Here’s some big news for international fans of Apple; according to the company, five new Apple Stores are expected to open in various places in the world this Saturday, including a store in Alaska, the first. The store, located in Anchorage, will open at 10 A.M. Interestingly, there are still seven states in the United States that do not yet have Apple Stores in them (Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming) according to 9to5Mac.
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We’ve written up a bit on ‘Kard Combat,’ a now-released card game for the iOS platform in the past, and now we’re announcing that the app has just gotten a huge update, already approved and ready for you to install. With the update comes four new mages, as well as a ton of new cards and spells too.
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Earlier today, Apple released its “Lion Recovery Disk Assistant”, which provides an enormously useful feature for Lion OS X Users by allowing them to create a Lion recovery partition on either a USB or external hard drive. This means that users will no longer need a physical disk to repair or reinstall Lion.
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A year ago, in January 2010, the development firm Illusion Labs adapted a Mac version of its popular iOS skate boarding game Touchgrind. The new Mac version fully utilized the sophisticated multi-touch trackpad of Mac’s, and showed just how great for gaming they are.
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Just recently today, Skype version 5.3 was released to Mac. The new update features a bunch of nice new upgrades that are sure to have Skype fans raving.
Skype 5.3 brings a plethora of brand new tools including full OS X Lion support as well as HD Video Calling.
OS X Lion support was always to be expected, so that upgrade doesn’t bring much of a surprise – although it is quite nice. With this update, Skype will be supported for every version of Mac going all the way back to Leopard.
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Apple has just released a new iMac targeted specifically at education administrations. The main difference is that it has lower specs than the new iMacs, and a cheaper price point to accommodate bulk buyers for school resources. The iMac costs $999 and comes with slower internals and a smaller hard drive. The specs are as follows:
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Apple has released an update to the 10.7.2 developer preview of OS X Lion. They released the preview of 10.7.2 a little while ago after the release version of Lion was unleashed on the Mac App Store.
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When iOS 5 Beta first came out for developers, fans everywhere were already eager for news on new features. Hopefully, they won’t be disappointed as new reports show that Apple has definitely been working on a brand-new speech recognition interface.
As you can see in the picture, a microphone button has appeared right next to the space button on the standard iOS text keyboard. Apparently, once you tap this button, a microphone speech screen will appear that will allow you to then start speaking.
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As usual, Apple is opening up its newest software system to developers just before official launch. This is good news for us, because it means that everything is going smoothly and we should expect to get iCloud soon.
Just recently today, Apple opened its MobileMe.com/move url, which allows developers to migrate all of their data from their MobileMe accounts to iCloud. Of course, non-developers do not yet have usage.
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As Apple approaches its transition from MobileMe to iCloud, we’ve all been wondering what will happen to existing MobileMe accounts.
That question has been answered though, as Apple just recently revealed its plans for the transition accounts.
Apparently, Apple has promised that it will keep transitioning accounts active until June 30, 2012. Until then, MobileMe will still retain most of its functions. However, for some time it was confused as to how storage would be transitioned.
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Mac users have been complaining about system crashes they are having after upgraded to the newly released OS X Lion. Users are saying that Macs will crash and display a completely black screen, or just a graphics kernel crash.
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Lots of developers are trying to cash in on the iOS beta access program by selling their access to the iOS 5 beta to outsiders. Developers are left with free slots for registering UDID’s, the identifier codes of iOS devices. They sell the free slots to people online trying to get early but illegal access at the unreleased iOS version.
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Gmail sports a nice web interface that allows you to check your mail on the go, and now it’s just gotten updated to support retina display devices, as well as some other features. Personally, I don’t think retina display for an email website is that important, but what is important is the (almost) universal “pull-to-refresh” that was implemented with the update as well.
Read More →Apple just unleashed iOS 5 Beta 5 for developers in the Developer Center, along with an updated iTunes beta, Xcode Developer Preview and Apple TV beta update. The iOS 5 beta update is also downloadable via an Over The Air update straight onto the device.
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Since the iPhone’s inception, the fact that it was only available on certain carriers as actually held back its success. This year, Apple added Verizon as a new iPhone carrier, alongside AT&T, the only other US carrier that sold the iPhone. Many people on Sprint wish they could have an iPhone on the third carrier, and there have been rumors that the iPhone 5 will be compatible with Sprint’s network as well.
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There’s a new Trojan virus going around the internet that affects Macs. It pretends to be an installer for Adobe Flash, which people install all the time when getting new computers or when they find out they need it to watch Youtube videos and view webpage content.
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