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Technology in high-end machines eventually trickles down to the low-end. These sort of hand me down improvements are normal, but what do these two principles tell us about what’s coming next? Does iPhone’s Retina Display give us a hint for the future of Apple’s product line? Read More »

The iPhone was released in 2007 running iOS 1.0 and now, in 2010 we receive our fourth huge update to iOS where Apple’s Leopard and Snow Leopard are largely unchanged from a feature perspective and only maintain system improvements, speed enhancements and other changes. Read More »

 
 

One of the best features of the iPad is its lack of features, especially when it comes to writing. Knowing that chat is not running and Twitter is turned off lets the writer focus entirely on the task of writing. Read More »

Video conferencing still isn’t taking off. But someone at Apple truly believes in it and that’s a good sign as I think it can be the future one day. Read More »

Apple heralds that the iPhone 4 launch has been the most successful product launch ever, but in the past week since it first went on sale, reviews across the world have remarked on issues of signal quality. Apple says it’s a software issue, but is it? Read More »

The iPhone 4 Missteps

It’s easy for the fanboy in me to get excited for a new product. I’ve read over 300 blog posts from bloggers recounting what they think of iPhone 4 and have come away with what I feel are the biggest missteps Apple made with this product. Read More »

The biggest speculative conundrum for Mac laptop watchers is, “Whither the MacBook Air?” It’s been over a year since the Air received its last refresh, and the puzzler is whether it will be getting another or just be allowed to fade away from relevance through neglect. Read More »

Recent additional evidence suggests that iWork may be coming to the iPhone. There’s lots to indicate iWork will arrive on the iPhone, from Apple themselves and from spy shots showing the app in action…screenshots and all! Read More »

Now that all the commercial e-book distributors have made their iPad apps available, it’s time for an overview of how each app performs, along with their pluses and minuses. So, here’s how I found each app to hold up. Read More »

By now, a lot folks with an iPhone have been running iOS 4, the new name for iPhone OS. But if Apple has seen the point in renaming the OS, at what point will it admit that iTunes is horribly named at this point in time? Read More »

If you’re a college student, hopefully you’re no stranger to some awesome discounts you can get on a Mac. But what if you had your eyes on a shiny new iPhone 4? Here’s a quick way to save some money on it too. Read More »

The new Retina Display on the iPhone 4 is simply stunning and gorgeous. However, the increased resolution has meant that developers need to increase the resolution of the assets used in their apps. Is it really such a big deal? Read More »

More Must Reads

Multitouch user input is the current “latest big thing” in mobile computing. However, little is yet known about long-term stresses that using multitouch input systems may inflict on our muscles, nerves, and tendons. Read More »

iOS 4 brings a new way to organize apps on the iPhone. Previously, the only organization available was to separate the apps on different pages and flick between them. After a few pages of apps, it became harder to find the one you were looking for. Read More »

On June 7, I embarked on a trip to Europe. I debated whether I wanted to take my iPad or my hackintosh’d Dell Mini 9. In the end, I went with the iPad. Read More »

Apple’s new Mac mini has a number of great new features including an updated case, an HDMI port and a speed bump in specs, but what’s not so great is its value proposition when compared to an iMac or MacBook. Read More »

Likely you watched with a mix of horror and admiration as Apple’s iPhone 4 pre-order kicked off yesterday, nearly bringing down the Internet thanks to the ravenous hunger of the Cupertino faithful. Despite the hiccups, the iPhone already sold out. Read More »

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