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Apple encouraging MobileMe users to switch to iCloud with free Snow Leopard upgrade offer

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Apr 19, 2012 a 9:16 am

Apple is trying to encourage users of its MobileMe service to switch over to iCloud by offering a free Snow Leopard upgrade DVD. Snow Leopard usually costs $29 from the Apple Store. In order to use iCloud on your Mac, it has to be running Lion. Apparently, some percentage of MobileMe users are still running on Leopard and haven’t upgraded to Snow Leopard which is needed before you can upgrade to Lion.

Reminders for Mac brings iOS-style task lists to OS X Mountain Lion

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 a 10:00 am

Apple announced OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to be released later this summer, bringing with it a number of new iPad-influenced features. Among the added features will be a new Reminders app that synchronizes reminders across your Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Messages beta for OS X brings iMessage to the Mac

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 a 9:50 am

Avoid carrier SMS and MMS charges and keep all your IMs in one place with iOS iMessage right on your Mac

If you have been waiting for Apple to release a version of iMessage for Mac then that day has just become a lot closer. After the release of the beta of OS X Mountain Lion earlier today, Apple has followed it up with the release of a beta version of its new Mac Messages app. Messages, which will replace the current iChat app, brings all of the great features of iMessage to your Mac while keeping many that made iChat great as well.

Secret Apple project worked to port Mac OS X to iPad-style ARM processors

By Jack Perry, Monday, Feb 6, 2012 a 10:52 pm

In 2010, Apple’s Platform Technologies Group (a subdivision of the CoreOS department) spent some working on a previously-embargoed project to port the Mac OS X Darwin kernel to the ARMv5 chipset architecture -- the same family of chipsets that currently powers iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.

Here's a snippet from the project Porting Darwin to the MV88F6281, subtitled ARMing the Snow Leopard:

Mac OS X Lion 7.2 with iCloud support now available

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 a 1:32 pm

To coincide with iOS 5, Apple today has released Mac OS X Lion 7.2 which plugs Apple's desktop OS into the same iCloud that just started powering mobile.

Here's Lion:

Iterate 3: Prototypes

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011 a 9:57 pm

Marc and Rene iterate through Firefox's UX presentation, Adobe's Expressive Web Beta, Facebook's recent design acquisitions, Retina Displays for Macs, the HIG, and talk with David Forgash of SourceBits. This is Iterate!

Adobe retracts incorrect statements about OS X Lion Flash performance

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jul 22, 2011 a 9:12 am

Georgia really wants Flash support on the iPad, with the option to toggle it on and off as she so chooses, and I've said in the past I'd like a Flash Player app (Flash is technically more than just video, but 90% of the time people talk about wanting Flash they just want their videos.) But [stuff] like this really makes me question if I even want that. When OS X Lion debuted earlier this week, Adobe quickly blasted off a blog post saying Apple had killed hardware acceleration and Apple was to blame for poor Flash performance in Lion.

Apple's layered user experience approach

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 a 9:51 pm

Apple implements an interesting layered user experience in both iOS and OS X. They've always done this to some degree; early on with Mac OS X, UNIX gurus could live comfortably in Terminal while those raised on the GUI of classic Mac and Windows would feel right at home in Aqua.

Apple releases iTunes 10.4, 64-bit, Lion-compatible

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 a 2:06 pm

Apple has released iTunes 10.4, with 64-bit support and Mac OS X compatibilit

Google+ app now available for iPhone, Lion, Downgrading iOS 5, iPhone 5 - From the Forums

By Jeremy, Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 a 1:37 pm

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