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Elgato Becomes Latest Company to Launch Thunderbolt Docking Station [Mac Blog]

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Since late 2012, a number of accessory manufacturers have released docking stations taking advantage of Thunderbolt technology to allow users to connect a number of different types of devices to their machines with a single cable. Matrox was the first to reach market with its DS1, and similar offerings from Belkin and CalDigit have since been released. Popular TV and video accessory maker Elgato

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Apple Joins Lobbying Group to Influence Patent Legislation [Mac Blog]

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Major US companies from various business sectors have joined together to form a lobbying group that opposes pending patent reform legislation proposed by Congress, reports Reuters. The new Partnership for American Innovation includes Apple, DuPont, Ford, General Electric, IBM, Microsoft and Pfizer. The change proposed by Congress would target patent assertion entities (PAEs), which purchase paten

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'FTL: Faster Than Light' Now Available for iPad with New Content [iOS Blog]

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Developer Subset Games today released its popular real-time strategy game FTL: Faster Than Light on the iPad, coming roughly a year after the title was released on Mac, PC, and Linux to much acclaim. The game puts the player in the commanding role of a ship aligned with the Galactic Federation, tasked with getting vital data back to its headquarters. However, rebel ships are persistent in attacki

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'Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff' Coming to iPhone and iPad April 10 [iOS Blog]

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At a launch event in Los Angeles tonight, Fox and development house TinyCo officially revealed that its upcoming title Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff is set to launch a week from now. First revealed last month, the game is centered around the town of Quahog, with gamers helping Peter Griffin and the rest of the town’s residents rebuild their city after a destructive fight between Peter and

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'Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft' for iPad Now Available in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada [iOS Blog]

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Blizzard Entertainment's digital card trading game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for iPad soft-launched today in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, after launching for Mac in March. The free-to-play collectible card game is set in the Warcraft universe, allowing players to compete with Magic the Gathering-style decks in one-on-one fights via Battle.net or against the computer. The iPad version

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Jailbreak Tweak Auxo 2 Brings Unified Control Center, Gesture-Based Multitasking to iOS [iOS Blog]

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Auxo 2, the follow up to 2012’s popular jailbreak tweak Auxo, is now available in the Cydia Store. The product of developers @Sentry_NC and QusicS, the new tweak includes a number of features including a unified view for the Control Center and app switcher, a Quick Switcher for moving between apps using gestures, a hot corners feature that allows access to apps by touching the corners of an

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MacHeist Apple Design Award Bundle Offers 9 Mac Apps for $20 [Mac Blog]

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MacHeist's Apple Design Award Bundle is currently available for purchase, combining nine different apps that have won Apple Design Awards in the past. The apps have a retail value of $1,776, but can be purchased for $19.99. While seven of the apps are immediately available, the final two will be unlocked when specific sales targets are reached. The Apple Design Award Bundle includes: - B

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Upcoming Reversible USB Cable Depicted in New Renderings [Mac Blog]

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The upcoming USB 3.1 specification, an update to USB 3.0 that provides a throughput of up to 10 Gbit/s, also includes a new "Type C" connector, which is reversible much like Apple's Lightning cable. Announced in December [PDF], the reversible design was said to be smaller in size, similar to existing Micro USB plugs. While no cables are available yet, the USB Implementers Forum (via CNET) has rel

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SITU Smart Food Scale Connects to iPad to Relay Nutritional Information [iOS Blog]

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Newly released on Kickstarter, the SITU is a food scale with a built-in Bluetooth chip that enables it to communicate with an iPad. When a food item, such as fruits, vegetables, or even chips, is placed on the scale, it weighs the food and then relays the nutritional information to the iPad via the SITU companion app. Designed to allow people to monitor their calorie intake and other nutritional

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Fantastical, the popular iPhone and Mac calendar app, is coming to the iPad. Flexibits has upsized its Fantastical 2 iPhone app, but company co-founder Michael Simmons says they didn't just take the iPhone app and make all the bits bigger. "The biggest feature is the user interface," he explained to MacRumors, saying that the development team didn't feel a need to develop new features simply beca

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