Apple's Magic Trackpad is a loathe it or love it kinda thing. While some just can't live without its free-scrolling, flicking and pointing abilities, some see it as a step down from the traditional mouse. Something that should be consigned to laptops, if you will.
Ultrabooks are something of a new breed, with Apple's MacBook Air their forefather. While we have had netbooks for a few years now, they've historically been underpowered, cheap and not always cheerful machines that were only there to fill a purpose until the tablets came along.
Regardless of whether or not you are a gamer, I am sure you are aware of the astronomical rise in popularity of video games in the last decade. In 2007 the estimated vale of the worldwide gaming industry was approximately $41.9 billion, with that total expected to rise at a rate of 9.1% annually. To give some scale as to how far the industry has come, in 1982 the gaming sector was valued at $1.5 billion, in 1990 it was $4.7 billion, in 1997 it was $7 billion and in 2004 it had risen dramatically but was still only valued at $25.4 billion.
Can you imagine a world where we could create a living version of both a typical iOS and Android user then pit them against each in various tasks to find out once and for all which the is the best operating system? Yeah, that would be pretty sensational, but unfortunately it isn't going to happen, not anytime soon anyway. The people at BlueStacks have come up with, in my opinion, is the next best thing by creating the rather odd looking 'Mr. Android'.
Have you ever wanted to make your own GIF image? You know, those lulzy, short animated images that are so popular on the internet? While there are ways to make one on the desktop using Photoshop or GIMP, these methods aren’t all that simple. If you have an Android device ready, you can use an app like GifStitch to, well, stitch together a bunch of images to create your very own GIF! Details and a little how-to tutorial available after the jump!
With the App Store numbers fast approaching the million mark and 64GB of storage available across the board, it’s pretty easy to accumulate page upon page of SpringBoard icons as we continually binge on the many great titles available.
It seems like a technological version of Top Trumps, with the two biggest mobile operating systems going head to head, battling each other on a topic which is of the utmost important in this day and age when we all consume and handle so much sensitive data - security! When new Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage in October of last year for iPhone 4S keynote, he took the opportunity to slip in a few statistics relating to the worldwide adoption of iOS devices.
As much as I love iOS and the devices that it runs on, as a user I have always felt there has been certain aspects of the operating system and the native application experience which are fundamentally broken. In previous articles I have discussed my love of the Photos applications that comes preinstalled on iOS, and the problems that it comes with. Well now it is the turn of the native Messages application to get the same treatment.
If you are anything like me and millions of others around the world, then you without any doubt made a ridiculous New Years resolution, which if history is anything to go by you have no hope whatsoever of keeping. For those keen to know, my particular resolution this year is to release an iPhone game which actually sounds somewhat achievable, but time will tell.
To celebrate the release of Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol in cinemas worldwide, Microsoft has released a cool Windows 7 theme on a mission to spice up those bland, plain desktops.
