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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
10.7 Lion allows multi-user remote computing — iMac screen sharing with MacBook Air on a different account — Yesterday we told you that the popular Back to my Mac feature might go free with 10.7 Lion and we also told you the service received a few tweaks in Lion.
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MacGazette.net and AllNewsMac, Thanks:appleonic
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Lion's ‘Signature Capture’ in Preview photographs your written signature to put in PDFs — This new feature in Mac OS X 10.7, discovered by reader Mime454, really wows us. It's called ‘Signature Capture’ and it allows you to write your signature with a black pen on a piece of paper …
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Examiner and MacStories
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple adds SSD TRIM support to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion beta — Apple has added limited TRIM support to the latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which should enhance the long term performance of Solid State Drives. — While Apple has already started incorporating SSDs into its Macs …
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News, MacRumors, TUAW, The NeoSmart Files, Gizmodo, ZDNet and Engadget, Thanks:lockergnome
Arn / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Lion's Safari is Snappier and More Stable Thanks to WebKit2
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9 to 5 Mac, Apple Gazette and TiPb
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple has added a new option in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to simplify …
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Examiner, MacStories, AllNewsMac and CNET News
AppleInsider:
Mac OS X Lion drops Front Row, Java runtime, Rosetta
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9 to 5 Mac, VentureBeat and The Register
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Podcast Publisher lets you run your own shows, debuts in 10.7 Lion
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MacNN, AppleInsider and 9 to 5 Mac
Vadim Lavrusik / Mashable!:
Facebook Like Button Takes Over Share Button Functionality — Say goodbye to the Share button because the Like button is taking over. — After months of updates to its Like button, Facebook has released an update that fundamentally changes the button's functionality to that of a Share button.
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The Blog Herald, @dannysullivan, Tony Adam, Soshable and The Next Web
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
All of Facebook's Like Buttons on Third-Party Sites Now Publish a Full News Feed Story — When users click the Like or Recommend button on a third-party website or Facebook it, it now publishes a full feed story instead of just a one-line Recent Activity Story.
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Ive due $30m stock windfall, may seek relocation back to UK — Other than Steve Jobs's brain, the mind most clearly at work in Apple's history of compelling and human-centric products belongs to Jonathan ‘Jony’ Ive, 44. After joining Apple in 1992, he rose to become the company's senior vice president …
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SAI, BGR, Electronista, Erictric, The Loop and Edible Apple, Thanks:miketrose
Zach Epstein / BGR:
BlackBerry PlayBook will support Android apps, RIM rep proclaims [video] — BGR exclusively reported in January that Research in Motion was hard at work trying to add support for Android applications to the BlackBerry PlayBook and its QNX-based OS. The move would be a huge one …
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Engadget, MobileWhack and Techie Buzz
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
Thoughts on Angel List, “Social Proof”, “Spray & Pray”, & The Network Effects of Large Scale Investing — (ok folks, i've gotta take the kids to basketball practice in a few hours, so will try to power through this — that means limited crazy fonts, profanity, wild pix... sorry little monsters, next time ;)
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Learn to Duck, @rabois, @scobleizer, @carterac, @mattmireles and @peterchane, Thanks:davemcclure
Liz Shannon Miller / GigaOM:
Where to Watch the Oscars Online and on iOS Devices — Oscar night! A night of glamour, great moments in film and gripes that your favorite films were overlooked. Also, it's just another occasion to observe how technology has changed the awards show experience.
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Examiner, @alexia, Engadget, Mashable!, TMCnet, New Florence. New Renaissance and NYConvergence.com
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
The Socialized and Appified Oscars
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Mashable!, Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, George Nimeh, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Search Engine Watch, ReelSEO Online Video … and ReadWriteWeb
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Google acknowledges Gmail issues as users complain of missing emails — Google has acknowledged a problem with its popular Gmail email service after users reported missing emails, labels and contacts over the past few hours. — The Huffington Post reports that some users had been using …
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Engadget and The Huffington Post
Edward James Bass / The Next Web:
Kinect's Exciting Future as a Musical Instrument — Shortly after its release in November last year Kinect, Microsoft's motion sensor controller for the Xbox 360, was hacked and automatically opened up to a whole range of interesting functions beyond its intended purpose.
David Gelles / Financial Times:
JPMorgan fund eyes 10% stake in Twitter — A JPMorgan fund is in talks to acquire a substantial stake in Twitter, one of the fastest-growing social networking sites. — The fund hopes to acquire 10 per cent of the online messaging service for $450m, valuing Twitter at $4.5bn, according to people familiar with the plans.
Thanks:dgelles
