Mac OS X
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iPhone 4S And iPad 2 Untethered Jailbreak For Windows Released
Geeky Gadgets &bull Jan 23, 2012
Earlier today we heard that the Chronic Dev team had released an untethered jailbreak for Apple's iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, the app was called Absinthe A5 and it was only available for the Mac. Full Story »
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APP OF THE DAY: iBooks Author review (Mac OS X)
Pocket-Lint &bull Jan 19, 2012
Over in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, the mystery of Apple's education event was put to bed today with the tech giant unleashing iBooks 2 - "a new textbook experience for iPad." But it was the iBooks Author Mac… Full Story »
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HOW TO: Disable Spotlight in Mac OS X [tutorial]
Gadgets on Method Shop &bull Jan 18, 2012
Trust us. We really like the ability to search for files or the content of files on our computer. But Mac OS X Spotlight is a total memory hog (especially on older machines). Every time OS X would slow down… Full Story »
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Internet Explorer boss: Chrome 'massive challenge'
Pocket-Lint &bull Jan 10, 2012
You're at risk of becoming a bit complacent if you don't have good, healthy competition." That's why it's very much stripped away, is faster and there's a whole load of other elements, such as pinning, in there that are based… Full Story »
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Lenovo Integrates Android 4.0 OS Into New K91 TV (CES)
Gadget Review &bull Jan 10, 2012
Lenovo's K91 TV is anything but an ordinary television. Instead, the 55-inch TV boasts Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as its OS and a Qualcomm's 1.5GHz dual-core 8060 Snapdragon CPU processor. Another cool feature is that the TV can be… Full Story »
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AcerCloud Seeks to Bridge Windows and Android
Mobile Technology News on Laptop Magazine &bull Jan 9, 2012
LAS VEGAS - Acer is hoping to make its Ultrabooks stand out from the crowd with AcerCloud, which will let users access their media from Android or Windows devices. The service will be available on the Aspire S5 and Timeline… Full Story »
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Eton Corporation Debuts Rukus Bluetooth Solar-Powered Speaker
Mobile Technology News on Laptop Magazine &bull Jan 9, 2012
What's green and loud and heard all over? That would be Eton Corporation's new portable Bluetooth speaker, Rukus. Powered by an enhanced monocrystal solar panel, the speaker can wirelessly stream music from any Bluetooth-capable device. The built in handle makes… Full Story »
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OLPC XO 3.0 Tablet Hands-On: 6-Minutes of Hand Crank for An Hour of Power
Mobile Technology News on Laptop Magazine &bull Jan 9, 2012
LAS VEGAS - Earlier this weekend, the One Laptop Per Child project announced it was ready to ship its first tablet, the XO 3.0. Today, we had the opportunity to get a private demo with this truly unique, low-power slate that's designed for students in developing countries. Though our demo was short, we were impressed with the XO 3.0s unique hard… Full Story »
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Deal of the Day: 17.3-inch Toshiba Satellite with Core i7 for $879
Mobile Technology News on Laptop Magazine &bull Jan 8, 2012
The Toshiba Satellite P770-BT4G22 may not be the hottest item on the shelves today - it's over a few years old - but that doesn't mean it's been swallowed up by the sands of time. Unlike faster-developing consumer items, a… Full Story »
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Crappy Clickpads Could Kill The Ultrabook
Mobile Technology News on Laptop Magazine &bull Jan 6, 2012
In case you hadn't heard, Ultrabooks are the next big thing for laptops. With their superslim designs and tablet-like responsiveness, this category has the potential to keep notebooks quite relevant in the so-called post-PC era. When you ask industry analysts what might prevent Ultrabooks from taking off, most will tell you their relatively high prices. But I believe there's an even bigger obstacle: the clickpad. What's a clickpad, you ask? It's a touchpad that lacks discrete mouse buttons. The buttons are built into the pad itself, which makes for… Full Story »
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Gadgetwise Blog: Tip of the Week: Make Your Own Shortcuts in Word
New York Times - Personal Technology &bull Jan 6, 2012
Microsoft Word, for both Windows and Mac OS X systems, is full of keyboard shortcuts to help speed things along as you work. Although the Web has plenty of pages listing the shortcuts (like Microsoft's own collection for Word 2010),… Full Story »
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LaCie updates OS for NAS drives for easier backup, more
Electronista &bull Jan 6, 2012Drive maker LaCie has announced a free update for its d2 Network 2, 2big Network 2 and 5big Network 2 network-attached storage (NAS) external drives that work with Mac OS X (10.5 and higher) and Windows (XP or 7). Full Story »
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BitTorrent Share to Challenge Personal Cloud Storage Services Like Dropbox [BitTorrent's New Share Service Lets Windows Users Exchange Files Without Size Limits; Mac OS X Version Coming Soon]
Technology Gadgets and Curiosities &bull Jan 6, 2012
In case you haven't heard, file sharing is now a recognized religion in Sweden. If you're planning to convert to Kopimism sometime soon, you might want to try unlimited file-sharing heaven with BitTorrent's new Share service. Full Story »
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Judge not convinced by Apple's trade secrets argument, unseals docs
Ars Technica - Gadget Tech Blog &bull Jan 4, 2012
A judge has denied Apple's request to keep certain court documents sealed in its copyright infringement case against Mac clone maker Psystar. In a late Tuesday filing, US District Judge William Alsup ordered that portions of the parties' summary judgement… Full Story »
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Gadgetwise Blog: QA: Anchoring the Mac's Dock
New York Times - Personal Technology &bull Jan 4, 2012
By default, the Mac OS X Dock - the taskbarlike strip of program and folder shortcuts - sits along the bottom edge of the screen. But you do not have to keep it there. Although you cannot move the Dock… Full Story »
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Gadgetwise Blog: QA: Deleting Multiple Photo Copies
New York Times - Personal Technology &bull Jan 4, 2012
The latest version of the program, Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, now includes a Duplicate Photo search feature in the program's Organizer component that rounds up duplicate (or near-duplicate versions) of a picture. If you do not have the latest version… Full Story »
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Internet Explorer 6 usage finally drops below one percent in United States (Digital Trends)
Gadgets News on Yahoo! News &bull Jan 4, 2012
Other countries that are under the one percent mark are entered into Microsoft's "Champion's Circle" and include countries like Czech Republic, Portugal, Philippines, Ukraine, Mexico, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Finland and Norway. While developers around the United States are likely… Full Story »
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Apple denied attempt to keep info secret in Psystar case
Electronista &bull Jan 4, 2012Apple encountered its one and only setback in its court victory over Psystar Tuesday after Judge William Alsup ruled that it couldn't keep secret details about how Mac OS X worked. Apple couldn't order sealed documents about the boot-up checks… Full Story »
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The most popular stories of 2011 on Ars Technica
Ars Technica - Gadget Tech Blog &bull Dec 31, 2011
As 2011 winds to a close, let's look back at the stories that were the most popular with Ars Technica's readers. These are ranked one through ten in order of the number of pageviews; no other criteria were used to… Full Story »
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AMD Radeon HD 7700, 7800 details slip out
Electronista &bull Dec 30, 2011A detailed leak may have given out details of AMD's mid-range Radeon HD 7000-series desktop graphics. The 7750 and 7750 as explained by Fudzilla would sit on the new mainstream Cape Verde Pro and XT cores and each scale back… Full Story »


