JotStudio is an application specifically made to the allow precision drawing using Jot by Adonit. The application lets you take note and draw in the application, arranging photos and other media around the drawing. While you can draw badly by hand, having a Jot or JotPro stylus is really your best bet. While initial reviews of the App have been less than stellar, it is still worth the look. Adonit has some issues still to deal with in the App…
A report on the Boy Genius Reports website this morning is showing photos of a purported screenshot from code showing Apple’s next generation iPad. According to the report, the iPad 3 will contain Apple’s A6 Chip and will also be quad core. The new iPad will also be compatible with GSM, CDMA, and LTE networks of all major phone carriers. This would likely include the latest 4G networks as well. Source: BGR
Mac お宝(otakara) is now saying that there are two events scheduled by Apple. The first event which they were saying was for Apple’s iPad 3 announcement apparently has been pushed back to March. The first event supposedly in February is yet unknown. Mac お宝 is saying that the event would be “a Strange Event”. Speculation by some of the posters on the site and others says that the February event might be scheduled to coincide with Steve Jobs birthday which…
Evernote, the application which allows the user to make notes from any media or content, has been updated. Evernote version 3.0.6 has been totally re-vamped for Mac OS X Lion and now includes dull screen editing with multiple windows. Version 3.0.6 includes a number of feature updates and fixes including : Improvements: Redesigned note editor interface Redesigned login/registration window Allow adding and deleting of rows and columns in tables Quick checkbox list creation (hitting enter on a line starting with…
Brutal Deluxe Software has announced the availability of their Fishhead Copier program which allows users to copy software in the GS/OS Environment. Fishhead includes a number of important advancements and features including: * Attribute preservaswtion when copying files * Batch Mode allowing removable devices and consecutive disk copying * Advanced error handling * A complete history log of all copies performed. Fished copies files in 256 byte chunks and it’s primary function is to allow the user to archive a…
Apple Inc, has released the long awaited Mac OS X 10.7.3 Update. The seventh developers seed was released last week with 11D50. That particular seed was figured to be fairly close to release of the product and today, Apple fulfilled that assumption with the release of the formal update. This update , while addressing a number of Microsoft related items including Windows file sharing and MS Word printing issues, the update also focuses on the networking aspects of the operating…
Apple lost a decision last month in Shenzhen Province Court regarding the iPad naming rights in mainland China. The original filer of the name, Proview, apparently still owns the legal rights to the name iPad, in spite of their Taiwan subsidiary having sold the name to a British company, IP Applications. Apple purchased the name from IP Applications in 2010, however, according to Proview, they never transferred the name or the rights to the name. Apple lost a judgement in…
The High Definition version of the popular game Angry Birds has been updated. Version 2.0.2 includes some minor improvements in the performance of the program. This version was produced specifically for the iPad and now comes in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese , and Spanish. Angry Birds HD is a $4.99 download from the Apple iTunes Store and requires at lead iOS version 3.2. The game can be can be found at: http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/angry-birds-hd/id364234221?l=en&mt=8
Apple has released an update to the Mac OS X Lion version of the Airport Utility. Version 6.0 is now available for download from the Apple Support website. Also made available for download are the Airport Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware (7.6.1) and the Airport Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion. The 5.6 update includes a fix for an issue with netowrk passwords being stored in the keychain. For more information or to download the Airport Utility, go…
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is one of five companies being named in a lawsuit, claiming they violated antitrust laws by colluding to not recruit employees from the other companies also named in the suit. US district court judge Lucy Koh, declared that the lawsuit can go forward without prejudice. The San Jose California based court judge decided that even if the case was dismissed the plaintiffs could actually we file a new complaint in reference to the current one. The lawsuit…
Apple Inc (AAPL) has been trading between 458 and 459 USD per share in the early morning pre-market trading. At 7:03am EST, the share was at $458.74 or up 2.26 from the close, making yesterdays close of $456.48 USD a share just a mere footnote now as the stock continues its climb towards the $500 a share mark. While there are several minor news items this morning, so far there is nothing to slow down the speed of the climb…
February 2012 or, “Time flies like an arrow,” if we would marry Virgil’s observations on its irretrievability to the unidirectional dictum of modern physics. “Time’s a wasting,” is an apt observation in any day and age, and for all that a week now seems a relative eternity in Internet time, we assume that the flight of time still takes place at the same speed in some external time-inertial frame of reference, call it eternity or what you will. Certainly investors…
Antoine Vignau of Brutal Deluxe has posted a new software package for the Apple IIgs. According to the posting: Brutal Deluxe Software is proud to introduce Fishhead, the Caped Copier, to the Apple II community. Fishhead is a GS/OS desktop file copier application. It offers several features which make it a powerful software for diskette and file preservation purposes: Attributes preservation — All copied files keep their original date, time and other attributes (e.g. invisible or locked) information Batch mode…
Mozilla has updated their popular Firefox Internet browser to Version 10. Their email client Thunderbird has also been updated to compliment the Firefox package. The primary focus of these updates are the inclusion of developer toos, giving the developer easy access to the HTML and CSS code associated with the website being viewed. The latest implementation of Firefox also makes it easy to build WebGL 3 dimensional graphics without additional software. The latest version includes the following fixes and updates:…
Apple Inc (AAPL) is trading at record levels this morning with the stock reaching the 455.45 USD a share price level at 8:32am. Regular trading will begin soon and then the real test of the current market will begin. If yesterday is any sample of what is to come today, then we could see record highs throughout the day. News items driving this is the news that Samsung lost another major battle yesterday in German courts with regard to the…
Byte Squared has updated their Office2 suite to version 5.0.2. The Office2 suite allows users to create and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint files on their iPhone or iPad. The $#5.99 App is a must for users who just cannot live without their Office suite. Some of the changes in the latest version of Office2 Suite include: ☆ Document saving now preserves 100% existing content fidelity ☆ New page layout based document editor interface option ☆ Ruler bar with ability…
Apple stock shed the downward trend it set in early morning trading yesterday and jumped $5.73 in regular trading closing at $453.01. This close was up $5.73 from Friday’s close. The stock jumped even further in after hours trading closing the late session up another 0.84 to end the day at $453.85 USD per share. Rumors running through many news desks on the day were that the stock would push quickly tot he $500 USD per share mark, however, after…
JACE or Java Apple Computer Emulator has been updated once again by Brendon Robert. The latest version of the emulator has mouse emulation implemented. According to the release on CSA2, “ While the implementation is still early, it does work with a number of mouse enhanced Apple ][ products. It will not however, work with Dazzle Draw or Airheart. Brendon is looking for help in the issue of the Resetting the Mouse Pointer as well as any insight into what…
Apple has hired John Browett, former CEO of Dixons Retail to be the new Senior VP in charge of Apple Stores world wide. Press Release From Apple: CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2012—Apple® today announced that John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett comes to Apple from European technology retailer Dixons Retail, where he has been CEO since 2007. Beginning in April, he will be responsible for Apple’s retail strategy…
Apple is starting this week where it ended last week on a downward spiral. While the record highs hit last week are still freah in people’s minds, the $445.70 USD per share at 8:17 AM EST is off by 1.58 or 0.35% per share. News over the weekend included news of the lawsuit against Apple and other tech giants for colluding to prevent employees from jumping from one company to another, While these claims have not been substantiated, they are…
