Tag: mac
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Fusion keyboard design allows Apple to combine trackpad into the keyboard
A recently uncovered patent filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office reveals that Apple is working on a keyboard with integrated gesture control. An idea that isn’t too far off from the keyboard on the BlackBerry Passport. Apple’s patent covers a full-sized “Fusion keyboard” described as coming with mechanical keys, and a touch sensitive […]
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San Francisco Apple Fans Invited to Star in Steve Jobs Biopic
With filming of the Steve Jobs biopic finally underway Apple fans are being invited to appear in the movie when director Danny Boyle and actor Michael Fassbender arrive in San Francisco this Sunday (March 29). Opportunities to star alongside (or in the background) with Fassbender as the world renowned entrepreneur Steve Jobs are now on […]
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ControlAir Uses Gestures To Control Macs
A new app for Mac is out now, known as ControlAir, which lets your Mac detect your face and fingers in order to control the device. Gestures with specific hand and face positioning can be used to control music apps as well as change the overall volume of music. Whilst the feature does look a […]
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FingerKey App Can Unlock Your Mac Using TouchID
What with all this hacking left, right and centre, more and more people are being concerned about the security of their data. We all know we should have really secure passwords with random letters, numbers and other strange characters to ensure it is difficult to crack – but at the same time we all know how difficult […]
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Sony Backs Out of Steve Jobs Film
The long awaited Steve Jobs biographic film has apparently been abandoned by Sony Pictures, according to Variety. The planned movie is set to chronicle the life of one of tech’s greatest achievers, based on a biography by Walter Isaacson. SEE ALSO: Google Can Launch 20 Loon Balloons Daily However all is not lost for the […]
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Researchers Find iOS App Virus ‘Wirelurker’
Researchers checking the new Mac OS X version, OS X Yosemite, have unfortunately discovered an interesting virus which is alarmingly able to make the jump between computers using OS X onto iOS mobile devices. The team at Palo Alto Networks responsible for the research have managed to find the virus, a piece of Malware which […]
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Christian Bale is Officially Steve Jobs in Biopic
After much Hollywood buzz and online rumour-mongering it has been confirmed that British actor Christian Bale will play the pioneering Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a movie of his life which will now be directed by Danny Boyle. The Dark Knight Trilogy actor will be portraying the CEO and inventor of the Apple Mac and […]
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No Post-Sale RAM Upgrades For New Mac Mini
Just days ago we saw the latest keynote from Apple, which showed off some of the next generation models of their flagship devices, including the iPad, iMac and Mac Mini. Each of these devices represented unprecedented advancement in terms of Apple products, although critics have said that the advancements don’t mean a lot in terms […]
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FBI Slams Anti Snooping Encryption Methods
Big shady government organisations are much more common in the US than here in the UK. More often than not, the biggest ones are quite opposed to the idea of tech companies embracing new ways to keep user data out of the hands of government snoopers, with some new mobile phones possibly being ‘snoop-proof’ due […]
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Apple Mac OS X Yosemite released today with iOS 8.1 out Monday!
At last nights Apple event in Cupertino, Apple not only confirmed a new line-up of Apple iPad and Mac devices, but the company also unveiled its new upgrades to Mac OS X and iOS 8 are launching. Straight off the bat Apple will be releasing the new version Mac operating system, OS X Yosemite (which was announced at […]
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27in 5K Retina iMac Announced @ $2499
Apple also announced some key iMac updates at today’s announcement and keynote at the company’s Cupertino campus in California. The latest addition to the Mac family is a powerhouse 27 inch Retina display equipped, 5k resolution iMac. This high end all in one computer boasts an astonishing 5120 x 2280 pixels of resolution, totalling at […]
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Mac Users Under Attack By ‘Reddit’ Botnet
Whilst Apple fans have always maintained Apple’s desktop computing platform has always been more virus secure than other computer brands, viruses for Mac still exist and are still out there. A recent revelation has uncovered a brand new treat to Macs that bizarrely uses Reddit to coordinate attacks on host machines. Security boffins from Dr. […]