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iMac Touch Finally Shows Up in Patent - And It Runs Both OS X and iOS

There’s this iMac Touch rumor that has been floating around on the internet for quite a while now: back in January Digitimes reported that Apple was working on a 22-inch touch-enabled Mac in addition to the iMac line, then 2 months ago LoopRumors claimed that Apple was developing a touchscreen iMac running iOS. I called that rumor “absurd”, and you know why? Because a desktop computer running only iOS doesn’t make sense.

But a desktop computer capable of transitioning from OS X to iOS depending on the device’s orientation? Now that’s interesting.

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moveAddict: Cut & Paste for Mac OS X

Mac users who owned a Windows machine miss one thing from Finder: cut & paste. The move command, the possibility to cut a file from its original position and paste it in another one without the need to copy it. Mac OS X lack this feature by default.

I’ve recently stumbled upon a nice little tweak by Kapeli, moveAddict, which enables the aforementioned functionality and doesn’t get in the way. It’s available for free (1 cut at a time), but you can buy a “Pro” version which lets you move multiple files at once. Of course, the app works with the standard ⌘ + X and ⌘ + V shortcuts, but you can opt for custom ones. The app lives in the menubar, and notifies you when a file has been cut and pasted.

Free, or 5 bucks for the paid version. Useful.

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Apple Hiring To Work on Revolutionary OS X Feature

We don’t know what the Mac OS X gang is working on down at Cupertino, but they’re looking to hire a young expert (maybe such as yourselves) who have lots of experience in the Objective-C, HTTP Protocols, and everything else on top of that. If you’re thinking cloud computing, you’ve read my mind.

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