A feature that hasn’t been talked about in rumours or when showcasing supposedly leaked components of the upcoming iPad that will almost certainly be introduced tomorrow is a feature of the iPhone 4’s display: Optical lamination. This refers to the process of binding the cover glass to the display itself by ... more

Macrumors is reporting that with the exception of a few Apple Stores, the stock of Apple TVs in U.S. Apple Retail Stores seems to be depleted, lending credence to the rumours of a new Apple TV to be presented alongside the new iPad tomorrow morning. Speculation regarding the features of an ... more

Just a quick heads-up for fans of Fishlabs’s space RPG “Galaxy on Fire 2”. The Valkyrie expansion pack, which has been available for the standard definition version on iOS for a while, will be released for the HD version of the game on Thursday, March 8th. Valkyrie adds a new ... more

Are you fed-up with Google? Do you hate it that for most search terms the first two pages of results are nothing but useless ads that have almost nothing to do with your original search term? Do you have enough of Google’s “Don’t be evil” bullshit? Do you think ... more

For those who don’t know, WebKit is today’s predominant layout engine, used by the major web browsers on almost all platforms. Examples are Safari on OS X, Windows and iOS, or Google Chrome on OS X, Windows, Linux, Android, to name only a few (1). Contrary to ... more

If you’re like us, iCal is constantly running on your Mac. Lion brought a few changes to iCal, mostly in terms of looks. Not getting into the debate whether the skeuomorphic design approach is good or not, we’d like to show you a nice tweak to iCal’s week view: Sometimes ... more

Amazon is directly targeting Apple’s iPad 2 with its latest Kindle ad. The main argument? Price. The ad goes like this: A man walks alongside a pool in a nice summer holiday vacation setting. He’s desperately trying to make out things on the display of his tablet, shielding it from the ... more

Every couple of months articles crop up on the Internet calling Apple’s ecosystem a "walled garden" or a "golden cage" (1, 2, 3). These articles usually try to convince the reader that Apple has lured users into a trap using design/popularity/marketing, shut the door behind them ... more

Twitter has this nice feature, a way to mark certain tweets as favourites, but besides being an easy way to tell yourself that this tweet was really funny, it can be used in many helpful ways. If you’re like me, you tend to use the feature to also bookmark tweets ... more

Today, a German appeals court upheld a decision by a lower court to continue the ban of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablets, FOSS Patents reports. The original injunction by the Düsseldorf Regional Court was based on a so called 'community design' violation (equivalent to a U.S. ... more

Ladies and gentlemen, we have something very special in store for you today, so grab a beverage and sit down, because otherwise you might just miss the deal of the still very young year. Do you sometimes feel the need to run a piece of Windows software, or do you ... more

For those of us who speak more than one language, writing in iOS can be somewhat annoying. To make use of features like the built-in autocorrect functionality, we need to switch between languages on the iOS keyboard (1). On the Mac this “problem” has been solved — ... more