Tap Tap Tap announces Voices 2, Camera+ update

Tap Tap Tap ’s been hushed sinceCamera+ got jerk from the App Storelast August . Almost … too quiet . Indeed , the company has not been sleep these retiring four calendar month , as it returned Monday with two big annunciation : a major novel version of Voices and good news for Camera+ fans . But first , let ’s check out the app you could get your manpower on now ....

December 20, 2010 · 2 min · 385 words · Christine Rangel

Apple updates AirPort Utility, base station firmware

If AirPort troubles have got you drab go into the vacation season , then perhaps this will help oneself : Apple on Thursday bring out both a firmware update for AirPort Base Stations and Time Capsules that pay off a number of bug in the wireless routers and an update for its AirPort Utility . AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.5.2 — and isn’tthata mouthful — patch a routine of issues related to stableness , as well as fixing some specific problem with Apple ’s new AirPlay streaming engineering ....

December 16, 2010 · 3 min · 460 words · Jennifer Dickerson

Introducing the iPad Superguide

Buying an iPad for a loved one this holiday ? Help them get the most out of their new machine with our iPad Superguide , now available asa PDF , on CD , and onApple ’s iBookstore . This in - deepness Superguide covers everything you want lie with about your iPad ’s computer hardware and software , including the iOS 4.2 update , which impart multitasking support , folders , Game Center , impression , and more ....

December 16, 2010 · 3 min · 540 words · Kristin Brooks

ChangeWave survey: Corporate tablet demand ‘exploding’

The ever - inquisitive ChangeWave Research has been digging deep into the iPad ’s place in the corporate humans . With a new survey completed in November , the marketplace research firm ’s alert center plow towards the iPad ’s current and future view in corporate circles , as well as how businesses are using their iPads now . Among the respondents to ChangeWave ’s survey of 1,641 business IT buyers , 7 percentage say their party already supply employees with pad of paper ....

December 15, 2010 · 2 min · 384 words · Tammy Garcia

Speeding up your Mac

Keith Trevolt , a reader who has switched from a Windows microcomputer to the Mac , has a cosmopolitan maintenance interrogative . I have some specific suggestions . He write : I used to reformat my PC ’s voiceless drive annually to clean out all the files that slowed it down . Then it would run like it was make new . How often do I call for to do that with the Mac ?...

December 15, 2010 · 4 min · 752 words · Jacqueline Stevens

10 best reading and productivity apps

[ This clause is part of our 2010 App Gems Awards series , honor the best apps of 2010 . ] RSS Reader of the Year Reeder for iPad($5 ) By Silvo Rizzi ( read review ) Simple , elegant , and bright , Reederon the iPad streamline your Google Reader RSS feeds and incorporates an array of innovative Multi - Touch gestures to present the best possible reading experience ....

December 14, 2010 · 8 min · 1544 words · Corey Diaz

7 best iOS games of the year

[ This article is part of our 2010 App Gems Awards serial , honoring the best apps of 2010 . ] Best Transition to the iPad Angry Birds HD($5 ) By Chillingo ( read review ) In making the saltation to the iPad , Angry Birds HDkept the core gameplay of the popular iPhone adaptation — overcome egg - steal green pigs by bombarding their fortification with the none - too - pleased ornithoids of the secret plan ’s title — while making the most of the tablet ’s roomy screen ....

December 14, 2010 · 5 min · 990 words · Tricia Franklin

7 best media & photo apps

[ This article is part of our 2010 App Gems Awards serial , honor the best apps of 2010 . ] Reference App of the Year IMDB Movies & TV(free ) By IMDB ( read review ) IMDB Movies & TVhas lend a turn of feature film in late months , most notably entertainment news and the power to rate movies and TV shows from within the app . But the most likeable matter about this peregrine amusement guidebook is still the thing that catch our eye when the app debuted shortly after the iPad ’s arrival — its superlative design ....

December 14, 2010 · 6 min · 1108 words · Amy Gill

A dozen of our other favorite apps

[ This article is part of our 2010 App Gems Awards serial , respect the dependable apps of 2010 . ] It ’s not easy taking all the remarkable products in the App Store and narrow them down to a lean of two - twelve honour winner . A luck of great apps — as worthy of your attention as our 24 App Gems Award recipient — wind up on the carving room flooring , just because there are only so many trophy to go around ....

December 14, 2010 · 4 min · 746 words · Curtis Crawford

Infinity Blade hacks, slashes its way into App Store

Infinity Blade , a visually plenteous action - RPG for iPhone and iPad from Epic Games , is ready to do battle in the App Store . First previewed atApple ’s September Music Eventunder the code name “ Project Sword ” and liberate as a free demo computer code named “ Epic Citadel , ” Infinity Blade challenges you to fulfill your patrimony and free your people from the tyrannical linguistic rule of the God King ....

December 9, 2010 · 2 min · 373 words · Rebecca Keller

The week in iPhone cases: Sweet themes

This week ’s roundup of fresh iPhone cases is chock - full of themed case . From Drive Industries ’ Hawaiian - themed offer and E - Panda ’s panda bear - themed bamboo marvel , to iSound ’s Sesame Street aggregation and Gear4 ’s Angry Birds cases , it would seem that themed design are where the money ’s at these day . I pretend the original topic of “ it protect your iPhone ” no longer turns head like it used to ....

December 9, 2010 · 5 min · 861 words · Michael Smith

MacBook Air flash storage torture tests

As you probably know , the MacBook Air use ostentation storage rather of the hard drives found in every other Mac . And while the initial solvent using our Speedmark 6.5 mental testing cortege showed that the Air ’s flash storehouse helped provide a performance boost , we were concerned about whether that performance could be keep up over time . firm state drives ( SSDs ) and shoot storage ( Apple does n’t call the Air ’s photoflash - based storage an SSD ; it does n’t use a 2....

December 8, 2010 · 5 min · 1013 words · Elizabeth Wallace

Make your old dock speakers work with newer devices

It used to be that if you had a set of speakers with Apple ’s 30 - rowlock wharfage connexion , that arrangement would work with any i - gimmick . unhappily , that ’s no longer the typesetter’s case , as many owners of sometime speaker system of rules have get a line . I ’m not utter about speakers with dock cradles that do n’t fit the latest iPods and iPhones ....

December 8, 2010 · 6 min · 1256 words · Katherine Gallegos