Reuters reports that Sharp’s production of screens for the new iPhone is behind schedule. Sharp Corporation is one of three suppliers of the new displays. Production of Sharp Corp’s screens for Apple Inc’s latest iPhone is behind schedule as the Japanese display maker struggles with low production yields, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Friday. Reuters offers no...
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Instapaper developer Marco Arment has spotted two new iPad device codes in his logs that he believes represents the long rumored “iPad mini”. The new identifiers found were “iPad2,5″ and “iPad2,6″. As Arment notes, the iPad2,1 through iPad 2,3 designations are known to represent the iPad 2′s WiFi, GSM and CDMA models. The iPad2,4 represents a...
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Apple has quietly made some changes to iOS 6′s App Store app formatting tonight and introduced a new search results format that seem clearly inspired by Chomp. Chomp was a three-year old search and app discovery startup that was acquired by Apple earlier this year. The reason for the acquisition was reportedly to improve the App Store search and app discovery. It appears the first of...
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Adobe today provided a few more details on its plans for Retina display support on its software, noting that a Retina-compatible version of Photoshop CS6 will be arriving “this Fall”. A Retina version of Lightroom 4 will also be delivered “as soon as the work is complete”. Supporting this new technology requires significant work by our product teams and we’re committed...
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The free, open-source image editor GIMP is now available for OS X as a native application. It is available for download from Gimp.org. GIMP is a popular and fairly powerful free image editor from the linux world that is basically like a freeware version of Photoshop, complete with many of the tools used for photo retouching and image manipulation that you’d expect. It’s a great free PS...
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Earlier this week, we reported on a newly-disclosed vulnerability in Java SE 7 that could pose a risk for users on a wide variety of platforms, including OS X. While the real-world threat to Mac users stemming from the vulnerability is very low given that a Mac-specific exploit for the vulnerability has not been seen and only a small fraction of Mac users have manually installed Java SE 7, the...
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