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Simple, Slick, Superb: Pocket For Mac Does Save-For-Later Right [Review]

Simple, Slick, Superb: Pocket For Mac Does Save-For-Later Right [Review]

Empty your pocket, all over your desktop

I confess, I was prepared to dismiss Pocket for Mac when I first heard about it.

After all, I thought: I already have Pocket on my Mac. It sits in my browser, where its life began and where I think it belongs. It is software born of the web. It should live on the web.

But I changed my mind pretty fast after trying out the native app, downloaded from the Mac App Store. Because it’s gorgeous.

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Wikipedia Going Dark In a Few Hours, Here Are The Apps You Need to Survive the Blackout

Wikipedia Going Dark In a Few Hours, Here Are The Apps You Need to Survive the Blackout

The anti-SOPA forces banner; you might be seeing this quite a bit tomorrow.

If you need information from Wikipedia, you’d best get it very quickly; in just a few hours, at 9 P.M. PST (5:00 UTC for our European readers), a coalition of sites across the web — including Wikipedia’s English site, Boing Boing and Reddit — will go dark for a day, displaying this page instead of their usual home pages.

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With Way Too Many People To Talk To Siri Goes Offline Temporarily [Outages]

With Way Too Many People To Talk To Siri Goes Offline Temporarily [Outages]

We have no doubts at Cult of Mac that iPhone 4S sales this week-end are going to be a blow out and the first thing people will probably try to do after obtaining their iPhone 4S is to converse with Siri.  Well it looks like this morning with way too many people to talk to Siri has gone offline or maybe its just out on a coffee break.

I had a late day yesterday and I’m only now getting around to playing around with and testing Siri. I think the rest of you might have worn it out since it isn’t as snappy as it was yesterday when I tried  a few preliminary requests.

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Apple Updates Find My iPhone Improves Offline Device Support

Apple Updates Find My iPhone Improves Offline Device Support

Apple has updated Find My iPhone today to improve support for devices that are offline.

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