This morning the flood gates appear to have been opened on Apple before their big event, here with the Mac mini refresh getting a bit of a specifications run-down. This Mac mini update will have several different options in the Apple store online, each of them better than the last. Of course just as the Mac mini had in past iterations, there will be a standard edition and a Server edition, just what you need for your home and/or office environment - and they're big (yet still quite small, as you might imagine.)
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‘OS X’ Stories
Mac mini refresh specifications leaked: quad-core, 2TB storage
Steve Jobs tribute MacBooks set up for charity auction
Three 3rd-party modified MacBook Pro units were put up for sale this week in limited iterations including a customized top lid with Steve Jobs's own visage reflecting deeply in the Apple logo. The proceeds from each of these notebooks, each of them created by the Apple customizers at Uncover, will be sold for 9500,00 Euro, aka right around 12 thousand bucks here in the USA. This set of three units will be sold with all proceeds going to a couple of charities you're just going to love.
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Logitech to announce Wireless Webcam for Mac
In the past, Logitech didn't make a lot of effort to support the OS X community. However, in recent months and years, they've been doing a better job at adding OS X support to its various offerings of keyboards and mice, as well as a few webcams. However, the company has never really released a top-of-the-line webcam that was truly made for Mac users, but that day seems to be almost here.
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Jonathan Ive tribute to Steve Jobs video rings true one year later
This Friday is the one-year anniversary of the passing of Steve Jobs, and one of the most moving - and interesting - tributes remains the speech given by Jonathan Ive on the 19th of October, 2011, at a private Apple event. This private ceremony displayed giant images of Jobs with his own Mac computer and smiles abound, while Ive reminisced on not just the way his late associate worked, but how he thought and acted as well. It's in this video that you'll get another taste of Jobs' father's "back of the cabinet" philosophy as well.
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Modbook Pro OS X Mountain Lion tablet launches with SSD
It's time to get your MacBook Pro action on with a modified tablet design from Modbook Pro, announced today once again in a 13.3-inch iteration for release on October 3rd. The folks at Modbook have a strange situation on their hands, one where they're somehow or another able to side-step the lock-out that exists around Apple's OS X and create tablet computers that are, essentially, MacBook Pro units without the keyboard and a touchscreen up front. Today's announcement also adds an SSD to the mix for you hardcore solid-state lovers.
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Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 boosts accuracy and adds Android mic support
Nuance has pushed out a new version of Dragon Dictate for Mac, its OS X voice dictation package, taking on Apple's own Mountain Lion speech recognition and throwing in smartphone microphone support too. Dragon Dictate for Mac 3 promises a 15-percent accuracy increase versus the previous version, along with the ability to transcribe audio files; meanwhile, if you have an iPhone or Android device, you can use that as a wireless microphone.
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VMware Fusion 5 revealed for Mountain Lion and Windows 8
There's a brand new version of VMware out today for those of you that want to run Windows inside your Apple computer - Fusion 5 with support for both Mountain Lion and Window 8. This new software build comes with "over 70 new features" for your OS X Mountain Lion machine with a wish to run Windows 8 inside. This new build is made specifically to make your Mountain Lion machine ready for not only Windows 8, but legacy systems Windows 7 and Windows XP as well.
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OS X Mountain Lion update brings 10.8.1 software fixes
Users of Apple's newest operating system OS X Mountain Lion are finding a brand new software update ready for them this week containing upgrades for both iMessage and Migration Assistant as well as bug fixes galore. This update will bring users up to version 10.8.1 and is a completely free download. If you'd like to grab this download, head to the Apple symbol in the upper left-hand corner of your screen, click, and find the "Software Update" menu option.
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Apple now most valuable public company in history
On Monday, August 20th, 2012, Apple became the new most valuable United States-made company in the history of the world. Their market capitalization has surpassed that of Microsoft’s previous record of $618.9 billion, that amount having been set back in November of 1999. The current market capitalization of Apple is $622.6 billion, with 936,596,000 outstanding shares as of June 30, 2012 – we’re guessing that everyone reading this post wishes that they’d invested in the company when they had the chance, of course.
Retina MacBook Pro gets Moshi protection up front
If surface protection for your Retina MacBook Pro is what you're after, Moshi has the accessories for you - this week announcing both a new palm rest and screen protector for the masses. This set of accessories, the iVisor screen protector and the PalmGuard palm rest protector are set to keep your device looking sharp in combination with no less than Moshi's ClearGuard keyboard protector too!
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Humble Bundle 3 launches for Android, OS X, Windows, and Linux
The newest Humble Bundle package of cross-platform games has been released to the public, once again bringing on several fabulous apps for a "pay what you want" price and contributions to charity in tow. This offer brings on now only four games (and a fifth if you pay above the average price), it comes with soundtracks from two of the games in both FLAC and MP3 format! The games Fieldrunners, BIT.TRIP BEAT, SpaceChem, and Uplink are included in the normal bundle, and if you pay more than the average paid price (currently $6.07), you get the game Spirits as well!
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Tweetbot for Mac adds multi-column timeline and slimline UI
Tweetbot for Mac has been updated, bringing support for multiple columns that can show different feeds, hashtags, searches and even accounts all stacked together like TweetDeck. The new version - v0.6.3, still considered an alpha by Tapbots - also pares back the UI with a new, slimmer look, and better support for Mountain Lion's Notifications system.
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