Apple is working on a radio application for the iPhone and iPod touch that would utilize unannounced radio capabilities in the devices, according to a report from 9to5Mac. Citing an unnamed source, the site said that Apple is working to tie in song-tagging to the Mobile iTunes Store for purchasing songs.

Images! Pictures! Photos! In this week’s installment of Free on iTunes, Vern Seward shows you how to get the most out of you iPhone camera with Photoshop Mobile, Fotokasten and A+ Camera Zoom.

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Before Snow Leopard was released, we were enjoying GrabUp for super-simple sharing of screenshots. It was a great little utility: After a brief setup, it automatically sent any screenshot to its servers (or your own) and added the resulting URL to the Clipboard. It was fast and very useful.

Snow Leopard killed it by changing the naming convention of screenshots. The developers haven’t fixed it (in fact, Google now throws up a danger warning when I try to access the site) and it looks like they aren’t going to. We posted a fix not too long ago, and today we found another approach on the Dropbox wiki that uses Dropbox and Jing. You get free online storage for up to 2GB of screenshots, and an easy way to get the URL of your screenshot where you need it in a hurry.

Here’s how it works. First, download and install Jing (it’ll work with the free version — more on that later) and get a Dropbox account (again, the free version will work). Once your Dropbox install is all done, create a destination folder in your Dropbox’s Public folder — maybe “screenshots,” for example. Now it’s time to fill in the Jing preferences. Read on…

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Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch technology, which debuted in Snow Leopard as a mechanism for optimizing parallelism across multiple cores and processors, has now been ported to FreeBSD.

In this week’s omnibus of technical news debris, John looks at expert reaction to Windows 7, rumors of new quad core iMacs, some of the best open source software for the Mac, the demise of passwords, supercomputing with the iPhone, and what everyone knows about the future of newspapers — except the newspaper publishers.

MacNN has reviewed OWC’s Mercury On-The-Go Pro SSD drive. The unit is now available in three sizes: 64GB (reviewed), 128GB and 256GB. The drive utilizes FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections, and comes with cables and a carrying case — an optional AC adapter is available, though the drive generally runs on bus power. Models have no moving parts, storing data in flash memory….

KavaSoft announced Friday the release of iConquer 3, the company’s game of world conquest for Mac OS X. The game has been updated for 64-bit Snow Leopard, has a new interface, and allows up to 6 people to  play via the Internet.

The online Apple Store has temporarily shut down, observers note. Anecdotes suggest it went offline shortly before 3:45PM Eastern on Friday, and as of 4:40PM the store is still inactive, only displaying a notice about updating content. The Apple Store frequently goes down shortly before a new product release; nothing is expected today however, as the company typically puts products on sale in the morning, and usually early or in the middle of the week….

In spite of claims of an on time release, Intel’s Atom processors using its Pine Trail architecture now won’t show until the very start of 2010, a string of leaks have shown Thursday. The 1.66GHz N450 and 1.86GHz N470 are said by Fudzilla to ship on January 3rd and won’t necessarily save battery life. Instead, the primary gain will come from moving graphics to the main processor core, reducing the number of chips from three to two and creating more space….