OS X Lion 10.7.1 update hits Mac App Store – one week later
One week after its release through Software Update, the 10.7.1 update for OS X Lion has made its way onto the Mac App Store. It's not clear if the delay was intentional or not. Unforeseen technical issues may have complicated issuing an update to suc...
Why hibernate or ‘safe sleep’ mode is no longer necessary in OS X Lion (Updated)
Update: Several commenters expressed concern that disabling safe sleep could expose you to the possibility of drive corruption if you lose power or your machine spontaneously restarts. This particular fear is groundless; Safe Sleep doesn't have an...
iOS 5 deprecates UDID as identifier for developers, but it’s not the end of the world
Reading the headlines today, you'll see the usual exaggeration of half-understood factoids bubble out from today's iOS 5 beta 6 release. Thank goodness for that NDA, huh?
As reported by our sister site TechCrunch, Apple is deprecating the use of UD...
Intensive surgery on an old MacBook Pro yields huge performance gains (Updated)
Installing OS X Lion on a 3 1/2-year old MacBook Pro made it clearer than ever just how slow my old machine had become. Beachballs left and right, UI lag, incredibly long reboot times, dismal application load times... as someone accustomed to the ...
HP to spin off PC business, discontinues TouchPad
Huge news from one of Apple's biggest competitors today: Hewlett Packard (HP) and its board of directors have "authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group." In plain English, this means HP may be planning to...
Study confirms: Some people are way too invested in their favorite brand
Did you weep into your cornflakes over Antennagate last year? Me either, but a new study suggests that some people might have. According to Ars Technica, researchers at the University of Illinois discovered that attacks upon people's favorite bran...
Dell Streak 5 tablet gets the axe
Another would-be "iPad killer" has fallen in battle. The Dell Streak 5 tablet is no more. Despite CEO Michael Dell's insistence that Android tablets will overtake the iPad, sales of the Dell Streak 5 were low enough in the Americas that it's been end-o...
Instapaper usage stats show high iOS 4, iPad adoption
Marco Arment, developer of Instapaper, has provided some intriguing usage stats for his bestselling app. While the numbers aren't representative of the entire iOS ecosystem, the fact that Instapaper is a popular paid app (almost always in the top 5 p...
Words with Friends now a Facebook game
When Facebook gaming giant Zynga bought Newtoy and rebranded it as Zynga with Friends, it was only a matter of time until games from the "with Friends" franchise started popping up on Facebook. Sure enough, Words with Friends is now playable on Fa...
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