Planning on taking advantage of Apple’s back to school promo? Here’s a reminder that you only have until the 20th of September – after that date you will still be able to get a discount on a new Mac, but you won’t recieve a free £65 ($100) gift card to spend on Mac & iOS apps, music, movies and books.
If you’re worried about what will happen to your iWeb based blog once MobileMe is discontinued, then RAGE Software believe they can help. The company, who specialise in SEO & web development apps for Mac, have released a tool which allows you to migrate your iWeb blog to the WordPress platform.
Since its launch back in early 2007, Apple’s iTunes U service has now achieved a whopping 600 million downloads, with 300 million of those in the last year alone.
Apple has begun a new charitable matching program for employees today that will see the Cupertino company match charity donations made by its staff up to the tune of $10,000 per year.
Earlier today, Parallels released version 7 of its popular virtualization software that allows you to run Windows alongside OS X on your Mac. The latest edition has over 90 new and enhanced features, including Lion integration, improved performance, and the ability to run multiple versions of OS X.
Late yesterday, Apple added a new iPad 2 TV advert to its YouTube Channel. Titled ‘Learn’, it highlights the educational merits of the iPad by showing users young & old using the device to learn a new language, build knowledge, and discover a new talent.
Yesterday, Apple released a beta version of its forthcoming iTunes Match service for developers. Whilst Match will initially be a US only service, I’m hoping it doesn’t take too long for it to be made available here in the UK and other countries, and that’s because today, it’s been revealed that it will allow you to stream your music.
While we have never been able to rent TV shows from iTunes or via Apple TV here in the UK, the news that Apple has quietly removed the ability in the US, is still somewhat of a surprise. Apparently the rentals option, which was turned off yesterday, wasn’t popular with customers.
Steve Jobs announced that was stepping down from the position as CEO at Apple on Wednesday, and he’ll be replaced by Tim Cook, previously the company’s chief operating officer. But just who is Tim Cook?