The Apple App Store grew at an astonishing pace right from the start, reaching 1 billion downloads in just 9 months. Now comes news that the store has reached 1.5 billion downloads in just one year.
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When it comes to getting words down on paper, there are generally two approaches: 1.) the all purpose, thickly featured word processor, such as Microsoft Word or Nissus Writer Pro, and 2.) the clean simple plain text editor. This is a quick and dirty look at the five best (completely subjective) free plain text editors for the Mac, plus an honorable mention for one app that’s not free but widely considered the king.
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There has been some response from the primary players in the ongoing saga of shared members on the Apple and Google boards, with Eric Schmidt saying he may give up his seat on the Apple board.
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Whether the Mac clone maker’s recent bankruptcy was a necessity or just the mother-of-all delaying tactics, we’ll probably never know. Whatever the case, the copyright infringement case against Miami, Florida-based company won’t proceed to trial until at least the beginning next year.
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Is this confirmation of the real deal from Taiwan’s notoriously leaking component suppliers and product assemblers? When the mere rumor of a deal with Apple can see your company’s stock price double almost overnight, there are big incentives for people to get the news out, regardless of its veracity, though the source and story all seem solid enough.
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If you have ever wondered which were the best free mac apps, wonder no more. Below, we have listed (in alphabetical order) the top 40 best free mac software packages.
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If you work with HTML and inline links, then this tip will be a great time saver as it eliminates the need to laboriously copy and paste a URL, and manually type the associated HTML tag. Moreover, setting up your Mac to perform this touch o’ magic nets you a lot more functionality.
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In addition to providing over $600,000 to reclaim what can be saved of the structure built by a 20th Century robber baron—whose other great legacy is a giant open-pit copper mine three-quarters of a mile deep that was once a mountain—Apple’s CEO and an angel investor have presented a new plan to preserve an even larger portion of the decaying building.
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For some months now, the propriety of Eric Schmit’s seat on the Apple board of directors has been questioned with some saying he should step down as the two companies compete in more and more areas. Now, the news that the search giant plans to release an operating system has lead to increasing calls for the Google chief disentangle himself from Apple.
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Apple has filed yet another batch of patents, this time taking clear aim at the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and the much-rumored iTablet, including face and object recognition and text message filtering.
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