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Apple Announces a Wave of New Products

Yesterday Apple announced a wave of new products, not just new iPhones, but a new iPad as well and a major upgrade to Apple TV. iPhone 6s and 6s Plus introduce a new dimension, literally, with the new 3D Touch. These devices sense not just where you place your fingers on the display, but also how hard […]

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Plenty for Developers to Play With at WWDC 2015

Apple’s Wordwide Developers Conference, WWDC, kicked off yesterday in San Francisco with a raft of announcements about products and platforms we’re likely to see in the months ahead. As well as new versions of OSX (El Capitan) and iOS (9.0), and split-screen multitasking on the iPad, there’s also an SDK for developing native apps on which run […]

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Clever Irish Kickstarter Raises Laptops and Tablets to a Comfortable Working Position [Video]

Check out this great idea currently on Kickstarter, by Dublin designer Steve Killian. Like many great inventions, it started with a personal ‘itch’. Using a clever yet simple geometric design, this convenient stand supports a range of laptops and tablets, raising them to a comfortable elevation, for best results when working with an external keyboard. The […]

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New Irish App ‘Sculpts with Sound’, Turns Your Tablet into a Musical Instrument

Here’s a preview of a new App launching in a couple of weeks which turns your tablet into an expressive musical instrument. [youtube]http://youtu.be/IE4qdOk2les[/youtube]   Intunative is the first product from Surface Tension, a spin out from NUI Maynooth, founded by Music Technology graduates Simon Kenny and Patrick McGlynn. They used the prize money from the University’s annual Student […]

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Apple Most Phished Brand Says APWG

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released their Global Phishing Survey for the first 6 months of 2014 (PDF). According to their research Apple is the most phished brand on the ‘net: Apple’s brand and associated marques, such as iTunes and iPad, eclipsed perennial phishing target favorite PayPal with the computing device manufacturer enduring 21,951 of […]

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IKEA parodies Apple with a ‘Holmes-Ginsbook Device’

Here’s a funny video from IKEA, introducing “a device so simple and intuitive, using it feels almost familiar”. The “device”? The IKEA catalogue. It comes with no cables and “eternal” battery life. The navigation is based on “tactile touch technology”- and there’s no lag. “Each crystal-clear page loads instantaneously, no matter how fast you scroll”. Isaac […]

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