Apple Release a new External Battery for iPad called Hypermac like the one released from Sanho

This Hypermac Battery is very well built and it feels solid in the palm, which is a change from some of the other parts available – matching Apple’s build quality. Today's Apple laptops provide outstanding battery life in comparison—anywhere from four to eight hours on a single charge. But if you need even longer run times, the fact that the batteries in the current MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models aren't swappable may have you looking back to those days of external power packs.
The Hypermac battery is designed to extend your portable work life, if your on the go and your battery goes flat, the Hypermac can extend battery life by several hours, giving a combined run time of up to 12 hours.

The size of the battery means it will fit in any bag or notebook sleeve which has storage for peripherals. Size-wise its certainly very small, we think appropriate to the extra-battery performance it affords and equally as light, weighing at only 0.8 pounds. Sitting in your notebook sleeve its hardly noticeable, no more than carrying a few moleskines or your iPhone and a camera.

The battery itself is a Lithium ION type, providing good reliability and up to 1000 charge cycles, meaning this battery should last you many a trip away from the desk. Charging the battery takes around 2 to 3 hours, no more than a fully discharged iPhone or Macbook takes.

The battery itself looks great next to the new unibody Macbooks, though its noted that this particular model doesn’t suit the 15″ and 17″ Macbook Pro models. It’s also possible to charge your iPhone of these batteries, and larger capacity, more powerful versions are available for the larger Macbook Pros.

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“Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft” - Latest free-to-play game from Blizzard

Blizzard have not always been on top in the online gaming world but when they are called up the always are sure to dominate the opposition. RTS became the rage so Blizzard created the world famous Warcraft and Sancraft. When Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) started to become massively popular, Blizzard created the brilliantly amazing MMORPG, World of Warcraft.

Free-to-play games are becoming launched around the world Blizzard finally announced their first attempt to fully jump in to the thick of it.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft by Blizzard is now an online collectible card game which will eventually come to iPads, PCs and Macs. 

The 3D presentation of Hearthstone is very animated, with plenty of icons, animations, and imagery bringing the tabletop game to life. It also appears to move quickly -- Blizzard demonstrated a 1v1 duel with a shoutcaster commentating on the events, strategy, card types, and effects of each card. Blizzard created a new team of 15 developers, and describes them as fast and experimental. It was conceived to cook up different styles of games, smaller scale but in line with the "epic Blizard" style.

Card crafting allows players to consolidate duplicate cards of various types. This feeds into the deck-building system, which is as automatic or micro-management heavy as you desire. You'll build your deck around your class, such as a rogue, both in terms of the kinds of skills and buffs you bring into battle, and the class-specific cards you're able to use. A medal ranking system categorizes duelists by skill, similar to Starcraft II. Hearthstone is coming to PC and Mac in addition to iPad, which will release later, though feature and networking parity remains to be seen. The current goal is to release Hearthstone in the same territories World of Warcraft is currently available.

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OS X Anti-Malware to Squash Adware is the new update from Apple

Apple has quickly let out a quick and concise update to OS X’s adware problem we heard about on Thursday. Known as Yontoo, the adware targeted major browsers by displaying unwanted ads while a user would browse the Web. But Apple has already updated its Xproject anti-malware system to detect Yontoo’s shenanigans.

“Apple has decided the Yontoo Adware has fallen too far on the side of undesirable behavior" said security firm Intego.

A Mac is designed for a long, productive life. Apple designers and engineers spend countless hours ensuring that each Mac is precisely built — inside and out. From the down-to-the-micron fit of each internal component to the finish of the enclosure, every detail matters. Take MacBook Air, for example. Its unibody enclosure is machined from a solid block of aluminum. The result is a notebook that is thin and light, looks polished and refined, and feels strong and durable.

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LG Rumoured to release a smart watch, not to anyones shock

The Korea Times reports that LG has a smartwatch in the works, just as Samsung says it does, the FT says Google does and the internet says Apple does. Details are scant on what LG plans to do with its smart watch
 technology, but according to Korea Times sources, developing a smart watch is part of the company's plans to stay ahead in the market. It's not clear if LG will choose Android or Firefox for its watch OS. LG's version is said to sync with a smartphone so that notifications show up on your watch, shockingly.

It's supposedly set to run either Android or the upcoming Mozilla Firefox OS, which would be a turn up for the books given that LG has made a good number of Android phones over the past few years.

The information comes from “sources” and they claim LG is also working on an innovative product similar to Google Glass. However, there were no more details made public regarding specs, platform of choice, availability and other such information.

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XBox Leak! Always connected Gameplay?

With the PS4 and Wii U out in the open, we're pretty anxious about what Microsoft is planning for its next Xbox. The leak, from VGleaks and provides screen shorts from an Xbox Development Kit (XDK) for Microsoft's upcoming console. Those grabs state that each new console will house a hard drive with enough capacity to "hold a large number of games." More than that, "play from the optical drive will not be supported." That lines up with what Katoko said. 

Now more alleged leaks are pointing to the console having an always-connected format with games to be installed directly to a hard drive.

A supposedly leaked document from the Durango XDK dev kit outlines that the console will also have a Blu-ray player and a "high-fidelity" Kinect Sensor that will be needed to operate the console.

Of course it will have an always on policy. You won't buy a physical game; you will buy the right to play a game. That won't be transferable to another person. There is a ton of money moving in the secondary (used) game market that Microsoft and publishers don't get a dime from. This is part of the hardware/software manufacturers fighting against that by creating a game ecosystem where it is no longer feasible to have a secondary market.

And it's coming, boys and girls. No matter how much you rage against it. Because they make the games and you want them and they will condition everyone to get used to buying like this.

People raged against Diablo 3 and it's always on policy. But they still sold a metric crapton of games. The newest Sim game is doing it. It will become more and more common until it is the norm to simply purchase a license to play your downloadable game tied to your hardware (and your credit card).

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YouTube Executives Announce Possible Paid Subscriptions to Youtube in the Future.

YouTube viewing has never costed a penny but will there be paid subscriptions in the future?

YouTube chief executives have announced that paid subscriptions will possibly be used in the future to "keep business flowing".

YouTube Vice President Robert Kyncl told reporters on Wednesday that paid content will be an "incredibly important" tool in the site's efforts to create "additional revenue streams" for content makers.

He admitted that many users will push back against paid YouTube videos, but predicted that video makers will experiment with different models and "over time, a lot of people will figure it out."

Google has been considering charging users for paid YouTube content 
since at least 2009.

The YouTube executives actually admitted anything set in stone, though, and it could still be some time before the Google-owned video site starts allowing content creators to charge viewers.

We asked YouTube whether they could provide us with any more details or anything concrete at all, and a company spokesperson sent over the following statement:

Executives also state that they "have nothing to announce at the moment as these paid subscriptions are only a possibility in the future."

YouTube also reported on Wednesday that its traffic climbed to 1 billion viewers every month.

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