Cross posted from our sister site, Techpedia, here’s a look at one of the cooler apps for the Mac, Lilt:

An excellent new app called ‘Lilt’ is out from Jon Nathan, the maker of such Mac gems as Docktop and Preferential Treatment.

Lilt allows you to control your Mac using the ambient light and sudden motion sensors on 2004+ iBooks/Powerbooks/Macbooks. By assigning actions to specific criteria (example: if the left light sensor goes darker by 25%, switch to the previous iTunes track), you can do almost anything using your hands. (Which, in retrospect, is a little creepy…)

Jon has thoughtfully included several Applescripts in the downloadable image, and just as an fyi, you can also use the actions to launch applications or perform such actions as locking the screen or starting your screensaver.

FUSE is now available for OS X! What does this mean to you? How about read/write to NTFS (whoohoo!), SSH FS, Picasa FS and more?

Boot Camp just got a little more attractive, eh?

Download and read more about Fuse here:
macfuse on Google Code

And if all the compilation instructions there seem tough, you can grab a pre-compiled installer here: …

Apple VPs confirm no 3rd party iPhone apps - (TUAW):

Looks like I’ll be keeping my 60gb iPod and Cingular 8125 for a while longer. It’s a shame really…the iPhone/i6 could have been a killer SmartPhone.

The lucky Gizmodo guys got their paws on an actual iPhone plus an hour of Q&A with some Apple VPs. Here are some of their scoops: The OS isn’t going to be “OS X for real.” It’s more like a pseudo-OS X and, like the iPod, it will not have a public API and open development. This confirms what Dan posted earlier today about no user-installable apps. Which is a shame. I’d really love to see the iPod and iPhone get opened up for more third party software. The screen is the same polycarbonite material as the iPod overlaid with a touch element. Finally, there won’t be any WiFi or cellular data syncing, only sync-via-docking.

By locking out developers, Apple is doing nothing but encouraging their competitors to mimic their designs and do things better. While this is a noble movement from a ‘we want the world to be better’ viewpoint, it’s not so great for investors and fans of the company.

Allume, makers of Stuffit, AquaZone and Spring Cleaning, have a special running for Macworld: up to 40% off, meaning you can get these apps for a substantial savings. Time to stock up!
Stuffit 11 Deluxe for Mac - Normal: $79 / Sale: $49
FAXstf Pro - Normal: $49.99 / Sale: $20
AquaZone Deluxe - Normal: $25 / Sale: $20…

Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Release Candidate:

# NEW! USB 2.0 support - “Plug and play” popular USB devices like external hard drives, printers, scanners and USB 2.0 web cameras, and use them at full native speed.
* NOTE! Current Build 3120 doesn’t support iSight and some other web cameras
# NEW! Full-feature virtual CD/DVD drive - …

After years of waiting and endless speculation, Apple has finally released the iPhone. Loaded with features and packed with dazzling graphics, widgets and overall coolness, the iPhone would appear to be the end all/be all cellular/smart/media phone.

But is it? This article discusses five things that the iPhone is missing that could keep it from being serious competition to other convergent phones such as the Treo, Motorola Q or the Blackberry or even consumer devices like the Razr or Chocolate.

According to Business 2.0, Apple and Cisco have likely reached an agreement in regard to the name ‘iPhone’, ending a great deal of confusion amongst those of us who have drank the kool-aid:

But now it appears that Apple and Cisco have been deep in negotiations over the iPhone name for a while. Here’s the statement Cisco’s giving out:

Given …