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MacBook Pro - All the reasons why you’ll love a Mac

MacBook Pro - All the reasons why you’ll love a Mac
Every new MacBook Pro comes with better-than-ever versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. So you can be creative and productive right from the start. You also get great apps for email, browsing the web, sending texts, making FaceTime calls — there’s even an app for finding new apps. Learn more

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Firefox 4 Beta 8 Arrives With Faster Graphics, Better Sync Mozilla has package-dropped the eighth beta release of Firefox 4. Originally intended as a quick update to fix some issues on beta 7, Firefox 4 beta 8 actually brings more than 1,400 bug fixes, some improvements to the new add-ons interface, better syncing and more hardware-accelerated WebGL support. There’s also a beta update for Android and Maemo mobile phones, which we’ll look at later. If you’d like to take Beta 8 for spin on your desktop, head over to the Mozilla beta-downloads page. It’s been a very long development cycle for Firefox 4 — the final version is still a couple of months out, because once the betas are done, Firefox 4 moves into the release-candidate stage.

Comparison Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro laptop line Thursday, and it's not just about speeds and feeds this time. With the addition of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor, AMD graphics, Facetime-enabled HD camera and a new high-speed Thunderbolt I/O port (reportedly 12 times faster than Firewire), this year's MacBook Pro update is a significant revamp. Let's take a closer look at what's new in the 2011 MacBook Pro: Mac Dev Center Downloads Xcode 5 This complete developer toolset for creating Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps includes the Xcode IDE, performance analysis tools, iOS Simulator, and the latest OS X and iOS SDKs. OS X Mavericks

Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC using VMware Many computer shoppers choose to buy a Mac not only to use OS X, but Windows as well. That is one strong advantage that Macs have in the Mac vs PC war. Apple computers are capable of running Windows, either through Bootcamp or virtual machines. So, why aren’t Windows PC’s capable of running OS X? Calendar One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Google Calendar Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account 8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study A group of British schoolchildren may be the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, 25 8- to 10-year-old children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns. “We discovered that bumblebees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from,” the students wrote in the paper’s abstract. “We also discovered that science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before.”

Forgot Mac Password? How to Reset Your Mac Password (with or without CD) - OS X Daily So you forgot your Mac password… uh oh. Don’t worry, it happens and you aren’t out of luck. You’ll need to reset the forgotten password and there’s several ways to do this, we’ll focus on the three best methods; the first is dirt simple and will utilize the Apple ID (yes, the same on you use for iTunes and App Store purchases), the second method is a hack of sorts and does not require a Mac OS X recovery drive or CD and is guaranteed to be effective, and the third trick is fairly simple but it requires either a Mac OS X DVD, boot disk, or Recovery mode partition to use. Use whichever method works for your situation, but whichever method you choose you will have your password reset and gain access to your stuff again. Resetting Lost Mac Passwords with Apple ID This is the best approach for Mac users running new versions of OS X (Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion) because it’s extremely fast and simple.

Events - WWDC Make memories under the San Francisco skyline with amazing music, new friends, and great food and drinks. Celebrate the year’s most innovative iOS apps and Mac apps, and the amazing developers behind them. See last year’s winners Feed your creativity and boost your inspiration with talks by industry experts and luminaries. Things can get a little wild in this friendly game of Apple Trivia. Go head-to-head against our very best.

Fresh Snow Leopard 10.6.4 Installation on VMware Player 3 - Intel, AMD PC This post is another part of Mac on Windows series. Here, we will see how to do a fresh Snow Leopard Installation on VMware Player ( Workstation too) under Windows 7. There are several methods posted in Sysprobs to import and run Mac OS X with pre installed VMware image, in case you don’t like to download those torrents but want to install from your original Mac DVD (Get your DVD here) or ISO image, then try this method. The method mentioned here is already covered in several blogs, but not with the all post installation steps such as working sound, changing display resolution screen size, Shared folders and more. So, I have decided to publish a complete guide with installation method and other post configurations you must do to make use of SL.

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