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MacBook Air News Software

Apple releases SMC firmware updates, enables Power Nap feature for mid-2011, mid-2011 MacBook Air notebooks

At long last, your mid-2011 and mid-2012 MacBook Air notebooks will be able to nap. Per AppleInsider, a pair of firmware updates released by Apple on Wednesday enable the Power Nap in certain MacBook Air models that were promised the feature but found it missing when OS X Mountain Lion launched on Wednesday. Apple rolled […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on Mac App Store

You’ve been hankering for it. And it’s here. On Wednesday, Apple released its long-awaited OS X Mountain Lion upgrade through the Mac App Store. The download is 4.05GB, and retails for US$20. The software incorporates a number of apps previously exclusive to iOS, including Notes, Reminders, Game Center, and the Notification Center. It also more […]

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Apple posts official list of OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)-compatible Macs

If you qualify, you’ll try to high-five everyone you meet today and your friends will eventually want you to shut up about it. If you don’t, well, you can meet me down at the corner pub for happy hour… Per The Verge, Apple has posted a “How to Upgrade” page on its website that contains […]

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iCloud Rumor Software

iCloud beta web site points out web-based Notes, Reminders

This could be nifty. Per MacRumors, Apple’s iCloud Beta site on Monday was updated with web versions of the iOS apps Notes and Reminders and joins the two other beta-labeled additions to iCloud.com, Calendar and Find My iPhone. The web-based Notes is much like the iOS app seen in landscape mode on the iPad complete […]

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Apple to shut down iWork.com on July 31st, advises users to be ready

With MobileMe now shuttered, it’s time to move on to the other technologies due for retirement. Per AppleInsider, Apple’s next online service set to go dark is iWork.com, and the company sent out an e-mail on Monday reminding customers to download their documents by July 31. Come August, users will no longer be able to […]