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Apple begins selling $69 Mac OS X 10.7 USB thumb drive

If you don’t have a killer broadband connection, then this can’t hurt. Per AppleInsider, Apple is now selling the US$69 Mac OS X 10.7 USB install drive in its online store. Buying Lion on a physical medium from Apple’s online store carries a price more than twice that of the digital download. The drive ships […]

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Apple releases Lion Recovery Disk Assistant to function with external hard drives

If your Lion partition is being finicky, this might help. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Monday released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant software to enable users to create recovery partitions on external drives. Lion Recovery Disk Assistant expands Apple’s Recovery features in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to add support for creating a Recovery Disk on external […]

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Apple to officially end MobileMe sync for certain features in iCloud transition

Apple’s transition to the iCloud is coming and it won’t always be easy… Per AppleInsider, while many of the features of MobileMe are simply being upgraded in the move to iCloud, Apple has previously noted that Gallery, iDisk and iWeb are on the chopping block. Now, the company has further made it clear that data […]

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Russian police raid points to MacDefender scam

If you wanted to know who was responsible for all that MacDefender malware nonsense a few months ago, they might have something. After a raid on Russian payment giant Chronopay’s offices, authorities have found evidence linking the company to the MacDefender fake anti-virus scam that targeted Mac users. Per security expert Brian Krebs’ blog post, […]

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Forthcoming Microsoft Office 2011 update to add support for Mac OS X 10.7 feature base

The good news: Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) is out. The bad news: Not all of Microsoft’s products support all of the Mac OS X 10.7 feature base. Still, there may be hope on the horizon. Per the Office for Mac blog, Microsoft has revealed that a forthcoming update for Office for Mac 2011 will […]