Be a patron to read this exclusive content!To view this content, you must be a member of Apple's Patreon at $5 or moreAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
Global notebook PC display shipments grew 7% year-over-year (YoY) in 2025, while the advanced notebook display segment (MiniLED and OLED) grew 19% YoY, driven by demand pull-forward ahead of memory cost inflation, enterprise upgrades, AI PC adoption and new product...
Apple got low grades in the “Failing the Fix” report for smartphones and laptops. The report is from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, which “conducts research, policy analysis and public education to advance solutions to problems that affect consumers’ health,...
Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS dominate the smartphone operating system (OS) space. Today 7 out of 10 phones run on the Android OS, while two of the remaining three are most likely to be iOS powered. However, StockApps reports that Android’s dominance is...
Apple has filed for a patent (number 20220121358) for a “device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying user interfaces and user device overlay elements.” About the patent filing In the patent filing, Apple notes that using inputs for manipulating user...
Be a patron to read this exclusive content!To view this content, you must be a member of Apple's Patreon at $5 or moreAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
Be a patron to read this exclusive content!To view this content, you must be a member of Apple's Patreon at $5 or moreAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,119,321) for an “electronic device with a display attached to a lease element.” It involves the rumored “Apple Glasses,” an augmented reality/virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD). About the patent Electronic devices are...
Let the Apple Car rumors roll on. Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,117,535) for a “system and method for interactive screen projection” in a vehicle. About the patent In the patent, Apple says that many vehicles, especially current automobile designs,...
Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,119,573) that takes face recognition to the next level. It involves Apple devices reacting to pupil modulation — that is, changes in the size of your pupils. About the patent In the patent, dubbed “pupil modulation as a...
Apple’s rumored “Apple Glasses” — an augmented reality/virtual reality headset — could sport a high resolution micro-OLED display with up to 3,000 pixels-per-inch, according to Korea’s The Elec. The article says the tech giant has requested a sample of a display...
Back Market has launched an awareness campaign against people against buying new smartphones. The website “dedicated to refurbished electronics: says the iPhone 13 — which will doubtless debut at tomorrow’s “California Streaming” event — “isn’t...
The CoreCode team’s TableEdit is a free spreadsheet app for Mac OS X. It offers features such as charts with cell styling, formatting options, and comprehensive import/export capabilities.
TableEdit features an Excel-compatible formula system that has been tested on more than a million formulae from over 20,000 Excel-files, according to the CoreCode team. The tool is built exclusively for OS X and takes full advantage of its latest features and technologies.
The Philips UltraClear 43-inch class 4K Ultra HD LCD Display (BDM4350UC)is an expansive monitor designed to give you room to spread out and see all the details in Ultra High Definition.
With a 43-inch class diagonal, this monitor brings vivid imagery to desks and rooms alike, allowing productivity users to navigate many applications at once. Images and graphics come alive thanks to 4K technology and 3840 x 2160 resolution, which delivers four times as much detail as 1080p Full HD.
Feingeist Software’s MailButler’s (https://www.feingeist.io/mailbutler), the OS X Mail assistant, has added a cool new feature: Follow-Up, which allows users to schedule a follow-up reminder that will notify them when there is no response to a particular email.
Once the email is written, the user can just tell MailButler when he wants to be reminded, and the notification will appear on his preferred date and time. This feature proves very useful for users, who keep track of many emails at once and have lots of different conversations, which require follow-ups on different times.
WaterField Designs (www.sfbags.com) has updated its Cycling Ride Pouch and introduced the new Cycling Club Pouch for the spring and summer cycling seasons.
Buoy (MagTunes.com.au) is described as “the world’s first real waterproof speaker.” I’m a bit skeptical of that claim, but it is waterproof and costs around $70 (http://tinyurl.com/h262axo).
Buoy purportedly produces multi-dimensional sound by replicating the techniques used on $1,000+ audio systems that control distortion of the music through hardware instead of software. This means it can pump up the volume without distorting the sound quality.