Too much Guitar Hero.

iOS 5 is available this autumn and here’s the thick of it. Hang in there, there’s quite a lot to take in: Read more…

From the mouth of the man himself, what is iCloud? “iCloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to all your device. It automatically uploads it, stores it, and pushes it to all your devices.”

By content we’re talking about pretty much everything; music, iBooks, photos and videos, device settings, and app data will all be backed up automatically when you connect to WiFi. Documents in the Cloud will effortlessly sync Pages, Numbers, and Keynote data between all of your iOS devices and calendars, mail and contacts will all sync for free. Read more…

Cloud based music services are all the rage as of late, first Amazon, then Google and predictably now Apple has entered the arena. The key difference being that Apple brings with it the backing of all five major music labels and some substantial experience and muscle in terms of online music downloads. Read more…

As usual, its well worth seeing this video to the end. This has to be the most characterful wooden box in the world.

Ever fancied a six course meal on the New York subway?

Another quiet day at Apple’s retail store in The Grove in L.A. until the stars of the Disney Channel’s latest production, Lemonade Mouth (no, me neither), decided to make a little viral video at Apple’s expense.

Hats off to the store’s employees for not overreacting and strong-arming the mob out of the store. However, given that Apple’s grande fromage Steve Jobs is the largest shareholder in Disney I can’t but think there may have been a little collusion in this prank, even if it were somewhere slightly higher up the corporate ladder. Funny nonetheless.

Carl Sagan’s poignant scientific poem about our existence alongside some brilliant animation.

Carlsberg don’t make video game Easter Eggs, it’s a good job EA and Crytek do.

Here it is, the iPad 2. No philandering, let’s get straight into what’s changed, what’s stayed the same and what’s missing. At first sight your eyes may deceive you into thinking the new beast is the same as it’s predecessor, but you’d be wrong, quite wrong in fact.

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