So, having all this fancy technology is no good if it's just so slow that we just don't use it. Friction, or the lack of it, can be something that either makes or breaks a product whether that product be hardware or software. Take Google Now as an example.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
There have been software updates flying around like confetti for the last few days, and while the Mac, iPhone, iPad and even the iPod touch have all received new versions of their software recently, it seems that someone inside Apple still had time to remember the company's hobby.
Yesterday was undoubtedly a pretty big day for iPad lovers. Not only did Apple dish up a refreshed iPad but it also changed its name to the relatively unpopular iPad Air. Alongside the new Retina iPad mini 2, the new iPad Air takes the original iPad and improves upon it in all kinds of ways.
As far as the last twenty-four hours have gone, the news cycle has been dominated by new hardware. New iPads, new MacBook Pros and a new Mac Pro have been enough to take attention away from possibly the biggest thing to ship straight after Apple's media event finished yesterday.
The new and updated iWork and iLife apps for iOS and Mac are now live in the App Store and Mac App Store, respectively, and are now available to download. More details and direct download links can be found right here.
We are now just a couple of days away form Apple's media event - an event that we all expect the company to announce at least two new iPads at. With that in mind though, it's also an event that we suspect will see one or two other products shown off, even if they aren't all quite ready to ship.
It's been a big week for Pokémon fans, what with a new game being released for Nintendo's 3DS that sees the franchise's army of fans once again plunged into the world that they love so. As it goes, Pokémon fans tend to be of the more technological persuasion, which means they'll love this news.
There was once a time when editing photos was something that would take a pretty high end computer and a graphics suite that was expensive enough to make your eyes water. These days though, it's possible to do some rather impressive things using nothing but a Web browser and a nice stable Internet connection. Fotor is one service that lets users upload images and then edit them from the safety of the browser window, with no need for something as unwieldy as 'real' photo-editing software.
It doesn't matter that we're all sat eagerly anticipating invites to a Nexus 5 announcement event to pop up in all the usual places because Google is staying very much tight lipped. Instead, the Android maker has sent out some invites to something wholly less interesting, with the 24th of October set to be a day of Google Play news, rather than new hardware.
Talk of Apple being able to read iMessage contents is nothing that new, but it's been at the fore today after the iPhone and iPad maker was forced to reiterate that it cannot see the content of messages, even if it wanted to. That may have put people's minds at rest, and while it should be reassuring, Apple's claim has already had a bog old dollop of doubt thrown at it by jailbreak supremo Pod2g.
