I love my Magic Mouse. The sleek pointer has served me well under Snow Leopard, so I was expecting that my experience with it under Lion would be just as smooth. Unfortunately, as others have been finding, the mouse is annoyingly limited in Apple’s latest OS X update. Continue Reading »
For me, the worst part of the iOS experience has been web browsing with mobile Safari. Of course, web browsing on any smartphone or modern tablet is painfully slow, as no current hardware can come close to rending a webpage at the speed of a desktop processor.
Will mobile processors be able to close the gap in the next couple of years? I think most of us assume that they will, but as the web continually increases in richness and complexity, there’s no guarantee that hitting this moving target will happen in a few product cycles.
Fortunately, Opera Mini Browser offers a clever solution — one that’s almost like a cheat. The browser serves what appears to be a normally rendered webpage on your mobile device, but in fact offers a highly compressed representation of that webpage. The speed improvements are nothing short of amazing. Continue Reading »
Incase you’ve missed it, I recently reviewed a budget 15-inch notebook, the Lenovo G570; a portable audio recorder, the Tascam DR05; and a flexible tripod, the Gorillapod SLR-Zoom.
Videos after the break.
Posterization, a problem that’s commonly referred to as banding, is a major issue for many people who use iMovie. This form of artifact destroys smooth color gradients, particularly in the darker or underexposed areas of the picture.
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