Saturday, December 29, 2012

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Friday, December 28, 2012

This Fully Loaded Laptop Is Your Poor-Man's-Windows-rMBP Deal of the Day


This Fully Loaded Laptop Is Your Poor-Man's-Windows-rMBP Deal of the Day

Start 2013 with a new laptop. This 15-inch Vizio is way over-specced for the price: you get a 1080p screen, a 256GB SSD, and a top of the line dual-core Intel mobile processor. Plus, it comes with Windows 8—this is a new machine, after all. We liked its unibody design when we reviewed it, and by most accounts it's a really nice laptop. The one concern Kyle had when he reviewed it is that he found the touchpad unsatisfactory, but the Microsoft listing says that the touchpad is optimized for Modern UI touch gestures. Most places are selling this laptop for $1050 and up (including Amazon!) but the Microsoft Store has it for $800. A screaming deal on the laptop you actually wanted for Christmas. [Microsoft Store] More »



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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

TimeWorks 1.2.6 - View iCal events in a window or as screensaver (was iCalViewer).. (Demo)


TimeWorks 1.2.6 - View iCal events in a window or as screensaver (was iCalViewer).. (Demo)



TimeWorks displays the events from Apple's calendar application, iCal, in a window. Each event is displayed in a similar way to iCal and marches towards a finish line which is the time now.
  • You set how far you want to see into the future.
  • Events are displayed in a window on the desktop, over the screen saver.
  • An Exposé hotkey brings the display quickly into view when you need it.


Version 1.2.6:
  • Minor fixes


Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

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RIM's QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device shows up in pictures


RIM's QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device shows up in pictures

Images of the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 N-Series handset with a physical keyboard have leaked once again, giving the best view to date of what the handset will look like when it launches some time next year. The device pictured in the new images looks largely unchanged from what was seen earlier this year in leaked press images, with a large, squarish touchscreen above the QWERTY keyboard that is the signature of the BlackBerry line. The N-Series is expected to launch after the all-touchscreen L-Series, which will debut in media events around the world on January 30....



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Monday, December 10, 2012

Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October


Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October

Screen Shot 2012 12 09 at 10.01.02 AM 520x245 Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October

It was big news when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the world that Windows Phone devices were selling at four times their rate from 2011. That, along with several other positive factors, led TNW to declare that the time of Windows Phone's youth has come to a close.

Today, fresh external data appears to confirm the statement.

In early 2011, TNW found that a ratio existed between the number of monthly active users (MAU) of the Windows Phone Facebook application and the total number of handsets sold. Naturally, this MAU figure can but help us describe the number of recently sold handsets, as retired phones would not appear in the figures.

Now, where do we stand? According to WMPowerUser, Windows Phone's MAU figure is surging when compared to last year:

Using the number of Monthly Active Facebook users as a guide, we can see around 627,000 MAU of the built-in Facebook app has been added since the 1st October 2012, the start of the quarter. Last year over the same period less than 150,000 was added by the 15th December.

As you can deduce, 627,000 is roughly four times 150,000 mirroring the rate that Steve Ballmer let fly to the public.

In our initial reporting, a ratio of 6.756 handsets sold per active user of the Windows Phone Facebook application. That ratio could now be quite dated, as Facebook usage patterns change, and the Windows Phone userbase changes demographically. However, as that ratio allowed us to predict nearly perfectly the 2 million handset sold mark for the platform, it does carry some weight.

And so, that mathemagical calculation would yield as the guess that 4,236,012 have been sold since the start of the quarter. We leave the figure to your gut for a check.

However, for context, our friends over at WMPowerUser who brought the latest MAU data to our attention have a much larger figure in mind:

Last year according to Gartner, who claims to measure units actually sold to end users rather than shipments, said 2.759 million Windows Phones were sold in Q4 2011.  The data suggests already 7 million Windows Phones were sold so far this quarter, and we may finally be heading to a + 10 million Windows Phone quarter.

The moral of the story this fine Sunday is that one of the most accurate external pieces of extrapolatable data confirms what Microsoft has told the market.

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Instagram photos vanish from Twitter as policy finalized


Instagram photos vanish from Twitter as policy finalized

Photo sharers who operate across both Twitter and Instagram likely woke this morning to find that the hand-in-glove interoperation of the two sites has come to an end, as Instagram finally cut off support for Twitter's Twitter card feature. The Twitter feature that displays an image of shared photos within the Twitter stream will now show a blank white space when a photo is shared from Instagram. The photo sharing site's decision to kill part of its compatibility with Twitter epitomizes the growing competition between the two sites, a competition that has only intensified since Facebook bought...



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Monday, December 3, 2012

New Apple Patent Outlines The Wireless Charging Future We're All Dreaming Of


New Apple Patent Outlines The Wireless Charging Future We're All Dreaming Of

Truly wireless charging, it's a tech utopia we all long for. Sure, we're getting there, but it still requires contact, which is only slightly better. If places like Starbucks starts putting pads in their tables, hooray, but it's a far cry from a real charging zone. A recent Apple patent outlines just that, the wireless charging dream we've all been dreaming. More »



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Saturday, December 1, 2012

HTC confirms the Windows Phone 8S will not be coming to the US

HTC confirms the Windows Phone 8S will not be coming to the US

The HTC Windows Phone 8S was announced as a lower-end alternative to its bigger brother, the flagship Windows Phone 8X, but the company has remained relatively quiet about it since. While we're still awaiting official details on pricing and availability across the globe, HTC has filled us in on one crucial nugget of information: it won't be coming to the United States. While we've been suspicious that this might be the case, we had been holding out hope that it might have at least some amount of reach in the US market. Essentially, HTC is focusing all of its stateside efforts on the 8X, its signature device. With that said, we'll still likely see the 8S show up as an unlocked and unsubsidized smartphone on various etailers, so Windows Phone enthusiasts with a penchant for bright colors will want to keep their eyes peeled. Now that we know more about the markets that won't be graced by the presence of the 8S, all we need now is a confirmation on when we can expect it elsewhere. Stay tuned past the break for HTC's official statement.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Official: OS 10.0.9.1103 for BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Now Available

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Developers now have access to download OS 10.0.9.1103 for their BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices. The includes bug fixes, but also an important update for Web developers as the BlackBerry WebWorks HTML5 tools have been updated to offer more functionality and to draw closer to parity with Native tools.






Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Pocket for Mac updates with improved sharing, new keyboard shortcuts, and more



Pocket for Mac updates with improved sharing, new keyboard shortcuts, and more
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Facebook pushing staff to switch to Android over iOS

Facebook has commenced an in-house promotion dubbed ëdroidfood,í encouraging staff to switch to Android, reports TechCrunch. The term is a play on the ëdogfooding,í which is used by software company uses its own product to test it and demonstrate its qualities. With the Android OS well on top in the battle for the smartphone market share, Facebook is trying to encourage more employees to adopt Android devices in order to help improve the quality of its Facebook app for the majority of users....










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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Sony coats Xperia P in 24-carat gold, keeps up tradition of so-so phones in luxury shells


Sony coats Xperia P in 24-carat gold, keeps up tradition of so-so phones in luxury shells

Sony coats Xperia P in 24carat gold, keeps up tradition of soso phones in luxury shells

Outside of custom projects, the cardinal rule for draping phones in exotic materials is that they must never, ever be truly high end devices: at best, they should involve mid-tier hardware that could be eclipsed by a garden-variety smartphone at a fraction of the price. Sony's maintaining that all too time-honored tradition by producing a gold-coated, 24-carat version of... the Xperia P. Yes, rather than spruce up a flagship like the James Bond-approved Xperia T, Sony has instead given the luxury treatment to a smartphone with a strictly middling 4-inch display and dual-core 1GHz processor. In fairness, the company sees this as an experiment rather than a Vertu-like business model, with the intent strictly to emphasize the unibody design. A maximum 15 have been built as a result -- and rather than count on impulse purchases from oligarchs, Sony hints that it's offering at least some of its gold Xperia P stock to followers on Facebook. As long as there's no pretenses of living the high life with what's really a very ordinary phone underneath, we're satisfied.

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T-Mobile Nexus 4 sells out hours after Google refers to it


T-Mobile Nexus 4 sells out hours after Google refers to it

T-Mobile has sold out of the LG-made Nexus 4 smartphone from Google just a few hours after the announcement of a special sale on the device. Google today began advertising a special offer whereby T-Mobile customers could get the Nexus 4 for $199 with the activation of a two-year contract and a $50 mail-in rebate. A look at the product page for the T-Mobile Nexus 4 currently shows it as out of stock, though it is possible that the device may be in stock at T-Mobile's physical locations....



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Former Apple engineer: Everything Apple does involving the Internet is a mess

Apple Criticism Web Services

Apple (AAPL) excels when it comes to product design, interface design, marketing and in a number of other areas but when Web services come into play, things go south fast. "Almost anything Apple does which involves the internet is a mess," wrote former Apple engineer Patrick B. Gibson on his personal blog, pointing to a number of examples to support his claim. Among them are the fact that Apple can't update its online store without taking it down, the fact that Notes requires an email address to sync, the fact that iTunes and the company's App Stores are powered by "a mostly dead framework written almost 20 years ago," and the unmitigated disasters that are MobileMe and Ping. Gibson also jokes that "iMessage for Mac lives in an alternate dimension in which time has no ordered sequence."

Gibson does note that Safari is a bright spot — perhaps the only bright spot — on Apple's Internet resume.

Why is this such a big deal? The former Apple coder shares a colleague's belief that "Google (GOOG) is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services."

"Google, specifically Android, has been steadily improving its entire platform," Gibson wrote. "To me, it still doesn't have the same quality of polish and feel that Apple software does. However, it's getting harder to argue that point, especially since their web services all tend to Just Work. Features like Google Now and near-instant voice commands are starting to give Android a serious leg up on iOS. Design is coming along as well. Android is still ugly, but it's much less ugly than it was a few years ago. Google seems to be actively addressing this, and if Apple isn't worried, they should be."

He goes on to suggest that Apple should acquire Twitter, not just in an effort to take an immediate leadership position in the social networking space, but also for Twitter's talent. Gibson says Twitter uses some of the most advanced Web technologies currently available, and that the engineering team there invented much of it.










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Monday, November 5, 2012

Microsoft explains WP 8 Lock, Home screen design decisions


Microsoft explains WP 8 Lock, Home screen design decisions

Microsoft has explained its thinking behind the Windows Phone 8 Lock screen and the home screen. Two company blog posts explain the processes behind the two screens, why the changes from what were established in Windows Phone 7.5 were made, as well as some other behind-the-scenes commentary....



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Saturday, November 3, 2012

40 Mac apps with great, eye-catching designs

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Many Mac apps are beautiful to look at — while other operating systems have beautiful apps, design is a bigger factor for the platform's developers. And, a lot of the time, these apps are wonderful to use too – their fantastic design being part of a carefully-considered UI that engages users and makes the apps truly useful.

With so many apps being developed for the Mac, by amateurs and professionals alike, it is hard to stand out and innovate. Gathered in this collection are forty examples of apps that have tried to push the boundaries with their designs.

iDocument

1 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

MiStat

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

HyperPDF

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Mental Case

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Spectrum

5 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Lucid

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Chronicle

7 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Retickr

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Paintcode

9 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Thoughts

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Tangerine!

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Hibari

12 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Courier

13 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Pulp

14 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Screeny

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Wunderlist

16 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Griddle

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

The Hit List

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Midnight Inbox

19 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

ScreenFlow

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Tags

21 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Billings Pro

22 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

XScope

23 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Scrivener

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

FontCase

25 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Propane

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Kousek 2

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Day One

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Ecoute

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Plex

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

WriteRoom

31 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Espresso

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

DaisyDisk

33 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

OmmWriter

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Evernote 5 (Beta)

35 40 innovative mac app designs 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

LaunchWrite

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Tweetbot

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

OnlyTasks

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

TuneUp

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

Cockpit

 40 Mac apps with great, eye catching designs

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