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SRS Labs, the California-based audio technology company that specializes in audio enhancement solutions for a wide variety of consumer electronic devices, is announcing a new app that promises to improve the overall sound quality of Mac computers. It’s called Audio Essentials. And it’s an advanced software suite that features high-performance audio processing solutions designed to provide any Mac computer the ability to play HD-quality sound. Audio Essentials for Mac will work seamlessly with audio systems and its loaded with customizable SRS audio enhancement tools. The company said via press release that the app will available as a limited-feature free trial.

The Audio Essentials free trial will have lesser features such as enhanced audio playback for 2-channel speaker systems, music configuration, external and internal speaker configuration, bass enhancement, a stereo peak meter, and an intuitive user interface. However, Mac users can unlock the software’s full features through a one-time paid upgrade of $29.99. Advanced features include music genre detection, virtualized 360-degree surround sound over headphones, customizable graphic EQ, voice/ game/ movie configuration, intelligent volume leveling and volume maximization, and a fully functional 5.1 peak meter. The app is available via SRS Labs website.

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Running Android apps on your MacBook is now a possibility, with virtualization specialist BlueStacks bringing its clever software to Apple’s OS X. The tool – initially vaunted as a “Parallels for Android” – has been available on Windows for some time now, but BlueStacks now supports 17 Android apps on OS X including popular newsreader app Pulse.

Seventeen isn’t a lot compared to how many apps there are currently available in the Android Market, but BlueStacks says more are in the pipeline. Meanwhile the company has thrown open its doors to developers, taking pre-interest for porting, which should boost the selection.

BlueStacks has inked deals with HalfBrick, Evernote, Droidhen, COM2US, Creative Mobile and others, and something they’re talking about is high-resolution graphics to suit the latest Retina Display Macs. The company is also positioning AppPlayer as a way of “breaking open the Apple ecosystem” though, given OS X has always been more flexible with third-party software, that’s a little disingenuous.

The BlueStacks AppPlayer for Mac is currently an alpha release – which could mean bugs – and is a free download. If the company plays to form, it’s likely to eventually release a more comprehensive version with paid-app support as a premium product later on.

BlueStacks AppPlayer for Mac puts Android apps on OS X is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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BlueStacks is releasing the first public alpha of its Android App Player capable of running on OS X. The virtualization company’s software is powered by its Layercake technology and includes a bundle of apps from its various partners. CEO Rosen Sharma hopes the move will encourage developers to build “retina-friendly” apps for Google’s mobile OS that can then be sold to those on the other side of the technology divide. There’s a sign-up sheet for developers itchy to get their hands on the goods on the company’s website, but don’t expect a response right away — there’s still a few more days of Google I/O to go first.

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Let’s face it, Apple’s brand of computers cost more than what you would pay for a Windows version with the same specs, but yet there are people out there who would rather own an Apple product. Perhaps its the ease of use of OS X, or maybe it’s the build quality, or maybe some just prefer the Apple brand, but regardless the reason, there is most certainly a market for Apple’s products. That being said, do Apple users spend more PC users?

While this is hardly a scientific conclusion, popular travel website Orbitz has compiled some information and according to their report to the Wall Street Journal, they have discovered that people who use Apple’s Mac computers tend to spend 30% more a night on hotels, so much so that the website has started to direct Mac users towards more pricier options compared to their Windows counterpart. In fact they have also discovered that Mac users are 40% more likely to book 4 or 5-star hotels compared to PC users, thus completely changing the sort of hotels and travel options that Orbitz displays to Mac users. Pretty interesting observation, but what do you guys think?

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