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iLuv Creative Technology now has a line of products featuring the Peanuts cartoon characters. This review looks at the MacBook 15-inch, Snoopy Sleeve. It’s a soft case with a deep pocket for your accessories. It’ll also hold an iPad nicely, even with many of the more slender iPad cases already attached. But not a pumpkin.…

MacBook Pro (mid 2012)Apple’s sparse patch notes say simply, “The update includes fixes that improve graphics stability, external display support, and USB 3 device support.” For those who already have one of the new laptops, the update should show up in Software Update. You can also download it directly from Apple’s Downloads site as a…

The image, which appears to be from the product box of the unreleased MacBook Pro, was supposedly provided to the poster by a “friend inside Apple.” The layout matches the design and style of Apple’s on-box technical specifications, but could also easily have been fabricated. Another difference between the claimed 2012 iteration of the 13-inch…

The Cloud Drive service include 5GB of storage for free, music backup support for Amazon MP3 purchases, and offers paid upgrades for additional storage.Amazon gives Mac users a Cloud Drive appMac and Windows users have been limited, until now, to accessing their Cloud Drive content through a Web browser. With today’s app release, however, Mac…

SkyDrive formerly stood out by offering users 25GB of storage for free, but with Microsoft expanding its service with support for Windows and Lion, as well as recently released mobile apps, the company decided to limit free accounts to 7GB. Existing SkyDrive users may keep their 25GB plan by opting-in, and any existing user with…

While the number of infected Macs dropped off quickly after Apple released its Java updates to address the security issue, the rate of decline seems to have stabilized just over 100,000.Flashback-infected Macs declining, according to Symantec“We had originally believed that we would have seen a greater decline in infections at this point in time, but…

Apple is developing a tool to detect and remove the Flashback malware, the company announced via its support page today (via The Loop). The Flashback malware, a trojan horse, struck Mac OS X systems in force late February, taking advantage of a vulnerability in the version of Java that comes embedded in OS X. The…

Select the two or more images in iPhoto. Your selections will be highlighted in yellow. Next, press the Edit button on the bottom right of the iPhoto window. This will launch iPhoto’s familiar Edit screen, but instead of displaying a single photo, both photos you chose earlier will be displayed side-by-side.The photos you chose in…

The Flashback Trojan originally tried to trick users into giving up their account login by posing as a Flash installer where it would then disable OS X’s built-in malware definition updater, opening the victim’s Mac to more potential attacks. A later version attempted to exploit a security flaw in older versions of Java to auto-install…

The update, the first since May 2011, is expected to bring Intel’s Ivy Bridge chipset to Cupertino’s all-in-one desktop. The 22nm-based Core i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge platform should provide a 5 to 15 percent bump in processing power and significantly increased graphics performance via the integrated Intel HD GPU. As most iMacs include discrete…

As reported by DigiTimes and discussed by MacRumors, G-Tech is ramping up production of its cover glass products by over 66 percent this year to provide support for iPad manufacturing, with industry estimates expecting the Taiwanese company to provide 25 to 30 percent of the total glass for iPads in 2012.If true, this may mark…

As of Tuesday morning, only portions of the Apple site have been updated, notably the homepage and dedicated iPad page, although it appears to be a steady work-in-progress with more graphics being replaced daily.  Apple appears to be distinguishing the high resolution versions of its images with a “2x” tag, allowing curious users to locate…

Quicken for Mac 2007 was originally written for PowerPC machines and had been running on Intel-based Macs using Rosetta technology. Lion dropped support for Rosetta, so Quicken for Mac customers couldn’t upgrade if they wanted to continue to use the software. Today’s patch now allows  for the software to run under Lion, without Rosetta support. Existing Quicken for Mac…

Murasaki 1.6.1 for OS X is an EPUB 2/3 ebook reader for the Macintosh. It’s scroll-based rather than paginated and can only view ebooks in non-DRM’d EPUB format. It has some nice features, but the user interface is awkward in some areas. Murasaki, in English. means the color purple. Moreover, according to the developers, “…the…

Apple’s patch notes: About MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.7 (4.24MB Download) This update fixes several issues to improve the stability of MacBook Pro (Early 2011) and MacBook Pro (Late 2011) computers and is recommended for all users. This update improves the reliability of booting from the network, addresses an issue that can prevent HDCP…

AppleInsider found the filing and described its contents. Apple details the various keyboard types in use today and then describes two new methods it has patented, both of which use a single support lever.One method proposes using glass, wood, stone, or even “polished meteorite” for key caps held in place by a support lever that…

BookReader 3.8 for OS X is a mature, full-featured ebook reader for the Macintosh. It has an iBooks-like bookshelf with good sorting and searching options, and it can read documents in many standard formats, including .epub, .doc, .ibooks and many more. This app looks so much like iBooks that some customers, in the past, thought…

The comments came in an interview with Mr. Cook on Mountain Lion, the new version of OS X Apple introduced on Thursday in a developer preview. Mountain Lion includes several new features that were originally developed for iPhone and iPad, including Messages (Messages was also released Thursday as a beta for Lion), Notification Center, Game…

Reading ebooks on an iPad is a natural thing to do, but what if you want to or need to work on a Mac? The Mac can do things that the iPad still cannot, and the situation cries out for an OS X native EPUB reader. Now we have it with Bookle. EPUB and Ebook…

Apple Fans in China Source: M.I.C. Gadget It’s the Mac costume that we’re most taken with. It combines pieces from a PowerMac G4 to make a something that resembles armor with an iMac G3 for a head. That said, it could also be an alternate universe in which Jonathan Ive was George Lucas’s costume designer…

Lion Recovery Apple’s sparse patch notes for the firmware update: About iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.8 This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on iMac (Mid 2010) models. For more information about Lion Recovery, please visit this website: http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/. As of this writing, the firmware update isn’t showing up on Apple’s Downloads site,…

I, like many, have found that Flash causes stability problems on my Mac and have removed it. Since I no longer had Flash on my Mac when I encountered a site with Flash content I would copy the site’s URL, paste it into Google Chrome (which has Flash built into the application) and then open…

This year, Cirque du Mac 9.0 will be held on Friday night of the Expo, with that being Friday, January 27, 2012. Each year it’s at Cirque du Mac where the Macworld All-Star Band plays, a band made up of some of the leading personalities in our community including Paul Kent, Chris Breen, Bob LeVitus,…

The Prospect Apple has a lot on its hands with curating iOS apps and apps in the Mac App Store (MAS). However, could things ever get to the point where Apple might want to, as a minimum, digitally sign all Mac apps? Why would Apple want to do that? A digital signature doesn’t add any…