It's now so close we can taste it, and as the hours tick down to this year's WWDC event, we're starting to get more of an idea about what Apple will be announcing at the event.
Apple's annual WWDC event is only a matter of days away, and as developers and journalists descend on The Moscone Centre in San Francisco the anticipation of what Tim Cook and his executive will introduce is starting to grow exponentially. If this particular analyst's predictions ring true then a cheaper iMac as well as an iPhone 5s with 8GB of internal storage could make an appearance during the conference.
Apple has just released iTunes 11.2.2 - a fairly rudimentary update that fixes issues relating to podcasts. Apparently, some users were finding that podcast episodes were accidentally downloading after the previous installment, which was iTunes 11.1.1, and thus, Apple felt it necessary to push another update that also includes a bunch of stability improvements.
With reports having already indicated that Apple's WWDC 2014 keynote will see the company unveil some new hardware along with the perceived formality of OS X 10.10 and iOS 8, the Cupertino giant has just announced that the initial announcement show-piece will be streamed live to those on Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV. In updating the WWDC site, Apple also alludes to some "exciting announcements," and although we don't know precisely what's in store just yet, we can't wait for Tim Cook and co. to tell all.
If you use any operating system for any real length of time, then you start to put together your own list of neat little tricks that make your life easier, or let you do your work to a higher standard. Some people call this being a 'power user,' but no matter what you call yourself, we suspect that we've got some Mac OS X tips that you probably don't know. In fact, some probably even qualify for the 'secret' tag, such is our confidence that they're underused.
Computing has come a very long way during the course of the last 40 years, while products like the MacBook Air would have seemed virtually unthinkable even a decade ago. Such is the stronghold that the Digital Age has upon us that everywhere you go, you're likely to see kids barely out of kindergarten rocking iPhones and iPads, but how would these touchscreen-loving youngsters cope with an antiquated monstrosity like the Apple II? The result, as the video below shows, is quite amusing, with most of the children clearly bamboozled by the raw, command-line computing of yesteryear.
Wallpapers are all well and good, but they're a bit, well, static. We spent years wishing Apple would bring animated wallpapers to iOS in order to give it parity with Android, and now we want them on our Macs, too.
Speculation surrounding the potential for Apple to launch a range of ARM based Mac computers has been around for quite some time, but seems to have died off in recent times. As we get ever closer to this year's WWDC, a French website has brought the historic Mac rumor back to life, reporting that a reliable source has inside knowledge that Apple is currently testing a prototype Mac powered by an ARM processor.
When it comes to the Mac vs. PC debate, there only tends to be one winner in the eyes of gamers, and thanks to its broader reach and general versatility in upgrading hardware, Microsoft's ecosystem is favored almost all of the time by the gaming faithful. Nevertheless, publishers still strive to release titles for OS X even if considerably later than the corresponding PC editions, and if you love your Mac just about as much as you enjoy a little first-person action in Call of Duty, you'll be pretty stoked to learn that both Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 are now available to download.
After releasing iTunes 11.2 and OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 update only yesterday, Apple has now released iTunes 11.2.1 update to quickly address /Users folder missing bug that plagued those running the latest OS X 10.9.3 release.
