iPhone 5S, 5C Leaks: Getting Parts On Alibaba Doesn’t Make You Connected To Apple
The Internet has been taken by storm the last couple weeks. Every tech blog on the planet has been providing high resolutions photos of the...
The Samsung Smartwatch is Exactly What You Think It Is
Some things are just too predictable. When rumours were flying earlier this year about Apple’s mythical smartwatch, Samsung went on the record as saying they were...
It’s Not How Many Knobs You Can Twist, It’s The Why Of It All
We all love technology; we love what it can help us accomplish and we love the promise of what it will do for us in...
Apple Financial Follies, And Idiots
Apple reported its third quarter financial results recently and, as usual, they were all bad. That is, according to the usual suspects for whom anything...
An Inventor’s Paradise: Touring The Offices At Quirky
As a Macgasm reader, you’re probably very familiar with the iPhone accessory Mophie. The company was founded by Ben Kaufman and acquired by mStation in...
iOS 7 Impressions — From My Wife
I took the plunge last week and installed iOS 7 on my iPhone 5. Despite all the very good advice to not mess around with...
A Tribe Called Detest
Technology is a funny thing. Despite the traditional geek following, the world of tech has developed a tribal nature much like the testosterone-fuelled domain of...
Thoughts On iOS 7 “Why Wasn’t I Consulted?” Edition
For years, we were told iOS was “stale” and “boring” when compared to the futuristic and convoluted feature-rich Android interface. Green felt was bad and...
Connectivity, Not Skeuomorphism, Is iOS’s Real Problem
Much digital ink has been spilled, servers burned out discussing what is wrong with iOS. Of course such a discussion ignores the fact that iOS...
How To Numb the Pain Of The Apple Waiting Game
Two hundred and ten days, 22 hours, 33 minutes and 22 seconds No that’s not how long since the last Fast and the Furious sequel,...
Interview With Realmac Software’s Dan Counsell
I’ve had a long relationship with Realmac Software, and their applications. The first time I came across one of their products with Little Snapper, which...
This Week in “Nerds Ruin Everything”: iOS Concepts
Let’s pretend the Internet is a nice place and people are inherently good to one another (please stop laughing). Would it be wrong to assume,...
Apple’s Aged iOS Apps Tell The Whole Story
Something is wrong with my homescreen. No it’s not cracked or sporting some godawful wallpaper, it has been overrun by third-party apps. So why is...
15 Great iOS Apps For Budding Bloggers And Journalists
From the fully-fledged reporter at a top newspaper to the citizen journalist or revered blogger, getting the news across to your online audience in a...
Just How Did Apple “Journalism” Get This Bad?
I swore that I wouldn’t write stuff like this. “No, Ian”, I said, “skewering the stupid is pointless. You only end up bitter and twisted...
Some Thoughts On The iPhone 5S, 6, Or Whatever You Want To Call It
It’s that time of year again. Digitimes rumors are in full swing, everyone’s playing we got the rumor first, and the rest of us are...
I Want My iCloud
If you needed further proof Apple is a hardware company first and a software company second, look no further than its Internet-based syncing platform, iCloud....
Apple’s Polarizing New iPhone Page Gets A Bit Lippy, Tells A New Story
Apple rolled out a new iPhone 5 page on its website this weekend, and the results have polarized a few people. On the one hand,...