Wwdc 2012

Eyes Free to integrate Siri directly into your car

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:29 pm

Eyes Free, just announced at WWDC 2012 will allow Siri to integrate directly into your car so you can keep your hands on the wheel. Apple has already partnered with several car manufacturers to bring Eyes Free to market.

Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will bring PowerNap updating feature

By Chris Parsons, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:24 pm

Apple has now unveiled a new feature of Mac OS X Lion 10.8 at WWDC 2012. PowerNap is the name and it's certainly an interesting addition to the OS but it will only be making its way select devices such as the second-generation MacBook Air and Next Generation MacBook Pro. So what does it do?

Siri in iOS 6 coming to iPad, to offer sports, movie, and restaurant data, able to launch apps

By Simon Sage, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:22 pm

iOS 6 was announced at WWDC today, including a new version of Siri with a heavy emphasis on sports, restaurants and movies. You can now ask for and receive tailored information about sports scores and stats on players.

The new Safari unveiled at WWDC12

By Gary Mazo, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:11 pm

Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP of Mac demonstrated the all new Safari during the WWDC12 keynote today in San Francisco.

Safari has always been intertwined in the Mac OS - but it brings even more functionality in Mountain Lion.

Safari Unified Search

Just type a few characters into the unified smart search field. Mountain Lion Searches matches in both your bookmarks and browsing history.

If you were browsing on another device - there is a new feature called iCloud tabs - which lists all the pages you have open across all your other devices.

The beauty of this is that you can pick up browsing right where you left off.

AirPlay mirroring officially comes to the Mac in OS X Mountain Lion

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:11 pm

Apple has officially announces at WWDC 2012 that AirPlay mirroring will be coming to the Mac in OS X Mountain Lion. Stream all your content straight from any Mac running OS X Mountain Lion right to your Apple TV wirelessly.

Game Center for OSX to offer cross-platform gaming with iOS

By Simon Sage, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:10 pm

One little gem for gamers at WWDC today is a new Game Center for OSX that will allow players to play with friends on iOS when games are available on both platforms. Combined with pixel-for-pixel mirroring that was also announced for the new version of Mountain Lion, this is going to be pretty sweet. The WWDC demo showed CSR Racing playing on an iPad against a MacBook.

Apple unveils upgraded MacBook Pro with Ivy Bridge CPU, Nvidia graphics

By Chris Parsons, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:06 pm

Apple has now taken the covers off their upgraded MacBook Pro 2012 line at WWDC and they're coming with plenty of internal upgrades that are sure to please the masses. No, you don't get a fancy new retina display on these updates but what you do get is Intel's Ivy Bridge processors along with Nvidia's new Kepler-based GeForce GT 650M graphics. All of which are shipping right now, today.

OS X Mountain Lion to bring dictation to the Mac

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 2:02 pm

OS X Mountain Lion will now support dictation on the Mac just like it currently does in iOS on the new iPad.

OSX Mountain Lion to host suite of new iOS-synced apps - WWDC 2012

By Simon Sage, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 1:54 pm

Yet another big announcement from WWDC today is a whole bunch of new apps for OSX Mountain Lion that are synced over iCloud to their counterparts on iOS. They include Messages (with iMessage support), Reminders, Notes, and a new app called Documents to the Cloud. There's a developer SDK that will allow third parties to similarly tie their mobile apps to their desktop versions.

15-inch next generation MacBook Pro will feature retina display

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Jun 11, 2012 a 1:49 pm

Apple has just made a huge update to their MacBook Pro line at WWDC 2012. The highlight is no doubt the new "next generation" 15-inch MacBook Pro that adds a killer retina display and ditches the optical drive to come in at an astounding .71 inches thin.