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Category Archives: Software

Apple TV Gets Update to 2.3.1
Even though the launch of an EMI iTunes Pass was overshadowed by the hype of the Safari 4 Beta launch, it still made the tech-news headlines on a lot of sites. However, something we all missed until this morning was a software update to the Apple TV. Overall Apple has been... Read More...
Battle of the Browsers: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 4; Speedtest
With the release of Safari 4, I decided to get some friendly competition out of the way and run a quick speed test between Firefox 3 and Safari 4. For this test, I decided to use the following websites: National Geographic Equal Tech News Engadget Gizmodo I picked these mainly because they are graphic/video intense... Read More...
iTunes Subscriptions: Kind of Real
Hidden in the shadow of the Safari 4 Beta launch, apparently EMI has come out with the first “iTunes Pass.” The iTunes Pass is similar to the “Season Pass” that iTunes offers for select TV shows. The first Pass is for the band Depeche Mode, costs $18.99 (USD), and runs... Read More...
Safari 4 beta is out; download now!
The Safari 4 beta is now live! Get it here. Appleinsider reports that “new Nitro JavaScript engine executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than Microsoft’s IE 7 and more than three times faster than Firefox 3. It’s also said to load HTML web pages three times faster than IE... Read More...
Snow Leopard screenshots appear; neat features on the way
Apple insider dug up some new screenshots of the OS 10.6 build 10A261, aka Snow Leopard. Because I’ll give credit where credit is due, Appleinsider originally got the screenies from World of Apple, although the link is currently not functionally at the moment; I’m guessing the news brought the site... Read More...
First look at the Android “Cupcake” build; keyboard not so hot [Video]
The Android Blog offered us a first hand look at “cupcake” (code for an Android build) to be released most likely in the upcoming months. While the build changed some UI features, the most prominent integration to the G1 in this case, would be the full touch QWERTY keyboard. While... Read More...
Chrome still yet to come out for Mac
Today Mike Pinkerton posted new pictures of Google's Chrome... Read More...
Apple Says Jailbreaking Is Illegal
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released news that Apple has filed comments with the US Copyright Office stating that the act of jailbreaking your iPhone is a copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, and therefore illegal. They say this because jailbreak applications still use a modified version of Apple’s software... Read More...
The G1 Gets Navigation Application
Soon G1 users will be able to throw those expensive GPS units out the window because TeleNav is about to launch the first turn-by-turn GPS navagation application for G1 phones. The navigation app will have full color maps with features such as speech recognition, traffic alerts, weather updates and restaurant... Read More...
Palm to Kill PalmOS
NetworkWorld is reporting that Palm Inc., makers of PDAs and smartphones such as the Palm Centro, are set to kill their mobile OS. Palm is going to be moving from PalmOS to an upcoming OS called “Palm webOS”. Palm have yet to release much information about the upcoming operating system, however... Read More...

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