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There are not many accuracy the Macalope holds to be sacred , dear reviewer , but he has heard it said that if you were to put the articles written onForbes ’s web site remainder - to - end , you could take the air across this great nation of ours touching nothing but stupid . And he sees no reason to doubt this . Today on our journeying across America , we will pace on Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry ’s “ Apple And Amazon Earnings Show Once Again Jeff Bezos Is Steve Jobs ’ True Heir ” ( no link , blah blah ) ....

After just seven months at Apple , former chief operating officer of Dixons Retail John Browett is now former Senior Vice President of Retail at Apple . fit in to various story , Browett has been fired . Even as his appointee was announced in January ( Browett in reality began his role in April ) the selection ( Apple CEO Tim Cook ’s first hire ) has met with criticism ....

When Appleannounced new Macs last hebdomad , one thing that was notably absent from the new model demo was an ocular parkway . While Apple has been phasing out CD / DVD movement since the introduction of the MacBook Air in January 2008 , the shift has been slow and gradual . But on Tuesday , Apple dealt a big coke to the music and motion-picture show industries . If you see at Apple ’s current card of Macs , only two model check construct - in optic drives ....

Apple now owns the Granny Smith logos of Beatles newspaper publisher Apple Corps , which according to a 2007 agreement , it will licence back to Apple Corps . Gaining possession of the Granny Smith logotype was the final loose end in the long - standingdispute between Apple Inc and The Beatles’company Apple Corps that was resolved in UK courts back in 2007 . The dispute was settled in Apple Inc....

While Hurricane Sandy buffet the east seacoast on Monday , a hurricane of personnel changesblew through Apple : John Browett and Scott Forstall will be leaving the fellowship , Bob Mansfield ’s post - retirement problem at Apple formally has a name , and Jony I ve , Eddy Cue , and Craig Federighi are all get raw responsibilities . First , the good tidings : Eddy Cue , presently the senior frailty chairperson of Internet Software and Services , gets two new big project on his plate in the pattern of Siri and Maps — formerly Forstall ’s domain ....

Panorama image provide a broader sentiment of the world than typical exposure . With iOS 6 , Apple brought the ability to produce these bountiful picture to a pair of mobile machine : iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 . Two things tell the Panorama option in the Camera app from most other offerings . First , just how darn well it play . Even when I essay to screw up , it still produce an interesting pic ....

We ’ve covered Dragon Dictate — a program that allows you to dictate into your preferred covering , to save clock time and effort typewriting — over several iteration now . But the late releasedDragon prescribe 3 ( ) adds a recording feature that can be useful in sure situations . Here ’s how that feature works and how you may take advantage of it . About transcription recording differs from received speech recognition ....

If you have n’t already dictate that iPad mini , be prepared to wait : merchant vessels times on the raw tablet are already slew . Pre - orders for the new tablet opened on October 26 , with the promise that first buyers would receive their Wi - fi - enabled iPad minis on November 2 . But on-line buyers can no longer look such quick reversal : Apple ’s website now gauge shipping timeson the new tablet will take as long as two weeks ....

There are batch of great Mac accessories that we do n’t cover in standalone articles . Our Mac - accessory roundup gives them a home base — and gives you the latest info on stuff to make your Mac more utile . Just Mobile : This vendor of accessories is get laid for itsvarietyofaluminum stand , and the ship’s company has announced two new mannequin , the $ 50AluBaseand the $ 60AluRack ....

Our Verdict iBooks 3 is the latest variant of Apple ’s reading app for the iPhone , iPad , and iPod touch . Like all of its biggest competitors — Amazon ’s Kindle app chief among them — iBooks is free . In choosing your favour e - reading app , you ’re basically choosing which ecosystem you ’ll use for purchase the ebooks themselves . Kindle is n’t iBooks ’ only competitor , but it ’s worth mentioning one complete difference between the Kindle weapons platform and the iBooks platform : Both can synchronize your place when you read ebooks between dissimilar devices ....

It was a battle of CEO words last week as Microsoft ’s Steve Ballmer and Apple ’s Tim Cook were metaphorically locked into a practical cage in a no - words - block off battle royale ! CNBC brings us Ballmer ’s rationale forwhy the Surface beat the iPad(tip o ’ the antlers toThe Loop ): “ I do n’t believe anyone has done a product that I see customers want , ” Ballmer said Thursday on CNBC ’s “ Squawk Box ” ....

Steve Jobs ’ racing yacht has made what is believe to be its first public coming into court in Aalsmeer , Holland . The racing yacht , which was trace in Walter Isaacson ’s biography of Apple ’s belated co - founder , is baptize ‘ Venus , ’ after the Roman goddess of love and beauty , and is reportedly made with lightweight aluminium and is up to 80 metres long ....

Q : I have tons of mailbox folder in Mail , some of them nested several levels deep . Over the old age I ’ve charge thousands of messages in them , some of which I never marked as read . Is there a way to go through all those booklet and mark all of the messages as read ? Absolutely . You want to assure Mail to correct the read status attribute of every unread message in your Inbox , local mailboxes , and mailboxes on your mail waiter tofalse ....