It appears that some of the main graphic images used in Apple’s iTunes Store are of a lower visual quality than in the recent past. Look for some of the classic representations of image compression—noise, loss of edge clarity and tone roughness. Compression artifacts are especially recognizable in small and medium sized text. Image quality [...]
The iOS apps listed below are simply the best currently available for the iPad and they are all highly rated. Some of these iPad apps are not well known—a few under-appreciated and or rare iOS gems are included in this list. the iPad apps presented here are in no order of importance.
Using Apple’s latest version of its web browser, Safari 4.0 beta in Microsoft Windows, one cannot help but notice the differences in font rendering philosophies (and algorithms) between Apple’s OS X and Windows. With the latest version of Safari for Windows one can switch font rendering methods on the fly–from the Mac OS X style to Window’s font rendering style
As I continue to hack my way through an attempt to blend my website with a new WordPress-Powered “True” Blog (as opposed to my current non-Blog, or false-Blog, which is really an Articles section only calling itself a blog because ‘blog’ is currently more trendy of a term than ‘articles’), I find it necessary to [...]
While most folks want to have a debate between Microsoft’s Office and Apple’s iWork, I have fallen in love with the new kid on the block in the Mac-world, IBM’s Lotus Symphony. Unlike Office and iWork, Symphony is free, which is a huge plus in the new economic scenario that companies and individual users find [...]
This past article is being re-posted and continuously updated on this WordPress-powered blog so people can post comments and questions. This article was originally published in December of 2008. My most recent and fresh complaint with Apple has to do with an annoying clicking sound coming from the hard drive (HDD) of my early 2008 [...]
If you are having issues with your Bluetooth mouse, keyboard or BT in general on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I recommend downloading and installing the just-released software for the new Apple Magic Mouse. Yesterday, when I saw that piece of software posted on the internet, its size perked my interest—checking in at 64mb compressed [...]
There are thousands of free iPhone/iPod Touch apps, these are the 9 (non-game) Best. Also included in this “top 10” list is one app so good it is worth the near $10 price and the inclusion in this listing. Also included in this article, ten other free apps worth an honorable mention, for a total [...]
