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Possible Amazon phone teaser video surfaces

It may be a teaser video, but it could hint at something interesting. Yesterday, Amazon released a teaser video for an unspecified product. The users’ reactions, which range from impressed to awed, do nothing to indicate what it is, but scuttlebutt has it that this may be Amazon’s long-awaited smartphone. Take a gander, let us […]

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1Password updated to 4.4.1

Even a minor update to 1Password brings a hefty list of changes. On Thursday, AgileBits released 1Password 4.4.1, the newest version of its password security utility. The new version, a 40.8 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: New: – Added support for the WhiteHat Aviator web browser. Improvements: – 1Password will now keep […]

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Your next Apple headphones may have a Lightning connector

According to 9to5Mac, Apple has quietly introduced a new specification in its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) program that allows headphones that connect to iOS devices use a Lightning connector instead of the usual 3.5mm headphone jack. The ability to use such hardware doesn’t exist on iDevices yet, but a software update sometime in the future will likely enable […]

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Apple introduces new programming language at WWDC

One of the more unexpected announcements at WWDC, given the audiences reaction, was that Apple would be introducing a new programming language called Swift. Craig Federighi commented on how Objective-C had been the backbone of Mac and iOS development for 20 years, and with the phrase, “What it would be like if we had Objective-C without the […]

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Netflix to abandon Silverlight for OS X Yosemite, go with Media Source Extensions for video streaming on the Mac

Maybe it wasn’t meant to be between Netflix and Silverlight. According to the cool cats at The Mac Observer, Netflix is finally moving away from Microsoft’s Silverlight for video streaming on the Mac, at least for OS X Yosemite users. The company said it is instead relying on a feature called Media Source Extensions which […]