Monthly Archives: March 2011

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Apple Announces Design Awards Competition

This year’s Apple Design Awards will be awarded to developers whose iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps are currently on the App Store and demonstrate technical excellence, innovation and outstanding design. Design: Well designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable. Innovation: Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, […]

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011

Apple has announced the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 is to be held June 6-10 in San Francisco. The company plans to hold over 100 sessions for developers. “The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) showcases the latest innovations and the newest technologies in iOS and Mac OS X. Over 1,000 […]

ScanDrop For Mac

ScanDrop Mac software connects your scanner with online storage. Works with OS 10.6.5 and 10.6.6, oes not work with 10.5 and below. You can: Scan your paper into Google Docs, Evernote, Dropbox and OfficeDrop Online right from your Mac’s scanner Scan to Dropbox and your Mac’s local drive! Easily upload […]

H-Squared Mac mini Mount and LED Backlight

The H-Squared Mini mount replaces the circular rubber door on the bottom of the new Mac minis with a rigid mount that can be mounted on just about any surface. Put the Mac mini on a wall, under a desk or on the side of an entertainment system. The Mini […]

Apple Dropping Samba Networking Tools from OS X Lion

AppleIsider says that Apple is to drop Samba networking tools from Lion and replace it with Apple’s own tools for Windows file sharing and network directory services. Samba’s improves interoperability between PCs with Microsoft Windows and computers running other operating systems. Notably, the software enables UNIX-based systems like Mac OS […]

Apple Announce Bertrand Serlet Leaving

Apple® announced that Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Mac® Software Engineering, will be leaving the company. Craig Federighi, Apple’s vice president of Mac Software Engineering, will assume Serlet’s responsibilities and report to Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Federighi is responsible for the development of Mac OS® X and has […]

Clean up Your Mac

Kirk McElhearn writing on PC World, has posted an interesting article “Six Ways to Clean up Your Mac” giving some tips on how to make you mac run better. The article mentions, Get rid of old iChat logs, Delete application backups, Get rid of Mail downloads, Delete log files, Weed […]

Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 for OS X

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 for OS X, Windows, and Linux. “Firefox 4 is the fastest Firefox yet. With dramatic speed and performance advancements across the board, Firefox is between two and six times faster than previous releases. Major enhancements to the JavaScript engine make everything from startup time to […]

Google TV Remote for iOS

Google has released its Google TV remote app for iOS, on the App Store. The remote only works with Google TV-enabled devices, such as the Sony Internet TV), and uses your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad as a remote control. Apple say “Turn your Apple iOS device into a fully […]

Free MobileMe Service from Apple Rumor

Apple could introduce a complete revamp of its MobileMe internet service as early as next month that would be completely free for customers of the company’s hardware devices, marking a departure and depreciation of the existing service which retails for $99 per year, reports AppleInsider. iLounge said, “Apple is set […]

Google Updates iPhone Search App

Google has updated it’s iPhone search app with a new design, new features and a new name. Google Search for iPhone, formerly Google Mobile, features a new interface for searching the web and accessing apps. The mobile search interface has been revamped and includes quick access to Voice Search and […]