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Apple Reportedly Questions Mac Pro Line
Apple has reportedly been questioning the future of its professional line of Mac Pro towers in the face of decreasing…
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Pete Townshend: iTunes is “Digital Vampire” Living On Musicians
Apple’s iTunes is nought but a “digital vampire” bleeding artists through enormous commissions without giving much back, according to rock…
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WriteRoom 3 Adds Lion Support, More
Hog Bay Software announced the immediate availability of WriteRoom 3.0 for the Mac on Monday. The new version of the…
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DevilRobber Trojan Makes Bitcoins, Steals Data
Intego is warning Mac OS X users of a new Trojan horse app, dubbed DevilRobber, that uses their computers to…
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SanDisk Introduces Memory Vault to Store Memories for 100 Years
During his visit to PhotoPlus Expo in New York, The Mac Observer’s John F. Braun took a look at the…
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Apple Buys C3 Technologies Mapping Company
Apple has apparently brought yet another mapping technology company under its wing thanks to the reported purchase of C3 Technologies.…
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How to Quickly Lock Your Screen in Mac OS X
Mac Geek Gab listener Dominic sends in a Mac OS X tip on how to quickly lock your Mac’s screen…
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LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series Drives Offer Amazing Speed
The Mac Observer’s John F. Braun went to PhotoPlus Expo in New York where he checked out his first Thunderbolt…
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Analyst: CDMA iPhone Coming to China Telecom in 2012
Apple’s CDMA-based iPhone will most likely find a new home with China Telecom during the first half of 2012, according…
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Netflix, Disney-ABC Extend & Expand Content Licensing Agreement
Beleaguered Netflix announced early Monday that they have extended their licensing agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group. This extension allows the video streaming…
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Apple’s HDTV: Just a Big iPad
Apple executives rarely lob softballs to pundits and the rumor mill. But Jobs posthumously floated a whopper by allowing Walter…
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Reader Discussion: Apple, Macs & Market Control
Apple may not sell as many computers compared to the entire PC market, but it is gaining marketshare and momentum…
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Steve Jobs’s Sister: Love Was His Virtue
Mona Simpson, popular author and sister of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, shared her eulogy for her brother in the Sunday…
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Apple Intros 3 New iPhone 4S Commercials
Apple began airing three new iPhone 4S commercials on Sunday that all highlight different features of the combination iPod and…
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ACM 191: Halloween Special - A World without Apple
In the special Halloween edition of the Apple Context Machine Jeff and Bryan jump into an alternate timeline where Apple…
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Apple Taps Customers for iPhone 4S Battery Life Data
Apple has reportedly been reaching out to some of its customers looking for more data on the battery life of…
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iPads in Space & Apple TV Rumors that Just Won’t Die
More iPhone 4S talk, the new Apple television frenzy, the iPad is a Wi-Fi glutton, and the iPad has a…
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LifeProof Case for iPhone 4/4S: Protection Without Bulk
There are iPhone cases that offer varying degree of protection. Are there cases that hit that sweet spot between protection…
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Particle Debris (wk. ending 10/28) Video Skewers and Great Defense
This week’s collection of curated, off the beaten path, technical Apple news is full of videos. An SNL skit starts…
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Lumus Work’s FreeSpace App Monitors OS X Drive Space
FreeSpace is a small application that does one job well. It monitors the space used and available on all the…
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Push Your Hot Buttons with Lion Tweaks
Apple, in its OS design, is constantly balancing ease of use and simplicity against disclosure and control. For example, in…
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13” MacBook Pro 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo: $1,019
The Deal Brothers noted that Apple is offering a deal on the refurbished MacBook Pro 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for…
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Research Firm Says Samsung Smartphone Shipments Top Apple
The research firm Strategy Analytics says its data shows that Samsung’s third quarter smartphone shipments surpassed Apple’s by a wide…
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TMO’s Ultimate Guide to Creating a Mac Triage Drive
As more Macs lose their optical drives, it’s becoming more important to have a hard drive-based set of tools and…
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Reader Discussion: Apple Recipe for Innovation
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he changed the company’s focus from making money to making great products. Today TMO…
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Apple Releases HP Printer Software 2.8 for Snow Leopard, Lion
Apple released HP Printer Software Update 2.8 on Thursday. The update for Snow Leopard and Lion includes, according to Apple’s…
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OS X Lion: Creating Quick Events in iCal
Many of the Mac’s default applications got new features for Lion, and iCal was no exception. Here’s an example of…
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Apple’s Lossless Audio Codec Goes Open Source
Apple released its Lossless Audio Codec, or ALAC, as open source on Thursday, potentially opening the format to a wider…
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Apple’s Daily iPad Sales Exceed Q3 Moto Tablet Shipments
Motorola announced its quarterly results for the September quarter, and we found one line item of particular interest: The company…
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Halloween App Store Roundup for iPhone & iPad
All Hallows Eve is next Monday, and there are plenty of ways to partake of the season with your iOS…
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FCC Universal Service Now Means Broadband
The FCC unanimously approved a plan to overhaul a portion of the Universal Service Fund to bring broadband coverage to…
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HP Changes Course, Decides to Keep PC Division
In another dramatic corporate turnaround, HP announced Thursday that it had changed its mind about spinning off its PC division,…
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The Next Thing: Apple Becoming Big Brother
Google has had its share of privacy concerns over the years, but David Winograd argues that the next big privacy…
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Techni Mobili Nevada Modern Computer Desk: $109.99
We link to a number of deals on Macs, but how about a desk to put them on? The Deal…
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iTunes Wi-Fi Sync & Back Up: Fail (& Workaround)
Overall, iOS 5’s new Wi-Fi syncing works spectacularly well. However, there is one significant glitch. With Wi-Fi sync enabled and…
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Newsstand Storage Changes May Result in Loss of Old Issues
An iOS Developer Technical Note has revealed changes in the way Apple’s Newsstand feature handles the app content of digital…
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Jeff Gamet Talks the iPod Decade on Mario Armstrong Show
The Mac Observer’s Jeff Gamet will be joining the Mario Armstrong Show Thursday evening to talk about the ten year…
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Other World Computing Releases External Enclosures for MacBook Air SSDs
Other World Computing (OWC) announced Thursday morning the immediate availability of two external hard drive enclosures for 2010 and 2011 MacBook Air…
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Apple’s Lost iPhone Prototype Search Leads to Attorney Questions
Sergio Calderon, the man who said Apple security searched his house for an iPhone prototype while leading him to believe…
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Steve Jobs is Gone. Will Our Dreams be Next?
In the last century, our technology dreams inspired us, and now we’re living that dream. However, somewhere along the way,…
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Pixelmator 2.0 Gains Drawing Tools, lots of Lion Features
The Pixelmator team released a major upgrade on Thursday to its flagship image editor for the Mac. Pixelmator 2.0 answers…
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Australia Court to Expedite Appeal in Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban
The judge overseeing Apple’s injunction blocking the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia has agreed to expedite…
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Reader Discussion: Selling the Kindle Fire at a Loss
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire multimedia tablet has the potential to be a winner in the ebook reader market, but the company…
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Thunderbolt Mac mini gets Stability Fixes with Firmware Update
Apple released a firmware update for the Thunderbolt-equipped Mac mini from mid 2011 Wednesday evening, rounding out a slew of…
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MacBook Pro, Air Firmware Updates Improve Stability
Along with an iMac firmware update, Apple released MacBook PRo EFI Firmware Update 2.3 and MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update…
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Firmware Update Adds Lion Recovery to Early 2011 iMacs
Apple released iMac EFI Update 1.7 for early 2011 iMac models late on Wednesday. The update added Internet Lion Recovery…
