Mac Archive

  • iWork 2010 announced, will support iPad’s multi-touch controls (and your regular Mac, too)

    iWork 2010 announced, will support iPad’s multi-touch controls (and your regular Mac, too)

    Another year, another release of iLife. This time, though, with full iPadsupport. Yes, Apple showed off iLife 2010 at its big press conference today, and the updates are about what you'd expect from the application suite: incremental and filled with one or two things that make you say, "Wow, neat." That being the multi-touch support.

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  • Anticipating the Apple Tablet: When journalism becomes fanfiction

    Anticipating the Apple Tablet: When journalism becomes fanfiction

    For the record, I'm writing these words on a MacBook Pro; the third Mac I've owned in the past twelve months. As I do so, I'm listening to music on iTunes through my standard issue iPod headphones, so as not to disturb my neighbours. Less than a foot from where I'm sitting, my iPhone sits charging. I am - as marketers might have it put - "a Mac". And yet - my God - I'm bored of reading about Apple and their 'long awaited' tablet.

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  • Telltale Games catalog may soon be available for Mac

    Telltale Games catalog may soon be available for Mac

    This is still in the rumor phase, but Gamertell.com has heard “from a very reliable, confidential source that Telltale Games may be planning to release its entire lineup of games to Macintosh very soon, possibly next month.”

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  • Attention: Plex for Mac now plays well with Snow Leopard

    Attention: Plex for Mac now plays well with Snow Leopard

    It's been some time since I've written about Plex, the Mac-specific fork of XBMC that, well, is fantastic. It seems Snow Leopard somewhat borked the application, but the latest release is all fixed up. Have a peach.

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  • Kindle is coming to the Mac and the BlackBerry

    Kindle is coming to the Mac and the BlackBerry

    Just so you don't, you know, leave your place of work today without this bit of news: Kindle is making an app for Macs and Blackberries. This news follows the announcement for a yet-unreleased PC version announced yesterday.

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  • Maybe, maybe not: New doubts on Blu-ray being part of the next iMac revision

    Maybe, maybe not: New doubts on Blu-ray being part of the next iMac revision

    I'm not about to knock myself out for noting the 800th iMac rumor of the past few weeks, so here's the deal: people “close” to Apple now aren't sure whether or not Blu-ray will wind up on the next iMac revision. Blu-ray may be on Mac Pros, and maybe then only as a build-to-order option, but that's enough “maybes” to bore a slug.

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  • Review: mStand by Rain Design

    Review: mStand by Rain Design

    Here at TechCrunch HQ, almost all of us have laptops, with some connecting their laptops to an external display. In my case, I use a 15" Unibody MacBook Pro connected to a 22" Gateway display. I have always gone by the theory that the more real estate space you have, the more productive you are. To keep both displays level, I've been trying out number laptop stands; anywhere from paper stacked on top of each other, to cardboard, but it seems like the best laptop stand for my Mac is the mStand from Rain Design. The mStand is designed for the MacBook and MacBook Pro, yet it works with all laptops. The mStand is made of a single solid piece of aluminum that matches MacBook Pro's silver anodized finish.

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  • BlackBerry Desktop Software for OS X coming in September (!!!!!)

    BlackBerry Desktop Software for OS X coming in September (!!!!!)

    RIM has been blasted for years about not have a native OS X BlackBerry application but that should stop in September when BlackBerry Desktop Software will be released. The program will do just about everything BlackBerry addicts expect with syncing of iTunes playlists, calenders, contacts, notes, tasks, along with adding and removing software. Plus, the [...]

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  • How to enable Time Machine backups to a Windows Home Server

    How to enable Time Machine backups to a Windows Home Server

    Well, the one big advantage HP had in the Windows Home Server game maybe about to disappear. Someone has found a relatively easy way to enable remote Time Machine backup to a WHS. It's probably only a matter of time before a rough GUI version appear followed up shortly later by a well-polished solution.

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  • Hotz does it again, releases jailbreak app for iPhone 3GS

    Hotz does it again, releases jailbreak app for iPhone 3GS

    George Hotz, the 20-year old hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone, has released a jailbreaking application for the iPhone 3GS codenamed "purplera1n." It's currently Windows-only (Windows 7 not supported), and requires the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with the 3.0 firmware. Hotz mentions in a blog post that the jailbreak for Mac is "coming soon." The iPhone Dev Team did release a unlock for 3.0 which did not work on the iPhone 3GS, but Hotz's version does (although it doesn't free you from your current carrier).

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  • Psystar emerges from bankruptcy ready to sell a Core i7 Mac Pro clone

    Psystar emerges from bankruptcy ready to sell a Core i7 Mac Pro clone

    And you thought that Apple finally drove the front running clone maker off of a cliff. Nope. Psystar successfully navigated the bankruptcy courts and is back at its old game of annoying Apple. The ongoing lawsuit is still in play, but bankruptcy no doubt allowed the company to shed some debt and reorganize under Chapter 11 guidelines. Now the company is back and just released a new Core i7 clone.

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  • WD announces the My Book Studio Edition II, Mac-ready and up to 4TB

    WD announces the My Book Studio Edition II, Mac-ready and up to 4TB

    Today, WD announced the My Book Studio Edition II in a 4TB variety. The RAID 0 configurable dual-drive storage system works with Apple’s Time Machine and has four interfaces: eSATA, FireWire 800/400 and USB 2.0. WD is touting the 4TB behemoth as an eco-friendly product because of the GreenPower drives.

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