The Omdia research group says Mac sales grew 10.7% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, while the IDC research system says the growth was 9.1%. Now Gartner says Mac sales grew 12.7% year-over-year. This research group says Apple sold approximately 6.7 million...
Global smartphone shipments declined 6% year-over-year (YoY) in quarter one (Q1) 2026, as DRAM and NAND shortages disrupted supplies and increased costs, reports Counterpoint Research. Apple led Q1 smartphone sales for the first time with 21% market share, growing 5%...
As noted by Yahoo! Finance, according to UBS Evidence Lab‘s fourth annual video streaming survey, which polled 1,200 Americans on their video viewing habits, Apple TV+ is falling behind relative to competitors and “appears to have flat-lined.” “Just ~22% [of] iPhone...
Apple has been granted yet another patent (11588356 B2) — one of dozens — that hint that the abandoned AirPower product could be revived. Hey, if the full-sized HomePod can return to life, any ditched product has hope. About the patent The AirPower (pictured in an...
We’ll almost certainly see the iPhone 14 line-up announced at Wednesday’s “Far out” event. Let’s look at all the latest rumors about the upcoming Apple smartphone. ° Apple plans to bring the classic iOS battery indicator back to the status bar directly on the...
Back in July, I took a look at the Kensington Professional Video Conferencing Solution. It consists of webcams, light and camera stands, and an LED ring light. All of the parts are designed to make those videoconferencing from home look a lot more professional. The...
Posted by Greg Mills
Back a few years ago, I invested in Dreamweaver and bought a manual the size of the New York City yellow pages required to understand how to do things with it. I built a few web sites with that cumbersome software, but it seemed like a Windows sort of program that had been ported to the Mac as an afterthought. It really didn’t have the drag and drop Mac sort of interface and the learning curve was of galactic proportions. The notion of having to take a 3 credit hour college course to learn a software program is so Microsoftish.
Posted by Greg Mills
It has been rumored for a while, that there was some sort of collaboration going on between Apple and Nuance, the Speech to Text company. Speech to Text is something that has been the fodder of science fiction and actual cutting edge computer software for a long time. Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica both have demonstrated graphically the science fiction come true concept where someone just speaks and the text flows onto a computer screen. Easy to simulate, hard to accomplish.
Recently, I began ripping my entire DVD collection to save for viewing on my Mac. I have a BIG DVD collection and that requires lots of storage, which is where Western Digital’s (http://www.wdc.com/en/) newest generation of the My Book Studio comes in.
The external hard drives — great for use with Macs and Apple’s Time Machine — are now available with a 3TB storage capacity. When you’re ripping DVDs for convenience’s sake (and with an eye to the day when Apple doesn’t include any optical drives on a Mac)
Even with the arrival of Lion and its LaunchPad app and other goodies, Yellow Lemon Software’s FolderGlance (http://www.scsc.no/products/folderglance/), a utility for browsing files and folders, is still a sweet addition to your Mac’s software arsenal.
The app lets you preview files directly from the contextual menus, as well as move, copy and make aliases of selected files at locations you browse to.