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New Mac Touch Patent Surfaces, Shows User Interface Manipulation by Touch

Jun 9, 2011 - 7 Comments
A new Mac Touch Patent

A new patent for what looks like a touch screen Mac has surfaced hot off the heals of the extended Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 demos at WWDC (PS: watch the keynote if you haven’t already, it’s a great walkthrough of both new OS’s). This patent is a clear indicator that Apple is … Read More

iOS 5 Includes Emoji Keyboard for Everyone

Jun 9, 2011 - 6 Comments
iOS 5 Beta includes an Emoji Keyboard

iOS 5 release includes a built-in Emoji keyboard that is accessible to anyone and is not region restricted. This is a change from past iOS releases where you would either need to jailbreak or install a 3rd party application in order to use Emoji from the iPhone, iPod touch, or iOS in general. Emoji is … Read More

Watch Apple’s Intro to Mac OS X Lion Video

Jun 8, 2011 - 8 Comments

Who better to show off Mac OS X Lion than Apple themselves? Don’t miss the Intro to Lion video, where Apple execs Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi show you Lion’s new gestures, full screen apps, Mission Control, LaunchPad, installing Lion through the Mac App Store, auto-save files & Versions, AirDrop Peer-to-Peer file sharing, new Mail … Read More

Apple Design Award Winners for 2011

Jun 8, 2011 - 3 Comments
Apple Design Award for WWDC 2011

The annual Apple Design Award winners from WWDC 2011 have been announced. The awards go to apps and developers that “set the standard of excellence” and excel in design, innovation, and technical excellence. This is the full list of winning apps and their respective developers, links go to the App Store: Student Winners Grades 2 … Read More

8 Great Videos of iOS 5’s New Features

Jun 8, 2011 - 9 Comments
iOS 5 videos

Sometimes seeing is believing. I mentioned a fair share these iOS 5 features before but videos do some more justice than screenshots, so here’s a collection of eight great (see what I did there?) videos that show the best of iOS 5’s beta features. We’ll start it off with Apple’s official Intro to iOS 5 … Read More

How to Create & Burn a Bootable Mac OS X Lion Install DVD

Jun 8, 2011 - 120 Comments
Make your own OS X Lion Bootable Installation DVD

Apple announced that Lion would be released exclusively through the Mac App Store for $30. This is great because the App Store policy allows a single purchase to install on all your Macs, but what if you don’t have broadband access on all your Macs, or what if you just want a bootable installation disc? … Read More

Install & Run iOS 5 on an iPhone Without a Developer Account

Jun 7, 2011 - 28 Comments
iOS 5 bug to run iOS 5 without developer account

If you want to try out iOS 5 but you don’t have a developer account, you can do so using a crafty technique that takes advantage of a very simple bug in the Voice Over system. This has been confirmed to work on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, but other iOS devices probably don’t … Read More

iOS 5 Jailbroken Already

Jun 7, 2011 - 5 Comments
iOS 5 beta jailbroken

Update: Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 is out to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 1, it has a tethered boot and is not intended for use beyond developers. The good old limera1n exploit works to jailbreak the first beta of iOS 5, according to renowned jailbreak dev @MuscleNerd, suggesting a public jailbreak will be available for iOS 5b1 soon. … Read More

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion System Requirements

Jun 7, 2011 - 131 Comments
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion System Requirements

Update: Mac OS X Lion has been released!. You can download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store Now for $29.99 right now. We’re all excited for Mac OS X Lion. We know it’s only $30 but a single purchase will cover installing on all of your Macs. We know it will be released … Read More

A Single Purchase of Mac OS X Lion Will Install on ALL of your Macs

Jun 7, 2011 - 32 Comments
Mac OS X Lion Mission Control

If you have multiple Macs, this may be one of the best and most underrated features of the Mac OS X Lion release: you buy Lion once and you can install it on all of your Macs, no additional purchases are required per machine, all of the downloading and installation is handled through the Mac … Read More

iTunes 10.3 Download is Out, Includes iTunes in the Cloud Beta

Jun 7, 2011 - 4 Comments
iTunes in the Cloud Beta

Apple has released iTunes 10.3, an update that includes aspects of iCloud including a beta version of iTunes in the Cloud. What does that mean to you? iTunes 10.3 in the Cloud Beta has two main features: iTunes will automatically download new music, apps, and book purchases to all of your devices seamlessly and without … Read More

Mac OS X Lion Default Wallpaper – Galaxy of Andromeda Space Wallpaper from WWDC

Jun 6, 2011 - 13 Comments
Mac OS X Lion Galaxy Andromeda Wallpaper

Apple has a special knack for picking fantastic looking desktop pictures… and I know I wasn’t the only one drooling over the newest Mac OS X Lion space wallpaper shown throughout the WWDC 2011 keynote. This one is fresh out of WWDC & Lion Developer Preview 4 and shows the gorgeous Andromeda Galaxy, and, not … Read More

Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 4 is Now Available to Download

Jun 6, 2011 - 60 Comments
Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview 4 now available to download from Apple

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Developer Preview 4 has been released for developers to download from Apple’s servers. The new build number is 11A480b and includes a variety of changes that were shown at WWDC 2011, and was announced alongside iOS 5 beta 1 and iCloud. Developers can download the update directly from Apple through … Read More

iOS 5 Beta 1 is Available to Download

Jun 6, 2011 - 20 Comments
iOS 5 Beta 1 Download on Dev Center

Developers can now check out all the new fancy iOS 5 features first hand with the first pre-release version of iOS 5 beta 1. The download is accessible to all registered developers through the iOS Dev Center. iOS 5 Beta 1 comes as build 9A5220p and supports all iPad 2 models, iPad, iPhone 4 GSM … Read More

Watch Video of the WWDC 2011 Keynote

Jun 6, 2011 - 4 Comments
WWDC 2011

Did you miss the WWDC 2011 keynote? Couldn’t keep up with the hectic WWDC live blogs? Weren’t too impressed with the terrible quality guerilla feeds broadcast from someones cell phone? No big deal, you can watch the full thing on Apple’s Events Page in HD glory. The sequence of the video is: Intro > Mac … Read More

16 of the Coolest New Features in iOS 5

Jun 6, 2011 - 25 Comments
iOS 5 Notifications

You know that iOS 5 will be released in the Fall, but what are the latest and greatest features? Here are some of the most exciting features that were shown off by Apple at WWDC 2011:

iOS 5 Release Date: Now!

Jun 6, 2011 - 163 Comments
iOS 5 Release Date

Update: iOS 5 is out now! You can download iOS 5 here or through iTunes. Update 10/4/2011: Apple has announced that iOS 5 release date is October 12 as a free download, alongside iCloud. iOS 5 is jam packed with new and awesome features, so when can you get your hands on it? Developers will … Read More

Mac OS X Lion Release Date is July, Will Cost $29, and Available ONLY from Mac App Store

Jun 6, 2011 - 197 Comments
Mac OS X Lion available only from the Mac App Store

Lion has been released! The wait is over, you can download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store Update: Mac OS X Lion GM has been released, signifying a public release is due in the very near future. Stay tuned! Update 2: The Lion release date is imminent. Update 3: The WSJ’s AllThingsD appears … Read More

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