OS X Mountain Lion “Most Polished” Version Yet
Trying to write a review of OS X Mountain Lion is tricky. First of all, I had already written a review back in February, when Apple legitimately surprised the world with the revelation that the ninth iteration of OS X was just about ready to go. Granted, back then I only had a few days to play with an early build. But it was already pretty solid at that point. Now, months later, I’ve had a lot of time to play with Mountain Lion, and...
Vizify offers free infographics all about you, makes you feel like a big shot
By Mat Smith posted Jul 27th 2012 1:05PM Infographics. The stuff of high turnover websites and news channels, right? Well, yes, but now you can bring the same white space and pastel shades to your own internet footprint, courtesy of free infographic web app Vizify. It’s still in its trial period for now, which means you’ll have to wait for an entry code to tap into the breezy visualization generator, but we managed to plug...
New iPad: A Million More Pixels Than HDTV
Apple’s iPad could be described as a personal display through which you see and manipulate text, graphics, photos and videos often delivered via the Internet. So, how has the company chosen to improve its wildly popular tablet? By making that display dramatically better and making the delivery of content dramatically faster. There are other changes in the new, third-generation iPad — called simply “iPad,” with no number, which goes on...
Foxconn considers expansion into low-cost Indonesia
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group said it was in exploratory talks with Indonesian officials over serving its domestic market in some capacity, but does not have immediate plans to build factories in the country. “There is no investment plan right now. Building a 10 billion, 1 billion factory, there is no such plan,” said Foxconn spokesman Simon Hsing in an interview on Wednesday. The maker of...
TweetDeck updates web-based client with sleeker profiles, enhanced mentions and hashtags
By Edgar Alvarez posted Jul 27th 2012 1:29PM Now that yesterday’s sudden Twitter outage is behind us, it’s now time to focus on the blue bird’s own, and very popular client, TweetDeck. The all-you-can-tweet service has quietly updated its internet-based client with some minor, but rather eye-pleasing tweaks. For starters, users profiles have received a slight design improvement for an overall “cleaner”...
