Archive for August, 2010
August 31, 2010
For the first time in waking memory, the mothership will live stream an event, and QuickTime isn’t listed as a required application. What’s more, you’ve gotta have a Mac, iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running Safari to tune in, which likely has the last few Windows-only tech editors scrambling for a device to watch on.
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Posted in Apple, iPad, iPod, iPod Touch, iTunes, Mac, Macintosh, news, OS X, Quicktime, snow leopard, Steve Jobs | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 31, 2010
Like Google and Apple, Intel is burning through its cash reserve to purchase companies that mean big sales in the future. These acquisitions are likely to put more and more Intel parts into Apple products.
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Posted in Apple, imac, iPad, iPhone, news | 1 Comment » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
August 31, 2010
The last Mac version of this benchmark engineering and design application shipped way, way back in 1992. Now the company’s planning not only to rise, rise, rise again on the fairer platform, but also deliver an idevice companion app for the pocket protector crowd.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 31, 2010
That nefarious lot otherwise know as “sources” claims that Apple will increase the length of music samples by an order of magnitude (the industry’s still doomed). Maybe this small tidbit will be Steve Jobs’ “one more thing” come Wednesday’s “acoustic guitar with an Apple logo sound hole” event?
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Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes, Mac, Rumors, Steve Jobs | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 30, 2010
The Apple iPad has rarely, if ever, shipped quickly in it’s stellar sales history, but the Apple site now says it can ship a unit in 24 hours. Shipping times on the iPhone 4 remain a bit more distant: 3 weeks.
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Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, news | 2 Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
August 29, 2010
This is a feature Apple should have released way back when Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and iBooks back on January 27 of this year. Still, better late than never is about all we can add at this point.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, news | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 27, 2010
Another step toward disintermediated delivery of video on the web, making HTML5 that much more attractive to the stakeholders — content owners, browser makers, website owners and consumers. Of course, H.264 is already the codec of choice and de facto standard, which solidifies the gains to date
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Posted in news, opinion | 6 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
August 27, 2010
Even though almost all of us think of the iPad as a totally new breed of computer, there is still a question in a lot of minds as to whether or not the iPad is taking sales away from the Mac lineup.
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Posted in Adobe, Apple, iPad, MacBook, Rumors, snow leopard | No Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
August 26, 2010
An industry research analyst predicts that the Apple iPad will remain by far the number one tablet computer for at least a couple of years, despite expected major competition beginning in 2011.
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Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, news, Rumors | 3 Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
August 25, 2010
Life in the walled garden is beautiful and about to get even more beautifuller with a range of new and updated products from our favorite Cupertino, California-based fruit company. So, what will Steve Jobs “one more thing” be this time around?
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Posted in Apple, Apple TV, iPod, iTunes, Rumors | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson