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Along with the ability to use the iPhone as a remote camera, version 3 also supports recording directly from the iPad camera, includes MacBook Pro retina display support, offers an updated user interface, includes Final Cut Pro X support, and is OS X Mountain Lion compatible.With the release of iStopMotion 3, Boinx also consolidated its…

Nearly all Macs have built-in speakers but, while Apple is working to improve its sound quality, on most Macs the speakers simply don’t get loud enough. They’re generally fine for close listening in a quiet environment but once you add some ambient noise or move away from the computer, Mac users often find themselves wanting…

Let’s talk cursors. Actually, it’s the old-timers who say “cursors” while everyone else calls them “pointers.” Apple uses both terms interchangeably in their documentation. These are the darling little on-screen indicators designed to provide feedback to users. According to the latest revision of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines document, there are eighteen system pointers in OS…

Improvements will come as more developers make their apps “Retina-ready,” but part of the cost of early adoption is waiting for third parties to catch up. New Retina Display MacBook Pro owners therefore eagerly await Retina updates to their favorite applications. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a central listing of apps that were…

Maybe They’ll Look Something Like This In some ways, this isn’t precisely news. When Apple released released a barely noticeable bump to the Mac Pro during June’s World Wide Developer Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that his company was working on a more significant bump for sometime in early 2013. As noted by AppleInsider,…

Wired Journalist Mat Honan (via Wired) UPDATE: For those interested, we’ve done some investigation into what exactly happens during a remote wipe of a Mac via iCloud. You can read our findings here. By now, the news of Wired journalist Mat Honan’s “Epic Hacking” has hit the mainstream news. Late last week, in a matter of minutes,…

This deserves some explanation, stating with the fact that what these new options mean is that one can essentially order the same configurations on both models. Previously, the 2.3GHz model came with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage, period, for US$2,199. For $2,799, one could get 2.6GHz, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of…

This line of reasoning means that competitors who underestimate the ability of the iPad to supersede the PC are delusional. And it also means that if they spend their time designing PCs, namely Ultrabooks, to compete against the MacBooks, then they’re doubly delusional.I want bring your attention to the best article I’ve seen in a…

This app runs in the background on your app and makes typewriter noises while you type. It picks up keyboard input from any app your working in, meaning that you can be sure and annoy the heck out of everyone around you no matter what you are doing! Seriously, though, we think this is a…

EPEAT measures and ranks the recyclability of computers, and the group’s certifications are requirements for come company and government agency purchase programs.Apple’s withdrawal of all of its computers from the EPEAT program over a week ago led to speculation that the MacBook Pro with Retina Display didn’t earn a gold ranking thanks to its glued…

InDesign users have been complaining about an issue where the application crashes when ever dialog windows appear, and considering how many actions trigger dialog windows, it left many unhappy designers unable to do their job. The problem affects InDesign users with a MacBook Pro with Retina Display or MacBook Air with USB 3.0 support, that…

Both companies said Apple was the third largest PC company in the U.S. Chart by The Mac Observer from Gartner Data In addition to the differing share and unit sales figures from the two research companies, they also differed with their relative performance numbers for Apple. IDC said that Apple’s Mac unit sales declined from…

Adobe working on InDesign crash fix for MacBook Pro, Air usersAdobe InDesign forum members noticed the problem on the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models Apple released in June after installing MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) Software Update 1.0. Without the update installed, InDesign users aren’t experiencing the crashing issue.The update, according to Apple’s release notes,…

EPEAT is an environmental organization that certifies products based on their recyclability, among other criteria. Apple was one of the founding companies that established those criteria in 2006, and EPEAT certification is now required for purchases by some institutions, including cities like San Francisco. The news that Apple had pulled its Mac products from EPEAT…

_______________________ Bodega is an app store, itself an app, that has been easy to overlook amidst all the recent fuss about sandboxing and the Mac App Store (MAS). For example, apps that provide services that expire, install code or resources in shared locations, require license keys, or request an escalation to root privileges will all…

Display Preferences for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display The name of the FAQ is called “MacBook Pro: Frequently asked questions about using a Retina display.” Other questions include how to deal with apps that want to take over the screen and supply their own resolution, how to handle external displays, and an explanation of…

iLuv Creative Technology now has a line of products featuring the Peanuts cartoon characters. This review looks at the MacBook 15-inch, Snoopy Sleeve. It’s a soft case with a deep pocket for your accessories. It’ll also hold an iPad nicely, even with many of the more slender iPad cases already attached. But not a pumpkin.…

MacBook Pro (mid 2012)Apple’s sparse patch notes say simply, “The update includes fixes that improve graphics stability, external display support, and USB 3 device support.” For those who already have one of the new laptops, the update should show up in Software Update. You can also download it directly from Apple’s Downloads site as a…

The image, which appears to be from the product box of the unreleased MacBook Pro, was supposedly provided to the poster by a “friend inside Apple.” The layout matches the design and style of Apple’s on-box technical specifications, but could also easily have been fabricated. Another difference between the claimed 2012 iteration of the 13-inch…

The Cloud Drive service include 5GB of storage for free, music backup support for Amazon MP3 purchases, and offers paid upgrades for additional storage.Amazon gives Mac users a Cloud Drive appMac and Windows users have been limited, until now, to accessing their Cloud Drive content through a Web browser. With today’s app release, however, Mac…

SkyDrive formerly stood out by offering users 25GB of storage for free, but with Microsoft expanding its service with support for Windows and Lion, as well as recently released mobile apps, the company decided to limit free accounts to 7GB. Existing SkyDrive users may keep their 25GB plan by opting-in, and any existing user with…

While the number of infected Macs dropped off quickly after Apple released its Java updates to address the security issue, the rate of decline seems to have stabilized just over 100,000.Flashback-infected Macs declining, according to Symantec“We had originally believed that we would have seen a greater decline in infections at this point in time, but…

Apple is developing a tool to detect and remove the Flashback malware, the company announced via its support page today (via The Loop). The Flashback malware, a trojan horse, struck Mac OS X systems in force late February, taking advantage of a vulnerability in the version of Java that comes embedded in OS X. The…