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Continuation patent points to Apple’s renewed interest in virtual keyboard technology for upcoming products

It looks like Apple is continuing its development work regarding a virtual keyboard technology. The company, which has filed for patents for virtual keyboards on MacBook notebooks as far back as 2009, has recently had a continuation patent application published today shows that the company is still exploring the idea. The virtual keyboard made headlines […]

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Apple buys German augmented reality firm Metaio, may be looking into extensive AR-related projects

I guess they had something Apple wanted. Earlier this month, Apple completed its acquisition of Metaio, a German augmented reality firm that first started life as a side project at Volkswagen, for an as-yet-unknown project. The acquisition was completed with a full transfer of shares from Metaio’s holdings to Apple. Metaio recently canceled its user […]

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Raise a virtual glass on St. Patrick’s Day with iBeer Free

First off, Happy St. Patrick’s Day from O’Grady’s PowerPage! I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to tie the holiday into a post, but then I ran across iBeer Free. I’m not sure this is the type of app that gets used on a regular basis, but it can be fun to pull out […]

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Apple and Bitcoin, oil and water?

One of my terrible regrets is that I didn’t hop on the Bitcoin train when I had the chance. I read about it, created an account, had one of my computers generate some coin (took forever), and decided it wasn’t worth my time to fart around with unrecognized virtual currency. If I had left that […]

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Parallels Desktop updated to 9.0.23140

You can’t knock a useful update. Parallels Desktop 9.0.23140 has gone out the door. The new version, a 373.9 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and new features: – Resolves a problem with virtual machines crashing accidentally while running on Macs with OS X 10.9 Mavericks. – Resolves a problem with the Parallels Desktop GUI […]