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• 27 November 2012

• News: Remains of the Day: Seeing is believing

  Apple devices could let you get a little FaceTime Santa, Apple designs its retail stores with vision, and one musician wants to juice up your smartphone's camera. The remainders for Monday, November 26, 2012 are seen and not heard.

• 26 November 2012

• News: Apple to launch the iMac in five days, or sit on the naughty step

  Apple is running out of time if it is to meet its target of shipping the 21in iMac before the end of November. With the 30 November falling this Friday, Apple will have to ship the entry-level iMac before the end of the week.

• Buying Advice: Fractal Design Node 605 review: ultimate HTPC case?

  Overall we are in a bit of a quandary regarding the Fractal Design Node 605. It's a stylish chassis with a solid build. It does offer a lot of interior space, and a flexible lay-out. You can fit a full ATX motherboard, a full ATX power supply, and a fairly large graphics card. It makes it a great solution for an allround HTPC that can also handle a demanding video game. However, the question remains how useful it actually is to use ATX-sized components.

• 24 November 2012

• Opinion: Using the Task Manager

  One system tool that can be very useful when your computer grinds to a halt or, if you’re interested in what’s going on under the hood, simply to see which applications are using the most power is the Task Manager

• News: Introducing Macworld's Mac Basics Superguide for Mountain Lion

  Going home for the holidays? Keep the tech talk off the table this year by answering your family's tech support questions with a copy of Macworld's Mac Basics Superguide, now updated for Mountain Lion.

• 23 November 2012

• News: The Week in OS X Apps: Giving thanks

  Sometimes it's tough to keep up with all the Mac-app updates and new releases, especially over the holidays. Your friends at Macworld have put together a selection of notable new arrivals.

• News: Designer Philippe Starck reveals design process behind Steve Jobs' super yacht

  Philippe Starck, the French designer who helped late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs design his yacht, has revealed the process that led to the final creation of the boat, which made its first public appearance in October.

• News: Survey: Apple's Mac line-up still tops consumer satisfaction and reliability

  Consumer Reports has published the results of its annual Product Reliability Survey, which found that Apple is still coming out on top for consumer satisfaction and reliability.

• News: Apple returns Snow Leopard to Apple Store

  Apple is selling Snow Leopard on its online store again. The software, which many Mac users discovered that they required following their recent upgrade to iOS 6, costs £14.

• 22 November 2012

• Opinion: How to use Windows Action Center

  Action Center is a central place to view alerts and take actions that can help keep Windows running smoothly.

• 20 November 2012

• News: Venture beyond the Mac App Store

  The Mac App Store is great for the majority of simple applications you might want to purchase. But there are plenty of other apps—ones from registered Apple developers but not in the Store—for you to explore and try. Here are some of the ways to find such apps, get them onto your computer, and keep them up-to-date.

• News: New thinner iMac not delayed, Apple shipping now

  Following on from claims that Apple's new thinner iMac is delayed and will not ship before Christmas, today reports are suggesting that the new all-in-ones are still on track for the November launch of the 21in iMac, and the December launch of the 27in version.

• Opinion: Create a backup image of your hard drive

  You can easily insure yourself against any loss however by using free tools that are built into Windows

• 19 November 2012

• News: Windows 8 PC orders weak, says analyst

  Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year, an analyst said today.

• 16 November 2012

• News: Stop. Don't buy an Apple product until next Friday's Black Friday sale

  If you are in the market for some new Apple goodies you might just want to wait one more week before ordering. Apple is likely to run a Black Friday promotion in the UK on Friday 23 November, and you could see savings of as much as £81 of a MacBook Air on that day.

• News: The unexplored history of translucent Apple design

  The arrival of the iMac in 1998 signaled more than a renaissance for Apple; it sparked a widespread industrial design revolution. Apple’s teardrop-shaped machine gained a large part of its appeal from its translucent Bondi blue plastic housing, which dramatically set the iMac apart from a sea of beige-boxed PCs.

• 15 November 2012

• News: Dell profit slides 47 percent amid weak PC market

  Dell on Thursday reported a sharp drop in revenue and profits for the third quarter as the weak PC market continued to weigh on its results.

• News: Evernote 5 launches with revised interface, new search and collaboration features

  Evernote for Mac, the much-lauded productivity app that lets users collect pictures, text, and more to document their lives and their research, received a major new update Thursday with changes to the interface and new options for searching and sharing one's notes.

• News: New iMacs delayed, delivery before Christmas unlikely

  Retail sources in France suggest that expectations that 21in iMacs would arrive on 27 November (the day after Thanksgiving in the US) have been dashed.

• News: Lenovo announces a clutch of Win 8 all-in-ones; a thin Win 8 desktop

  Lenovo Thursday introduced the IdeaCentre Q190, a follow-up to its Q180, which came out earlier this year.

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