Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
The $1549 (as of 11/07/2012) Xerox Phaser 6700/DN produces some of the smoothest photos you’ll see from a workgroup color laser printer, albeit a little orangey until
you tweak the palette. It’s also fast, and it offers lots of paper capa…
With big lights, great graphics, and a Jay-Z produced soundtrack, NBA 2K13 is all about the big stage, and it’s one of the rare sports games that delivers an enjoyable experience on the iOS platform. Keeping the spirit (and much of the core gamepla…
The 16.1 megapixel Sony SLT A57 digital SLT camera is aimed at a very discerning camera buyer: Goldilocks. Papa Bear might prefer the bigger, more complicated and more expensive A77; Mama Bear might pick the lighter entry-level A37, but if Goldilo…
House of Marley’s Lively Up Leather Scout Pack is a good-looking, eco-friendly laptop bag that adjusts to fit all sorts of goodies—including a full-sized iPad and a 15-inch MacBook Pro. But after using the Scout Pack for a week, I was less enam…
On the surface, Hog Bay Software’s $25 FoldingText (Mac App Store link) is a basic text editor. In fact, if you don’t dig too deep, you could easily be fooled into thinking that FoldingText is too simple to merit more than a passing glance. Th…
Some games trade substance for visual flash. But in the action role-playing game The World Ends With You, the world of fashion is the game’s substance. You play as a teenager in Japan’s colorful Shibuya district suffering from amnesia and in a des…
The Netatmo Weather Station is described as “the first personal weather station for iPhone & iPad.” The Weather Station itself consists of two pieces of hardware, and the company provides a free iOS app for accessing weather data from thes…
The release of the fourth-generation iPad so soon after the third-generation iPad may have come as a surprise to even diehard Apple watchers, but the device itself won’t. By now, we all know what an iPad looks like, and the fourth-generation iPa…
Apple may dip Intel chips, OS X 10.9 is waking up from a cat nap, and Amazon’s taking home the bacon in Europe. The remainders for Tuesday, November 6, 2012 are fast as lightning.
Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac (BloombergBu…
Google’s mobile maps product saw its market share in China decline by close to 50 percent in the third quarter due to Apple switching to its own maps product for its iOS 6 upgrade, according to a Beijing-based research firm.
At the end of the…
Cellular coverage for some carriers approached normal levels in the northeastern U.S. a week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but some areas remained cut off from mobile service because of ongoing power and telecommunications outages.
Verizon …
Photo-sharing network Instagram is giving up on its smartphone app exclusivity and rolling out Facebook-styled Web profiles for all its users over the next few days. The Facebook-owned social network says the new Instagram profiles are designed to …
Google’s working on an iOS Maps app that may never see the light of day, Apple may soon let Siri buy your movie tickets, and Steve Jobs gets fully posable. The remainders for Monday, November 5, 2012 are up a creek.
Google sources think maps a…
Intel on Monday announced SSD DC S3700 solid-state drives with up to 800GB of capacity, designed to deliver improved performance and power efficiency.
The SSDs offer two times faster read and 15 times faster write speed over the Intel SSD 710 se…
A highly anticipated patent infringement case between Apple and Motorola Mobility was dismissed by a Wisconsin district court Monday, hours before the trial was due to begin.
The two companies were arguing over license rates for patents owned by…
Under a new policy, Twitter will leave a placeholder message when it removes content resulting from a complaint by a copyright holder.
Previously, the content was removed entirely, making it more difficult for people to figure out why it disappear…