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How to work through the Camera Raw dilemma

All great debates are framed by at least two compelling, often contradictory choices: Mac versus PC, Beatles versus Stones, oatmeal raisin versus...

Huffduffer saves web audio to your own podcast stream

Sometimes you want to listen to a specific episode of a podcast without subscribing to it. Sometimes you’ve been pointed to an audio file out on...

How Apple could improve typing on the iPad

When it comes to my iPad, I fear I’m like the proud-but-overbearing parent to a very talented child. I continue to be impressed by the capabilities...

Google and Adobe beautify fonts used on iOS & other operating systems

Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Unix and iOS devices may not realise it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more...

Instagram will let you tag friends in photos

Instagram is getting a little bit more like its parent company, Facebook, with a new feature that lets you tag your friends in photos. ‘Photos...

Gmail users can now automatically generate Calendar entries

Google has started rolling out a new feature in Gmail that lets users create Google Calendar entries from their email messages. Gmail now detects...

Bueng Khong Long – Marcus Hale

Companies explore self-detonating data as security control

Self-detonating data would put expiration dates on sensitive documents The popular Snapchat photo-messaging app used mainly by Android and iOS mobile...

Spotdox for Mac

I’m a huge fan of Dropbox, the online service and app that together let you keep files synchronised between multiple computers, the Dropbox website,...

Facebook Home first impressions – should iOS users care?

What is Facebook Home? Seeing as it’s Android only, you may have skipped over the numerous stories of the last couple of weeks about Facebook’s...

British university student recreates the ‘Sheldonbot’ from Big Bang Theory

A student at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has created a telepresence robot that mimics human behaviour. Known as MAKIIS, the robot...

Switch to Mac: transfer your files from a PC to a Mac

If you’re switching from a PC to a Mac, one of the first things you’ll want to do is to move all your data to your new computer. The process is...

Rear View – Bruce Underwood

App update gives a voice to children who cannot talk

Australian children who can’t speak have been given a voice in the latest update to the Proloquo2Go app. While the app, which converts text...

Northern Beaches – Margaret Boyles

Younity 1.5 for Mac, iOS

As we’ve become a more mobile society – working from virtually anywhere on our smartphones and tablets – we’ve also embraced various cloud...

OGIO Renegade RSS 17 backpack

In my experience, the best way to test large capacity, rugged backpacks is with a stress test – preferably one that involves hauling a mass of stuff...