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Michael Jurewitz, a member of Apple's developer outreach team, announced today that he is leaving the company to join software developer and consultancy Black Pixel as a director and partner. Jurewitz, familiar to many developers as @jury on Twitter, provided developers with a conduit for feedback and communication with Apple.Writing on his personal website, "Jury" reflected on his seven years ...

The San Jose Mercury News reports that California Governor Jerry Brown's office has approved Apple's "Campus 2" project in Cupertino for a streamlined environmental review process. The new designation will not speed up construction on the project, which is scheduled to begin in early 2013, but will simplify the review process over the coming months."Apple's state-of-the art campus brings at...

Back in March 2011, Apple announced that senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering Bertrand Serlet was leaving the company after over 20 years working with Steve Jobs at NeXT and Apple. Serlet and Apple were quiet about his future plans at the time, noting only that he wished to "focus less on products and more on science". Business Insider now reports that Serlet has been working on...

Apple has issued a minor update to Aperture, its prosumer photo editing and management application. The 3.3.1 update fixes a minor issue that caused a crash in certain situations:What's new• Fixes an issue that in rare cases could cause Aperture to hang or quit unexpectedly when upgrading librariesThe prior update to Aperture enabled users to swap libraries between Aperture and iPhoto with no...

Late June typically marks the time of year in which Apple retail store openings begin to ramp up, and this year appears to be no exception with three grand openings scheduled for this Saturday, June 30. The group of three is Apple's largest batch of openings since seven stores opened in one weekend last September. This week's openings include: - Ridge Hill (Yonkers, New York): The new Ridge...

Call of Duty: Black Ops, the bestselling first-person shooter, is coming to the Mac this fall from Aspyr.Pricing and system requirements have not been announced, but the game will include the full single-player campaign, multiplayer, and both co-op and single-player Zombie mode.Aspyr Media, Inc., the leader in Mac game publishing, announced today that Activision Publishing, Inc.’s...

Apple today released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.14, bringing RAW image support to Aperture and iPhoto for several new cameras.This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto '11: - Canon EOS Rebel T4i / 650D / Kiss X6i - Sony Alpha SLT-A37Full details on RAW support are included in an Apple support document. Digital Camera RAW...

A volunteer team has been downloading the entire publicly accessible contents of MobileMe webpages, iDisk folders, and photo galleries, ahead of the shutdown of the MobileMe service on June 30.The team just finished the project, some four days ahead of their deadline. The project began late last yearn and ramped up as the team moved closer to the MobileMe shutdown date.Archive Team has...

Drobo has announced a pair of Thunderbolt and USB 3.0-capable storage devices. The company has not released official pricing and availability information, other than saying they will be coming next month.Both the Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini include industry-first SSD acceleration—utilizing the performance benefits of solid state drives (SSDs) and the capacity benefits of hard disk drives (HDDs)...

The massively popular Tweetbot iOS Twitter client is coming to the Mac, with development of the app well underway, according to a tweet by Tapbots designer Mark Jardine.Tweetbot, a favorite of Twitter power users, arrived on the iPad earlier this year, after becoming one of the most popular Twitter clients on the...

Apple has released an update to all Macs with Thunderbolt ports, adding support for the new Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. The update weighs in at 520KB and requires OS X Lion 10.7.4. It can be downloaded from Apple's software update page. About Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2.1 Adds support for the Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.The update is a replacement for...

According to an article in Computerworld, Apple will charge $199 to replace the 95 watt-hour battery in the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, an increase of $70 from the traditional $129 that Apple charges for replacement batteries in the standard MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.Before the introduction of the unibody MacBook Pro, all of Apple's notebooks had easily removable batteries. It made...

At last month's D10 conference, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network, A Few Good Men) sat down with Walt Mossberg to discuss his new HBO show The Newsroom (premiering June 24th) and his latest project, adapting Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs into a movie for Sony Pictures. Image courtesy Asa Mathat/All Things D...

Apple quietly discontinued the 17" MacBook Pro on Monday, the end of the line for a laptop that Apple has been selling in some form for nearly 10 years. A favorite of road warriors and mobile production gurus, the end of the Apple notebook was upsetting for some, though Apple is still selling almost-new 17" MacBook Pros -- and likely will be for a while.Apple is currently offering more than a ...

Just three days after the announcement of the new MacBook Pro, developers have begun updating their software packages with support for the new Retina display. Until software is updated, text and images are generally pixel doubled, making everything displayed within those apps look somewhat fuzzy on the ultra-high resolution display.Google has built Retina support into the nightly build of Chrome...

A new Apple Store is coming to South Loop according to a Chicago city alderman. The store, which may be coming to the Roosevelt Collection, would join flagship stores Lincoln Park and North Michigan Avenue as Chicago's third store within the city limits. Apple has seven stores in Chicago suburbs.The story, reported by Crain's Chicago Business, quotes Alderman Robert Fioretti (2nd) as saying...

Apple has released an update for the just-released MacBook Air, to go along with nearly launch-day updates to the new MacBook Pro and the MacBook Pro with Retina display.The update weighs in at 1.06GB and fixes several issues:About MacBook Air (Mid 2012) Software Update 1.0This update is recommended for MacBook Air (mid 2012) models.The update includes fixes that improve graphics...

The developers behind the popular notification service Growl plan to actively develop the application going forward, even as Apple includes a similar feature -- Notification Center -- in OS X Mountain Lion. Growl's lead developer Chris Forsythe explained in a blog post that Growl will be embracing Notification Center rather than trying to compete with it or shutting the project down. Part of...