New MacBook Airs and the circle of life

AnAppleInsider report by Kasper JadeFriday quotes Concord Securities psychoanalyst Ming - Chi Kuo as claiming that newfangled MacBook Air models are on the skyline . Kuo says his Asian manufacture sources indicate that the new MacBook Airs would likely be available in June , and would have an upgrade from the comparatively ho-hum Core 2 Duo mainframe in the current Airs with Intel’sSandy Bridge chipsetas well as integrated Intel graphics and the Thunderbolt connectivity engineering ....

April 23, 2011 · 4 min · 728 words · Michelle Finley

The Macalope Weekly: A river in Egypt

Is the iPad having an outcome on the personal computer securities industry ? Shockingly , two PC vender say “ no ” ! For some effectual psychoanalysis on the iPhone trailing issue , the Macalope turns to the least trust name in Apple news . And last , is n’t comparing the iPad to the PlayBook and Xoom unfair ? OMG , it ’s so totally unfair ! If we ignore it long enough, maybe it’ll go away Dell insists pill having no effect on PC in enterprise...

April 23, 2011 · 9 min · 1829 words · Stephen Parker

How to partition a startup drive

When you grease one’s palms a new Mac laptop computer , iMac , or Mac mini , the internal startup hard driving force is coiffe up with one segmentation — that is , one enceinte division of warehousing distance . you could use Disk Utility to partition off the startup drive ( create minor memory sections ) , even while the startup private road is being used to boot your Mac ....

April 22, 2011 · 4 min · 702 words · Bryan Mcdonald

Jays a-Jays Four and t-Jays Three

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Jaysis a Swedish headphone company with the destination of creating strikingly designed earpiece with strong audio functioning at affordable prices . If that sound intimate , it ’s because it ’s a similar backstory to that of Jays ’ countryman , Nocs , Maker of the NS200 ( ) I late reviewed . However , Jays has been around longer than Nocs , and where I felt the design and execution of the $ 70 NS200 verged on bland , Jays ’ designs have more obvious flash ....

April 22, 2011 · 8 min · 1649 words · Kristina Lucas

Remains of the Day: Hold the phone

The white iPhone is close ! Thankfully , we can all move on to discuss what the iPhone 5 will look like . Meanwhile , AT&T sobs that it require T - Mobile just to keep up with smartphone dealings , and one visibility of Mac users versus PC user will belike have all of us sighing into our Chardonnay or Chianti . The residual for Friday , April 22 , 2011 wish you a happy Earth sidereal day ....

April 22, 2011 · 3 min · 554 words · Scott Patel

Samsung Galaxy S 4G (T-Mobile): solid and speedy

Our Verdict As a part of its aggressive 4 G plans , T - Mobile launched a 4 gramme rendering of the popular Samsung Galaxy S phones . But regrettably , the Galaxy S 4 G ( $ 200 with a two - year contract from T - Mobile ; price as of March 1 ) does not have the eyeglasses of the hot next - gen Galaxy S II phones we picture at Mobile World Congress ....

April 22, 2011 · 8 min · 1494 words · Mark Norton

TinyUmbrella and iTunes 1013 error strike again

In an article I wrote last March ( When an iOS update fails ) , I detailed my thwarting experience with a 1013 error in iTunes that occurred during an attack to update my iPhone to iOS 4.3 . The erroneousness left my iPhone in convalescence modality . I was hale to do a complete restore of the gadget to get it work again . A second attempt at the update led to the same unsuccessful person ....

April 22, 2011 · 4 min · 828 words · Kimberly Shaw

AT&T, T-Mobile take first steps toward deal approval

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursdayreceived a request to channel T - Mobile ’s permission to AT&T , one of the first steps the companies are making in the potentially lengthy approval process of AT&T ’s proposed acquisition of the smaller operator . AT&T and T - Mobile announce the $ 39 billion acquisition in March , say the mickle could take a yr to complete . It confront brushup by the FCC and the Department of Justice ....

April 21, 2011 · 3 min · 462 words · Michelle Davenport

China is Apple’s fastest growing market for iPhone

While Apple ’s iPhone is sell well across the globe , China has come out as its fastest mature market for the gadget . In a group discussion call on Wednesday , Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said that for the first three month of 2011 , iPhone sales agreement in “ Greater China ” grew by almost 250 pct from the same full stop last year . This brought Apple ’s revenue in the first fiscal one-half to just under $ 5 billion for the Greater China mart , an increase of almost four times from 2010 ....

April 21, 2011 · 4 min · 744 words · Juan Williams

Opinion: Don’t panic over iOS location logging

Call it what you will — a foofaraw , a commotion , an uproar , a donnybrook , a , um , shawshank ( that ’s a thing , right?)—but the news that the iPhone is logging user ’ locating has spread quicker than a YouTube video of a cat play the trombone . It ’s on the mainstream news;U.S. politician are penning missive to Apple ; heck , I even overheard two elderly valet and an erstwhile charwoman discussing it in the café I frequent ....

April 21, 2011 · 6 min · 1177 words · Julie Webster

Trove, News.me join growing list of news aggregators

The New York Times ’ News . Me app . TheNew York TimesandWashington Postlaunched competing news aggregation services this hebdomad , previous previous - media arrivals to a field eclipse — in the iOS universe anyway — by groundbreaker like Flipboard and Zite . On Thursday , theTimeslaunched News.me , one twenty-four hours after thePost‘s new Trove armed service . Both extend users news and headlines based on their social media preferences — but in slightly different ways ....

April 21, 2011 · 3 min · 457 words · Allison Greene

App Store Favorites: Music

Thanks to iTunes ’ popularity , there are rough a trillion music - related apps in the Mac App Store ; most of them make iTunes a little easier to apply or make it do a little more . If you bring euphony on your Mac , here are six public utility you should check out . Bowtie 1.3.1 good deal of utilities supply miniskirt - restrainer for iTunes . Like those others , Bowtie ( ) provide a small window where you’re able to switch , pause , play , or rate track ; it also have you hold the volume ....

April 20, 2011 · 5 min · 1003 words · Sandra Barnes MD

App Store Favorites: Productivity

“ Productivity ” is one of the biggest — and best — software categories in the Mac App Store . But we cerebrate the twelve apps below — which array from oecumenical - use time - recoverer such as Alfred and MenuPop tosui generisspecialists such as Vitamin - R — are definitely deserving a look . Alfred 0.8 rocket launcher rank from basic ( Spotlight ) to powerful and complex ( apps like Butler , Launchbar , and Quicksilver ) ....

April 20, 2011 · 10 min · 1928 words · Rebecca Alexander