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Apple, Samsung come to terms over Galaxy S III Mini, remove it from forthcoming patent infringement case claims

Not that this is going to entirely alleviate the ongoing conflict between the Hatfields and the McCoys, but it’s a small step in the right direction. Per AppleInsider, a court document filed on Friday revealed that Apple is dropping all claims against Samsung’s Galaxy S III Mini smartphone after the Korean company said it has […]

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Dropbox updated to 1.6.11

You can’t knock a decent update: On Friday, Dropbox released version 1.6.11 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 23.1 megabyte download, which adds the following fix: – Fix a hang that affects a handful of people. Dropbox 1.6.11 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and […]

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GraphicConverter updated to 8.5, adds Retina support, other features

A nifty chunk of shareware just got better. On Friday, Thorsten Lemke’s seminal graphics conversion and editing app GraphicConverter reached version 8.5. The new version, a 153.8 megabyte download, added the following fixes and changes: New features: – Retina support added. – Added support for 16 bit per channel grayscale raw import. – Split red/green/blue […]

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Hardware MacBook Pro Rumor

Rumor: Apple to update notebooks in June, retain same design with new models

Rumor: Apple to update notebooks in June, retain same design with new models Sometimes you just don’t muck with a good design. Per DigiTimes, Apple will reportedly update the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air product lines in June 2013 with upgraded innards, but no major design changes are expected for either laptop range. According to […]

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Apple patent highlights motion-controlled mouse idea for future Macs

This could lead to something interesting. Per AppleInsider, a patent filing published on Thursday details an Apple invention pertaining to a computer input device that uses motion gestures, like tilting, brushing and tapping to manipulate a computer’s GUI. Apple’s “Methods and apparatus for processing combinations of kinematical inputs” describes a system that translates a variety […]