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One of the most talked about missing features that Apple users are clamoring for is a way to access their entire iTunes library while they are away from their computers. One possible way for this to happen is for Apple to create an iTunes-streaming service that could allow iOS users to connect to a server in the cloud to listen to their music collection.

It has been rumored that Apple is working on a service that will do exactly as specified above. Bloomberg is reporting additional evidence by saying that Sony Music has joined EMI and Warner Music to allow licensing of their music to be used on Apple’s Cloud Music service.

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Other World Computing (OWC), supplier of many parts for new and old Macs, has gone in-depth into the reported restriction of Apple’s mid-2011 iMacs. The issue is that if a non-Apple hard drive is placed into the 2011 iMac, the fans will eventually spin at their maximum speed and the iMac will fail the Apple Hardware Test.

Apple is using custom firmware on their supplied hard drives to monitor the thermal properties of the hard drive while it is operating. In order to accomplish this task, Apple must use a special 7-pin SATA cable with the additional two pins being used for thermal monitoring.
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Some Apple users who have updated to iOS 4.3.3 have begun reporting that they are experiencing issues regarding data connectivity over Wi-Fi.

The issue, at least from reports, is that the device is not retrieving the proper IP address settings when connected to a local network. There are some potential options for fixing the issue, including restoring the phone, resetting the network, and even doing a hard reset. None of these options worked reliably for any user. One user did contact Apple and they told him to bring his phone to the Apple store and get it swapped out.

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In one of the largest purchases that the Microsoft has made, Skype was recently purchased for $8.5 billion. Many have speculated that with this purchase, Microsoft will kill the Mac OS X and Linux Clients. Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has allayed the fear that non-Microsoft platforms will no longer receive Skype updates. (more…)

One of the biggest complaints regarding Amazon’s initial launch of their Cloud Player was that if a user wanted to listen to a song they would have to download the song and use Mobile Safari’s mp3 playing ability to listen to the song. Well, Amazon has changed this behavior and you can now play songs using the ‘Play’ button that is shown on the lower-left corner of the screen.

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One of the things that anybody who has a dedicated, or virtual dedicated, webserver must do is upload some of their initial batch of data via FTP to their web host. There are many applications that can manage this daunting task, including Mac OS X’s own terminal. However, not many of these provide a user-friendly interface. It is for this reason that ForkLift stands out from the masses.

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Apple has acquired a patent that could allow a device to connect to different types of networks, all within a single device, specifically relating to paging. That’s paging, as in old-school pagers. You know, back in the mid-90′s when pagers were the hip thing to have. Pagers are still used in the medical industry and in non-cellular connected areas.

The patent that Apple has acquired could allow Apple to integrate an iOS device to be compatible with more than a single network infrastructure. Currently, pagers only connect to a single network, typically a cellular network. Apple’s patent could expand this to cover not just cellular, but also 3G, LTE, and even ad-hoc, or peer-to-peer, networks.
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Sony is getting into the tablet market with the unveiling of the S1 and S2 Android-based tablets. More specifically, the tablets run Honeycomb, Android 3.0 which is optimized for tablet devices. The two tablets will be the first devices released by Sony to somewhat compete with the iPad.

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