Yearly Archives: 2012

Mountain Lion e-book

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MacStories is pleased to announce their first eBook, MacStories Features: OS X Mountain Lion, for $6.99. With a detailed review of Mountain Lion, numerous sections covering its new apps and features in depth, and 30% of its proceeds going to the American Cancer Society, MacStories Features: OS X Mountain Lion is a great way to learn about Mountain Lion, support MacStories, and fight cancer all at once.

Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion

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I flew to New York last week to meet with Apple executives and talk about Mountain Lion, the company’s next major version of OS X. I also picked up the final version of the operating system before it was released to the public and have been using it on a Retina MacBook Pro, doing my final evaluations.

There will be tens of thousands of words published on Wednesday when Mountain Lion hits the Mac App Store, but what you really want to know is whether Mountain Lion is worth the upgrade. Let’s get that out of the way now — yes, it is definitely worth it. […]

Apple reports $8.8 billion profit

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Apple on Tuesday reported a quarterly profit of $8.8 billion profit on $35 billion in revenue.

According to Apple, the company sold 26.0 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 28 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. It also sold 17.0 million iPads during the quarter, an 84 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. […]

Show me the money Android

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Matt Gemmell:

Piracy isn’t a symptom of social disease. Well, it might be, but your bank manager won’t care about that inconsequential detail. Piracy is a symptom of failure to find an effective business model.

So many good points in this article.

Carbon Copy Cloner v3.5

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One of the best backup applications for your Mac is Mike Bombich’s Carbon Copy Cloner, now up to version 3.5. The new release brings Mountain Lion support and has “transitioned” to a fully paid application – while Bombich worked for Apple, the software was donationware. Mike is no longer at Apple and he wants to get paid!

CCC creates automated, incremental and bootable backups and makes backing up simple and easy.

The new version costs $39.95 but is on sale for $29.96 for a limited time.

Igloo Software and a chance to win a free Heineken tap [Sponsor]

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Igloo Software is the best way to collaborate at work, whether you want to improve the way one team shares information or connect people and processes across your entire business. Think of it like an intranet you actually want to use. Igloo’s digital workplace is delivered in the cloud, so it works on any device – from iPhone to iPad to Mac – anywhere you are.

The Igloo team is always working to make their platform better. In fact, they update the platform every 90 days. Pearl, Igloo’s latest software update, instantly brings over 20 new features to every Igloo customer. Updates include social content archiving, support for multi-lingual content, instant translations of user generated content and social analytics.

Igloo for teams starts at just $99 a month for up to 25 users.

You can also sign-up to win a Krups Heineken tap of your very own.

Law firm sues Proview after iPad settlement

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Steven Sande: In a strangely humorous case of “what goes around comes around”, the law firm that helped Chinese manufacturer Proview win a US$60 million settlement against Apple for use of the trademark “iPad” in China is now suing Proview … Continued

The iOS in-app hack game is over

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By examining last apple’s statement about in-app purchases in iOS 6, I can say, that currently game is over. Currently we have no way to bypass updated APIs. It’s a good news for everyone, we have updated security in iOS, developers have their air-money.

Steve Jobs: Inspiration or a cautionary tale?

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Wired:

Jobs has been dead for nearly a year, but the biography about him is still a best seller. Indeed, his life story has emerged as an odd sort of holy scripture for entrepreneurs—a gospel and an antigospel at the same time.To some, Jobs’ life has revealed the importance of sticking firmly to one’s vision and goals, no matter the psychic toll on employees or business associates. To others, Jobs serves as a cautionary tale, a man who changed the world but at the price of alienating almost everyone around him.For those who, like Jobs, have pledged to “put a dent in the universe,” his thorny life story has forced a reckoning. Is it really worth being like Steve?

DOJ ignores public

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Peter Kafka:

The Department of Justice posted the settlement, invited public comment, and then ignored the public comment.

Why bother asking for public comments if you’re just going to ignore them anyway?