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Apple to seed OS X 10.8.3 beta to developers for week of November 26th

Look, let’s face facts: it’s Thanksgiving week, which leads into a four day weekend that’s only preceded by gluttony. In short, this week’s kind of a lost cause and you’re more likely to get stuff done NEXT week. Per AppleInsider, in a note to developers on Friday, Apple revealed that it will be seeding one […]

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eBay launches Apple certified refurbished products storefront

This could come in handy. Per AppleInsider, eBay earlier this month introduced a new section to its website dedicated to Apple certified refurbished products, including numerous iPads, MacBooks and iPod touches. The company’s new Apple Certified Refurbished Product store currently lists a variety of MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iPad and iPod touch products. The online […]

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Intel CEO Paul Otellini to retire next May

Come next May, someone new steps in as head of Intel. The processor giant announced on Monday that president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has elected to retire as an officer and director of the company effective next May according to the Washington Post. Otellini’s retirement caps a career of nearly 40 years of continuous service […]

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Users report second iMessage, FaceTime outage in one week

Sometimes a network runs perfectly, other times it flops over and takes a prolonged nap a la Seabiscuit… Per AppleInsider, users reported that iMessage and FaceTime experienced outages across the U.S., the second time in a week that services attached to Apple’s iCloud saw issues. A number of users reported on Sunday that they could […]

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Dropbox updated to 1.6.0

An update’s an update. Late Friday, Dropbox released version 1.6.0 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 23.1 megabyte download, which adds the following fixes and changes: – New icons! (Retina support!). – Improved performance through use of Python 2.7. – New Mac installer (just double click!). – Faster […]