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Apple News: Mac Gems: TextWrangler 4.5 is a free text editor that belongs on your Mac Everyone needs a great text editor—for those times when you need to clean up funky characters in a big text file downloaded from the Web, remove duplicates in a list, or make a particular change to a bunch of files at once. When such text-manipulation jobs land on your desk, you can make short…

Apple News: The Apple reality distortion field’s fun-house mirror I don’t know for certain who writes The Macalope column for Macworld, but I think he put his finger on something Saturday in A Fundamental Disconect, his round-up of the week’s Apple (AAPL) news. “Apparently,” he writes, “some bit has switched somewhere—like a Manchurian candidate being triggered—and everyone is willfully ignoring the state of things in Cupertino.” Read full story =>…

Apple News: Master The Option Key In OS X Safari [OS X Tips] What fun the Option key is in OS X, right? Adding it to clicks and keystrokes makes many features accessible that would otherwise be hidden. We’ve spent the last few days talking about how to maximize the Option key in your power-user Mac workflow, in the Finder, the Menu Bar, and in iWork apps. Read full story…

Apple News: Apple launches iCloud, Services, and Services status page One of the challenges of making the shift from the PC era into the post-PC era is keeping data synchronized between mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and notebooks, and static devices such as desktops. Read full story => ZDNet Technology News: The U.N. Fought The Internet – And The Internet Won; WCIT Summit In Dubai Ends For the last…

Apple News: Samsung about to lose Apple’s chip contract Samsung is about to lose its contract selling chips to Apple and while this is not unexpected, the word on the street is that the work is about to be picked up by Intel. Intel, which has been slower than an asthmatic ant with a heavy load of shopping to enter the mobile market, is not exactly anyone’s first guess to…