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Apple’s iCloud service could soon include photo sharing (not just syncing), syncing of personal videos, and new access to Reminders and Notes in an upcoming upgrade. These features are rumored to be included in iOS 6 which is expected to be announced at WWDC…

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Added by Alex S. Gaston on May 15, 2012 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Good Bye Perian!

Today, the Perian dev team announced that the software will no longer be updated. They will release all the source code to Google Code or Github, but the team is moving on

For now, Perian continues to work with OS X Lion. From here, however, it's unsure whether it will make the leap to Mountain Lion. Check out NicePlayer, which remains in development.

Added by Alex S. Gaston on May 14, 2012 at 5:48pm — 1 Comment

My New Toy

The New Era for Speed

The LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series heralds a new era for storage performance. Featuring a preconfigured RAID0 striped set with optional hard disks or SSDs through the 10Gb/s Thunderbolt interface, it delivers astonishing transfer rates. Reach read speeds of up to 480MB/s with the SSD model, and up to 190MB/s with the hard disk model. Now you can truly get the power of fibre channel rackmount storage--in a portable…

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Added by Alex S. Gaston on May 12, 2012 at 9:09pm — No Comments

An 11-year-old boy urinated on several MacBook computers on a cart in the Upper Allen Elementary School Wednesday, damaging them beyond repair, according to Upper Allen Twp. police.

The loss came to more than $36,000, police said.

Police charged the boy with institutional vandalism and criminal mischief and are turning him over to the Cumberland County Juvenile Probation Department.

The reason it’s likely being calculated as a full loss is because Apple won’t service the MacBooks. Once urine is on a MacBook — whether animal or human — Apple considers it a biohazard. The more you know, huh?

It’s too bad he didn’t decide to…

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Added by Alex S. Gaston on May 1, 2012 at 4:48pm — No Comments

Worlds First Gold i-Pad 3

 

Added by Alex S. Gaston on May 1, 2012 at 3:47am — 1 Comment

Snow Leopard hit hardest by Flashback malware

By parsing these intercepted communications strings over weeks of communication and then compiling them, Dr. Web was able to find several interesting facts. Included in these are some obvious notions such as the latest malware variants that use Java to exploit systems being the most prevalent of the attacks. However, other findings are that most of the attacks have been run with "user privileges," suggesting most people were caught in the drive-by-download attack and refused to enter a…

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Added by Alex S. Gaston on April 30, 2012 at 3:43pm — No Comments

5 Reasons Why an iPad is the Best Choice to Read eBooks

Reading a book on an iPad device is an enjoyable experience due to its typical hardware features. In addition to these features, the iOS 5 platform also provides certain in-built functionalities that make it the best choice to read eBooks.



5 of the most valid reasons that justify the iPad from Apple as one of the best eBook reader are:



•    Its apt screen size – The 9.7 inch display screen of the iPad, makes the device near about the size of an actual book. It is…

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Added by Kayli on April 24, 2012 at 2:07am — No Comments

The downloadable “Samantha” voice for Lion is the same as Siri’s in the United States.

Here is how to download it:

Open System Preferences> Speech> Text to Speech>System Voice> Customize> and select “Samantha” from the list. Apple will ask you to confirm the 469MB install.

Added by Alex S. Gaston on April 20, 2012 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Vintage 1983 Apple Computer LISA Limited Edition Print, Poster

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Added by Alex S. Gaston on April 17, 2012 at 7:24pm — No Comments

Enable 1/2 star rating in iTunes

in Terminal enter

defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

Added by Alex S. Gaston on April 14, 2012 at 12:21pm — No Comments

The Machu Picchu Interactive Book for the iPad--A Kickstarter Campaign That Needs Your Help

Dear Apple Friends,

As you know, the Interactive Book format for the iPad is going to forever change the way we all read a book.  School districts around the world already are seeing the brilliance in investing in iPads and not spending tons of money for traditional, limiting textbooks. 

And with the rising cost of travel, war zones and all the other things going on in our world, it's becoming harder and harder for people to visit some of the most historic and important places…

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Added by Daddy Claxton on April 9, 2012 at 8:23pm — No Comments

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