Recently-released filings from the United States Patent and Trademark Office reveal that Apple may be planning face-detection components for its Mac and iPhone operating systems, in addition to working on ways to netter the quality of video conferences conducted via iChat. According to MacRumors, a current filing builds upon ways in which users may be […]
Month: July 2009
The cat may be out of the bag as a recent Macworld article points out that while Apple’s recently-released iPhone 3GS is capable of much faster download speeds than the previous generations, its upload speeds could stand to see some improvement. While the handset boasts a 7.2 Mbps HSDPA downstream, which is twice the iPhone […]
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PowerPage Podcast Episode 114
Episode 114 of the PowerPage Podcast is now available. You can either download it from the iTunes Store or directly (36.5 MB, MP3). Panel: Jason O’Grady, Rob Parker and Tom Hesser. Topics: Is Mail.app crashy?, the new 3GHz MBP and 8+ hours of battery life, how to “properly” use your MBP battery, the most under-publicized […]
Software developer Mark/Space released The Missing Sync for Palm Pre 1.0, a software package that allows the Mac to sync data with Palm’s Pre smartphone on Wednesday. Per Macworld, the software allows users to sync data such as music, ringtones, photos, contacts, calendar data and other content between the Mac and the Pre. The software […]
Some owners of Apple’s latest MacBook Pros with faster 7200RPM hard drives are reporting strange clicking and beeping noises along with performance issues. According to MacNN, though the cause of the problem is unclear, an Apple Support forum thread has many users suggesting that it is caused by an incompatibility between the Seagate hard drive’s […]