It seems Messages really is just a beta for Lion and will never see a production release on OS X 10.7, at least according to a bit of digging done by the French Mac-hounds over at Consomac. Continue reading »

It seems Apple’s pretty much destined to make Retina Display Macs at this point. There have been quite a few hints from apps and pre-release software depicting a “HiDPI” mode within OS X. Now the eagle-eyed MacRumors have found yet more evidence within Apple’s just released beta of Messages. Continue reading »

A report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Google has been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Safari users, by tracking the browsing habits of people, even if they thought they had blocked such monitoring. Continue reading »

OS X Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper is ideally meant to warn users about potentially malicious apps sitting around the web. That’s a good thing! But Gatekeeper could also be interpreted as Apple heavily discouraging less savvy users from installing non-Mac App Store apps entirely. It’s one step away from turning the current app freedom on the Mac into the app dictatorship of iOS. Continue reading »

Apple’s going full steam ahead with iOSification of OS X, even removing Mac from the name. It certainly seems to think iOS is the future. But things aren’t all totally hunky dory when in the land of iOS, as the iPad is facing fierce competition and Amazon’s biting just a bit according a new report. Continue reading »

The latest Mac OS X is now just OS X. The “Mac” is now gone. It’s a clear declaration of intentions. The end of Macintosh — the desktop metaphor that reigned supreme for more than two decades — is near. Continue reading »

OS X Mountain Lion looks like it’s going to add a bunch of neat stuff for Mac users. But some of you are going to be left out in the cold. Continue reading »

Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of new features to the table. It’s the future of instant messaging, for one thing, and probably more than a few other things as well. Continue reading »

AIM, Gchat, FaceTime, and iMessage — too many ways to communicate between too many different devices. Not anymore. The new Messages app — available as a beta from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion — fixes that. This is how our fingers will talk now. Continue reading »

Seemingly out of nowhere, Mountain Lion, the next version of the Apple’s OS X operating system, is formally in the works and will be on our computers later this summer. Most intriguing is that it will further blur the lines between iOS and OS X, bringing apps like Messages, Notes, and Reminders along with utilities such as Notification Center and — finally — AirPlay mirroring from your Mac. Continue reading »

Apple’s just rolled out a beta of their replacement for iChat, iMessages for Mac. Now you can message people across iPhones, iPads, iPods and Macs all from one unified messaging system – about time too. Continue reading »

Barclays has launched cross-platform smartphone app Barclays Pingit, which lets BlackBerry, iPhone and Android users transfer money to each other not by the modern NFC system, but by good, old-fashioned text messaging. Continue reading »

This is Bill Flora. He helped lead the team credited with designing Metro, the tile-based Windows Phone UI that will constitute the core of Windows 8′s interface on touch-screen devices. Flora is understandably proud of his creation, “It was fresh.” he told CNet, “It wasn’t Apple.” That’s good because apparently everything else on his desk is. Continue reading »

Go ahead and ask Siri what languages she speaks. Continue reading »

Oh Apple, as much as I love you—yes Phil, you know I do love you—you can really piss me off sometimes. No, I’m not talking about iOS’ serious privacy problem or the obnoxious nature of some of your Apple spokepeople. Continue reading »