iOS 9 came with a new app to replace the dreaded, and oft misunderstood Newsstand (is it an app, is it a folder?). It’s replacement, News, is much more sensible though. It’s easier to understand and better in just about every way imaginable for publishers (us) and, most importantly, our readers (you).

Welcome to FunFact, a new idea for Hackerspace. They could be anything, they might not even be true (they will be). They could appear any time any place (they'll be here, on Hackerspace). They could... well I don't know, but here goes.

Steve Ballmer has announced that he is resigning from Microsoft's board of directors with immediate effect. This comes six months after Satya Nadella replaced him as CEO of Microsoft and 34 years after joining Microsoft.

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The majority of Apple Developer services are currently unavailable to all users. They've been down since the start of the WWDC keynote and continue to be. This will no doubt be Apple preparing for major updates to the member centre as well as previews of OSX Yosemite and iOS8 along with the new developer tools with …

You can follow our live tweeting of the WWDC 2014 keynote, simply go to our twitter account (link below) to follow everything that's happening (and there's a lot to cover!)

This is a simple reminder to all Hackerspace Authors (of which there are a lot now) that the Hackerspace Authors Google Group is open to all Authors. We use it for sharing tips for articles, letting you know about updates, advice about articles and general discussion.

Microsoft has been having somewhat of an overhaul recently, not only in terms of their brand and identity in the world but in a new kind of attitude that I'm sure young executives would call Blue sky out-of-the-box thinking. Since Ballmer stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Satya Nadella we have seen a number of…

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Apple's System Status page is showing that multiple services are experiencing issues. Apple issued this statement on the system status page:

Freemake Video Converter is probably one of the most useful programs I have on my computer. It converts videos with ease and speed as well as download videos from most locations on the internet.

Tunes 11 brought many new and useful features but along with all these good helpful features was one big thing: the removal of the much loved sidebar. Everyone who uses iTunes uses the sidebar it is unavoidable and has links to all your media libraries as well as the iTunes Store, Genius, your playlists and others.…

Anyone who's concerned with internet privacy should have this extension. Brought to you by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It's a really quite simple extension available for Chrome and Firefox and simply tries whenever you access a page to access the page using HTTPS.

Go on, you know you want to! Our Hackerspace Twitter following has exploded in recent months and at the time of publishing we have 698 followers! Which considering we have only been active on there since May 17th is really quite impressive!

So who's looking forward to Samsung's big Galaxy and Ativ Premier today?