Snow Leopard: What’s the rush to upgrade?

August 31, 2009

With any systemwide upgrade, for some users, particularly early adopters, things can and will go wrong. However, the new features and the chance for improved performance will always woo many to upgrade sooner rather than later. And Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard is no different than any other software …

Analyst expects iPhone on other carriers with a year

August 31, 2009

If you are one of the many who wants an iPhone but doesn’t want to be on AT&T, at least one analyst thinks that you may get your wish soon. According to an analyst from, Piper Jaffray the iPhone may be on other networks soon.

Gene Munster expects the iPhone to hit other carriers in the U.S. wit…

Apple, Unicom iPhone deal not exclusive

August 31, 2009

The deal amoung Apple and China Unicom for the iPhone made headlines around the technology world last week. The deal gets the iPhone into the world’s most lucrative mobile phone market.

CNN Money reports that the deal with China Unicom for the iPhone is not exclusive. Apple’s Natalie Harrison wrote…

Thieves: Beware the iPhone

August 31, 2009

Thieves may be starting to have second thoughts about stealing iPhones thanks to Apple’s ingenious Find my iPhone feature that it enabled in iPhone OS version 3.0.
Find my iPhone requires that you have a $99 MobileMe detail, but could pay dividends whether you ever lose your iPhone — or …

Snow Leopard gets battery forensics

August 31, 2009

There’s a lot going on under the hood of Snow Leopard, to be certain, but a subtle change has been made to the battery menu item that will help portable users diagnose failing batteries.
Within the new Battery menu bar additional in Mac OS X v10.6, you may see one of these messages:

Replac…

Impression Arms iPhoto With a Watermark Weapon

August 31, 2009

Digital photography has made sharing photos easy — sometimes too easy. Work posted to the Web by lens-slingers can be misappropriated with abandon by the naive as well as the nefarious. One way shutterbugs try to protect their images is by watermarking them. A watermark is a logo, legend or…

Bing-powered augmented reality app for iPhone

August 30, 2009

Following the Metro Paris Subway application, here is another Augmented Reality (AR) app for the iPhone 3Gs that’s welcomed into the App Store: RobotVision. The Bing-powered app has interesting features which seem on top of your iPhone’s camera viewer when you point at a restaurant or other places. …

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