Even in the dark years when they were caught off guard by the momentum of the Sony PlayStation, Nintendo has kept their characters in-house, exclusive to Nintendo brand hardware. They learned their lesson from the dark days of the CD-i.
Now, though, investors within Nintendo are pressuring the beleaguered gaming giant to bring their most well-known properties like Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda and Pokemon to other platforms… specifically, the App Store.
The engineer who helped created the first IBM PC 30 years ago Friday, marked the upcoming anniversary by announcing his “primary computer is a tablet.” Mark Dean, now IBM’s Chief Technology Officer for the Middle East and Africa, writes PCs are going the way of the vacuum tube and typewriter.
Smartphones have become a huge target for unscrupulous looters that have used the riots originating in London as an excuse to break into stores in cities around the U.K. and steal anything that might be of any value.
That’s why thousands of stolen iPhones have flooded the black market in the wake of the riots. But caveat emptor! Within 48 hours, that iPhone you picked up for a song will be worthless.
I like to keep my computer organized and this means that I like to keep my files and folders sorted alphabetically by name. Occasionally I might want to sort them temporarily by kind (i.e. PDF, JPEG, etc.) and afterwards I would sort them again by name. In Mac OS X Snow Leopard you had to toggle between one or the other manually and Leopard would only remember your last sort method selected.
Now Mac OS X Lion will let you decide how you want your files arranged and it remembers that arrangement, but it will also let you temporarily view them sorted in a different order. The next time you view the files they are sorted in the original method you selected, but in order to get this to work properly you need to know the difference between an old and new Finder view in Mac OS X Lion.
It’s unlikely that Samsung would just suddenly stop making components for Apple with no notice — for one thing, it’s probable that air-tight product contracts are in place that would prevent Samsung from doing just that — but let’s get hypothetical: what would happen if Cupertino’s legal campaign resulted in Samsung just taking all of its silicon and going home?
Short answer: it wouldn’t be pretty.
Hey, good news! If you’re one of the many people having problems installing Lion on a clean machine, Lion USB media is now shipping!
Samsung has just announced the successor to its PM810 solid-state drive which is a super-speedy 6Gbps SATA 3 that boasts read speeds of up to 500MB/s and write speeds of up to 350MB/s. A custom version of the PM810 is currently used in Apple’s MacBook Air line lineup, so there’s a good possibility its impressive successor — the PM830 — will also hit the ultraportables.
A few weeks ago we reviewed the Samson Meteor Mic, an ideal piece of hardware for podcasting. Spiffy hardware, though, is only half of a podcaster’s toolkit — the other half, of course, is capable software.
Ambrosia’s WireTap Studio ($70) fits that bill pretty well. It does almost everything one asks voice-recording software to do, and then some — it even has some nifty tricks up it’s sleeve that make it surprisingly useful for a wide variety of situations.
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The folks over at Nowhereelse.fr have put together a pretty awesome iPhone 5 rumor roundup. The above video goes through all of the major iPhone 5 rumors in a quick and intriguing way. The likelihood of each rumor is given a percentage so that you can get a good idea of what the iPhone 5 will be like.
HP has announced that it will keep the HP TouchPad permanently discounted $100 from the original retail price of $500. Following last’s weekend sale of the TouchPad at the reduced price point, HP has said that it is “pleased with customer response” to the price drop, and that the TouchPad’s price will be permanently cut to $400.
TouchPad sales have been unnoticeable at best, and this price cut can be seen as a clear move for HP to stay relevant in light of the iPad’s dominance.
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Apple’s magical device is at work in the Magic Kingdom. This video gives a look behind the scenes where engineers — or “imagineers” as Disney calls them — are at work on a New Fantasyland using iPads.
Apple has just released an updated Migration Assistant tool for those on OS X Leopard that wish to move over to Lion. A Migration Assistant update has already been released for Snow Leopard, and Apple has now made it possible for Leopard users to easily update to the latest desktop OS.
Walmart is starting to look like a prime place to nick an iPad.
Recently, a pair of crooks successfully pulled a bait and switch by returning an empty box — now there seems to be a gang targeting Walmarts for iPad thefts with an even simpler ruse.
eBay addicts rejoice! In a surprising move, eBay has released an official Mac app for free in the US Mac App Store. Instead of having to browse eBay from the web, you can now fire up eBay’s minimal Mac app.
After Apple’s plans for its flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York City where show off yesterday, Apple has released a rendering of what the final design of the store’s glass cube will look like.
Truth in advertising: the woman in the stock photo you see above is delighted with her iPhone. We’re not sure what Nokia had to do with any of that, but that didn’t stop them from taking the image and slapping their logo on it. Ha! You wish.
[via Gizmodo.au]
One of the most noticeable changes in OS X Lion is Apple’s reversal of traditional page scrolling. In Lion, Apple has adopted an iOS approach to scrolling by changing the way that the user scrolls up and down; instead of moving the window around the content, you actually move the content itself.
This method of scrolling works great when you’re on a touchscreen device like an iPhone or iPad, but a more traditional desktop experience doesn’t lend itself to what Apple calls “Natural Scrolling” in Lion.
If you’d like to go back to the old way of scrolling in Lion, here’s how to do so.
Do you remember the girl with four iPads for a head? In it, a pretty New York girl walked through a park in a helmet made up of a cube of iPads, all of which showed on their displays the girl’s face as if she were walking through the park without her skull being encased in tablets.
It was a publicity stunt for Cosmo for Guys, and a pretty neat video, but I have to say I’m disappointed with how the advertising company actually accomplished the feat.
It’s a roller-coaster on Wall Street. As stocks dived, the venerable Exxon-Mobile continued falling, giving Apple (however briefly) the largest publicly-held company in the world. This comes amid growing speculation the consumer tech titan could be the first company worth $1 trillion.
After a year’s deliberation, the San Mateo District Attorney’s Office has decided not to press charges against Jason Chen, Gizmodo or Gawker Media for buying the iPhone 4 prototype that leaked this time last year.
Bernie Madoff fleeced investors for billions with his elaborate Ponzi scheme. He’s now serving a 150 year sentence in maximum security prison for his crimes, but if that doesn’t seem like enough justice to you, well, why not pants the S.O.B. and turn his trousers into a new iPad case?
Coming off a successful court ruling banning Samsung’s Galaxy Tab in most of Europe, Apple apparently is suing Motorola over the Xoom, Wednesday reports say. However, some warn Apple’s strategy of lawsuits to protect market share carries a costly risk.
Even in India, carriers without Apple deals in place are going to desperate lengths to sell their inferior Android handsets as equivalent to the iPhone… even going so far as to advertise this weird iPhoneDroid rip-off, which boasts the design of the iPhone 4 and Android 2.3 Gingerbread as the operating system.
The latest class action lawsuit against Apple has been filed by law firm Hagens Berman and accuses Apple and five major publishers of conspiring to raise the price of ebooks.
Eight years after retail giant Walmart announced its ‘iTunes-killer’ 88-cent MP3 downloads, the company is waving the white flag and closing shop later this month.
