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Apple News: Quicksilver: The Best Free Way to Do Everything With Just Your Keyboard OS X is already powerful by itself, and it’s packed with a lot of built-in apps that can help you accomplish everyday life tasks. However, it’s only when you’re using something like Alfred, LaunchBar or Quicksilver that you actually unleash the full potential of your machine. Things that are already simple on your Mac turn into…

Apple News: Apple’s Latest Patent Is A Game-Changer For iPad Unlike Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Apple is not overly forthcoming about its R&D initiative. Instead of promoting the technology of tomorrow, Apple tends to wait until a product is ready for release before revealing its plans. In fact, if it weren’t for the $365 million acquisition of AuthenTec, investors would be unaware that the company is experimenting with fingerprint scanner technology…

Apple News: Why High-End Watchmakers Should Worry About Apple Of the many categories of luxury goods and services that the super-rich private jet set acquire on an annual basis, only about one-third purchase a luxury watch either as a gift, or for themselves or as part of a collection. Compared to other types of luxury acquisitions such as fashion and accessories, fine jewelry, spirits, or staying at a resort for…

Apple News: Apple TV vs. Roku vs. Chromecast content options On Wednesday this week, Google unveiled a handful of new products. There’s the second generation Nexus 7 tablet, Android 4.3, and the Chromecast TV dongle. The latter has proved rather popular, selling out in most online stores within the first 72 hours. The accessory is very similar to the Apple TV, or the Roku box, as it lets you stream…

Apple News: Apple Takes the Lead in the Next Battlefront: Advanced Eyes-Free Services for the Car In 2012 Apple’s VP of software and iOS Scott Forstall announced that nine car companies had signed on to eyes-free Siri services with Hyundai signing on as the tenth in January. Then came Eddy Cue’s announcement at this year’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) that “iOS in the Car” was going to be available…