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OmniGroup releases OmniPresence, free sync technology for OS X and iOS
OmniGroup, the Seattle-based developers of OmniOutliner, OmniGraphSketcher, OmniGraffle, OmniFocus and OmniPlan, has announced that ...
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Apple applies design changes to online store
It may not seem like all that much changed after last night’s Apple Store downtime, but
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New and notable apps for iOS and OS X - May 22 edition
It has been busy in the App Store with a handful of new apps landing on iOS and ...
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Iconic US magazine Saturday Evening Post comes to Newsstand
The Saturday Evening Post, one of America’s most iconic magazines, ...
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Daily iPhone App: Las Vegas! brings Ravensburger's dice game to the iPad
Las Vegas! is a popular dice game that Ravensburger put together last year. It’s not exactly the ...
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Apple claims Google Now infringes Siri patents as it adds Galaxy S4 to ongoing Samsung patent suit
Earlier this month we noted that Apple was asking courts to add the Galaxy S4 as an infringing device in its ongoing patent dispute with ...
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Apple now offering PayPal for online store purchases starting with Germany
As first spotted by our friends over at German language publication Macerkopf.de, Apple appears to be rolling out an option to make purchases on the ...
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Pandora Radio rolls out Facebook publishing, improved interface, enhanced track menu, more
Just as Apple appears to be readying its music streaming service and Google just announced its subscription music service, Pandora Radio has released a sturdy update to ...
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iLoveHandles launches ‘Trunk’, a flexible Lightning cable that holds your iPhone vertically
iLoveHandles, a company that makes unique iOS device accessories (Facet and Pinhead come to mind), today announced availability of its latest one of a kind ...
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Google begins rolling out revamped conversational Voice Search features in Chrome
During its Google I/O keynote earlier this month, Google announced that it would be bringing conversational, Google-Now like voice search to the desktop. Using a ...
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How to Change the Dock Indicator Lights Color in Mac OS X
The color indicators in the Mac OS X Dock provide an easy way to tell what apps are running just by glancing at the Dock. ...
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6 Tips to Extend iPhone Battery Life That Actually Work
Just about every iPhone user loves the iPhone 5, but if there is one thing to complain about it’s almost always about the devices battery ...
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How to Check an iTunes / App Store Account Balance Quickly from iOS & Mac OS X
Ever wanted to check the remaining balance of an Apple ID, so you know how much credit is remaining for iTunes, iBooks, or App Store ...
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How to Save Web Pages as PDF Files on the iPad & iPhone
One little feature that iOS really needs is the ability to natively “print to PDF” directly on the iPad and iPhone, a popular trick on ...
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How to View All Running Apps & Processes in Mac OS X
There are a variety of ways to see all applications or programs which are running on a Mac, ranging from only seeing “windowed” apps running ...
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'Trunk' Posable Lightning Cable Doubles as iPhone Stand [iOS Blog]
As noted by Gizmodo, iLoveHandles as launched a new Trunk Lightning charging cable for the iPhone 5, offering an innovative posable design that ...
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Logitech Targets Schools With New $60 Wired Keyboard for iPad [iOS Blog]
Logitech today announced the upcoming launch of its Wired Keyboard for iPad, a $60 accessory specifically targeted at schools. The keyboard is available ...
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Apple Updates Look of Online Store With More Feature Images, Fewer Text Links
Apple today rolled out some updates to its online store, not only posting new features advertising Father’s Day gift purchases but also introducing a ...
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Apple Named World's Most Valuable Brand for Third Year in a Row [Mac Blog]
Millward Brown today released its annual BrandZ study of global brands (via AllThingsD), which found ...
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'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic' Might Come to the iPad [iOS Blog]
Bioware and LucasArts’ Star Wars role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic may be coming to the iPad in the near future, reports IGN, ...
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Hands on: Minbox merges e-mail and the cloud for frictionless file sharing
In most of the world, the asymmetric nature of your average Internet connection means that, unless you are lucky enough to be on a corporate ...
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Google I/O from an iOS perspective
Popular as Apple’s iOS mobile platform is, it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There’s also Google’s Android—a widely used mobile OS in its own right. ...
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Apple says Samsung's Galaxy S4 infringes on five patents
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 Apple patents, according to a court filing by Apple. Apple wants to add the new Galaxy S4 to an ongoing ...
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Syncing calendars between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard
Reader Ron Sharp has a question that continues to puzzle some Mac users. He writes: I have an older Mac on a local network that is ...
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Mac Gems: Timebar turns your menu bar into your timer
While I often set timers with Siri on my iPhone, doing so means I need another Siri command or series of swipes and taps to ...
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Penguin agrees to $75M settlement in Apple iBooks price fixing lawsuit
Book publisher Penguin announced on Wednesday it has reached a $75 million “comprehensive agreement” with U.S. State Attorneys General and private class plaintiffs over e-book ...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 & Google Now accused of violating Apple patents for Siri
In its ongoing litigation against Samsung, Apple has added five new patents to its claims, targeting both the company’s new flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone, as ...
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Sony to consider spinning off its entertainment division
Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate Sony could drop one of those divisions in the near future, as the company’s board will soon discuss spinning off ...
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Like Apple, Google & Yahoo also avoid taxes by way of Ireland
Though they weren’t grilled before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday like Apple, Google and Yahoo rely on Irish subsidiaries to avoid taxes on billions ...
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Apple Online Store pushes iPad for Father's Day
Apple on Wednesday updated its online storefront, adding a special section for Father’s Day with a heavy emphasis on the iPad, the iPad mini and ...
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The J-Men Show – MyMac Podcast #458
Download and listen here Subscribe in iTunes Before We start I’d like to say RIP Tim Verpoorten he was a massive influence on me when ...
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Mac Kung Fu – Book Review
Mac Kung Fu, Second Edition – Over 400 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for Apple OS X Author: Keir Thomas Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf Price: ...
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Double Vision – TechFan Podcast #119
Download the show here Subscribe in iTunes Google Glass is the discussion this week, as well as Tim and David disagreeing on the state of ...
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Mac Hacks – Book Review
Mac Hacks - Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X Author: Chris Seibold Publisher: O’Reilly Media Price: US $24.99 (print) | US $19.99 ...
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An AppleTV TV set? Why?
For quite some time various Apple watchers have been talking about an AppleTV as an actual television set. Oh so very high end with all ...
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AT&T has fastest LTE service, T-Mobile USA off to strong start
For the second year in a row, AT&T’s LTE service has proven to be the fastest…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook charms Capitol Hill
By the time Mr. Cook walked out, the big cats on a Senate committee were practically eating out of his hand…
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Why this whole iOS ‘Flat Design’ thing is being blown out of proportion
I would expect Jony Ive’s taste to deeply influence…
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Apple tells court: Samsung’s Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 patents
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 infringes on 5 Apple patents…
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Apple share buyback – the numbers talk
Apple (AAPL) announced that it has increased its share repurchase authorization to $60 billion…
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Apps We Use: Jorge Rodriguez
It’s now my turn to tell you about all the amazing apps I’ve found and kept using to this day, after ...
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Create a Picture From a Thousand Words With Wordify
Typographic artwork is very popular at the moment with all sorts images being created, from maps to movie posters. They look ...
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Animate Your Web Content With MotionComposer
With Adobe’s “no CS7″ announcement, everyone seems a little shaken up. Some are even looking for good software alternatives already. If ...
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Create Your Own Animated GIFs With GIF Brewery
The animated GIF has never been so prevalent. What was once a way to bring some motion to a very static ...
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Thanks to Our Sponsor: Doo
It shouldn’t be so difficult to find that one document you need, but it often is. You’re stuck searching between different ...
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Penguin Pays $75 Million Settlement In Apple eBook Price Fixing Case
Penguin announced this morning that the company has reached an agreement with the US ...
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Tim Cook Endures Awkward Questioning About Steve Jobs Hologram [Video]
Holograms are supposedly going to be the future of artistic performance. First there was ...
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Apple Depot Earbuds: Perfect For The Active Lifestyle [Deals]
If you’re active you know how many pairs of headphones ...
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Starting In Germany, Apple.com Is Now Accepting PayPal For Online Payments
This is interesting: along with their new redesign, in ...
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The Trunk: A Lightning Cable That’s Also An iPhone Stand
Here’s something for you: a bendable but still rigid Lightning-to-USB cable that can function ...
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Overnight Recap: Senate Opening Statements, PS4 Teaser, UE BOOM Speakers
Okay gamers, what are your thoughts on that Xbox One? If you’ve seen the hardware, you already know ...
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Want New Hardware from Google? You'll Have to Wait for WWDC
As I was following the stream of Google I/O updates on my Twitter timeline last week, one thought kept ...
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Report Claims People Less Happy with iPhone Than a Year Ago
Are you as happy with your iPhone as you were last year? If not, you may not be alone, according to a recent survey which ...
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Apple Publishes Testimony in Defense of Tax Practices
Apple executives are expected to testify on Capitol Hill today to defend the iPhone maker’s offshore ...
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Overnight Recap: Scanner Pro 4.5, Hacked AT&T Update, VUDU Adds Offline
Yahoo! certainly kicked off the week in grand style Monday with news of its Tumblr acquisition, ...
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Howard Gleckman on Apple’s Taxes
Howard Gleckman, writing for the Tax Policy Center: Because Apple is so profitable, the dollars involved will certainly attract attention (this is a Senate committee after ...
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Best Moment of Today’s Senate Hearing
John McCain: “Why the hell do I have to keep updating the apps on my iPhone all the time?”
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Steve Jobs E-Book Email to James Murdoch
I missed this last week, but John Paczkowski has the entire email from Jobs with the “Throw in with Apple and see if we can ...
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Wikipedia Corruption
Andrew Leonard, writing for Salon, unmasks a blatantly corrupt Wikipedia editor: The mind boggles. After years of styling himself as someone who specializes in scrubbing Wikipedia ...
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Wired: First Look at the Xbox One
Peter Rubin: At this point, fewer than 2 million Surface tablets have been sold. Windows Phone has a 3.2 percent share of the smartphone market. The ...
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Zite adds 7 new publishing partners; updates iOS app with Google Reader-inspired features
Personalized social reader Zite is updating its iOS app with more Google Reader-inspired features, and also added seven new publishers to its publisher program.
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Integrated Vimeo, Flickr sharing could follow Twitter, Facebook to iOS
A report on Tuesday from 9to5Mac says Apple is looking to bolster social sharing options in iOS 7 by integrating Vimeo and Flickr. The inclusion ...
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Your tax dollars at work: Apple’s Cook navigates the senatorial theater of the absurd
The reason for Apple’s being singled out for common U.S. tax minimization practices wasn’t completely explained by a U.S. Senate subcommittee Tuesday. But Tim Cook ...
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AT&T to allow FaceTime, other video chat apps over cellular for all customers
The carrier says by mid-June it will allow use of FaceTime over cellular for its unlimited plan customers. A broader rollout for even more video ...
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Tim Cook urges tax reform for US businesses — even if Apple has to pay more
Cook will call for a revenue-neutral reform of the corporate tax code that does away with all tax expenditures, lowers tax rates and establishes a ...
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Tim Cook defends Apple tax arrangements at Senate hearing
Tim Cook was grilled by US Senators today over allegations that Apple was the ‘Holy Grail of tax avoidance.’ During the hearing, Cook claimed that ...
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Yahoo buys Tumblr as users seek sanctuary in WordPress
Yahoo confirmed today that it had shelled out a hefty $1.1bn (£723m) for content platform, Tumblr and, perhaps in acknowledgement of what has happened to ...
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Tim Cook hints about US-built Mac
Tim Cook has again talked about the Mac Apple will build in the US later this year. The Apple CEO told US politics website, Politico ...
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Apple announces fifty billion downloads from App Store
Apple confirmed today that the 50 billionth app has been downloaded from the App Store. The milestone was reached when a man from Ohio, Brandon ...
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Google beats Apple to launch streaming music service
Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference today to launch a streaming music service, the snappily-titled Google Play Music All Access. The new ...
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Use Flickr as a cloud drive
Flickr has announced that all users will now have 1 TB of storage for free. With that much space, surely it would be interesting ...
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Quick way to get artwork from currently playing iTunes track
iTunes makes it easy to retrieve the artwork from the currently playing song. Just drag & drop the artwork displayed in the iTunes LCD (the ...
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Control iTunes AirPlay streaming with AppleScript
iTunes 11.0.3 provides AppleScript support for controlling AirPlay devices. Below is a basic script that illustrates how AirPlay devices can be selected and applied using ...
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Save disk space by deleting copies of Mail attachments
By default, Mail will keep file attachments that you’ve opened or viewed in your ~/Library/Mail Downloads folder, until you delete the associated email. You can ...
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Fix for missing "Assign to..." Mission Control bug in 10.8.x
Having originally upgraded to 10.8 from 10.7, all of my applications’ desktop assignments in (now) Mission Control were already set. I recently decided to wipe ...



