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Today in Cupertino, Apple introduced us to some pretty incredible updates, as usual. The first announcement was pretty expected. Apple introduced us to iLife 11 featuring iPhoto 11, iMovie 11, GarageBand 11, and the other usuals. iPhoto now includes full screen mode, enhanced social networking tools, enhanced book and card creation and of course they threw in a few more slideshow themes. iMovie now has enhanced tools for editing audio inside clips, more video effects, news and sports themes and movie trailer creation templates. GarageBand now includes the ability to automatically reorder and sync audio clips of various instruments into a nice sounding tune. Also, music lessons for Piano and Guitar have also been topped up and now monitor you as you learn and show your mistakes and improvements. Apple also threw in by popular demand, FaceTime. It allows you to have a video call with an iPhone 4 or iPod touch on your Mac. It’s not part of iLife 11 and is available as a beta here now. We could all see a lion in the picture and yes, 10.7 Lion is here! Apple says they brought many popular iOS features More…

Tomorrow Apple will be holding their “Back to the Mac” event in Cupertino. You can guess it got its title to symbolize that they finally have something new for Macs after all the recent iOS news. With each event announcement comes a photo. The photo for this event features an apple logo pealed back revealing a lion, possibly the name of the new Mac OS 10.7. Although the Apple OS systems are usually not released to the users for a whole year after announced, it is still definitely something to be excited about. The MacBook air is also rumored to be updated, with a smaller screen, possibly 11″. The “MacTouch” is yet another rumor that has been floating around the internet for quite a long time. Apple sent in patents for a large touch type mac. While this seems a little unreasonable, it is definitely possible as Apple strives to be the best and first in everything. The last rumor is the 7″ iPad, almost like a little brother to the 10″ iPad that has already been out for 6 months. This is almost More…

By now you’ve probably heard of the movie “The Social Network”. A movie centered around an “average” nerd that attends Harvard and wants to amp his social life through the internet. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the infamous site Facebook, had a movie made about him and his journey from being a geeky nobody, to the world’s youngest billionaire. As always with Hollywood movies, there is drama. Drama, that could to some, ruin Mark Zuckerberg. When asked what he thought about the movie he replied, “It’s a movie. It’s fun. A lot of it is fiction. Even the filmmakers will say that.” Zukerberg was asked to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and announced his 100 million dollar donation to New Jersey public schools. Some believe this was a major Public Relations move to help mask all the bad things he did in college. Oprah said she asked Zuckerberg to appear on the show, he wanted it to be an anonymous gift and that the timing had more to do with her More…

Twitter, the social network that lets you update your status about your every move, has had a face lift. It is the talk of the internet and has pleased many users, but what does the “New Twitter” offer? To start off it has a completely new design. The time line is now to the left where you can still find all your features such as @ replies, retweets etc. To your right you still see features that you are familiar with such as trending topics and your followers. Another addition is seeing photos from Flickr, DailyBooth, TwitPic etc. is much easier and is directly on Twitter. Twitter also added “Mini Profiles” where you can click a username on your time line and learn a little snip-it about the user. If you are worried about not having the “New Twitter” yet don’t worry, many other users are still waiting for it as well. It will start popping up on many computers in upcoming weeks. Do you have the new Twitter ? Leave a comment and tell us what you think. Don’t forget to watch Alec’s video demo of some of its features.

Today at Research In Motion’s annual BlackBerry Developer Conference, CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet, The PlayBook. This tablet will run a new OS called “The BlackBerry tablet OS”. The 7 inch tablet has a 3 mega pixel front facing camera for video conferencing and a 5 mega pixel rear facing camera capable of shooting full 1080p video. Yes, it’s able to handle Flash content via Flash 10.1, and it’s Cortex A9-based with dual-core 1GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, equipped with an HDMI port as well as a microUSB jack, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, and Bluetooh 2.1. They’re calling it the fastest tablet ever. The device is also a tiny 5.1 by 7.6 inches, is only 0.4-inches thick, and weighs just 400g, about 0.9 pounds. That is one sleek device but, BlackBerry did not announce the PlayBook’s battery life. When it comes to interface, the tablet looks to be a mix of webOS and BlackBerry OS. RIM didn’t hand out any solid launch dates beyond “Early 2011,” and of course, there was no mention of retail price. With that “monster” of a tablet, will the iPad be affected? More…