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iPad Air: Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s Svelte New Tablet

Apple just announced iPad Air, the fifth in its line of (nearly) 10-inch tablets. Last year, Apple’s big-boy got a perfunctory upgrade, but this year the iPad’s getting a new super skinny design—and a new name—with batch of significant improvements that’ll carry it through the next year. Here’s what you need to know. Design The…

iLife and iWork: Better, But More Importantly Free

Along with the flurry of hardware updates, Apple announced substantial upgrades to iLife and iWork. Features run the gamut from seamless integration with iOS to powerful automation tricks like a robotic drummer. And like OS X Mavericks, everything is available immediately, for free. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-mavericks-arrives-with-understated-elegance-plus-1449518276 The upgrades to iLife start with iPhoto and iMovie. It’s now…

Apple’s New Mac Pro Could Be Your Ultimate Workstation

Apple’s pulling out all the stops on its venerable Mac Pro line. This years edition offers more computing power than the entirety of some developing countries. Here’s what’s in store for Apple’s power users in 2013. The new Mac Pro is a beast of a machine. Sporting Intel Xeon E5 processors with between 4 and…

The New 2013 MacBook Pro Gets a Significant Spec Bump

Apple has announced today that its flagship MacBook Pro models will be receiving a slew of modest improvements. Here’s what’s the new 13 and 15 inch machines will have under their hoods. On the hardware side, the new 13-inch version is more svelt than its predecessor, just .71 thick and weighing over 3 pounds, thinner…

How Intel Guts Help Shape the New MacBook Pro

As expected, Apple updated its new MacBook Pros with Intel’s kickass Haswell processor. What does that mean? Better battery life and killer integrated graphics, for starters. https://gizmodo.com/the-kickass-processors-that-will-power-your-next-comput-510668761 The Haswell architecture offers up to nine hours of battery life, faster graphics, and so much more. In the graphics department, this chip is 90 percent faster than…

OS X Mavericks Is Here Today and It’s Free!

When Apple introduced the latest version of OS X back in June, it did so with little bombast. Mavericks, as it’s called, is no iOS 7 in terms of radical overhauls, but it is full of subtle however powerful behind-the-scenes changes. And the best part about it? It’s free, and it’s available right now. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-mavericks-first-impressions-a-little-good-going-a-513804371…

Apple’s New iPad Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

It’s official; Apple’s hosting an iPad unveiling extravaganza today, 364 days after last year’s Cupertino tablet party. Here’s what to expect from the new iPad and iPad Mini. https://gizmodo.com/apple-will-announce-the-new-ipads-on-oct-22nd-1445584009 And don’t forget that we’ll be covering Apple’s iPad Keynote live in just a few hours. The event starts 10AM ET/1PM PT, but we’ll get things…

Where to Watch Today’s Apple iPad Event Livestream

No need to sit at home biting your nails come 1PM EDT/10AM PDT, because Apple’s given us an nice little surprise in the form of a livestream for today’s big iPad unveiling. If you’re the proud owner of an Apple TV, you should have gotten an update pushed to your device sometime this morning in…

Upscale To 4K, Cheap Roku And Cheaper Lightning Cables, iTunes Credit

The Roku 3 is the best streaming box, so don’t miss this discount on it which almost certainly won’t last long. If you need a refresher on why this is the streaming box to buy, check out the Gizmodo review. $85. [Amazon] Don’t forget to vote on your favorite gaming keyboard. https://kotaku.com/co-op-the-best-gaming-keyboard-top-6-nominations-1447953582 Tell us what…

Watch This Madman Recreate the iOS 7 Homescreen in Microsoft Word

Observe, citizens, as this delightfully talented and probably unhinged gentleman recreates the iOS 7 from scratch using only the tools in Microsoft Word. There is no good explanation for this, but I still can’t tear my eyes away from it. Designer Vaclav Krejci has skills! Besides building basically every last detail of the OS, he…

WSJ: The New iPad Mini Will Be Retina After All

With Apple’s big iPad event a day away, it’s the last second to get in any predictions, and the Wall Street Journal has a good one. According to their sources, there is definitely a retina iPad Mini in the works. https://gizmodo.com/our-new-ipad-liveblog-starts-right-here-on-10-22-at-12p-1446693465 The Wall Street Journal doesn’t pin down a release time or price for the…

Rumor: iPad 5 Could Get an Apple-Built Surface-Style Keyboard Cover

New iPads! That’s the suspected plan for tomorrow’s Apple event. With much of the consumer attention now turning to the more discreet form factor of the iPad Mini, Apple’s iPad 5 needs to justify its full-size existence. And that justification may now come in the form of an Apple-built, pro-orientated keyboard cover. According to ex-Apple…

Rumor has it that GarageBand might be the next built-in app to go free on new iOS devices. Rockin’.

Use a Laser Pointer to Turn Your iPhone Into a Microscope

We’ve seen ways to turn your iPhone into a DIY microscope before, but they always require buying something kind of exotic, like a ball lens, or an actual microscope. This new take from Yoshinok on Instructables just requires $10 bucks, a shitty laser pointer, and little bit of makin’. https://gizmodo.com/view-small-things-on-your-iphone-with-this-30-microsco-5848468 The end result isn’t the…

Apple Hilariously Called the Gold iPhone 5S ‘The Kardashian Phone’

As Apple was prepping the perfectly glitzy hue of the goldpagne iPhone 5S, the phone was being referred to as “the Kardashian phone” inside Apple according to NY Times reporter Nick Bilton. Yes, that would be the same Kardashian as notorious iPhone auteur Kim and her well manicured yet totally overexposed family. Which means yes,…

Our Favorite iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Now that the slow, languid summer months are far behind us, we’re finally starting to see some major advancement in the app world. Whether it’s a brand new payment system from the ubiquitous Square or something beautiful simply for beauty’s sake, there’s a whole lot of goodness just up ahead. And it starts right here.…

This Week in Time Capsules: Hot Dogs, Elephants, and a First-Gen iPhone

This week in our time capsule news round-up Harvard buries a first-gen iPhone, an animal park in the UK hopes to raise awareness about elephants, and the Sunshine State seals dozens of capsules in celebration of Florida’s “discovery” 500 years ago. Harvard Seals Capsule With Coke Zero, First-Generation iPhone Harvard’s Anthropology Department created a time…

Elevate Your Laptop, Plus Keurig, Apple TV, Magic Mouse and Trackpad

If you sit at a desk with your laptop and don’t use a laptop stand along with an external mouse and keyboard, you’re really missing out on greatly improved ergonomics and probably less back and neck pain. This Belkin Zero stand is a great choice, and looks great underneath any laptop, especially a Macbook. It’s…

What It’s Like to Work the Apple Store Front Lines on iPhone Day

What, if anything, would you stand in line for all night? Front row tickets to your favorite band? A cameo on your favorite show? A spot for your child in that better school? If you’ve ever entered an Apple Store on iPhone release day, you know that tensions can start running a little high, to…

Apple’s recalling certain MacBook Air models over flash drive failure. If you purchased one between June 2012 and June 2013, a firmware update will see if your 64GB or 128GB drive needs replacing. [Apple via GigaOM]