Apple opened its 31st UK Apple Retail Store earlier today. Located in the upper level of the Festival Shopping Centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the store’s first customers started queuing around 6:30am for its official 9.00am opening.
The ability to backup your media library to a CD or DVD has been an iTunes feature for as long as I can remember, but in the latest release of iTunes 10.4, Apple has removed this handy little tool.
In a move to enhance the level of service offered to its customers, British Airways are running a trial which involves equipping their cabin crew with iPads. Announced yesterday, the company believes Apple’s tablet can help them to give their passengers a “truly bespoke, personalised service”.
I’m a huge fan of the new-look Mail application that comes with OS X Lion, but just like many of Lion’s new features, I know some people hate it. For those of you who just can’t get used to the change in appearance, here’s a handy how-to guide on making the latest Mail application look more like the old Snow Leopard version.
The first public update to OS X Lion since its release on the 20th of July, is now available to download via Software Update. The update, which takes Lion to version 10.7.1, addresses a number of bugs, including one which caused some 2011 iMacs to freeze whilst playing videos in Safari.
The image above is the jacket design for the long-awaited Steve Jobs biography, set for release on the 21st of November this year. Revealed earlier today, the design was sent to Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt by the author of the book – Walter Isaacson.
Just as Apple promised on the day OS X Lion was released in the Mac App Store, you can now also purchase Lion on a USB Thumb Drive from the online Apple Store. The drive, which has the same design as the one that shipped with the 2010 MacBook Air, costs £55.00 ($69.00).
Earlier today Adobe released a beta web creation tool that allows graphic designers to design and publish HTML websites without having to write any code. Based on their cross-platform runtime environment (Adobe Air), the application, which has the temporary code name ‘Muse’, shares many of the features found in Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign.
With over 250 new features introduced with OS X Lion, it’s inevitable that some of the smaller ones get overlooked – the iTunes Artwork Screen Saver is a good example. Present in previous versions of the OS, you have always been able to use it to display your album covers, but the Lion version now also allows you to play your music.