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Enter at Your Own Risk: Upgrade to iOS 5 Without Developer Account

Posted on 08/06/2011 by James Britton

If you don’t mind killing your iPhone’s ability to connect to a mobile carrier, you can upgrade to iOS 5 Beta without an Apple Developer account.

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Free Upgrade To Lion If You Buy A Mac From June 6th Onwards

Posted on 08/06/2011 by Cormac Moylan

If you purchase a Mac between June 6th and the launch date of OS X Lion (date not yet announced, but it’s coming some time in July) you will be able to download and upgrade to OS X Lion for free.

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DropTunes – Turns Your Dropbox Into A Music Player

Posted on 08/06/2011 by Cormac Moylan

DropTunes is a third party site that uses your Dropbox storage to host MP3s and then play them back to you through your web browser. This is not a million miles away from Apple’s soon to launch iTunes in the Cloud service where you will be able to access and sync all of your MP3s from across all of your iDevices.

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Google Updates Chrome to Version 12, Adds Security and Hardware Accelerated 3D CSS

Posted on 08/06/2011 by James Britton

Google has updated Chrome to version 12 which provides more security and GPU-assisted hardware acceleration in OS X Snow Leopard and above

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Apple’s Game Console Strategy: Real Racing 2 HD First to Support AirPlay Mirroring

Posted on 08/06/2011 by James Britton

The $100 Apple TV has the potential to upset the game console market with wireless AirPlay mirroring coming in iOS 5.

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A Sneak Peek at iOS 5

Posted on 08/06/2011 by James Britton

Silicon Alley Insider has gotten their hands on a developer copy of iOS 5 and clearly broken Apple’s non-disclosure agreement to post screenshots of the forthcoming mobile OS.

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Steve Jobs Plans Out of This World Campus for Apple

Posted on 08/06/2011 by James Britton

Apple’s campus, often referred to as the mothership, is about to get an upgrade… to an actual mothership.

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Find My Mac Uncovered In Lion Preview 4

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

Find My Mac has been a much-rumored upcoming feature of OS X Lion. Today, a 9to5Mac reader has found and detailed a functional “Find My Mac” process within the OS X Lion Developer Preview 4.

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iOS 5 Hints At Two Future iPad Models

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

Sources for TUAW have discovered hints towards two future iPad 3 models in the latest iOS 5 firmware, in the form of iOS system files that reference “iPad 3,1″ and iPad 3,2″ This numbering indicates a model of iPad that has not yet been released.

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See AirPlay Wireless Mirroring On iOS 5 In Action

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

One of the most downright useful things that Apple talked about at their WWDC keynote was AirPlay Mirroring, which allows you to wirelessly mirror your iPad’s screen onto your TV.

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Rumor Mill: Voice Features Weren’t Ready For WWDC, Will Still Come To iOS 5

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

Many rumors preceding the big WWDC keynote suggested that iOS 5 might be getting fantastic upgraded voice control features, yet we did not see these in the keynote. According to rumors, this is because they weren’t ready, and they’ll still be coming this fall.

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Apple Releases iBooks 1.3 Update, Introduces Read-Aloud Feature

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

Now that your iDevices have gained the ability to wirelessly sync your iBooks to each other, Apple has released an update to iBooks.app. Version 1.3 introduces a feature that reads your books to you in real narrator voices, with some books even highlighting words as the narrator speaks!

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MacTrast And Others Discuss The WWDC Keynote (Not Another Mac Podcast, Episode 7)

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

Yesterday, Melissa Davis, Jodi Spangler, Mark Gurman, and I dedicated episode 7 of Not Another Mac Podcast to taking a quick look through the WWDC keynote, highlighting things of importance and explaining what they might mean for Apple users everywhere.

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Watch iOS 5′s “PC-Free” Setup In Action

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

iOS 5 features a new welcome screen instead of a black “plug me into iTunes please” screen. Check out the video below, sourced from XcodeDev on YouTube, that shows exactly how the process of setting your iOS device up in a “PC-Free” manner!

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App Stores New “Purchased” Feature Lets You Download “No Longer Available” Apps!

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

With the introduction of the App Store’s new ‘Purchased’ feature at WWDC yesterday, users can now download old iOS applications that may no longer be available for purchase. I tested this out by downloading a no-longer-available DOS emulator called iDos.

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Mobile Safari In iOS 5 Has “Privacy Mode” To Hide Your Porn

Posted on 07/06/2011 by J. Glenn Künzler

The good folks at Gizmodo have uncovered that fact that iOS 5 brings a secure “private browsing” mode to mobile Safari. While this would be great for keeping your porn habit a secret, I suspect Steve was more concerned about other things, like banking transactions.

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