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Apple offers a sneak peek at new Mac Pro during WWDC 2013

by Mel Martin (Jun 10th, 2013)

The Mac Pro is getting a long-overdue update, and it looks like it is going to be worth the wait. The Mac Pro, available "later this year," is downright small compared to the current tower, but the specs are amazing. The Mac Pro will have Dual ...

Apple announces Safari upgrades as part of OS X Mavericks

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 10th, 2013)

Apple has announced an updated version of Safari at WWDC. The browser update adds a new home page featuring a Top Sites feature that stores all of your bookmarks and regularly read sites. Using a new bookmark bar, you can easily add and ...

Apple brings Maps to OS X in Mavericks

by Mel Martin (Jun 10th, 2013)

Maps in OS X was expected, but is very welcome. After a rough beginning on iOS, Apple Maps has been progressing, and now with Maps running on OS X, we'll see some powerful integration between the Mac and iOS. Maps on a Mac looks smooth and ...

28 million Mountain Lion copies shipped

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 10th, 2013)

Tim Cook has just announced that 28 million copies of Mountain Lion have been shipped to date, making it the best-selling OS X ever. The Mac now has a user base of 72 million people, and 35 percent of these Mac users are running OS X 10.8. "The ...

SimCity for Mac delayed until August

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 7th, 2013)

Mac SimCity fans hoping to grab a copy of the popular lifestyle game next week are going to be disappointed with EA today. The gaming company confirmed that it is delaying the launch of SimCity for the Mac from the original June 11th date to ...

Cambridge Audio intros Minx Go Bluetooth speaker with 18-hour battery life

by Steven Sande (Jun 6th, 2013)

Cambridge Audio has been known for its high-end audio systems and audiophile speakers for quite some time, and recently the company entered the world of Bluetooth speakers with the addition of the Minx Air range (US$449.00 - $599.00). Since those ...

TextWrangler updated to version 4.5.2

by Mike Schramm (Jun 6th, 2013)

As TidBITS kindly notes, TextWrangler has been updated to version 4.5.2, and the latest update is available for download right now. As you can see from the release notes, there are lots and lots of different bugfixes in this one, including ...

You Don't Know Jack maker Jellyvision becomes Jackbox Games

by Mike Schramm (Jun 5th, 2013)

Jellyvision Games has been making variations of You Don't Know Jack for a while now, which is of course the irreverant and very popular trivia game. The title originally began as a series of PC and Mac games, though, of course, Jellyvision has ...

Intel's 'Thunderbolt 2' sports 20Gbps speeds

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 5th, 2013)

Originally unveiled at NAB in April, Intel confirmed that its next-generation Thunderbolt technology will land later this year. Codenamed Falcon Ridge, the new Thunderbolt 2 protocol will double the bandwidth of the current Thunderbolt technology ...

LaCie XtremKey USB 3.0: the flash drive you want for the zombie apocalypse

by Steven Sande (Jun 4th, 2013)

USB flash drives are usually a yawner, something that is more of a giveaway item (at least to the press) at trade shows than something that deserves a blogger's attention. However, LaCie has introduced the XtremKey USB 3.0 flash drive in 32 GB ...

Mac OS X 10.8.4 available, sports tons of network fixes

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 4th, 2013)

Once in a while there's an incremental OS X update with a ton of bug fixes. This is one of them. Check out the list for 10.8.4: Compatibility improvements when connecting to certain enterprise Wi-Fi networks Microsoft Exchange compatibility ...

Asus' 4K monitor is a beast your computer probably can't tame just yet. That's okay.

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 4th, 2013)

Asus' new PQ321 4K monitor will be released at the end of June and brings with it some pretty beefy display capabilities. The 31.5-inch monitor can output images and video up to a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160. That's a lot of high-resolution desktop ...

Moment: Making it easier to post to Facebook

by Steven Sande (Jun 3rd, 2013)

Facebook may be one of the world's most popular social sharing services, but that doesn't mean that it's easy to figure out how to upload text and images, especially when you're in the web app on your Mac browser. Tapmates is on the verge of ...

Innoio Innocube pico projector: a tiny handful of video

by Steven Sande (Jun 1st, 2013)

Just like an iPhone crams a roomful of devices into a pocketable device, miniaturization of electronics has now made it possible to create a battery-powered, cube-shaped pico projector just 1.8 inches (4.5 cm) on a side. From an unexpected source ...

Origin Stories: Reflow

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 31st, 2013)

Reflow bills itself as "music notation for the rest of us" and I have to say the app packs a punch for musicians and students of music. Reflow's notation software has a lot of great drag-and-drop functionality for quickly building compositions, and ...

Decompress with The Unarchiver

by Ilene Hoffman (May 31st, 2013)

When I was asked to review The Unarchiver 2.7, a free decompression utility from Dag Ågren/WAHa, I thought "Who needs this program, when Mac OS X opens most common archive formats?" I quickly found out that thousands of people rely on The ...