Posts Tagged ‘desktop computers’
iPhone Passes Windows Mobile in Smartphone OS Market Share
Windows Mobile, Microsoft’s increasingly embarrassing single entrant in the smartphone OS field, can’t seem to hold onto the attention of the world’s consumers. A new survey by market research firm comScore sees Windows Mobile dropping one place in the overall rankings, and Apple’s iPhone gaining one, which puts it ahead of Microsoft. The iPhone climbs to No. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple Making Mobile Safari Web Apps Better, Faster, Stronger
iPhone web apps aren’t being left behind by Apple, despite the fact that the App Store has gone on to become such a huge success following its introduction in 2008. In fact, according to John Gruber at Daring Fireball , recent efforts on the Mac maker’s part show a real dedication to improving the platform’s web application experience. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple Granted Permanent Injuction Against Psystar
Despite Apple and Psystar having discussed a potential settlement in their drawn-out battle, the agreement was dependent upon the outcome of Apple’s motion for a permanent injunction . Yesterday, the California U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
Enable CSS3 Support for CSSEdit
Chances are if you do any kind of front-end web development on a Mac you’ve heard about CSSEdit , a very popular tool for editing .css files in OS X. I use CSSEdit pretty much all day long at my day job and while I absolutely love it and have a hard time imagining doing my job without it, its lack of support for all the new CSS3 properties is becoming more and more problematic Read the rest of this entry »
The Nexus One: A Non-Story
Over the weekend the rumors of a Google Phone were confirmed in the guise of the whimsically named Nexus One. It’s an unbranded HTC-made carrier-unlocked handset running Android 2.0, and it looks lovely Read the rest of this entry »
Complete Guide to Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Mac
Computers get dirty, especially their human interface surfaces — keyboards and pointing devices. Read the rest of this entry »
iPhone Owners Suffer Stockholm Syndrome, AT&T is Actually Awesome (Just Don’t Mention Friday’s Outages)
It’s hard to know where to begin. The weekend has seen a series of events unfold that manage to combine — beautifully, perfectly — into a single glorious mutually-annihilating maelstrom of silliness. Read the rest of this entry »
Monitor, Intel Processor Tempreture with Real Temp
Real Temp is a free software to monitor temperature for intel processors. Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core and Quad Core processors . Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TjMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU. Read the rest of this entry »
Rewind 2009: “Best of” Lists in the iTunes Store
Apple has published the “best” and most popular choices for 2009 at the iTunes Store , and the results are interesting, if not necessarily representative of the world outside the store. In music, the top-selling album, “Only By the Night” by Kings of Leon, was also chosen as album of the year. Lady GaGa was best new artist, while Michael Jackson was artist of the year. Read the rest of this entry »
The Case for Partitioning Your Mac’s Hard Drive
I’ve been partitioning my hard drives since my very first Mac — a used Mac Plus back in 1992. Yes, I divided the Plus’s commodious 20MB external SCSI HD into two partitions so I could boot either System 6 (for speed) or System 7 (for Internet support). I’m not as big an aficionado of partitioning as I once was, although all of my Macs since the Plus have had partitioned hard drives, including the unibody MacBook I’m typing this on, which has two HD partitions Read the rest of this entry »