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WSJ: Apple’s iCloud to Get Photo-Sharing Features, Video Sync, iOS 6 Coming at WWDC

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| News
May 14, 2012

The Wall Street Journal has reported on some ‘breaking’ news, in regards to an upcoming iCloud update Apple will announce at WWDC 2012: Apple Inc. is preparing an upgrade of its online service iCloud that includes new photo-sharing features, according to people familiar with the matter. The new features, expected to be announced at Apple’s world-wide developer conference beginning June 11, will allow iCloud users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users and to comment on them, these people said. Currently, users can only store one set of photos in iCloud through a feature called Photo Stream, which is designed to sync those photos to other Apple devices, not share them. Apple is also working on a new feature that will allow iCloud users...
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Ultra-thin 2012 15″ MacBook Pro To Feature Retina Display & USB 3

by matt3224
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May 14, 2012

According to 9to5Mac‘s trusted sources inside Apple’s supply chain, a completely re-designed 2012 MacBook Pro with ultra high resolution display is almost ready for launch and is currently undergoing test production rounds. The report claims that the 15″ version of ultra-thin 2012 MacBook Pro will feature a “jaw-dropping” Retina Display and super-fast USB 3. The source believes that 2012 MBP will not get its design from the current MacBook Air lineup but will rather get a complete re-vamp. It won’t be tapering like the MacBook Air but will lose the optical drive to reach “a new standard for notebook thinness“. Quoting from the source: Apple has made it clear that professionals...
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The state of the iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak.

by matt3224
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| iOS, iOS Devices, News
May 14, 2012

A couple of days back, Pod2g confirmed that a successful untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreakhas been achieved which also works on the new iPad. He further said that a public release is still a few weeks away as he wants to make a nice, user friendly jailbreak tool for his newly found jailbreak exploits. Today, he has published some answers to the common questions he has been asked lately via emails and tweets in the form of a short FAQ on his blog in which he has confirmed an iOS 5.1.x untethered jailbreak release within 2 weeks. Here is what he’s written: I receive lots of questions either by email or twitter about the 5.1.x untetheredjailbreak. Here are some answers : The poll...
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Stop Exploiting Steve Jobs

by matt3224
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| News, Steve Jobs
May 13, 2012

Apple founder Steve Jobs died more than seven months ago. All kinds of people are lining up to hijack his memory for their own purposes. It’s time to stop. One way that people are doing this is digging up and publicizing “lost” tape. For example, old Apple corporate videos, created to fire up sales people at conferences and meetings long forgotten, are suddenly appearing. One video shows Jobs portraying FDR rallying the troops against the menace of IBM. Another shows Jobs acting in a Ghostbusters-themed video. And “lost” interviews with Jobs are popping up and being exploited. Magnolia Pictures is distributing a 70-minute “lost” interview with Jobs in movie theaters...
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Apple releases OS X Lion 10.7.4 (Combo update linked)

by matt3224
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May 9, 2012

After many beta releases on the Developer Center, Apple has just released OS X Lion 10.7.4 to the masses this afternoon via Software Update. The update weighs in at 729.6MB and fixes the horrible bug in OS X 10.7.3 that stored passwords in plain text, along with many other stability improvements among other things. It also includes Safari 5.1.6. Full release notes: Resolve an issue in which the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled. Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards. Addresses permission issues that may be caused if you use the Get Info inspector function “Apply to enclosed...
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Revealed: The Backstory of Steve Jobs as FDR in Apple’s 1984 Promo Film

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| Media, News
May 9, 2012

You might recall last week a video surfaced on the web of an Apple promotional film that depicted Steve Jobs as U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from 1944. Now, Michael Markman reveals the backstory of how his early Apple project has made its way to YouTube on his blog. Markman was the creative director for Image Stream, an L.A. based AV company at the time. The WWII movie was created for the Apple International Sales Conference in the summer of 1984. Here is a snippet: I called Chris in L.A. to outline what we were thinking. War movie. Stock footagefrom the D-day landings. Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel hanging on the...
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Redsn0w Will Soon Support Downgrading Your Firmware for iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and iPad 3

by matt3224
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| iOS, News
May 9, 2012

In a recent Tweet, Musclenerd, of The iPhone Dev Team, announced that an upcoming version of Redsn0w will allow iOS users to downgrade their firmware, with saved SHSH blobs. This includes iPad 2, The New iPad, and iPhone 4S. This is pretty big news for jailbreakers. Previously, there was no way to downgrade to an earlier iOS 5. If you have SHSH blobs saved for a firmware earlier than iOS 5, you were in luck, but for newer devices that don’t support older firmwares, this was not possible. Musclenerd says this will work with A4 and A5 devices, so does this mean they have a working jailbreak ready to go for these newer...
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Why is Apple testing iOS-like banner notifications on the iCloud.com website?

by matt3224
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May 9, 2012

Apple introduced a new notification system in iOS 5 and has announced that a similar feature will be coming to the Mac in the Mountain Lion operating system this summer. It’s possible that Apple will include syncing code in iCloud to share notifications across devices, for calendar alerts and new mail, or the notifications may be used for some other purpose.
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