Indian officials stepped up government checks on farmland surrounding Apple supplier Tata’s iPhone parts factory near Bengaluru after Reuters reported state authorities found discharge from the plant had contaminated groundwater. The southern Tamil Nadu state’s...
Jamf, which specializes in managing and securing Apple at work, has released findings from a survey of 687 IT and security leaders that reveal a growing challenge for organizations adopting AI: the more deeply AI becomes embedded into daily work, the more likely...
Conventional wisdom has it that younger people can’t part with their smartphones and other electronics. However, a new study by Counterpoint Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) casts doubt on this. CIRP recently analyzed the urgency with which Apple customers...
Recently mophie announced new speedport wall chargers made with Gallium Nitride (GaN). The high end speedport 120 4-port GaN wall charger delivers a maximum shared output of up to 120W of fast charging power. It packs three USB-C PD ports and one USB-A port, so...
AOHi has released two fast-charging products iPhone, Mac users should check out. The US$19.99 30W wall charger (pictured above) is described as world’s most miniature. I can’t vouch for that claim, but it does charges iPhones (as well as Android, Samsung, and...
By Daniel M. East
There’s vast array of correction tools available for Photoshop, and it’s important to learn which are effective and a good value before making a purchase. Unfortunately, the Pixel Gear Pro Pack Bundle (US$329) by PSKiss (http://www.pskiss.com) misses the mark for output quality, and the lovely packaging and presentation by the developer only add to the disappointment.
Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com) has long been my graphics editing program of choice. The app has only gotten better with version 2.0, which was released this week.
Launch the application and you’re presented with an iMovie-style set of choices: Create New Image, Open Existing Image or Open Recent Image (the latter replaces the former Start Using Pixelmator option). Pixelmator supports over 100 different file formats, including — thank you, Pixelmator Team — PSD files.
O’Reilly has released “Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual” by David Pogue. The 928-page book is the “manual that should have been in the box” — and is the most thorough source of info on the operating system update around.
By David Creamer
PhotoCopy (US$95) from Digital Film Tools (http://www.digitalfilmtools.com) is an interesting, one-trick wonder plug-in that is easy to use. Essentially, it adjusts an image’s brightness, color, tone, detail, grain, and texture to match either a built-in preset or another loaded image.
