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As many of you are aware, iOS4 introduced several APIs that bring some degree of multitasking to iOS applications: one of them was originally meant to give an app the extra chance to finish some worthy tasks before getting suspended: it’s called “Task Completion API”.

Unfortunately this API has become a free ticket for up [...]

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Lion recovery update installation woes

Last week Apple released “Lion recovery update” alongside OS X 10.7.2.

This component is required in order to use the “Find my Mac” functionality of iCloud. However, for some unknown reason, Software Update didn’t show Lion recovery among the available updates and even trying to download and manually install it from here returned a strange [...]

2011 MacBook Air gets Wi-Fi speed boost with OS X 10.7.2

One strangeness of the 2011 MacBook Air was its inability to reach the 300Mbit/s link speed when on 802.11n 5Ghz Wi-Fi networks; it would simply top up at 270Mbit/s.

Yesterday Apple released Mac OS X 10.7.2 and as soon as I updated the MacBook Air… voilà! Look with your own eyes.

Among the fixes [...]

Ask yourself: what real innovation has Microsoft ever done?

This is the only one I can think of.

If I recall correctly Microsoft informed the press of the product launch by shipping a mouseball to the reviewers.

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