Archive | June 28th, 2011
Which US States and Cities harbor the most Mac users?
Though our numbers are growing, Mac users are sort of the tech equivalent to The Marines. Few and proud. Okay, I’m not exactly sure where that intro was going, but suffice it to say that it’s always a treat to see fellow diehard Mac users out and about. And now that the nerd quotient here […]
Continue reading...High cost to blame for delayed rollout of AirPlay and Thunderbolt devices
28. June 2011
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Two of Apple’s more intriguing innovations of late include AirPlay and Thunderbolt, the former being the mechanism by which users can wirelessly stream music from their iOS device to speakers and the latter being the blazing fast transfer technology Apple developed jointly with Intel. The utility behind the aforementioned features is undeniable, yet there remains […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 supports over the air iOS updates via 3G
28. June 2011
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One of the more welcome new features in iOS 5 is support for over the air system software updates. To help streamline things, the updates will be delta updates so that users will only need to download portions of the iOS codebase that’s been changed. When Scott Forstall first introduced the feature, he didn’t clarify […]
Continue reading...Bender from Futurama loves his Mac
28. June 2011
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The folks at Futurama sure love themselves some Mac – which, of course, isn’t all that surprising given that co-founder Matt Groening did some artwork for Apple back in the day while David X. Cohen, the show’s other co-founder, is an unabashed Apple fan who named Dr. Zoidberg after a character he created for an […]
Continue reading...Apple issues iOS 5 beta 2 with slightly tweaked notifications, iMessaging, and more iCloud integration
28. June 2011
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Apple this weekend released to developers the second beta of iOS 5 and the update brings with it a few notable, albeit minor, changes. AppleInsider is able to give us the skinny. First is a slight adjustment to how the lockscreen in iOS 5 displays notifications. First, the font is slightly bigger and the notification […]
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28. June 2011
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