Posted: September 7th, 2011 | Author: Akmal
HTC is suing Apple for patents which were bought by Google from several companies and transferred to HTC on September 1st.
“Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation.”
This was just over a month ago when David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer at Google took on defensive crying about companies like Apple, Microsoft and RIM acquiring auctioned patents for the sole purpose of hurting Android.
“Don’t be evil” my arse.
Posted: September 2nd, 2011 | Author: Akmal
In Mac OSX lion holding a keyboard key reveals a contextual menu allowing you to choose different variations of the character. This happens to be a major annoyance for me since I don’t really use that feature. So here is how you can disable it using a terminal command if you decide to revert back the typical performance of repeating characters while you’re holding the key.
Just run the Terminal.app and enter the following command.
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
This will disable Lion’s contextual pop up menu when you long hold a key for repeating characters.
Posted: September 13th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
A great collection of widescreen wallpapers. If you want to download the whole collection at once, click here.
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Posted: September 10th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
Imgup is a nice little free utility that will set in your Mac OS X menubar. You can quickly drag and drop your images or screenshots and it will automatically upload them to Imgur, a very popular image sharing site.
Once the upload is complete, it will place the shortened URL in your clipboard.
Posted: September 10th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
Wonder how HDR video looks like? The video below will show you how. It’s taken with two Canon 5D mark II DSLRs.
HDR is a technique where two cameras are configured to record different exposure values. One overexposed and one underexposed. After the footage is recorded, the clips are combined using various HDR processing tools which yields astonishing results.
Watch in HD and full screen.
Posted: September 9th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
In a complete 180 degree turn today, Apple announced today that they will be allowing 3rd party app development tools like Flash on iOS going forward. Obviously this is most surprising to Adobe. So they have responded:
Apple’s announcement today that it has lifted restrictions on its third-party developer guidelines has direct implications for Adobe’s Packager for iPhone, a feature in the Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool. This feature was created to enable Flash developers to quickly and easily deliver applications for iOS devices. The feature is available for developers to use today in Flash Professional CS5, and we will now resume development work on this feature for future releases.
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Posted: September 9th, 2010 | Author: Akmal
Not too long ago we reported about a spam clickjacking the Facebook “Like” button. The spammer used a genius technique of hiding the “Like” button behind a line of text that uninformed users would mistake for a normal link. By doing so the users unknowingly “Liked” the spam page.
Another round of similar scam has been spreading virally over Facebook. When clicked, users are tricked by a warning message claiming the page they are about to access contains content “inappropriate for some users” and that it “may contain shocking graphics, nudity or disrespect other individuals.” The warning message is designed to look like an official warning from Facebook.
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