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Whale Trail

by Adam Banks on 25 November 2011 in Reviews
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You don’t need to know much about Whale Trail. It’s a side-scrolling, one-button, cave-flying game for iOS. It uses the full resolution of each device and syncs stats via Game Center.

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Apple Store Covent Garden hit by smash and grab

by Adam Banks on 10 October 2011 in News

The Apple Store in London’s Covent Garden, currently the largest in the world, was raided by a motorcycle gang in the early hours of Monday morning. Around seven moped and motorbike riders were involved in the burglary, most with a pillion passenger, and escaped with goods likely to be worth thousands of pounds after breaking [...]

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Steve Jobs 1955-2011

by Adam Banks on 6 October 2011 in Editorial
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Apple statement.

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New iPad mag goes live

by Adam Banks on 5 July 2011 in News

In a move shamelessly plugged on the website of its sister magazine MacUser, Dennis Publishing has launched Padder, a new magazine on and about the iPad. Edited by long-time MacUser contributor Chris Brennan, the new mag has been designed from the ground up exclusively for the iPad and features app and accessory reviews, how-tos, witty [...]

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Apple finally comes out fighting in Lodsys patent claim

by Adam Banks on 23 May 2011 in Analysis

After an anxious week of speculation, Apple has responded to the demands sent by patent holder Lodsys to a number of iOS app developers. Lodsys claimed that third-party apps featuring in-app purchases infringed its patent on “Methods and systems for gathering information from units of a commodity across a network” (US 7222078) and asked for [...]

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Tests show iMac hard disk performance can vary by 100%

by Adam Banks on 11 May 2011 in Analysis

Apple has confirmed that it reserves the right to change the supplier and specification of the hard drives built into the latest iMac models, announced last week. In MacUser’s tests, undocumented variations between the drives fitted in different models resulted in transfer speeds ranging from 76 to 164 megabytes per second (MB/sec), making the quickest [...]

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