Mac observer.com has released some leaked photos of the upcoming apple tablet glass. The photo also puts the tablet to scale for the first time by showing it on top of a macbook keyboard. It is about the same size as the keyboard verifying the notion of a 10″ tablet screen.

In addition, the photos also show us that the tablet truly appears to be nothing more than an oversized iPhone. We can see the menu button hole in the photos. The black outline around the screen also seconds that idea.

The photos are cryptic and low quality. We don’t know if they are real or not, but they do provide some added speculation to the mystery around the tablet device that is to be released this wednesday. Mac Observer says that they are from a “trustable source”, but doesn’t really clarify who that is.

All in all, the truth will come out in only 2 days. Let’s continue to hold our breath.

We have all seen them… We have all heard about them… We have all laughed at them. The famous “Get a Mac” commercials that started in 2006 are only 4 years only now, but in those 4 years, over 60 separate versions have been created, and all of them have become favorites. Now it is almost to no surprise that AdWeek has just named Apple’s “Get A Mac” ads, “Best Ad Campaign of the 2000′s”! Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone that has purchased an app within the past few hours, or even someone who browsed the app store looking for say… free games (Appvent Calendar: free iphone game every day until christmas) will notice a new look in the app store. Apple has just released this new look and is starting to make the change to all of the apps. Not every app shows these changes just yet, but the greater part does.

So what’s the big deal? What is new? Am I even going to notice? Yes! These are big changes, and you will notice them. Read the rest of this entry »

One thing I have always enjoyed about my Mac is the high amount of free little applications that are available for it. For some reason, the mac community tends to scratch each other’s backs and create various little applications, that add functionality that you probably never thought you would want. I have ran across a countless number of these “mini apps” over the years and it is now my pleasure to present to you the top 5 mini mac apps that you never knew you needed. Once you start using these, you will probably never be able to live without them again. At the bottom of the article you will be able to give your own ratings for each application. No sign-up is necessary so be sure to vote.

5 Mini Mac Apps That You Never Knew You Needed

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#5 – Caffeine

I guarantee no one ever thought that installing an app would solve this problem. But we have probably all felt the pain of life without it. Have you ever been watching a movie, presenting a keynote, or just plain staring at your computer when it all of a sudden dims or goes to sleep? We all know the solution… and we all go through the same process. It starts off by jiggling the mouse to wake it up again. Then we realize how annoying that could be, but go straight on working. A few seconds later it does it again. Now we are sort of upset, so we go to system preferences to change the screensaver settings, but then pause when we realize that we will probably forget to change it back again and will eventually come back to our macbook down the road and it will be dead because it didn’t auto-dim or auto-sleep. So we close system preferences and resort to jiggling the mouse every 30 seconds. However, every time we jiggle that mouse we think to ourselves, “I wish there was a better way”. Well now there is, load your computer with caffeine and it will never sleep again (well, until it wears off). Read the rest of this entry »

Good Question… there is a whole lot of great new stuff going on for the new MacBook.

Of course first glance shows the new body shape. The MacBook has been redesigned from the ground up as far as body and structure is concerned. The body is a bit more trim and light than the previous models. It is also a unibody like the macbook pro, which increases strength and durability. It also allows Apple to design it thinner. The screen also received the LED backlit technology which is not only a nicer screen, but on a laptop it also equals better battery life. In conjunction with its’ new battery… we are talking some serious battery life, up to 7Hrs! The new battery in the MacBook is similar to the Pro 13″. It is embedded in the casing which means no more hot-swapping batteries (downside) but also means that you can trim weight and increase battery size. This means that now we are holding the equivalent of about 2 (previous version) batteries with us at all times.

Then there is the nice new Glass Trackpad. This makes the MacBook the first laptop from Apple to receive the glass trackpad. Read the rest of this entry »

The most astonishing piece of Apple’s new phase of upgrades would have to the the Magic Mighty Mouse. This sleek, clean piece of artwork is what we could be using as a mouse for the next many years (mighty mice don’t get updated very frequently). But I think we could all agree, that we would be just fine with that. This mighty mouse has no visible buttons. It is one seamless polished white surface. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, we don’t want to say, “I told you so”…… But we kinda did. Anyway, we were just as excited as you to hear that new macs were released and what it meant. So… let’s take a good look at the lineup.

We will be talking about each of these individually in upcoming posts. But let’s take an overview.  First of all, as seen above is the Magic Mighty Mouse. Something that we will see shipping with new iMacs and also available individually. Read the rest of this entry »

I am excited to announce that TheMacCoach.com has a new look for its blog and forum pages. I am excited to work around this new look more often. I hope you enjoy the feel of it. Let me know what you think. You can view the forums at http://www.forum.themaccoach.com