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.
If you're obsessed about privacy, this should be a bad day for you: according to a research done over at CNET, Google is tracking users through their individual device addresses and making them searchable. How does it work? We'll explain.
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".
A new version of MacDefender has been found, hours after a Mac OS X security update that would supposedly fix the problem was issued. Let the cat and mouse fight begin!
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.
Hands up if you've ever restored your iDevice only to realize you hadn't saved your photos somewhere beforehand? Come on, hands all the way up. That means you at the back!
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.
Apple will release its upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with the Mac App Store being the primary distribution channel, reports AppleInsider.
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.
What we like at Redmond Pie is nice simple apps that do one thing and do it well. Fitting firmly into that category has to be ipswDownloader - an OS X app built with the sole purpose of downloading the IPSW firmware files Apple releases for iOS.
