It is on April 2nd that AMD/ATI will officially launch the new flagship, the Radeon HD 4890, which should be immediately available.
Without bringing any deep modifications, when compared to the Radeon HD 4870 recently made available for Mac Pro owners, the Radeon HD 4890 brings an average 10% performance gain. This is mostly achieved by increasing both GPU and memory frequencies. In addition, some early tests have shown that this graphic card can easily and stably be overclocked. Some sites claim to have pushed the GPU fequency to 1 GHz instead of the default 850 MHz. The best news is most probably its price, as it should be around 250 USD. If one can find a way to flash this GPU with the bios from a Mac edition card, the Radeon HD 4890 might also become popular among Mac users, especially for those who do not need the DisplayPort output.
Photo leak shows Samsung Alias2, dynamic keys
An image leak confirms rumors that Samsung has been working on a successor to the Alias handset. The updated device, known as the Alias2, provides a similar dual-hinge design to the earlier model but with several changes. The keypad features dynamic keys that show numbers when the handset is used in portrait mode, but switch to QWERTY letters when the phone is opened in the landscape orientation....
Will Artists Still Love Macs Tomorrow?
Michael Gibbs, an illustrator based in Northern Virginia, describes working on a Mac Pro in terms that suggest a Zen-like trance: "I can't explain it well, but you are not even really aware you are using a computer program -- the design applications are that intuitive." He can easily tell the difference between applications that are natively designed for the Mac -- anything Adobe -- and those that have been retrofitted for the OS X environment, such as Microsoft Word. The latter, he told MacNewsWorld, "are just plain cumbersome."
Seagate to Launch its First 2 TB 3.5" HD Soon
Seagate unveiled a new NAS model, the BlackArmor. Beside its performance and its support for up to 4 HDs, specifications indicate that it will soon be available with 8 TB storage space (8 TB = 4 x 2 TB). In other words, Seagate will soon join Western Digital as the second manufacturer of 2 TB HD. It might even be the first 2 TB HD spinning at 7200 rpm, however, there is no define release date.
Little Hoppers Treasure Hunt comes to Mac
Fast Rabbit Software has launched the latest game in its series of educational applications for the Mac, Little Hoppers Treasure Hunt. The game is geared towards students in grades 2-to-5, and designed to introduce kids to two dimensional graphing and the Cartesian coordinate system. While trying help students learn to read and identify points on a graph using the Cartesian coordinate system, the ...
iShoot goes 2.0, adds networked play
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store
When your simple-yet-addictive tank shooting game blasts its way to the top of the App Store sales charts and earns you a reasonable fraction of a cool million bucks, what do you do for an encore? Developer Ethan Nicholas has released iShoot 2.0, adding much-requested features to the $2.99 artillery battle (the free iShoot Lite remains unchanged).The new version of iShoot (App Store) adds plenty of customization options, including a weapon designer, new rulesets and rule editor, background music -- and a local LAN network play option, allowing you to blast 3 of your friends over WiFi whenever you like. Check it out.
TUAWiShoot goes 2.0, adds networked play originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple filing details safe touch-screen navigation system
An interesting but at times erratic patent filing from Apple published for the first time this week describes a proprietary in-car navigation system focused on maintaining driver safety while a vehicle is in motion.
AMD Will Launch its Radeon HD 4890 on April 2nd
It is on April 2nd that AMD/ATI will officially launch the new flagship, the Radeon HD 4890, which should be immediately available.
Without bringing any deep modifications, when compared to the Radeon HD 4870 recently made available for Mac Pro owners, the Radeon HD 4890 brings an average 10% performance gain. This is mostly achieved by increasing both GPU and memory frequencies. In addition, some early tests have shown that this graphic card can easily and stably be overclocked. Some sites claim to have pushed the GPU fequency to 1 GHz instead of the default 850 MHz. The best news is most probably its price, as it should be around 250 USD. If one can find a way to flash this GPU with the bios from a Mac edition card, the Radeon HD 4890 might also become popular among Mac users, especially for those who do not need the DisplayPort output.
Photo leak shows Samsung Alias2, dynamic keys
An image leak confirms rumors that Samsung has been working on a successor to the Alias handset. The updated device, known as the Alias2, provides a similar dual-hinge design to the earlier model but with several changes. The keypad features dynamic keys that show numbers when the handset is used in portrait mode, but switch to QWERTY letters when the phone is opened in the landscape orientation....
Will Artists Still Love Macs Tomorrow?
Michael Gibbs, an illustrator based in Northern Virginia, describes working on a Mac Pro in terms that suggest a Zen-like trance: "I can't explain it well, but you are not even really aware you are using a computer program -- the design applications are that intuitive." He can easily tell the difference between applications that are natively designed for the Mac -- anything Adobe -- and those that have been retrofitted for the OS X environment, such as Microsoft Word. The latter, he told MacNewsWorld, "are just plain cumbersome."Seagate to Launch its First 2 TB 3.5" HD Soon
Seagate unveiled a new NAS model, the BlackArmor. Beside its performance and its support for up to 4 HDs, specifications indicate that it will soon be available with 8 TB storage space (8 TB = 4 x 2 TB). In other words, Seagate will soon join Western Digital as the second manufacturer of 2 TB HD. It might even be the first 2 TB HD spinning at 7200 rpm, however, there is no define release date.
Little Hoppers Treasure Hunt comes to Mac
Fast Rabbit Software has launched the latest game in its series of educational applications for the Mac, Little Hoppers Treasure Hunt. The game is geared towards students in grades 2-to-5, and designed to introduce kids to two dimensional graphing and the Cartesian coordinate system. While trying help students learn to read and identify points on a graph using the Cartesian coordinate system, the ...
iShoot goes 2.0, adds networked play
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store
When your simple-yet-addictive tank shooting game blasts its way to the top of the App Store sales charts and earns you a reasonable fraction of a cool million bucks, what do you do for an encore? Developer Ethan Nicholas has released iShoot 2.0, adding much-requested features to the $2.99 artillery battle (the free iShoot Lite remains unchanged).The new version of iShoot (App Store) adds plenty of customization options, including a weapon designer, new rulesets and rule editor, background music -- and a local LAN network play option, allowing you to blast 3 of your friends over WiFi whenever you like. Check it out.
TUAWiShoot goes 2.0, adds networked play originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Apple filing details safe touch-screen navigation system
An interesting but at times erratic patent filing from Apple published for the first time this week describes a proprietary in-car navigation system focused on maintaining driver safety while a vehicle is in motion.
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