Congratulations to Microsoft, who somehow in the face of teasing from very important bloggers like us, has managed to sell quite a few copies of Windows 7 since that OS’s release 18 months ago. And by quite a few, I mean 350 million. Views:548
Time to spring clean your mind? Scientists say memory lapses can be blamed on too much irrelevant information If you struggle to remember names and numbers or frequently fail to follow the plot of a film, help could be at hand. Scientists say the problem is that you know too much – and you need [...]
General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network Announced 2010, November Status Available. Released 2011, January Size Dimensions 119.4 x 59.8 x 14.3 mm, 86.6 cc Weight 107.5 g Display Type TFT, 256K colors Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.4 inches – QWERTY keyboard – Dedicated music key Sound Alert [...]
In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we’re going to create a simple text reflection effect. This effect has been used everywhere in advertising, and as we’ll see, it’s very easy to do. Photoshop Text Effects: The final text reflection effect. Let’s get started! Step 1: Create A New Photoshop Document Create a new blank Photoshop [...]
Filemaker Inc. today release an update to its popular iOS app — Filemaker Go 1.2. Filemaker Go is an powerful database for iOS and I’ve been using version 1.0 because of its ease of use. New features in today’s release include: Support for FileMaker Charts, including bar, line, area and pie charts: View, edit and [...]
Modern technology could be damaging our minds by bombarding us with too much information, according to new research. The development of smart phones means that we are becoming more adept at multi-tasking our way through life, as we switch between texts, emails, and tweets. But evidence suggests that the constant demand to deal with multiple [...]
Apple has been accused of putting customers’ privacy at risk after it emerged their iPhones track users’ locations and save every detail to a secret file. Security researchers found the device saves the latitude and longitude of users’ locations, along with a time stamp, then copies the data to the owner’s computer whenever the two [...]
[Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long Blog] Before Google Map Maker—a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world—only 15 percent of the world’s population had detailed online maps of their neighborhoods. Using Map Maker, people have built out and edited the maps for 183 countries and [...]
If you’re like me, you don’t leave the house without a mobile charger in case the cell phone battery goes dry. And that’s exactly the target group for the so-called Chargepad Panasonic announced [JP] today: it’s essentially a device that charges mobile chargers wirelessly (also compare this to Hitachi’s approach by which you charge gadgets, [...]
The second episode and sequel to the point-and-click adventure game, Back to the Future Ep 1 HD ($6.99), is finally released for the iPad. Adventure fans have been awaiting this iPad outing with excitement as the Mac and PC versions have already had three episodes released. If you are unfamiliar with the series, they are [...]
