Apple announces 2012 Apple Design Award Winners

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On June 14, 2012

  After the WWDC Keynote on Monday, Apple announced its 2012 Apple Design Award winners during an afternoon session. As some might remember Apple began accepting award nominations in late April. This years winners received some neat prices, including: a special lanyard to commemorate the event, a new MacBook Air, a new third-generation iPad, an iPod touch, […]

Is your Mac ready for Mountain Lion?

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On June 13, 2012

With the release of Mountain Lion just around the corner, now would be the right time to check if your  Mac qualify for Mountain Lion? because some of the other systems won’t, here are the hardware models that will support Mountain Lion: iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) […]

Apple introduces Power Nap, updates your Mac while it's sleeping

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During the Keynote Apple introduced us to many neat new features of OS X Mountain Lion, perhaps one of the most interesting among these was the Power Nap feature. It lets your Mac update email, notifications and even photos in the background, as well as back itself up automatically while charging. According to sources this […]

Apple launches redesigned AirPort Express

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On June 12, 2012

Not everything made it into the WWDC keynote yesterday, however Apple did in fact launched an all-new version of its AirPort Express wireless base station . If you think the design looks familiar then it’s probably because it looks almost exactly like a white version of the Apple TV hang tags. Other than a new […]

Apple introduces iOS 6, Beta available now

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  During yesterdays WWDC Keynote Apple announced iOS 6 with more than 200 new features, most notably changes to Siri and Maps. Furthermore Scott Forstall presented some very interesting numbers for both iOS 5 and Apple’s mobile operating system platform in general. Check ’em out: 365 million iOS devices have been sold (through March 2012) since […]

OS X Mountain Lion Shipping Next Month For $20

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On June 11, 2012

Even though Apple first previewed Mountain Lion in February, it wasn’t until today during the WWDC Keynote that Apple announced that OS X Mountain Lion, will officially go on sale sometime in July for only $19.99 in the Mac App Store, anyone going back to SL can update at this price. Furthermore Apple announced that those who […]

Apple announces next-gen MacBook Pro with Retina display!

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Even though it really didn’t come much as a surprise, Apple has just announced a brand new MacBook Pro at the WWDC Keynote in San Francisco, and can we just say what a beast! The new notebook is 25% smaller than the current MacBook Pro, while not quite as tiny as a MacBook Air  it’s […]

11 Essential Mac Productivity, Design and Dev Tools for the Price of One

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Bundle Hunt is at it again with a super discounted pack of apps and resources. This time is focused on productivity. Hands down the best productivity bundle I’ve seen. I bought it for only three of the included items (LittleSnapper, Typinator and Picons, which them alone worth $150) and got a ton of goodies as a […]

Flurry Report: For every 7 iOS apps built, there are 3 for Android

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On June 8, 2012

Yesterday Flurry Analytics released a new report  that examines the developer interest in iOS and Android, they did this by measuring the downloads of Flurry’s tools for integrating analytics into apps. Flurry Analytics found that more than 18,000 developers downloaded the SDK tool during the first quarter of 2012, what’s more interesting is that iOS […]

WINNERS of Unity iOS Essentials book

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On June 7, 2012

In the middle of the month we teamed up with our friends from  Packt Publishing to give away three copies of an amazing book to three lucky Mobile Orchard readers. Scroll down to see the winners! Overview of Unity iOS Essentials:  Dive straight into game development with no previous Unity or iOS experience Add multiplayer, input controls, […]