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Apple announces OS X 10.11 El Capitan, plans for fall release

The torrent of news and announcements from this year’s WWDC keynote starts here. It starts with El Capitan. On Monday, Apple announced OS X 10.11 El Capitan, the next version of its operation system. The updated OS will feature new versions of multiple stock apps, including Safari, Mail and Notes, improved Spotlight search with natural […]

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Apple confirms existence of “Applebot” web crawler, says program indexes the Web for Siri, Spotlight

Sometimes it’s the Web traffic logs that really let you know what Apple is up to. Last fall, a number of webmasters began seeing web crawler visits from IP addresses starting with 17, an IP address block owned entirely by Apple. Apple has now officially confirmed in a support document that it is operating its […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.10.3 Update

This may be the update you’ve been hankering for. On Wednesday, Apple released its OS X 10.10.3 update. The update, which can be downloaded via the App Store, introduces Photos for OS X and adds the following fixes and changes: – Adds over 300 new Emoji characters. – Adds Spotlight suggestions to Look Up. – […]

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Apple releases iOS 8.1.3 update

It’s not a revolutionary update, but it could be useful. On Tuesday, Apple released its iOS 8.1.3 update for its iOS devices. The update, a 200+ megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes:

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Apple releases third OS X Yosemite golden master candidate to developer community

Yosemite is coming. It’s just going through a few more golden master candidates. Per MacRumors, Apple today released a third golden master candidate of OS X Yosemite to developers, just two days after releasing the second candidate golden master and the fifth public beta. The first golden master candidate was seeded to developers on September […]