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Celebrating World Backup Day (a Day Late…)

It may be a bit of a chore, but yesterday (which was also Easter) was the official day for it. Per a nifty guide over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Sunday was World Backup Day with many in the tech industry encouraging users to take some time to back up their Mac and iOS devices. […]

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Hardware iPad News

Leaked Blackberry product roadmap shows potential iPad competitor on the horizon

You may not love and adore Blackberry, but it looks like the company intends to stick around long enough to release a tablet competitor to the iPad. Per @BB10Leaks and TechnoBuffalo, Canadian manufacturer BlackBerry appears to be readying another go at the tablet sector, as an image purporting to be a leaked product roadmap shows […]

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Appearance: PPUG Saturday in Philadelphia (Withings WS-50 preview)

If you’re in the Philadelphia area come see an exclusive demonstration of the new Withings WS-50 Wi-Fi scale that measures weight, body composition, heart rate, and air quality at PPUG.

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iPad mini News

Microsoft Windows 8 certification change could hint at upcoming iPad mini competitor

Microsoft could have an iPad mini competitor en route. Per AppleInsider, recent changes quietly made to the Windows 8 hardware certification guidelines suggest that Microsoft could be gearing up to debut a new, smaller “Windows Reader” tablet designed to compete with more portable devices like Apple’s iPad mini. The company recently relaxed its hardware certification […]

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Parallels Desktop updated to 8.0.18480

Late Thursday, Parallels released version 8.0.18480 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software. The new update, a 335.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Better compatibility with new iMacs. – Create Boot Camp virtual machines on new iMacs with 3 TB hard drives. – Create virtual machines from the Boot Camp partition with […]