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  • Choose between OS X or Windows for your next desktop
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    Choose between OS X or Windows for your next desktop

    So you’re planning on buying a new desktop ? Stuck with confusion to choose between OS X or Windows? We’ve decided to take a look at both of the operating systems so that you can decide what you’d want to buy. Interface Mac OS X Yosemite Apple unveiled its new version of Mac OS X…

  • Everything you need to know about OS X 10.10 Yosemite
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    Everything you need to know about OS X 10.10 Yosemite

    Apple announced OS X 10.10, the latest iteration to its desktop operating system at WWDC 2014. OS X 10.10 named Yosemite has been completely designed to a flat new UI like the iOS 7 design. The built-in apps have been refined with new enhanced features and looks entirely fresh. The bold new design is coupled…

  • Automate File Organization with Hazel for Mac OS X

    Automate File Organization with Hazel for Mac OS X

    Hazel is an app you should definitely try out if you are running OS X and a must have app if you are using a Macbook Air which comes only with a very limited drive size. If you open your downloads folder right now, you would be annoyed with the amount of unwanted files your…

  • Tiling Finder Windows in Mac OSX & macOS
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    Tiling Finder Windows in Mac OSX & macOS

    Tiling Finder Windows is a widely sought out feature by OSX / macOS users for the past few years. UPDATE MAY 2020: This works for older generation of OSX and the latest generation of Apple Mac Software – macOS Catalina 10.5 Mission control(formerly Expose) which is supposed to help you manage windows will not help…

  • OS X Mavericks Final Version Out For Free on Mac App Store
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    OS X Mavericks Final Version Out For Free on Mac App Store

    OS X Mavericks was announced all the way back at Worldwide Developers Conference 2013. Mavericks was announced to be available free download to those starting from OS X Snow Leopard and all the way to Mountain Lion. This update brings a few changes from the last year’s release of Mountain Lion.Mavericks 10.9 update include introduction…

  • Xcode 5.0 released with iOS 7 SDK and 64-bit compiler

    Xcode 5.0 released with iOS 7 SDK and 64-bit compiler

    Apple pushed out Xcode 5.0 in the Mac App Store amidst the release of iOS 7 worldwide for iDevices. The Xcode 5.0 included the iOS7 SDK and the 64-bit compiler. Xcode 5.0 Change Log • Includes SDKs for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and iOS 7. • LLVM compiler builds 64-bit apps for iOS 7.…

  • Apple Pushing Safari Push Notifications To Developers

    Apple Pushing Safari Push Notifications To Developers

    Apple has sent out email to developers titled “Get ready for Safari Push Notifications”, which included the above featured image and link to the Apple Developer portal which explained more about this notification feature. OS X Mavericks introduces a powerful new way to keep users engaged with your website. You can now use the Apple…

  • Dialogue: Mac App Review
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    Dialogue: Mac App Review

    One thing that was missing from my Mac was making and receiving Phone Calls. Whenever I was on my Mac, I had to reach out to my phone for Phone calls which affected my workflow at times. Dialogue is a new Mac app which solves that problem. You can connect your phone via bluetooth to…

  • DOTA 2 finally available for Mac and Linux
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    DOTA 2 finally available for Mac and Linux

    World’s biggest multiplayer game was Windows only for quite some time now. The company publishing DOTA 2, Valve released the game for Mac and Linux. Very recently, the game moved from beta. Still, you’ll need an invite to play the game which is pretty easy to get now. I tested it out on my Macbook…

  • How To Keep Mac Awake All The TIme
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    How To Keep Mac Awake All The TIme

    Want to download an enormous file but your Mac keeps going to sleep and not letting you do it? Well, all you have to do now is, not letting it go to sleep. It is as simple as it sounds! Just install any of these two amazing Utility Applications that allows you to precisely do…

  • Flutter – Control Your Media Magically
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    Flutter – Control Your Media Magically

    Sitting far away from your Mac and watching a movie or listening to music and want to seek without having to get up? Now, this is the part where Flutter by Bot Square Inc. fixes this. Magically. Mere hand gestures will do the trick! Used Where? Flutter can control most of the major media applications…

  • Blow Away Your Silence With Boom For Mac
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    Blow Away Your Silence With Boom For Mac

    Apple MacBooks continue to take center stage when it comes to speaker quality where it delivers some amazingly clear sound. Yet, people still find it falls a little short on loudness when they start watching a movie or a TV show and thats when have to really concentrate on some quiet passages. Some people even…

  • Everything Apple At WWDC 2013
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    Everything Apple At WWDC 2013

    If you’d watched the keynote, you’ll realise that the time was too short. Apple had so much up their sleeve that they had to brush through everything. Apple, as always started the Keynote with the updated company stats. 600 million iOS devices sold to date 24th WWDC(Longest running Developer conference ever) attendees from 66 countries…

  • OS X Mavericks Available for Developers
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    OS X Mavericks Available for Developers

    The next major version of Apple’s OS X 10.9 Mavericks was revealed for the first time on stage at WWDC 2013 keynote.  OS X Mavericks is the most powerful OS X ever and also the most power efficient. Your apps automatically benefit from energy saving technologies in OS X Mavericks, and new APIs help you make them even more…

  • iOS7 and Mac OS X 10.9 Banners At Moscone West
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    iOS7 and Mac OS X 10.9 Banners At Moscone West

    ‘Where a whole new world’s developing’ The banners put-up at Moscone Center for World Wide Developers Conference 2013, shows mother of god of minimal banners from Apple.The next generation iOS and OS X is expected to ride the wave. Two separate Banners : One showing “X” and the other with just “10.9” ? Could “X” be something…