Exclusive: building native iOS apps with RubyMotion
The RubyMotion toolchain allows developers to build native iOS apps with Ruby.
Feature: 1859′s “Great Auroral Storm”—the week the Sun touched the earth
Noon approached on September 1, 1859, and British astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington was busy with his favorite pastime: tracking sunspots, those huge regions of the star darkened by shifts in its...
1859′s "Great Auroral Storm"—the week the Sun touched the earth
Accounts of the largest electromagnetic storm ever recorded.
The Great Ars Cloud office suite shootout
Can any cloud office suite really compete with Microsoft Office?
Bandwidth explosion: As Internet use soars, can bottlenecks be averted?
Bandwidth usage is soaring, driven by the proliferation of Internet-connected devices.
Feature: “Free babysitting”: how would-be pedophiles use Craigslist—and how they get caught
Craigslist classified ads may have kneecapped the newspaper business, but they are doing wonders for amateur comedians, finders of false teeth, and fashioners of crucifix-shaped guitars played by men dressed as...
How would-be pedophiles use Craigslist—and how they get caught
"Free babysitting"? Those crazy ads on Craigslist aren't all jokes.
Rumor Roundup Episode 2: Is Apple doomed or not? Make up your minds!
This past week was relatively quiet as far as Apple-related rumors go. In the wake of Apple's latest quarterly earnings release, it seems there was enough real news to keep everyone occupied that Apple "analysts" didn't have to go around making thing...
The road to OS Xi: Where iOS and OS X suffer a teleporter accident and merge
Remember The Fly? That's the one where Jeff Goldblum tries to teleport but instead gets his genes all mixed up with a fly.
"[T]he Telepod computer, confused by the presence of two separate life-forms in the sending pod, merged him with the fly ...
Feature: Does "Mastered for iTunes" matter to music? Ars puts it to the test
Apple's push to increase the quality of songs distributed via iTunes has been formally realized in the company's Mastered for iTunes program—but does it really make music sound better?
After our original...
Does "Mastered for iTunes" matter to music? Ars puts it to the test
The sound may be sweetest to the most emotional listeners.
Newer Technology Guardian MAXimus mini portable RAID solution
Newer Technology produces a wide variety of storage solutions for the Mac OS X world, and one new product is sure to be popular with anyone who needs the security of RAID storage in a portable package. The Guardian MAXimus mini is a rugged pint-si...
