Vualla iPad app brings interactivity to Super Bowl

Vualla wants to turn idiot box - observance into a more social experience . And what better program to tie in with that effort than the Super Bowl and its immense take in audience ? On Monday , Vuallarolled out a new version of its ego - entitle social idiot box app for the iPad , with enhancements pitch specifically for Sunday ’s Super Bowl XLV match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers ....

January 31, 2011 · 5 min · 977 words · Brian Odonnell

Expo Notes: A look back at the 2011 show

Just prior to the opening of the 2011 Macworld Expo , my colleague Christopher Breen and I mused that it would be interesting to bet all the iPad compositor’s case on display on the show trading floor . After browsing just the first aisle and a one-half , my tally was 16 iPad case model , 23 iPhone cases , a smattering of iPod hint cases , four iPhone - battery cases , and a few iPad case with built - in keyboard or batteries ....

January 30, 2011 · 6 min · 1145 words · Mr. Daniel Ramos

Expo Notes: Lessons learned at my first Macworld Expo

I ’ve never been to Macworld Expo . And technically , I still have n’t , since the event end its three - day , San Francisco - based reign of Apple nerdery on Saturday is now simply called Macworld 2011 , and not Macworld Expo . But here I am for the first time , seeing the speakers , visiting the booths , and wonder just how long city blocks can be in this Ithiel Town ....

January 29, 2011 · 4 min · 728 words · Marcus Lopez

Expo Notes: Up close with Seagate’s GoFlex Mac drives

Seagateis known for top - nick international storage , and in Booth No . 308 at Macworld 2011 , the company is showcasing a new line of GoFlex hard drives geared specifically toward Mac exploiter . alternatively of let in three or four different types of connecter , many of which are never used , Seagate ’s GoFlex driving use adapters to connect to USB , Firewire and eSATA . And while meant to be hybridizing platform , they were formatted as NTFS and therefore more attractive to personal computer users ....

January 29, 2011 · 3 min · 505 words · April Wilson

Expo Notes: Miraizon announces Cinematize 3 Pro

Miraizonhas announced Cinematize 3 Pro , an rise of its DVD clip extractor and convertor . The software system lets users draw out audio and picture clips from videodisc and spare them in formats compatible with pop applications and twist , include QuickTime , iMovie , Final Cut Pro , iDVD , DVD Studio Pro , Keynote , PowerPoint , iTunes , and iPods , iPhones , and YouTube ....

January 28, 2011 · 2 min · 397 words · Donald Lewis

Microsoft Considers Embracing Mac App Store

Even Microsoft ca n’t refuse or ignore the fact that the Mac OS X substance abuser infrastructure is growing . Combined with iPhones and iPads , and the comprehension of the app cultivation in the next release of Mac OS X , Apple platform represent a big , and growing marketplace segment . Perhaps that is why Microsoft is contemplating offering up its Office productivity suite in theMac App Store ....

January 28, 2011 · 3 min · 519 words · Nicole Haynes

The Macalope Weekly: FUD. It’s what’s for dinner

Apple can not reassert or deny that it hired a security expert , but the Macalope hopes it ’s genuine . Meanwhile , Microsoft ’s parents ostensibly never told the company that if you do n’t have anything nice to say ( or sell ) then you should n’t say ( or betray ) anything at all . And RIM ’s make out up with a grampus plan to save the BlackBerry ....

January 28, 2011 · 6 min · 1202 words · Debra Figueroa

Creative accessories for the iPad

Accessories that total personality and functionality to Apple ’s iPad are swarming the market . M - Edge offer customizable case for the iPad and Zaggmate has a hardback case that includes a keyboard . A affection monitoring machine , hard drive and digital crayon designed for the iPad were also shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month . M-Edge’s customizable tablet accessories M - Edge want to bring personality to lozenge and east - readers with its MyEdge jacket ....

January 26, 2011 · 4 min · 704 words · Brian Nguyen

Expo Notes: Industry Forum offers bite-sized insights

The show level at Macworld Expo may not open for the public until Thursday , but the 2011 variation kicked off Wednesday with a traditional slew of topical drug user conference and a newIndustry Forumpresentation . Throughout the day , a variety of veteran industriousness professional and pundit partake in their knowledge through a serial publication of 20 - minute sessions across a wide gamut of topics , including Apple ’s role in the enterprise and the WWW , trend in human and computer interfaces , technology ’s new role in rebuilding didactics , and how Apple ’s methodological analysis is n’t that much of a mystery ....

January 26, 2011 · 4 min · 686 words · Holly Johnson

Research firm: iPad makes Apple third-largest PC maker

Apple was the world ’s third - largest microcomputer seller during the fourth quarter last year if iPad shipments are included , research firm Canalys tell in a study released Wednesday . With iPads included , Apple ’s oecumenical PC consignment grew 241 percent , which put the caller in third shoes behind Hewlett - Packard and Acer , Canalys said . Apple held a 10.8 percent microcomputer market share with 11....

January 26, 2011 · 3 min · 518 words · Dr. Kristina Griffin

Listen to FLAC audio files on iOS devices

Both iTunes and iOS devices support several digital audio file formats , including AAC , MP3 , WAV , AIFF , and Apple Lossless . The first two are lossy , flat formats ( providing for small files ) , while the next two are uncompressed formats ( result in vast Indian file ) . The last , Apple Lossless , is a compact - yet - lossless format . It strike somewhere in between in terms of file sizing , but does n’t sacrifice transonic quality in the physical process ( although argumentation rage about how much difference it makes ) ....

January 25, 2011 · 6 min · 1115 words · Rachel Benitez

Verizon dishes on iPhone hotspot pricing

Earlier on Tuesday , Verizon announce thatits limitless information programme will stick aroundfor a small while after the iPhone ’s launching . talk toMacworldlater in the day , Verizon Wireless ’s Executive Director of Corporate Communications , Brenda Raney , also sustain price details about the nomadic hot spot option the carrier announce at the Verizon iPhone ’s introduction in the first place this month . Raney said that Verizon iPhone owners will be able to take advantage of the 3 chiliad wireless hotspot feature for an extra $ 20 per month on top of the iPhone ’s required voice and data point plan — that ’s the same Leontyne Price that applies to current Verizon smartphone owner ....

January 25, 2011 · 2 min · 351 words · Jeremy Burke

Remains of the Day: Hello, is your iTunes running?

Let ’s take up the week off right with a white iPhone sighting , an Apple commercial ’s debut , and a whole newfangled significance for “ Google TV . ” That and more in the remainders for Monday , January 24 , 2010 . White iPhone 4 seem in AT&T ’s online system(Boy Genius Report ) Boy Genius Report says that AT&T ’s online history direction system is now show entry for 16 GB and 32 GB white iPhone 4s ....

January 24, 2011 · 3 min · 480 words · Rick Ross