Tweetbot for iPad Review
Since its release two years ago, the iPad has always needed a better Twitter client. Tweetbot for iPad is the better Twitter app I have been waiting for, and it sets a new standard that future Twitter clients will have to be compared with. From a Twitter power user’s perspective, the iPad came at an...
Tweetbot 2.0 Review
How do you improve something that’s already great? You keep working on it, trying to look at your product from as many perspectives as possible. If you believe in it, you can make something great an even greater product. Last year, I reviewed Tweetbot 1.0 for iPhone, the Twitter client many of us had been...
MacBook Air, iMac, MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Updated With Internet Recovery Support for 2010 Models
Earlier today Apple published two EFI Firmware updates for its iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro lines. The updates, available through Software Update or Apple’s website, bring Lion Internet Recovery to more Mac models from 2010 — the mid 2010 iMac, late 2010 MacBook Air, and early 2010 MacBook Pro. - iMac EFI Update 1.8...
Siri Accounts for 25% Of Wolfram Alpha Queries
Siri Accounts for 25% Of Wolfram Alpha Queries Following last night’s announcement of Wolfram Alpha Pro, coming tomorrow at $4.99 per month, The New York Times’ Steve Lohr reported in his piece about Siri’s integration with the service. Apple’s voice-based assistant accounts for 25% of all Wolfram Alpha searches four months after the launch of...
Wolfram Alpha Launching $4.99 A Month “Pro” Service This Week
Wolfram Alpha Launching $4.99 A Month “Pro” Service This Week Knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha is one of our favorite web tools here at MacStories. We use it on a daily basis to look up all kinds of information — from stock prices to a specific country’s population and growth of a company over time — and...
Why Apple’s A5 Is So Big, And Siri Is 4S-only
Why Apple’s A5 Is So Big, And Siri Is 4S-only Stephen Shankland at CNET reports on a possible explanation as to why Apple decided to make Siri an iPhone 4S exclusive: Apple’s A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience, and a chip analyst believes that fact resolves an iPhone 4S mystery...
