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OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive

August 18, 2011

Apple is now selling a thumb drive installer on the Apple online store (and perhaps in brick/mortar stores as well) for $69.00. The absence of a Lion install DVD has caused a bit of uproar (Lion, roar… never mind) with users who are concerned that if they need to reinstall their system, there’s no easy [...]

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New Security Update provides more malware protection for Snow Leopard

June 1, 2011

Security Update 2011-003 was released a couple of days ago to help protect against malware such as the Mac Defender trojan horse, and to help protect against future malware. Update! as of today (6/1/11), MacDefender developers have circumvented the detection ability of the current definitions. Browse carefully! More details on how the new security update [...]

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Apple patch against MacDefender coming soon

May 25, 2011

Apple issued a support document last night stating that it was going to issue a patch that will prevent the MacDefender trojan from reaching our Macs. I expect the patch to be available in the next few days, so please check Software Update (click the Apple menu in the menu bar, it’s the second item) [...]

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Apple changes return policy

February 9, 2011

Apple Store return policy eases up The Apple Store purchase policies web page spells out the new changes on this web page, but the short version is that for Apple products (iPhones have a different policy) may be returned within 14 calendar days of the purchase date. If the box is unopened, The Apple Store [...]

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Apple Inc. the world’s second most valuable company!

January 5, 2011

Jason O’Grady wrote in the Apple Core the other day, noting that with that day’s 7 point jump in Apple stock value, it became the second most valuable publicly traded company in the world, after ExxonMobil. The jump to $329.57 a share (I bought at 12 and sold at 59, thinking I was a genius) [...]

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Apple Announces…

October 20, 2010

Lots of new goodies announced by apple today, including a completely revised MacBook Air line, iLife ’11, and FaceTime (still in beta) allowing video chat between a Mac running FaceTime and an IOS device that is FaceTime capabable. MacBook Air 4 Models, 2 sizes comprise the new line, all with flash-storage, solid state internal drives [...]

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Apple, the record-breaking company

October 18, 2010

I bought my first hundred shares of Apple at about $29 a share, and sold around $90. Then the stock dropped down to $9 or so, and I bought at about $12, and sold at about $55. Good profits there, eh? Thing is, Apple stock has broken $300 recently, and has quarterly results that are [...]

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Apple now the third biggest US computer manufacturer

October 15, 2010

Computer sales in the United States have been pretty dismal the past three months. Except for Macs… The Quarterly PC Tracker Survey released by IDC this week, Apple shipped 1.99 million Macs domestically during the third quarter 2010. This amounts to 10.6 percent of the nearly 19 million PCs shipped in the US, and is [...]

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iPhones on Verizon for 2011?!

October 7, 2010

Updated 10.09.10: The Wall Street Journal now reports that Verison will have the iPhone next year. Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon Wireless will sell early next year, according to people familiar with the matter, ending an exclusive deal with AT&T and sharpening the competition with Google Inc.-based phones. Original [...]

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iTunes 10.0.1 released

September 27, 2010

Apple released iTunes 10.0.1 to fix a number of bugs in the original iTunes 10 release. The bugs include: Performance problem with visualizers Empty library or playslist problem Incompatibility with third-party shared libraries Video image quality changes related to on-screen control visibility unexpected quits when viewing album artwork in separate window The new release is [...]

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