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Release Date The latest rumors regarding the iPhone 5 indicate that the official release date will be officially announced during the next Apple event which is to be held on September 12th 2012. According to Verizon CFO, Fran Shammo, Apple (AAPL) will stick to last year's release date and launch the iPhone 5 in October 2012. Although during the 2012 WWDC we had the opportunity to get some more details about iOS 6, no hardware specifications were released. source - 9to5mac.com Larger Screen The iPhone 5 is rumoured to have a larger, 4 inch retina display. source - Apple.pro Nano SIM According to the Financial Times, mobile carriers in Europe are stocking up on Nano SIM cards. This might be related to the release of the next generation iPhone. Smaller Dock Connector Another wide spread rumour is that Apple will release the iPhone 5 with a smaller, 8 pin dock connector. This means that new cables will be available for  new Apple devices released in the future. Did you hear any new rum...

Things are looking good for Apple in 2012, reaching 3 million downloads soon after the release. This makes OS X Mountain Lion the most successful desktop release in the history of Apple. The company also sold 26 million iPhones, 4 million Macs, 6.8 million iPods and 17 million iPads during the third quarter. New Features The ninth version on OS X adds more than 200 new features to Apples desktop operating system. The spotlight shins on a few major additions but OS X 10.8 includes numerous small tweaks which will make the Apple experience ever more pleasant. iCloud iCould integrates all you Apple devices with wireless capabilities. After loging in with your Apple ID on a Mac or iOS device any change you make on any other device where you are logged into iCloud will be syncronized. Notes Perfectly integrated with iCloud, Notes offers a good alternative to Evernote. Reminders Reminders, also integrated wit iCloud, offers the option to create multiple lists. You can view this lists on you ...

The new Apple ads campaign aired during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics have received a lot of criticism from the media.  The new Apple ads are supposed to be aimed at first time users but the negative part, according to the online chatter, is that it scares away existing Apple customers. The ads focus on the Apple Genius helping out totally incompetent users, implying that you have to be a genius to manage to work with "the most intuitive software". In case you haven't had the "pleasure" here is a preview. Sad to see Apple taking this path considering that they got all this right some time ago. Remember the great "I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC" adds? Those were also aimed at new users but managed to give existing Apple customers a totally different feeling. Here are some of the good ones. Do you have a different opinion? Leave a comment.

I ran into this issue a while ago after making to many changes to my dock and wanting to restore it to its original settings. I had moved most of the icons in the dock around, resized the dock and also positioned it on the left side of the screen. As you can see the dock is missing the contacts icon, the iTunes icon and several others. It is also positioned on the left size of the screen and has been resized. Since there is no restore to defaults option under System Preferences  i found that the easiest solution is to restore the dock from the terminal. Here is how you can do that: Open a new Terminal Window (you can do this by hitting command + space and typing terminal) Type defaults delete com.apple.dock  and hit Return Type  killall Dock and hit Return This should restore your dock to its original settings, rearrange all icons in the proper order, reposition your dock at the bottom of your screen and reset its size. Here's a video demonstrating this quick method of re...

Download & Installation You can download OS X Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store  and upgrade from OS X Lion 10.7 or do a clean install from an external hard drive or a DVD. I will offer a quick tutorial on installing OS X 10.8 from a 8GB USB drive since the MacBook Air does not have an optical drive. The upgrade process from OS X 10.7 Lion to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is pretty self explanatory so i will not offer a tutorial on that. If you prefer a clean installation you can follow the steps below. What you will need A copy of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion which you can purchase from the Mac Apps Store; A USD drive larger than 4.8 GB; A compatible Mac (check the list below to make sure your Mac is compatible with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion before the purchase); iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminium or Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer) Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) Xserve (Early 2009...

Download & Installation You can download OS X Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store  and upgrade from OS X Lion 10.7 or do a clean install from an external hard drive or a DVD. I will offer a quick tutorial on installing OS X 10.8 from a 8GB USB drive since the MacBook Air does not have an optical drive. The upgrade process from OS X 10.7 Lion to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is pretty self explanatory so i will not offer a tutorial on that. If you prefer a clean installation you can follow the steps below. What you will need A copy of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion which you can purchase from the Mac Apps Store A USD drive larger than 4.8 GB A compatible Mac (check the list below to make sure your Mac is compatible with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion before the purchase) iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminium or Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) Mac Mini (Early 2009 or newer) Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) Xserve (Early 2009) D...