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Entries Tagged ‘Mac’

Apple To No Longer Resale Film Screen Protectors

In a new retail policy shift, Apple has apparently decided to no longer resale film-based iPhone, iPad or Macbook screen protectors. If aren’t aware, film-based iPhone screen protectors are these transparent plastic stickers that you can apply on your screen (usually with the help of your credit card) to “avoid scratches and preserve your screen”.Well, starting [...]

OS X Virtual Showdown: Parallels 5 vs VirtualBox 3

Virtualization is becoming a bigger factor in everyone’s computer experience. One place it seems to be gaining popularity is a Windows client running on a Mac. This arrangement allows a Mac OS X user to have access to the huge Windows library of titles. So, it does make sense for a Mac user to at [...]

Apple testing Safari 4.0.5 w/Flash plug-in crash protection

Apple is currently evaluating a handful of upcoming Mac software updates with the help of an elite group of testers, including Safari 4.0.5, QuickTime 7.66, and significant maintenance release for its pro applications.
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15 Must-Have Free Apps For Your Mac

We ask ourselves the golden question, “Is this app a keeper?” That’s what this list is all about — those apps that eventually find a permanent place on our Macs to call Home. Everyone should have these installed, regardless of what you use your Mac for.
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Parallels cuts virtualization down to bare metal on Xserve

Parallels has expanded support for running virtual machines on an Xserve with a bare metal hypervisor, which cuts the overhead of a host OS and boosts performance.
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Unconfirmed: Steve Jobs’ iPhone Still Running On 3.1.2 Firmware

Funny story, today 9to5mac published an answer that one of their readers received from Steve Jobs after inquiring about the future of Final Cut Pro, and it seems like someone didn’t update his iPhone firmware.
Steve has a long tradition of answering some of his emails personally (with the unconfirmed help of Apple’s PR department) and Apple rumor [...]

10tons Releases Sparkle, An Atmospheric Orb Shooter By The Creators Of Azkend

10tons has just released Sparkle, an atmospheric orb shooter by the creators of the much-loved puzzle matching game, Azkend.
Sparkle, like Azkend, began its life as a Mac/PC game in 2007.  It received much praise during its initial launch, helping it climb to the number one spot on RealArcade.com, so it was a no-brainer to bring [...]

iPhone 3.2 SDK Hints At Video Chat For iPhone/iPad

While we tend to doubt analyst reports that predict new iPhone features, finding pieces of codes and actual graphics in Apple’s own beta versions of upcoming iPhone firmwares is a whole different story.
Indeed, 9to5mac dug even further in the latest version of the iPhone development kit, and came across some very interesting bits. The telephony part [...]

Tip: Protect Your Lock Screen With An Alphanumerical Password

Paranoid much? Good, you should be. After all, your iPhone contains your most private information.
There are actually many ways to give it the extra security it deserves and one of them is to improve your lock screen password. 9to5mac used the iPhone corporate development kit to built a security profile that once installed, allows you [...]

From Macworld: Discussion with Eros Resmini of OpenFeint

We sat down with Eros Resmini of OpenFeint, and tried to find out as much about OpenFeint as we could. Click through to read about everything OpenFeint, currently and in the future.
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AppAdvice Takes The AR.Drone Wi-Fi Quadricopter For A Test Flight

We had our first look at Parrot’s AR.Drone at this year’s CES, and after seeing the super geeky iPhone controlled quadricopter in action, we just knew we had to get our hands on one.  Well, Macworld 2010 presented us with that opportunity and we took full advantage of it.
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Macworld 2010: More Details Emerge About FloTV

From Macworld we found out some more details regarding FloTV for the iPhone. What it will be priced, how it will work, and when you can get it. Click through to find out.
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App Advice Daily: Appisode 75 – MacWorld 2010 Roundup

MacWorld 2010 has come to a close, but check out the show to see the highlights! Plus Plants vs. Zombies hits the App Store and Windows Phone 7 series gets announced. Also find out how to get your music to play along with your mood thanks to Moodagent.
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TomTom v1.3 To Include Live Traffic And Google POI Search

During Macworld 2010 we had a chance to sit down with TomTom’s Vice President of Marketing Development, Tom Murray, who provided us with a couple of details regarding the company’s upcoming update to their popular iPhone turn-by-turn navigation app.
The TomTom v1.3 update is set to hit the App Store in about 2-3 weeks and will [...]

Pogue’s Macworld “keynote” overcomes skepticism, entertains

Ars readers – and writers, for that matter – aren’t really David Pogue’s target audience, but his opening presentation at the 2010 Macworld Expo delivered, with surprise guests and fun times. Still, the crowd left us wondering whether we’re returning to the days of Macworlds past.
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