MacBook Air 13-inch Review (mid-2012)
Apple’s MacBook Air may have fallen into the shadow of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display at their WWDC 2012 launch this past week, but the updated ultraportable has plenty going for it. A proven design favorite, and undoubtedly the inspiration for a legion of Windows-powered ultrabooks, the MacBook Air now gets a fresh batch of processors in the shape of Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge chips, along with a general refresh to the spec sheet. Is that enough to keep the MacBook Air at the top of the ultraportable tree? Read on for the full SlashGear review.
How Steve Jobs helped Barack Obama’s re-election campaign get more social and go viral
Barack Obama’s current Campaign Manager Jim Messina revealed recently that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs encouraged him to capitalize on technology in ways that are boosting the president’s re-election efforts.
How Depressives Surf the Web
IN what way do you spend your time online? Do you check your e-mail compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications — from games to file downloads to chat rooms?
Spotwag Helps Facebook Friends Find Pet Sitters
If you have a pet and you travel a lot, you know how difficult it can be to find someone to look after your furry buddy. Asking a friend, and then trying to give them money for their troubles, is often a pretty awkward affair.
Search and Social: How The Two Will Soon Become One
Bing and Google each recently unveiled its own new search interface, designed to better intuit your intent and help you get to the one best answer more efficiently. And they’ve meet it ever more clear that search is heading straight for a merger with social.
Retailers Using Free Facebook Tools Rather than Taking Adverts
With the Facebook IPO out of the way attention has turned to how Facebook will make money to appease their new shareholders.
Emulator hack brings classic Macintosh OS to Nook Simple Touch
In what is unquestionably one of the more creative Nook Simple Touch homebrew hacks we've seen, you can now install the classic Macintosh OS on Barnes & Noble's ereader. There's likely no one happier about this than Mike Cane, who blogged last year about an "impossible dream" that centered around loading the legacy OS onto a Nook. It turns out the dream wasn't so impossible after all. In February, Cane came across a report claiming someone had successfully installed Mini vMac — an early Macintosh OS emulator — onto the device. The hack wasn't exactly flawless, but Cane's wishes had come true. Unfortunately, there was little in the way of proof at the time.
That all changed yesterday when he came upon a gallery of photos that depict Mac OS 7.5.3 running on Nook hardware. FlyingToaster, a member of the 68k Macintosh Liberation Army forum, had duplicated the original trick, finding that Mini vMac II offered an improved experience that addressed scaling and grayscale issues. With the app installed onto the Nook Simple Touch, users can run virtually any classic Mac OS app or game on the E Ink display. It seems like a fairly straightforward process, so if you're nostalgic for the days when Mac software was a bit simpler, hit the source links below.
That all changed yesterday when he came upon a gallery of photos that depict Mac OS 7.5.3 running on Nook hardware. FlyingToaster, a member of the 68k Macintosh Liberation Army forum, had duplicated the original trick, finding that Mini vMac II offered an improved experience that addressed scaling and grayscale issues. With the app installed onto the Nook Simple Touch, users can run virtually any classic Mac OS app or game on the E Ink display. It seems like a fairly straightforward process, so if you're nostalgic for the days when Mac software was a bit simpler, hit the source links below.
Most Expensive Software
We live in the world of computers and information technology where the technology is fastly changing our lives and most of us have a basic idea of what software. Software is a piece of code that is installed on the computer to perform certain tasks.
Here are some of the most expensive softwares that are ever made today.
Unreal Engine: This is a gaming engine that is developed by Epic Games which is a leading name in the first person shooting games. This engine has been written entirely in C++ and has a high degree of portability for the developers all over the world. Some of the games that have been developed on this engine include Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Mobile Forces and Nerf Arena Blast. The licensing costs of this software are not announced publically but they are in excess of $750,000.
My 20 Must-Have Cydia Apps & Tweaks for iPhone
Until 2 days ago I was running iOS 4.2 beta on my iPhone 4. Then limera1n
came out, and considering that 4.2 beta wasn’t't exactly running
“smoothly” on my iPhone, and furthermore considering the lack of
breakthrough features of 4.2 for the iPhone, I decided to go back to 4.1
and jailbreak once again. You can read everything about iOS 4.1 and the
compatible Cydia apps here.
I missed jailbreak. I missed the tweaks and the customization, the possibility to FaceTime on 3G and the unlimited apps in folders. I missed just about everything of what the jailbreak community offers, and that’s what you get by living on the edge of software. When I went back to 4.1 and started pulling apps from Cydia again, I realized there’s this list of apps and tweaks I install every time a new jailbreak is out. Every single time.
Just like I did for the iPad and Mac OS X, here’s my list of 20 must-have apps from Cydia. Jailbreakers, this one’s for you.
I missed jailbreak. I missed the tweaks and the customization, the possibility to FaceTime on 3G and the unlimited apps in folders. I missed just about everything of what the jailbreak community offers, and that’s what you get by living on the edge of software. When I went back to 4.1 and started pulling apps from Cydia again, I realized there’s this list of apps and tweaks I install every time a new jailbreak is out. Every single time.
Just like I did for the iPad and Mac OS X, here’s my list of 20 must-have apps from Cydia. Jailbreakers, this one’s for you.
Activator
A system-wide tweak that lets you set up custom activation gestures and commands for just about anything on your device. Want to fire up the music controls with a pinch gesture on your Springboard? There you go. Mail app with pull-down from the status bar? Boom. Activator is THE must-have, and it’s free.'Spectrum crunch' may slow US mobile revolution
The United States is bracing for a data crunch from the surging use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices as the explosion of Internet-ready devices eats up the radio spectrum allocated for mobile broadband.
In Tablets, Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better
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| Growth Spurt: The Toshiba Excite 13 screen measures 13.3 inches diagonally, compared with 9.7 inches for the iPad and 7 inches for the Kindle Fire. |
People who find Apple's AAPL +0.45% iPad too big may prefer using a more compact tablet, like Amazon's Kindle Fire. But one company seems to think the iPad isn't big enough.
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