This is kind of interesting. Per the United States Patent Trademark Office, Apple has applied for a patent in which a Smart Cover unit would take power from a connector on the side of the iPad to drive a flexible display in one of the cover segments for adding extra icons, controlling media playback, or […]
Month: August 2012
You know that mucho-spiffy new MacBook Pro with the Retina Display you’ve been saving up for? Now it’ll get to you in a shorter time frame. Per AppleInsider, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is now advertised to ship in 5 to 7 business days from Apple’s online store. Both the 2.3 gigahertz […]
On Thursday, Opera Software released version 12.01 of its web browser. The new version, a 26.9 megabyte download, boasts the following fixes and changes: Several general fixes and stability improvements: – Website thumbnail memory usage improvements. – Address bar inline auto-completion no longer prefers shortest domain. – Corrected an error that could occur after removing […]
Sometimes the store just closes. Per MacRumors, Apple finally brought an end the grace period that had allowed users to retrieve their Gallery photos and iDisk files from the iWork.com web site and to transition their accounts to iCloud following the June 30 shutdown of the service. As of today, visitors to MobileMe.com are no […]
It never hurts to have options. Per MacRumors, Apple’s base model MacBook Pro with Retina display can now be custom built with solid-state hard drives of 512 and 768 gigabytes. The new build-to-order configurations first appeared in Apple’s online store on Wednesday. Users who select the low-end 2.3-gigahertz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor can have […]