Archive for April, 2010
Mac OS X gives Adobe Flash a hardware boost
It is widely known in the Apple community that running Adobe Flash on the Mac OS X platform has performance issues. It lags and is slow. The Windows OS version of Flash has always managed to work better. But now, it looks like Apple, who has a love/hate relationship with Adobe these days due to [...]
Gray Powell craziness continues via Lufthansa Airlines
Just when you thought this whole iPhone HD prototype/Gizmodo/Gray Powell insanity was over, Lufthansa, the German airline had to come in and up the ante. Lufthansa’s marketing director, Nicola Lange, upon hearing about the whole scenario with Gray Power, put this message up on Twitter, inviting Powell to fly for free to Munich, to drown [...]
Asus and Acer Nvidia ION 2 Netbooks Not Shipping Until Late May and Beyond
This is some relatively sad news. I wrote a while back about the value that Nvidia’s ION graphics system brings to netbooks and showed you how it can handle Blu-ray playback. Naturally, I’m pretty excited about for next generation of said graphics system, ION 2, to reach consumers. Unfortunately it looks like we’ll have to [...]
How to get your iPad WiFi Connected to 3G
After using my iPad WiFi for a week it’s clear that the iPad is at its best when it has an Internet connection. If you’ve waited this long you may just want to hold off for the iPad WiFi+3G, but if you can’t stomach an extra payment each month or paying the extra $130; you can [...]
Top Ten Reasons the iPhone Debacle Made It on Letterman
I don’t really have any reasons, but it does show that the whole lost or stolen secret new iPhone debacle has gone mainstream. In case you missed it, a mysterious new iPhone was supposedly lost or left in a bar in California and the finder approached a couple of tech blogs eventually selling it to [...]
Desktop App: Very Limited Multitasking on iPad
Until the new iPhone OS comes to the iPad this fall, we will have to wait for the limited version of multitasking Apple is still adding to their new OS. Until then, a simple app called Desktop tries to overcome this weakness. It actually does a decent job of allowing you to have two “apps” [...]
iPhone OS 4 Multitasking Video
When Apple announced the coming update to their iPhone OS, one of the most desired new features was multitasking. Apple did not fully comply with what everyone wanted for multitasking. They have however included a limited form of multitasking which allows apps to be saved in their current state with their icon appearing in the [...]
Asus Eee Keyboard Gets Unboxed
Asus is harkening back to the days of the Commodore computers with their Eee Keyboard, which is a computer in a keyboard. We covered it briefly over at out sister site Gottabemobile.com earlier. But now, the folks over at Netbook News have gotten a chance to open it up on camera. And now, you can [...]
Earth Day and Technology
Happy Earth Day everyone! Its the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. UPDATE: Check out our Earth Day: Green Notebooks, Gadgets and Tips for Going Green What is Earth Day? Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on [...]
MotionDSP offers free version of vReveal
MotionDSP has released a free version of their popular vReveal software. For those unfamiliar, vReveal is an Windows application that can analyze a video clip and then enhance the clip with improved image stabilization, sound, contrast and noise cancellation. Our own Xavier Lanier posted his thoughts on the application over at our sister site GottaBeMobile.com [...]
