Apple is on a rise. The company enjoyed an incredible growth in the past decade, climbing up from being nearly dead to eventually become the rising star of the tech industry that it is today. For me as an Apple-enthousiast, this is a good thing. The more people who jump on the Apple bandwagon (either [...]
Archive for October, 2008
There is only one Apple, and why this is so hard for some to acknowledge
Posted in Mac, tagged marketing on Thursday October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
iPhone evolution and how to avoid the Android problem
Posted in iPhone, tagged Android, iPod nano, SDK on Tuesday October 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the reasons for the iPhone to be such a well functioning and exceptionally usabale device lies in the fact that, completely in Apple fashion, both hardware and software are made by the same company. This way, the hardware engineers were completely aware of how the software would function, and the software engineers fully [...]
Apple to embrace DisplayPort, now what?
Posted in Mac, tagged Cinema Display, DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI on Thursday October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With the introduction of the new gorgeous “unibody” all aluminum 13″ and 15″ MacBooks, Apple made the move to DisplayPort in favour of DVI. What gives? Despite the generic sounding name, DisplayPort is a new standardized connector and protocol designed to connect computers to digital displays. It was developed by VESA, a group of companies [...]
YouTube higher quality video and stereo sound
Posted in Web, tagged H.264, YouTube on Tuesday October 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As you might be aware, videos uploaded to YouTube are usually of a higher original quality than what the site shows you in the video window. Video and audio are transcoded to a low quality Flash format, resulting in a fairly low quality video and low quality mono audio. I expect YouTube made this trade-off [...]
The wide screen saga
Posted in Consumer Tech, tagged DVD, HDMI, Widescreen, Wii on Sunday October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wide screen television sets were introduced in Europe around 1992. At that time, there were hardly any wide screen broadcasts, so in order to move these new wide TV sets, manufacturers included all kinds of artificial picture scaling technologies into their products, stretching out the image just so that the screen is “filled”, and no [...]
