It doesn't, as near as I can tell. So what's all the fuss about?

Over the last couple of days, a group of iOS developers has been targeted with a series of rapid-fire texts sent over Apple’s iMessage system. The messages, likely transmitted via the OS X Messages app using a simple AppleScript, rapidly fill up the Messages app on iOS or the Mac with text, forcing a user to constantly clear both notifications and messages.

Apple has updated its Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor applications, coinciding with the launch of a new campaign to bring former Final Cut Pro users back to the software. Final Cut Pro X now supports Sony’s XAVC codec up to 4K resolution, along with ProRes Logic C from ARRI ALEXA cameras. There have been a number of other tweaks and fixes. Motion and Compressor have also had numerous bugs fixed.

At many keynotes Steve said: “This is why we do what we do”. And that day he was willing to let my friend be touched by what we do, even though it didn’t follow the rules. At that time in my career at Apple I was wondering about the heart of the company. This little interaction lifted my spirits greatly.

Apple Inc has come under criticism from a Chinese marketplace regulator, which called for stronger supervision of the iPhone-maker's consumer policies within the country, according to state-run media.

If you want an easy-to-use bare bones note-taking and task list app, go for it. The few quirks in the app can be avoided with some common sense. It's fun to use and just gets out of the way so you can do what you need to do.

So when I say that there are two iClouds, I mean that there are two iClouds. One of them is used heavily inside Cupertino for its own services and the other is offered as a developer API and used only selectively for Apple’s own apps. I’m not here to say whether that’s right or wrong or fair or not or whatever, those are just the facts.

And, once you dig in, iCloud for developers is far less a completely holistic solution and much more of a loose bundle of networking protocols and systems that are unified in name only. It involves so many departments and teams inside Apple that it makes for a very fragile system. If a bug crops up it could involve teams working on the OS X or iOS file system, networking, frameworks or a host of others. This makes issues hard to diagnose and even harder to fix.

Here’s the thing: half the mobile revolution is about designing and building apps for smartphones and tablets.

The other half is about writing the web services that power those apps.

How comfortable are you with outsourcing half your app to another company? The answer should be: not at all comfortable.

Ground truth refers to collecting mapping data locally rather than by satellite imagery or other remote means. We heard about Apple retail employees being asked to help improve Maps back in October. This, however, points to teams of people dedicated to mapping improvements.

The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad has just received an update that adds quicker message handling functionality and a new action bar for moving, deleting, and archiving mail. Among these new features, there are also bug fixes and overall performance enhancements.

Everyone needs a great text editor—for those times when you need to clean up funky characters in a big text file downloaded from the Web, remove duplicates in a list, or make a particular change to a bunch of files at once. When such text-manipulation jobs land on your desk, you can make short work of them with Bare Bone Software’s TextWrangler. Even better, this powerful tool is free from either the Mac App Store or the Bare Bones website.

OS X does not include many options for managing accounts and passwords, but you can do so with the free Workgroup Manager tool from Apple.

Nearly two years later, customers demand iCloud integration more than ever from third-party developers, but it’s a total mess to implement. "iCloud hasn’t worked out for us," wrote Daniel Pasco, CEO of development studio Black Pixel this past week. "We spent a considerable amount of time on this effort, but iCloud and Core Data syncing had issues that we simply could not resolve." Pocket lead developer Steve Streza piled on with a cutting tweet: "Remember that @blackpixel has many of the brightest people in Cocoa development. If they couldn’t get iCloud working, who can?"

Ridiculous Fishing is the kind of game you play on the subway, on the train, on a curb corner as you wait for a friend—it's simple, satisfying and ruthlessly intent on convincing you that just one more turn will not jeopardize your sleep.

Black Pixel’s Kaleidoscope 2 takes the ability to compare two files kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century, extending it beyond text to encompass images and the filesystem itself.

Though it can be difficult to predict government behavior based on news coverage in China's state-run media, analysts said the string of attacks suggested that the government is considering doing more to encourage the growth of domestic smartphone companies and eat away at dominant foreign companies, such as Apple.

If you’re worried about securing your private information, Cloak can help you guarantee your privacy on public WiFi networks.

After seventeen releases and more than twenty years of cross-platform development, EndNote has established itself as the de facto software for reference management.

If you need to prevent a specific file type in OS X from opening a handling application, you can do so through several means.

I’m going to briefly review 3 of the most popular iPhone clients: Netbot, Felix, and Riposte. You can’t really go wrong with any of these three apps. And if you’re looking for a Mac client, my current favorite is Kiwi.

Quicksilver still has the same core feature set the app has always had: it allows users to quickly launch applications and open files with just a few keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures (called "triggers" in Quicksilver-ese). The pitch for the app is very simple, but its extensive customization features and plugin library allow it to hook into many popular OS X apps, saving you the trouble of having to use your mouse to drag around and interact with the operating system. These plugins are another key focus for version 1.0.0, and the Quicksilver developers hope to be able to attract them back to the ecosystem.

Apple's iPad is a revolutionary device, yes. But Japan has embraced it in unusual ways.

What Audiobus brings to the table is the ability for compatible apps to communicate with one another, much as PC and Mac audio applications have been able to do for years. In this case you can designate up to three apps as an audio source—two synthesizer apps and a drum machine, for example—plus another that can apply effects to the sound emanating from the source app, and an output app that is most often used for recording the combined results of the input and effects apps. With this update, GarageBand becomes a compatible output destination.

Basically, Doable help you do tasks that you have or want to perform regularly, but not necessarily at a specific time. Like cleaning the toilet or reading a few pages from a book, for example.

Apple has acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up.

What should happen in a process like this is that each step can only be performed once all of the steps before it have successfully been completed. The security hole was a result of this not being properly enforced in Apple’s password reset process.

Apple’s iForgot password reset page is now back online, and iMore has verified that the security hole, discovered earlier today in Apple’s password reset page, has been closed.

Mr King, who is Apple's vice-president for Australia, New Zealand and south Asia, said the price of movies, music and TV shows on iTunes was ''based on the wholesale prices which are set through negotiated contracts with the record labels, movie studios and TV networks''.

''In Australia, they have often set a higher wholesale price than the price of similar content in the United States.''

I am far more likely to believe in and use products that are the main focus of the company behind them.

Apple has started to add labels to all fermium apps in the App Store. As of now, these labels are only viewable on the desktop version of the iTunes Store but should soon rollout to mobile users in the iOS applications as well. Shoppers can view these labels directly under the purchase button on the app’s information page. The label simply states that the app ”Offers In-App Purchases.”

Apple yesterday rolled out two-step verification, a security measure that promises to further shield Apple ID and iCloud accounts from being hijacked. Unfortunately, today a new exploit has been discovered that affects all customers who haven't yet enabled the new feature. It allows anyone with your email address and date of birth to reset your password — using Apple's own tools.

Why might you use an iPad or iPhone when you’re already sitting in front of your Mac? I sometimes use my iPad for Twitter or sending quick emails while I’m doing “real” work on my Mac, and I know more than a few people who perform particular tasks—sending SMS messages, adding notes to Evernote, typing entries in Day One, browsing Facebook, using Drafts—only on their iPhone or iPad. Maybe you’ve got a Yahoo Mail account and you prefer iOS Mail to Yahoo’s Web interface; similarly, as TidBits’s Adam Engst pointed out, there are some iPhone-only apps that you may want to use a real keyboard with.

Playlists (called Stations) have been added, iCloud syncing has been implemented to ensure synchronization between devices (and with iTunes on your computer), and the Now Playing screen is a single unit that blessedly lacks the tape-deck interface. Let’s look at these highlights.

Whether you work as a graphic designer, photographer or web developer – ensuring your Mac’s display is accurately representing colours can be the difference between the perfect edit and something that looks washed out! In this tutorial, we’ll explain why your display should be calibrated and the methods to do this.

Outlines are very good for brainstorming, tracking complex ideas and projects, and this is one of only a few outline apps that runs Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

On Thursday, Apple informed iOS App developers that as of May 1, the App Store will stop accepting new apps or app updates that access a device's unique identifier or fail to support Retina devices and the iPhone 5.

Users need to be less trusting of specific products, services, and companies having too much power over their technical lives, jobs, and workflows.

Always have one foot out the door. Be ready to go.

Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development?

Despite its aging look, there’s a tremendous amount of gameplay to be had in RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum, and it’s safe fun for the entire family.

Podcasts 1.2 allows users to create custom stations of their favorite podcasts that update automatically with new episodes and choose whether the stations begin playing with the newest or oldest unplayed episode. Those stations are stored in iCloud, so they're synced across all devices.

Apple now uses only renewable energy sources for all of its data centers, the company reported in an update to its environmental commitments Wednesday. A 100-acre solar farm erected next to its largest data center in Maiden, North Carolina, in addition to fuel cells that convert biogas into energy, contribute 60 percent of the data center’s energy resources, with the balance sourced from other local sites.

Today, Apple has rolled out a new two-step verification service for iCloud and Apple ID users. This functionality greatly enhances the security of Apple accounts because it requires users to use a trusted device and an extra security code.

Think of Rego as a virtual scrapbook for your favorite places. In addition to dropping pins on the map, you can also attach “moments” in the form of notes and photos to the places you add in Rego.

Spring comes with its own rituals. Here at Macworld, we like to throw open the windows, beat the dust out of the rugs, and straighten up our Mac desktops. Don’t stop at cleaning your home this season—these tips from our editors will help you keep your Mac fresh and organized, too.

Beautifully crafted and unflinchingly unique, Capsized+ is a marvelously quirky shooter adventure worth getting lost in.

Another iPhone lock screen bypass bug has been discovered and this one affects the latest version of iOS: 6.1.3. This version was just released and contained a fix for vulnerabilities that allowed users to skip over the lock pin to access some content.

Audiobus is a $10 third-party utility for iOS that lets users pipe audio between apps. That way you can, for example, combine audio from a drum machine app with audio from a synthesizer app.

The solution is to force the sensor to do its job. The safest way to do that is to simply run a jack in and out of the port a few times. Much of the time, this takes care of the problem by correctly tripping the sensor. If that doesn’t work, there may be gunk in the port. Before turning to more invasive techniques, get a can of compressed air, attach the small tube that fits the nozzle, and blast a few shots of air into the port. With any luck, that should dislodge the gunk and the port will operate as it should.

You can explore this world by running with the A-W-S-D keys, and you can punch the ground with a left-click. Everything else is a bit of a mystery, but as soon as you place your first block with a right-click as you build your home, you'll realize the enormous opportunities that Minecraft offers you.

If your Mac continually wakes up after you have put it to sleep, then the system can help identify the potential causes in its system logs.

Apple on Tuesday released iOS 6.1.3, a minor update to the operating system that powers iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. Included in the update is a fix for a recently discovered means of breaking past the lock screen, along with Maps improvements for Japan.

Version 6.0 of the PDFpen software features a new option to export documents to Microsoft Word format. The app has also been optimized for high-definition Retina displays, and features a new toolbar for easier access to editing tools.

Mountain Lion’s Spaces can make your work more efficient and productive by letting you set up virtual desktops, each one clean and tidy, so that you can focus on what you want and not be distracted by windows from other apps.

The data show diversity in Silicon Valley remains a serious issue. Some companies cite a "pipeline problem," saying too few minorities and women are graduating with technical degrees. Others argue that people tend to hire people like themselves, and in tech, that's largely white and Asian males.

But the biggest obstacle, according to industry experts, is that few are talking about the problem.

The new subscription model would apply to new users, Koum said, and would likely follow the same pricing structure as its other apps, which are free for the first year and then cost $1/year, compared to the single, for-life $0.99 purchase that users make on iOS today.

Some programs may not launch completely after you have upgraded to OS X 10.8.3. Here is how to fix the problem.

In the currently shipping version, Firefox ships with many options that will render the browser unusable to most people, right in the main settings ui.

Bechtel’s complex international operations demand powerful, flexible project management tools and support systems. iPad and an array of custom-built and third-party apps connect workers with essential information that helps them meet the company’s exacting efficiency, quality, and safety standards worldwide.

Siri Dictation isn't integrated directly with iBooks, but you can switch it on via the Accessibility settings.

Apple's Australian stores will now fix faulty iPhones, iPads and Macs under warranty if they were purchased in the past two years - but don't expect the company's staff to tell you about it.

If CCTV's marketing department is indeed playing hardball and Apple flinches, Chinese consumers could soon see a wave of Apple advertisements on state television. Alternatively, Apple could stand firm against the accusations. That would risk further backlash, but Apple may calculate that the PR setback and concomitant online venting are more smoke than fire.

Autocorrect is a boon from the computer gods for anyone engaged in tiny-screen typing, but it's also the bane of every iPhone and iPad user’s existence. You can accept the gift and avoid the grief by paying attention to a few details.

The reason we have taken this action is that the current version available in the Mac App Store, Scrivener 2.4, will not install or run on OS X 10.6 and Apple will not allow us to release a bug-fix for this problem in a timely manner.

Mr. Brichter was the first developer to create or help popularize app features such as pulling on a touch screen to refresh a page, panels that slide out from the side of a screen and the "cell swipe," which is swiping to uncover a list of hidden buttons.

Those actions are now standard features in many popular apps, becoming part of the daily routines of millions of people. The "pull-to-refresh" feature, which Mr. Brichter built in 2009, is woven in software such as an app made by content-sharing site Pinterest Inc. and the mail app from Apple Inc.

ushed allows users to obtain as many disposable phone numbers as they want without the need for a 'burner' phone or multiple devices.

Papers rests near the top of its software category when it comes to its integrated Web repository search, elegant citations, and inviting interface. Some striking omissions—a temperamental social network, un-social integration with other document managers, and non-existent cloud backup—place it somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Forty years on, it's a fantastic-sounding recreation of the first popular analog synthesiser and a clear Editors' Choice.

Apple has updated OS X to patch more than a dozen security flaws, including one that allowed attackers to exploit Web-based Java flaws even when end users had disabled the widely abused browser plugin.

On Thursday, Apple shipped Security Update 2013-001, which patched 11 vulnerabilities in the client and server versions of OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard.

Dropbox writes that the Mailbox team’s “calling was the same as ours at Dropbox—to solve life’s hidden problems and reimagine the things we do every day. We all quickly realized that together we could save millions of people a lot of pain.”

After the import had apparently completed, a message popped up stating that the original photos were being deleted from the iPhone. During this process, iPhoto crashed.

Unstuck walks you through the experience of being stuck in a five-step process, from feelings and emotions, to effects, thoughts and actions.

Apple's Preview program offers a couple of options to collect scanned documents into one file.

OS X does not provide a way to monitor XProtect updates, but you can set up a custom script to do so.

Even if you don’t use an RSS reader, you still use RSS.

Alfred’s Workflows are a lot like that built-in Mac feature, allowing you to create powerful, multipart processes that can do everything from offering live search result suggestions from a website to showing you your local weather forecast.

Apple says the browser update improves scrolling on Facebook.com, along with scrolling anywhere while zoomed-in. Performance on pages with plug-in content is improved as well. Various issues related to bookmarks are fixed, and an issue that allowed unfiltered Google search results when Parental Controls are enabled.

While Freeway is a flexible tool, its utility is undermined by some rough edges and an interface rooted squarely in the Mac’s past.

10000000 doesn't have to be for everyone, but it is for anyone looking for an oddly addictive, clever experience on the iPhone.

Apple has quietly updated its online store to allow orders of its 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs with VESA adapters, making it compatible with your existing wall or desk mount for an additional $40.

With the new PayPal Here for iPad app and the triangular reader that connects to your device’s headphone jack, you can now use your iPad as a point-of-sale solution.

When hard-drive disaster strikes, you need to start up your Mac from another drive to repair it. In days gone by, you would typically boot from the install CD or DVD that came with your Mac (assuming you could recall where you stashed it) and run Apple’s Disk Utility from there. But today’s Macs no longer ship with any optical disc—heck, most Macs ship without any optical drive. So what do you do instead? Your best bet is to prepare ahead.

Seismic shifts are taking place in how investors view two of the biggest names in technology.

Quickly recording your thoughts or adding notes in Evernote just got a lot easier for Mac users. Now you can enter text or drag files straight onto the Quick Note pane in the menu bar.

If you need to get a structured list of the directories in a folder, TextWrangler can do that.

Microsoft has released Office 2011 14.3.2 and Office 2008 12.3.6, both of which address a security vulnerability that could “allow information disclosure if a user opens a specially crafted email message.”

In this first installment of FlippedBITS, I want to look at what happens when you boot your Mac from a duplicate (or “clone”) of your startup disk. In doing so, I hope to clear up several common points of confusion, particularly regarding ongoing backups and syncing other types of data.

Rightfully praised as a great game when it came out, it’s lost none of its charm nor challenge as graphics have improved, and gives you a better grip on the story and main character that get fully fleshed out in the later games.

So, why do Apple’s rivals help make iPhones and iPads more versatile when Apple doesn’t return the favor?

According to French labor laws, companies can only require employees to work between the hours of 9PM and 6AM if they prove that doing so is necessary to maintain economic activity or to provide social services. The Apple Stores in question — including the outlet at l'Opéra in Paris — all officially close their doors at 9PM, but employees are often required to stay as late as 11PM in order to shut down and clean the facilities.

Auto Layout is pretty new, and I don’t claim to be an expert, but I personally found the following discoveries useful.

Rather than the somewhat static menu of updates past, Dropbox now features a live timeline of updates to your Dropbox, including sharing requests from other users. Think of it as a mini Notification Center, just for your Dropbox.

New family of Mac malware masqueraded as printer software.

If this is sounding a lot like a phishing attempt, which requires an action on the part of a user in order to infect or grant access to a hacker, then you’re on the right track. This is not a ‘drive by’ attack that can be accomplished just by visiting a website.

Only you can say whether the extra features in apps like Drive Genius and TechTool Pro are worth the cost. As for me, I no longer feel I need all these utilities, but I’ll need a few more problem-free years under my belt before deciding I can give up DiskWarrior.

It's lightweight, highly customizable, and makes navigating feeds a snap. It's made for the hardcore Web reader, but anyone who reads online will find it a useful app, despite a few niggles.

The inability to boot into Safe Mode may happen because the system is configured with encryption or other security settings that prevent booting to such modes, because of nuances with how wireless keyboards pass boot arguments to the system, or because of errors in the file system.

Based "on feedback from our customers who asked for additional flexibility," the company says the changes allow customers who have already purchased, or newly purchase, the WinOffice 2013 or MacOffice 2011 suites to transfer the software from one computer to another, effective immediately, says Microsoft. For the last several months, users were previously able to install on one computer, but not transfer to another.

What made me a Mac geek from the start, and not just a guy with a Mac, was that I dove right in and started exploring, tinkering, and learning.

Clearly, the role of government is not to run commercial enterprises, but to spark innovation in strategic areas. But given ever-tighter public budgets, unless an innovation fund can be regularly replenished with some returns from the successes, innovation itself is under threat.

If you don’t need perfection, both Siri and Google Now are decent assistants, especially considering that typing on small touch-screen keyboards can be frustrating.

With the OS X printer configuration, you can impose limits on which accounts are allowed to print to specific printers on your system.

Apple has finally fixed a security flaw in its application store that for years has allowed attackers to steal passwords and install unwanted or extremely expensive applications.

The flaw arose because Apple neglected to use encryption when an iPhone or other mobile device tries to connect to the App Store, meaning an attacker can hijack the connection. In addition to a security flaw, the unencrypted connections also created a privacy vulnerability because the complete list of applications installed on the device are disclosed over Wi-Fi.

We were in three separate cars, each with a different navigation system, and we had several places to stop, including 1 Infinite Loop at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino.

Looking for the way to join tracks when you rip CDs with iTunes 11? Need to know how to get tracks into playlists quickly? What about iTunes Store device limits and gifting apps? All this and more in this week’s column.

Over the course of more than 200 repairs for the wearied and panicked tides that crashed the tech shop window, I figured that there were three incredibly common Mac problems that you can easily fix yourself or at least limit the damage.

The threats are out there, but there are ways to keep yourself safe.

But once you understand the different “kinds” of sounds, the interaction between software settings and the volume buttons, and how context overrides the default course of events, you’ll have better control over your device's volume.

Using your location, the app can provide notifications for “your interests” such as Food, Drinks & Fun, Museums, Deals, and more. The app uses various data providers, including their own Zagat, to provide information about places to the user.

Apps may be creating new jobs for developers and marketers. But around the edges of the rest of the economy, they're also starting to become a substitute for people who earn a paycheck.

Businesses often say their main goal in developing smartphone applications is to make things easier for customers and to build brand loyalty. Yet they're finding it doesn't take much effort to turn the smartphones carried by most Americans into payment terminals or data-entry forms.

Apple, aware that its mobile device would likely be taken to (and lost in) all sorts of public places, baked security right into its hardware, creating a subtle interplay of technologies in which passcodes play a small but crucial role.

If you're looking for a to-do list app, Things is not for you. But if you're in need of powerhouse task management system that supports detailed projects, tags, categories, and more, Things may be exactly what you need.

Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded. Millions of grade school and university students worldwide are using iPads to visualize difficult concepts, revisit lectures on their own time and augment lessons with videos, interactive widgets and animations.

Want to fix a color or change the position of a view? I like doing it the way I solve every other problem: I code it.

It'll take a little bit of effort to set up but once you're done, none of your apps, music, tv shows, and movies will be intertwined nor require you to authorize all accounts in the same iTunes library. Here's how.

If you find programs are missing from Apple's Launchpad, there are a couple of ways to restore them.

Whether you were hacked, phished, had malware installed or just don’t know what the heck happened but there’s somebody all up in your e-mail, here are a few good first steps to take following an incident. This is by no means comprehensive, but it’s a good start.

Until Apple is prepared to take the blinkers off and provide access to a wider variety of apps and services the AppleTV only has limited appeal for users outside the US.

It’s got solid battery life for its class, it’s got all of the inputs most people will ever use, and it’s got powerful guts which just got stronger courtesy of Apple’s February 2013 update. Of course, there are quite a few laptops out there which have these features. But what those laptops don’t have is the superlative high-resolution display which the MacBook Pro with Retina Display has, and which will change your view of how good laptop displays can be forever. Coupled with Apple’s trademark build quality, this makes this model top of the class.

A hidden option in the OS X print system may allow you to toggle the option to clean your printer's heads.

Ferrari, which today unveiled the 1 million euro hybrid model “LaFerrari,” is in talks with Apple about broadening a partnership on in-car entertainment, Di Montezemolo said today at the Geneva motor show. The new four-seater Ferrari model includes mini i-Pads on the passenger seats. Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president overseeing online services, joined the Ferrari board last year.

From reminding you to perform a task, to sending meeting invitations, to keeping track of book recommendations—Siri proves to be surprisingly helpful for taking care of everyday things. Here’s an assortment of tasks to get done with Siri.

There is a workaround you can use that will allow you to capture any signature from Preview and save it as an image file with proper transparencies that you can use in other applications.

We’ll look at two apps that accomplish the same task, batch renaming files, in different ways, and we’ll even create our own application in Automator that batch renames files exactly how we want it done.

I haven’t forgotten the past. A single, crappy web browser coming to dominate the market would be just as terrible today as it was in the dark days of IE6. But WebKit is not a browser. Like Linux, it’s an enabling technology. Like Linux, it’s free, open-source, and therefore beyond the control of any single entity.

Once you’ve launched Activity Monitor click on the Real Mem column so that applications are organized by the amount of RAM they’re using. If you see one that’s gobbling up enormous amounts of memory, you’ve nailed the culprit.

The key to that automation is Hazel, a utility and System Preferences pane that can monitor a specified set of folders and perform actions on files in those folders based on rules you’ve defined.

To show you how it all works, here’s how I use Hazel and Evernote to automatically file my monthly cable bill.

When the iPad was first released, I found it to be an excellent (albeit imperfect) comic-book reader. A few years of hardware and software iteration later, it’s a lot harder to spot imperfections. The only problem I have is that I’m now buying several comics a week on my iPad, with the credit card bill to prove it.

Automator's great for streamlining time consuming and repetitive tasks on your Mac. It's easy. Just launch it, find a few actions, and string them together to form a workflow. Then, run your workflow anytime you want to perform that series of tasks again.

What happens if your workflow doesn't run as you expect, though?

I know this probably seems like common sense — just open up Time Machine and recover the file. However if you don’t know the filename or the directory it was located in your backup is not going to be much use. Thus, I felt this was worth sharing in case you are ever in the situation of having to retrieve a lost QuickTime recording.

One thing seems clear—as the industry fiddles with lower-cost hardware to handle specialized workloads, the Mini could establish its own niche in the data center.

Welcome to the brave new world of heterogeneous computing!

"But it is a risky strategy for parents to simply think they can claim the money back if all goes wrong."

It was one of the most feel-good, warm and fuzzy experiences I've ever had, and I will remember it forever.

Most of all, we need to stop feeding the IAP machine, and stop rewarding that business model with our money. We need to pay for good games, for premium games. Instead of bitching that "it should be free" or "$1 is too much", we should reward great games and stand up developers with good money, because that's the only way to get more of both.

Sadly, that's unlikely to happen.

There’s a lot more going on in this adapter than we expected: indeed, we think the Lightning Digital AV Adapter outputs video by using AirPlay (or similar MPEG streaming).

Amazon and publisher restrictions control your access, but a bookstore lawsuit could change that.

Apple Inc. in February reversed its stance on a corporate-governance measure related to executive compensation, implementing a new rule that executive officers must hold triple their base salary in company stock.

If you bounce between the same locations frequently, it can sure save you a lot of clicking and fiddling.

What makes Up Next a powerful feature is its ability to queue up songs from different playlists or albums.

With Files, I can login to my Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box accounts to access all of the files on those services.

The free Koozoo app is based on an intriguing idea. It lets you shoot video with your iPhone and share it live with other users. You could conceivably use it to monitor the view of a city, check the line at a favorite restaurant, and so on. The catch is that only San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas are supported so far.

The new release enables you to synchronize databases between multiple computers and locations using Dropbox, a WebDAV server, or your own mountable drive, as well as with other copies of DEVONthink on the same local network or VPN. Colleagues can access the same "sync store," download databases, work offline, and then synchronize all changes (local and remote) either manually or automatically.

Apple is flagging messages that it seems very sure are spam, but it has no real system in place for dealing with false positives—messages that are filtered, but aren’t actually spam.

The new DataMan Pro 6.3 switches to a different approach, and the bad news is that not being able to use the VoIP trick means that some of DataMan Pro’s most compelling features have been removed. Notably, there’s no more hourly, daily, or weekly tracking — both overall and per-app usage stats exist only at the monthly level.