Social networking has brought us our friends and family much closer, but has brought other issues. Apart from enabling you to see what your friends have been up to from day-to-day (and some people love this) and feeling somewhat obliged to keep up, the biggest issue is that one friend may be using Facebook, whereas [...]

by Robert Palmer on Nov 11th, 2008 A cheery little dialog box informed me just a few minutes ago that Coda 1.6 is available from the fine folks at Panic. Coda is a one-window web-development and editing environment that is one of my favorite apps, and one that we’ve covered here before. Coda 1.6 introduces [...]

The team over at Pixelmator has announced the release of their much-awaited 1.3 version, which they’ve titled Tempo. TUAW did a preview of this version a while ago — it features lots of back-end updates, making the app itself much, much faster, especially when handling large images. And it brings to the table a few [...]

by Christina Warren on Nov 11th, 2008 Virtualization vendor Parallels has just released Parallels Desktop 4.0 for the Mac. Parallels Desktop is designed to let users run Windows (or Linux) on your Intel Mac within OS X. The newest version of Parallels Desktop boasts better performance (Parallels is claiming a 50% increase over Parallels Desktop [...]

Multimedia becomes a standard in today’s computing, with personal computers or handhelds. The main problems of multimedia are: real-time processing, and big data! Processor’s speed is getting faster and faster by the day, so the “real-time processing” demand is not a problem anymore. The big data is just a little problem with today’s storage media. [...]