HDR Comparisons

I played around with the new HDR feature on my iPhone yesterday with some mixed results. Ultimately, this comes down to the advantages and disadvantages of the technology, but overall, I’m pretty pleased. First, HDR is best in high-contrast situations, such as the images here. Pictured is Scrappy, my dachshund, without HDR below, and with above….

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5 Engineering Practices Projected to Change iOS App Development in 2020

There are several engineering practices projected to change iOS app development in 2020. Apple has recently announced a line of new technologies to help millions of iOS developers build applications. With the application development market growing in part due to COVID-19, major industry leaders are looking to improve program developer technologies. Currently, Apple is introducing…

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RUMOR: iChat 4 w/ Voicemail

A trusted source has provided TUAW with the exclusive news that iChat 4.0 will have voicemail. The screenshot provided to TUAW shows an Answering Tab that reveals the voicemail options in the new version of the program.Now, these days even a screenshot isn’t absolute proof, so this is still a rumor, but Voicemail makes sense…

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OSX Quick Tip: Back-up your Mail with Automator

Today’s Quick Tip comes from macosxhints.com.  This simple Automator workflow will back up all of your Mail for you 1. Start Automator 2. Drag drop ~/Library » Preferences » com.apple.mail.plist and ~/Library » Mail into the Automator panel. This will automatically create an Automator action (Get Specified Finder Items) containing the two items you dropped….

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