Messages Beta: A review
With the announcement of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion today, Apple also released a beta of their brand new chat client for OS X...
Here’s Mountain Lion’s minimum specification requirements
With Mountain Lion’s quiet announcement came a lot of questions about compatibility and price. While we don’t know exactly how Apple plans to charge for...
Retina graphics ship with Messages for OS X
Apple’s newly released Messages application for OS X, which is still in beta, has tipped its hat in the direction of Retina displays for the...
Rumor: Mac Pro refresh on the horizon with NVIDIA and Ivy Bridge
Unsurprisingly, more rumors are surfacing about the long overdue refresh to the Mac Pro. Steve Lo over at M.I.C. Gadget is reporting that not only...
VLC 2.0 to ship this week with Blu-Ray support and a new UI
VLC, the popular open source media player, will be hitting the 2.0 release this week, and with it comes some significant UI changes.
RIM Director: Outsiders are morons, critics can get bent
The Globe and Mail posted an article on RIM and Roger Martin on Saturday, titled Roger Martin: Defying RIM’s critics. The article attempts to get...
ITV did not send Apple a warning about using its ITV trademark
Just as we were sitting down to wrap our heads around the news report from the Telegraph that ITV sent Apple a letter about using...
Apple publicly announces partnership with the Fair Labor Association
Apple has issued a press release announcing that the Fair Labor Association (FLA) will be “conducting special voluntary audits” of “Apple’s final assembly suppliers” in...
Iconic white MacBook put out to pasture, no longer sold to educational institutions
Back in June we wrote an article about Apple’s iconic white MacBook being scheduled for deletion. At the time, we said, “Why do we think...
Apps of the Week: SimSimi, Tweetbot, and Fantastical
It’s Friday, and that means it’s time to take a look at some awesome apps for each platform: iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS. Today, we’re...
Double Fine crowd sources funding for new adventure game, likely coming to OS X and iOS
Double Fine, the company behind such beloved games as Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, has decided to crowd source their funding of a brand new adventure...
MacPaw releases Gemini, a duplicate file finder and cleaner
MacPaw has officially released its secret Gemini application on the Mac App Store today. While we originally thought it could be a Twitter application for...
Go back in time with some Apple II and Apple IIgs game ROMS
It’s time to get nostalgic. A website dedicated to Apple II and Apple IIgs ROMS has come across our desk today. Sure, it’s probably not...
I’ve seen the future of iOS and OS X, and it starts with iLife
In a recent well-thought out article about the iOS-ification of OS X, Frederico Viticci states, “This transition obviously started years ago, and in retrospect it’s...
Scratch that Apple itch with this Apple inspired iPhone speaker
Miniature iPhone speaker company Motz has created a nifty little wooden Apple logo-inspired speaker for your favorite iDevice. The speaker is 100% hand crafted, and...
HoverBar attaches your iPad to your monitor
Innovative iPad accessories just keep on coming. This time, Twelve South, the makers of such great products as the PlugBug, has made an iPad stand...
Engineer reveals that Apple is tinkering with OS X on ARM
A former Apple intern, now a full-fledged Apple engineer, used the experience of porting the underpinnings of OS X to an ARM architecture as the...
Apps of the Week: Wunderkit, Showyou and Wunderkit again!
It’s Friday, and that means it’s time to take a look at some awesome apps for each platform: iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS. Today, we’re...