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Apple Quietly Updates iWork.com Public Beta

Apple’s iWork.com service introduced at Macworld this year along with iWork ‘09 was down earlier today. The servers are now back up for service, and there seem to be a few new features to the seemingly-forgotten service! I believe that the domain http://www.iwork.com did nothing but redirect to the iWork product page prior to today, but [...]

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First impressions of the Dev. Build of Snow Leopard

Developers were seeded an update last week to the developers’ preview of Apple’s upcoming operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The update weighed in heavy with bug fixes and security updates, making the beta software that much more stable to use, so much so that it can now, in my opinion, be used [...]

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Windows 7 RC1 Available for Public Download

Microsoft has made available the Release Candidate 1 version of its next-gen operating system, Windows 7, earlier than promised, ahead of schedule. This RC1 release is meant to be vastly more stable than the previous public beta builds, Build 7000 and 7100. The interesting thing here, is that the RC1 is set to expire only [...]

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Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3

Apple has just released Build 7A280f of its iPhone OS 3.0 Beta, called Beta 3. Along with that, an accompanying new SDK was also released, sporting a number of changes to various components, including Xcode, Interface Builder, and Dashcode, and notes that applications targeting pre-OS 3.0 devices are unable to be tested on the latest beta. What’s [...]

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BumpTop 3D Desktop Comes Out of Beta

BumpTop, the uber-cool 3D real desktop rendering fun utility has just emerged from its long beta incubation period. From its website, BumpTop is promoted as a “fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better.” A free, but feature-limited version of BumpTop can be downloaded starting today. [...]

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QuickTime X Player on Snow Leopard Design?

“As expected, Apple overnight equipped its vast developer community with a new build of its upcoming Snow Leopard operating system that includes significant changes, such as a redesigned QuickTime Player.” (AppleInsider) This is Build 10A286 and includes QuickTime X Player, which features ”a new minimal user interface focused predominately on playback”. What can this possibly look like? It seems [...]

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Apple releases public beta of Safari 4 browser

Apple on Tuesday announced the public beta of Safari 4, which the company has billed “the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows PCs.” Download Here Dubbed “Nitro,” the engine in Safari 4 is said to run JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. Other new features include Top Sites, for a visual [...]

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