Apple: If you imported photos of people while using iPhoto 8.1, there’s an extra step you should take after installing the 8.1.1 update. Select all those photos, Control-click to open the contextual menu, and then choose Detect Missing Faces. This will redetect the faces in those photos and correct any face recognition issues introduced in [...]
Engadget: Apple’s new Core i7-based iMac might be a performance monster, but it looks like the whole family’s having some problems getting out of the gate: in addition to the previously-noted performance issues with the Core 2 Duo models, a quick glance across Apple’s support forums and on other Mac boards around the web reveals [...]
Gruber: The argument that you can make iPhone web apps that are “good enough” misses the entire point of iPhone apps — the entire point of the iPhone itself, even — all of the things that drive Twitter users to pay $3, $4, or $5 for apps that do the same things that can be [...]
Engadget has posted the third installment of the Engadget Show. In this episode, Joshua Topolsky interviewed HTC’s director of user experience Drew Bamford who discussed HTC Sense and the design problems his team ran into when designing their product. It’s a great look at how sketches turn into something millions of people use everyday.
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Apple has launched two new iPhone ads, touting AT&T’s 3G network and it’s ability to handle data and a voice call at the same time. Verizon’s 3G network operates like AT&T’s EDGE network in this regard — to access data, you have to disconnect from a voice call. While the ads’ message is well-received and a [...]
Mark Wilson at Gizmodo: And other than a few specific tasks in which the most expensive Mac Pro’s 8 cores proved beneficial (Handbrake, Cinebench, etc), the iMac outperformed the competition or kept things close enough not to be relevant, plus it straight-up won in the eyes of Speedmark 6. Performance-wise, the base Mac Pro makes [...]
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The Financial Times: Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. The impetus for the discussions came from News [...]
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