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Apple today seeded Mac developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.6.8, termed Build 10K537. The new build, which continues to weigh in at about 1 GB as a combo update and is approaching 500 MB as a delta update, is the first to be pushed out to developers in over three weeks as Apple's team has undoubtedly been focused on WWDC. Apple's documentation requests that developers focus their...

Last month, we noted that Apple had integrated a number of new text-to-speech voices from Nuance in OS X Lion. While the voices themselves were not yet able to be installed in the Lion developer preview, samples available online demonstrated the significantly improved quality over existing voice options in Snow Leopard. Several users working with the latest OS X Lion developer preview...

Apple today released iMac Graphic FW Update 2.0, a firmware update to addresses graphics issues on the company's latest iMac models.About iMac Graphic FW Update 2.0 This firmware update fixes an issue that in rare cases may cause an iMac to hang during startup or waking from sleep. Do not shut off the power on your iMac during this update. Loss of power could result in your iMac failing...

After the keynote yesterday, there was a great deal of confusion around what happens to current MobileMe subscribers with the introduction of iCloud. Apple posted a Knowledge Base article full of information about the MobileMe transition, but for some it caused more questions than it answered -- especially for those who have renewed their MobileMe accounts recently. Here's some more detailed...

With most major consumer product releases -- think Mac OS and iLife -- Apple has an Up-To-Date program so folks who recently purchased a Mac can get the latest software without having to spend the full price. In the past, Up-To-Date programs have generally cost $9.95 for an installation DVD. However, with the advent of the Mac App Store, that fee seems to be going away. Buried in the bottom of ...

Alongside yesterday's high-profile developer seeds of OS X Lion Developer Preview 4, the first iOS 5 beta, and several iCloud-related betas including iTunes 10.5 and iPhoto 9.2, Apple also provided developers with a developer preview version of Safari 5.1 for both Mac and Windows. According to an announcement on Apple's developer portal, Safari 5.1 brings a number of enhancements to the...

Apple today posted a new support document outlining the transition from the company's existing MobileMe service to the new iCloud service announced today. According to the document, Apple has automatically extended all MobileMe subscriptions active as of today through June 30, 2012 free of charge.Effective June 6, 2011, if you had an active MobileMe account, your service has been automatically ...

There are two covered banners on the 3rd floor of WWDC. The keynote starts in an...

The international expansion continues. Apple opened its seventh store in France this morning, this one in the major city of Lyon in the eastern part of the country. The store, located in a shopping mall in the La Part-Dieu business district, is very close to the Lyon Part-Dieu railway station, a major transportation hub. Even though this is the 325th location to open, new store openings (NSO's ...

FunkySpaceMonkey.com posts a screenshot of what it claims to be the login page for a beta version of Apple's iCloud service, claiming to have obtained the image from "Apple's internal server".If you want all the rumors about they'ree [sic] easy to find on every site. But here's the first fact about it. We got a first look at the beta login page of iCloud, from Apple's internal server.The...

MyFOX8.com reports that a man wearing what was referred to by witnesses as a "white ninja suit" crashed a car into Apple's Friendly Center retail store in Greensboro, North Carolina this morning. The incident appears to have been a robbery attempt, although the man reportedly fled the scene without stealing anything.Police described the suspect as a white male wearing a white shirt and hooded...

When Apple released the initial developer preview for Mac OS X Lion back in late February, some observers were surprised to hear that Apple had moved to bundle the Mac OS X Server components in with the standard release, potentially lowering the price of deploying server capabilities on the Mac by a significant margin. Apple details the inclusion on its Lion features page:Lion Server is now part ...

Click for larger. The most public celebration of Apple Retail's tenth anniversary was the rollout of iPad interactive shopping guides, something Apple calls the "Smart Sign". But behind the scenes, in the retail back-of-house area, Apple posted a very moving poster celebrating all the company has learned over the past 10 years, embedded above. The poster begins:In the last 10 years, we've...

ZDNet's coverage of the latest Mac Developer malware includes a full video of what it looks like to get infected by Mac Defender: As Macenstein notes, it's easy to imagine someone getting tricked by the process.After watching this I suppose I could see how someone (who is fairly trusting, not all that tech savvy, and easily scared) could be tricked into letting this install on their...

This evening, Apple had started putting up Apple logos on Moscone West in preparation for WWDC 2011. WWDC kicks of next week on June 6th.  We've been told they've given up for the night, leaving the logo half complete. This first photo by MacRumors reader Tyler shows the half finished logos: Some earlier photos have already been posted by other sites and twitter users: From MacPl ...

Apple has detailed what changes have been made in the latest Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security update that was released earlier today. Besides adding specific detection for the "Mac Defender" malware, Apple has added a daily update to this database.Apple maintains a list of known malicious software that is used during the safe download check to determine if a file contains malicious software. The...

Find My Mac is likely one of the new Mac OS X Lion features that Steve Jobs will reveal at next week's WWDC keynote. One reader has noted that Find My Mac is mentioned when reinstalling the latest version of Mac OS X Lion.DP3 through software update failed for me so I decided to format the lion partition and install it again. This is the warning I got when I tried to install lion on a HFS+...

Apple last week announced a new worldwide repair program covering recent MacBook users against a defect that could cause the rubber surface on the bottom of some units to separate from the hard plastic case. Under the program, Apple will replace the bottom case of any affected machine free of charge for up to two years from the date of purchase.Apple has determined that under certain...