While I’ve never been a fan of cases that are designed to turn the iPad into a notebook – I personally think you end up with something that doesn’t work particularly well as either a notebook or a tablet – I do have to give this one some credit, if only because it looks like a mini MacBook Pro.
Such was the response to last week’s Twenty of the best Retina wallpapers for your new iPad post, we’ve decided to make wallpapers a regular feature on Macsessed. Every 1-2 weeks we are going to pick a set based on a theme – the first few posts will feature Retina wallpapers for the new iPad, but we’ll also create posts for other iOS devices, and the Mac.
An update to Java, which Apple released earlier in the week to address a vulnerability that is reported to have led to over half a million Macs to be infected by the Flashback trojan, has now been superseded by a second update.
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, known for his reliable sources when it comes to Apple rumours, has revealed that the Cupertino company is “noodling with” a smaller, 7.85-inch version of its iPad, which is expected to compete with smaller tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0.
According to Russian anti-virus company Dr. Web, more than half a million Macs worldwide are currently infected by the Flashback trojan, including 274 systems located in Apple’s own backyard – Cupertino, California.
Sometimes Apple rumours can be… debatable, at best. When you opening up your RSS reader in the morning, I’ll bet there’s often one or two that will make you chuckle for a little while, before you quickly dismiss them as false. But every so often, there’s one that seems like it’s inevitable.
Apple has today announced that its second-quarter earnings for 2012 will be revealed in a conference call held on the 24th of April at 2.00pm Pacific Time/5.00pm Eastern, which is 10.00pm here in the UK.
Just as Avatron promised last month, an updated version of their popular Air Display app has now been released which takes advantage of the new iPad’s Retina screen and OS X Lion’s HiDPI mode – effectively turning the third-generation iPad into a Retina quality Mac display.
To mark his 80th birthday, British pop artist Peter Blake has recreated the iconic album cover he designed for The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Unlike the 1967 version, his modern re-imagination features only British icons, one of which is Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design – Jonathan Ive.