News regarding Apple hardware, software, major product and releases, system software updates, and other newsworthy topics from the Apple ecosystem including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods, and more.
Google is rolling out a feature that allows you to change the background picture of Google.com to a user defined image. Here’s how to customize your Google.com landing page background image.
You can now check your iPhone’s data usage on the AT&T network, but the ability to do so is aimed at helping users select a reduced data consumption plan rather than just providing an interesting service to subscribers. Checking your iPhone or iPad data usage To quickly check iPhone data use, dial *3282# (translates to … Read More
The popular first-person shooter/action game Half-Life 2 is now available for Mac OS X. At the moment it costs $6.99, which is 30% off the regular $10 price. The expansions of Half-Life 2: Episodes One and Two are also available to download for $5.99 each. System requirements for running Half Life 2 on your Mac … Read More
Some pretty big news today on the iPad front, two reports on AppleInsider indicate that the iPad is already a wild success. The first report states that Apple is now selling over 200,000 iPads a week in the United States alone, which is almost twice the number of 110,000 Macs sold every week in the … Read More
Where in the US are the highest concentrations of Apple users? A report on Fortune shows us. Here are the top ten US markets for Apple: * San Francisco / Silicon Valley / Bay Area, CA – Residents are 49% more likely than the average American to be Apple users, no surprise with Apple’s headquarters … Read More
Apple continues to dominate the news cycle, this time with high scores in a consumer satisfaction survey. The survey of 23,400 online shoppers determined that Apple ranks number one among online electronic and computer retailers. Additional bragging rights for Apple include ranking number four overall for consumer satisfaction, behind only Netflix, Amazon and Avon. Impressive … Read More
Flash’s days of dominating video on the web are looking increasingly numbered. Fresh off the heals of Steve Jobs voicing his thoughts on Flash, Microsoft chimes in with another blow, Internet Explorer 9 will only support video playback in H.264 format with HTML5. Here’s the two major quotes from Microsoft: The future of the web … Read More
Well, Steam for Mac was supposed to be available in April, but with the month nearly over they missed that release target and have now set an official release date of May 12. According to JoyStiq, Steam sent them the following short message: “Valve today announced the public release of Steam for the Mac is … Read More
If you ever wanted to know exactly what Steve Jobs thinks about Flash, you’ve got your chance. Apple’s CEO has released a lengthy letter detailing why Apple does not allow Flash on it’s iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices. Calling Flash part of the “past” and “PC era”, he addresses six major points as to why … Read More
Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference is set for June 7-11 this year, and many desktop Mac developers are shaking their heads wondering where the love is. The tagline for this years WWDC conference is “The center of the app universe” and Apple’s Design Awards are curiously lacking a Mac OS X category, instead favoring iPhone and … Read More
If you’re interested in gaming on a MacBook Pro, pay attention. The new MacBook Pro with the Core i5 processor and GeForce GT 330M graphics unit performs significantly better than it’s predecessor with the GeForce 9400m. Check out the above performance comparison, Left 4 Dead on the new MacBook Pro with the 330m chip runs … Read More
This chart displays the GeekBench scores of the new 2010 MacBook Pro models versus each other and the older 2009 models they replaced. As you can see from the scores, the MacBook Pro Core i5 and i7 models really blow away their predecessors, while the MacBook Pro 13″ model with it’s Core 2 Duo processor … Read More
The new MacBook Pro’s have barely been out a few hours and Gizmodo has already benchmarked the top of the line 15″ model that features a Core i7 processor running at 2.66Ghz, check out the graph above for the gains against the previous top-end model, the Core 2 Duo at 2.8Ghz. Even ripping a DVD … Read More
It’s tax time in the USA, which means everyone is either going to be happy with a refund or sad when they owe. Many people use online tax filing software to make the job a bit easier since they can do it themselves from home.
Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is continuing to grow in popularity, with a recent survey showing that Apple’s Mac OS X now accounts for nearly 11% of web usage, vs 86.8% with Windows and 1.3% for mobile based browsers. What’s even more interesting though is that Apple’s share has grown 29.4% over the past … Read More
Update: VLC has posted this clarifying the state of the VLC for Mac project, stating ‘VLC for Mac death is “greatly exagerated”‘, and emphasizing that the majority of development issues are in regards to the GUI, apparently it’s not as perilous as the web has assumed. VLC Player for Mac OS X may well be … Read More
The last few days the tech world has been blazing about Google’s latest creation, Chrome OS, which is a lightweight and free Linux-based operating system intended to run on Netbooks and, eventually, Desktops. It’s basically just the Chrome web browser with some other features unique to the OS itself, which makes it very fast and … Read More
Holy cow. Tim Royer has posted a graph of GeekBench benchmark test suite scores for the iMac 27″ Core i5 and iMac Core i7 models, and the numbers are pretty amazing. The 27″ Core i7 model just barely underperforms a brand new $2999 Mac Pro. So what? Well, the 27″ iMac Core i7 model is … Read More
