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
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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.
Mac OS X Lion’s “automatic login” feature may have a dirty little secret. According to Passware, a leading password recovery firm, “automatic login” leaves OS X Lion passwords ripe for the picking via the direct memory access associated with the Mac’s FireWire port. Here’s what you need to know.
The latest in Dell’s UltraSharp displays, the 24-inch U2412M, is now alive and kicking on the company’s website in the US and Japan. The U2412M joins the U2410 as Dell’s affordable 24-inch UltraSharp flagship and features the same 16:10 widescreen aspect ratio, IPS panel, and anti glare with hard coat 3H.
The dynamic contrast ratio has been bumped from 80,000:1 to 2,000,000:1, but the brightness is down from 400 cd/m2 to 300 cd/m2 and the response time is 8ms instead of 6ms. We’d say those are minor concessions considering the generous 33 percent price cut.