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Megan Lavey-Heaton

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Megan Lavey is a newspaper designer with the Patriot-News just outside Harrisburg, Pa. She is a bibliophile, and can't pass a bookstore without somehow making her way inside. Her journalism career has taken her from Alabama to the Tennessee/Virginia border, Maine, Arizona and finally Pennsylvania. She is also the co-creator of the webcomic Namesake. She currently resides just outside Enola, Pa. with her cats and is married lifelong to a lifelong Linux user who happens to be British, an astrophysicist and who constantly teases her about her deep love for Apple products. But, she's still madly in love with him anyhow. If you need to contact her for review purposes, please do so through this email.

Megan Lavey-Heaton's Latest Posts

Twitter for Mac finally gains Notification Center support

Well, here's something I thought we would never see -- a minor update for Twitter for Mac, which finally brings Notification Center support to the client. You know, it only took just shy of 10 months after the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion for that to happen. The 2.2.1 update also fixes Growl ...

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Apple Store is down (Updated)

The Apple Store went down around midnight ET. What will the refresh bring? We'll let you know as soon as the store is back up. Thanks to all the tipsters that let us know! Update: There's a Father's Day promo and a new, big tile design for the look of the store. ...

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Apple releases Senate testimony as panel announces it avoided billions in taxes

A congressional panel has found that Apple avoided billions in taxes, the New York Times reports, thanks to an intricate network of subsidiaries throughout the globe. The structure of some of these sub-companies in certain countries made them exempt from paying or filing taxes or record-keeping ...

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Google Hangouts app to integrate SMS "soon"

I've been using the Google Hangouts app on the iPhone since it was announced on Wednesday, and I've really liked it so far. I haven't messed around with it much on my iPad, except to install it, but it was enough for my Android-using husband to be jealous that we got it first. Like Apple's ...

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App Store hits 50 billion apps downloaded

Shortly before 5 PM ET, Apple officially hit the 50 billion-app mark on the App Store. The grand prize for achieving this is a US$10,000 gift card redeemable on the App Store and $500 App Store gift cards to the next 50 customers following that. We'll let you know the winners as soon as they're ...

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Belkin releases Dyle receivers for iPhone and iPad

With ABC adding live streaming to its iPad app and the growth of live TV services via iOS in the past few months, the time is right for Belkin to announce Dyle mobile TV receivers for the iPhone and iPad. The US$129.99 device is about the size of a half a deck of cards, weighs around six ...

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Targus announces line of Mac-compatible docking stations

Following on the heels of Kensington, Targus announced this morning that it has made its USB 3.0 docking stations Mac-compatible. Targus' docking stations have four USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.0 ports. The stations can handle resolutions of up to 2,048 x 1,152, deliver 1080p video and graphics ...

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Adobe to go subscription-only with Creative Cloud software

As Adobe finds its footing in a cloud-based world, it pulled a move that most likely will generate a backlash from the students and creative professionals that rely on its software. Adobe announced that the Creative Suite software will be rebranded as Creative Cloud and confirmed it will no longer ...

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Apple's $17 billion bond deal is the largest in history

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple made the largest corporate-bond deal in history on Tuesday, when it raised US$17 billion in bonds -- the first time the company has offered bonds in 20 years. In response, The New York Times asks, why would cash-rich Apple do this in the first place? ...

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Path spam mishap brings renewed attention to privacy concerns

It seems that just when Path was emerging from one privacy PR nightmare, another one landed on its doorstep. The day after the company reached 10 million users, The Verge related the story of digital marketer Stephen Kenwright who had an unpleasant experience with the app. Kenwright downloaded the ...

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