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( Back to Top ) Fight at Mandarin Large Faculty
Tue, Nov 22 @ 9:18 AM
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DayOne Mandarin: Just Sufficient Mandarin for Your First Day in Shanghai- Discover Mandarin
Mon, Nov 21 @ 11:24 PM
DayOne Mandarin is a free of charge online studying session combining video tutorials with an array of interactive workouts designed to instruct end users what they need to have to communicate on the first day in China. Information: one. I can rap Busta Rhyme's verse in Search at Me Now. 2. Odontophobia is the fear [...]
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( Back to Top ) The Lifer: The Future of ARM
Tue, Nov 22 @ 9:46 AM
The brains behind Apple's processors are busy building better chips. Rik Myslewski takes a look at what they're up to and what it might mean for your favorite Apple products.The smartypants who design the brains inside each of Apple's iOS devices--the iPhone, iPad, iPhone touch, and Apple TV--have announced a new processor scheme with far-reaching implications not only for Apple's überpopular consumer lineup, but for MacBooks, as well. And those designers aren't Cupertinians.I know, I know--Apple crows that they design the processors in those devices. They're not lying, but they are stretching the truth a wee bit. Each iDevice's cerebrum was designed by ARM Holdings, a company in Cambridge, England. Apple licensed ARM's designs, along with graphics-core designs from another British firm, Imagination Technologies, to build its A4 and A5 processors.Warning: I'm about to overuse the letter "A" for a bit. Apple's A4 uses a compute core called the ARM Cortex-A8, which first appeared in the original iPad, then migrated to the iPhone 4, iPod touch, and Apple TV. Apple's A5 uses the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, which debuted in the iPad 2 and has since spread to the iPhone 4S.ARM compute cores dominate the mobile market, powering nearly every smartphone on the planet, as well as such iPad competitors as the Motorola Xoom, BlackBerry PlayBook, and Samsung Galaxy Tab. And now ARM has introduced a new low-power core, the Cortex-A7 MPCore, and will marry it with its soon-to appear high-end core, the A15, into a single design that it has dubbed big.LITTLE.Trust me, this is important. The A15 is a muscular design, able to take care of such demanding tasks as video encoding and decoding, complex gaming, and multiprocessing, all without breaking a sweat. Unfortunately, though, its oomph-producing chippery requires a lot of transistors. The more transistors, the more juice a chip needs, and the more juice it needs, the shorter its battery life.The fruits of ARM's recent efforts won't be seen in the immediate future, but hopefully before we get close to the A14.Enter the tiny new A7 core. This li'l baby requires a tiny fraction of the A15's juice, but it's more than capable of handling such mundane tasks as email, updating your Facebook page, making phone calls, and Tweeting your dinner plans to your 13 followers.With big.LITTLE, ARM has put both the A7 and the A15 onto the same chip, and has tweaked that design so that a device's operating system doesn't need to know which core is doing what when. The big.LITTLE system will look at a task that iOS sends it, and if the power-hungry A15 cores are needed--both the A7 and A15 can have up to four cores, by the way--they'll be fired up. If not, the task will be handed to the A7 cores, and humongous amounts of battery juice will be saved. It's the Prius of processors.This mash-up won't find its way into the market until 2013, so don't look for it in Apple's A6 or A7--A14, anyone? And don't expect it to appear only in iPhones and iPads. Apple has been widely rumored to be toying with a MacBook Air follow-on that won't run Mac OS X, but iOS. A big.LITTLE processor would be a natural for such a device.Remember, iOS is based on Mac OS X. I'd be willing to bet that somewhere at One Infinite Loop, some top-flight Apple techies are running a version of Mac OS X on the ARM architecture at this very minute. After all, every version of Mac OS X was ported to the Intel architecture well before Steve Jobs announced the move from PowerPC to Intel in 2005.If only we could get ARM to change the dumb name of its new scheme: big.LITTLE. Honestly.--Since the late 1980s, Rik Myslewski has paid his rent by keeping an eye on Apple. He was editor-in-chief of MacAddict from 2001 until its transformation into Mac|Life in early 2007, and is now a member of the snarkily sophisticated team at London's The Register, which is "biting the hand that feeds IT" daily at www.theregister.co.uk.
Monsters Ate My Condo Review
Tue, Nov 22 @ 6:14 AM
It took me at least 40 minutes to figure out what the hell was happening on-screen when I started playing Monsters Ate My Condo. It's not that this match-three puzzle game is all that difficult to understand. And it isn't the frenetic pacing, nor the panic found when you can't balance your way out of a seismically unstable stack of blocky domiciles.My bewilderment was mostly a result of the colorful sensory-overload madness of it all, as flashing lights, combo meters, and animated text chaotically cluttered the screen. The obvious Japanese pop-cultural associations are alive and well here, aped by a New Zealand developer to utterly psychotic perfection.Monsters Ate My Condo is a very hard game to put down. The idea is simple: two colored monsters flank either side of a stack of randomly-selected condos -- and they must be fed. Feed a condo to a monster that corresponds to its color and your score goes up. Monsters can eat other colored buildings as well, but after so many wrong matches, the Godzilla-like beasts throw a fit that'll rock the foundation of your condo structure. Matching three starts a combo chain, but sudden movements, bombs, or any other disturbance that knocks your structure over ends the game. It's like Tetris meets Jenga, only with cartoony, 50-story-tall mutants.Outside of basic game mechanics, though, the insanity also adds its own addictive charm. Condo blocks are affected by individual physics, which can make the fast pace rather manic; and the monsters are well animated, with goofy personalities and an aesthetic that resembles a theoretical pairing of Peggle and the artwork of Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky.The bottom line. The ridiculously busy visual nonsense is reason enough to keep playing -- but then there's a great puzzle game underneath. Monsters Ate my Condo is Adult Swim's best game yet.Review Synopsis Product: Monsters Ate My Condo 1.1.1 Company: Adult Swim Contact: http://games.adultswim.com Price: <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=ApuPaiKIpxg&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fmonsters-ate-my-condo%252Fid459489208%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">$0.99</a> Requirements: iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or later Positives: Fantastic visual design, music, and personality. Highly addictive gameplay. Negatives: Breakneck pace can be difficult to keep up with. Only two modes of play. Score: 4.5 Excellent
iHome iW1 Speaker Dock Review
Tue, Nov 22 @ 8:20 AM
Party on!Imagine every feature you could ever want from an iPod dock. Go on, make a list. Ours includes AirPlay, solid sound quality, an iPod charging dock, and a reasonable price tag. This is good news for the iW1, which includes all these features and a boatload of others we didn't even know we wanted.iHome's new flagship AirPlay speaker comes packing touch capacitive controls, a remote control so you never have to use the touch capacitive controls, and an app for your iOS device so you never have to use the remote. Sure, it's redundant, but certain settings—like shuffle, mute, and a toggle for the all-important Bongiovi Acoustic mode (which aims to equalize the music so that vocals truly shine)—can only be accessed by remote or app. We found that most music did in fact sound better with the Bongiovi Acoustics switched on (which is enabled by default). Many songs sounded flat after turning it off, but you can also perfect the iW1's sound with bass and treble controls. The iHome sounds great at midlevel volume, but crackles a tad on full tilt. AirPlay works, but reliability depends largely on your Wi-Fi network, and there is a bit of latency between button presses. However, its convenience far outweighs these minor quirks. In more ways than one, the iW1 is the boom box of a new generation. It sits on a charging pad so it never has to be unplugged from that hard-to-reach outlet when you decide to carry it around—a feat that's easily accomplished due to the lightweight 6lb body and carrying handle. Even though AirPlay won't work without Wi-Fi, you can easily plug your iOS device into the USB port on the iW1's back and rock out in the park. The bottom line. The iW1 is a good mid-priced AirPlay option. The remote, app, and rechargeable battery make it ultra-convenient to use in a wide variety of situations—and it's got great sound to boot.Review Synopsis Product: iHome iW1 Speaker Dock Company: iHome Contact: iHomeAudio.com Price: $299.99 Requirements: AirPlay-enabled device Positives: Big sound. Rechargeable battery. Works with AirPlay. Can charge your iPhone. Negatives: Touch capacitive plastic top is a smudge factory. USB input doesn't charge iPads. Bass is a bit flat. Score: 4.5 Excellent
Cards Review
Mon, Nov 21 @ 12:59 PM
Introduced alongside iOS 5, Cards allows users to produce and mail made-to-order letterpress greeting cards with nothing more than an iPhone or iPod touch. Sounds pretty slick right? Well, it would be – if it weren't so rough around the edges. Unfortunately, from start to finish, Cards feels only a little better than half-baked, and that's more than a shade shy of what we've come to expect from Apple.Opening up Cards, users are greeted by a Cover Flow style interface featuring the greeting card templates available for use. The templates are organized by occasion: Thank You, Holiday, Baby, Birthday, Love, or Travel. While this sounds smart in theory, flicking through them tuned us into the fact that there weren't that many stylistic options to choose from, especially when compared against the greeting card offerings available in Postage on iPhone or via iPhoto on Mac. What's more, many of the templates are duplicated in each category. When it comes to Apple – a company that prides itself on providing a superior user experience possible – I expect more than this.Slick letterpress cards can be created and ordered in a snap.Once they've settled on a template, users are invited to choose an image from their camera roll or photostream, or to take a photograph for use on their card's front cover. Next on tap is entering a message, and with all of the text on the Cards templates I tinkered with being editable, I couldn't help but wonder: If this is the case, why bother duplicating the same template over so many different categories? We found text entry, while easy to type, was frustrating to view. In order to see the message you're typing in its entirety, you're either forced to pan and swipe around the text field with your fingers, or apply the text and then attempt to read it at a near-microscopic size.One thing Apple did get right is how the physical cards are sent out. Simply enter your recipient's street address into the application, or select one from your iPhone's Contacts app, and the actual printing and mailing is handled for you. Cards sent within the United States will set you back $2.99, with cards sent outside of the U.S.A (as well as those sent by international users of the app) priced at $4.99 – a pretty reasonable price when you consider the cost of picking up a greeting card at the supermarket.If only Cards was universal – we might be able to see all the text on an iPad without squinting.Unfortunately, unlike other in-app purchases, the cost of the greeting card and its associated postage can only be paid with a credit card. There's no doubt that this will be a deal breaker for individuals who prefer to make their app-related purchases with iTunes gift cards.The bottom line. We hate to say it, but Cards feels rushed – an unpolished product that was pushed out the door in order to launch alongside iOS 5. While the app does make it possible to create and send a letterpress card using nothing more than your iPhone, its poor selection of templates, frustrating interface, and credit card-only purchase option make it difficult to recommend at present.Review Synopsis Product: Cards 1.0 Company: Apple Contact: apple.com Price: <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=ApuPaiKIpxg&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fcards%252Fid464957209%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30" target="itunes_store">Free</a> Requirements: iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 5.0 or later Positives: Lets you create and send personalized, made-to-order greeting cards. Physical cards sent directly to recipients by Apple. Negatives: Disappointing selection of card templates. In-app purchases can only be made with credit card. User experience feels less polished than expected. Score: 2.5 Okay
10 Apps to Help Enhance Your Thanksgiving
Mon, Nov 21 @ 3:31 PM
Every family has its customary way to celebrate Thanksgiving, but every now and then, those practices can benefit from some updates. While you may never get your uncle to pay attention while the game is on -- or your grandmother to stop pinching your cheeks -- it's easy for owners of iOS devices to bring some modern flair to classic Turkey Day traditions. Whether you require some help in the kitchen, need to keep the kids entertained, or just want some talking points to pull your family out of that awkward political conversation, here's a list of apps to help you enhance (and survive) Thanksgiving.
Monday Recap: Google Search, Spotify's New Direction, Grand Central Rumors
Mon, Nov 21 @ 4:06 PM
We've got three words for you today: Short work week! For our U.S. readers, Thanksgiving is this Thursday and many folks have an extra day off on Friday, which means you'll have a longer weekend at play than you will working three days this week. (Our apologies to those of you who don't get to enjoy that scenario. We feel your pain.) But there's still plenty of news floating around the interwebs, and we've collected some of the best stuff for you to read on this fine Monday, November 21, 2011.Report: Grand Central Apple Store Could Open This WeekRetailers are amped up for Black Friday this week here in the U.S., and 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple may also get in the holiday spirit by opening its biggest store to date in New York City's Grand Central Station. According to their sources and some on-site spy photos, Apple could officially announce the opening of the store on Tuesday and pull back the curtains in time for Black Friday shopping on November 25. The site is expected to have just over 300 employees (!!), who are currently being trained at New York area Apple Stores. Grand Central Station receives a whopping 750,000 visitors every single day and more than a million during the holidays, so it's safe to say that this Apple Store could be the mother of them all.Google Search iOS App Gets New iPad LookThe Google Mobile Blog announced an update to the iOS Google Search app today, which specifically targets the iPad user interface for "a significant redesign." The app is now more interactive, more visual and easier than ever before to find exactly what you're looking for. Images can be viewed full-screen and the app includes a new visual search history as well as easy access to other Google apps. The 11.9MB update is available now for users running iOS 4.0 or later -- which should really be most of us by now.Spotify Heading In "New Direction" with November 30 Press EventWe love us some Spotify here at MacLife.com, which is why we're excited to see what they'll do next after finally landing on American shores over the summer. As it turns out, we won't have long to wait: AllThingsD is reporting that the company has sent out a "mysterioso invitation" for a press event in New York on November 30 with CEO Daniel Elk and "a special guest or two." So what's the topic? No one knows for sure, but Spotify is teasing "a new direction for the company," which sounds like a bit more than adding an MP3 store (which is already available in Europe) or a much-needed iPad app. Mark your calendars, and check back with us next Wednesday for all the details.Don't Expect iOS 5.0.2 This Week -- Assuming You Were In the First PlaceDespite no official word from Apple that a new iOS 5 fix would be released this week, German-language site Macerkopf.de is backpedaling on an earlier report claiming that would be the case. According to AppleInsider, the website originally reported last week that iOS 5.0.2 would arrive "no later" than this week in an effort to address additional battery life issues for iPhone 4S users. The update supposedly brings 10 hours of active use for the new handset, while Apple is rumored to also be hard at work on iOS 5.1, which promises "many changes" to Siri's voice control -- but don't expect that one until sometime next year, sources claim.Stamped Gets The App Store Seal of ApprovalStill looking for the perfect social sharing app? The folks at Stamped, Inc. have released a free iPhone app that may be just the ticket. Aptly named Stamped, the app claims to be "a new way to recommend only what you like best -- restaurants, books, movies, music and more." To get started, create a profile and customize a unique "stamp," then use it on things you want friends to know about. Promising "no noise, no strangers, just the things you and your friends love," Stamped integrates with Opentable, Amazon, Fandango and iTunes and shares easily via Twitter and Facebook. The 8.5MB is free and available on the App Store now for all devices running iOS 4.0 or later (but is not a universal build for the iPad).Follow this article's author, J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter
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