All your family and friends are using iPad or iPhone? When a holiday is coming, it’s a good idea to gift them an iPad or iPhone app, especially they are new owners of an iPad or iPhone. There are 3 ways you can gift an app. Depending on you, just choose your way.

Gift an App from iTunes

When you’ve find the app you want to send other as holiday gift, follow these steps to gift it.

1. Click on the arrow and choose “Gift This App.”
2. In the Give a Gift page, you can either send it via email or by printing the gift certificate yourself. Gift app via email is more convenient if you know their email address, but as for me, send a certificate in card is more like a present. Click the appropriate choice on top.
3. Fill in the appropriate details. If you give the app to multiple people, you will be billed the amount of the app times the number of addresses filled. Click Continue when finished.
4. Sign into your iTunes account, and click Buy button to make the purchase.
5. Done. Your gift will then send to the recipient and you have a chance to print the certificate.

Gift an App from iOS

Similar to the above method, you’ll see a “Gift This App” button in the app page. Tap it sign in your account. On the next screen explains details about the app. Choose Next to continue. Then enter the recipient’s name and the recipient’s email. Click Next again. The last page provides a button which says Buy Gift. Tap it to gift an app via email.
Apple Gift Card

Actually, you can just send them an Apple Gift card. They can enter the code on the card in the App Store, or in iTunes. The money will be added to their account so that they can get the app they want.

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Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, which is reported to be a merge of Mac OS and iOS, miss Siri, one of the most outstanding feature on iPhone 4S iOS 5, even though the notification, note, iMessage, reminders and more are now available on Mac with Mountain Lion. It’s really a disappointment that there is no Siri on the new Mac operating system.

And from some sites, Apple’s hesitancy in the release of Siri for Mac is posited to be related to microphone technology. I know little about microphone tech, but personally speaking, if Siri is available on Mac OS X 10.8, say, Mountain Lion, it will definitely roll the Mac’s world and will be a great scoring point for purchasing a Mac.

And what if there is Siri for Mac?

How it might work

As we all know, we can hold down the home button to use Siri on iPhone 4S. But there is no such a “home button” on Mac. It’s of course not possible for Apple to add a devoted Siri key to any Mac keyboard, so the only way to activate Siri is using the existing key to trigger Voice Control.

Actually what I concerned about is that what if I want to speak to the Siri for Mac meters away, for example, when I’m in the kitchen and would like my MacBook Air on the desk in the living room to play my favorite iTunes playlist, can I speak to Siri to do so with a Bluetooth headphone?

What it could do

Of course the Siri for Mac should handle all tasks that the iOS Siri can handle. For instance, Siri can help me to open a certain app no matter it’s developed by Apple or other developers, play music, send iMessages, launch the FaceTime and so on.

Isn’t it great that you can create a documents, folder, compose some paragraphs and more by speaking to  Siri for Mac? Well, some of these might go a bit too far. But just image that, you can free your hands with Siri and enjoy music, organize your files, send messages and more at the same time! What a great world Siri build!

Siri, show up on my Mac.

Well, Black Friday is almost upon us. Are you hunting for best deals on Apple products? You can get them at up to 15% off from Apple, based on a leaked Apple’s Black Friday (November 25th) 2011 sale. There’s no big difference in this year’s offers, with discount ranging from 10% to 15%.

The sale coverts Mac, iPad, iPod touch and iPod nano, and the savings are decent, especially on big capacity items. On Nov. 25^th, you can get Macs (iMac, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air) for $101 less. Depending on the capacity, iPads will be $41 to $61 less and iPod touch $21 to $41 less. The iPod nano will be $11 less for both the 8 GB and the 16 GB.

Other than that, Apple offers discounts on varieties of

Does this sale get your retail saliva flowing? Apple is.

Check out the brochure at 9to5Mac

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What’s MNV?

As a video file, MNV is a proprietary used by the Sony PlayStation 3 (also known as PS3) and the PlayStation Portable (also PSP); and the file may include copy protection which limits length of time then users are required to play the movie within several days, then the movie would be deleted automatically after the deadline, which is common for online movie rentals on Sony’s PLAYSTATION Store for example.

What’s Copy Protection?

Copy protection is a technology for preventing the reproduction of software, music, films, and other media (usually copyrighted). It is also known by many as content protection, copy prevention, copy obstruction and copy restriction.  It’s employed on video tapes, DVDs, video game discs and cartridges, computer software discs, and some audio CDs for the companies believe that it will be offset by even greater increases in revenue by creating a greater scarcity of casually copied media.

Open MNV files on Windows

• Transfer to a Sony PS3 or PSP

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