What excited me most about the Apple press event today was not the 2048x1536 pixel retina display[^1], or the quad-core A5X CPU, or the 5MP digital camera. What excited me was the introduction of [iPhoto](http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/apps-by-apple/iphoto.html). Now iPhoto is not as feature rich as iPhoto for OS X but it gets the jobs done. The feature…
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Read Later for Mac OS X
[Instapaper](www.instapaper.com/), [Read It Later](http://readitlaterlist.com/), [Readability](http://www.readability.com/) are web based services allow you to save long web pages to read later, when you have time, on your computer, iPhone, iPad, or Kindle. These web based services have native iOS that have become popular on mobile devices but desktop operating systems have gone without. On the Mac, the…
Click To Read Full PostiOS and OS X
Lion brought with it many iOS like advancements; enhancements to Multi-Touch Gestures, Full Screen apps, Launchpad, Resume/Auto Save/Versions, an iPad like Mail interface, iCal and Address Book highly styled like the iOS counterparts, auto termination of applications again borrowed from iOS, reversed scrolling to better match up with touch screen devices, and many more things…
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It’s hard to argue against stories like this and this because any nut job can accuse you of being anti-privacy or an apologist. These stories have some merit, but come on. At what point does this stop? We’re coming up on a year of these types of stories.
How ridiculous, right? How absolutely petty and meaningless are the things we get fired up over? These iOS vs. Android Flame Wars Have To Stop | TechCrunch
Click To Read Full PostJordon Crook on Flame wars
How ridiculous, right? How absolutely petty and meaningless are the things we get fired up over? via These iOS vs. Android Flame Wars Have To Stop | TechCrunch.
Click To Read Full PostOS X Mountain Lion
The word is out, Apple will release a new version of OS X this summer. I got news of this from a friend who is a Mac developer. The interesting thing he pointed out to me was that Apple dropped the word "Mac" from the OS. It's just OS X Mountain Lion. After looking over…
Click To Read Full PostSoftware or Hardware?
What computer would you rather use? A MacBook running Windows 7, or, say, a Lenovo ThinkPad running Mac OS X 10.7? For me, the answers are easy. It’s the software that matters most to me. I’d pick a Nokia Lumia running iOS 5 over an iPhone 4S running any other OS, and I’d pick the…
Click To Read Full PostAirPort Utility 6.0 Released
**UPDATE**: A writeup on [TUAW](http://www.tuaw.com/2012/01/31/in-pictures-airport-utility-6-0s-missing-features/) suggest that certain features are missing from the update. Last night [Apple released version 6.0](http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1481) of the Apple AirPort Utility for the Mac as well as Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.1. The new release does not appear to have gained any new features or fix any bugs. However AirPort Utility…
Click To Read Full Postmaniacalrage: Apple redesigned the Airport Utility app for OS X. It now looks much like the recently released iOS app and gives you a prettier, more useful look at your network. They’ve streamlined the settings themselves too… this is a huge win UI/UX-wise.
Click To Read Full PostiPad owns 96% of enterprise market!
Enterprise mobile vendor Good Technology published a new study on Thursday revealing iOS’s massive market share in the corporate world. The iPad accounted for 96% of all tablets in the fourth quarter according to the firm, while the iPhone accounted for 53% of all smartphones activated by more than 2,000 companies using Good’s services in the…
Click To Read Full PostYou Do Not Need to Manually Manage iOS Multitasking
Bottom line: the iOS multitasking bar is not like the command tab switcher on Mac or Windows. It is not a list of currently “running” applications. It is simply a list of your most recently used applications, whether they’re running in the background, suspended in memory, or completely inactive.
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