“When visually impaired people gush over iPhones, they swear they aren’t just following the sighted onto the Apple bandwagon. The device isn’t simply the trendy choice for them. It’s pretty much the only choice,” Ben Wolford reports for The South Florida Sun Sentinel. “Out of the package, there’s nothing you need to see and no [...]
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Developer: OS X 10.8.1 Update significantly improves MacBook battery life
“When Apple released OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) back in July, one of the few things users complained about was its impact on MacBook battery life,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Mac. “The software seemingly contains a frustrating bug that causes some of Apple’s notebooks to lose around 38% of their normal charge.” “Apple [...]
~ read more ~Apple’s iPhone has passed a key security threshold
“In its efforts to make its devices more secure, Apple has crossed a significant threshold. Technologies the company has adopted protect Apple customers’ content so well that in many situations it’s impossible for law enforcement to perform forensic examinations of devices seized from criminals,” Simson Garfinkel reports for Technology Review. “Most significant is the increasing [...]
~ read more ~How to access your iCloud files from your Mac’s Finder
“iCloud documents are cached on your local machine so that you can open them even if you don’t have Internet access. The files can be accessed in the Finder in addition to the Apple application dialog boxes,” William Servator reports for OS X Hints. “You can access them at this location: ~/Library/Mobile Documents/“ MacDailyNews Note: [...]
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