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PPUG meets in Philadelphia this Saturday, June 7

Join us for a spectacular autumnal meeting on Saturday, June 7, 2014 at noon. The Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group (PPUG) will hold its Welcome to Springtime Festival meeting from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the Manayunk Brewing Company. We usually have lunch (and a brew) while we talk mobile computing. PPUG founders Jason O’Grady (PowerPage.org), Rob […]

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Hardware iPhone News Processors Software

OS X 10.10 Yosemite beta hardware requirements released, remain unchanged since OS X 10.9 Mavericks

If you’re running OS X 10.9 Mavericks, it looks like you’re going to be able to run OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Per AppleInsider, the following system requirements have been released for the first OS X 10.10 Yosemite beta: – MacBook Pro: mid-2007 or newer – MacBook Air: late 2008 or newer – iMac: mid-2007 or […]

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News Software

Cocktail updated to 7.5.1 (Mavericks Edition)

You can’t knock a good update to a useful application. Late Thursday, shareware developer Maintain released version 7.5.1 of Cocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 2.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Added ability to set proportional and fixed-width […]

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Apple Finance Hardware iOS iPhone retail security Services Software

PayPal is eager to integrate Touch ID

Little was said about Touch ID in the WWDC keynote except that the API would be opened to third-party developers for use in iOS 8. Craig Federighi did show a nice pie chart claiming that since the introduction of Touch ID on the iPhone 5s, 83% of users now use passcodes, up from the 49% that […]

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Business Finance Mobile retail Services

Does Clinkle have a shot at competing in the mobile payments game?

So, you may be asking, “What is Clinkle?”. It would be a good question too since there hasn’t been a lot said about it given Clinkle’s “cloak of secrecy” about its development. In fact, during its beta period (still ongoing), employees were allowed to offer the service to friends and family with the specification that none […]