So you may have noticed the web kicking off about how you can now play addictive life-drainer Cut the Rope online for free. It’s part of an Internet Explorer marketing gimmick, but we’ve discovered a dirty secret behind the whole thing… Read more
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Massively multiplayer game Star Wars: The Old Republic got off to a tremendous start when it was released on PC last month. More than 60 million in-game hours have been racked up so far, and more than 1.5 million characters created. Now though, developer BioWare’s boss says it’s coming to Mac too.
You’ve worked your fingers boneward all year to be able to have a week off with your family over the holidays and you’ve only just remembered: your family are boring. What are you to do? Get some games in. Read more
Apple appears to be priming an all-new Mac Pro for release at the start of next year, with a new build of Mac OS X Lion revealing clues about the next-gen top-end desktop. What’s it going to come packing? And when can you get your hands on one? Read on and find out.
Apple’s quarterly sales figures are out. And as expected, Cupertino has had another record breaking three months. The period from July to September saw Apple smash their previous Mac and iPad sales records, while the iPhone managed to shift huge numbers, despite the fact the iPhone 4S hadn’t even been announced at that point. Read on for the full breakdown of Apple’s results.
There’s still no ETA for iTunes Match in the UK but the the developer beta has just gone live in the US revealing more details on how the iCloud-based music sharing service will work. The big news is that iTunes Match will allow you to both download tracks from your cloud library to a Mac or iOS device and stream them directly.
To kick off iTunes Match will scan your music library and compile a list of tracks from what it finds. Songs already in Apple’s cloud library will be streamed from a master recording at 256kbps.
Music that iTunes Match doesn’t recognise will be uploaded to iCloud based on your local copy. You’ll then be able to access the cloud library of up to 25,000 songs on up to 10 devices (five of which can be computers). Take a look at iTunes Match in action on video after the jump…
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Enjoying that fresh new MacBook Air or upgraded an existing Mac to OS X Lion, but in desperate need of a recovery disc for a fresh installation? Fear not, Apple has just published support documentation which includes the “Lion Recovery Disk Assistant”. All you’ll need is an external hard drive or a USB thumb drive with 1GB of free space.
The white plastic MacBook didn’t die. Turns out it was just an ugly duckling, then one day it lost its bum fluff and woke up with a beautiful plumage of unibody aluminium, a better processor, and a waif like profile. In other words, as the new MacBook Air.