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User Feedback Optimizes Molly Reed's Productivity App OmniGraffle

Molly Reed uses customer feedback to create user-friendly productivity apps that make film sets more efficient.READ»

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Apple Launches New MacBook Air, Lion OS X, Mac App Store, iLife 11

Steve Jobs shows off Apple's latest MacBook Air, its latest operating system Lion, and the Mac app store.READ»

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Mac Rumor Roundup: Lion on the Prowl?

In advance of Apple's super-secret announcement in Cupertino tomorrow, we serve up the gossip and rate its likelihood.READ»

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Apple Files Patent for Swiveling, Touchscreen iMac

As with all patent filings, we shouldn't be tempted into thinking this touchscreen iMac is necessarily real. But man, is it tempting.READ»

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Major Flaw in Apple's Safari Browser Gives Hackers Access to Personal Information

Apple may have a reputation as a security leader, but it's not entirely accurate. Its OS can be hacked like any other (at hacking conventions like Def Con, Mac OS has not proven significantly more secure than Windows), and now, ...READ»

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Meet T.J. Pluhacek, the Youngest iPad App Developer

The 16-year-old developer from Oregon has already landed his first iPad-specific program in the App Store--NoteLook. This is not a game.READ»

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Twitter Redesign Sneak Peek: Tracks Time Spent Tweeting, Looks Apple-y

Ahead of next week's Chirp, Doug Bowman has given us a hint of what Twitter's forthcoming redesign might look like. The creative nabob of Twitter has posted a corner of the redesign up on his Dribble page, with the message "Working on ...READ»

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Best Reputation Companies About Our primary title tag already includes the phrase "title tags" which includes within it the phrase "title tag." By making a minor edit to the tag, we can include one more of our keyword phrases ...READ»

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Undead Tech: E-Ink and Readers

All of the sudden, we have three majorly cool e-book readers to choose from this holiday season: the Amazon Kindle 2, the B&N Nook, and Sony's Reader. And there are even more on the way: devices from like the Que and the Readius ...READ»

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Great Customer Service: How Does Witopia Do It?

In a world where we mostly complain about service, Witopia, my VPN provider has risen to the challenge of providing world-class support.READ»

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Bi-curious? Going Mac for the Holidays

My elusive quest for an operating system ended with AppleREAD»

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free game downloads The Advantages and Disadvantages of Free Game Download Do you have a game you want to play in mind but don't have an installer to get started? Well, that seems to be a great problem before, but not today. ...READ»

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Uploading Kodak Zi8 Videos to Flickr

 Recently my mom bought me a Kodak Zi8 pocket HD video camera for my birthday. Thanks, Mom! You know what an engineer likes! I love photography, and I upload my photos to the Flickr photo sharing site. But I think my ...READ»

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Hackintosh Superstore Will Raise $175 Million in IPO

Newegg, the hardware hacker's playground, is making an initial public offering valued at $175 million, according to Reuters. The venture-backed e-tailer has been profitable every year since it opened its doors in 2001, scooping up ...READ»

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Evernote: Your Other Brain, for Windows

Evernote is a remember-everything notebook app beloved by obsessive developers, project managers, and generally forgetful creatives everywhere. This week the company launched a revamped Windows version, which will bring it up to speed ...READ»

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Rumor: Apple May Be Working on XL Tablets Running Full Mac OS X [Rumor]

This one caught us by surprise, but it comes from a source that has always been 100% reliable: Not only Apple may be working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13" and 15" models, one running Mac OS X. This source claims that the two ...READ»

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Hacking, Like The Weather, Is Seasonal

A survey of the hackers attending this month's Defcon 17 conference turned up these rather interesting results: About 81% of the hackers say they're more active during the winter holidays. READ»

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Apple Snow Leopard To Ship August 28

After a period of downtime early Monday morning, Apple has reinstated their online store with one seminal addition: the ability to preorder Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, for shipping on August 28. Unlike most major revisions to the ...READ»

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Ten Mac Apps That Make Windows Users Drool

// Used to be that Windows users could admit the Mac was easy to use--they just complained there wasn't any software for the platform. Apple knew their weakness, too, so they endeavored to turn their developer tools into the envy ...READ»

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Sylvania g Netbook Meso [review]

Sylvania g Netbook Meso [I've spent nearly every day and night with this netbook since right up before Thanksgiving. It's like my new moleskin notebook -- because it's practically that light. Did I say it was only 2.2 lbs? Well, it ...READ»

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HP's New MediaSmart Home Servers To Play With Macs

HP's EX485 and 487 servers have just hit the network-attached storage scene, and they're likely to make a bit of a splash: they're apparently the first NAS devices not made by Apple that are officially compatible with the Time Machine ...READ»

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Is Apple Planning A "Mac Nano?"

A Chinese company says it's producing a case for an upcoming iPhone Nano. Bits of code inside the latest version of OS X suggest a new Mac Mini. Are they one in the same?READ»

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Should Mac OS X Be Open?

There's a little computer company in Florida called Psystar making cheap Macintosh clones, that thinks that OS X should be open. But Apple [AAPL] thinks the company may be the puppet of a larger enemy. The Cupertino computer-maker ...READ»

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Tech Watch: Holograms Being Used on CNN, in War, and In Your Living Room

While the effectiveness of CNN's hologram technology on Election night is questionable, the American military attempt to successfully bring holographic soldiers to the battlefield. Also, JVC is bringing 3D technology to television, and LaCie bring us wireless storage.READ»