We\’ve already seen some evidence that Macs running Steam are generally more powerful than PCs running Steam, and it looks like Apple is busily working to make sure that all potential performance is put to good use. As Valve\’s Rob Barris has confirmed on the company\’s forums, Apple, ATI and NVIDIA are all \’involved\’ in […]
Sussex police are creating a number of iPhone apps for the public, including one to renew your gun license. Unsurprisingly, the plan has some anti-gun groups upset. Lyn Costello, of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression (MAMAA), said, \’This isn\’t suitable, especially in light of what happened in Cumbria. We\’ve got to be extra careful giving […]
The original iPhone launched with a fixed-focus lens and a paltry (even for 2007) 2 megapixel sensor. The camera didnt get any improvements with the iPhone 3G, but gained another million pixels, autofocus, and a \’tap-to-focus\’ system—which links the focus control and autoexposure system to a specific point in the image—with the iPhone 3GS. It […]
Destructoid discusses what we know about Portal 2 at this point. Â And has lots of nice things to say aboutit. The evil genius of Portal 2- Destructoid.
World of Apple, noted that today Apple gave a select number of developers access to the eighth build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. 10F569 includes the same seed notes as the last couple of builds and continues to contain no known issues. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F569 weighs in at 613.8MB in its delta […]
What\’s wrong about inventing your own cursors? Â Or about using non-standard animations? Â Pierre Iggot (Betalogue) expands on his previous discussion on where Adobe has gotten it wrong, when giving \”wait\” feedback to the user. In short, Adobe uses a custom \”waiting\” cursor animation when doing certain actions (eg. Loading a large file). Â Pierre discusses the […]
Here is some interesting facts from the Steam (May 2010) Hardware survey that includes Macintosh hardware…. Percentage of Macintosh systems ~ 8.7% Mac OS X 10.6.3 ~6.95% Mac OS X 10.5.8 ~1.40% Mac OS X 10.6 ~ 0.33% That exceeds the percentage (6.95%) of Vista 64 bit systems, […]
It turns out that the Magic Mouse is fine, it\’s the Mac Pro that has problems. This issue is not, as is commonly reported, that the metal case of the Mac Pro impedes the signal. In fact, the antennae are hooked up incorrectly in many of the units. A number of Mac Pros were shipped […]