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Apple WWDC 2016 Dates Revealed
Every year in June, Apple hosts their WWDC event and this year is the same. During the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple usually announces new OS X, iOS and other OS revisions. After running from June 8 to 12, this year’s event will go from June 13 to 17. Interestingly, the first…
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Visual Studio Will Now Include Xamarin
Microsoft recently brought out Xamarin, software based on letting people create programs using C# and .NET operating systems which can then be ported to both iOS and Android. This meant that using the Microsoft based languages you could develop software for a variety of phones. It’s now been revealed that…
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Microsoft: Windows PCs ‘Do More’ Than Macs
The PC Vs Mac debate has been hotly discussed and analysed for what seems to be since the dawn of time. Over the years, there’s been various arguments which outlines the benefits and drawbacks of both systems which makes for an interesting topic. In the past, Mac users proclaimed Windows…
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Google Dropping Chrome Support for XP, Vista and OSX 10.8
Even when Microsoft dropped public support for Windows XP last year, many large organizations continued to pay for extended support. Not surprisingly, Google also continued to support Windows XP for their popular Chrome browser. That’s set to finally end though next year in April 2016; that marks the 2 year…
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Redditer Discovered Hidden Feature in iOS 9 and Mac OS X El Capitan
We got a lot of information out of what to expect from iOS 9 and El Capitan this fall at Apple’s WWDC in June. Even so, developers are said to be good at discovering Apple’s ‘hidden’ new features, but this time around, it seems that one of them, who I…
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How a Hacker Made $45,000 Selling 0Day Exploits to Hacking Team
We previously reported that Italian spyware company, Hacking Team, has been hacked and had 400 GB of data publicly released via torrent websites. Well, Arstechnica reportedly found how easy it was doing business with the latter company by digging through their emails. It seems that a Russian hacker approached the…
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Square Enix Pulls Plug on OS X Final Fantasy 14
Pulling game sales after a failed launch seems to be a more common occurrence. Square Enix has announced that they will be pulling the Mac version of Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn after a launch riddled with poor performance. In addition to stopping sales, Square Enix is facilitating refunds for customers…
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Apple Moves Closer to the Gaming Market
We know that Apple’s hardware, especially its OS X operating system, was not designed with gaming in mind. This is why gamers and developers alike chose Windows and its DirectX when it comes to graphics, but Apple seems to want a piece of the gaming market too and this was…
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Apple Takes a Radical Approach with its Swift Programming Language
Apple just announced something really radical today at its Worldwide Developer Conference. We all now how strict and closed the company is with its software and hardware, but it looks like things are about to change and we might see them before the end of this year. Craig Federighi, Apple’s…
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Carmageddon: Reincarnation Final Release Date Revealed
Stainless Games has announced that Carmageddon: Reincarnation, currently in Early Access on Steam, will have a full release on 23rd April. Reincarnation is the fourth entry in the Carmaggedon series and the first in nearly fifteen years, since the release of Carmageddon TDR 2000 back in December, 2000. Inspired by cult…
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Mac OS X and iOS More Vunerable than Windows and Linux, Surprised?
With the recent increase in sales of all things Apple, its once strong perception of being very secure is losing steam, especially thanks to the sale over notebooks and iPhones. In a recent report from GFI, both OS X and iOS are the leaders for vulnerabilities. Surprisingly all Windows distributions…
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Apple to Release Public Beta Builds of iOS
Beginning with iOS 8.3, Apple will start releasing public beta builds of its mobile operating system, according to Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac. Gurman’s report says that Apple will extend this policy to iOS 9 after its introduction at the 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple has already initiated a public beta…
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Entire Episode of Sitcom ‘Modern Family’ To Take Place on a Mac Desktop
An upcoming episode of ‘Modern Family’, the popular sitcom shown on ABC in the US and Sky in the UK, has been shot entirely on Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs. The episode takes place solely on the desktop of one of the shows characters, showing her attempts to get in touch…
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Apple Press Event Rumoured For Late February – Watch, Ultra Thin MacBook Air
A new rumour has surfaced that says Apple will be having a late February event. French site iGen says that the company will be introducing one of its most talked about unannounced products and one of its most talked about announced products – the 12 inch MacBook Air and of course the Apple…
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iTunes 12.1 Released With New Notification Center Widget
Apple has updated iTunes with a bunch of the usual fixes and tweaks, but also with one handy new feature. In OS X, iTunes users can now control music being played in the Notification Center – you can skip songs, pause, play and more. There’s also information about the particular…
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