News headlines
- New iWork at WWDC: Apple seeking iWork bug testers, new version soon (we hope)
New iWork recruit's role will have a focus on bug detection, will a new version be released soon?
- Manage multiple social media accounts with your Mac
Keeping up with just one social media account is tough enough
- Five issues Microsoft must fix in Office Web Apps
Microsoft recently said it plans to roll out new features to the Office Web apps. How about first fixing the things that don't work now?
- Microsoft won't guarantee buy-not-rent Office for next decade
Office executive swipes at Adobe's subscription-only model, but company backs off his apparent promise to keep selling perpetual licenses for 10 years
- What is the best Mac for gaming
What is the best Mac for playing games?
- Five overlooked abilities of the Finder's Path Bar
Working in a deeply nested folder
- Apple's iTunes hits record revenues as 10th anniversary approaches
iTunes Music Store reaches record-breaking revenues of over $4.1 billion for the second quarter of 2013, Apple reveals
- Chinese website distributes free pirated apps, blames iTunes for complex interface
Using Apple's own enterprise licensing technology a Chinese website has taken to offering pirated iOS apps for free
- Apple updates iPhoto, Aperture, Safari, Java for Mac
The updates bring Photo Stream and security improvements, and also fix several bugs
- The seven best OS X tricks you're not using
Seven practical tips for OS X
Blogs
>> Mon, 04 Mar 2013
The Mac that time forgot
By Simon Jary
Apple is, for the moment at least, no longer selling the Mac Pro in Europe. Is Apple annoyed with us for still buying BlackBerries or siding with Samsung in the courts? No, it’s because an amendment to the IEC 60950-1 regulation increases requirements around electrical port protection and the fan guards in the system.
>> Thu, 10 Jan 2013
Can Microsoft kill the iPhone?
By Matt Egan
Can Microsoft kill the iPhone? Let me answer that with another question. Why did we stop asking if Google can kill the iPhone? Because it found a niche of its own. For all the lawsuits and talk of thermonuclear war, Apple and Google know that this town is big enough for the both of us.
>> Wed, 09 Jan 2013
Apple's bad cable manners
By Simon Jary
After an 18-month wait Apple is finally shipping a new range of iMacs, and very nice they are, too. I bought one of the 27-inch iMacs because our home iMac bores the pants off me when it tries to handle a few hungry Adobe programs and bad-boy iPhoto at the same time. See: Apple iMac (27-inch and 21.5-inch) review (Late 2012)
Mac software
Mac OS X has always had a wealth of powerful software packages, like Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office, as well as a vibrant smaller developer scene. And ever since Apple launched the Mac App Store things have taken on a new dimension with thousands of programs available within OS X at the click of a button.
iPhone 6 rumour rollup: Fingerprint sensor, Liquidmetal and names
There's nothing like exclusive, high resolution, leaked photographs of arcane internal iPhone components to trigger the gaga reflex in the iOSphere. It takes skill, honed by long experience with rumoring, to read into them far, far more than is actually there.
Reviews
Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing review - Play as Sonic and many other well-known Sega characters
Simple but enjoyable racing game for younger children
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