Software

Schneider Electric Launches White Paper App for Apple iOS and Android Phone or Tablet Devices – NBCNews.com

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced the launch of its new white paper app for Apple iOS (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) and Android-supported tablets and devices. The app will give users free, mobile access to Schneider … Continue reading

A Comparison of Cloud Storage Options – BroadbandReports.com

iCloud, Apple’s offering if you couldn’t already tell, offers you an iCloud email address, photo syncing across devices, 5GB of sync storage, and contact syncing among other things. Google offers roughly the same thing. If you’re willing to get a … Continue reading

Collecting and organizing digital photos: tougher than it sounds – Sacramento Bee

More advanced software like Adobe Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture is meant to streamline organizing and editing for pros and semipros with large photo libraries. But even at $99-$200, that doesn’t mean they’re more intuitive and without quirks.

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion GM: new iOS-style Accessibility – Apple Insider

In OS X Mountain Lion, Apple is radically improving the layout of Universal Access features for users who are sight, hearing or motor impaired, and changing the name of its portfolio of features to match iOS: “Accessibility.” Apple has long … Continue reading

How to survive without Windows or Mac – The Canberra Times

MICROSOFT is about to drop Windows 8 on us and Apple has an operating system update coming soon … There is a good alternative to Lightroom and Aperture in RawTherapee. Like a lot of open-source software, there are still geekprints … Continue reading

iPhone 4 camera beats the smartphone competition – Mac Central

Apple retained the same pixel size that it had on previous … As on many smartphones (including previous iPhones), the iPhone 4’s 3.85mm camera lens has a fixed aperture of f/2.8, and automatically adjusts the shutter speed and ISO to … Continue reading

Will Apple murder the iPhone? – CNET News

“A new input method begets a whole new platform model,” Dediu said. Translation: So far, iOS devices have been all about touch input, but Apple may feel like it’s pushed touch technology about as far as it can and may … Continue reading

Snap Payroll app helps small businesses calculate employee pay – Los Angeles Times

An Apple iOS app called Snap Payroll that’s designed to help small businesses figure out their employees’ paychecks recently launched. The free app fromIntuit Inc.is supposed to help small-business owners calculate the correct amount of pay they …

Apple adds unique identifiers to fight iOS in-app purchase hack – ZDNet

Last week Russian developer Alexey Borodin hacked Apple’s In-App Purchase program for all devices running anything from iOS 3.0 to iOS 6.0 (the In-App Purchase program requires iOS 3.0 or later), allowing iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to …

Android Security Improves with Jelly Bean, but Only So Far – NBCNews.com

Apple faced the same problems with Mac OS X 6 Snow Leopard, which also didn’t fully implement ASLR. Mac OS X 7 Lion did, and so did Apple’s iOS mobile platform beginning with version 4.3. “The deficiencies in ICS [Ice … Continue reading