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A Collection of Photographs From Inside Apple HQ

MacRumors | Jordan Golson

AppleGazette has assembled a large collection of photographs taken inside Apple Headquarters in Cupertino. The collection includes photos of the reception areas at 1 Infinite Loop, shots of the atriums, The Company Store, Apple's Town Hall auditorium, the Apple gymnasium and more.

Find Out if Your Mac Has the Flashback Trojan — the Fast and Easy Way

Mashable Tech | Christina Warren
According to a report Thursday, more than 600,000 Macs could be infected with the nasty Flashback trojan.

Mac Flashback Trojan: Find Out If You're Infected and What to Do About It

Mashable Tech | Samantha Murphy
Apple computer users may think they have nothing to worry about when it comes to contracting viruses and malware online, but a Russian antivirus company is reporting that 600,000 Macs are currently infected with a nasty trojan horse virus called "Flashback."

Apple Unveils Mac OS X Mountain Lion: So Long iChat, Hello Twitter

By Chris Taylor | Mashable Tech | February 16, 2012

Apple developers, start your engines. Mac users, start dreaming of how much cooler your desktop or laptop experience could be this summer. That's when Apple will launch the latest big cat-themed Mac OS X, version 10.8: Mountain Lion.

Apple Unveils Max Os

At 8:30 a.m. EST Thursday, the developer preview version of Mountain Lion was live and available to Apple's legions of app makers. Mashable was briefed on the new Mac OS prior to the announcement.

Protect your professional reputation on Facebook Timeline

by David Daw, PCWorld Jan 3, 2012
Facebook's new Timeline layout isn't available yet for businesses and Facebook hasn't announced plans to move pages over to the new layout, but that doesn't mean it doesn't affect you or your business.

PopClip brings iOS-like text-editing options to Mac OS X

By Dan Frakes, Macworld.com - January 4, 2012
ver since Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) was released, there's been controversy over the obvious influencePopClip of Apple's iOS. From gestures to scrolling to the overall interface, a good number of Mac users have complained that the Mac OS has become too similar to iOS. At the same time, there are people who wish OS X was more like iOS—or at least the good parts of it.

Upgrading Documents to the New Google Docs Editor

from Google Operating System, by Alex Chitu

Last year's update of the Google Docs word processor had an important flaw: no backwards compatibility. You couldn't open your old documents in the new editor and you couldn't even upgrade your existing documents to the new format. Even if it's not obvious, Google Docs has two word processors that handle two incompatible native formats.

Google's Guide to the Web

from Google Operating System by Alex Chitu

Google Chrome's comic book was a great way to introduce to the world a new browser, but not everyone knew what's an URL or a web app. "20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web" is a guidebook created by the Google Chrome team that tries to address this issue by explaining complicated terms like "Internet", "cloud computing", "JavaScript", "HTML5", "cookies", "URL", "IP address" using illustrations and real life analogies.

Social Media Revolution 2011

Part of the world's most watched Social Media video series; "Social Media Revolution" by Erik Qualman. Based on #1 International Best Selling Book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. This is a shorter version that includes new social media statistics for 2011.