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

By , Thursday, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:16 am
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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.

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Why Apple chose Twitter over Facebook

By , Sunday, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:44 pm
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With the upcoming release of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple will be fully integrating Twitter social sharing across all of their included apps, as well as extending a developer API for 3rd party apps available through the Mac App Store. This follows similar integration in iOS 5 last year and leaves one huge, lingering question: where's the Facebook integration?

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iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have outsold entire history of Mac products in only four years

By , Friday, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:52 pm
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122 million Macs have been sold to date, while the iOS platform has reached a staggering 316 million units since launch. iOS outpaced OS X after the first four years, but if that's not enough, iOS could have done it in the last year alone with 156 million supporting products sold in 2011.

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Will you be switching to OS X Mountain Lion for Mac? [Poll]

By , Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:52 am
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What do you think of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?Apple shocked the tech geek community with this morning's surprise announcement of OS X Mountain Lion where they once again

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

By , Monday, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:52 pm
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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:

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Mac OS X Lion 7.2 with iCloud support now available

By , Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:32 pm
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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. If

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Daily Tip: How to find the UDID or serial number of an iPad, iPhone

By , Monday, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:48 pm
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Trying to figure out where to find the UDID or serial number of your iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone? There are many reasons you may need to look up your

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Iterate 3: Prototypes

By , Tuesday, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:57 pm
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Marc, Seth, and Rene iterate through Apple's OS X Lion, Microsoft's Windows 8 preview, HP's webOS 3.0 TouchPad UI, discuss text in

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Apple's layered user experience approach

By , Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:51 pm
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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

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Mac OS X Lion is here!

By , Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:31 am
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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is here. OS X, the desktop counterpart to Apple's mobile iOS, has taken iPad innovation "Back to the Mac" with this release, including

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