iMac Top Choice Among All-in-Ones

With its ?souped-up? CPU and graphics performance, beautiful design, and best-in-class display, the 27-inch iMac earns a 9/10 rating and an Editors? Choice award from Computer Shopper. Noting iMac?s strong productivity performance and excellent gaming capabilities, reviewer Jonathan Rougeout concludes: ?In almost every way, this top-of-the-line model beats every other all-in-one on the market.?

Source: http://computershopper.com/desktops/reviews/apple-imac-27-inch-2011-version

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Angry customers respond to fake Apple Stores

A casual blog piece about a fake Apple Store in Kunming, China went viral this week and exposed a thriving underground retail industry based on false appearances. From the inside and out, these fake Apple stores look real, but they're not. And their customers who are just now discovering the truth about these stores are not too pleased.

Take, for example, Ms. Wang who spent 14,000 yuan ($2,170) on an iPhone and a 13-inch Macbook from the fake Kunming store. She spent a lot of money and doesn't know if her notebook and a phone are fake. She never received a receipt and the store, not surprisingly, refuses to help.

Ironically, these fake store owners are also upset. Up until now, they have been operating under the radar, but now the eyes of the world are upon them, scrutinizing what they do. Some are defending their practices, others just want the spotlight to go away.

Now there's a hunt for more fake Apple Stores across the globe, as Reuters reports. Fake Apple Stores have been reported in Colombia, Costa Rica and Vietnam.

It's a crazy situation. Thus far, Apple has remained silent. It'll be interesting to see how the company will respond to such blatant forgery.

Angry customers respond to fake Apple Stores originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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10.7: Xcode 4.1 for Lion is free on the App Store

Something of a public service announcement; if you haven't noticed you can download the Xcode Developer Tools from the Mac App Store for free now.

This is version 4.1 and appears to be Lion-only. It's about a 3 GB download and one can only hope that Apple will implement the delta update system for Xcode, so you don't have to download the whole package every time there is an SDK change.

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Apple TV 101: Create a genius playlist on Apple TV

Of late, the Apple TV hasn't received all that much attention here at TUAW. We can only assume that's because it simply does what it says on the tin -- it just works! But the other day, I found myself trying to do something quite simple on my Apple TV, and it wasn't "just working!"

Using AirPlay to stream music from my Mac to my Apple TV (2nd generation) downstairs, I wanted to create a genius playlist on the Apple TV without going upstairs to my Mac or using the Remote app. Using the Apple remote, I started scrolling through all the various menu options to try and find any way to create a genius playlist from a particular artist's song, but I couldn't find anything anywhere. Out of sheer frustration -- guests were knocking at the door -- I squeezed the Apple remote and accidentally pushed down and held the center select button. All of a sudden, a menu appeared out of nowhere with a "start genius" option. Crisis averted!

So there you go. To create a genius playlist on an Apple TV (2nd generation), go to the artist's song you want to start the playlist with, hold down the center select button on the Apple Remote and click on "Start Genius."

Apple TV 101: Create a genius playlist on Apple TV originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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