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What do you do if you purchased Lion from the Mac App Store, have no installation disc or USB key, and are suddenly faced with a hard drive catastrophe? In lieu of begging Apple for your very own Lion recovery drive, you can now run Apple's Lion Recovery Disk Assistant. The tool, released Monday, allows users to create a Lion recovery partition on an external drive in the event of a hard drive crash.

Microsoft-borged Skype says it has outed a new version of Skype for Apple's OSX that will support the weird new Lion update as well as allow Macintoshers to make HD Video Calls

Skype 5.3 for Mac OS X also includes a number of fixes and improvements to the user interface, the outfit said. The update is reckoned to be backwards compatible with past versions of OS X, back as far as Leopard.

This is a follow up to our Building a Socket 1155 Hackintosh article and deals with adding native Bluetooth support via a ‘hacked’ official Apple Bluetooth module.

While still not great, the operating systems behind Apple desktops, laptops and phones are getting more secure, researchers at Black Hat  say.

Two weeks after releasing iOS 5 Beta 4, Apple has now pushed a fifth beta out to developers. You can grab iOS 5 Beta 5 with your registered developer account in the Dev Center, and the update can also be received as an over-the-air update on a device running iOS 5 Beta 4.

If you’re wondering about what’s new in Beta 5, the answer is not much. It is worth noting that, in order to perform an OTA update to iOS 5 Beta 5, you will need to have backed up your device through iCloud.

Steve Jobs has always been considered the heart and soul of Apple. He’s the man that has brought us Apple’s most successful products of the last decade, including the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. He’s been the face of Apple for years, and he’s seen as an industry innovator and pioneer.

Since his third medical leave of absence in January of this year, Jobs has begun to slowly let go of the reins at Apple. He’s still very much in control, but the ‘Age of Jobs’ is drawing to an end.

Hot on the heels of Apple's $945 legal settlement to a Korean man over location logging behavior in iOS in June, a new suit in the works reportedly seeking class action aims to bring similar settlements to some 27,800 other individuals.

Some retailers have begun marking down the price of the iPhone 4, suggesting stock clearing measures have begun in anticipation of an expected hardware update. While most recent rumors have suggested a September launch, however, some recent buzz indicates that the next iPhone might not emerge until October. Still, in light of the markdowns, September seems a more likely candidate.

Passware, a provider of password cracking software, today said that the latest edition of its flagship password cracking forensic suite, Passware Kit Forensic v11, can extract Mac OS X Lion user login passwords from system memory in a matter of minutes.

Apple has issued an update to address a security vulnerability in its iOS mobile operating system.

The company said that the iOS 4.3.5 and 4.2.10 updates would address a flaw in the way devices handle data on SSL/TSL secured connections.