The screenshot below is of the LEGO awesome machine. It isn’t clear if that’s the name of the device or if the creator is just referring to it as an awesome machine that is made of LEGO. Either way, it is awesome.
Quantum Wipeout Race Track Promo Video
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Just before Christmas a video was launched showing some Wipeout style vehicles moving around a track made of superconducting magnets. The video is great and really makes you wish it was real… unfortunately its not. Instead, it appears to be an advertisement from Sony about the new Wipeout game.
Kindle Fire Silk Browser Ported to Other Android Devices
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Hackers have managed to extract the Silk browser from the Amazon Kindle Fire and port it over to various rooted Android devices. The Silk browser is Amazons attempt to speed up web browsing. It works by calculating some elements of a webpage server side which speeds up processing time. It also attempts to predict what links you will click on so that your next page will be already calculated and ready to download when you want to go to it.
400,000 Active Apps Now Available in the Android Market
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Android Market is continuing to grow. Numbers estimated today indicate that there are now 400,000 active apps available in the Android Market which are created by around 100,000 developers.
iPhone Gets a Smart Cover thanks to TidyTilt
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TidyTilt is a small version of the iPad 2 Smart Cover designed just for the iPhone 4/4S. To use the TidyTilt you just fold the case back and create a small stand for the iPhone when in landscape mode, or stand it up for watching movies. The case also acts as a headphone cable wrap.
Intel Core i7 Gets Overclocked to 5.6GHz
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
An Intel Core i7 has been overclocked to 5.6GHz on a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 motherboard. The motherboard is the first in the world to achieve a multiplier of 57x. Although it’s not the fastest a chip has been overclocked, that record was set at 8.58Ghz, it is the fastest this model of the Core i7 has reached.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Holo Theme Mandatory on All Devices
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Google has made the Holo theme mandatory on all Ice Cream Sandwich devices. To have access to the Android Market, and other Google services, all devices running Android 4.0 must have the Holo theme available.
iPhone 4/4S Projector from Sanwa Supply Rolls Out
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Sanwa Supply has created a new projector for the iPhone 4 and 4S that simply slides on to the Apple smartphone and allows a screen of up to 65 inches to be projected. The device is a DLP micro projector that has a resolution of 640×360 pixels and a contract ratio of 1,000:1.
Report Hints at Two New iPads This Year
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Digitimes is reporting that there will be two new iPad models launched this year. When they say two models, they don’t just mean black and white or 3G vs non-3G. They actually mean that a second and cheaper iPad will be launched to target the mid-range price of $299. The main difference will be that the high-end model which is priced around that of the current iPad 2 will have a higher resolution screen. Both the high-end and mid-range models will use the Apple A6 processor.
Amazon Kindle Fire Eats in to iPad Sales
January 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Estimates indicate that Apple [AAPL] sold 2 million fewer iPads this past holiday season. It is estimated that almost 16 million units were to be shipped but figures hint at about 13 million were shipped. A lot of that shortfall is believed to caused by the Amazon Kindle Fire.
IE 6 Usage in the US Drops Below 1%
January 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Internet Explorer 6 usage in the US has finally dropped below 1 percent. Last year the company set up a website called ie6countdown that aimed to kill off the 10+ year old browser. Reasons for pushing users away from that browser is that its extremely old now and has a number of security issues as well as outdated code running it. By dropping usage to below 1 percent it allows developers to focus on current browsers when designing websites.
iOS Multitasking Explained in Detail
January 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It appears that there is a misunderstanding on how iOS handles multitasking. Thanks to Fraser Speirs we now have an extremely detailed report on how it works and what the multitasking bar actually does, or doesn’t do in this instance.
Advice handed out by some people is that you need to kill the apps in order to free up memory. While this can be correct in some circumstances, generally you need to do nothing to preserve the available RAM on your iOS device.
If memory is becoming scarce, iOS will automatically move Suspended apps into the Not Running state and reclaim their memory.
