Daniel Ionescu:
Apple is not taking part in the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas but is present at the trade show through rip-offs of its products. From MacBook Air-inspired ultrabooks, to iPad-like tablets, smart TVs, and cloud computing technology, you will find clones of Apple’s product lineup at CES 2012—and this is just a taste of what’s coming up at the show this week.
If there is any doubt about how much influence Apple has in the industry, this should put it to rest.
You’re welcome Acer.
Acer came up with a good idea. Let’s put pics, documents and media in the cloud and make them available to all of your devices… oh wait, that’s called iCloud. No matter, we’ll just steal the idea and call it AcerCloud. Oh and to save time, we might as well steal Apple’s presentation slide too […]
Federico Viticci at MacStories
What’s interesting about this folder when used with two Macs under the same iCloud account is that it provides a basic “drop box” functionality for files that don’t necessarily belong to an iCloud-enabled app.
You knew it was hidden in there somewhere.
iCloud Siri, Snow Day
“Take Control of iCloud” covers every platform that iCloud supports, which includes Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion, iOS 5, Windows Vista and Windows 7, and even the second-generation Apple TV. If your computers and devices aren’t running — or can’t run — those operating systems, they won’t be able to participate in iCloud, but the ebook offers some workarounds.
A book written by Joe Kissell and offered by TidBITS founders Adam and Tonya Engst. In other words, it’s really good.
As usual Macworld has done an incredibly thorough job of looking at each aspect of Apple’s latest offerings. They have two series running today — one called “All About iCloud” and another called “Up Close with iOS 5.”
Apple on Wednesday released iPhoto 9.2 and Aperture 3.2, updates to its consumer and professional photo organizing software, respectively. Both updates supports compatibility with iCloud and iOS 5, according to Apple. iPhoto 9.2 also addresses minor stability, performance and compatibility issues, … Continued
Apple on Wednesday released iOS 5, a major (and free) update for the operating system used by its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. The new update contains over 200 new features, according to Apple – major changes to notifications, … Continued
FileMaker issued an advisory on Tuesday encouraging users of its Bento database software for Mac OS X to download the newest release, 4.0.6. The update is free for all Bento 4 users and is available for download from FileMaker’s Web … Continued
In addition to releasing iCloud storage prices on Monday, Apple also released a few images of what its Web services will look like. You can view them all on Apple’s Web site.
Apple on Monday updated its iCloud Web pages, detailing how much it will cost for users to purchase more storage on the service.
There are a lot of questions surrounding the transition to iCloud for existing MobileMe customers, so Apple posted an FAQ to let everyone know what’s going to happen.
HealthTeacher on Tuesday announced that Apple Senior Product Manager John Herbold will leave Apple and join their company.
Mike Abramsky, analyst with RBC Capital Markets, revealed on Monday the results of a new proprietary survey of 1,500 respondents conducted between June 7 and 14. The poll found that 76 percent of iPhone users said they are “very” or … Continued
When Apple introduced iCloud at last week’s Worldwide Developer Conference, there were no discussions about a Web-based interface for the service, which lead some to believe that there wouldn’t be one. I don’t believe this is the case.
Most of the fervor comes from an article written by Josh Topolsky, which is based on the keynote and what he confirmed with Apple PR. Getting around assumptions based on what Steve Jobs said or didn’t say at the keynote is easy. However, getting around confirmation from Apple PR is a little more difficult.
After announcing its iCloud service last week at WWDC, Apple was slapped with a lawsuit from Arizona-based iCloud Communications. Apple bought iCloud.com from Xcerion and has 11 applications registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Apple also owns the … Continued
Most of Apple’s new iCloud services won’t be ready for consumption until the fall, when iOS 5 is released. But if you’re anxious to try out the iTunes in the Cloud service, you can get a head start by downloading … Continued