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It’s a bold pledge from Apple, but one that will pacify a number of environmental activist groups targeting Apple of late over the company’s purported irresponsible use of energies that aren’t as “clean” as some alternative choices.

Apple, however, said today that it now plans to power its main U.S. data center completely from renewable energy. This reality will come not in ten years from now or even five. Apple, incredibly, will achieve this outcome  [Read More...]

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Apple has pushed out another update to OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3, as the anticipated summer public release of OS X 10.8 nears. The new build is 12A206j and can be downloaded through the Mac App Store by any registered Mac developer running 12A193i or later of Mountain Lion.

The latest build includes noticeable changes to Notification Center, Notes, Share Sheets, and several other  [Read More...]

Zooey loves her iPhone, and men love Zooey.

Try to not fall out of your chair or trip face-first into the pavement, because we have some breaking news for you: men love Zooey Deschanel. We’re not quite sure why, but it probably has something to do with her drop-dead gorgeousness and delightful quirkiness. Her hair is also very nice.

Apple knows that Zooey Deschanel is wonderful too,  [Read More...]

Perian is a free Swiss-Army-Knife utility extension for Apple’s QuickTime application, which allows you to play all kinds of media files with QuickTime that QuickTime normally wouldn’t have the ability to play. Apple was very picky in selecting the compatibility for the kinds of media files QuickTime could play and this was the reason the open-source Perian extension was created. No one likes not being able to watch the video they just got because of file  [Read More...]

5by5 radio for iPhone

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The world’s best podcast network just launched an app. Now you can live stream podcasts direct to your iPhone from Dan Benjamin’s amazing 5by5 network using the new 5by5 Radio app.

 

5by5 is the home of John Gruber’s The Talk Show, Andy Ihnatko’s Ihnatko Almanac, John Siracusa’s Hypercritical and Marco Arment’s coffee-and-cars show Build and Analyze.

Using the $  [Read More...]

Although China tends to attract most of the Apple-related headlines across Asia, Japan is no small player in the iOS ecosystem. And we’re now beginning to see concrete data to back up this suspicion.

A new report from MM Research out of Asia today shows that iPhone sales topped seven million in 2011 across the nation of Japan. Those impressive figures translate to Apple being the country’s top smartphone vendor in 2011.

As MMi reported  [Read More...]

Many people I’ve talked to are anxious to try out the new features Apple has brought to OS X Mountain Lion. Unfortunately, Apple has only made the beta of Mountain Lion available to registered developers. In this video, I’ll show you how you can get the biggest features of Mountain Lion today, using only existing apps.

 

AirParrot can be found here.

You can download Messages beta here.

Source: Lifehacker

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To all of you A5 and A5X device owners out there, we admire your patience and nerves of steel as you wait for a way to downgrade your iOS devices and have a stable way to jailbreak without the fear of losing it forever after every jailbreak tweak you install. On the other hand, A4 devices have had a pretty stable way to downgrade and rejailbreak at their leisure.

The good news is, we all  [Read More...]

NETGEAR’s Genie App upgrade just made the mess that is AirPrint compatibility and Networked printing a lot less ugly.

The new Genie App upgrade allows users to print from any computer, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to any networked or USB printer on their home network. The AirPrint compatible printer restrictions iOS users have been forced to suffer through are no more.

NETGEAR Genie, available for both Mac and PC, is essentially a home network control  [Read More...]

Taking photos is a ton of fun, especially with our nearly ubiquitous iPhones or iPads. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen in the last month or so snapping pictures with the big tablet device. Looks silly, but makes sense.

How do you get them to your Mac, though? You could email them, one at a time, or you can connect the device to the Mac and grab them  [Read More...]