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Apple Updates The MacBook Air With Improved Processors And $899 Starting Price
Apple has indeed updated its MacBook Air as foretold, and while the updates aren’t terribly dramatic, they are solid improvements that should come as welcome news to anyone who has…
Google Now Comes To Chrome On The Desktop For Windows And Mac
Google has released its Google Now notification integration for its desktop Chrome browser, and the update will begin rolling out today and continue to percolate over the coming weeks. The…
Four Handy Tools To Workaround – Or Ditch! – Apple’s iPhoto
iPhoto and iCloud, despite being the default photo application and accompanying syncing service that much of the Apple universe uses regularly, are actually kind of awful. iPhoto is slow and…
Apple’s 51M iPhones, 26M iPads And 4.8M Macs In Q1 2014 Set A Record, But Growth Slows
Analysts had predicted that Apple would have a strong day with hardware this quarter, anticipating between 54 and 56 million iPhones shipped according to Fortune, as well as around 25…
Apple Reflects On The Mac At 30 With New Video And Website Retrospective
Apple is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Mac with a new video and microsite released today featuring some fond remembrances of the machines over the years from creative professionals…
Apple has a brand new Mac Pro with an all-new, bold design that’s assembled at home in the U.S. in a facility in Texas. It’s easily among the most bold…
Apple Adds FaceTime Audio To OS X 10.9.2 Beta, Bringing Native Mac-To-iOS Voice Calls Closer
Apple has issued a new developer preview of OS X, version 10.9.2, and it introduces some interesting new features according to 9to5Mac. The most interesting is probably FaceTime Audio, however.…
Apple’s Mac Pro Is Now Available, Max One Out Now With A 4K Display For Over $13K
Apple is now selling its new U.S.-assembled Mac Pro via its online store, as announced yesterday in a press release. The pro-targeted computer starts at $2,999, but with custom options…
Apple’s New Mac Pro Goes On Sale Dec. 19 Online And In Retail Starting At $2,999
Apple has just announced that its new Mac Pro computer, featuring that signature ‘Darth Vader’ design, will be available for sale starting tomorrow, Thursday Dec. 19 beginning at $2,999. There’s…
Google Brings Chrome Apps For Mac Out Of Beta, Offers Web Software That Works Offline
Google has brought its Chrome Apps to the Mac, letting users install apps to their desktop for use just like native software. There’s a Chrome App Launcher for Mac, too,…
New App Lets You Unlock Your Mac By Knocking On Your iPhone
Can your mobile phone become a replacement for manually typing in a password? That’s the promise of a new application called Knock, launching today, which uses an iPhone paired with…
Apple Sold 33.8 Million iPhones, 14.1 Million iPads, And 4.6 Million Macs In Q4 2013
Well, folks, Apple has just put up some mixed numbers in its fiscal Q4 2013 earnings release — $37.5 billion in revenue and $7.5 billion in net profit to be…
Bug In Apple’s CoreText Allows Specific String Of Characters To Crash iOS 6, OS X 10.8 Apps
A bug in Apple’s CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight.…
Loom Lets You Sync & Store Your Photos In The Cloud, Save Space On Your Devices
Loom, the new cloud storage and syncing service emerging from the ashes of Y Combinator-backed Popset, is today opening its doors, and heading into beta. Though the company’s long-term vision…
iPad Sees First Ever Yearly Decline With 14.6M Units Sold In Q3, iPhone Remains Strong With 30M Units Sold & 20% YOY Growth
Apple today released its Q3 2013 earnings report, announcing 31 million iPhones sold in the three-month period ending June, along with 14.6 million iPad units sold. Both the iPhone and…
HipChat Brings Mac Client Out Of Beta, Offers Up Overhauled iOS App As Trials Triple With Free Tier
HipChat has done a whole lot of overhauling when it comes to its desktop and mobile clients over the past year, and now the native Mac app, which was released…
Don’t Expect To See New iPhone Or iPad Hardware At WWDC, The Loop Advises, But New Macs Possible
The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple is probably the best-connected Apple blogger on the planet at the moment, so when he posts an entry called “WWDC Expectations,” the entire community’s ears perk…
Belkin’s Thunderbolt Express Dock Is The Best Damn Thing In The World
Thunderbolt, you were a tech with near unlimited promise when first introduced, but what have you done with all that power? Since my first Thunderbolt-equipped Mac, I’ve essentially been using…
Twitter Actually Updates Twitter For Mac, Adds Retina Support And 14 New Languages
Twitter for Mac has long languished, not seeing an update since 2011, but Twitter just pushed out a new one that brings Retina display support to the official client, as…
SimCity Arrives On Mac June 11, 1.3M PC Copies Sold So Far Despite Connection Requirements
SimCity is making its way to Mac, as promised, but now EA has put a specific date on when that will happen. The city-building simulator will arrive on OS X…
Help Key: Put Display Settings Back In The OS X Mountain Lion Menu Bar Where They Belong
I like my Retina MacBook Pro, in part because I have the option to switch to extremely high-resolution display modes when I’m way from my home Thunderbolt monitor and want…
Apple’s Tim Cook Sees “Huge Opportunity” For iPad In Mac Cannibalization
Apple CEO Tim Cook responded to questions about the issue of potential cannibalization of Mac sales by iPad devices on today’s earnings call, a question made more timely by the…
Apple’s Mac Problem
News came today that Apple’s Mac sales are down 21% year-over-year and 16% for the quarter. While 4.1 million Macs sold in Q1 2013 is nothing to sneeze at, it’s…
Early Apple Computer And Tablet Designs Reveal The iMac And iPad That Might Have Been
Apple worked closely with Frogdesign during the eighties, creating Apple’s early design language and charting the visual path of Apple computers from the Apple IIc to the Macintosh. Frogdesign founder…
BlueStacks’ App Player For Mac Launches Beta: Now You Can Run Over 750,000 Android Apps On Mac
BlueStacks, the startup known for bringing Android applications to desktop PCs, is today releasing its App Player for Mac into beta, following its previous Mac alpha release in June. At…
Meet Phorce, A Smart Bag That Charges Your Gadgets And Provides Power Management Via Bluetooth
I like gadgets, and almost out of necessity I also like bags. The Phorce, a new project hitting Kickstarter today, knows that there are many out there like me, and…
Apple’s OS X 10.9 Reportedly Bringing Siri, Maps Integration To The Mac
A new report from 9t05Mac this morning claims that Apple will be delivering a couple of very interesting features to the desktop, in a move that continues its trend of…
Clear For Mac Launches, Translates A Made-For-Mobile Experience To The Desktop
Clear for Mac had a unique challenge in making its way from the iPhone to the desktop, since Clear was obviously built with iOS in mind. In fact, its primary…
After iOS Success, Simple Task Manager Clear Headed To Mac With iCloud Syncing Next Week
Clear, a simple task manager from Realmac software and Impending, has just announced that it will be delivering a Mac version of its client for OS X launching next Thursday…
Pocket’s Mac App Brings All That Saved Content To The Best Place To Use It
Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) delivered a new native Mac OS X app today, allowing you to save and access content for later reading from around the web. Pocket’s rebrand was all…
