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  Just as expected, Apple took a strike at the ripe digital textbook market today with the introduction of iBooks 2. Dubbed as a “brand new experience for the iPad,” the iBooks 2 app will allow users to download textbooks that are portable, durable, interactive as well as searchable. As with the functions of the [...]

  Skype has updated the Mac version of their VoIP app. The Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X supports Apple’s new Lion OS and is also backward compatible with Mac OSes till Leopard. In addition to the OS support, the app sports number of fixes and improvements like the HD video calling support. A user [...]

  Apple has finally put a date to the Mac OS App Store. Beginning January 6, Mac users will be able install and update Mac apps directly from a dedicated store and even roll out a similar Windows store in the future as well. Apple plans to make the store available in 90 countries with [...]

  Skype today issued a new beta for Skype Mac users. The Skype 5.0 beta comes with a new look that emphasizes on simplified navigation and adds the most important 5.0 feature – group video calling. The new beta allows users to make video calls to more than two people using Skype 5.0 for Mac [...]

  Apple has announced that they’ll offer a live stream of its Back to Mac event later today. Users using Apple products like iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac Safari browser will be able to stream the event live using Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming. The live stream will start from 10AM PDT (10:30PM IST).

  The iPhone Dev team has released a new beta version of redsn0w that will jailbreak iOS 4.0 or 4.1 running iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G devices (tethered for MC models). The jailbreak uses the pwnage2 exploit that will allow to install Cydia using the DFU mode. Team says users banking on ultrasn0w unlock [...]

  If you’re in for some serious performance, Apple has updated its Mac Pro line that now gives an option to integrate dual CPUs effectively giving users 12-cores to play with. The Mac Pro features Intel’s Xeon line of processors and promises 50 percent faster performance than the previous generation. Additionally, the Mac Pros can [...]

  As like every other Apple product, the new Mac Mini has also undergone the teardown ceremony. This time, however Apple has made it easy to access the innards, which the iFixit guys accessed it buy by twisting the cover at the bottom. As for internals are concerned, there isn’t anything exciting except for the [...]

  Apple has unveiled an all new Mac Mini, complete with specs bump as well as design. The Mac Mini starts at $699 but brings the goodness of Mac in a sleek unibody aluminum enclosure. Moreover, the new design now integrates the power supply which helps to reduce system volume by 20 percent and also [...]

  Apple has released a new update for its Snow Leopard OS. Snow Leopard users can grab the Mac OS X 10.6.3 via the Software Update that claims to bring loads of fixes and improvements. Few of the fixes are as follows: – improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X – address compatibility issues [...]

  Western Digital has added another Mac friendly hard drive to its portfolio. The My Passport SE comes in capacities of 750GB and 1TB and is pre-formatted in HFS+ to support Macs out-of-the-box. The drives are USB 2.0 powered and WD says they draw power from the computer instead of the external power supply. Additionally, [...]

  WD has introduced its My Passport Studio Portable hard drives in India. The drive appeals to Mac users because of its integrated FireWire 800 port, pre-formatted with HFS+, TimeMachine support, 256-bit hardware based encryption and automatic as well as continuous backup with WD’s bundled SmartWare software. Additionally, the drives also have an USB 2.0 [...]

  The worst fear came true. Apple released the v10.6.2 update for Mac OS X and with that took away Atom CPU support that was used by hacktinosh users for installing Mac OS X on Atom-powered netbooks. The 10.6.2 update is said to start instant rebooting of the netbooks, leaving with the only options of [...]

  Hackintoshing or installing the Mac OS X is the best you can do on your otherwise bland netbook. However, this will come to an end once Apple releases 10.6.2 update for its Mac OS. The latest update apparently removes support for Atom processors, which is instrumental for the OS to detect and then install. [...]

  Apple India was quick to put a price and availability details to the new Mac products that were unveiled yesterday. Magic Mouse will be the first in the line to be available by the end of October. It will retail for Rs. 3,890. The 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs will start from Rs. 64,900 and [...]