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  • Ed
    Apple has today announced the developer preview of its next generation Mac OS, titled Lion.
     
    The 7th major upgrade to OS X features many major enhancements including a more responsive Safari, full-screen mode for applications, automatic document saving, widescreen Mail (looking very similar to the iPad's Mail app), and much more.
     
    Check out the screenshots below of the new Mail, Address Book, and iCal courtesy of AppleInsider, who have more details on the new features in Mac OS X Lion:
     

     

     

     

  • Ed

    Episodes app released for iPhone

    By Ed, in OSx86,

    Making it's App Store debut this week is Episodes: an application for keeping track of your favourite TV shows. Based on the popular Showtime web app for iPhone and iPod Touch, it's now made the transition to a fully-fledged native iOS app.
     
    With a single tap Episodes will show you your favourite shows, when they’re next on TV and whether or not you’ve missed an episode. Drill down for information on air dates, episode listings, individual episode summaries and even screen captures.
     
    Features include: 



    Powerful search functionality that lets you browse our extensive database of series and episode information
    Unwatched episode flags and application badges let you know the second there's something new to watch
    Full, historic episode summaries, ratings and screen captures available with a single tap
    A unique and entirely personalised recommendation engine that analyses the television you watch and suggests shows you should
    Episodes will even provide air dates for your favourite internet based video channels

    Episodes is available on the App Store now for just 99c/59p
  • Ed
    Love Time Machine on your Mac, but hate having to have a second hard drive on your desk? Or are you a mobile user and rarely near your Time Machine-designated hard drive?
     
    Launched just this week, Dolly Drive may just be the solution you've been waiting for, delivering familiar Time Machine backups and recovery but via a Cloud-based service which lets users store their backups on web-based storage, omitting the need or an external or second hard drive on your Mac.
     
    Backups are of course encrypted, and pricing starts from just $10 per month for 250GB of space on Dolly Drive's Cloud backup service. There's also the ability to sync your backups locally to an external hard drive too, in addition to backing up to the Cloud. Further details and pricing are available on Dolly Drive's website.
  • Ed
    London-based Pixelmator probably ruffled a few feathers in Adobe's Photoshop team when they announced they pushed a whopping $1 million of sales in just 20 days on the recently launched Mac App Store.
     
    Pixelmator is a lightweight image manipulation tool aimed at graphics professionals who may not need all of Photoshop's tools and filters, and want to save money on Adobe's hefty pricing. Pixelmator is currently on offer at just $29.99 in the Mac App Store and offers many of the fundamental features that Photoshop has such as layers, layer groups, gradients, transform tools, image/canvas size, typography formatting, optimization for web, and not to mention 64-bit performance.
     
    There are of course a few features still absent that Photoshop die-hards (such as myself) won't be able to live without, such as layer styles and character spacing & line-height, but as Pixelmator has demonstrated, there is a sizeable demand for a lightweight graphic app to rival Photoshop, even just through the only recently released Mac App Store.
  • Ed
    It's difficult to believe the App Store didn't exist just 3 years ago, yet since it's launch in the summer of 2008 the App Store has now just seen it's 10 billionth app downloaded.
     
    Check out the asymco blog for some interesting stats and analysis of the App Store and how app downloads compare to music downloads.
     
    The interesting phenomenon of mobiles Apps is such that it'll be interesting to see how this market matures over the next few years: will users be more reluctant to ever switch from one mobile platform to another due to their investment in apps on their current mobile platform? I certainly wouldn't want to have to re-purchase apps I bought for my iPhone on the Android if I ever made the switch.
  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N

    10.6.7 Being Seeded

    By TH3L4UGH1NGM4N, in OSx86,

    10.6.7 10J842 being seeded to those lucky Apple devs

    The seventh chapter in Apple's Snow Leopard has been seeding to devs with the main focus being on Airport, Bonjor, SMB, and Graphics drivers.
     


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    9to5mac
     
    Maybe we might spy those framebuffers that Apple forgot in their last version who knows...

     
    EDIT:
    There doesn't seem to be any frambuffers for the ATI 6xxx so the waiting game continues...
  • Ed
    As is typical of Apple, the first quarter of the year tends to be heavy with new product announcements from Steve Jobs & Co. Rumors are abound of a successor to the current generation of iPad, which was debuted almost a year ago.
     
    One of the most notable omissions from the current iPad is a camera: something which is widely expected to be addressed with both front- and rear-facing cameras in the next-generation iPad. It should also be noted that prior to the iPad's debut, Apple did file for a patent for user-recognition using a front-facing camera in order to authenticate users, as opposed to typing a password: could this eventually see reality with the new iPad?
     
    Another rumor abound on the 'net is the possibility of quadruple the resolution, just like the iPhone benefitted from with last years release of the iPhone 4. The iPad's current resolution of 1024 x 768 is expected to quadruple to a whopping 2048 x 1536 - essentially a 4:3 version of the resolution on a 27" iMac! Reports are surfacing of high resolution versions of images in Apple's iBooks app which strongly support this rumor.
     
    In order to power this huge increase in resolution, it is widely expected that a new version of Apple's A4 processor, possibly titled A5 or A8, will debut with the next generation of iPads.
     
    Furthermore, it's also expected that an SD card slot may appear on the new device, inline with the addition of SD card slots on higher-end MacBook Pro's.
     
    Stay tuned for further info on the new iPad as it nears launch.
  • Ed

    Mac App Store could launch next week

    By Ed, in OSx86,

    Rumors are abound that the recently announced Mac App Store could be launch as early as next Monday, the 13th of December.
     
    When the dedicated Mac software store was announced by Apple on October 20th, it was slated to launch "within 90 days" which would fall inline with Apple's usual flurry of announcements and launches in January. However, it would appear that Steve's worked his team hard in order to get a release in ahead of Christmas when no doubt many people will be unwrapping brand new Macs for Christmas.
     
    This rumor also coincides with other reports of leaked betas of Mac OS X 10.6.6 featuring support for the forthcoming Mac App Store.
  • Ed
    Apple has recently won several patents for mobile and touch devices, including one of particular note which depicts a Macbook-like mobile device with a screen that slides down and over the tactile to keyboard to form an iPad-like touch device.
     
    For those of you that just can't decide between the iPad and MacBook Air, this may be just what you're after - although it's unclear whether this would be an iOS or full-blown Mac OS X mobile device, if it indeed every comes to fruition.
     

  • TH3L4UGH1NGM4N
    Apple patent could show plans for Light Peak adoption
     
    updated 12:20 pm EST, Tue November 30, 2010
     
    Company rumored as early Light Peak adopter.
     


    Source:


     
    Electronista

     
    Intel Light Peak rumored launching early, Apple a candidate
     
    updated 11:25 pm EDT, Wed November 3, 2010
     


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    Electronista

    Apple's Next MacBook Pro to Include SSD and Light Peak: Blog Rumors
     
    The latest round of Apple rumors has Steve Jobs launching a new redesign of the MacBook Pro in April 2011 with solid-state drives and the Intel Light Peak optical cable technology.

    Apple is notoriously reticent about providing information about upcoming products, but that doesn't stop the Apple faithful from speculating. The latest rumor making the rounds of Apple blogs predicts the next MacBook Pro notebook will move to solid-state drives.
     
    Mark Reschke from the Three-Guys-And-A-Podcast blog wrote Nov. 24 that Apple will be launching the "all-new MacBook Pro" design with SSDs in April 2011. He correctly predicted the launch of a new MacBook Air in September.

    The new design centers on the notebook's optical drives, or rather the lack of them. "The new MacBook Pros will move to solid state storage, up to 512GB, remove the optical drive, and we believe Light Peak is being pushed to make its first-ever entrance into the market, another Apple exclusive," Reschke wrote.
     
    Intel's Light Peak is a high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect multiple electronic devices, including peripherals, displays and disk drives. While the Light Peak connectors will be smaller with cables that are longer, thinner and more flexible, the technology will be capable of transferring data at blazing speeds, starting at 10Gb per second, according to Intel.
     
    Even though Light Peak is an Intel project, there is rampant speculation that Apple is collaborating with Intel on the technology. Many blogs are also claiming that it will be "an Apple exclusive when it first hits the market."
     
    While Apple has never commented on its involvement with Light Peak, sources told CNET late last year, "Apple is an innovating force in the industry and makes requests that nobody else does, and that only helps innovation."
     
    Apple CEO Steve Jobs also recently said, "We don't see USB 3 taking off this time." Many Apple watchers have taken this statement as additional evidence that the new Macs will get Light Peak next year.

    Intel has said customers will have Light Peak components before the end of 2010 and that peripherals and PCs with Light Peak connectors will appear on the market in 2011. With Reschke's April prediction, the timing is not too far off for Light Peak to be in the MacBook Pro.
     
    "We don't believe this will be a simple refresh of the MacBook Pro; rather, Apple will deliver an all-out redesign, the big brother of the MacBook air," Reschke wrote. This is in line with Jobs telling the crowd during the MacBook Air launch that they can expect similar things from all MacBook models in the future.

    The MacBook Pro was last refreshed in April, with the addition of the Core i5 and i7 options. While SSDs have been available as options on the MacBook Pro line, the new redesign would mean a significant boost in processing power between the entry-level MacBook line and the high-end Pro machines. The predicted MacBook Pros will last longer, run quieter, and be lighter and more power-efficient because there will be next to no moving parts within the case.
     
    There is also some speculation that dropping the internal DVD drive paves the way for Apple to come out with its own brand of external DVD player/burner with Light Peak to work with the MacBook Pro.

    Reschke noted that Apple is likely to leave one legacy 15-inch design in the lineup for those not yet comfortable with the shift to solid-state drives and no optical drive. He speculated that the new MacBook Pros will start at $1,999 and scale up according to configuration.
     


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    eweek
     


    Thanks to Hangten for the info!


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