Axiotron bumps Modbook specs, pushes back Modbook Pro delivery
June 15, 2009
Whether you’re a customer or business partner, it’s never easy knowing what Apple will do next. Sometimes that’s a good thing; sometimes not so much.
Archive for June, 2009
Mac manufacturing coming back to North America?
June 14, 2009
Aside from the Mac Pro, it’s been years since any Apple products were manufactured on this side of the Pacific. That is apparently going to change. The company’s manufacturing partner, which purportedly makes most iPods, the iPhone and iMac, is setting up shop just Southwest of El Paso, Texas.
Top 10 + 3 best Web browsers for the Mac
June 13, 2009
When it comes to Web browsers for Apple’s Macintosh computers, there are a lot more choices out there than you may realize, including at least four Mozilla-based and, would you believe it, seven WebKit-based products. And, that’s just the beginning!
Safari downloaded 11 million times in 3 days
June 12, 2009
Eleven million people have downloaded Apple’s new and improved Safari browser in the three days since its release, including 6 million users of Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
PornTube: Pushing a ‘video update’ that’s really a trojan
June 12, 2009
Perhaps the old adage that, “There’s no such thing as a free puppy,” should be updated to read, “There’s no such thing as free porn.” Social engineering at work…
Will Apple get into the game rating biz?
June 11, 2009
After what has been a fairly shaky start in the acceptance or rejection of apps for the Apple App Store, there is now some talk of instituting a rating system for games sold via the store.
H.264 hardware acceleration requires 9400M graphics
June 11, 2009
The system requirements are fairly steep to support H.264 hardware acceleration or play in Apple’s OpenCL sandbox. As you might expect, the great majority of Mac users won’t be able to take advantage of either of these breakthrough technologies.
How to: Tweet your iPhoto pictures with iPhoto2Twitter
June 10, 2009
Tweeting a photo that has already been uploaded to the web is as easy as right clicking (control clicking) to get that image’s address, then just pasting that into your Twitter client (browser window) and then you may tweet at will, or willfully, as the case may be.
Snow Leopard won’t run on PowerPC Macs
June 10, 2009
The introduction of Snow Leopard, the newest Apple Mac operating system which will be released in September, also spells the end of the road for new OS software on pre-Intel Macs.
Safari 4: Leaving smaller data trail, eating more system resources?
June 10, 2009
At the end of May, Blorge took an in depth look at the extensive data and privacy trail Safari 4 beta left in its wake. Now, with the Safari 4 final in our hands, we pop the hood once again to see if any improvements have been made.
