Although a lot of heat and smoke has been generated by the solid state disc market, can you really make a good case for purchasing and using one of these relatively low capacity, über expensive “toys”? Here’s a closer look at the pros and cons of this still exotic technology.
Apple is using an innovative Javascript framework to deliver album LP and film Extras content within iTunes rather that requiring a heavy middleware layer like Flash or Silverlight.
Whether you want to find, import and manage lyrics or use Apple’s iTunes Store to find music and then buy it on the cheap from Amazon, there are plug-ins out there just for you. Here’s a mix of 10 must-have free, shareware and commercial iTunes add-ons from the large and very, very active community of developers that has grown up around this iLife application’s various shortcomings.
Apple’s WebKit-based Safari browser is pretty fast and quite compatible. Nevertheless, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea and, if you’re a social media maven, it’s not endlessly extensible like Firefox. Here’s how to change your default browser Safari to anything and back again.
It is possible that what was missing from the Apple event this week is much more interesting than what was included. What does that tell us about Apple and the rumor mill?
Can you imagine Microsoft open sourcing a marquis feature of its latest operating system, a key technology that could revolutionize multiprocessor multicore computing? There are days when Apple’s just as evil as the next big company and then there are days like today.
Apple has been ranked as Asia’s most admired multinational company, according to the annual Asia 200 survey conducted and published by the Wall Street Journal.
I remember happy times in my Mac life, like how sweetly 96MB RAM and a 512MB hard disc felt inside one particular Quadra I owned. Or, what a revelation video editing was on the PowerMac 7600. How about the dual gig nirvana — 1GHz processor and 1GB RAM — of a Graphite G4? That baby really cooked after I added an ATI Radeon 9000 with 128MB — I swear you could actually feel the splatter after hitting an opponent with the rocket launcher in Unreal Tournament 2004.
Today Steve Jobs made a number of announcements at the Apple music event in San Francisco, many of them about the iPod product line, from new prices to new devices.
Apple continues to build out the features (and fluff) in their does-everything jukebox, content, store and device management application. With Jobs and his famed “reality distortion field” off stage, let’s take a closer at the guts of today announcements to separate the digital wheat from the marketing chaff.
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