Category: Apple/Mac

Now that the iPhone 4 has been officially revealed and Steve Jobs has shown off all of the supposedly remarkable things it can do, we thought we’d cut through the hype and pit the new iPhone against its competition in the clearest way we know how: with an infographic.

The infographic below compares the latest wave of touchscreen smartphones head-to-head: the HTC Evo, the Droid Incredible and the Apple iPhone 4.

From the Evo’s giant screen, to the Droid’s removable battery, to the iPhone’s 300 hour standby time (advertised), see how the hottest phones stack up. Which of these phones would you rather own? Do you already have any of these phones or do you plan to get one? Let us know in the comments.
(Article from Mashable)

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www.tinhte.com have posted a new set of iPhone G4 images. Not much has changed since the previous leak, except that the screws on the bottom are gone and some sort of firmware diagnostics tool "Inferno" is running on this unit.

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Gizmodo announced that they were in possession of the next generation iPhone 4G from Apple.

What's new:

• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It's unclear if it's the 960x640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the "Connect to iTunes" screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

What's changed

• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

It is still unclear wether it's a final product or not. You can read the full story at Gizmodo

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Adobe's Flash Player has always been a cause of a performance drop on Macs, but with the new pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 things are looking much better.

Here is a brief report from Anandtech:


"I took the same Office clip I'd been using for all of the other tests and ran it on my Mac Pro at full screen (2560 x 1600). Using Activity Monitor I looked at the CPU utilisation of the Flash Player plug-in. I compared both versions of Flash and saw a significant drop in CPU utilisation:

Flash 10.0.32.18: 450%
Flash 10.1.51.45: 190%

Going from roughly 450% down to 190% (or a bit over 10% of total CPU utilisation across 16 threads) made full-screen Hulu playable on my machine. In the past I always had to run it in a smaller window, but thanks to Flash 10.1 I don't have to any longer."

Apple has introduced a new mouse called the Magic Mouse. This mouse brings Multi-Touch capabilities to desktop Macs for the first time, similar to iPhone and the entire line of Apple Laptops. The mouse is wireless, using Bluetooth, and has a four month battery life.

Click
Magic Mouse is an advanced point-and-click mouse that lets you click and double-click anywhere on its Multi-Touch surface.

Two-button click
Magic Mouse functions as a two-button mouse when you enable Secondary Click in System Preferences. Left-handed users can reassign left and right click, as well.

360° scroll
Brush one finger along the Multi-Touch surface to scroll in any direction and to pan a full 360 degrees.

Screen zoom
Hold down the Control key on your keyboard and scroll with one finger on Magic Mouse to enlarge items on your screen.

Two-finger swipe Using two fingers, swipe left and right along the Multi-Touch surface to advance through pages in Safari or browse photos in iPhoto.

Having used Snow Leopard for almost a day now, I already have a list of improvements I noticed so far.

Improvements:

• Preview.app: CMD-Delete sends the current file to the Trash
• Clicking the pill button in Finder windows has an animation now
• The selection box in finder fades out when you let go
• Preferences icon in the dock shows list of Preference Panes when right clicked
• When expanding a folder down in List View in the Finder, the icon changes to an opened folder icon
• Right-clicking a Dock menu and right-clicking again closes the menu, as it should
• Apple changed the Stacks animation to a zooming animation instead of the scattering icons animation. It's much smoother
• Finder windows keep their shadows during a minimise
• Scrolling in the Finder is smoother
• Finder prefs has an option to show or hide the warning when changing file extensions
• Finder now has a "Path Bar"
• Exposé's "All Windows" mode now shows minimised windows in the bottom of the screen
• New option in the Dock preferences pane "Minimize windows into application icon"

... and in general:

• All animations are much smoother now
• No horizontal tearing in Spaces anymore
• No horizontal tearing in Safari scrolling
• Lots of little subtle Finder animations