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10 October 2011
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Apple

It's a gross understatement to say that Steve Jobs had an influence on product design at Apple. If fact, Steve Jobs had such an influence on every aspect of product design that to say so could almost be classified as an outright lie. MacRumors reports that Steve Jobs has left four years' worth of products for the future Apple product lineup, products thought of by a man who created the industry-changing Macintosh. Products that you or I couldn't have even possibly imagined.
The iOS 5 gold master has already been released to developers, and the official release is mere days away — and already, one investigator has managed to find references to an AppleTV 3,1 — a model which currently does not exist. 9 to 5 Mac says there's the distinct possibility of an updated AppleTV, but with little external changes — instead, it's extremely likely that any changes will be purely internal.
For changing all kinds of hidden preferences on the Mac, it's hard to go past TinkerTool. There's a new version out for Lion, which allows users to tweak basically every possible aspect, from hidden Finder preferences, Dock, Safari, iTunes, and QuickTime X.
You might be able to get Steam on the Mac these days, but what about if you're really serious about gaming on the Mac? Is gaming in a virtualised environment — with, say, Parallels 7 — feasible? GigaOM tell us the good, the bad, and the ugly.
