The hard disk drive may become more scarce as Thailand companies suffer from floods. Hard disk drives are the main storage units that hold information on almost every personal computer. They are an important part of the computer that allows the machine to write down data using binary machine language. More importantly, information is saved in bytes. Hard disk drives have a reputation for being very high in the number of bytes that they can store. [Read More...]
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Apple is set to launch a new pilot program that will allow customers to make orders through its online store and then collect their purchases from their local Apple store, according to a new report. The program has reportedly been given the name “Sherwood” and will cover any product available online, including custom-build computers, third-party accessories, and products which have been gift-wrapped an engraved. What’s great about this program is that [Read More...]
Apple has posted the full video of the Steve Jobs memorial event, held on October 19, 2011 at the Cupertino California campus of Apple. The celebration featured a variety of prominent speakers, including Tim Cook, Bill Campbell, Jony Ive, and Al Gore, as well as several prominent musicians. It’s 81 minutes long and well worth watching for anyone interested in Jobs and his [Read More...]
I thought the 60 Minutes interview broadcast just now with Steve Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson was great. Absolutely great. It covered a lot of ground I was familiar with and is familiar to most other Apple fans too. But it fresh and fascinating because of the accumulation of small details and revelations. Like the fact that Jobs rarely locked his back door in Palo Alto, and that anybody could have walked in off the street, because he didn’t want to [Read More...]
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The growing importance of international iPhone sales, along with demand for Apple’s latest smartphone, should remove any Wall Street doubt that the fourth quarter was only a fluke. One analyst Monday announced bullish expectations for the first quarter of 2012, forecasting 42 million iPhones will have sold in December – more than double that of last quarter. Investors, disappointed that fourth quarter iPhone sales [Read More...]
Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus has reportedly left Apple just days after his sophisticated voice-recognition technology made its debut on the iPhone 4S. It was an ‘amicable’ departure, according to sources, that will allow Kittlaus to focus on “new entrepreneurial ideas.” Kittlaus founded Siri back in 2007 and his software has been hailed as one of the most innovative voice-recognition technologies to date, with a unique ability to understand natural language rather [Read More...]
9to5Mac claims to have the nitty gritty details regarding the rumored MacBook Pro refresh to occur as early as next week. The refresh appears to be an incremental upgrade complete with faster processors and improved storage capacities. While the hard drive capacities remain the same across the board, two new build to order options are available in the form of 750GB 7200RPM HDDs. Currently only a 500GB 7200RPM option is available. New 13 inch MacBook Pros: [Read More...]
iPod 10th Anniversary: To celebrate the iPod’s 10th anniversary on Sunday October 23, we’ve been running several special features which we hope will allow our readers to look back at Apple’s most iconic product with fun and fondness. Over the last ten years, the iPod has gone from a single device designed to hold your MP3s to a family of devices that [Read More...]
Walter Isaacson’s much anticipated biography of Steve Jobs is releasing today, and we’re already busy poring through it, gaining new insight into the life and philosophies of Apple’s volatile, sometimes enigmatic co-founder. Throughout the morning, we’ll be live updating this post with some of the best revelations, funniest stories, most interesting quotes and most enjoyable tidbits of the biography. • Jobs’ birth mother was sent to San Francisco when she [Read More...]
The notifications revamp of iOS 5 makes it easier than ever to see new messages and mail, but if you receive sensitive or private emails on your iPhone or iPad, you may not want them showing up on the lock screen. Those little email previews are easy to hide, here’s how: Open “Settings” and then tap on “Notifications” Tap on “Mail” and scroll to [Read More...]
