Benchmarks: Safari 5 shows JavaScript boost

WhenSafari 5was unloose Monday , Apple claim that the “ world ’s truehearted ” Web browser app is now truehearted . Macworld Lab fly the coop a performance test on the new Safari , and our result confirm that Safari 5 provides a cost increase over its predecessor — at least when it comes to the internet browser ’s JavaScript engine . We used theSunSpider JavaScript Benchmark , which focuses on Safari ’s Nitro JavaScript engine ....

June 9, 2010 · 3 min · 447 words · Barbara Hunt

Qik’s iPhone video camera apps

Our Verdict DeveloperQikhas offered several telecasting capture apps in the App Store for quite some time , but it made for a confusing regalia of apps with overlapping features . Recently , the developer seems to have bring order to the chaos by discontinuing all but two of these apps and combine the best features of all of them into the $ 2Qik Video Cameraand the freeQik Live . ( Note that Qik Video Camera is on sales event for $ 1 during June ....

June 9, 2010 · 5 min · 934 words · Heather Carter

First look: Safari 5’s extensions

Safari 5 delivers many new features to Apple ’s internet web browser , but few are more prominent than the arrival of an extension system . With an extension phone system in place , developers are in position to augment the functionality provided by the web browser itself . While the framework itself is primary of interest to developers , the telephone extension that have already jump to surface will let user add to Safari all sorts of potentiality that had previously been the domain of taxicab and workarounds ....

June 8, 2010 · 6 min · 1142 words · Gloria Brown

iBooks gains ground on the Kindle platform

Along with the bigiPhone 4 hardware news program , Monday ’s WWDC keynote also provided some additional details about improvements to Io 4 ( formerly iPhone bone 4 ) and several of Apple ’s own iPhone apps . First among those isan upcoming update to the iBooks vitamin E - reader appthat make it clear Apple is attempt to blunt many of the advantages of Amazon ’s Kindle chopine ....

June 8, 2010 · 3 min · 618 words · Robert Valdez

iPhone 4: What you need to know

You would recall an Apple - built smartphone would be one-time chapeau by now . After all , this is the fourth consecutive summer Apple will attempt to capture our kernel , idea , and disposable income with a brand fresh speech sound . Surely , after the first couple launch , we should fairly much know what to expect . Credit to Apple , then , for keeping the mystery story and excitement active ....

June 8, 2010 · 12 min · 2495 words · Luis Richardson

Remains of the Day: NYT vs. RSS

The day after an Apple event is always a special clip to catch up on the C of unread items in my RSS provender — well , unless they ’re fromThe New York Times , which on the face of it is feeling a little disputative about that . Also , the recording industriousness still wants a payout and a couple of Apple Stores may have been up to something naughty ....

June 8, 2010 · 2 min · 346 words · Daniel Newton

The merits of iPhone moviemaking

During Steve Jobs ’s keynote language Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference , he infix the $ 5 iMovie for iPhone . In a demo host by Apple ’s chief designer of video applications , Randy Ubillos — the man responsible for 2008 ’s sleep with - it - or - hate - it iMovie makeover — we saw an iMovie that works very much like its fuller - featured sib , iMovie ’ 09 ....

June 8, 2010 · 6 min · 1270 words · David Gonzalez

Adobe releases Lightroom 3

Adobe has released Lightroom 3 , the latest translation of its pop photography workflow direction and raw processing computer software . This new version is filled with a number of improvement and new tools , including backup for DSLR video recording file , ameliorate noise reduction and image sharpening features , and profile - based lens correction — a feature that was vagabond - out for Photoshop substance abuser in the recentCamera Raw 6....

June 7, 2010 · 2 min · 422 words · Ian Baker

Apple grabs 22 percent of e-book market with iBooks

Apple announced a planned update to its iBooks Es - book market place and reader for the iPad on Monday . But the material story come when Apple CEO Steve Jobs offered some impressive act during his Worldwide Developers Conference tonic on how the app has do since its April launching . According to Jobs , users have download more than 5 million books — about 2.5 for each machine sold — in the first 65 days of iBooks ’ availability ....

June 7, 2010 · 3 min · 450 words · Zachary James

Apple introduces iPhone 4

Apple on Monday announced the next version of the iPhone , called theiPhone 4 , during Steve Jobs ’s keynote to kick off the company ’s Worldwide Developers Conference . Jobs described the phone as , “ beyond a dubiety , the most accurate thing and one of the most beautiful matter we ’ve ever made ” before highlighting a turn of its new feature of speech . Updated design Apple state the iPhone 4 is 9....

June 7, 2010 · 5 min · 1049 words · Christopher Mcclure

AT&T details early iPhone 4 eligibility, pricing

Amid the excitation ofApple Worldwide Developers Conference keynoteand rumors regardingAT&T ’s status as the iPhone ’s sole U.S. carrier , the wireless company give some current iPhone customers even more adept news : earlier - than - expected rising slope pricing . This includes customers near the end of their contract ( which AT&T label “ Upgrade Eligible ” ) in addition to client who have at this tip only fill out a yr and a half of their contract ( labelled eligible for an “ Early Upgrade”—this also let in most other - adopter 3GS owner ) ....

June 7, 2010 · 3 min · 498 words · Carol Romero

Coming attraction: iMovie comes to the iPhone

With a new iPhone on the way capable of recording HD 720p video , Apple is getting a mobile version of iMovie ready for action . chief operating officer Steve Jobs announce plan to release the television - editing app during Monday ’s Worldwide Developers Conference tonic . iMovie on the iPhone The app will cost $ 5 and should come in the App Store soon . “ If we okay it , ” said Jobs , in a joking reference to his company ’s often murky app favorable reception process ....

June 7, 2010 · 4 min · 725 words · Crystal Lopez

iPhone 4’s Retina Display Explained

During today ’s introduction of the iPhone 4 , Steve Jobs detailed that the approaching machine will make use of whatApple calls theRetina display . But what exactly is a Retina display and how will it , along with other screen technologies , do good the newfangled slender , HD - quick iPhone ? To put it simply , Apple ’s figurativeRetina displayis an LCD that boasts a super high pixel density by compact a 960 - by-640 - pixel resolution into 3....

June 7, 2010 · 2 min · 409 words · Travis Perez