After four postponements, space shuttle Discovery made her countdown. The ship and its crew of six astronauts took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:50pm local time. At a blistering 3000 miles per hour, NASA made history and the first of three final launches was complete.
February, 2011
Is Apple working on a fully-fledged touchscreen Mac? Only a select few in Cupertino’s inner sanctum know for certain, but the gestures inside today’s newly-released OS X Lion preview give a pretty solid hint that the answer is a big, fat YES!
See, the scrolling action used on current MacBooks works as you’d expect a trackpad to function: Scroll two fingers down, and the screen scrolls down. On a touchscreen though, that action is reversed, since you’re “moving” the screen upwards to “scroll” down. Is that why OS X Lion has these actions mysteriously reversed by default? It’s the only explanation we can come up with.
Has Apple unwittingly let slip a demonstration of the first truly touchscreen Mac OS X feature? See it in action in a video after the break.
Update: Chris Espinosa has been in touch to let us know he’s no longer on the Apple Xcode team, but teases: “I can’t tell you what I AM doing 
”… judging by his previous contributions to Apple, it’ll be amazing. Chris, we’re expecting big things…
Steve Jobs has been at Apple since day one, right? Wrong. While the company’s charismatic co-founder is officially Apple’s “employee number zero” (having argued with fellow founder Steve Wozniak about being branded “number two”) several extended absences, and an unfortunate firing incident in May 1985, mean he’s actually put in fewer days of employment than one other man: Meet Chris Espinosa. The most loyal employee Apple has ever had.
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It’s the end of another day – and what a day it’s been, complete with the official arrival of the new MacBook Pro family. That wasn’t all though – read on for the rest in our teatime tech roundup.
The week’s best iPad apps are once again here for your delectation: five slices of fried gold for your Apple-made tablet. So if you’ve got an iPad that’s hankerin’ for some scintillating new software, or are about to buy the iPad 2, look no further – read on, downloading finger at the ready…
The first Motorola Xoom review posts have hit the web by way of American publications and gadget blogs, so while we wait for a UK version and launch date, we thought we’d bring you a taste of what to expect from the very first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet. Read on, and find out what the experts made of it all in our Motorola Xoom review roundup.
Try to buy MobileMe. Go on. Head to the Apple Store website and give it a go. It seems Apple has stopped selling subscriptions to MobileMe entirely. The 60 day free trial is still on offer, but try as we might, we’re unable to slap down the credit card and grab a full price subscription.
What’s more, MobileMe seems to have been erased from store listings. We can’t see it anywhere, even under the master list of Apple Software. Is it a web bug, or has Apple yanked MobileMe from sale ahead of next week’s iPad 2 launch?
The first trailer for Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has landed, and it’s epic. Click through for dragons, giants, fisticuffs and some panoramic scenery in the full video.