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Consumers spent over US $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, according to a recent press release from Apple. That's a heck of a lot of apps. App sales in December alone hit over US $1 billion and three billion apps downloaded, making it the most successful month in App Store history, the press release ...

The latest from CES, besides CES using Apple's iBeacon technology as a mini-game for attendees to collect badges for visiting certain locations, is product news from Griffin. The iOS and Mac accessory maker has a few new products up it sleeve, including a number of new audio-related accessories and ...

By Ben Salter, MMGN.com

Mac OS X 10.7 and above
$79.95 (game + cable) - $239.95 (Epiphone Les Paul Jr guitar + game + cable)


PROS: Actually teaches you how to play guitar; Great variety of songs
CONS: It’s designed for consoles
RATING: 9/10


From plastic guitars to an entire pseudo band, the music genre is one of the fastest evolving in videogame history. It was but a mere five years ago that Guitar Hero ruled the land, before the superior Rock Band outclassed ...

Shortly before the turn of the new year, a report emerged that detailed exactly how the NSA had been able to capture live data from compromised iPhones as early as 2008, including a stream of the camera feed, GPS, and more. "The NSA could install special software onto iPhones as ...

As per previous years, Apple has started selling "Lucky Bags" across Apple Retail locations in Japan, which contain a random assortment of items for a fixed price. It's kind of a lucky dip as you don't know what products you'll get in advance, but there's a small chance you'll get something ...

Welcome one, welcome all, to the very first edition of the 2014 morning news. In this episode, I'll be giving you a rundown of the "best of 2013" posts, as well as a number of Mac Pro reviews. If you have any suggestions for news items, or improvements to the news itself, post ...

2013 was a particularly tumultuous year for MacTalk, and for more reasons than one. We started the year on a strong note, sailing the internet seas with our captain, the meritable Peter Wells, at the helm of the good ship MacTalk, crewed by his hand-picked band of merry men; first mate ...

On behalf of myself, the other contributors to the front page, the forum mods, the people that podcasted, posted in the forums or let us know when the site was hacked by Syrians, as well as everyone from Niche who did all the behind-the-scenes work to keep MacTalk ticking over, I'd like ...

If anything is true, it's that the new Mac Pro is a speed machine. The first performance analysis reviews are in, and over at FCP.co, they put the new Mac Pro through its paces. The PCIe-based flash storage screams along at upwards of 900MB/s in reads and writes, and as for 4K video, the new Mac Pro ...