04Dec2010
Totable iPod Mic Soaks Up Audio
Sure the iPhone (and a few iPods) let us record sound, but the audio is captured in the flat doldrums of mono. Not with Blue Microphone’s new Mikey stereo microphone: You can elevate your iRecording from black-and-white to colorful, full-dimensional, recording-studio quality. Mikey is a 1-ounce device the size of a Tic-Tac box. It attaches to iPods, Nanos, iTouch and all iPhones except the 4 (more about that below). Its clever rotating hinge allows it to swivel like Linda Blair, making
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Retailers building their own iPod touch, iPad POS systems
Apple's open, third party iOS ecosystem is enabling retailers to build mobile point of sale devices based on the iPod touch independently of the EasyPay solution used in its own retail stores, with new retail applications of the iPad also in progress.? Yesterday, a report published by the 9 to 5 blog claiming that Gap "was piloting Apple's iPod-based POS system at a few of our Old Navy stores" erroneously concluded that Apple was marketing the custom mobile software it had developed internally
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Never Get Burned by Best Buy Price Drops Again
If one thing ticks me off, it’s buying something at Best Buy only to find out months later that a friend got it there on sale the weekend after I did. A new iPhone app ensures that won’t happen ever again. Gazaro Protect tracks Best Buy prices and lets you know if something you’ve purchased goes on sale. Best of all, the app is free, so you won’t even have to use it to make your money back. It’s dead simple to use, too. Just search for what you bought, or enter the product’s UPC
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Firms say that consumers want iPads, MacBooks for the holidays
According to the latest ChangeWave survey on consumer electronics spending, people plan to spend more during this year's holiday shopping season than the past couple years. That increased spending will be particularly focused on computers and mobile gadgets, with one of the biggest beneficiaries being Apple. With demand for its notebooks and iPads at an all-time high, the company is predicted to have a "monster" holiday season this year.Demand is strong for new laptops, with 10 percent of
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If the iPad 2nd-gen gets a Retina display
Ryan Block on the recurring rumour of the retina display on the next iPad:Maybe 2560 x 1920 doesn’t sound like a lot, but it should. Let’s put that in context with the kinds of high resolutions you get on some professional-grade desktop products:MacBook Pro 15-inch = 1440 x 900Macbook Pro 15-inch high-res = 1680 x 1050Macbook Pro 17-inch = 1920 x 1200Dell 24-inch monitor = 1920 x 1200Think about that for a moment: a 9.7-inch screen that displays more visual information than two high res
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iOS 4.2 features: Improved Safari web browser
While AirPrint and AirPlay integration, and Find in Page are the big user-facing features new to iOS 4.2 Safari, MobileXWeb points out that Apple also snuck in a few improvements under the hood:Accelerometer & Gyroscope support through the DeviceOrientation APIWebSockets API from HTML5Updated HTML 5 Form SupportPartial XHR-2 SupportNew JavaScript data typesNew DOM eventsEnhanced SVG and Canvas supportIf you are a developer let us know how useful these additions will be to your Web Apps. If
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Ninja tip: How to create a custom iPhone/iPad home screen icon for your website
Interested in making one of those custom website icons that show up on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad when you hit “Add to Homescreen”? A cool icon will make visitors want to add a WebClip of your site to their home screens. They’ll show it to their friends, their friends will also add WebClips of your site, and your site will zoom up the Google Page ranks. (Hey, every little bit helps!). Thanks to SockRolid from the forums, we’ll show you how after the break!It’s actually quite
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New MacBook Pros To Sport Light Peak Technology
"all the Mac users I know have little understanding about hardware, nor do they care to know about the hardware."Not having to care is liberating.I recently happened upon an old Popular Mechanics magazine from the 1950s. It dealt extensively with automotive topics. It struck me how much people had to know about their car's inner workings to properly maintain it. Today, you really don't have to know what kind of spark system your car has, or what kind of plugs it uses, or what kind of fuel
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Rumor: iPad 2 to sport FaceTime, gyroscope, Retina Display, USB?
A Chinese newspaper is claiming, based on “industry sources”, that five new features will be coming with the next generation iPad 2, including video phone, new display technology, 3-axis gyroscope, “better mobility”, and USB. We have previously told you that sources claimed the iPad 2 is rumored to be coming equipped with two cameras for FaceTime and this list seems to repeat that rumor. The new display technology is said to “enhance image and color output performance” so could
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Do you want BBM on your iPhone?
Every WWDC keynote we’ve joked that Mike Lazaridis from BlackBerry maker RIM would surprise everyone by joining Steve Jobs on stage to announce BlackBerry Connect and BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) for iPhone. Then we laugh and marvel out our new copy and paste, multitasking, or whatever Apple chooses to invent that year. Our sibling site CrackBerry.com has put the whole BBM on iOS (and every other platform) issue right back on their front page, however, with Kevin asking the question: So
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