Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 1.5% year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 to 1.25 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This is an increase from 1% growth in prior forecast,...
Future Apple Watches may be able to tell if you’re drinking enough water. Apple has been granted a patent (number US 12484847 B2) for “hydration measurement with a watch.” About the patent In the patent, Apple notes that portable electronic devices have become...
Since the 24-inch iMac is one of my favorite Apple products — hey, it’s powerful and fun with great features for most users — I hope to see an M3 version later this year. Especially since the all-in-one wasn’t updated with an M2 chip. But I want even more! It’s...
Yoink is a handy ”shelf” app that can streamline the workflow on your Mac in a “hold these files for me while I do something else for a while” kind of way. And the latest version (3.6.5) brings back and reimagines the defunct-since-macOS-Big-Sur Clipboard...
A campaign is underway at IndieGoGo for the ROIDMI EVA, a self-cleaning and emptying robot vacuum. It seems like the product is really popular. I was sent an advance copy to critique — and the test drive has been interesting. The model of the ROIDMI EVA I received was...
By Marcus Geduld
Holomatrix is an US$99 After Effects plug-in that does one thing well: it gives footage that produces ghost-like, scan line, holodeck, and “help me Obi-Wan Kenobi” looks. Holomatrix runs on After Effects on both Mac OS X (10.5.8 and higher) and Windows.
It’s an unusual plug-in because it’s not listed in the Effects menu. Instead, it’s applied by choosing Window>Holomatrix, which then applies a bunch of complex presets to the selected layer — presets that use many effects and expressions, and that involve multiple levels of precomposing.
I have 2,732 songs in my iTunes library — and that number grows every day. What’s more, some of the songs and albums are pretty obscure stuff. That’s why I find TuneUp from TuneUp Media (http://www.tuneupmedia.com/index.php) a very useful product.
It’s a plug-in for iTunes that analyzes your iTunes library to tell you how clean or dirty it is. And by that I’m not referring to those songs with explicit lyrics. No, “dirty” tunes in TuneUp parlance are “mislabeled” tunes. In other words, those vague Track 01, Track 02, etc. items you probably have in your song collection.
Applian Technologies and Jaksta showcased Jaksta for Mac OS X (10.5 and higher) at last week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. It lets you download and convert online streaming audio and video for personal use and is — as far as I can tell — the first program designed specifically for the Mac that can do this.
At last week’s Macworld Expo, a company called LensPens (http://www.lenspens.com) introduced new iPad and MacBook screen cleaners that the company promised would do the best job ever in cleaning your Apple products’ screens.
I was skeptical, but I gave the LensPens iPad product — known as the SideKick — a try. And I have to admit: they’re right.
