Creative Cloud offers a web-based storage center for syncing content between a user’s devices, along with all of the upcoming Creative Suite 6 apps, Adobe Touch apps and services, and the newest content from Adobe (such as new products and features) as soon as they are publicly released. This includes Lightroom 4 once it gets out of beta, and Adobe’s new Muse and Edge web authoring software. All of these great things come at quite the cost, however, starting at a steep $49.99/month fee.

Apple has announced it will be celebrating the upcoming release of Paul McCartney’s new album, entitled “Kisses on the Bottom,” by streaming a live concert of the artist for free via iTunes and Apple TV. The concert will be taking place at Capitol Studios on Thursday, February 9th at 7:00 pm PST and the live stream can be accessed via iTunes or on your Apple TV through “iTunes Live” within the Internet menu.

Users of the iOS app Path should be concerned about the app’s newly discovered privacy issue, in which it sends a .plist file full of the contacts in your address book over to their server. Included in this .plist file are the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of these contacts, and they are sent upon registering for an account with their service.

Halliburton will phase out thousands of Blackberrys in favor of the iPhone over the next two years. According to an internal newsletter obtained by AppleInsider, Halliburton conducted “significant research” and came to the conclusion that “the iOS platform offered the best capabilities, controls and security for application development.”

Apple has just released three new EFI Firmware Updates, all of which are meant to benefit 2010 models of the iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. The main purpose of the updates is to add Lion Internet Recovery to these Mac models. Lion Internet Recovery, a feature introduced into OS X with the release of Lion, allows users to re-download the entire operating system from Apple’s servers without having to go through the Mac App Store.

Browsing for ways to boost app sales/downloads will almost certainly bring you upon a service offering to increase your app’s ranking (such as, within the Top 25) for a fee. This is done through the use of scripts or bots that download an app over and over in order to increase its ranking. This is against Apple’s guidelines and could cause a developer to lose Apple Developer Program membership.

It’s now been nearly two weeks since the Macworld | iWorld 2012 kicked off in San Francisco, and the shift from the Mac to Apple’s iDevices appears to have been a success. Truth be known, the show was headed that way before IDG embraced it with the name change, as evidenced by the growing number of iPhone case developers occupying booths on the show floor. This year was no exception, as there were numerous companies with snazzy new cases to show off. So, what do you say? Shall we take a look, then?

It appears Apple has updated its pointers in OS X v10.7.3 with higher DPI (Dots Per Inch), something the average user probably wouldn’t notice. The change allows the icons to scale much better at higher resolutions, which could likely be for Universal Access or possibly even to accommodate a future higher-resolution Mac.

Interested in using your iPad 2 as a secondary monitor or touchscreen computer? There are various apps that let you do that, and now there’s some hardware, too. Twelve South has unveiled HoverBar, an adjustable arm that floats an iPad 2 next to an iMac or Apple display. The HoverBar can also be used separately to create a compact iPad workstation or an install-free kitchen mount for iPad.