The making of The Elements for iPad

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: iPad Popular Science takes an in-depth look into the makings of The Elements: A Visual Exploration for the iPad, the app that's had many reviewers nearly swooning with giddy geek pleasure. The article is written by the original book's author…

6 April 2010

Using Google's digital switchboard

Macworld

Sign up for Google Voice and you get a new phone number that works as a virtual switchboard for all your incoming calls from all your various phone lines. Making and receiving calls with Google Voice is easy, but setting up the service requires a bit of…

5 April 2010

First Look: iDisplay

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: iPad iDisplay is one of those apps that you receive as a press release in your inbox and just when you're about to move on, it suddenly hits you exactly what that app does. And you go "Oh man! Yes!" In this case, iDisplay transforms your…

3 April 2010

1Password for iPad will be free upgrade from iPhone version

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: iPad Agile Web Solutions, the company behind 1Password, has laid out what I have seen as the most sensible model so far for pricing on iPad apps. They announced on their blog how the new apps will work: They are selling 1Password for iPad for…

3 April 2010

fadvise – may be not what you expect

MySQL Performance Blog

I often hear suggestion to use system call to avoid caching in OS cache. We recently made patch for , which supposes to create archive without polluting OS cache, as like in case with backup, you do not really expect any benefits from caching. However…

3 April 2010

Create simple launchers for standalone WIndows apps

MacOSXHints.com

I often use Windows software on OS X, and I do like PortableApps as they do not need installation. For running Windows software, I use Wine (the open source relative of Crossover), and I always create an icon to click on to open Windows software. Creating…

2 April 2010

10.6: Turn off automatic wake-from-sleep network check

MacOSXHints.com

One of Snow Leopard's advertised new features is the much more ambitious 'wake for network access' functionality. What was previously a setting only used by geeks and network administrators -- people who readily knew what a 'magic packet' was and how to…

2 April 2010

Review: Epson Stylus Pro 7900 wide-format printer

Macworld

The Stylus Pro 7900, with its UltraChrome HDR ink set, excellent print quality and highly flexible paper handling, is definitely the gold standard in wide-format photographic printing.

1 April 2010