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Entries Tagged ‘Hardware’

MIDI gear makers embracing new iOS SDK terms

Makers of MIDI gear, including Akai and Line-6, have begun taking advantage of changes to the iOS SDK terms regarding third-party app development. The initial agreement restricted developers to creating apps for hardware they have licensed under Apple’s Made for iPod program. The new terms have been adjusted to allow third-party developers to create apps [...]

OWC claims fastest $100 solid-state drive

OWC finished the week this afternoon by cracking a price barrier with the Mercury Extreme Pro. The new 40GB hits the $100 price mark but still uses a high-speed SandForce memory controller that should make it the fastest at its price. Read and write speeds can both last as high as 260MB per second, a [...]

25 Ways to Check the Hardware on Your iPhone 4

What I came up with is a series of hardware checks that anyone can perform right after taking an iPhone 4 out of the box and syncing it for the first time. The following procedure is basic enough for almost any user to follow. Plus, it should catch any glaring hardware defects in an iPhone [...]

Will the Next-Gen iPhone 5 be Made of Liquid Metal, à la T-1000 from Terminator 2?

Remember T-1000 Skynet robot which was made from Liquid Metal in Terminator 2? Well it looks like Steve Jobs and Co are in full mood to build their next-gen hardware using Liquidmetal Technologies, a California based company from which they recently acquired exclusive rights to build products made of Liquid Metal alloy. More: continued here [...]

Chief of iPhone Hardware Design is Out of Apple Following the iPhone 4 Antennagate

Big news! According to The New York Times, the Senior Vice President of iPhone hardware engineering division at Apple has left the company in the wake of the so called iPhone 4 Antennagate from which the company is still fighting to recover from. While there is no word from Apple on whether Mark Papermaster was [...]

How to Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard in VirtualBox on Windows 7

Previously, we showed you how to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard using VMware in Windows 7. Since VMware license costs a lot, the good news is that you can now install OS X in Windows using one of the most popular free virtualization software called VirtualBox. You’ll need to have a system with an [...]

iPod touch 4 / 4G to Get iPhone 4 Like Features: FaceTime, 5MP Camera and 720p HD Video Recording?

It’s been quite a while since Apple gave their iPod touch line a major refresh in terms of hardware. In fact all models since the 1st-gen iPod touch pretty much does the same thing. Although the 3rd-gen iPod touch, which is also known as iPod touch 3G is really fast compared to the previous generation [...]

iMovie Ported to iPhone 3GS, iOS 4 [Video] !!

Yes! I have got iMovie, which is an iPhone 4 exclusive app running almost perfectly on my iPhone 3GS. I did this video just to show that iPhone 3GS is fast, and capable enough to run iMovie. It is just that Apple wants us all to purchase the new iPhone 4 by saying that iPhone [...]

iOS 4.0.1 Release Seems Imminent. Save Your SHSH Blobs Now!

By now, most of you might have heard rumors about the iOS 4.0.1 firmware update which Apple is preparing to release tomorrow in order to fix the ongoing reception issue on iPhone 4. Even though the issue is most likely related to the hardware, the buzz is that Apple is preparing a software fix in [...]

Steam Survey Finds More than 8% of Gamers use Apple’s MacOSx

More users of Valve’s Steam gaming service ran a version of Apple’s Mac OS X in its first month of availability than the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista combined, according to a new hardware survey. A total of 8.46 percent of Steam users in May 2010 were on some version of Apple’s [...]

ExoPC Windows 7 Slate can Play 1080p Videos

We were really willing to see the HP Slate PC in action but sadly HP pulled the plug on it, stating that Intel’s hardware is power hungry and Microsoft’s Windows 7 is not a good Tablet PC operating system. But now, ExoPC has come up with a similar Slate PC, that runs Windows 7 and [...]

Apple Updates MacBook Pro Line – Faster Processors, Next-Generation Graphics & Up to 10 Hours of Battery Life

Apple® today updated the MacBook® Pro line with faster processors, powerful next-generation NVIDIA graphics and even longer battery life. The popular 13-inch MacBook Pro features the new NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor for up to 80 percent faster graphics and a groundbreaking 10-hour built-in battery.* The new 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models feature Intel [...]

iPhone 4.0 –Video Conferencing Coming?

Apple didn’t introduce any new iPhone hardware; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later this summer. Could one of those surprises be a front-facing camera with iChat support? More: continued here Related posts Steve Jobs Seen Returning Post-WWDC Brandishing New iPhones (0) Latest [...]

Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) –

If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn’t for you.If you want to write code for a platform where the only thing that determines whether you’re going to succeed with it is [...]

Delivery Manager for Android l Telargo

Telargo’s Delivery manager is the first complete Android based delivery management application. Watch it in action on Google Nexus One phone. It allows the user to optimize, verify, track, navigate to and report the statuses of a complete range of daily trip orders in real time. What looks to be a fancy user interface application [...]