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Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers. “iPad will begin shipping soon and your opportunity to be part of the grand opening of the iPad App Store starts today,” the email says. There’s no details about when the store’s grand [...]

Happy Friday! Here’s this week’s selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include a $10 million treasure hunt, the excellent Murder, She Wrote, an opera for one and more. Stone Loops of Jurassica – Play an addictive game or 10 of this innovative twist on [...]

It’s time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac. This time, we review 4×4 Jam, A Doodle Fly, Business Card Reader, Gorillacam, Magnetic Joe, Magnetic Joe 2, Neocell Fighters Evolution, Noise.io LE, Rasta Monkey, Samurai: Way of the Warrior, and Ultimate Video [...]

It’s Friday, and we’re all a little tired, so welcome to a new weekly whatever here on Cult of Mac, where we’ll spend Friday afternoon feverishly anticipating the forthcoming weekend to be spent gaming on our iPhones with a beer balanced on our bellies. Let us know what you’re playing on your iPhone in the [...]

We close out the week (and winter in the U.S.) with a trio of MacBook deals. First up is a MacBook Pro with a 2.46GHz Core 2 Duo processor, along witha 15-inch screen for $999. Next is a 1.8GHz MacBook Air with 64GB of SSD memory for $1,199. Finally, is a fully tricked-out 17-inch MacBook [...]

For some time, Apple has viewed its Apple TV product as a ‘hobby.’ While the device has been updated occasionally, the streaming video gadget has not been seen as a weapon in Cupertino’s battle with Google for media supremacy. However, that may change as word leaks that Google, Intel and Sony have teamed-up for GoogleTV. A [...]

Back when everyone thought Apple’s tablet was going to be called the iSlate, HP stole the rumored name for their own iPad-esque wedge of aluminum and metal, the HP Slate, but the specs remained a mystery. Now Spanish gadget blog Clipset has the details on HP’s forthcoming tablet, confirming pretty much what we knew all [...]

Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week. He says OS X is full of security holes. There are lots more than in Windows, he claims. And yet: OS X is a safer system to use. Why? Because, in the words [...]

It was inevitable that Apple’s 27-inch iMac would eventually be stripped off the computer guts that drove it and pared down into Apple’s long-anticipated update to their original LED-backlit Cinema Display… and now that the 27-inch iMac’s perpetual quality assurance problems seem to have been ironed out, it looks like that’s just what we’re [...]

The National Trust is one of the UK’s national treasures – a charity that looks after all manner of old and ancient pieces of British heritage. That means owning and maintaining miles of coastline, acres of woodlands, heaths, mountains and gardens, and quite a few stately homes. The Trust is much loved, but it has something of [...]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuiXjmhZ4-8 While not a Final Fantasy game per se, Square-Enix’s latest game Chaos Rings (to be released sometime soonish for the iPhone and iPod Touch) has all the hallmarks of their most famous series of JRPGs. A white-haired protagonist wielding a sword bigger than the length of his body? Check. NPCs androgynously envisioned by character [...]

Although you can’t read a Mac publication or talk about Apple without stumbling over lengthy coverage of the iPad, for developers wanting a sneak peak before April 3, the story is much different. Much. In a 10-page document, Apple binds developers to the strictest rules of secrecy outside the CIA. In a requirement harkening back to [...]

A terse entry from the sometimes reliable Digitimes might spell bad news for MacBook owners waiting for an imminent hardware refresh: Intel is having a hard time meeting demand for their latest Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, the most likely CPU candidates for the next iteration of Cupertino’s laptop line. It all comes down [...]

Thanks to some great hardware design and some daringly surreptitious pricing agreements between Apple and the biggest publishers out there, Amazon’s Kindle e-reader has been feeling the pinch from the still unreleased iPad for the last few months, and it’s only going to get worse from here. Still, the Kindle has at least one advantage [...]

Despite last-minute hang-ups on getting content onto the iPad, Apple has sold “hundreds of thousands” of the tablet devices since the Cupertino, Calif. company began taking pre-orders a week ago. The report seems to mirror a Venezualan blogger and analyst who predicted Thursday Apple will reach the 200,000 mark sometime today. Apple could sell more iPads [...]

A couple of weeks ago I canceled my MobileMe account. Why? Because it didn’t do the one thing I wanted it to do: share my calendar with my wife so we could coordinate our busy lives. That’s all. I love MobileMe’s email, calendar, contact syncing (especially on the iPhone) and even iDisk. I gave Apple a [...]

You may have beat the crowd to pre-order an iPad, but when you pick it up April 3, Apple still doesn’t know content will be available for it. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Apple is “scrambling” to firm up content deals just weeks before the device ships. All of the usual unnamed insiders say that [...]

From the wonderful city of Manchester – birthplace of The Smiths and The Fall, unfairly mocked as Rain Capital of England – comes something wonderful and simple for your iPhone: the MoviePeg. It’s wonderful because it’s simple, and it’s simple because it’s really just a piece of plastic with a notch in it. But since no-one [...]

If ever you needed a sign that Apple was a different kind of technology company, this is it. What other computer manufacturer would remove its top-selling, hype-inducing, industry-altering new product from the prime spot on its website home page, and replace it with an obituary to an investor? This is one of those “Here’s to the [...]

As the week winds down, we offer three deals for Mac fans on the go. First up is Apple’s Nike+ armband for the iPod nano. For iPhone owners, we have Morphie’s JuicePack charging case battery pack for your handset. The unit provides 270 hours of standby or 4.5 hours of talk. Finally, if you are [...]