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Apple introduces Lightning to Micro USB adapter to North American customers

You can’t knock a useful adapter. Per AppleInsider, alongside the iPad mini, Apple on Friday introduced the Lightning to micro USB adapter, a tiny dongle first available in Europe, to the U.S. market. Initially built and released in tandem with the iPhone 5 in Europe to fulfill the European Commission’s regulation that all smartphones sold […]

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Dropbox 1.5.44 beta goes live, now available for download

Even the small updates make a difference. Over the weekend, Dropbox released a public beta of version 1.5.44 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 24.5 megabyte download, which adds the following fixes and changes: – Fix creating shared links for non-ASCII file names. – Fix some edge cases […]

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iFixit completes iPad mini teardown, finds Samsung LCD, similar design elements found in iPhone 5

There’s some cool stuff inside the iPad mini and the coolest-of-cats over at iFixit performed their usual teardown magic to find what said cool stuff was. Per the teardown, iFixit found the device has a large metal plate behind its screen held in place by 16 screws. Similar plates were found in the iPhone 5, […]

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iFixit tears down fourth-gen iPad, finds similar design, updated processor, components

The fourth-gen iPad is faster with a better camera and a Lightning connector, but it’s apparently still the same beast as the third-gen iPad. The cool cats at iFixit have completed a teardown of Apple’s new tablet and found that the tablet’s internal design has remained essentially untouched when compared to the previous iteration. Hours […]

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Apple releases iOS 6.1 beta, updated Xcode beta to developers, looks to improve iOS Maps application functionality

It’s time to sort out this iOS Maps snafu in a major way. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Thursday provided developers with a prerelease version of its forthcoming iOS 6.1 update, featuring improvements to its Maps application programming interface, and also issued a beta of Xcode 4.6. Both iOS 6.1 and Xcode 4.6 are now available […]