A retirement center in Florida says an iPad pilot program started in July is helping keep residents young at heart. The iPad’s large touch screen and light weight are helping healthy residents socialize more — as they play with puzzles and games — and it’s been “pretty amazing,” the home director says with re-educating stroke and dementia patients. It only took three donated iPads, loaded with games,brain trainers, puzzles and [Read More...]
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Quit your worrying. That’s essentially the message coming from one Apple watcher on Wall Street following a day of hand-wringing over a report Apple had reduced by 25 percent iPad 2 orders from suppliers. Improvements in the tech giant’s supply chain and inventory still mean plenty of tablets for the anxious hordes of iPad customers. Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu grudgingly agrees there is “some merit” to [Read More...]
More than 75 percent of the handsets T-Mobile sells are smartphones, the carrier told a gathering at this week’s Mobilize 2011 forum held in San Francisco. What’s more, 90 percent of those smartphones are powered by the Android operating system. Android had 43.4 percent of the smartphone market, Gartner announced in August. Google’s mobile operating system has seen a dramatic rise in prominence from a year earlier, when Android powered just [Read More...]
Apple’s unveiling of the fifth-generation iPhone now looks certain to be held on October 4, but how long will we have to wait until we can actually get our own sweaty mitts on the device? According to once report, the much-anticipated iPhone 5 will arrive in the U.S., Japan, and some parts of Europe around the middle of next month. Japanese website Macotakara reports that the ‘iPhone 5‘ — not the ‘iPhone 4S‘ [Read More...]
OS X Lion’s Restore function is what causes app windows to re-open after you’ve relaunched an app, and people seem to either love it or hate it. Sure you can turn it off completely, but that’s a bit overkill if you only don’t want certain apps to restore their windows, and still want resume to work in others. That is [Read More...]
Some people can write prose with no apparent effort, seamlessly gliding from one paragraph to the next with nary a skip of a beat. For the rest of us, an outliner can be an extremely useful tool for gathering, sorting and refining our thoughts: and OmniOutliner is one of the best outliners you can find. The Omni guys have been making software for OS X since before [Read More...]
Okay, not really, but we can dream. Here’s the real deal with this painting. George Dawe was an English portrait artist who, during the Napoleonic Wars, managed to paint 329 portraits of the Russian generals active during Boney’s attempted invasion and subjugation of the Motherland. Replaceface, on the other hand, is a Tumblr blog devoted to taking Dawe’s portraits, cutting out the original face and replacing it with the freshly [Read More...]
Firefox 7 is now available to download for all supported platforms, the new release has an emphasis on improved memory management and speed, and it does provide a noticeable difference in snappiness when loading pages or browsing the web. The benefits are best seen if you keep Firefox open for a long time (who ever closes their web browser anyway?), use a lot of tabs, and view pages with [Read More...]
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a jacket that lets you store your iPhone, iPad, sync cables, and maybe even a MacBook Air? The folks at AyeGear think so. The AyeGear jacket lets you take your Apple devices with you wherever you go. 
This isn’t your average jacket. The AyeGear offers protection from the elements for your precious Apple gear. With 18 pockets for [Read More...]
Foxconn workers at the company’s plant in Yantai, a city in the northeastern Shandong province, have had to evacuate the building today as another fire and possible explosion engulfed parts of the factory in smoke. Thankfully, it seems no one has been injured. The fire broke out at 10:20 AM local time at a plant that accommodates 80,000 Foxconn workers who assemble games consoles, phones, TVs and PCs. An official comment from Foxconn says [Read More...]
