Archive for July, 2010

Apple introduces New “Magic Trackpad”

By Luke On Jul 27, 2010 Apple 0 No Comments Tags: ,

companion_20100727Hey! ya know what smooths over an ugly Apple PR month? New Apple products!!! Today Apple announced the release of two new products and an iMac refresh. Not bad for another Tuesday at Apple. But let me present to you the new mini-gadget of the moment.

Apple’s Magic Trackpad!

desktop_20100727“It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine”  $69 dollars though? I would say it makes sense at $49 but Apple’s neat software doesn’t make that slightly over sized trackpad more expensive to produce.  All my bitterness aside, it truly looks like a very fun and intuitive way to interact with computer content. Seems we are one step closer to the future. Be mindful though, this device requires OS X 10.6.4.
Learn more about the Magic Trackpad.

iPad cases: Find the perfect iPad case online!

By Luke On Jul 22, 2010 Apple 2 2 Comments Tags: ,

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With more then 5,000 different iPad cases and counting, it may be difficult to track down that perfect case you are looking for. Brick and mortar stores offer limited selection and online store just list off all their cases with no rhyme or reason to their selection.

Enter iPad Cases Blog and iPad Case Finder. Both sites bring together a collection of some of the best deals, as well as some of the best designed cases I have ever seen. Both sites are heavy on the images which makes searching for cases a breeze. After visiting both sites you may notice it would take forever to see them all. Thankfully both sites are fully utilizing tags which allow for keyword searching to quickly narrow down the results. Eg. Leather, Hardshell, Black, Sleeve, Zipper, Water resistant, etc.

So if you’re looking for an iPad case, quite wasting your time paging through endless lists from online retailers and lack-luster choices at brick and mortar stores. These two sites can help you track down the perfect case for you in no time flat!

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Firefox Beta 4 for OS X! Really really fast!

By Luke On Jul 9, 2010 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: , ,

Firefoxbeta4At first I was amazed and awed by Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. When it was first introduced back in 2004 it was very fast and pretty powerful. But after five years of using Firefox, it became old. It was getting bogged down and it frankly wasn’t as fast as Safari or Chrome in my experience.

Firefox 4 brings a lot of great new stuff to the table. It’s incredibly quick, due to new accelerated hardware support and the UI has been polished and simplified. It also comes with support for HTML5/WebM video. Allowing you to enjoy  open HD quality video natively inside of Firefox. Improved crash protection also protects you from misbehaving plugins that usually crash the whole app, now only the plugin is affected, leaving you other work intact.

Other new features include:

  • WebGL – web standard that provides a 3D graphics API implemented in a web browser without the use of plug-ins
  • WebSockets - a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels (Makes page loading faster)
  • Web Console –  web-based application that allows remote users to execute UNIX/Windows shell commands on a server, upload/download files to/from server, edit text files directly on a server, etc

You can find all the new features over at Firefox’s Beta 4 page.

Opera 10.6 out in the wild, faster than ever.

By Luke On Jul 5, 2010 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags:

operaLets face it, competition is healthy and having your pick of the litter when it comes to web browsers is fantastic. Whether you use Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Camino, you must give the new version of Opera a try.

“With the final version of Opera 10.60, the browser scores more than 50 percent faster than its predecessor – which was the fastest browser on Earth – in key benchmark tests. This translates into a faster browsing experience for users on modern JavaScript-heavy sites such as Gmail and Facebook.” -Opera

That is a pretty big statement to through around in my opinion, but after three days of use I can’t help but be wowed. The difference in speed when compared to Safari and Firefox wasn’t day and night but I did find that return visits to sites like Gmail and Digg were noticeably faster.

“Combined with its unique Opera Turbo functionality, Opera puts you one step ahead on the Web. Opera Turbo compresses the data going over your connection up to a factor of two or more, for those congested connections at cafés or a mobile connection at the summerhouse.”

All in all Opera is a very solid and very fast browser that combines the best features from all over the web into one amazing browser.

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