The latest research from Canalys shows that personal computer PC shipments (excluding tablets) to the United States stagnated in the second quarter (Q2) 2025, falling 1.4% year-on-year to 18.6 million units. However, it’s good news for the Mac. Apple sold...
Apple Sports — the free app for iPhone — is making it even easier for fans to stay on top of the action with the launch of widgets for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Live Activities already deliver real-time updates directly to the iPhone Lock Screen and Apple Watch,...
Ben Stiller took home the Golden Bird Prize for Apple TV+’s “Severance” Season 2 at the Seoul International Drama Awards, reports Deadline. The Golden Bird Award is the highest honor given at the Seoul International Drama Awards, recognizing individuals for their...
Let the Apple Car rumors roll on. Apple has applied for a patent (number 20220029828) for an “in-vehicle media content monitoring and report generation.” About the patent filing In the patent filing, Apple says that current in-vehicle media systems “have many...
Apple has filed for a patent (number 20220030345) for “user identification using headphones.” It hints at future AirPod and Beats wearables that can identify who is wearing them — via a paired iPhone — and tailer incoming audio to the wearer. About the patent filing...
Epicwin, an applications development company, has analyzed the privacy settings of 35 of the most popular gaming apps on the App Store to reveal an index of the most invasive apps to your personal data and privacy. (Note that Epicwin makes its own iPhone app: EpicWin,...
Residential buildings have a major impact on energy use globally and are second only to industry energy use. Despite this fact, the home ecosystem is siloed between smart home and extended home ecosystems with very little overlap. In the report “Delivering Smart Home...
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for AR gaming, estimated at US$3 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach $33.5 billion by 2027, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41.3% by 2027, according to Research and Markets. Mobiles, one of the...
The app usage patterns of US smartphone users altered significantly during quarter two of 2020 in response to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, “U.S. App Quarterly Brief –Q2 2020.” App use increased by over six hours per...
By Rick Sutcliffe Apple was the first corporation to reach a stock valuation of $1 trillion. Spectacular latest earnings results have pushed that to $1.85 trillion, putting the company back in first place worldwide and poised to become the first to surpass $2 trillon....
Strategy Analytics predicts a strong recovery for the global AR/VR markets in 2021 after COVID-19 driven contraction in 2020. Key findings from the research group include: Total XR shipments (the combined VR Headset Forecast and Dedicated AR Headset Forecast) will...
The global wearable technology market size is expected to reach US$104 billion by 2027, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 15.9% over the forecast period, according to ReportLinker. The research group says that iIncreasing demand for smartphones and...
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Softobe’s (http://www.softobe.com/) FoldersSynchronizer 4.2, an upgrade of their tool to sync and backup on Mac OS X, adds some nifty new options.
FoldersSynchronizer lets you sync and backup files, folders, disks and boot disks. It provides options like Timers, Multiple Folders, Filters, Exclude Items, Auto-Mount local and remote volumes, the ability to launch your own AppleScripts, the ability to set how to resolve conflicts, the ability to execute an incremental or an exact copy, the ability to include locked files, a preview panel, log files, and more.
Microspot is offering a limited edition package of MacDraft Professional, their 2D drafting, design and illustration software.
This limited edition pack brings together the power of MacDraft Pro 6.1.1, seven vector symbol libraries plus lots of exclusive merchandise all in one limited edition pack that’s Mac OS X Yosemite compatible.
Quark Software’s “10 Habits for Successful Digital Publishing” (http://www.appstudio.net/Resources/) is an ebook guide for corporate and journal publishers who are creating or rethinking their digital publishing strategies.
Written by experts in digital and mobile publishing, readers will get a better understanding of the technologies and best practices for reaching, engaging and understanding consumers of digital content. Topics covered in “10 Habits for Successful Digital Publishing” include:
° Trends in tablet publishing, such as device fragmentation;
Kosada’s Vuo (http://vuo.org) is designed as an alternative to Apple’s Quartz Composer. Aimed at media producers, VJs, interactive artists, and media-making non-programmers, it enables users to interactively create and mix audio, video, and 2D + 3D effects.
Dejal Systems’ (http://www.dejal.com/simon/) has revved Simon, its server monitoring tool for Mac OS X, to version 4.0.
Simon checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports or volumes, and many other kinds of services for changes or failures. Version 4.0 includes a new design, unifying all of the lists, logs and editors into a single window. It also introduces groups, unlimited tests. email services, a context filter, filter output in the preview, password protection and more.