A battle of Tank on the Mac App Store

The tanks arrived in the Apple Mac shop.

The Publisher Gameloft not only of the Apple mobile platform and continues to offer new games on the Mac App Store. The latest is Tank Battles, a type of well known game that is to lead a tank and face three opponents on a map. The solo game has 50 missions and it is of course possible to make games simple against the computer or better still against other players over the Internet.

 

The game is very well done, but the hand is difficult since he is directing the tank with the directional arrows and aim with the mouse. This calls for a small time adapting to win the first parties. The Tank Battles of Gameloft game is available on the Mac App Store for less than 6 euros.

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Yet new gestures in Apple

Apple engineers continue to floor on gestures.

Since the release of the iPhone, Apple continues to file patents on tactile gestures to perform new operations. The last documents released by the U.S. Office of patents and trademarks show a new method of selection and transfers of several elements. Files and folders may be selected by drawing a circle and transfer to another device using the accelerometer and by "falling" towards the latter. Conversely, it will be possible to draw a circle and put documents inside to be moved.

 

The document also refers to a method to clear a way document secure. It would be to "tear apart" the document dragging three fingers from top to bottom directly on the document. Finally, to align the icons, it would suffice to shake the device.

 

Rather strangely, these documents refer to managing files and folders in a tactile way while the mobile operating system from Apple so far still refused to show the files to the user.

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Apple blocks the sale of GalaxyTab 10.1 in Europe

Decidedly, Samsung is in the crosshairs of Apple.

After the temporary prohibition of placing on the market of the 10.1 of Samsung in Australia GalaxyTab, Apple has obtained a preliminary injunction of the Court of Düsseldorf in Germany who believes that the design of the Samsung Tablet violated Apple patents. As a result, the marketing of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is suspended in Europe, the day after his arrival on the market.

For the moment, only the Netherlands can still sell the Samsung Tablet as Apple initiated a separate proceeding in that country. But in the rest of Europe, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now unmarketable. The Korean company will therefore reach an agreement with Apple, or yet to modify the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1. In Australia, it has also announced the arrival of a new model which is not yet available.

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iPod: that Apple is preparing to celebrate 10 years?

In October, the iPod will celebrate its tenth anniversary.

While rumours evoke a special Apple event for September 7, the truth is perhaps elsewhere. Indeed, on 23 October 2001, Steve Jobs had the iPod, a digital player equipped with a 5 GB 1.8-inch hard disk. From 2004, Apple extends the range with the introduction of the iPod mini, a smaller model equipped with a hard disk that has a 4 GB thumb (MicroDrive), then Apple will continue to decline his iPod with the shuffle, nano and then the last entering the iPod touch, the cousin of the iPhone.

This year, October 23, 2011, Apple will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the iPod and knowing the brand, it is unlikely that this date goes unnoticed. Remains to know what the company in-house us for this event.

Apple has planned out iOS 5.0 and iCloud autumn, i.e. from September 21. Apple could take a new turn with his iPod touch building for example on the game with a screen slightly more big and why not a "made in Apple" joystick optional. Because we must confess, if the game on a touch screen is possible, this type of control becomes problematic for some games, not to mention the fingers mask a portion of the screen. With its App Store and video game studios who invest more and more the Apple mobile platform, the Cupertino firm clearly has the means to compete with existing portable game consoles.

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Apple bought the Mac and PC

Apple offers to buy the computers via its partner DataServ.

The Apple company has put in place a program of buyback and recycling of computers via the Apple Store. A dedicated page to estimate the value of the machine model and his general condition. Is the German company DataServ is responsible recycling so that shipping costs are supported by Apple. It is possible to receive a package adapted, but additional charges are applied.

The mean everything, this program is not very interesting, financially speaking. Indeed, a machine recently as a MacBook Pro 13 inch Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz good cosmetic is saved a little more than 200 euros while it sells easily more than EUR 500 market opportunity. The old, unsaleables machines on the market of the opportunity, such as the PowerBook or iBook are resumed between 30 and 100 euros (for a PowerBook G4 17-inch, high for example). Simply, some machines are not repeated. On the PC, it is worse because a laptop 15-inch Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz processor with more than 1 GB of RAM and a greater than 60 GB hard drive is now 77 euros.

In short, this offer will only interest people who want at all costs avoid the opportunity to market.

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Apple tackles the Xoom Motorola Europe

The Xoom of Motorola Tablet is now in the crosshairs of Apple.

Obviously, Apple decided to firmly defend the iPad. After having led to the suspension of the marketing of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 of Samsung in Australia and in Europe, the Californian company tackles now Tablet Xoom of Motorola in Europe. As for the Tablet Samsung, Apple filed a motion to the Court of Düsseldorf in Germany hoping to reach the same conclusions. The Cupertino firm accuses Motorola to use the same design as the iPad with its Tablet Xoom.

As for Samsung, the judge could suspend the sale of Motorola Xoom tablets as a preventive measure before its final verdict. This case illustrates once more that Apple is ready to be of average wholesale to defend his iPad and not to be walking on the feet by its competitors, a policy which for some is widely open to criticism.

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Apple has been the largest company in the world

For a short time, Apple has become more importa that Exxon Mobile.

As stated by experts, the stock market is very volatile at the moment. This volatility caused by the crisis of confidence in the financial markets to the capacity of States to pay off their debt leads of the sometimes surprising situations. Thus, the Apple company became, for some time, the first capitalization of the stock market on Wall Street passing Exxon Mobile.

To 7 pm, Paris time, the market capitalization of Apple reached $ 341,55 billion while that of Exxon Mobile did not exceed 341,2 billions of dollars. At the close, Exxon is ironed with a capitalization of 348.2 billion 346,74 billion for Apple. Today, Apple may take Wall Street head to stay there.

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Apple is the fourth seller of phones

Apple becomes the fourth manufacturer of telephones.

If Apple is the first seller of smartphones in the world, it is also the fourth seller of phones, all types combined. According to a study by Gartner, the Cupertino firm now captures 4.6% of the market through its 19.6 million iPhone elapsed in the second quarter of 2011, an increase of sales of 92% from the second quarter of 2010. At the top of the pyramid, there always are Nokia, which is still the undisputed market leader of telephony in terms of volume with almost 98 million phones sold in the same period, it simply is 22.8% of the market, but it is also much less the year while the same period last. Indeed, in 2010, Nokia had passed 111 million phones and were 30.3% of market share.

In the second and third position, Samsung and LG capture respectively 16.3 and 5.7% of market share with 69.8 to 24.4 million phones sold. Over the previous year, Samsung has lost a bit of ground with a drop of 1.5 points while LG has increased by 2.3 points market share.

At the level of the operating systems on smartphones, Android is now the leader with 43.4% share of market in Symbian and iOS with respectively 22.1 and 18.2%. Symbian is impressive since the Nokia system still received 40.9% of the market last year, is a market share of almost halved over a year. Android is the reverse by more that doubled its market share then as Apple iOS won 4.1 points over a year. You will also notice that if Apple is the largest seller of smartphones in the world, it is greatly exceeded by Android when it combines all the smartphones Google sold by HTC, Samsung, Sony and others.

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An entry based on iCloud iPhone

A phone iCloud, why step... but beware the package data!

The idea of an entry-level with little iPhone memory storage is interesting, especially with the arrival of iCloud. The Californian company Apple might indeed offer an entry-level with little iPhone memory. Based on the design of the iPhone 4, already produced several million copies, this iPhone might still crop on some costs, replace the glass by plastic, and of course to reduce the amount of memory to 4 or 8 GB. This iPhone would share beautiful iCloud since the storage of the documents would be in the cloud, just like the music or still photos, which should not really please phone operators already complaining of the saturation of the network.

For AppleNApps, the Cupertino firm will therefore propose a building on iCloud entry-level iPhone and iPhone 5 with features revised upward. According to the author, iPhone "iCloud" would be a kind of MacBook Air then the iPhone to the final 5 would more than the MacBook Pro.

It seems inevitable that Apple expanding its range of phones, as it did a few years ago with the iPod range which had only a single model originally. The ideal would be a compact phone with a screen between 3.2 and 3.7 inches to make the iPhone even more portable, and another model, high-end, with a large screen of at least 4 inches that would fight against the new Android phones which attract more people. Finally, small vow to personal, if Apple could finally move on to 64 GB of memory without add a Micro-SD location, I would breathe a little. Between the games and applications sometimes weighing more than 1 GB (1.66 GB for Fifa 11 and 1.42 GB for Bosh Navigon France, to name only a few), photos, videos HD, the 32 GB iPhone 4 began to be more than limit.

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iPad 2: other providers of screens

The problems encountered by LG, Apple turned to Samsung and Chimei.

According to DigiTimes, Apple is about to change provider of screens for its second generation iPad. The California-based company would have been forced to review its plans because of the problems of returns to the level of the currently produced by LG Display screens, an impressive number of screens would not withstand tests quality. Apple would have suspended the monitors from LG Display commands to turn to Samsung and Chimei Innolux.

In July, LG Display would have managed to produce only 2.5 million respecting the Apple specifications while the command amounted to 4 million units. During the same month, Samsung has produced 2 million screens for the iPad 2, more than the usual delivery of one million pieces.

Chimei Innolux manufacturer could take advantage of the situation by also increasing its production of screens for the iPad 2. It is much easier that this manufacturer is close to Foxconn, the final assembler of the Apple tablet. Despite logistical problems, Apple has managed to cover demand for iPad since the Tablet is now shipped under 24 h under 1-3 days in France and the United States.

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Apple is the most expensive in the world

Apple arrived at the top of the stock market.

It is, it's done. Apple is now the largest market capitalization of Wall Street. Yesterday at the close of the New York Stock Exchange, the Apple action was 363,39 dollars while losing 2.76% on the day. The market capitalization of Apple therefore amounts to 337,17 billion dollars then that Exxon Mobile was lost at the same time 4.41% and its market capitalization is therefore $ 330,77 billion.

After exceeding the $ 400, the Apple action is now below 365 dollars. Society is thus affected by the stock market crisis this summer, but the technology sector is less affected, which explains the passage to Exxon Mobile. Apple should probably remain Wall Street now the largest company in terms of market capitalization.

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Steps to update the Mac Pro by the end of the year

Published August 12, 2011, by Tanguy Andrillon - updated August 12, 2011 at 11 h - Mac - key words: Mac Pro

The Mac Pro is still waiting to return to the very closed club compatible computers Thunderbolt.

While the MacBook Air and Mac mini are to be updated in July by integrating new Intel Sandy Bridge processors and the Thunderbolt interface, the update Mac Pro is not always forthcoming. Currently, the Mac Pro simply is the only machine devoid of the Thunderbolt interface proposed by Apple, it is all the more damage that for the moment, Thunderbolt are intended primarily for professionals. Of course, at the present time, Apple promotes more laptops representing almost 75% of computer sales.

A priori, the renewal of the Mac Pro is not imminent. Stocks are still at the same level and resellers do not really meet problem to supply. If the Intel roadmap, it might well that Apple to wait the arrival of processors Intel Sandy Bridge-E using the Socket LGA2011 scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2011. The high range Core i7-3960X processor should have six hearts 3.33 GHz processors, with a mode Turbo to 3.9 GHz, 15 MB memory cache L3 of the management of four-channel DDR3-1333 and a TDP of 130 Watts. This consumer model will be of course followed by a server Xeon declination which should fully agree to the Mac Pro.

It is also rumored that Apple may be the first of its new processors to launch its new Mac Pro a few weeks before the arrival of the processors on the market.

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Mac OS X Lion: USB keys already there

The USB key to complete resettlement of Lion without having to go through the Mac App Store gradually arrived in store.

Last July, Apple released its new operating system Mac OS X Lion available only on the Mac App Store. In the aftermath, a press release announced the arrival of a USB key to install Lion on a compatible Mac for approximately 60 euros. According to 9to5Mac, this USB key to install Mac OS X Lion happens gradually in the Apple Store. It looks like course as two drops of water to the USB key provided with the MacBook Air 2010, 2011 models are lacking because they incorporate a restore partition.

 

Finally, no need to rush on this USB key, since as explained in an internal Apple memo, this USB key will be provided free of charge to all users who are unable to reinstall Mac OS X Lion via restoration tools. A priori, all buyers of MacBook Pro with preinstalled Lion are affected by this measure since it is impossible to reinstall the system on a new hard disk.

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A clone of the MacBook Air at Acer?

When Acer starts to do sexy laptops...

Acer constructor should of course propose a ultrabook upon re-entry, a new type of very fine computer lacking optical drive largely driven by Intel. The Acer Aspire 3951 will resume in outline the design of the MacBook Air with a display of 13.3-inch, aluminum hull, a black hinge, a touchpad without a button and a "chiclet" keyboard. Inside this Acer host course processor Intel Core i5/i7 Sandy Bridge, a 160 GB SSD and the Bluetooth 4.0. Finally, the laptop may wake in 1.7 seconds, according to Acer.

 

This Acer Aspire 3951 which has all of the MacBook Air will display a thickness of 13 mm and a weight of 1.4 kg against 17 mm and 1.35 kg for the MacBook Air 13 inches. The good news obviously comes from the price since this model should be sold between 770 and 960 dollars, while the MacBook Air 13 inches is shown to 1299 $ (1250 euros in France).

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iOS 5.0 Beta 5 already unbridled

The latest beta version of iOS is already released.

In the wake of the publication of the fifth beta version of iOS 5.0, the Dev Team has updated its debridement RedSn0w tool so that it supports the latest version of the mobile operating system from Apple. RedSn0w 0.9.8b9 allows therefore of jailbreaker all iOS devices using this beta version of iOS in the the iPad except 2, always more complicated to release.

Attention, this jailbreak is temporary or in English "Captifs", which means that it is unable to restart the device iOS without a computer nearby to force of the boot sequence using RedSn0w, which is extremely restrictive. The latest débridable version of permanently is iOS 4.3.3 the jailbreakme.com site. It is unlikely that hackers offer new tools for the permanent jailbreak of 4.3.4 and 4.3.5 of iOS versions. All faults safety from now are kept warm for the public release of iOS 5.0.

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MobileMe migration to iCloud

Developers test the MobileMe migration program to iCloud.

Following the publication of the fifth beta of iOS 5.0, Apple also opened accounts MobileMe migration to iCloud for developers. The process is extremely simple. In one click all the email accounts, calendar and address book data are sent to iCloud. As expected, services "Image galleries", iDisk and iWeb publishing will remain available until June 30, 2012 disappear before. Users of these services have to this date to back up their data.

Finally, the transition to iCloud leads also the loss of some functionality such as synchronization of the elements of the Dock, of the Keychain Access, accounts email, signatures, and boxes smart mailbox, widgets and preferences.

Good news all the same, the MobileMe users who currently have 20 GB of disk space will retain this ability plus the 5 GB offered by iCloud for a total of 25 GB of space until June 30, 2012. Then, the conservation of the 25 GB of data will be charged 32 euros per year. Finally, Apple says developers that receive these services to install Mac OS X beta DIO and iCloud beta 6.

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The first game for the Apple TV

When the Apple TV is the video game...

More person not to expect really and yet it is finally here: the first game for the Apple TV of second generation. Of course, this novelty is not to the credit of Apple, for which the Apple Tv is still only a simple hobby. The arrival of the first game on the Apple TV follows directly from the debridement of the aircraft via Season Pass. This tool allows to access a disk hard network from the Apple TV to read non-compatible with iTunes files, DivX for example, access to Last.fm or even to install Couch Surfer, a web browser for the Apple TV.

Therefore, a developer had the idea to develop a game in HTML5 perfectly compatible with the Apple TV. Of course, the game of BlackJack is very basic, but it illustrates the type of game that could accommodate the Apple TV. Is still rumored to show case Apple may have its own App Store applications adapted to the television: the weather, the Games compatible with the remote control or even to the games operator iOS devices.

 

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Apple blocks the sale of GalaxyTab 10.1 in Europe

Decidedly, Samsung is in the crosshairs of Apple.

After the temporary prohibition of placing on the market of the 10.1 of Samsung in Australia GalaxyTab, Apple has obtained a preliminary injunction of the Court of Düsseldorf in Germany who believes that the design of the Samsung Tablet violated Apple patents. As a result, the marketing of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is suspended in Europe, the day after his arrival on the market.

For the moment, only the Netherlands can still sell the Samsung Tablet as Apple initiated a separate proceeding in that country. But in the rest of Europe, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now unmarketable. The Korean company will therefore reach an agreement with Apple, or yet to modify the design of its Galaxy Tab 10.1. In Australia, it has also announced the arrival of a new model which is not yet available.

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A 256 GB for the first MacBook Air SSD

When the original MacBook Air starts to level...

Active Media Products manufacturer has just announced the release of three new compatible with the MacBook Air of first generation SSD, the model of 2008 with a processor Intel Core 2 Duo running at 1.6 GHz, a subdued controller Intel GMA 3000 and an 80 GB 1.8-inch hard disk turning at 3600 RPM.

 

The manufacturer proposes to replace the hard disk by a Sabertooth ZF ZIF SSD of 64, 128 and same 256 GB. This model reaches flow of 130 MB/s read and 90 MB/s write, figures far current standards since the SSD of origin of the MacBook Air 2010 and 2011 exceeds 180 MB/s read and write. Sabertooth SSD are provided with a package 1.8 inch for the cloning of the hard disk already in place and a screwdriver for the Assembly.

The Sabertooth ZF ZIF SSD 64, 128 and 256 GB of Active Media Products are sold to the respective rates of $ 169, 289-739. If the 64 GB model can give a blow from young to old MacBook Air, the 256 GB model is bad because its price. At this rate, it is better to move to a new MacBook Air performance have clearly nothing to do.

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The Dark Meadow : un futur hit iOS ?

Mobile games are little by little in the great court.

The Phosphor Games development studio gradually unveils its The Dark Meadow game that exploits the Unreal 3 engine, which has already been proven with the Infinity Blade game available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the App Store. In the tradition of Silent Hill, this game is scary wish. It was developed by Chip Senei and Jarod Pranno to be Mortal Kombat and John Woo Presents: Strongehold, it is therefore not the first entrants in the video game universe, but this is their first experience on a mobile platform and a new registry.

 

The developers describe the game as a mixture of the maze of Pan and Fruit Ninja, is therefore expected to completely open game, unlike Rage, with a system of interaction with the Fruit Ninja for fighting. The Dark Meadow due out in August in a universal version compatible with the iPhone and the iPad. You still more to look at the video to get an idea. One thing is certain: the quality of the graphics resembles more in addition to the real console.

 

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