According to well-known publisher Barnes & Noble, Steve Jobs' very own approved biography will be officially available on November 21st, 2011, instead of the previously announced date of March 23rd 2012. The reason for this change is unclear, but it brings us a few months closer to Jobs’ biography.
It's not been a great year for glossy gadgets. Apple recently quietly discontinued its uber-shiny white MacBook from range in favor of the more sophisticated finish of the MacBook Air and MacBooks Pro, while Sony has also moved on from the early days of the PS3, which too sported a glossy finish.
One of the great mysteries of the iOS user experience is the lack of contact pictures in some apps, even when their use would make great sense. If you're like me, and you have a hard time identifying most people by name, so, sometimes it might be frustrating that many of the native iOS apps, such as Contacts and Messages, do not display contact images by default, unless you know a workaround.
For the last year, smartphone makers have shipped 4G-capable devices using a technology known as "LTE". 4G, as the name implies, it is much faster than traditional 3G, sometimes as much as 10 times faster.
The folks up at Google Inc. have just announced that the company will be acquiring Motorola Mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion in an attempt to “supercharge” Android.
Windows Live SkyDrive is Microsoft’s service that lets you store any file on a virtual online folder that can be as large as 25GB, all completely free of charge, and then access it from anywhere from any browser, PC or Mac. While Microsoft’s implementation works fine, there isn’t a clear way to get to those files from Windows 7 Explorer, but it is possible.
Do you love Google+? Would you like to have it integrated right into your operating system? A few weeks a go, we featured GClient, a small Google+ client that can be launched from the Windows taskbar, but what if you're an OS X user and would like to access the site from your menu bar? With this new app, that will become a reality.
Its been ages since cellphone users have been able to set custom ringtones on their handsets, but Apple on the other hand has been steadfast in their belief that they only have strong control over what we listen to whenever someone calls in our on our iPhone. While other platforms have really offer a handful of ringtones to choose from. Remember when all Nokia handsets had that one ringtone? Yeah, it's like that.
One of the main new features in iOS 5 is the introduction of a few widgets as part of Notification Center. Yet, in this feature's short life, there hasn't been a really useful widget, until now. BBSettings displays a whole range of iOS settings right from within a widget.
Remember that 58” capacitive multi-touch screen that allowed you to connect your iPhone? Well, that was later proved to be just a hopeful geek’s wet dream. What we’re featuring today is awesome in its own way and it’s 100% real.
