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Apple Could Ship Air-Like MacBook Pros Starting This Spring [Report]

macbookpro-120210-1Ever since the redesigned MacBook Air first debuted back in late 2010, the rumor mill has strongly indicated that Apple would redesign its MacBook Pro line of laptops to suit, ditching their bulkier chassises, optical drives and slow, spinning hard drives for Air-like slimness...

Beat The Crap Out Of People As Steve Jobs In Soul Calibur V [Humor]

stevejobssoulcaliburThe iOS version of Namco’s classic 3D swords-and-sorcery fighter Soul Calibur has been in the App Store for about a month now (and recently got an update guaranteeing 60FPS gameplay on all A5 devices), but if you want the true Apple Soul Calibur experience,...

Every Apple Product Ever In Just 30 Seconds (And Every NeXT Product Too) [Video]

Over at my old haunt Boing Boing, my favorite Elfquest-obsessed Pittsburghian Brit Rob Beschizza grabbed a great slice of 70s prime time music and used it as the background track for an exciting YouTube video smashing together every Apple product ever in just 30 seconds...

Apple Now Worth More Than Microsoft And Google Put Together

Header Ask MacRxOnce again, Apple has found itself the most valuable company on Earth, attaining a market capitalization of about $456 billion today, beating ExxonMobil’s market cap of just $402 Billion. Yawn. More interesting, however, is that Apple’s combined value is more than Google...

Check Out This Bizarre Chinese Cyborg Made Out Of Vintage Macs! [Image]

58f685dbf12406009a18-LLWho is this muttonchopped Steve Jobs and crime-fighting cyborg partner, The Amazing Mac Man? More importantly, where can I get one of those Apple-branded codpieces?!? [via MIC Gadget] More from Cult of Mac:What If iOS 5 Were Truly Magical? Watch These Incredible iOS 5...

In 1991, The FBI Investigated Steve Jobs’s Reality Distortion Field For George Bush

jobs-1991Back in 1991, according to a recently released FBI file on Apple’s iconic founder, Steve Jobs was considered for a sensitive position in the Bush Administration. The file is quite long, and we’re reading through it now. But one thing that the file immediately...

Is This The iPad 3′s New Retina Display? [Image]

1350782117According to Japanese blog Macotakara, this is the iPad 3′s new Retina Displayl: a Sharp XQGA panel running at a resolution of 2048×1536. Yup. We believe it. More from Cult of Mac:iPad 3 Will Be Backwards Compatible With All Smart Covers, But Not Current...

Path Apologizes, Issues Update Making Accessing Your Address Book Opt-In

pathscreenshotCaught up in a maelstrom of controversy over revelations that Path has been uploading iOS users’ address books to their own servers, Path CEO David Morin has spoken out about what’s going to happen now. It’s all good news. Not only is Path taking...

Side By Side: Samsung’s 5.3-Inch Galaxy Note Megaphone & The iPhone 4S [Humor]

DSC_0064Over at The Loop, Jim Dalrymple posted a picture of what Samsung’s new 5.3-inch smartphone, the Galaxy Note, looks like next to the iPhone 4S. While we were over there, guffawing with the rest of you, we happened to note this comment from Joel...

Like Path, Hipster Also Uploads Your Address Book To Its Servers Without Telling Users

tNOrtSocial networking app Path hit the headlines yesterday after it turned out the company was taking users’ entire address books and uploading them to their servers. It’s a big privacy violation, but Path’s hardly the only one doing this. In fact, computer engineering professor...

What Phones Looked Like Before And After The iPhone Transformed The Industry [Image]

beforeandafteriphoneAsk a lot of people who don’t use iPhones like to dismiss Apple’s impact on the smartphone industries. Hey, we had PDA-like smartphones with touchscreens before the iPhone, so what’s the big deal? Such logic is patently absurd, but as it often does, a...

Use Your iPhone As An Augmented Reality HUD In Your Next Game Of Lazer Tag

lazertagMy parents never let me play with them as a kid because they were afraid I’d get shot by a trigger-happy cop, which is perhaps why, to this day, I get a little giddy when I hear or read the words “LAZER TAG,” and...