusySync, BusyCal offers a full calendaring system with Bonjour and Google Calendar sync, iPhone sync via iTunes or MobileMe, full read-write access for multi-user calendars, and a plethora of other features and goodies.

Dated to-dos are embedded in the calendar, optionally carrying forward if not completed on their due date. You can add recurring to-do items with the same carry-forward functionality. There are customizable views, including sortable list views, plus shared sticky notes, customizable graphics, live weather and forecasts (with sunrise/set times and moon phases), all in an easy-to-grasp, iCal-like interface.

If you’ve ever thought, “Gosh, I like iCal, I just wish it had about 20 more useful features and could sync across my LAN and the internet,” take the public beta of BusyCal for a spin. BusyCal will cost $40US per computer, or $10/computer for BusySync owners. Doing the math, BusySync is $25, plus the $10 upgrade is $35, so you could save yourself $5 taking the upgrade path, even with a new purchase of BusySync.

TUAWBeta Beat: BusyCal from BusyMac originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers

Like sand through the hourglass, the browser ballot soap opera continues with a a whole new set of interesting developments.

Yesterday, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley poked around the small print of the Microsoft proposal and noticed existing Windows XP and Vista users are slated to receive the ballot screen via Windows update. From the release:

“Microsoft will distribute a Ballot Screen software update to users within the EEA of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Client PC Operating Systems, by means of Windows Update as described hereafter: A software update enabling the Ballot Screen to be displayed will be made available to all current and future users of Windows XP and Windows Vista who receive updates from Windows Update.”

So in addition to Windows 7E customers getting the screen, users who already own Windows will be shown the ballot at some point in the future when an Update runs.

Here’s where the plot thickens. We know that the EC likes the idea of the ballot screen. We know Opera CEO Hakon Wium Lie said “We’re very happy with Microsoft’s proposal.” That doesn’t mean they’re done complaining yet.

Continue reading Ballot scren headed to XP, Vista, Opera worries about IE logo recognition

Ballot scren headed to XP, Vista, Opera worries about IE logo recognition originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can food and drink websites get any more niche than this? Rate My Rosetta adapts the Hot or Not formula to an online competition among professional and amateur baristas for the best latte art. To date, the site has amassed more than 3,082 photos of foam and coffee design from 496 latte art contributors.

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