Macgasm

A new report from the Japanese blog Macotakara states that Apple is testing an ARM-based, A5-powered MacBook Air.

The MacBook Air is currently powered by older Core2Duo silicon, with rumors of a Sandy Bridge version coming this summer. However, as it often is in these cases, there are also rumors that Apple could be swapping in ARM chips sometime in the future as well.

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BusinessWeek has new details on Apple’s forthcoming cloud music solution.

According to their sources, Apple’s product will have several unique features that will put it far ahead of Amazon and Google’s offerings.

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Most of the time, typos in email addresses end up in bounced messages. But other times, you email a Norwegian software development company instead of the star you thought you were writing.

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Since Angry Birds exploded on to our iDevices in a fit of feathers and colour, there has been a dearth of multi-level casual games on the iOS platform. The subsequent successor to the throne was Cut The Rope — a game that also had a gazillion levels with an addictive play-style.

The most recent game that I have come across that takes a stab at this formula is House Of Mice. You play as a mouse that is trying to collect his three cheeses – like in Cut The Rope – before finally blowing up the Cheshire Cat waiting at the end of the level, who is your goal for completion — like Om-Nom in Cut The Rope.

I think that you can already see which game this most resembles. There are some definite similarities between House Of Mice and Cut The Rope. The level select screen is similar, as is some of the core gameplay. But there are also some key differences.

This game is quite heavy on geometry. Instead of relying on gravity – like in Cut The Rope – you must fire your balled up mouse (I know how odd that sounds) into objects and off the walls to collect the cheeses and complete the level. Throughout the game you are trying to guess the angle at which you need to propel your mouse to achieve the desired effect. House of Mice is very heavy on trial and error.
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Apple is hoping to have all things worked out before WWDC so they have something to announce, something that’ll hold people over for the next couple of months, especially if the rumors of no iPhone 5 announcement are, in fact, true.

Apple has already inked deals with EMI Music, Warner Music, and Sony Music, and rumors of Universal Media jumping in are already being heard. The problem with this? Apple is still in need of publishing rights, and it looks like they’ll get them, but as with everything in technology, we have to see all angles of the coin.

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We reported earlier this month about Walt Disney Animation Studios releasing an open source OS X update server called Reposado. The idea behind the project is to give an open source alternative to update Mac OS X computers without going directly to Apple for each computer.

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Today, Amazon has launched a Mac Software Downloads store, a way for its customers to purchase digital copies of applications for the Mac.

Amazon says its has 250 of the biggest titles available for Mac. Several apps that aren’t availble in Apple’s own Mac App Store are present — including Office and Photoshop Elements. Amazon is also offering several well-known games from companies like EA.

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A federal court battle that broke out over claims that Samsung copied patented Apple designs for their Android line of products has heated up this week as a judge has ruled Samsung must hand over soon to be released prototypes.

Samsung initially claimed these to be secret models, but Apple was quick to point out several press releases announcing the products in question, as well as note that 5,000 Galaxy Tab 5.1s were handed out at the recent Google I/O Developer Conference. With this evidence in hand, speedy discovery was granted.

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