Bugs & Fixes: Work-arounds for sound loss, trailer failure, and over-full iPads

My Apple computer hardware has recently been bothered by several unrelated germ — ranging from merry sound loss on my Mac Pro to free space mysteriously go away from my iPad . While I ’ve figured out satisfactory employment - arounds for most of these symptoms , they still defy a unadulterated and permanent solution . Here are a quartette of the unity that have frustrated me the most :...

October 25, 2012 · 7 min · 1426 words · Emma Bridges

Create cool video titles in Final Cut Pro X

If you blue-pencil video recording , you likely use titles — to introduce a topic , identify a loudspeaker , or perhaps credit role player and crew . Title designing run beyond just the choice of run-in . Fonts , colour , size , graphic element , and animation all combine to establish a look that can unify , backup , and raise your entire project . If you ’re using iMovie to blue-pencil your videos , you ’ve likely identify that it includes a good identification number of claim presets ....

October 25, 2012 · 5 min · 1029 words · Erin Walker

Fourth-quarter revenue, profit up for Apple on iPhone, iPad sales

Apple ended its 2012 financial year with a substantial after part that view increment for the iPhone and iPad as well as level Mac sales amid a challenging securities industry for PC makers . For its fiscal fourth poop cease on Sept. 29 , the company say Thursday that it match revenue of $ 36 billion and net profits of $ 8.2 billion — its “ mellow September revenue and salary ever , ” according to chief fiscal officer Peter Oppenheimer ....

October 25, 2012 · 8 min · 1603 words · Christopher Ramos

Mac 101: Your input devices

For the last few weeks I ’ve nonchalantly thrown around phrase like “ hover your pointer over , ” “ beseech the Command key , ” and “ abstract to the side on your trackpad . ” And while I ’m evenhandedly convinced that such suggestions are well within your exponent to translate , it ’s possible ( likely , even ) that you , your keyboard , mouse , and trackpad are not on all intimate term ....

October 25, 2012 · 12 min · 2438 words · Timothy Grimes

Remains of the Day: Underbellies

We go under the goon of the MacBook Pro , the Beatles are now under Apple ’s thumb , and the what ’s that under the medicine of the new iPad miniskirt ad ? The rest for Thursday , October 25 , 2012 are under control . MacBook Pro 13 ” Retina Display Late 2012 Teardown(iFixit ) Another young Apple merchandise , another detailed teardown by the iFixit team . Somewhere , I picture the iPad mini sobbing and screaming “ I do n’t want to go !...

October 25, 2012 · 2 min · 396 words · Alec Cunningham

Review: 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro offers optimal choice for lightweight laptop users

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict When Applereleasedthe15 - in Retina MacBook Pro ( ) , it was only a matter of time before the Retina video display made its elbow room to other Apple laptop . That time is now , and with the13 - inch MacBook Pro with Retina display , a compelling debate can be made that Apple ’s new laptop is a perfect combination of performance , portability , and features ....

October 25, 2012 · 12 min · 2472 words · Lori Rivera DVM

The Land Before Macs: A field guide

Since we live in the era of the Mac and the iPhone , we tend to overtop the earliest , non - Mac era of Apple history — a meter when lumbering digital animal tramp the earth . As a result , many misconceptions about Apple ’s early products bear on to spread throughout the Internet unchecked . It ’s sentence to reform that with an authoritative field pathfinder to these early creatures ....

October 25, 2012 · 6 min · 1097 words · James Flores

The Macalope Daily: More like the LamePad

No Apple mathematical product announcement would be complete without the host of usual clown telling us how laaaaaame it is . No links for these two , of course , because of the Macalope ’s standing rule against linking to those dangerous to themselves and others . But here ’s Ewan Spence write forForbes : “ Tim Cook wink First – The Nexus 7 Takes Pride Of Place At The iPad Mini Launch ” ( peak o ’ the antlers toThe Loopwhich has an appropriately foul - mouthed reaction ) ....

October 25, 2012 · 4 min · 643 words · Tammy Bennett

The Week in iOS Accessories: The iPad mini arrives!

That did n’t take long — within hr of Apple ’s Tuesday annunciation of the iPad mini , accessory Lord commence announcing product that would go perfectly with the newfangled gadget . Here are a few that landed in our in - box in the first couple days , as well as the other novel iOS accessary we interpret this week . iPad mini-specific gear These products are project specifically for the iPad mini — note that shipping dates have n’t been announce for most ....

October 25, 2012 · 5 min · 969 words · Jason Adams

This is Tim: Cook on Apple’s fourth-quarter earnings, the iPad mini, and more

On Apple’s philosophy We ’re consecrate to make the very skillful products in the Earth and we think about the smallest of details and we ’re unwilling to rationalise quoin in deport the respectable customer experience in the world . It ’s this unforgiving dedication to instauration and excellence [ that ] is the reason that our customer choose to grease one’s palms our products , and this will always be the driving violence behind Apple ....

October 25, 2012 · 13 min · 2583 words · Jonathan Kidd

Analyst: iPad mini could be in short supply at first

The humble - pricediPad minicould be in poor provision when it pop shipping on November 2 . expect high requirement for the tablet , coupled with shortages on the venire supplying chain , might lead to not enough iPad Minis to satisfy marketplace demand , according to aresearch notefrom Richard Shim , a senior analyst for NPD DisplaySearch , a securities industry inquiry business firm specializing in displays . Shim wrote : “ As is typical , we gestate the iPads to be provision constrained ab initio , especially the iPad miniskirt with its $ 329 terms ....

October 24, 2012 · 3 min · 462 words · Evan Stout

Apple and its competitors: the circle game

orchard apple tree contend against other companies ; that ’s a part of doing business sector . But today , more than ever before , Apple faces increasing — and enthralling — competition from companies that aim to recreate and then build on Apple ’s own origination . Apple ’s response to those competitor and the products they make are even more interesting . In 2007 , Apple infix the original iPhone ....

October 24, 2012 · 5 min · 933 words · Daniel May

Foxconn builds products for many vendors, but its mud sticks to Apple

The name Foxconn has become stenography for the human costs of building the iPhone in China , linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides , expiry from a flora burst and riot factory actor . But many other company besides Apple contract with the Taiwan - establish firm to build up their products . Even if you do n’t have an iPhone , there ’s a good chance that something you own or utilise each solar day was build by Foxconn Technology Group , a society analysts say is the largest electronics manufacturer in the humankind ....

October 24, 2012 · 5 min · 1051 words · Raymond Bullock