Weekly Wrap: iPhone 5 predictions, new Kindles, malware, and more

Amazon ’s long - rumor pad of paper was finally revealed , while Apple ’s long - rumored iPhone update is just one Tuesday event aside from happening . It was a busy hebdomad in the existence of tech , but do n’t worry if you could n’t keep up with all of it — The Weekly Wrap is here to help you keep your Kindle flak separate from your iPhones - to - be ....

October 1, 2011 · 3 min · 532 words · Sean Riley

iOS 5: What we already know

The particulars of any new iPhone Apple may or may not herald next Tuesday continue anyone ’s guess . But we can say with confidence thatnext week ’s iPhone - related Apple eventwill almost sure as shooting feature an coming into court by the finished version of iOS 5 , the next major update to Apple ’s nomadic operating organization that ’s been slated for a fall release . Of naturally , we ’re hardly going out on a arm there : Apple alreadypreviewed iOS 5 back in June , at its Worldwide Developers Conference , where it showed off a handful of novel major features and alluded to slews of smaller improvement ....

September 30, 2011 · 9 min · 1824 words · Virginia Morris

Analog 1.0

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Photorealistic images are so passé these days . Like much of the online earth , myMacworldcolleagues and I have embraced the trend of sharing humiliated - fi exposure , which is dominated by iOS apps such as Instagram ( ) . But those apps lose from a few limitation . They ’re circumscribed to your iOS twist , for one . And oftentimes they limit the maximum end product size or shape of your ruined effigy ....

September 29, 2011 · 5 min · 1001 words · Michael Reese

Speedy Thunderbolt devices slowly coming to market

Talk to tech industriousness insiders about the Modern Thunderbolt data ports in the latest generation of Apple information processing system , and one conception repeatedly pops up : Speed . The applied science enables information transport at speeds and book that few consumers have ever see before . “ bolt engineering science is a whole new level of fast , ” says Dave Salvator , a spokesman for Intel , which acquire the technology ....

September 29, 2011 · 7 min · 1285 words · Ryan Cabrera

The Macalope Daily: It’s competition now

The Macalope ’s calling it . Our long - run game called “ Is It Competition Yet ? ” is over . Congratulations to Amazon on the introduction of the Kindle Fire . Now , before you get your corporate undies in a plug , you people should really take the time to call in Amazon and buy yourself your own case-by-case underwear . earnestly . How you’re able to all wear the same underwear is beyond the turned on one ....

September 29, 2011 · 5 min · 1004 words · Michael Foley

Amazon’s new Silk redefines browser tech

While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus atAmazon ’s launch eventWednesday in New York , the fellowship also picture off a bit of potentially radical software engineering science as well , namely the new internet browser for the Fire , call Silk . Silk is different from other browsers because it can be configured to lease Amazon ’s cloud overhaul do much of the work get together complex Web Page ....

September 28, 2011 · 6 min · 1153 words · Cody Bowman

Fruit Ninja aims to slice into China

The maker of Fruit Ninja has grownup hopes for China , and aims for the hit game to reach an additional 70 million downloads in the country over the next six months . Fruit Ninja has been a strike on Apple ’s iOS devices . Australia - based Halfbrick Studios loose Fruit Ninja in 2010 , first on Apple ’s iOS App Store , then to other mobile OSes as well as Microsoft ’s Xbox 360 ....

September 28, 2011 · 4 min · 660 words · Katherine Williams

Show dates and times in Mail’s message list

One of the Modern features in Apple ’s Mail app in Lion ( Mac OS X 10.7 ) is a widescreen - well-disposed , three - chromatography column layout , exhibit your mailboxes on the leftfield , your substance list in the middle , and a subject matter trailer on the right . I love this layout — I used a Mail MBD - on to get it under Snow Leopard ( OS X 10....

September 28, 2011 · 4 min · 755 words · Jodi Perry

Remains of the Day: Hulu hoops

Any potential buyers of tv set - streaming site Hulu are decease to have to play by its terms , it seems . Elsewhere , Facebook seems to have re - friended Apple , and you ’ll soon be able to multitouch your Android sound as much as you want . The remainders for Tuesday , September 27 , 2011 are just touched that you thought of them . pretend Who Made The Highest Bid For Hulu(Business Insider )...

September 27, 2011 · 3 min · 479 words · Melissa Adams

Facebook and Spotify drop the other shoe

latterly , Facebook announced a new medicine service that incorporates streaming medicine services with such partners as Spotify , Rhapsody , Mog , Rdio , iHeartRadio , and Slacker . The idea is that when Facebook members listen to music from one of these services , they can elect to share a forever updating playlist of tracks they ’re playing . Those “ supporter ” who have access to the same euphony service can then also play this music simply by dawn on a connectedness to the data track ....

September 26, 2011 · 7 min · 1396 words · Mrs. Michelle Hoffman DDS

Intellipad iPad app focuses on special education needs

The iPad is becoming increasingly democratic in academic mount , adorn everything fromundergraduate lecture hallsto medical schools tograde - level classrooms . But the iPad ’s educational USA do n’t stop there . Intellipad’snew Intellipad 1.0 iPad app aims to make Apple ’s pill more useful for special breeding , particularly kids learning to read , indite , and transmit . “ I find as though the iPad was develop specifically with the special needs child in mind , ” Cheryl Bregman , Director of Intellipad and an occupational therapist , toldMacworld ....

September 26, 2011 · 3 min · 609 words · James Ford

Remains of the Day: iPhone home

old-hat of iPhone hearsay ? permit me make this easy for you : It ’s come out sometime , at a station , with stack of fresh features for a certain price ! There , done . Now unless you ’re interested in the a la mode developments in the case of the lost paradigm or how Apple ’s former CEO destroy the fabric of comics , you do n’t even have to register the remainders for Monday , September 26 , 2011 ....

September 26, 2011 · 3 min · 615 words · Angela Anderson

Samsung and Apple clash in Dutch court

The legal fight between Apple and Samsung proceed on Monday in a territorial dominion court hearing in The Hague , Netherlands , during which the two company reason the merits of four Samsung patents . The patent are related to method of managing the data link and focal ratio between a mobile station , such as a smartphone or tablet , and a web stem station , and are presented as being touchstone - essential , which means they are incorporated in internationally accept engineering standards — in this case 3 gibibyte and UMTS ....

September 26, 2011 · 2 min · 421 words · Briana Baird