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Aperture 3 brings Faces, Video Support, UI redesign, 64 bit and 200 more features
Aperture 3 is out and packed with more than 200 new features such as: Full screen Metadata Pane Map Nondestructive Brushes Support for Pressure-Sensitive Tablets Feather Tool to blend adjustments more easily Multiple Instances of Adjustments Faces Places with support for iPhone Photo GPS Locations Web publishing to Facebook, Flickr, MobileMe Video support Audio Support…
Symbian Goes Open and Free
Symbian — the OS that runs in about 330m mobile phones on the market is not Open source and free. Non-profit Symbian Foundation consists of about 50 companies and was created by Nokia in mid-2008 followed by the acquisition of Symbian LTD. Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation says that all source code…
Groundhog Day: Phil calls for 6 more weeks of winter
At 7:20 am, in the small town of Punxsatawney the world’s most famous groundhog said something that was interpreted by the Inner circle: “If you want to know next, you must see my text. As the sky shines bright above me, my shadow is what I see”. Means we’ve got 6 more weeks of winter…
Jobs: "No one will be using Flash. The world moves to HTML5"
At a recent Town Hall meeting with Apple employees Steve Jobs made it clear that Flash is not coming to iPhone or iPad. “Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash,” he says. “The world…
Unicode is used in almost 50% of Internet Documents
Good News! According to Google Unicode is used on almost half of the Internet pages, which makes it a global text encoding of choice. Google uses version 5.2 of Unicode, which represents a wide range of characters from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, to most living languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Zulu. ASCII, which once dominated the…
Apple's iPad Pros & Cons
This is what we make of Apple’s iPad presentation – a beautifully and smartly designed new device, which is clearly oriented towards the education market and execs on the go. Pros: Beautiful design Vertical and horizontal modes Long batter life (10 hours) Amazing stand by time of 1 month LED screen, which delivery reach colors…
The first image of the real Apple Tablet (apparently)
Engadget posted a very interesting image of what-may-to-be upcoming Apple Tablet. The image looks credible because of many hidden details and the well-designed top menu, which is very simple, and very much in Apple’s style. Anyways, we’ll know for sure in about 4 hours 🙂
How Much Time Do We Waste on Badly Designed Apps?
Computer load-time, pop-ups, new apps installation, new user interrelations, lack of intuitiveness, search for drivers, frozen system, reboots, etc. – are just a few of the things that most of us face on daily basis. Dealing with all of these issues takes users up to 30 minutes a day, according to Telegraph UK, which equals…
Apple Tablet Confirmed by The Wall Street Journal
It is almost certain a new device is going to be unveiled next week. We’ve heard many name variations such as iSlate and iPad –both are Apple’s registered trademarks– Apple Tablet, etc. It seems like Apple’s plans are big this time; they aim to re-shape the publishing industry (which is in an apparent crisis) as…
66% of Government Workplaces Now Use Social Networking Tools
A recent report by the talent management companies Human Capital Institute and Saba says 65% of government employees now use more than one social networking tool. Interestingly enough, Instant Messaging (IM), which is very popular in the corporate sector isn’t heavily used among government staff. The report points out that a majority of social networking…