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Apple News: Here Are Some Of The Big Changes Coming To Your iPhone And iPad Software Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac has a giant report this morning that highlights several key design changes coming to iOS 7, Apple’s next version of its operating system for iPhones and iPads. Gurman’s sources confirm recent reports that iOS will have a “flatter” look to it and tweak the way several key apps like Calendar,…

Apple News: 6 things iOS can learn from OS X The focus of Apple’s last two releases of OS X has been on incorporating features of iOS while refining the user experience, which has worked well so far. However, certain aspects of iOS, such as the lack of good inter-app communication, are making the platform look dated. Apple could solve that issue and others by bringing features from OS X…

Apple News: Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS later this year OS X 10.9, which is internally codenamed “Cabernet,” will focus on various “power-user” enhancements and take core features from iOS, according to our sources. Unlike operating system updates such as OS X Leopard and OS X Lion, OS X 10.9 will likely not be an overhauled approach to how the operating system…

Apple News: Got an Older Mac? MLPostFactor Installs OS X 10.8.3 on Old Unsupported Macs Many older Macs lost out on the ability to run OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3!), but some hard working fellows have created a free third party tool called MLPostFactor that allows for the newest version of OS X to be installed on older, officially unsupported Macs. The process used to be quite complicated, but with…

Apple News: 5 Things Apple Needs To Fix In iOS, OS X And iCloud How times have changed. Not that long ago I used to spend the majority of my working day in front of a Windows system, be it a desktop, notebook, or even the odd tablet or netbook. But nowadays much of my ‘computer time’ is spent in front of products emblazoned with a half-bitten apple. The shift…