Developers, and those paying for app development, breathed a huge sigh of relief when it was revealed the iPad Mini would have the resolution as the iPad’s 1 and 2 – meaning there was no need to redesign or update existing apps for the new device. Having sold over 3million units at launch, it’s not…
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As of 15th August 2012 Adobe will no longer supporting the Flash plug-in for Android, Blackberry and Symbian. Once seen as the killer reason for owning an Android or Blackberry device, this decision will come as a surprise to many, especially considering Flash was the focus of Blackberry’s marketing campaign for their Playbook tablet, even…
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Anyone who’s used Microsoft’s Kinect will attest not only to its innovation but its potential beyond Xbox gaming. Kinect does have its limitations though, it works best when standing, there’s a small but noticeable lag, you need a relatively large amount of space to use it and there’s definite room for improvement when it comes…
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In the US, Amtrak train conductors will soon be using iPhones to scan passenger’s tickets, with passengers being able to print their tickets at home or present them on their smart phones. It’s impressive to see the amount of companies using these as part of their new business models, as iPhone and Android devices become…
READ MOREInterestingly Google have joined the race to bring commercial wearable computing to the masses. Project glass is a Google research project which is presumably aiming to use retinal projection technology to make a wearable head mounted display. This is not new tech, in 2010 Brother announced Air Scouter which projects an image onto the retina, in a less stylish…
READ MORESo we didn’t get an iPad 3 afterall, Apple you tease. The “new iPad” suggests more of a 0.5 update much like the iPhone 4S, with the iPad 3 still to come. As usual it’s a brilliant piece of hardware but is it worth upgrading if you already own an iPad? I’m going to approach…
READ MORE15 years ago everyone was banging on about “virtual reality”, a phrase that seemed to be applied to anything from enormous monitor wielding headsets, to almost everything interactive. Thankfully the buzzword has been buried with cyberspace, Y2K and Dirty Den but that doesn’t mean the ideals and notions have gone away. Instead, now they’re actually…
READ MOREThe early days for any console can be a tricky time for hardware companies. On one hand you have a fantastic and powerful new system but on the other, actual software to play on it can be a little thin on the ground. The PlayStation Vita, Sony’s successor to the PSP, looks to buck this…
READ MORESome sites are wrongly suggesting Adobe has abandoned Flash, it hasn’t. What Adobe has announced is they’ll no longer be developing Flash for mobile browsers, which is something very different indeed. Adobe will now be focussing on developing HTML5 software that incorporates all the Flash features we love (and hopefully leaving out the bugs and…
READ MOREMac OS X Lion is sitting in my dock, winking at me, waiting to be installed. Despite the great temptation to install, I’m going to hold off for a day or so, as my current copy of Xcode, the software used to build and complile iOS apps, isn’t Lion compatible. In the meantime the Lion…
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