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Apple News: The sync conundrum: Rethinking Apple’s cloud services In just a few short weeks, iCloud turns two years old, and there is much cause for celebration. Introduced at the 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) during what turned out to be Steve Jobs’s last keynote, the successor to Apple’s infamous MobileMe has by many standards become a huge success, with a reported 250 million accounts created as of last January…

Apple News: Apple looking into futuristic device with wrap-around display and seamless glass housing In a patent filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, Apple describes a futuristic portable device complete with wrap-around AMOLED display, all-glass construction and face tracking. With its application for an “Electronic device with wrap around display,” Apple looks to create a portable with the most screen real estate possible by using…

Apple News: OS X Snow Leopard stubbornly rejects retirement Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard, which shipped in August 2009, continued to resist retirement last month, new data showed. January statistics from Web analytics vendor Net Applications pegged Snow Leopard’s share of all Macs at 28.2%, half a point higher than the 27.7% recorded by OS X Lion. Read full story => Macworld Technology News: Everyone Is Going Nuts Over A…

Apple News: Gartner: Apple’s Macs will be as accepted as Windows PCs by 2015 By the end of next year, Apple OS X-based Mac laptops will be as well accepted by IT pros as their Microsoft Windows-based counterparts, according to Gartner. Driven by Apple’s efforts to make its OS X operating system more compatible with the iPhone’s, iPad’s and iPod Touch’s iOS, more users will bring OS X devices to…

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…