Wondering what is the differences among the digital image formats? Some of the more common ones are GIF (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format) and JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF Format) .Wherever available choose the “RAW” option when taking photographs with a digital camera because RAW is a virtually lossless, unprocessed capture of data from the [...]

You might think app design is the same, whether the software is being developed for iOS or Android. But creating highly polished, elegant-looking apps is simply easier to do when developing for iOS. That’s the prevailing conventional wisdom among developers who code for both platforms.Design is built into Apple’s DNA. Google’s legacy, on the other [...]

The very nature of mobile-sharing apps has changed the types of imagery that people upload. There is also an added on-the-move life-streaming nature to the whole thing. Photos found on the flowing Instagram news feed don’t look like the ones on Flickr.Instagram is a community conducive to likes and comments, whereas Flickr focuses more on [...]

A hacker with the handle “Hardcore Charlie” has stolen source code for VMware’s ESX hypervisor and posted it on the Internet.A hypervisor provides a virtualization layer between operating systems and the underlying hardware, creating a virtual machine. This lets users run multiple virtual machines on one processor. Hypervisors are key to virtualization and cloud computing.Hardcore [...]

One of the worst-kept secrets in the technology space- Google Drive, is finally here — live and yours to explore.But if you’re already using a cloud service, or maybe even a couple of services the question undoubtedly arises, Do you really need another cloud platform? This question gets more complicated when you consider that Google [...]

Bowel Mover Pro ($0.99 iPhone/iPad) Aficionados of the long-running sitcom Scrubs will know this one essential fact: Everything comes down to poo. Really. Tracking your bowel movements is apparently a great way to monitor your health on a day-to-day basis. This app will help you track what you ate and how it turned into a [...]

We’re all familiar with Apple’s love affair for thin devices. Although the third-generation iPad surprised many by gaining about half a millimeter of thickness, it looks like Apple could be back to trimming product dimensions by using a new kind of display technology in the next iPhone.Instead of using a display comprising a number of [...]

20th April 1964: Bell’s Picturephone service dials up the world’s first videophone call, and the New York World Fair’s science consultant William L. Laurence gets some face time with Anaheim Bulletin managing editor Donald Shaffer at Disneyland. The video chat was part of a large public demonstration at the World’s Fair that included seven calling [...]

According to Korea IT News Apple will use Liquidmetal for the casing of the iPhone 5, which will be launched in June.Liquidmetal is the commercial name of an amorphous metal alloy developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and marketed by a company they set up called Liquidmetal Technologies.The alloy’s been used in [...]

Apple posted a job listing for a “Computer Vision specialist,” the tech-obsessed chamber began speculating which Apple product line would be employing this person’s expertise also the job posting made frequent reference to 3-D: “3-D geometry,” “3-D reconstruction” and “cameras and surfaces in a 3-D environment.”  Apple could be delving into applications as familiar as [...]