Tag: Apple

  • Dropbox Hits 50 Million Users and Raises $250 Million

    Dropbox, the easy-to-use cloud storage that we all know and love, just reported that it has reached 50 million users, which is up threefold from this time last year. The company also reached a whopping $250 million in series B financing and expects to reach $240 million in revenue by the end of the year.…

  • A Steve Jobs Eulogy by a non-Fanboy

    I’m not an Apple fanboy. In fact, I rally against the Cupertino-based company and the lemmings that follow it blindly at every opportunity. I don’t own even one Apple product (although I do covet an iPad), I even avoid iTunes because the one time I did install it, it spread its tentacles deeply into my…

  • Official Facebook iPad App Is Finally Here

    Finally do we no longer have to keep asking Mark Zuckerberg when his iPad app will be hitting the public spectrum. After months of speculation, delays, sneak peeks, and even a dead giveaway, us iPad users finally have our Facebook. Unsurprisingly, it looks almost identical to the hidden iPad app that was included in the…

  • Apple Announces iPhone 4S, Adds Small Updates to iPod Line

    Apple announced yesterday a new addition to the iPhone family in the form of the iPhone 4S. While it’s not the iPhone 5 that everyone was expecting, the 4S does come packing with a healthy speed upgrade that’s complemented by iOS 5, as well as a few exclusive features. First off, Apple talked about the…

  • The True Genius Behind Apple’s Success…

    Apple is now the biggest, most successful technology company in the world, by revenue, profit, and market capitalization. How did it achieve this amazing feat and in such a short space of time? Is it one or two individuals who made all the difference? Or the products and how they’re presented to the public? Steve…

  • Apple Reigns As Largest Smartphone Manufacturer; Android Still Rules Mobile OS Marketshare

    It’s pretty impressive that a company that only sells one type of phone in a given year has grabbed the top spot of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer (it’s also pretty impressive that the same company has more cash than the U.S. government). Apple now owns 19.1 percent of the smartphone market share followed by…

  • Apple Updates MacBook Air and Mac Mini; OS X Lion Released

    Today is a big day for Apple. They’ve released updated versions of their MacBook Air and the Mac Mini along with finally unleashing the Mac OS X Lion into the Mac App Store. Their new MacBook Airs are now equipped with newer Sandy Bridge chips, Thunderbolt ports, and backlit keyboards. The 11-inch model includes a…

  • Back Up Your Google Docs, Reader, Calendar and Contacts with CloudPull for Mac

    Back Up Your Google Docs, Reader, Calendar and Contacts with CloudPull for Mac

    CloudPull is an app that will back up the contents of your Google Docs, Reader, Calendar, and Contacts, but is available exclusively to Apple users using Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7. Sorry, PCs. It’s available for a 30 day free trial, but costs $24.95 if you’d like to use it permanently. Once I logged in,…

  • The 5 Best Features Coming To Apple’s iOS5

    At Apple’s semi-recent keynote event, Steve Jobs announced a slew of new software and features that would be gracing his beloved ecosystem of Apple-powered devices. Most importantly, he outlined what we could expect from Mac OS X Lion, and the much-anticipated iOS 5. The latter software update comes with a ton of improvements that touch…

  • Midweek Fun! Test Your Puzzle Mettle In ‘The Heist’ For iOS

    What could possibly be better than buying a single high quality puzzle game for just $0.99? If you answered, “two high quality puzzle games for just $0.99,” you are in luck. However, there is a small catch. The good folks over at MacHeist have partnered with iOS developer tap tap tap to bring us The…