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Steve Wozniak’s open letter asks FCC to keep the Internet free

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has written an open letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concerning the subject of Net Neutrality.

In it, Wozniak runs down his history with telecom and details the various headaches he’s dealt with as a result of monopoly companies and government policies. With several examples, Woz points out how innovation and experimentation will be stifled if new rules concerning net neutrality are passed into law.

The brains behind Beats Music is suing for $20 million

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David Hyman says Beats unfairly fired him after acquiring his music service MOG
David Hyman says Beats unfairly fired him after acquiring his music service

Beats Electronics’ co-founders are preparing to dive headfirst into a pool of cool Apple cash but before Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre collect their check from Cupertino, a former employee is already preparing to sue Beats for upwards of $20 million.

David Hyman, co-founder of the music subscription service MOG, has filed a lawsuit against Beats claiming he was hired and then deliberately fired before he could cash in on the equity grant he was promised.

Solving the mystery of OS X’s missing /Users folders

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You know that saying about someone being so smart that they've forgotten more about a certain subject than the average person has ever known? Much the same could be said for Apple and good ideas. While not every concept in the company's history have been winners, there are a good few we'd love to see Apple take another crack at revolutionizing -- whether it's because they're potential mass market winners, or just because we'd personally like them.Which ones made the grade? Check put the gallery above to find out.
You know that saying about someone being so smart that they've forgotten more about a certain subject than the average person has ever known? Much the same could be said for Apple and good ideas. While not every concept in the company's history have been winners, there are a good few we'd love to see Apple take another crack at revolutionizing -- whether it's because they're potential mass market winners, or just because we'd personally like them.

Which ones made the grade? Check put the gallery above to find out.


The majority of people who upgraded to OS X 10.9.3 yesterday noticed what seemed to be a strange glitch, in the form of their /Users and /Users/Shared folders disappearing. In fact, the fault doesn’t have to do with 10.9.3 at all, but rather occurs if you’ve updated to iTunes 11.2 and also have Find My Mac enabled.

Fortunately, there’s a workaround.

Forget about Dre, Will.i.Am is going to make a fortune off Beats too

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Dr. Dre has been busy celebrating the Beats acquisition with fountains of Hennessy but the world’s favorite hip-hop producer isn’t the only musician who stands to make a fortune off Apple’s big purchase.

Enter William Adams. You probably know him by his stage name, Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. He’s been pimping the Beats brand since day one and for his loyalty he’s been blessed with founding shares in the company that stand to make him more money than he ever saw from his Grammy-winning song, “I Gotta Feeling.”

Steve Jobs lands with a thud in controversial mattress ads

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"You, go out and get me the softest mattress you can find!"

Someone in global ad agency Oglivy & Mather is clearly thinking different (read: not really thinking at all) because they’ve featured Steve Jobs as one of the historical figures in a bizarre, and bafflingly offensive, ad campaign for Indian mattress company Kurl-On.

The theme of the ads is the idea of bouncing back (because, you know, mattresses have bounce in them) with famous people shown recovering from low points in their life to “bounce back” to greater levels of success. Jobs’ own advert shows him being booted out of Apple in 1985, only to return to glory as the creator of the iPad.

Insanely huge iPad Pro dummy part leaks out of China

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The rumor: Images of an alleged "iPad Pro" rear shell land on Chinese website Weibo, adding to speculation that Apple is prepping a 12.9-inch slate.

The verdict: There's no way the Weibo image is a genuine Apple product. At best it's a dummy part based on assumed specs; at worst it's just a Photoshop job.


A metallic back for what appears to be a larger ‘iPad Pro’ has been posted on the Chinese forum Weibo. The part looks to be for an unreleased 12.9-inch model, and the same person has also shared images of an iPhone 6 dummy that matches previous leaks.

Friday Deals: iLevel by Rain Design and Hacker Monthly [Deals]

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We all get tired of having an aching back. Sitting hunched over your laptop puts stress on your body which can seriously cramp your style.

It’s time to sit back and relax because Rain Design’s iLevel will take the physical pain out of your work and allow you to easily share and adjust your screen for increased comfort. iLevel is just one of the deals we’re offering today from Cult of Mac Deals, and it’s priced at only $59 for a limited time!

Wood works magic in Grain Audio’s amazing walnut speakers

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Grain Audio designer Chris Weir is serious about sound. Photos: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac

Designer Chris Weir is dismissive of products that take a Swiss Army knife approach to features. He thinks a speaker should be a speaker — and nothing else.

“It’s a speaker, not a speakerphone,” he says.

He’s talking about his Packable Wireless Speaker System, a diminutive Bluetooth speaker he designed for Grain Audio, a hot audio startup. Weir resisted all temptation to add a microphone (for phone calls) or the ability to charge phones from its internal battery. It’s just a speaker, and a surprisingly good one at that.

In a market crowded with dozens of unexceptional, me-too products, Grain Audio stands out. Not only are all of its products made of wood (solid walnut, not wood veneer), Grain’s products do one thing, and one thing well: Pump out sound.

I tried split-screen multitasking on the iPad, and here’s what I discovered

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OS X brought to iOS

Almost from the start, iPad users have begged and pleaded with Apple to add a missing feature: split-screen multitasking.

Split-screen multitasking is the ability to run two or more apps simultaneously, side by side, just like you can on a desktop computer. But iOS, of course, is the antithesis of traditional multitasking. You can have only one app on the screen at a time.

That may be about to change. Apple is rumored to be adding multitasking to the iPad in iOS 8, which is expected to be shown to developers at next month’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference.

With split screen multitasking, you could write a paper in Pages on the left while researching in Safari on the right. You may even be able to drag and drop items between the two apps, like photos or chunks of text.

For some, this would be nirvana. Better multitasking would turbocharge the iPad, especially for work, right?.

Microsoft loves to crow about the Surface 2 tablet’s ability to multitask, which in Redmond’s eyes makes the tablet appear more suited for work than watching cat videos. Some iPad users have been lobbying for it for years. The feature has been the subject of plenty UI mockups, design videos, and jailbreak tweaks.

My iPad Air is jailbroken, and for the last week I’ve been using a new jailbreak tweak called OS Experience, which allows me to have split-screen multitasking.

I’ve tried using it as part of my daily workflow. And what I found was surprising.

Flappy Bird dev gives tantalizing peek at his next addictive game

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Dong Nguygen struck App Store gold when Flappy Bird became the viral video game hit of the year in early 2014, but after seeing the addicting affects of flapping it first hand, Nguyen says he’s working on a new game that doesn’t involve feathery friends, green pipes or repetitive deaths.

Nguygen took to Twitter this afternoon to give fans a preview of his next his next addicting game by posting a screenshot showing a small helmeted man jumping between two buildings; simple, clean, and probably just as addictive as his original hit.