Accessory maker Moshi has released a new ultra-thin plastic shell protective case for the 11″ and 13″ MacBook Air models. This type of plastic case tends to be especially popular among students, protecting their machines from bumps and scratches. Moshi…

Blizzard Entertainment said this week that it sold more than 3.5 million copies of Diablo III on launch day, setting the record for fastest-selling PC game. The company also sold 1.2 million copies of the game to subscribers of the World of Warcraft An…

Hard drive maker Seagate has announced it will purchase data storage device maker LaCie for roughly $186 million.

The company plans to buy the controlling stake owned by Philippe Spruch, Lacie’s chairman and CEO, followed by a cash-offer for th…

Apple today released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.10, bringing RAW image support to Aperture and iPhoto for a number of new cameras.
This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11:

- Canon …

As noted by ifoAppleStore, Apple is continuing its trickle of retail store openings this week with a new location opening on Friday, May 25 in Paris. The new Les Quatre Temps store will be Apple’s sixth in the Paris metropolitan area.

The huge stor…

Binary Nights has dropped the price of its file-transfer app ForkLift to $0.99, down from $29.99, for a limited time.

ForkLift is a well-reviewed file management app that offers FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, iDisk, SMB, AFP, and NIS support, a…

As highlighted by TidBITS (via Macworld), Apple has informed the last holdout users still on the company’s MobileMe service that they will be able to continue using their Me.com even after MobileMe’s June 30 discontinuation, even if they do not fully c…

The casting of Ashton Kutcher in the role of Steve Jobs in an upcoming independent film focusing on the Apple co-founder’s life has certainly generated a significant amount of attention for the project, despite the fact that the film is a completely se…

Spotify has updated its Mac app to version 0.8.3, bringing Pandora-like playlist-based radio stations to the music service. Users can start a new radio channel from any playlist or album in order to listen to similar songs.

Among other new features, …

Roughly two weeks after the debut of a new Apple retail store in Madrid, Apple is preparing to open another store in Spain. As noted by ifoAppleStore, Apple has officially announced that the grand opening of its Nueva Condomina store in Murcia will ta…

The Elder Scrolls Online massive multiplayer online game will arrive on the Mac and PC in 2013, reports Game Informer magazine.

Long rumored and much anticipated, The Elder Scrolls Online is finally being unveiled in the June issue of Game Informer….

Following on the heels of Google launching its Google Drive cloud storage service, Amazon has released Mac and Windows clients for its Cloud Drive service, which launched last year. Previously, Cloud Drive was only accessible through a web browser.

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One week ago, we noted that former Dixons Retail CEO had officially started his job as senior vice president of retail at Apple. Browett’s start date of April 20 was revealed by securities filling revealing that he had received stock rights currently …

Houston NBC affiliate KPRC reports that five businesses along Westheimer Road in Houston were hit by random gunfire early Monday morning, with Apple’s new Highland Village retail store being one of the targets.The Houston Police Department confirms it …

ifoAppleStore reports that Apple is planning to open a new retail store in the Cornwall Centre shopping mall in Regina, Saskatchewan. The location is a notable one for being the first in the vast province in the heart of Canada, with no other Apple re…

A pair of filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that Apple executive Scott Fortsall and board member Mickey Drexler each sold off tens of thousands of shares of Apple stock on Friday, netting millions of dollars each.

Forst…

Apple closed a number of U.S. retail stores last week, and is closing another half dozen more this week for undisclosed renovations. All of the stores closing are street-level locations and the most likely reason is to retrofit the stores with Apple’s …

Progress continues on the independent film “Jobs”, which will see Ashton Kutcher play the role of the Apple co-founder and CEO. According to Variety, actor Josh Gad is in talks to portray Steve Wozniak in the film, which will focus on the early days o…

The critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution has finally arrived on the Mac, after being promised in September of last year. Unlike some games released for the Mac recently, Human Revolution was just released for PC and consoles last summer. Some…

Earlier this week, we noted that Microsoft had pulled its Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 from Microsoft AutoUpdate after users reported issues with Outlook database corruption. While the issues could be fixed and the update remained available for …

Earlier this week, we noted that Microsoft had pulled its Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 from Microsoft AutoUpdate after users reported issues with Outlook database corruption. While the issues could be fixed and the update remained available for …

The next version of iPhoto will be redesigned to be more like the iOS version of iPhoto, according to Belgian website Apple Weetjes [Google Translate].

The report includes a couple of details about potential new features. The new Mac version of iPho…

Last week, we noted that Apple had begun sending emails to at least some current MobileMe users offering them free copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard in order to assist them with ultimately upgrading to OS X Lion in advance of MobileMe’s discontinuation a…

Following last week’s retail store opening in Rome, Italy, Apple has announced another international grand opening this week with the debut of the Gran Plaza 2 store in Madrid, Spain.

Centro Comercial Gran Plaza 2 under construction

Rather than t…

Apple is continuing its roughly biweekly release cycle for developer builds of OS X 10.7.4, pushing out Build 11E52 for testing yesterday.

As with the last several builds, Apple lists no known issues. The company is also asking developers to focu…

Following the release of Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 earlier this month, a number of users began reporting issues with corruption of Microsoft Outlook databases. In response, Microsoft early last week acknowledged the issue, providing a workaro…

Ahead of its May 15th launch date, Blizzard is opening its Diablo III beta test to all comers as a stress test on the game’s servers. The free open beta weekend runs from now through Monday morning.

We’re pleased to announce the Diablo III open beta…

Quake 4, a game which originally shipped on the Mac in 2006, is now available on the Mac App Store for $19.99.

Earth is under siege by the Strogg, a barbaric alien race moving through the universe consuming, recycling and annihilating any civiliz…

An Apple lawyer has said it wants a trial to defend itself in an antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice over the pricing of e-books. Apple’s attorney said the company “would like the case to be decided on the merits”.

Apple Inc want…

MacRumors has received a number of reports today from users who have been unable to access their iCloud mail accounts, and a growing thread in Apple’s discussion forums is documenting the growing complaints.

According to user reports, iCloud mail we…

The first half of each year is a slow time for Apple retail store openings, but the company does continue to schedule sporadic additions to its network of stores as new locations come online. For its latest addition, Apple will be holding a grand open…

AllThingsD reports that Zane Rowe, executive VP and Chief Financial Officer for United Continental — the company behind the merged United and Continental airlines — has joined Apple as one of the vice presidents of sales at Apple.

“We are thrill…

Microsoft today released Service Pack 2 for Office for Mac 2011, the most recent edition of Microsoft’s hugely popular productivity suite. Outlook was the priority for the Mac Office team, with a number of enhancements and performance upgrades included…

BBEdit, a text and code editor for thousands of Mac users for years, turns 20 today. Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell published a long commemorative about his love for the software — written in BBEdit, of course:

All of this would be an insane…

Apple has updated its flagship video editing software, Final Cut Pro [Mac App Store], to version 10.0.4. The update is a minor one, adding some performance improvements, bug fixes, and language support for Simplified Chinese. Final Cut Pro can be updat…

Just a day after media reports pointed out the outdated billboard atop the West 14th Street flagship Apple Store in New York City, it has been replaced with an updated sign.

SplatF’s Dan Frommer snapped a picture of the updated billboard showing a s…

Though the new iPad was announced on March 7, Apple continues to advertise the iPad 2 in prime advertising real estate on top of the West 14th Street Apple Retail Store, as noticed by AdAge.

The billboards on top of the store, a flagship in the midd…

Apple has released an update to Java for OS X, updating Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_31. The update, called Java for OS X Lion 2012-001, “delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6″.

Apple hasn’t updated its security page…

Feral Interactive is serving up BioShock 2 to Mac users via the Mac App Store, two years after it arrived on the PC. It costs $30.99 on the Mac App Store, or via Feral directly. The game does include a multiplayer component as well.

Feral is ded…

A new job listing on Apple’s site indicates that the company is developing a “significant growth plan” for its network of Apple Premium Resellers (APRs) in India, seeking a new national manager to oversee expansion of the program.The Apple Premium Rese…

Apple has released an update to iPhoto, the photo-management and editing app that comes on every Mac. iPhoto 9.2.3 is a minor update that weighs in at 354.55MB.

About iPhoto 9.2.3

-Improves overall stability

-Addresses an issue that could cause …

One week after the public beta launch of Photoshop CS6, Adobe today announced that the software has already hit 500,000 downloads.We’ve been blown away by the response to the Photoshop CS6 beta. In less than one week of its release, we’ve seen over…

Three Apple executives sold millions of dollars in Apple shares after restricted stock units awarded in 2008 vested. The three executives were Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and marketing chief Phil Schiller. The sales were disclosed …

Apple today updated its Logic professional audio software, pushing out Logic Pro 9.1.7 to users of the boxed software version.About Logic Pro 9.1.7

This update improves overall stability and addresses some minor issues including:

- Resolves seve…

Apple has released Safari 5.1.5 just two weeks after the release of 5.1.4. The update is a minor one, however, with just one noted bug fix:

Safari 5.1.5 contains a fix for an issue that could affect website usability when running Safari in 32-bit mode…

Last year, Apple was fined $1.2 million in Italy over how the company advertises its warranty to customers. Italy’s antitrust regulators ruled that Apple has not been providing adequate disclosures about the two free years of product warranty assis…

Wired profiles Linus Torvalds the creator of the popular open source operating system Linux. The article reveals that Apple’s Steve Jobs tried to recruit Torvalds to Apple with a job offer.Torvalds has never met Bill Gates, but around 2000, when he w…

Worldwide, all Apple hardware comes with a one-year warranty. On most products, that warranty can be extended to 2 or 3 years with AppleCare. However, in the European Union, the law requires manufacturers cover goods for two years.

Consumer groups i…

Apple today released Apple Software Installer Update 1.0, a small update intended to address an issue that could prevent Apple software from installing under Mac OS X 10.6.8.About Apple Software Installer Update 1.0

This update addresses an issue th…

Apple’s share price today closed above $600 for the first time, hitting new highs after hours as well. It’s been a busy day for Apple shareholders, with the pre-trading announcement that the company will be initiating a strong quarterly dividend …

Alongside today’s release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2, Apple also seeded the first pre-release version of OS X 10.7.4 to developers for testing. The release arrives as Build 11E27.

Apple has reportedly asked developers to focus…

Diablo III, the much-anticipated sequel to one of Blizzard’s main franchises, now officially has a release date. According to Blizzard’s website, the horror game will be go live on May 15th.

It is available for pre-order, and eventually pre-download…

Apple today released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.10, bringing RAW image support to Aperture and iPhoto for a number of new cameras.This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11:

- Canon…

Last year, Apple, Microsoft, EMC, RIM, Sony, and others banded together to win a $4.5 billion bid for more than 6,000 patents from bankrupt network equipment maker Nortel. The group, called “Rockstar Consortium” says it has received final approval …

The crew at Improv Everywhere was invited to participate in a talk at TED, an annual conference in Long Beach, California that focuses on “Ideas Worth Sharing.”

Charlie Todd explains the story behind the prank on Improv Everywhere’s website:…

Earlier today, Apple announced iPhoto for iPad.

On its iPhoto for iPad webpage, Apple includes an ad for iPhoto for the Mac. Oddly, as seen in the picture above, the system requirements listed for iPhoto for Mac includes the as-yet unreleased OS X…

Apple has released iTunes 10.6 for download, following the release of 1080p iTunes Store video content and an updated Apple TV earlier today.

iTunes 10.6 adds the ability to play 1080p HD movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store.

This release also…

Last year, iFixit released a kit to install a second hard drive inside the 2011 Mac Mini. The install was fairly straightforward, but some Macs are a lot trickier to upgrade.

The company has now released a hard drive install kit for the mid-2011 2…

Apple has released a small update to Lion called Mac OS X 10.7.3 Supplemental Update. The update is apparently a bug fix for an issue with restoring from a Time Machine Backup.

About Mac OS X 10.7.3 Supplemental Update

This update resolves an issue…

We’ve been following for some time the story of the Flashback trojan that has been targeting Mac users by masquerading as a Flash Player installer but which has also been evolving to include increasingly sophisticated tactics for infecting users’ compu…

ifoAppleStore reports that architects quite obviously working for Apple have put forward a design proposal for a new retail store at the Pioneer Place shopping center in downtown Portland, Oregon. Replacing a typical mall-style store inside the cent…

Aspyr has released Company of Heroes Complete: Campaign Edition for purchase on the Mac App Store for $49.99. [Direct Link]

Company of Heroes redefines real time strategy gaming by bringing the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environment…

Apple today released iMac Graphic FW Update 3.0, addressing an issue that could cause hanging and freezing on iMac models.About iMac Graphic FW Update 3.0

This firmware update fixes a graphics issue that may cause an iMac to hang under certain con…

Thomas Schlijper posts a stunning photo of the glass staircase at Apple’s new Amsterdam retail store in the historic Hirsch building. The store, which opens to the public this Saturday, is Apple’s first in the Netherlands.

Previously-revealed flo…

Apple today released MainStage 2.2.1 [Mac App Store], an update to the company’s software for bringing virtual instruments and effects to live performances. According to the full release notes, the update addresses sixteen separate issues, with the co…

Earlier this month, the staff at Munich, Germany’s Apple Store Rosenstraße formed a “Betriebsrat” [Google translate] — an official labor council that focuses on the working conditions within the store.

IFO Apple Store:

It’s the first such counc…

Apple just released an update for the MacBook Pro 15-inch, late 2008 model. It requires Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8, or OS X Lion 10.7.3.

About MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.8

This update is recommended for MacBook Pro…

Best Buy will extend its return policy from 14 days to 30 days, beginning next week according to TUAW.

The change applies to all products, including the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Macintosh purchases. The Apple Retail Store return policy is offici…

Urban Toronto reports that it has received information indicating that Apple has reached an agreement to occupy 1 Bloor Street West in Toronto, potentially signaling plans for a major new flagship store in the heart of one of Toronto’s major commercial…

Apple just released an update for all iMacs, Late 2009 or newer. It requires OS X Lion 10.7.3.

About iMac Wi-Fi Update v1.0

This update resolves an issue that may cause an iMac to not automatically connect to a known Wi-Fi network after waking from…

Apple just released new firmware updates for the full range of Macs released in 2011, which apparently all fix the same issues.

This update improves the reliability of booting from the network, addresses an issue that can prevent HDCP authentication a…

Ron Wayne, Apple, Inc.’s sometimes forgotten third co-founder, has posted a short essay entitled “Why I Left Apple Computer After Only 12 Days, In My Own Words”. The piece notes that though he sold his share of Apple for pennies on the dollar, he has n…

Even as Apple is preparing to open its first Dutch retail store in Amsterdam on March 3, the company is moving closer to expanding its international reach even further as it has updated its Swedish jobs site with new postings for the complete range of …

Following reports yesterday that Apple would open its first Dutch retail store in Amsterdam on March 3, the company has confirmed that date today with emails to customers and a new dedicated store page on its website.

The new store will open at 10…

After one false alert claiming a February 18 opening for Apple’s new Amsterdam retail store, the company’s first in the Netherlands, One More Thing now reports [Google translation] that the grand opening is apparently set for March 3.

Glass stairc…

9to5Mac reports that Apple is working on an overhaul of its iTunes Store and App Store marketplaces, seeking to simplify the user experience while also increasing interactivity and discoverability. The revamped stores are reportedly planned to launch …

As noticed by several users running the developer preview version of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple is no longer including its X11 application for running software through the X Window System interface. A popular option for scientists and others seeki…

Cult of Mac points to a report from French site MacGeneration highlighting the system requirements for OS X Mountain Lion. Among those Macs currently compatible with OS X Lion, those with lower-end Intel GMA X3100 or GMA 950 integrated graphics will n…

Alongside the OS X Mountain Lion developer preview released today, Apple has also pushed out Safari 5.2 for Lion to developers. The update brings a number of new features that will be included with Safari in OS X Mountain Lion later this year.

Am…

While OS X Lion was initially announced as an exclusive Mac App Store release, Apple did backtrack slightly before launch with a decision to offer a $69 USB thumb drive to assist users without access to broadband connections.

As reported by Pock…

Apple today released Xcode 4.3 [Mac App Store], making a number of improvements to the software. Among the notable changes, Xcode is now offered directly as an app. It had previously been offered as an installer package, and the move simplifies the i…

Hardware.info points to a presentation slide from NVIDIA showing the range of products the company’s graphics chips power. The tagline reads,”From Super Phones to Super Computers”. The site also noted a strange looking Mac notebook in the middle of th…

M.I.C gadget reports that it has received information from sources indicating that Apple is “close to finally updating” its aging Mac Pro line. As we detailed in a report last month, the window for a potential Mac Pro update is approaching as Intel pr…

CLOG, a new quarterly architecture magazine, has opted to cover Apple in its just-published February 2012 issue. The magazine offers nearly 150 pages of stories and images about Apple and architecture, with coverage ranging from Steve Jobs’ boyhood Ei…

Google has received approval from the European Union for its planned purchase of Motorola Mobility. This is one of a number of governmental approvals that Google needs before the purchase can continue, including sign-offs from the governments of Israel…

Apple today launched its annual back to school promotion in Japan, offering students purchasing a new Mac a gift card worth ¥10,000 (US$129) and redeemable in the App Store, Mac App Store, or iTunes Store. The program runs through May 22.

Th…

Last July, Apple discontinued the white MacBook from its consumer lineup, pushing consumers toward the company’s popular MacBook Air line or the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The company didn’t kill off the MacBook entirely though, as it continued to offer it …

Last month, we noted that Apple had signed a pair of leases for over 300,000 square feet of space in Sunnyvale, the company’s first venture into the city next door to its home in Cupertino, California. The leases were said to be part of a larger effor…

9to5Mac reports that Apple is in “early discussions” with Sam’s Club to bring the Apple store-within-a-store concept to the popular warehouse club chain that operates as a division of Walmart.Sam’s Club and Apple are not only in early discussions for…

As the Mac becomes more popular, the arrival of A-List titles to the platform is beginning to become a more common occurrence. The latest top-shelf game to hit the Mac is Id Software’s RAGE, which has gone live both on the Mac App Store [Direct Link] a…

As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple today began seeding Safari 5.1.4 to developers for testing, signaling the next round of improvements for Apple’s browser software. Safari 5.1.4 is available in versions for OS X Lion, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and Windows, an…

As revealed in a regulatory filing yesterday, Apple senior vice president for hardware engineering Bob Mansfield on Monday exercised a set of stock options he has held for a number of years, immediately selling off the stock for a gain of nearly $1…

Intuit has begun offering its entry-level financial management software Quicken Essentials for Mac on the Mac App Store. This is the standard edition of Essentials that has been on sale for quite a while, not a new version — something Intuit is quick …

Back in late December, Apple was fined $1.2 million by Italian regulators over allegations that the company promoted its AppleCare extended warranty program to customers without adequately disclosing that many of the program’s benefits were already…

Apple has pushed out Build 11D50 of OS X 10.7.3 to registered developers. Apple continues to report no known issues in the seed notes, and asks developers to focus their testing on Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari.

The previous build…

As noted in our forums, Apple today pushed out a new firmware update specifically targeting users of the company’s Mid-2010 13-inch MacBook Pro model. The new MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.5 brings compatibility with Lion Internet Recovery, allo…

Virgin America has named one of its fleet after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, emblazoning a popular Jobs quote “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” on the side of this Airbus A320.

Steve mentioned the phrase in his 2005 commencement address at Stanford Univ…

Apple is planning to open a new store-within-a-store concept at the legendary Harrods department store on Brompton Road in London, according to 9to5Mac.

Harrods boasts more than 1 million square feet of selling space across 330 departments — plen…

One week after the previous developer seed, Apple late yesterday pushed out Build 11D46 of OS X 10.7.3 to registered developers. Apple continues to report no known issues in the seed notes, and asks developers to focus their testing on iCloud Document…

Das Keyboard, a popular keyboard manufacturer that specializes in “clicky” mechanical keyboards like the Apple Extended Keyboard or the IBM Model M, has announced a Macintosh-edition of its Model S Professional keyboard.

Das’s keyboards are a fav…

In a preliminary ruling (PDF) today, the ITC ruled that Motorola’s smartphones do not violate the Apple patents at issue, though the decision still needs to be approved by the full six-member ITC panel.

On this date, the ALJ issued an initial determi…

At CES, Bullettrain announced their new eXpress keyboard platform that offers a single enclosure for the Magic Trackpad and Apple Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard.

The enclosure mimics the layout of an Apple laptop, placing the trackpad below the key…

Adobe today announced the release of a free public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 4, the company’s digital photo management and post-production software. The software is the primary competitor to Apple’s Aperture and a popular option for photographers….

Last month, Apple launched its first major international expansion of iTunes Match, expanding on the November U.S. debut by bringing the feature to Brazil in mid-December and then sixteen additional countries just a few days later.

Apple is clearly …

Television production company Bunim/Murray, the company which pioneered reality television with MTV’s the Real World, has dropped Final Cut Pro in favor of an editing system from Avid, according to a press release from Avid.

Avid today announced th…

Television production company Bunim/Murray, the company which pioneered reality television with MTV’s the Real World, has dropped Final Cut Pro in favor of an editing system from Avid, according to a press release from Avid.

Avid today announced th…

In 2011, less than 12 hours after passes went on sale, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference had already sold out. To help would-be attendees get a chance to purchase tickets, developers Anthony Herron and Aaron Wardle created WWDC Alerts, a websit…

Deal-a-day site Woot.com occasionally offers Apple products for sale, generally refurbished iPod Nano or Touch models. But this year, on Christmas Eve, the site is offering Apple’s current entry-level iMac for nearly 13 percent off Apple’s prices — an…

As David Pogue points out, O’Reilly Press is offering a number of its Missing Manual books for 50% off through January 3rd, with no DRM and lifetime access downloads and updates. Those looking for last minute Christmas gifts for slightly less tech-sa…

Australian developer Firemint, acquired by Electronic Arts earlier this year, has moved its highly-acclaimed iOS game Real Racing 2 to the Mac, launching the title in the Mac App Store.

Among the notable features of the Mac version is the ability …

Graphisoft claims it has the world’s first Steve Jobs statue in front of its Budapest headquarters, crafted in bronze by Hungarian sculptor Erno Toth.

From Graphisoft’s press release introducing the statue:

The relationship between GRAPHISOFT an…

As noted by iFun.de [Google translation] and Macerkopf.de [Google translation], Apple has begun posting job listings for a forthcoming retail store in Berlin, the company’s first in a city that ranks among the largest in the European Union.

Kurf…

A 4th generation iPod Shuffle, apparently signed by Steve Jobs himself, is for sale on eBay. The signature on the iPod is similar to Jobs’s signature, but the item doesn’t include any guarantee or certificate of authenticity, though the seller does o…

While Apple discontinued Logic Express last week as it moved Logic Pro to the Mac App Store and reduced its price to $199.99, the company is pushing out at least one last update for existing users in the form of Logic Express 9.1.6.This update impr…

Apple has released the Thunderbolt Display Firmware Update for the Thunderbolt Display released earlier this year.

This update addresses a fan noise issue affecting a small number of Apple Thunderbolt Displays and improves stability.

The updater ap…

As noted by AppleInsider, shipping estimates for build-to-order iMac models equipped with 2 TB hard drives have improved to 2-4 weeks, after previously being as long as 5-7 weeks earlier this month. It appears that hard drive shortages caused by massiv…

Apple has issued a small update for Aperture, bringing it to version 3.2.2 and fixing an issue related to iCloud’s Photo Stream feature.

What’s New in Version 3.2.2

This update resolves an issue that could prevent auto-imported Photo Stream images …

Two websites are offering big discounts on preset bundles of Mac Apps.

First up, MacUpdate’s Winter bundle includes 12 Mac apps for $49.99 (a $741 value if purchased separately):

- TechTool Pro ($99) Hard drive and system repair & …

The OS X version of Sparrow, a popular alternative mail application, has been updated to version 1.5. The update brings bug fixes and 3 new features:

- Dropbox integration. Drag, drop, send (and sync). Sending a mail with attachment has never been sim…

The team at Brightwurks took some time away from developing useful web-apps to create this unique piece of artwork. The letterpress poster contains a stylized version of the text from Apple’s famous Think Different ad. The poster is 10″ x 26″ and print…

Less than two weeks ago, Apple revealed digital flip-style signage outside its forthcoming retail store in Manhattan’s historic Grand Central Terminal. The signage consisted of 58 separate display panels showing a rotating group of messages regarding t…

The Computer History Museum has introduced an online exhibit about Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. The exhibit, called “Steve Jobs… First, NeXT, One more thing…” traces Jobs life from his youth through his early days at Apple, then NeXT, and finally …

Apple today released Keynote 5.1.1 for OS X, a minor update improving handling of large documents under OS X Lion and bringing several other general improvements.This update addresses issues when working with large Keynote presentations on OS X Lion. I…

The Hungarian postal service, Magyar Posta, is issuing a commemorative sheet bearing Steve Jobs image. The sheet, which includes a perforated stamp-sized image of Steve Jobs, will sell for 1,000 forints (about $4.40).

From the Associated Pres…

The latest cool Kickstarter project that we’ve run across is one by Jason Giddings who promises to build a modern multi-touch keyboard and mouse. Multi-touch keyboards have been done before, but none that we’ve seen in recent years since the rise in…

The LandingZone is a docking station for the MacBook Air that hopes to become a reality via Kickstarter pledges. The dock circles the end of the MacBook Air, plugging into the ports on both sides of the device and including a full range of ports on t…

Over the weekend, Best Buy began running a new television ad promoting the chain as the best place to buy Apple products. The ad begins with a woman examining an iPad while talking to a blue-shirted Best Buy employee, saying “I didn’t know you guys h…

Friday after Thanksgiving marked 2011′s Black Friday sales. Retailers including Apple offered modest discounts on Apple products that day. Cyber Monday is the online extension of that sale into the following week.

Amazon, MacMall and Best Buy ar…

MacRumors readers Daniel (photo above) and Matthew let us know that Apple had posted a new digital sign overnight at the location of their upcoming Grand Central Station store. The sign reads “Apple Store, Grand Central. Arriving Soon.”

There had…

Ron Johnson, the architect behind the Apple Retail Stores, has moved on to be CEO of JC Penney. But, he still remembers the lessons he learned while at Apple.

Writing for the Harvard Business Review, Johnson reflects on what makes the Apple Store un…

Apple yesterday released Thunderbolt Software Update 1.1 for Snow Leopard, bringing a fix for intermittent black screen issues.This update addresses an issue that causes some users of the Apple Thunderbolt Display to experience intermittent black scr…

Every third Thursday, the guys at Signal Snowboards make a custom (and a little off-the-wall) board to push the limits of snowboard design. This month, the guys built iShred, an aluminum-based board with a built-in iPad 2 and a light-up wi-fi beacon.

…

Algoriddim has released the latest version of its well-regarded DJing software djay for Mac. The software allows DJ’s, both amateur and professional, to perform and record music sessions via a number of unique and easy-to-use features.

Perhaps the l…

Back in September, Skype debuted a new Skype 5.4 for Mac Beta offering Facebook integration in the form of chat and news feed support. The company has now expanded that integration to include support for Facebook video calling.Initiating a Facebook-…

Apple has released an update to Final Cut Pro X, taking it to version 10.0.2.

What’s new in version 10.0.2:

- Fixes an issue in which a title may revert to the default font after restarting Final Cut Pro X

- Resolves an issue that could cause fi…

As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple has seeded a beta of OS X Lion 10.7.3 to developers. The beta, build number 11D16, asks developers to focus testing on iCloud document storage, Address Book, iCal and Mail.

OS X 10.7.2 was released to the public in mid-O…

The first thing many iTunes Match users will want to do upon purchasing the service is to upgrade all their matched music to the 256Kbps. Unfortunately, there is no push-button ability to do this, but it is possible with a few simple steps — but make …

Apple today released MacBook Pro Video Update 1.0 (Snow Leopard), a new update addressing issues with freezing and blank video on mid-2010 MacBook Pro models.This update addresses an issue where MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010) computers may intermittent…

With today’s release of iTunes Match, some users with very large music libraries are discovering an annoying restriction. Those with non-iTunes Music Store libraries with more than 25,000 songs are unable to activate iTunes Match. There simply isn’t an…

As noted by iFun.de [Google translation], Apple will be hosting a grand opening for its eighth German store this Thursday, November 17th. The new MTZ retail store is located in the Main-Taunus-Zentrum shopping mall in Sulzbach outside of Frankfurt, …

According to a number of readers and our own observations, it seems iCloud is in the midst of a somewhat widespread service outage that has been going on since roughly 4PM Eastern Time. Users are unable to access mail and other services either via st…

Apple has released AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6. The update is recommended for all 802.11n Airport Express, 802.11n AirPort Extreme, and all Time Capsule models.

This update for all 802.11n AirPort Express, 802.11n AirPo…

Apple today released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.9, bringing RAW image support to Aperture and iPhoto for a number of new cameras.This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11:

- Canon …

Nuance Communications, which provides the speech recognition technology included in Siri on the iPhone 4S, has announced the Mac App Store launch of Dragon Express, a new application that offers some of the same speech recognition and system control …

Thomas Park has put together an interesting gallery of storefront photos from all 357 of Apple’s retail stores around the world. While the photos are simply pulled from the individual retail store pages on Apple’s site, the gallery format ordered by d…

Apple today released a pair of Java 6 updates for users of OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard, patching vulnerabilities and increasing reliability and compatibility.

- Java for OS X Lion Update 1 (62.53 MB)Java for Mac OS X 10.7 Update 1 delivers …

The Criterion Collection, film distribution company specializing in “gathering the greatest films from around the world” and releasing them in the highest quality, has debuted 46 of its 680 films on iTunes.

Criterion is offering a very small selecti…

Apple Retail Store managers are participating in “union awareness” training after a part-time San Francisco retail store employee attempted to start a union of Apple Store employees, according to CNET.

This course is intended to provide managers wit…

In 1995, before Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he sat down with Bob Cringely for an hour-long interview during the making of the Triumph of the Nerds TV series. Roughly 10 minutes of the interview was used in the show, but the rest of the historic inter…

One noticeable aspect of Apple’s iPod advertising were the sheer number of iPod ads on television and in billboards. At the time, it seemed as if Apple was just being particularly aggressive with their adverting, but Steve Jobs’ Biography revealed t…

As revealed in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple has awarded Eddy Cue an additional 100,000 shares of company stock in the form of restricted stock units. The stock units were issued on November 2nd and will vest in …

Winamp by Nullsoft, now owned by AOL, was a major media player back in the MP3 sharing heyday — and is still the preferred media player for a large number of Windows users.

Last week, the Winamp team launched Winamp for Mac Sync Beta, the first …

Apple yesterday pushed out a pre-release version of Safari 5.1.2 to Mac developers. The update addresses several issues related to the viewing of PDFs located within frames on websites while also asking developers to test plug-in interaction and pri…

Batman: Arkham Asylum has arrived on the Mac, two years after it was released on consoles and the PC.

Batman: Arkham Asylum exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure that takes them to the depths of Arkham Asylum – Gotham’s psychi…

Back in June, Swedish retail news site Market.se reported that Apple was making plans to open its first retail stores in Sweden, with Stockholm understandably being the company’s first target city.

As noted by Allt om Mac [Google translation], Apple…

Last month, following the death of Steve Jobs, Computerworld published a transcript of a lengthy 1995 interview with Steve Jobs conducted as part of an oral history program for the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation.

The complete…

Artist Rendition

We’ve heard a couple of reports that Apple will finally unveiling their newly renovated 5th Avenue Apple NYC store on Friday, November 4th.

Apple began work on the $6.6 million renovation back in June. Since then, the 5t…

The New York Times publishes a touching eulogy written by Steve Jobs’ sister Mona Simpson: None of us knows for certain how long we’ll be here. On Steve’s better days, even in the last year, he embarked upon projects and elicited promises from his …

Readers have sent in a number of festive Apple-themed pumpkins, including two that emulate Jonathan Mak’s interpretation of the Apple logo and another pumpkin interpretation of Albert Watson’s famous photograph that now graces the cover of Steve Jobs’ …

Apple yesterday released Aperture 3.2.1, bringing several bug fixes to the company’s professional-level photo editing and management application.What’s New in Aperture 3.2.1

- Resolves an issue that could cause Aperture to quit unexpectedly at launc…

Photo by IrishEyes/Flickr

ITWire claims to have the truth about how Steve Jobs had no license plate on his Mercedes.

This lack of license plate has drawn a lot of speculation over the years, but no clear answer had been pinned down. ITWire sp…

Apple today released iPhoto 9.2.1, a minor update to address an issue that could cause the application to crash when used with a specific 3ivx plug-in.What’s New in iPhoto 9.2.1

- Addresses an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly on Ma…

Version 2.0 of popular image editing application Pixelmator goes live tomorrow on the Mac App Store. The app was one of the early success stories on the Mac App Store, generating more than $1 million in revenue in the first 20 days.

The new ve…

Walter Isaacson continued his promotional tour of his Steve Jobs biography yesterday, appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. In the seven minute interview, Isaacson “talks about becoming emotionally invested in his subject throughou…

Last week, it was revealed that Catcher Technology, Apple’s primary unibody aluminum case supplier for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, had halted some production at its Chinese plant over pollution concerns. One report had indicated that Catcher was …

As someone who has been following Apple rumors both casually and professionally over the past couple of decades, Steve Jobs’ biography reveals a number of intriguing forks in the road that may have led the entire company down a different path.

As …

Apple today released MacBook Pro Video Update 1.0, a new software update designed to address freezing and other video issues on the company’s Mid-2010 version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro.This update addresses an issue where MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010…

As a reminder, Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson was interviewed for 60 minutes. That interview will air tonight (Sunday, Oct 23rd) at 7pm Eastern/Pacific. Also included are interview tapes in which Jobs tells his own story.

Isaacson’s bio…

Last month, we noted that Apple was aware of and working on the issue of users having multiple Apple IDs and seeking to merge them into a single account. MobileMe users in particular have been affected by the issue, as many of them had one ID for thei…

We’ve all seen the make-shift Steve Jobs memorials found at Apple Retail stores around the world, but one group has taking it to the next level at the Munich, Germany Apple Store.

iOS News reports on the mural that was reportedly created with 40…

In support of today’s extensive list of software releases, Apple has also pushed out the final public version of Xcode 4.2, now available through Apple’s developer channel and on the Mac App Store. Xcode is Apple’s package of developer tools for creati…

Apple today released Aperture 3.2, updating its professional-level photo editing and management application for OS X to support compatibility with the newly-released iOS 5 software and iCloud services.Aperture 3.2 supports compatibility with iCloud and…

As part of the OS X 10.7.2 release earlier today, Apple also pushed out Safari 5.1.1. The company has now posted a support document addressing the major fixes and improvements included in the update. Among a host of stability improvements, Apple note…

Alongside today’s releases of iOS 5, OS X 10.7.2, and iCloud, Apple has also pushed out iPhoto 9.2, which brings compatibility with iCloud and its Photo Stream feature as well as a number of other improvements and fixes.iPhoto 9.2 supports compatibil…

Entertainment Weekly reports that the Discovery Channel is working on a documentary of Steve Jobs to be shown on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. The documentary will be hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters.“Someone once said that to fol…

For Steve Jobs’ thirtieth birthday, his then Apple coworkers made a video the celebrate his life to that point. The video, dug up by Harry McCracken at Technologizer, is set to My Back Pages by Bob Dylan, one of Jobs’ favorite musicians and inspiration…

TNT plans to reair its 1999 movie Pirates of Silicon Valley tonight at 8pm Eastern/Pacific and again at 10pm. The dramatization — starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs, Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates, and Joey Slotnick as Steve Wozniak — follows the t…

Here’s a collection of photos we’ve received from readers who have taken photos at Apple Stores around the world with small tributes to Apple’s Steve Jobs who passed away yesterday.

Shanghai. Thanks Min

London. Thanks Vijay

Lincoln Park. T…

From left: Bobby Shriver, Jurvetson, and Jobs in 2007

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, who worked with Steve Jobs at NeXT and Apple, writes in Businessweek about his memories of Jobs. He shared one story in particular — from the NeXT years — that…

Longtime Time Magazine photographer Diana Walker has shared a few of her favorite photographs of Steve Jobs, and briefly sharing her experiences working with him.

He was so much fun because he was so quick—he was such a fast study. You showed him …

iFixit has gotten its disassembling hands on the latest iPod Nano and taken it apart piece by piece. They discovered the new 7th Generation Nano, introduced on Tuesday, is very similar to the prior version.

The most difficult part of the teardown …

With the release of updated iPod nano models today bearing new features such as large icons, enhanced fitness features, and sixteen new clock faces.

From Apple’s press release announcing the new iPod nano:iPod nano now features larger icons for ev…

In addition to today’s seeding of the iOS 5 golden master version for developers and several associated releases, Apple also seeded the golden master 11C73 build of OS X 10.7.2 on the Mac side of the developer community.

OS X 10.7.2 includes the r…

During his keynote address to announce the next generation iPhone, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the company has sold more than 6 million copies of Lion since it launched in July. “This is 80% more than Snow Leopard.”

“For another metric, we me…

Mac OS X notification service Growl has been completely rewritten to comply with Apple’s App Store guidelines and has been released on the Mac App Store.

MacStories reports on the new app:

Growl 1.3 comes in a new app form that has a menubar icon t…

A number of Apple’s MobileMe services appear to have been down for several hours now, and Apple’s system status page indicates that the company is experiencing issues with MobileMe Mail, me.com web apps, and Find My iPhone.

Occasional downtime for…

Apple is continuing its war on boxes. In July, Apple ended physical distribution to Apple Retail Stores and resellers of a number of software titles that it sells digitally on the Mac App Store. Now, ZDNet reports the company is discontinuing physical …

Grove makes a number of bamboo cases for iPhones and iPads. Now the company is introducing super-thin (.035″) bamboo plates that attach to the back of unibody MacBooks of nearly any shape and size (11″, 13″, 15″, 17″).

Grove also offers laser cuto…

EA, which owns the hugely popular FIFA soccer video game franchise, has brought the game to the Mac for the first time with FIFA 2012, as noted by The Loop. The game is available via digital download for $39.99 on Gametree Mac.

For the first tim…

Apple will be holding its Q4 2011 Financial Results on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011. The results will be released after the close of Tuesday’s trading at approximately 4:30 PM Eastern / 1:30 PM Pacific. Apple’s conference call discussing the results w…

As expected, the new IFC Mall Apple Store in Hong Kong opened to long lines this weekend. NeonPunch provides this video showing the opening of the store:

Meanwhile, IFO Apple Store has posted an extensive Flickr gallery of the opening.

This video shows off a 15″ MacBook Pro connected to two 27″ Thunderbolt Displays daisy chained to each other.

Apple has just started shipping Thunderbolt displays to customers and released a document indicating how they could be used with the…

Apple opened the new Hong Kong retail store to the press, providing the first look inside the massive new two level store. NeonPunch provided this video walkthrough (and photo gallery), and reports that Apple has hired over 300 employees to work at …

LaCie’s first Thunderbolt hard drives are finally available, more than 6 months after Apple put its first Thunderbolt-enabled Macs on sale.

The Apple Online Store is offering 1TB and 2TB Little Big Disks for $399.95 and $499.95 respectively…

Apple yesterday released a pair of Thunderbolt updates, improving stability of the company’s new Apple Thunderbolt Display and bringing compatibility with the display and other Thunderbolt-related improvements to machines running Mac OS X Snow Leopar…

Apple is making a strong push to open more retail stores as it heads into the final weekend of its fiscal year and makes preparations for the launch of the iPhone 5. In addition to the high-profile openings scheduled for Hong Kong and Shanghai that we…

In 1996, just before Steve Jobs returned to Apple and made it the business-school case-study success story it is today, the biggest thing in Jobs’ life was Pixar, which had recently launched Toy Story. He also had NeXT, which wasn’t the world-changing …

Now that early customers have started receiving their Thunderbolt Displays, Apple’s availability of the product has improved from an estimated 2-3 week delivery to only 3-5 days on Apple’s online store.

The Thunderbolt Display offers Apple noteboo…

Belkin is offering half-off everything on Belkin.com for today, Friday, only. No minimum purchase required, just use coupon code “FB50″ when you check out. However, it seems that Belkin’s website is getting crushed under the weight of the deal and is…

Other World Computing, which offers many customization and upgrade options for Macs, today released an SSD upgrade for 2011 MacBook Airs that takes advantage of the MBA’s SATA Revision 3.0 abilities and offers 6 Gigabits of potential throughput.

Th…