Want to give your kids a gift of iTunes without having to keeping buying them cards on an ongoing basis or having to let them use your credit card? The answer is to give them an iTunes Allowance.
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Mac App store downloads surpass 100 million
December 13, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
There’s an app for that, really! Apple has just announced that In less than a year over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App store and that’s keeping their servers very busy.
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Apple iOS 5.0.1 update gets mixed welcome
November 14, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Apple has recently unveiled its first update to Apple iOS 5 since it rolled out the game changing new iOS a little over a month ago. The software update, version 5.0.1, contains a series of improvements and other bug fixes including:
– Bugs affecting battery life,
– Bugs affecting Documents in the Cloud,
– Improved voice recognition for users using dictation (Australia only),
– Adding multitasking gestures for iPad (original model).
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iPad 2 Gold History Edition a cool $8 Million
November 8, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
If you thought you just bought the top of the line iPad 2, you may just have to rethink that, unless you have the iPad 2 Gold History Edition. It’s uniquely handcrafted and designed by this elite luxury UK designer Stuart Hughes, who considers himself the pioneer of luxurious useful gadgets.
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GarageBand 1.1 now universal across all iOS devices
November 1, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Good news for GarageBand lovers. Apple has rolled out version 1.1 that features a number of welcomed enhancements, but best of all, GarageBand is now a universal app, which means that you can now run it on your compatible iPhone or iPod touch as well as your iPad.
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Apple quietly bumps up MacBook Pro performance
October 31, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Take a trip to Apple Canada’s on-line store. If you look very carefully, no it’s nothing spooky, but you’ll notice changes in the MacBook Pro line. No, it’s not the prices that have changed but rather the specs. And it’s good news. It looks like you’ll now get more bang for the same buck.
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Spooktacular apps, books and tunes for Halloween
October 29, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
It’s that spooky time of year again when you can use your iOS device to help yourself to some digitally delectable tricks and treats, but there are just way to many to cover them all in one post. So here’s just a sliver of some of the spooky and scary selections you can download to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch for this Halloween.
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Canoe Tech: Review Apple Magic Trackpad
October 25, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Why should only newer MacBook users with their new built-in track pad be able to take advantage of all the new multi-touch gestures available with Mac OS X Lion? Well then answer is, they shouldn’t and they don’t. Now anyone has those capabilities with Apple’s Magic Trackpad, the first multi-touch track pad available for Macintosh.
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People lined up overnight for iPhone 4S
October 14, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
The magic of the iPhone continues, as people like Misha Hlebnicov, 17, are still willing to line up over night to be one of the first to get their hand on the new iPhone 4S. Despite the critics who were disappointed that the new model was not an iPhone 5, pre-orders of over 1 million units in the first 24 hours seemed to tell the tale and the long queue at the Apple Store at Southgate Mall in Edmonton are proof positive that the iPhone 4S is yet another winner.
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iPhone 4S pre-orders will quiet critics
October 11, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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DMONTON, AB, Oct. 11, 2011/Troy Media/ – While Apple fanboys applauded the unveiling of the iPhone 4S last week at the Apple Fall event in Cupertino, California, some critics and analysts seemed underwhelmed with the successor of the iPhone 4. They saw it as soft, safe and mundane and somewhat of a disappointment, expecting a new radically design-changed Phone 5. And if there were going to be another iPhone 4, it would be a stripped down version of the current model, possibly for the prepaid phone market… READ MORE at TROYMEDIA
