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The iPhone 5 was released in Australia on Friday. Today we take a hands on look at the phone and see whether it meets the hype. ...

The following post is a totally pointless but totally awesome project I always do whenever I'm upgrading Plex on the Apple TV. I won't really go in to why Plex is the greatest thing that any man has ever made, or why you should be using it, but trust me; it is, and you should.

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Does anyone like in app purchases? Developers obviously do. Free to play games with purchasable "coins" dominate the top grossing charts, with some making an estimated 12 million a month. A MONTH. Given the immense popularity of free to play as business model, we've seen a rise in "slot machine" gaming. Simple, addictive iOS games that seek purely to hook the player into spending money on in game currency. Even apps like Angry Birds have "in-appified", shifting from the primary model of "pay once and get free updates and new levels forever" to "that, but please, please, please buy the mighty eagle thing, or some power up thing, or some other thing to help you cheat.

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Kieran McIlwain has been part of the MacTalk family for many years now. He's released the first Australian unboxing video I've seen. But Kieran does more than simply unboxing the iPhone, he goes in to some of the new technology behind the screen.

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Happy iPhone 5 day, everyone! On with the news…

They were kinda buried under the Apple software update-opocalypse that happened yesterday, but there are a few iPhone 5 reviews you should be reading. There's the requisite one from John Gruber, of course, who describes the phone in terms ...

Design of the way a product looks and feels is paramount for commercial success. The recent iPhone 5 launch has only confirmed the amount of time and effort that Apple puts into making their products look amazing and enticing—to the point where a lot of people just have to have one because it looks so good. But quite often these good looks can come at a cost. It is something we call in the design industry as having ‘form over function’. To put it simply, ‘form over function’ occurs when the look and feel of a product has a higher priority during the design phase, and can actually affect its usefulness, efficiency and ergonomics (the way the product relates to the body).

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For the record, the news was scheduled to publish a little earlier this morning, but then there were a few Apple updates which clogged the intertubes for a few hours. Anyway, on with the news...

Quite a few software updates this morning, so we'll start with the biggest of all of them: ...

Yesterday, we had Part 1 of a MacTalk roundtable on last week's iPhone 5 event. Here's the thrilling conclusion!

This time around, we've got the scintillating Peter Wells, the illustrious Anthony Agius, the wise Jonathan Nalder, the friendly Phill Farrugia and the omniscient knowledge of Benny Ling weighing in on exactly what last week's event means.

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