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Swifty app helps teach Swift programming basics on your iOS device

This qualifies as both useful and cool. Last summer, Apple surprised almost everyone at WWDC with the announcement of Swift, a new programming language for iOS and Mac development. The language feels like something Apple would invent. Like several of the languages currently popular in web development, it has a concise, readable syntax that’s easier […]

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Apple releases 11th OS X 10.8.3 build to developer community, pins down file bug

The betas, they just keep rolling in… Per The Mac Observer, Apple continued to extensively test the next maintenance update to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion with the release of the tenth prerelease build of 10.8.3 to developers Wednesday. The build, 12D65, arrives one week after the previous build, 12D61. The latest build of 10.8.3 […]

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Roxio releases revised Toast Titanium 11.1 update

This is a little awkward, but people make mistakes and that’s why pencils have erasers. On Friday, Roxio released a revised version of the Toast Titanium 11.1 update. Per the release notes, the new build (1067) fixed bugs that the previous build (1063) had introduced. The new build, a 92.8 megabyte download, offers the following […]

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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 […]

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Apple developing its own alternative to Flash via Gianduia

When in doubt, roll your own. As the multimedia wars continue between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, Apple is using Gianduia, a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps that it introduced World of WebObjects Developers Conference last summer, to create its own production quality apps. Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is […]