The stars come out for Apple and for themselves. Apple’s new services promise new outlets for artists. Oprah’s presence was enough to bring a tear to Tim’s eye. (Source: Apple keynote). Apple’s keynote unveiling new subscription services started off with the usual pep-rally atmosphere. It should be embarrassing, but that just doesn’t seem to happen to these people. There … Read more
Turning 30 is a time to reassess, to think about the future and maybe have a little bit too much to drink because you’re disappointed in your life so far. That’s for humans. When software turns 30 the response can be mixed but the celebration is almost always in order. It’s hard to survive for 30 years in the digital … Read more
After reading and reporting on the financial results of AMD and Intel, and reading Nvidia’s cautionary letter to its shareholders, I have been struck by the resiliency and dynamism of these companies. AMD and Intel are in their fifties, and Nvidia is 25. That may not be as old as say General Electric, Konica, or Bayer but those staid … Read more
After reading and reporting on the financial results of AMD and Intel, and reading Nvidia’s cautionary letter to its shareholders, I have been struck by the resiliency and dynamism of these companies. AMD and Intel are in their fifties, and Nvidia is 25. That may not be as old as say General Electric, Konica, or Bayer but those staid … Read more
Is it good news or bad news that Autodesk has made SketchBook free and easy for all users? SketchBook started a revolution for Autodesk. It came out of the company’s industrial design portfolio that came with its acquisition of Alias back in ancient times … before tablets and before touch screens. Designers used it as a very high-end napkin. They … Read more
Apple has never worried its very pretty head about stuff like backward compatibility. The company has abandoned software, eliminated headphone ports, changed charging ports multiple times, disappeared drives, and tells users to keep up with the times. And you know what? It doesn’t seem to have hurt the company at all. The latest version of Final Cut Pro, which came … Read more
Just a whole lot of stuff going on at Adobe Max 2018. (Source: JPR) This year’s Adobe Max, the company's user conference featured familiar tools in new packages. Last year, Adobe introduced a cloud- based version of Lightroom. At that time, we were pretty sure it was a harbinger of the future and this year, Adobe confirmed it with the … Read more
With its release of its latest AR platform last fall, Vuforia announced the addition of object recognition and ground plane detection, along with support for Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore. Until relatively recently, targets have provided a stable, if not totally satisfactory base for AR objects to stick to (for lack of a better word this minute). They’re not totally … Read more
Play PC game library on Android and iOS devices Steam was initially established to provide a means to distribute PC games via downloading over the internet. Valve extended their service in 2015 with Steam Link, which is like Apple TV, Roku, and Shield—a little box that connects to one’s home network (to access the internet), and streams content from Value’s … Read more
The pendulum swings back — Apple kills Intel’s share price Back in the 1980s and all the way to the mid-1990s the big computer companies at the time were known as the BUNCH – Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell — names that probably aren’t even recognized now. They designed and built everything, as did their main and competitor … Read more
Hang an external AIB box on it. But not just any box, and not just any AIB. Apple recently announced that it is offering support for certain external chassis equipped with certain AMD AIBs. Such chassis are referred to as an eGPU, an external GPU and frequently called a box or even a bread box, so they become a EGPUBB … Read more
Khronos is making that possible. The Khronos Group announced that the Vulkan Working Group's Portability Initiative has been working with Khronos members Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop to enable Vulkan applications to be ported to Apple platforms. The Vulkan Portability resource page (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/portability-initiative) links to a collection of free and open source set of tools, SDKs, and runtime libraries … Read more
