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Apple: Stop the iOS-Mac merger Summary: The fiasco of the Mac iWork revamp continues, despite Apple's recent release of a punch list for missing features and bugs. Management hubris and lack of oversight appear to be the primary wrongdoings here. Still, some of the blame should go to Apple's attempt to merge Mac and iOS interfaces and workflows.By David Morgenstern for The Apple Core |November 11, 2013 -- 04:13 GMT (20:13 PST.. 더보기
2013: The year of the Ubuntu Linux tablet and smartphone? Summary: Canonical appears to be getting ready to release a fully touch-enabled Ubuntu Linux operating system. Will Ubuntu tablets and smartphones be far behind? Countdown to the Ubuntu smartphone and tablet?Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, is hinting in big, bright letters that's its about to release a fully touch-enabled version of Ubuntu Unity. The site's banner headline now reads "S.. 더보기
Automatic Termination makes its way to OS X Lion & Mountain Lion Summary: Apps in iOS support Automatic Termination, or quitting the program out from under the user. Now that dubious "feature" is a part of OS X. Matt Neuburg at TidBITS and Keith Harrison at the Use Your Loaf blog recently discussed the history and working of Automatic Termination. The Apple brain-trust decided to migrate this feature of iOS to OS X Lion and now Mountain Lion. Neuburg says tha.. 더보기
Mountain Lion's Save As still a disaster Summary: Changes in the behavior of Save As in OS X Lion and now Mountain Lion make problems for longtime users of Macs. Many sites reported the "happy" news that OS X Mountain Lion restores the Save As command, which was removed in OS X Lion. For example, TJ Luoma at TUAW describes how to remap the Duplicate command with Save As. However, these cheers are undeserved.For reference, the Save As c.. 더보기
Could the iOS app be the 21st-century HyperCard stack? Summary: Longtime Mac fans are celebrating the 25th anniversary of HyperCard, Apple's groundbreaking rich-media content platform. But what format has replaced it? HyperCard was amazing, especially when we remember what computing was like in 1987. It was certainly the first popular hypermedia program on the market. It combined database features in "cards" that supported clickable regions that cou.. 더보기
Don't upgrade to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion before reading this Summary: It's tempting to install OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" immediately, but to avoid a costly mistake you need to thoroughly check all of your productivity apps to make sure that they're compatible Apple released OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" ($19.99, Mac App Store) today and we Mac users tend to be quicker than most to update our software. This blog post is a cautionary tale that you should heed i.. 더보기
Networking crashes bothering some OS X Mountain Lion users Summary: Several developers say that customers running the new Mountain Lion version of Mac OS X are reporting crashes when connecting to network resources. The culprit appears to be found in Auto Proxy settings.By David Morgenstern for The Apple Core |In a recent blog post, Daniel Jalkut, founder of Red Sweater Software, told of mysterious crashes when connecting to a network. It was happening .. 더보기
Apple's new weapon for enterprise adoption of the iPad: Configurator tool Summary: Apple has quietly launched the new Configurator tool to further iPad deployment among large organizations.According to PC stalwarts like Dell and HP, we just need to wait for Windows 8 to launch before the enterprise will embrace tablets. Meanwhile, Apple keeps making inroads with a market segment it never succeeded much with before — and it’s quietly launched a new tool to further iPad.. 더보기
Top 10 smartphones to kick off 2012 Summary: It was a bit easier to pick my top 10 smartphones to start 2012 and I ended up with four of them being Windows Phone devices. Which is your current favorite?As we head into April, I think it is appropriate to once again look at the current smartphone market and see what I consider the top smartphones available or coming soon to the U.S. market. CES and MWC is behind us with CTIA coming .. 더보기
Android and Linux re-merge into one operating system Summary: For years, Android has been a Linux variant, but now, with the release of Linux 3.3, the two operating systems are united again. Linux is back inside Android and Android is back inside Linux. Android has always been Linux, but for years the Android project went its own way and its code wasn’t merged back into the main Linux tree. Now, much sooner than Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder and.. 더보기
AT&T's Windows Phone 7 lineup: HTC Titan, Samsung Focus S & Focus Flash (first look) Microsoft’s Phone President Andy Lees showed off three AT&T-branded Windows Phone 7 (Mango) phones at the All Things Digital Asia conference in Hong Kong this morning. While you may be able to recite the features of Mango by heart, you probably couldn’t tell these WP7 handsets apart, especially when they’re all displaying the same ‘Metro’ home screen (see right). Well, consider this as your chea.. 더보기
Microsoft could have rocked mobile in 2011 with the Xphone Windows Phone 7 is the best product Microsoft has built in a very long time. Of course, building a great product — it could even be the best product in its category — never guarantees success. Microsoft benefited from that dynamic in the 1980s and 1990s when its operating systems were never the best software on the market but prevailed as the dominant platform in personal computing. Timing, key .. 더보기
Microsoft to deliver CRM apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone in Q2 Some time between April and May of this year, Microsoft will roll out Dynamics CRM mobile clients and service simultaneously for the iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry devices. The coming mobile components — something some Windows Phone users have been asking about for years — will be part of the Dynamics CRM Q2 2012 service update, Microsoft officials said on February 6. (Feb.. 더보기
OnLive Desktop: Full MS Office on iPad 2, no Windows required (review) I am on record as one of those tablet users who gets the most out of any tablet I use, and that includes the iPad 2. I have detailed how I use the iPad 2 with a keyboard to do serious writing work, and now with OnLive Desktop for the iPad that includes working with Microsoft Office documents natively. The service and app debuted at the CES 2012. The principle behind OnLive Desktop is simple: you.. 더보기
Dell undecided on whether to put Android or Windows 8 on late-2012 consumer tablets Summary: ‘Choice’ is the key word. Here’s the biggest indication yet as to how unconvinced OEMs are when it comes to Windows 8’s suitability for tablets - PC giant Dell is still undecided as to whether it wants to use Windows 8 on its consumer tablets or Android. Speaking with Reuters, Dell chief commercial officer Steve Felice says that the OEM giant learned from the mistakes its rivals such as.. 더보기