Spoiler alert: Apple will release new wireless and wired keyboards, optimized for OS X Lion. The new keyboards, or mid-2011 keyboard refresh as we’re calling them, have been confirmed by our friends from iSpazio. In the image, leaked on their site, you can clearly see the F3 and F4 keys have been updated.
July, 2011
Huge thanks to everyone who applied for the VIP reader evening hosted by the generous folk at BlackBerry. As promised, eight readers got the chance to go hands-on with the PlayBook and grill one of BlackBerry’s head honcho’s on the subject of RIM’s first tablet.
Moreover, congratulations to Gautam Vaidya of Wembley, who walked away with a brand new PlayBook and a selection of rather fetching accessories including a bright pink case (which he declared an ideal gift for his girlfriend). Whether she’ll ever get her hands on the PlayBook is another matter… Read more
After the white iPhone 4 hiccup, Apple rallied back with the iPad 2 which arrived at launch in both white and black varieties. Today, leaked images of the upcoming iPod touch reveal plans of a vanilla flavored launch for our favorite PMP. Are you ready for a white fourth generation iPod Touch?
The latest Google doodle celebrates the work of mobile sculpture inventor, Alexander Calder, on what would have been his 113th birthday. It goes one step further than the playable Pac-Man Google doodle and the strummable Les Paul Google doodle by accurately responding to real world physics.
Using HTML5 Canvas, the image of the mobile moves when you click and drag the individual elements, simulating the momentum and interaction you’d get with the piece in a real life sculpture.
Most impressively, if your laptop has an accelerometer inside, rocking your machine makes the image swing with it. There are conflicting reports on which browsers work with this Google doodle but we found both Firefox 5 and Chrome play along nicely. Check it out and notice how the shadow underneath the search box moves too!
Out now | £free | Google
Apple and Adobe have been fighting about Flash for what seems like eons now. The latest battle ground is Mac OS X Lion where Flash is having all sort of issues including hogging the CPU, draining battery life and heating up computers.
As part of a long document detailing Adobe product issues following the Mac OS X Lion upgrade, Adobe originally seemed to blame Apple for the problems but it’s now changed its tune…
The Nokia Oro isn’t intended for the likes of you or I, it’s a play-thing for the cash-rich, for those who like the idea of owning a smartphone but only if it’s dripping in gold and jewels. Costing twice the price of a Nokia C7, on which it’s based, is this smartphone a ‘bad boy’ or just ‘bad taste’? Find out with our Nokia Oro smartphone review.
The Guitar Hero series was only officially axed (pun intended) in February this year but Activision has already had a change of heart. Despite disbanding the business unit dedicated to building the game and deciding to ditch plans for Guitar Hero 2011, it seems the publisher is already pondering a rebirth.
The news comes straight from the head honcho’s chops. In an interview with Forbes, Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick hints that work on a Guitar Hero reinvention is already underway and blames poor old DJ Hero for its demise in the first place…
Gawd bless the folks at iFixit. Once again they’ve taken their cabinet of tools to the latest Apple releases and revealed a useful secret about the new Mac Mini. While Apple offers a twin 500GB hard drives in the Mac Mini Server version and the option of adding an additional 256GB Solid State Drive to the standard Mac Mini for an eyewatering additional cost of £600, slipping in a second hard drive on your own looks incredibly simple.
The iFixit teardown shows the ample space inside the new Mac Mini’s aluminium shell for a second hard drive and notes that there’s an extra SATA connector waiting there to be used. To add an extra hard drive yourself, you’ll need to find a SATA cable but the iFixit investigation discovered that there’s no proprietary screws or glue to worry about when opening up the machine. It also says RAM upgrades should be doddle too. If you’re up for doing a little DIY, you could save hundreds while making your own souped-up Mac Mini.