A New York based company Adafruit announced a price of USD 2000 for anyone who comes up with an open source driver for Microsoft Kinect that could enable it for the PC use along with its exclusive Xbox 360 support. It was also anticipated a while ago that this technology might soon be developed further to be used in PCs.
Sources on the internet have been talking about a possible problem with Apple’s latest MacBook Air laptop. The problem is that the MacBook Air seems to have fading dark to light colors after waking from sleep. Continue reading this post »
As soon as the iPad was released to the public, musicians already saw the possibilities of using it as a control surface. However, looking at the audio production area of the Apple store, what applications are available now are still more on the guitar amp models and soft synths. The reason behind that is because there was no way to send MIDI commands from iOS natively. Some of the more creative music enthusiasts were able to find some workarounds though.
An official Apple policy on replacing products with dead LCD pixels was leaked this week. The leaked policy reveals that Apple will replace an iPhone if it has at least one dead pixel on its display, the company will replace an iPad if it has at least three dead pixels. Continue reading this post »
The Apple engineers are once again hard at work this time on trying to improve on the already impressive graphical user interface of devices running Mac OS X or iOS. The plan is to consolidate toolbars and menus to save screen real estate.
The next major release of iWork, Apple’s main productivity suite has already been completed and ready for commercial release, however, Apple is going to delay the release until the Mac App Store is already ready for the public early next year.
The latest accessory for the XBox 360 is now available. The Kinect, which will enable motion detection on the XBox 360, opens up new concepts on how we look at the Xbox games today.
Plans for the next major release of the iPhone, iPhone 5 are already coming out. One of the planned major capabilities will be to be able to use the iPhone 5 as an electronic wallet through what they call NFC, or Near Field Communication.
The latest release of the Apple TV will now support iTunes LP and iTunes Extras formated content. This is according to the latest release from Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. Unfortunately, there is no specific release date for this yet.
Are you fond of previewing songs in Tunes before purchasing them? Do you find the current 30 second preview too short to make your decision? Well, that will change, Apple has announced that it will extend the iTunes song previews, not only to the rumored 60 second extension, but a full 90 second preview.
Good news to all AppleCare customers, Apple has allowed the transfer of their maintenance and support agreements to new products.
Apple Back to the Mac event is just around the corner and a new macbook is expected to be announced in the event, along with the anticipated Mac 10.7 and iLife 11.
Samsung Galaxy tab has now officially got a price tag in UK where it would be launched on November 1, 2010. The warehouse outfit has set its price for approximately 850 USD for a 16GB version of Samsung Galaxy Tab.
GeoHot has released the Mac version of Limera1n and its now available for download. Limra1n could help you to jailbreak you device on iOS 4.1 without the help of a PC.
What would be announced in this event is unknown so far, but we have heard rumors that a new version of Snow Leopard will be released in this event – Snow Leopard 10.7
The new windows phone 7 ad is about how much time this new product of Microsoft can help you save. Normally, people spend a lot of time on their cellphones, ignoring their surroundings or responsibilities because they are stuck in doing something important on their mobile phone and it takes ages to be completed (not a fact actually). The ad shows that Windows Phone 7 helps you to completely do your task in lesser time and helps you get out of the mobile screen.
Walmart announced earlier that they would soon be selling the iPads at their outlets. Now the time has come and they have officially announced that Walmart stores across the US (not every store maybe) would start selling an iPad from October 15 of this year, so if you haven’t got your one yet, you know where to get from.
According to Google trends, iPhone is still the top dominating phone line-up in the market when it comes to mindshare, the extent to which people are influenced with a particular thing. A recent analysis in Google trend shows that iPhone beats the Android and Windows Phone 7 with a big margin when it comes to mindshare.
Earlier this week, Yahoo announced that they have plans to update their mobile app for different platforms, including iPhone. Turns out that the update was to include the option of video calling between your Yahoo contacts, and that isn’t limited to WiFi only, you can use 3G network to make video calls.
One on the popular guy among the iPhone dev team – MuscleNerd has managed to jailbreak the Apple TV. In his latest tweet, he says that he is not sure yet on how to run apps on it from the store, but we are pretty sure that soon he will find out!
