Few would argue that one of the Mac OS X's major user-facing elements is the Dock. Providing both a home for your most used applications as well as doubling as a way of seeing just which apps are running, the Dock is a bit like Windows' Start Menu on steroids.
Apple has started offering $100/€75 gift card for free for those people who buy a Mac. This is a part of their annual Back to School promotion and it starts today in both US and European countries.
Apple's iOS 5 might have stolen the show at the company's WWDC event in San Francisco last week, but the next version of Mac OS X - Lion - also saw a new beta release. According to reports, the latest seed features a new 'Reboot to Safari' feature, akin to Google's Chrome OS laptops.
The final version of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has finally been unveiled. Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing took the stage to announce the release month, July, and went over 10 of the operating system's "250 new features".
In an Apple support document the company says it intends to release a security update to address the potential threat from malware claiming to offer a security application for download.
Imagine there's an amazing iTunes song, movie or iPhone app you're desperate to get your hands on, but it's not available in your country's iTunes Store. If you're an avid iTunes user, you've probably figured out by now you can create accounts at iTunes Stores from other countries. The only problem with that is it's fairly time-consuming to switch between different iTunes accounts. That was hard until now: meet iTunes Account Switcher, a simple mac application that runs on your menu bar and, as the name implies, lets you switch between multiple iTunes accounts on the fly.
The MacBook Air is Apple's line of slim and compact notebooks that still manage to have nearly the full specifications of a standard notebook. It's now clear, according to Digitimes, that we'll see an upgrade soon, with production beginning in May and shipments starting in June or July, according to suppliers.
Nothing sums up the Apple ethos more than the infamous Mac vs. PC ads we all grew to love. Featuring Justin 'Mac' Long and John 'PC' Hodgman the ads ran long enough for 66 unique spots to be filmed, with Apple finally pulling the plug on the ads last year.
Just as we've been expecting Apple today updated its iMac line, bringing quad-core CPUs and Thunderbolt to all models.
The humble infographic is a sure-fire way of taking meaningless data and showing it in a colorful, picture-laden way and this one is no different. Originally put together by Hunch and reported by Mashable, this particular infographic shows the results of data taken from 700,000 users visiting Hunch.com. The result is an insight into the differences between Mac and PC users - some of which will surprise you, some won't.
