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How to Get Apple’s Black Friday Prices All Year Long

It ain’t easy getting Apple gear at a discount. That’s why Apple’s Black Friday deals cause a fuss, even if they’re unspectacular compared to what other manufacturers offer up. But here’s the secret cheat code: You can get those same deals, more or less, all year long. https://gizmodo.com/apples-black-friday-deals-are-live-5962854 You’ve just gotta buy refurbished. Refurbs have…

Those Skinny New iMacs Go on Sale November 30

You might want to make an addendum to your Christmas list. Those impossibly slender new iMacs go on sale November 30. Announced in September at Apple’s iPhone event, the latest desktop machines are just 5mm thin. The base 21.5-inch model has a 2.7 GHz quad-core processor and starts at $1,300. The 27-incher starts with a…

Facebook Gifts finally adds something you actually want to give: iTunes digital gift cards. [CNET]

Finally, Goatse Lands in the App Store

How the iTunes App Store approval process works is still a complete mystery to those on the outside. Seemingly innocuous apps get rejected all the time, while a game like Word of the Rings with an icon that pays tribute to the infamous Goatse image have no problem passing muster. http://gawker.com/5899787/ I have no idea…

Apple Had to Acquire Its “Lightning” Trademark From Harley-Davidson

Apple’s controversial Lightning connector has a name that nicely matches up with the Thunderbolt data connection. But its name caused Apple some trouble—because it had to buy the trademark from Harley-Davidson. https://gizmodo.com/whats-changed-in-apples-new-8-pin-lightning-dock-connec-5942555 The EU Patent & Trademark Office has published trademark applications for Apple’s Lightning connector, reports Patently Apple. But what’s interesting about them is…

These Polaroids Might Be the Oldest Pictures of an Apple Computer

In 1976, Apple products were far from the thin, glossy blades they are today. Apple’s humble beginnings started with the Apple I, hand-built by Steve Wozniak himself, and sold for $666.66. When Paul Terrell, owner of the Byte Shop, purchased 50 of the machines for sale way back then, he took a few pictures with…

Will.i.am Plans to Turn Your iPhone Into a 14-Megapixel Super Camera

Black Eyed Pea Will.i.am is panning to “turn your smartphone into a genius-phone”. He’s about to launch a new accessory and app for iPhone, under the monicker i.am+, that will turn the handset’s humble 8-megapixel camera into a 14-megapixel beast. The Telegraph reports that the new hardware will “dramatically enhance the clarity and definition of…

You Can Buy a Fake New iMac Before Apple’s Has Even Gone on Sale

Apple’s new iMac is taking its time to arrive in stores. But if you’re bored of waiting, you can already get a dodgy Chinese fake of the sleek new computer—before anyone has managed to get their hands on the official product. https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-imac-2012-meta-hands-on-shocker-people-ar-5954255 Truth be told it’s actually not too bad, if you can get past…

Apple’s Black Friday Deals are Live

Whether you want $40 off a new iPad, $30 off an iPod touch, or a respectable $100 off a new MacBook, Apple’s Black Friday deals have landed. Go check ’em out. [Apple]

Apple’s apparently asking record labels for HD images of artists—which suggests iTunes 11 is coming soon. [Mac Rumors]

Apple Tells Samsung How Much Its 10-year HTC License Is Paying

Apple has been ordered to help Samsung’s legal battles a little, with a court telling it to share full details of the 10-year settlement it struck with HTC recently. Only it’s not going to be made public. Apple has already sort of complied, providing Samsung with a heavily redacted version of the deal’s terms that…

Samsung Claims the iPad Mini Infringes Its Patents

Launch a consumer electronics product these days and within a couple of weeks you can probably expect a legal challenge. Which has happened to Apple with the iPad Mini—because Samsung claims it infringes its patents. In fact, it goes even further than that, reports Verge. That whole raft of new Apple products—the iPad Mini, iPad,…

Mac Mini Review: Apple’s Tiny Computer Is Finally Worth Your Time

The Mac Mini has always been that runt you might buy if you couldn’t afford any other Apple computer. Which is to say: it was the Apple computer you bought when you should’ve picked up a budget Dell or something. No longer. The 2012 model is a fantastic, affordable, and small. In models past, the…

Turn Your iPad Into the Foosball Table You Never Had Room For

If you’ve found it hard to shake your addiction to foosball after graduating from college, but your first apartment doesn’t afford you the room for a table of your own, all you need now is an iPad and a willing opponent. The geniuses at New Potato Technologies have created this elaborate iPad housing that serves…

Apple’s massive new spaceship-like HQ is severely delayed: it won’t be ready until 2016 at the earliest. [Bloomberg]

Hacker Found Guilty of 2010’s Massive AT&T iPad Breach

Way back in 2010, a security breach exposed the emails of 114,000 iPad owners. Eventually, the hackers behind it were arrested—and now one of them, Andrew Auernheimer, has been found guilty. http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed First, though, we need to refresh some memories. Auernheimer and a co-conspirator—both from Goatse Security—found a serious security flaw in AT&T’s iPad subscriber…

T-Mobile: The iPhone Isn’t Worth It

T-Mobile’s struggled because of the fact that it doesn’t carry the iPhone. But it doesn’t seem to care: in fact, one of its executives has explained that being able to offer Apple’s phone isn’t worth the sacrifices it would have to make to the rest of its device portfolio. Jim Alling, Chief Organizational Officer of…

Is AT&T Letting You Use FaceTime Over Cellular?

AT&T recently allowed FaceTime over cellular for iPhone users on tiered data plans but reports are coming through that AT&T iPhone users on unlimited data plans are also getting unchained from FaceTime’s Wi-Fi only shackles. Is this happening to you too? https://gizmodo.com/at-t-reverses-you-can-use-iphone-5-facetime-without-wi-5958936 Previously, when you switch on the toggle for “Use Cellular Data” under Settings>FaceTime…

Apple Finally Fixed the iMessage Bug That Let Stolen iPhones Receive Messages Not Meant for Them

iMessage, which can be a fickle bitch sometimes, had an annoying, downright scary flaw that remained unfixed for too long: if your iPhone got stolen, the stolen phone would keep receiving messages sent via iMessage even after a remote wipe out and deactivation. That meant the thief who stole your phone, could see your messages.…

Running OS X on an Old Macintosh Portable Is Difficult, Pointless But Awesome

This video shows an old Macintosh Portable seemingly running OS X. But how did it happen, and was it worth the effort? It’s worth pointing out, first off, that this is real. But while it might look like a Macintosh Portable, in fact it borrows heavily from an old Toshiba NB100 laptop Patrick Blampied had…