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This iOS-Inspired OS X Concept Looks Good Enough to Touch

For at least a couple years now, OS X has started to look more and more like iOS. Lion brought Launchpad and columns of app icons. Mavericks gave us Maps and a cleaned up interface. For his imagining of the next iteration of Apple’s operating system, one designer just said, “Screw it. Let’s make them…

Every iPhone, Ranked

Buying an iPhone is not confusing. You have a 50% shot of getting it right (unlike the 100% success rate you’d had a few months ago). But if you still need help in deciding which iPhone is best, here’s how we would rank them all. 1. iPhone 5S Duh. 2. iPhone 5 UPSET! Why? Aluminum…

MyGlass, an app that pairs Google Glass with iOS devices, is back on the App Store after briefly appearing and disappearing earlier this week. If you’ve got both Glass and an iWhatever, you can download it here. [Slashgear]

A Fully Loaded New Mac Pro Will Cost You $14,000

After no short period of waiting, the new Mac Pro has finally gone on sale today. All along it’s promised to pack punch, and it might just prove to be your ultimate work station. But absolute power will cost you. https://gizmodo.com/the-mac-pro-finally-goes-on-sale-tomorrow-1485617275 If you head on over to the Apple Store, you can configure the Mac…

Just in time for the new Mac Pro going on sale, Final Cut Pro has gotten a big update, with improved support for 4K.

The New Mac Pro Finally Goes on Sale Tomorrow

It’s sleek, black, looks a little bit like your waste paper bin, and could just be your ultimate workstation. The Mac Pro is an amazing piece of hardware and, finally, it goes on sale tomorrow. https://gizmodo.com/apples-mac-pro-is-a-the-ultimate-workstation-1450137449 As of Thursday December 19th, you’ll be able to piece together your dream machine, chock full of Xeon processors,…

Seriously, Enough With This Apple Holiday Ad

Apple’s new holiday ad has been called, in turn, endearing, note-perfect, and, in a spasm of enthrallment, perhaps Apple’s best iPhone commercial ever. I think maybe I saw a different ad. You can watch above, but for those who prefer words: We see a family celebrating the holidays, absent Sullen Male Youth, who is preoccupied…

A $49 Kindle, iOS Games And Credit, Sony RX100, Ouya [Deals]

At a loss for gift ideas? Amazon is selling its $69 Kindle for the stocking stuffer-approved price of $49 today. This isn’t the Paperwhite, so you don’t get a touchscreen, but I’ve actually found the buttons to be a much better solution for page turning. Amazon Kindle | $49 Audio Technica’s venerable ATH-M50 headphones, long…

Oh Hey, Google Glass Has an iOS App Now (Updated)

Google Glass isn’t quite out in the wild yet, but if you were holding out based on your phone’s operating system, now’s your chance — MyGlass just hit the iOS app store. https://gizmodo.com/when-i-actually-wear-google-glass-1211492290 The free app will let Glass users configure their new face-computers, beam navigation prompts from phone to face, and screencast Glass’s view…

A Simple Metal Ring Keeps Your MagSafe In Line

As wonderful as Apple’s MagSafe connector is at preventing your laptop from accidentally getting yanked off a desk, it’s far from perfect. Try actually using your laptop on your lap, or in bed, and you’ll find your power cord disconnecting more often than not. A problem that’s far from dire, but one that is thankfully…

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

Feel that holiday spirit in the air? It smells like pine trees and whatever toy parents are beating each other up over this year. Share the giving spirit and present your phone with some sweet new apps. Multi-Platform Updates Viber This week’s update brings the ability to make VoIP phone calls to any phone number,…

Beyoncé’s Surprise New Album Crashed iTunes Overnight

Overnight, Beyonce has released her fifth studio album without warning. Referred to as the “visual album” and titled Beyoncé, it was made exclusively available on iTunes without any announcement—and has already made quite an impact. With Twitter going crazy over the release, the Daily Mail reports that it “caused iTunes to temporarily crash as fans…

A Hockey Stick Sensor Shows How Far You Are From Gretzkydom

When it comes to sports, they say it doesn’t matter if you win or lose, just how you play the game. And if hockey’s your thing, with the FWD Powershot sensor on the end of your stick you’ll know for sure if you played the game better than everyone else out there on the ice.…

This Friday, Walmart will slash iPhone 5C prices to just $27 with a two-year AT&T or Verizon contract. Kick in another hundred bucks, and you can jump up to an iPhone 5S. Both prices will last through December 24th. [LA Times via Business Insider]

Apple Patents Oculus Rift-Style Headset

If you’re a hardcore gamer, you’ll already know that the real next-gen gaming revolution is virtual reality, spearheaded by the Oculus Rift. It seems that Apple has been taking notes, with a freshly-uncovered patent revealing sketches of a potential Apple-branded head-mounted display. A 3D glasses system resembling “ski or motorcycle goggles”, the 14,000 word patent…

Apple Patents Screen Technology For Curved Touch Displays

Move over Samsung and LG: Apple has been awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office that describes how they could manufacture a new breed of curved touch surfaces. Patent No. 8,603,574 —or “Curved touch sensor” to its friends—describes a manufacturing technique for curved touch surfaces which minimizes problems caused by substrate warping…

Apple’s 12 Days of iOS Gifts Comes to the US This Year

The past couple of years, iOS users in Europe and Canada have been lucky enough to receive a series of 12 free gifts from Apple over the festive period. Now, Cook & Co. are spreading that generosity to the US, too. The gifts—which vary from free videos and songs to games, books, and apps—start arriving…

Four Different Connectors Let This Flash Drive Connect To Any Device

It turns out that trusty USB flash drive you’ve been using to sneakernet files between your computers has been slacking off. At least compared to the new i-FlashDrive from PhotoFast that features four connectors so it can be used with mobile devices like your Android phone as well as old and new iOS devices. Available…

Google, Microsoft and More Launch Campaign to Reform NSA Spying

Eight of the largest companies in tech have joined forces to battle the NSA’s spying, demanding sweeping reforms of the US Government’s surveillance policies. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo have written and signed a letter to President Obama and Congress, which you can read online. According to The Hill, it will…

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

Friday’s here, and unless you’re in the southeast corner of the U.S. where it’s nice and warm, you’re probably staring at a weather report full of wintry gloom and frozen precipitation of every hellish variety. Charge up your phone, download these cool new apps, and hope the power doesn’t go out. Multi Platform Updates Double…