CopyTrans TuneSwift [rating: 3/5] CopyTrans TuneSwift sounds like the perfect panacea for all your iTunes library backup needs. It offers iTunes to iTunes transfers of entire iTunes libraries between PCs or from PC to Mac. This is done via single file backup archives, which can also be updated incrementally as you add to your current iTunes library. Restoring an iTunes archive … Read More
Denon brings AirPlay to the Home Cinema
Home cinema favourite Denon is the first to offer Apple’s AirPlay feature on it’s line of AV receivers. Available as a $50 update to Denon’s AVR-991, AVR-3311CI, AVR-A100, and AVR-4311CI models AirPlay could well become a must-have feature on future home cinema hardware and Apple will be hoping that its video and audio streaming system will be the standard of choice … Read More
Motorola Dubs iPad a “Giant iPhone” in Video for New Tablet
In a teaser trailer for its upcoming tablet, Motorola brandishes Apple iPad “like a giant iPhone,” as if that’s some kind of insult to Apple’s hugely successful tablet. The video, titled ‘Tablet Evolution,’ also pokes fun at the Samsung Galaxy Tab for running a version of Android designed “for a phone.” The video is admittedly rather clever, and a little … Read More
Nexus S Reviews
Since Google announced the Samsung-made Nexus S the smartphone world has been waiting with baited breath to find out whether the ‘S’ will be the new Android king or just another carbon-copy handset. Having read the lengthy and characteristically well-written review over at Engadget I think it’s fair to say Samsung’s Nexus S will be the must have handset for … Read More
HP Updates Firmware of Six New Printers To Add AirPrint Support
After Apple included AirPrint functionality in iOS 4.2 the world, well a couple of people, scrambled to buy one of the few HP printers that support the feature. But good news – now six more printers have joined the fun thanks to new firmware updates pushed out recently by HP. The printers now AirPrint enabled are: – Officejet 6500A e-AiO5 … Read More
Google Instant for iOS Now Available Worldwide
Google’s Instant Search is now available on iOS devices worldwide after being initially limited to the United States and a few more lucky countries. Instant is one of the many features Google has implemented over the last couple of years aimed at speeding up the world of search and works by populating your search results as you continue to type … Read More
Acer to gain largest global market share for tablet PCs in 2-3 years, says CEO
It seems everyone wants a piece of the growing tablet market, and Acer is no different. At a press conference in New York, the technology hardware company spoke of its plans for tablet devices and the expectation that it will become the market leader in 2 to 3 years. That’s right folks, you read that correctly. This little tidbit came … Read More
10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab Prototype Panel?
One of the main complaints about Samsung’s Galaxy tab is that it just isn’t big enough. Weighing in at 7″, a full 2.7″ fewer than Apple’s iPad, many feel the screen just doesn’t provide enough real estate for anything other than blown-up phone apps. But how about a 10.1″ version? Over at the FPD International Trade Show in Japan, Samsung … Read More
RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry PlayBook To Be Priced Under $500?
RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) saw its share price rise on the back of some promising news about the expected retail price of its upcoming iPad competitor, the BlackBerry PlayBook. CEO Jim Balsillie claims the 7″ tablet will sell for ‘under $500′, Bloomberg’s Businessweek reported yesterday. Expected to be released in the first quarter of 2011, PlayBook is being touted as the first business … Read More
Photoshop Companion Apps Coming to Apple’s iPhone and iPad
At last week’s Adobe MAX conference, the Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch demoed the company’s content-aware fill tool running on a Samsung Galaxy Tab, and a color-mixing paint palette application running on Apple’s iPad, revealing Adobe’s intentions to enhance the functionality of their Photoshop application with touchscreen tablet devices. Adobe has been contemplating how they can provide Photoshop users … Read More
Convert Adobe Flash File to HTML5 [Sneak Peek]
It’s no secret that Steve Jobs is on a personal mission to rid the world of Adobe’s Flash and has gone so far as to not support the software language at all on Apple’s iOS devices. With that in mind it’s interesting to read that Adobe’s John Nack is drawing attention to a demo from Adobe’s MAX 2010 conference of a … Read More
Sony PSP phone – Specs and Photos [PlayStation]
The PSP Phone took one step closer to reality recently when Engadget posted photos of what appears to be an early prototype of a Sony Ericsson handset featuring PSP-style controls. Rumors of a PSP branded phone have been around for a while, and given these new photos it looks like most of them were true. Key hardware specs are fairly … Read More
Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0 announced
One of the down sides to announcing a new handset and OS revision the day before a major Apple announcement is it tends to get forgotten in all the shiny goodness from Cupertino. As if to prove that point, Palm (or HP, depending on how you look at it) told the world it can expect an update to webOS and … Read More
BlackBerry PlayBook 64GB model and 5,300mAh battery confirmed
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie gave in some more details on the smartphone giant’s upcoming tablet at Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (or GITEX) this week, and one in particular caught everyone’s eye. Ever since RIM announced it was entering into the tablet market (is it really a market when there’s only one real device out there?) the lack of any mention … Read More
Atomic Tom performs live on their iPhones
PR’s a wonderful thing, especially if you’re a local band wanting some free publicity. What’s the best way to get free publicity? Well, getting half the world’s top tech blogs to post about you works, and that’s what Atomic Tom managed to do with a supposedly impromptu performance aboard a New York train. The tech angle? How about the whole … Read More