OS X Lion, with more than 250 new features, arrives in the Mac App Store this morning for a $30 purchase fee.
Apple OS X Lion Roars Onto Mac App Store
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Voice of Objectivity: Who Needs Spotify?
Is Spotify really bringing anything to the table that we didn’t already have here in the US? It’s gotten a lot better media coverage than some of its competitors, but let’s see how it really matches up.
Opening The “Bag Of Hurt” With Blu-ray Discs And Mac OS X
Despite Apple Macs still not including Blu-ray disc capable drives and Steve Jobs’s famous statement from late 2008, claiming the technology amounted to a “bag of hurt”, OS X users are finding a growing number of options for using the media with their systems. For quite a while now, Blu-ray capable players and recorders have […]
The Walled Ecosystem
For the uninitiated to the “walled garden” metaphor, commonly used to refer to Apple’s App Store model, the idea is that a vendor creates only one channel for their service, effectively “fencing you in”. It’s not something sinister, but when Apple first floated it, the walled garden was a genuinely new paradigm. Prior to that, […]
Can HR Ever Be Techciting? ADP Hopes So
Odds are that by the time you read the words “Human Resources”, your attention has already moved elsewhere. However, despite the relative disinterest and disdain that some have for HR Departments, you can’t really ignore that HR is a billion dollar industry. For those with any sort of interest in the HR business, the name […]
Firefox 5 – What’s New And Is It Worth The Number Change?
Yesterday, the Mozilla Project folks began pushing Firefox 5 out as an automatic update to Firefox 4 users. The first thing that ran through my mind, and surely many others’ minds too, was “Huh? Why are they upgrading me to an entirely new release via their auto-updater?” Traditionally, if you ran Firefox, you would never […]
Thoughts on Mac OS X, the iCloud concept, and iOS
I just finished reading an editorial put out by ZDNet where the author expresses his opinion that Apple’s new “iCloud” announcement marks Apple’s attempt at making the PC take a back-seat to doing things over the Internet, without regard to which platform is used to make the connection. With the PC vs. Mac vs. Linux […]
WWDC 2011 is Today
Today is WWDC and Apple is supposed to be announcing Big Things (like more 10.7 “Lion” details, iCloud, and possibly the iPhone 5). While Techcitement can’t be there in person, we’ll be following several liveblog and posting our reactions to our Twitter feed, @techcitement (which you, of course, already follow).
Yes Virginia, There Are MacOS Viruses
There’s been a lot of recent talk about the virus MacDefender, a bit of clever Malware for MacOS that depends on the user installing it. There was a lot of “See, we told you so” from the pundits who have warned for ages that the wider adoption of MacOS would make it a bigger target […]