After years of being surrounded by iOS users who swear by their devices and apps, I gave in and purchased an iPad Air as a belated birthday gift. The design is ergonomic and beautiful. The apps are brilliantly optimized. There’s something special about the unity between hardware and software that…
During Apple’s WWDC 2013 keynote, the graphically-inclined may have noted “OpenGL 4” among OS X Mavericks’ feature list. I was curious and decided to study OpenGL support between Mountain Lion and the developer preview of Mavericks. The comparison was done on my non-production workstation using OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4) and OS…
Walk through the hospital and I guarantee you’ll see a medical student, resident, attending, or other healthcare provider utilizing some sort of tablet device. In some venues, iPads and Android tablets have become as commonplace as the traditional clipboard. The question – do these devices actually service a purpose at…
Whether you’re running a massive 500 GB hard drive or super-speedy 32 GB solid state drive on your Mac, it doesn’t hurt to strip away unnecessary languages from your programs. It’s a hassle to go through applications individually and remove additional language files, but Monolingual has automated this process in…
HTML5 has been on the horizon for quite some time, but the breadth of Flash-based web applications has continued to expand over the last few years. Apple dealt their first major blow to Flash by not supporting it on their flagship tablet device, the iPad. This caused media giants like…
Intel recently announced its “Light Peak” technology, a new mode of cabling (put forth by Apple) which will revolutionize the way peripheral devices, displays, etc. interact with your computer’s motherboard. With USB 3.0 looming around the corner (drivers have already been incorporated into the latest Linux kernel v2.6.31), I’m a…
The newly announced iPhone 3G-S coupled with iPhone OS 3.0 will probably be heralded by many, like myself, as the “perfect handset.” However, just like the wave of excitement which accompanied the debut of iPhone 3G last year was dissolved by AT&T’s slow speeds, spotty coverage, and lack of adequate…
Ever spend hours trying to find “just the right” wallpaper to accommodate your personality? Well I think I found one to tickle my fascination with astronomy. EarthDesk, a product by Xeric Design, replaces the desktop picture on a Mac or Windows desktop with a dynamic image of planet Earth. This image is…
In the latest example of Apple charging a premium for its products, an 8 GB RAM upgrade option has been released on Apple’s site. The price tag – $1,200. That’s enough to buy another MacBook! Seriously, I’m hoping our friends in Cupertino are just pulling an early April Fool’s joke,…
Earlier today, Steve Jobs stated that he will be taking an extended medical leave until the end of June to attend to his health. Jobs’ medical condition, which was previously labeled as a simple hormonal imbalance, proved to be “more complex than originally thought.” Word about his leave spelled doom…