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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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Download Squad, MacGazette.net and AllNewsMac, Thanks:appleonic
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Arn / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Lion's Safari is Snappier and More Stable Thanks to WebKit2 — Starting in Mac OS X Lion, we've learned that Apple has started utilizing WebKit2 in their Safari web browser. The advanced version of Apple's Webkit engine was first announced in April of 2010.
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Apple Gazette and TiPb
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:
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Apple adds SSD TRIM support — 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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Softpedia News, TUAW, MacRumors, The NeoSmart Files, Gizmodo, ZDNet and Engadget, Thanks:lockergnome
AppleInsider:
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: New Migration Assistant helps Windows PC switchers
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TechCrunch, Examiner, MacStories, AllNewsMac and CNET News
AppleInsider:
Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Missing Front Row, Rosetta and Java runtime
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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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AppleInsider, MacNN and 9 to 5 Mac
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 within a Facebook app, it now publishes a full news feed story instead of just a one-line Recent Activity story.
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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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@dannysullivan, Tony Adam, Soshable, The Blog Herald and The Next Web
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, The Huffington Post, Techie Buzz and NBC Bay Area
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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BetaNews, AppleInsider, MacRumors, BGR, SAI, Electronista, The Loop, Erictric 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, PhoneDog.com, 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, @mattmireles, @carterac and @peterchane, Thanks:davemcclure
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple testing Android-like gesture-based lock screen for iOS — Apple has been working on a new gesture-based lock screen for iOS devices that works similarly to Android's “dots” lock screen feature. The user sets up a pattern and needs to input that same pattern in, instead of a password or a four number code.
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AllNewsMac, Shoutpedia and Electronista
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!, NBC Bay Area, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, George Nimeh, Mashable!, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Search Engine Watch, ReelSEO Online Video … and ReadWriteWeb
