By Greg Mills
I was shocked, as were many other Apple observers that an Apple patent application sported an obvious rip-off of the user interface of an iOS app on the Apple App Store called “Where To?” Apple files hundreds of patent applications on everything they do.
Read MoreA shift is happening in the way young Americans prefer to experience entertainment, with approximately 60% of surveyed college students in the US now using their computers most, and not televisions, for entertainment, according to a survey by the Dolby company (http://www.dolby.com).
Now I would argue that this means Apple should consider offering Macs with built-in TV tuners (or bundled with Elgato hardware/software) and Blu-ray. Sure, Macs are selling like hotcakes. But that doesn’t mean Apple can’t make ’em even more desirable.
Read MoreDeveloper Daniel Holtwiesche (http://www.ssl-danholt.de/english/24/24/181001/include.html) has updated Art Text — a Mac OS X app for creating textual graphics, headings, logos, icons and more — to version 2.3.1. Documents can now be previewed thanks to Quick Look support.
Read MoreThe new top-of-the-line Mac Pro, 12-core “Westmere” 2.66Ghz and 2.93Ghz uses RAM new to Apple machines. These DDR3-1333 ECC DIMMs are 25% faster than the memory used in the previous generation Mac Pro.
Ramjet offers kits (http://www.ramjet.com/macpro.asp#3rdGen) containing 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB modules, up to the system maximum of 64GB. The 32GB kit (8x 4GB modules) is priced at US$3,550 from Apple and can be had for $1379.99 at Ramjet. For the true power-user, Ramjet offers a mammoth 64GB kit, not even available from Apple, for $2,839.99.
Read MoreNewBay Media, a publisher of digital content creation media, says its 14th annual Digital Video Expo (http://www.dvexpo.com) will return to the Pasadena Convention Center on Sept. 28-30.
It will offer three days of intensive education, training and networking, as well as the opportunity to get their hands on the latest products and services from such industry innovators as Canon USA, Carl Zeiss, JVC, Litepanels, Marshall Electronics, Panasonic, Schneider Optics, Tiffen, Varizoom and Zacuto USA.
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