Just weeks after announcing OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has revealed OS X Nyan. While this new version has the same features as the yet-to-be-released upgrade of Mountain Lion, Nyan sports a brand new look, with Nyan cat wallpaper and soon a fully reskinned OS X experience. While the design isn’t finished, Apple has released a version with the new features and a wallpaper which may or may not be changed in final release.
Major news has come out of Apple with the revelation of the latest version of Mac OS X 10.8, and the release of a developer preview for you Mac fanboys to play with. Dubbed “MOUNTAIN LION“, the new version will merge the apps and features from the iPad to your Mac.
Apple has finally pulled the delta update for Mac OS X 10.7.3, a release that was supposed to fix bugs and other problems but instead caused major problems to some users, such as the CUI errors and other application issues. Instead of downloading the smaller delta update, users are now made to download the combined update, meaning a bigger download of 1.34GB, almost double the original update’s size of 730.6MB
Mac fanboys can now squeel. Apple has finally set a release date for the new version of Mac OS X, dubbed “Lion” at the company’s earnings meeting, after the company promised that the OS would be released sometime this month.
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As we all know, Australians usually pay more for everything. Gadget’s, Games and up until now, Apps. But one of those is about to change.
Steve Jobs just delivered one more thing at WWDC 2011, announcing iTunes Match.
For US$24.99 a year iTunes Match will scan your ripped (or pirated) music and match it with 256kbps DRM-free AAC songs from iTunes servers.
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At the opening keynote to WWDC 2011, Apple just announced that Mac OS X Lion will be available exclusively on the Mac App Store for $31.99. Unlike Snow Leopard, Lion is a “major release” with over 250 new features, including Mission Control (Expose and Spaces combined), full-screen apps, multitouch gestures with the Magic Trackpad and Apple Macbook trackpad support, system-wide application restoration (with TimeMachine style saving of documents and other files), Launchpad for iOS style application launching, a new version of Mail that looks a lot like Mail for iOS with conversation view and last but not least, P2P local filesharing in Airdrop set to replace Flash drives.
This is just the tip of the iceberg for Lion, which will be available in July on the Mac App Store (exclusively) with a 4GB download. And it’s all just $31.99.
Apple has just confirmed via a worldwide press release that iCloud and iOS 5 will be announced on June 7 AEST at Apple’s annual WWDC 2011. The keynote, which will also be showing off Mac OS X Lion, will commence at 3am Australian EST on June 7 (10am on June 6 US Pacific Time) and show off some of Apple’s “next generation software”. Also note that this isn’t a hardware launch.
We give our take on the Apple iPad 2 announcement, find out Microsoft’s response to the tablet and see if 3D is a big gimmick on the Nintendo 3DS. As well, IE6 hopefully goes into the grave and Street View now on bicycles? You’ll have to listen and find out.
The little Wii gets a bit more intimate with a brand new game, Mortal Kombat banned in Australia and the MacBook Pro gets a little hardware revamp – and we make a big deal about it and the new Thunderbolt. Wait, what? That’s all this week on the TECHGEEK Weekly podcast with the return of James Wilson plus one guest – Matt Rossi.
Apple has today released a big new update to their MacBook Pro lineup. The new laptops have “next generation” processors and graphics cards, a FaceTime HD camera (or as we like to call it, a good webcam) and Thunderbolt I/O technology, developed by Intel and Apple.
And we’re back officially. CES was in full swing, and we saw a lot of tablets, 4G phones and 3D from Sony. We also had crazy Harvey Norman trying to put GST on our purchases online, Facebook being valued at $50 billion and the Mac App Store launch – and hack.
The Mac App Store, the desktop extension of the App Store found on the iOS devices, will open on January 7, 2011 in Australia, as part of a global launch of 90 countries – including the United States (because of the time difference, January 6) and New Zealand.
RUMOUR MILL: Apple is no stranger to rumours, and a new one has emerged coming from Taiwan that claims that Apple will be refreshing its MacBook Pros and iMac lines sometime in the first half of 2011, citing sources from component makers.
Two years in the making, the new MacBook Air just announced includes some cool new hardware and features, as well as coming in 13.3″ and 11.6″ variations.
It features some features seen on the iPad, which Apple called ‘the iPad and Mac hooking up’.