Late last week, Apple made the session videos from WWDC 2011 available to registered developers. It currently costs £65 ($99) per year to join the iOS or Mac developer programs – if you don’t fancy paying that, but are curious to see the latest innovations in iOS and OS X you can also access the videos by joining the free Safari developer program.
Apple’s new ‘Back to School’ promotion launched last week, giving students the opportunity to bag a free $100 (£65) gift card when they purchase a new Mac for school. Not every Mac is eligible, however, and you can’t spend that $100 everywhere – here’s our guide of everything you need to know about Apple’s new Back to School promotion for 2011.
A couple of days ago I received a promo code that allowed me to download an iPhone App for free, but I must admit that having never had one before I wasn’t sure where to enter it. I suspect I’m not alone in this so thought it would be a good idea to write a quick post explaining what you need to do.
Sounds obvious doesn’t it? But it’s easy to forget that each time you download a podcast in iTunes those files take up space on your hard drive, and with some video podcasts you could be talking around 300 MB per show!
Whether you own an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Cinema Display or any Mac with a built-in screen, you will want to show off that bright, crisp, glossy display to it’s fullest with a decent wallpaper. While there are many sites claiming to offer the best wallpapers, there’s only one site that I keep returning to – InterfaceLIFT.
That’s the question I just asked over on twitter, prompted by the fact that my 2006 iMac is starting to feel a little sluggish. It already has 3GB RAM installed, which according to Apple is the maximum supported. But sometimes you can install and use more than what is officially supported.
When I first had the idea to create this post I thought it would be fairly straightforward. I was wrong. After about three hours of browsing hundreds of Apple inspired creations I had a not-so shortlist of about 50 wallpapers.
Having bought two refurbished Macs myself – a MacBook Pro, and more recently an 11″ MacBook Air I would absolutely recommend anyone in the market for a new Mac to consider it. In both cases the Macs were in perfect condition, no scratches or dents, and my main concern – no dead or stuck pixels. I’ve also read many forum posts from other people who have had the same positive experience.